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The board chair (Houskamp) was overheard promising to spike this vote if there aren't substantial changes and told Wszolek to keep working on his hail Mary plan.

Photo of three old white men huddling to chat in an office. State Canvasser Richard Houskamp meeting with representatives from the Heritage Foundation about the Invest in MI Kids Ballot initiative

Breaking news from the other site regarding #investinmikids
Why are they so afraid? 😏

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”

@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”

NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*

(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

The good news is the trip wasn’t a waste. I got face time with some funders and did an interview in front of the department of Ed.

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It’s Friday and I still can’t believe I went to DC to be lectured at about what it’s like on the ground by a bunch of DC lawyers who then invited Raymond fucking Emanuel to close out day 1.

State superintendent, public ed advocates decry potential Trump cuts — The Detroit News State Superintendent of Public Instruction Michael Rice and state Rep. Regina Weiss held a press conference to push back on education department cuts.

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I totally understand. *we* will be fine but my heart is breaking for all of the families that won’t be. And the folks who are all “hahaha Michigan you’re getting what you deserve” need to realize the folks that voted for this are barely going to notice. And I’m mad.

I’m in my actively disassociating by planning a Disney trip phase.

I live in Michigan. All the people who are gleefully reveling in what will ultimately disproportionately impact Black and brown and poor families who *did* vote Blue has me feeling some kind of way. Working class & BIPOC families are going to suffer. Children are going to suffer.

Happy Friday. The new Michigan House majority haven’t made committee assignments, even to important things like Approps and education approps. But they passed a rule allowing staff to carry g*ns into the capitol.

So glad they have their priorities strait.

Well, the good news is that estimates of our state’s school aid fund for 2025-2026 have us anywhere from nearly $400m to $900million over previous forecasts.

The bad news is we have a Republican house to contend with in the next budget cycle.

Our state was trying to pass driver’s licenses for undocumented folks forever and now it’s like…do we want a list of undocumented folks & their home addresses to exist for someone to subpoena?

In the education justice world, we’re pushing sanctuary schools hard right now.

God what a nightmare esp given the incoming administration

I added compression gloves to my workspace and my sewing kit a few years ago and it was a game changer.

If only there were some way to pool resources so that we would all have access to services that benefit our communities.

Am I insightful and perceptive or am I acutely aware of the shift in people’s moods because I grew up with a volatile narcissistic parent?

The Spoonless Momma is a nod to Christine Miserandino’s Spoon Theory. I have autoimmune arthritis, fibromyalgia, & Hashimoto’s disease.

Years ago I ran a blog of the same name about parenting with chronic illness.

Nowadays, I’m just a mom trying to make public education better one day at a time.

We have allowed a small number of people to accumulate unfathomable wealth and power and now they're using that power to enable the rise of fascism.

We can have concentrated wealth or we can have democracy, but we cannot have both.