Tom Marshall

Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR (Gift Article) The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.

Looking for a useful way to #resist? Don’t just support your blue-state #PublicRadio station. Find one in a red state that’s struggling and shoot a few dollars their way. Helping these isolated voices of reason to survive could make all the difference! Please repost. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Lessons in Mathematics by Amy Dougher-Solórzano - Rattle: Poetry My father taught me everything except geometry. (He’d never seen it.) Once we got beyond arithmetic, he couldn’t help with homework.

I love this poem: so many worlds in so few words.
"The calculus of poverty
is its own rigged lottery,
but his eyes would glisten
when he talked about the mess
at Long Binh:
the math of feeding all those mouths,
the giant bags of flour, the powdered eggs."

Full Moon on Suicide Watch by Salma Amrou - Rattle: Poetry I am trying to write a poem about fifteen Egyptian detainees who attempted suicide in the last two weeks alone.

Damn. This is why I love @rattlepoetry.bsky.social. Where #poetry butts heads every day with this cruel, crazy, beautiful world we see in the #news on our phones. Finding beauty even in pure ugliness. rattle.com/full-moon-on... #Egypt #HumanRights

Love this! It takes a tired #backtoschool trope and brings it back to life in a way that will crack up jaded teens and help them make connections. #SEL

YouTube video by Johnny Clegg - Topic Cruel Crazy Beautiful World

(And for those who recognize my “cruel crazy” reference to the great South African musician Johnny Clegg, enjoy :) youtu.be/lK6oR5NwHFM?...

Full Moon on Suicide Watch by Salma Amrou - Rattle: Poetry I am trying to write a poem about fifteen Egyptian detainees who attempted suicide in the last two weeks alone.

Damn. This is why I love @rattlepoetry.bsky.social. Where #poetry butts heads every day with this cruel, crazy, beautiful world we see in the #news on our phones. Finding beauty even in pure ugliness. rattle.com/full-moon-on... #Egypt #HumanRights

From Rebel to Statesman: Teaching About the Life of Nelson Mandela In this lesson students and teachers can follow the evolution of Nelson Mandela in archival articles from The New York Times, from his early years as a jailed dissident in apartheid South Africa to hi...

Thanks for sharing this valuable resource! Just to add to the riches, here is a package on Mandela’s life and times which I wrote for the NYT Learning Network shortly after his death. archive.nytimes.com/learning.blo...

Here's Colbert on July 14 making fun of Paramount for paying Trump $16 million. It's hard not to see CBS canceling his show through this lens.

"I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles. It's big fat bribe."

Butter knife, just 1/4 turn gently, Pop! and it’s open:)

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Inspiring story about one public library’s struggles to survive in a very overheated (at least Fahrenheit 451 degrees) political climate. #HandsOff #Writing #Edusky #writing #censorship

lithub.com/a-virginia-p...

Chit Chat by Alison Davis - Rattle: Poetry My daughter wants to know if she can touch the bones of the deer carcass on the shoulder of the busy road. Yes, I say, and we touch them together.

Really love this Alison Davis #poem @rattlepoetry.bsky.social. It captures something lovely about being a parent, working with kids, and the importance of staying positive in these dark times. Please pass it on! rattle.com/chit-chat-by... #poetry #writing #edusky #k12

Chit Chat by Alison Davis - Rattle: Poetry My daughter wants to know if she can touch the bones of the deer carcass on the shoulder of the busy road. Yes, I say, and we touch them together.

Really love this Alison Davis #poem @rattlepoetry.bsky.social. It captures something lovely about being a parent, working with kids, and the importance of staying positive in these dark times. Please pass it on! rattle.com/chit-chat-by... #poetry #writing #edusky #k12

I believe we are quite literally in don’t-give-him-any-new-ideas territory here 🙄

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

Text to Text | Bangladesh Factory Safety and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Can stronger laws and inspections make a difference in preventing disasters like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire or the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh? To answer this question, we selected two Times articles to compare.

Teachable question: what happens when you reduce job safety inspections?
https://labortribune.com/trump-osha-budget-would-cut-10000-job-safety-inspections/
(Here's my NYT lesson on what happens when regulation fails:
https://tinyurl.com/y75eyeaz
#HandsOff #K12 #sschat #OSHA #workersafety #Edusky

Text to Text | Bangladesh Factory Safety and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Can stronger laws and inspections make a difference in preventing disasters like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire or the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh? To answer this question, we selected two Times articles to compare.

Teachable question: what happens when you reduce job safety inspections?
https://labortribune.com/trump-osha-budget-would-cut-10000-job-safety-inspections/
(Here's my NYT lesson on what happens when regulation fails:
https://tinyurl.com/y75eyeaz
#HandsOff #K12 #sschat #OSHA #workersafety #Edusky

Thanks for clarifying. I guess what I’m struggling with here are the practical challenges (and inevitable casualties) of relocating a population of 16.8 million people on short notice. Can you think of another example in modern world history in which this has been done?

Um, Tehran is a megacity with a population of 16.8 million people in the greater metropolitan area. Easier said than done to suggest they all just pack up their cars (those who own one) and leave town. #Diplomacy #HumanRights

I can’t say enough about this lovely piece on student writing, the value of great teachers, and those sparkling moments that make it all worthwhile. This — right here — is why we need to carve out space in the curriculum for kids to read and write from the heart. #Edusky #K12 #Lit #StudentWriting

Congratulations!!! Feels important to keep growing and nurturing our own personal development in these challenging times! 🙏

Barry Lopez's Darkness and Light by Sierra Crane Murdoch May 31, 2022 – Some days after Barry’s death on December 25, 2020, I pulled every book of his I owned from the shelves around my apartment and stacked them on a corner

I also appreciated this remembrance by Sierra Crane Murdoch. Their work spurs me on as a writer, prods me to craft a few words of value. I think Barry would have appreciated that. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/05... #writing #literature

There is an essay by the late great Barry Lopez that captures perfectly this dark moment in our shared human history. I urge you to make a cup of tea and read it! (And props to @deannabeachley.bsky.social for finding it first :)
🌏 ❤️ 🙏 #HandsOff #ClimateChange

lithub.com/barry-lopez-...

This shouldn’t make me smile right now, but somehow it does :)

Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE                THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

Watching #GoodNightandGoodLuck on #CNN while these #LAprotests play out in real time on…some other network? I think we need a split-screen, just in case anyone is missing the irony. 🙄 #HandsOff

Watching #GoodNightandGoodLuck on #CNN while these #LAprotests play out in real time on…some other network? I think we need a split-screen, just in case anyone is missing the irony. 🙄 #HandsOff

Important work, please pass it on! #HandsOff #DEI #FederalWorkers