Sara Van Note

Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff This guide was created for educators, school support staff and service providers who teach, mentor and help open the doors of opportunity for immigrant students and families. Educators, school support...

If someone in your life is a teacher or school support staff, make sure they have this new resource from @unitedwedream.org, @nilc.org, @aft.org on how they can create a safe and supportive environment for all their students. It’s so good.

Plans are quickly moving forward to build 27 miles of new border wall in the San Rafael Valley, which would seal off this historic wildlife corridor and result in more heartbreaking scenes like this one. To learn more, check out this
New York Times article: ow.ly/Ltzx50WyleL

this is... beyond nightmare material.

Important reporting by @evaholland.bsky.social: Trump's anti-DEI crusade led to National Geographic's apparent censorship of a documentary on a queer scientist and her work.

I love this idea! Back to school is here for me but I have already completed most of these challenges, including rereading a childhood favorite (From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler!)

One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · Mobilize Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...

Starting Tonight! One Million Rising—a national effort to train one million people in the strategic logic and practice of non-cooperation, as well as the basics of community organizing and campaign design.
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

lol we didn’t even have that when I was in college!

Same! I use Duck Duck Go sometimes but I feel it doesn’t always get complete results. Also I think it has AI though I haven’t explored turning it off.

Resist List Noncooperation Database DELVE DEEPER WITH MOVEMENT RESEARCHERS’ DATABASES AND COMPILATIONS OF ACTION Researcher Jeremy Pressman is writing semi-regular reports about movement activity against the coup...

Just a reminder - if you're ever looking for updates on the ongoing resistance to the Trump regime, then follow us @resistlist.bsky.social. Hopescroll through stories of people’s noncooperation.

And if you have any tips - send them our way!
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Heartbreaking.

Dear Science Journalists,

Please mention when your write-ups covers work that was funded by federal agencies that are now being dismantled, defunded, and censored.

The public needs to know what is being lost, and if you don't tell them in the context of Cool New Science, who will?

Congrats Susan!!

ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing. A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a ...

Monstrous:

"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds.

He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.

He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.

This is political intimidation.

“Since you have no authority to arrest US citizens, where are you taking me? And with what authority?”

Actual NYC democrat primary mayoral candidate @bradlander.bsky.social has been detained by ICE.

'I don't regret pushing him': Man cited for shoving California state senator An anti-vaccine activist was cited on a charge of misdemeanor assault after he shoved state Sen. Richard Pan on Wednesday afternoon.

As we mourn the assassination of a MN legislator & her husband, in 2019 #RFKJr rallied his followers with images of my bloodied face. I was later physically assaulted by an anti-vax extremist on the street and another threw blood onto the CA Senate floor. #violence
www.kcra.com/article/cali...

No Kings Day protests unofficial attendance crowdsourcing

As of 17:30 ET, @gelliottmorris.com is estimating more than 5.4 million Americans attending #NoKingsDay rallies nationwide!

I am not as good at math as Elliott is, but if the number holds, that would be the third-largest protest in American history, behind the George Floyd protests and Earth Day.

THIS A UNITED STATES SENATOR ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA BEING PHYSICALLY SHOVED OUT OF A MEETING ABOUT WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS DOING TO THE BIGGEST CITY IN OUR STATE.

Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired Exclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content

More dismantling of vital science communication: “It’s targeted, I think it’s clear,” said Tom Di Liberto, a former NOAA spokesperson fired from his position. “They only fired a handful of people, and it just so happened to be the entire content team for climate.gov. I mean, that’s a clear signal.”

Witnesses “can be heard shouting at the agents to ‘let her go’ and ‘she's pregnant.’

López Alvarado said agents told her she was taken into custody for trying to obstruct their operation.

'I wasn’t resisting or anything,’ she said. 'I can’t fight back; I’m pregnant.’”

Congratulations on the new book! I’m really looking forward to reading it.

RFK Jr. boots all members of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee Health Secretary RFK Jr. has removed all 17 members of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. He says replacing them with new members will help restore 'public trust' in vaccines.

“the decision to scrap the entire committee flies in the face of precedent and has alarmed the public health and medical establishment.”

Watercolor paper with paint samples in different colors and the recipe for each mixture, eg cochineal + lemon juice

Something fun I learned this week: how to make paints in a myriad of colors using cochineal! So fun to experiment with different mixtures.

Congratulations!

This week I learned to make paints with cochineal, experimenting with different mixtures (lemon juice, vinegar etc) which was super fun and also inspired me to look for cochineal beetles to harvest on my neighborhood prickly pears!

South Florida meteorologist @johnmoralestv.bsky.social told his viewers live on air that he can no longer accurately predict hurricane season, due to federal government cuts.

Thank you! Congratulations on your new books! Hope to see them in my local library soon.

A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off.

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/b...

A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off.

Books, like languages, are a portal: “Every translation from different parts of the world has the potential to give you not just a different perspective, but a window into an entirely different imagination.”
I hope to see some of these in my local library soon.

Book Review: A Single Street as a Parable for Global Warming In “The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue,” Mike Tidwell explores the ripple effects of climate change on his suburban block.

In his new book, Mike Tidwell explores the emotional, physical, & spiritual impacts of the loss of beloved neighborhood trees. His grief leads him to embrace radical solutions to climate change. Book review by me. undark.org/2025/05/30/b...