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I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

The people standing between students and ICE? Teachers. With immigration enforcement keeping kids from class, educators are going beyond the curriculum — driving students to school, delivering groceries and even paying rent to support vulnerable families.

With immigration enforcement keeping kids from class, educators are going beyond the curriculum — driving students to school, delivering groceries and even paying rent to support vulnerable families. https://bit.ly/4aRukq9

Noticed this weird thing in Phil Berger's #ncga Senate district: The map drawn in 2023 puts every other house on Graylyn Drive in High Point in a different Senate district, plus one random house on Arthur Avenue? #ncpol

NC early voting pro tip: If you are an NC registered voter but have moved WITHIN your county of registration but not yet updated your address, you can EASILY do this at early voting check-in. If you wait until primary day March 3 to do this, it may require a time consuming provisional ballot. #ncpol

Jokes on them.

Women’s US hockey has won a medal in 100% of the Olympic Games they have attended.

Men’s US hockey team has won a medal in less than 50% of the Olympic Games they have attended. Men’s team also had not won a gold since 1980.

The women’s team has a better record.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Data centers threaten energy affordability, NC task force says Data centers account for about 80% of Duke Energy’s projected energy demand, according to a report from Gov. Josh Stein’s North Carolina Energy Policy Task Force. The report found that data centers…

Data centers account for about 80% of Duke Energy’s projected energy demand, according to a report from Gov. Josh Stein’s North Carolina Energy Policy Task Force.

via @ncnewsline.com

New Study Suggests The Main Reason Students May Find Math – Or Any Other Subject – Challenging Is Because They Don’t Know How To Handle Mistakes Why some kids struggle with math even when they try hard is from Science Daily, and summarizes an intriguing new study – one whose conclusions seem a bit too sweeping for me. As the ar…

New Study Suggests The Main Reason Students May Find Math – Or Any Other Subject – Challenging Is Because They Don’t Know How To Handle Mistakes larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/02/17/n...

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

Heads up, Triangle residents — one of the locations is in Cary.

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Every once in a while something will jump out as exceptionally offensive enough to be a minor story, but somehow it's not generally treated as a newsworthy story unto itself that the most powerful man in the world spends all day every day posting a constant stream of consciousness of deranged slop.

They didn't include any voter ID requirements in the SAVE Act because, as problematic and abused as those laws are to be sure, the quantifiable effects are pretty marginal. Dems still win elections in states w/ voter ID all the time. They want something much more radical and harmful than that.

this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway

Women combat veterans want Pete Hegseth to know that they already passed the test The defense secretary ordered a review of women in combat roles, claiming standards were compromised — but the requirements for women and men in combat roles are identical.

The defense secretary ordered a review of women in combat roles, claiming standards were compromised — but the requirements for women and men in combat roles are identical.

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Interviewing a 5-year-old about how they're worried because "bad guys are taking mommies and daddies" is not something I ever thought I'd do.

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

NC college students sue election officials over rejection of campus voting sites The lawsuit contends that the Republican-led board “brushed aside urgent warnings that their decisions would disproportionately burden young and Black voters.”

NC college students sue election officials over rejection of campus voting sites. Students from 3 universities allege in federal lawsuit that decisions made by GOP-led State Elections Board burden young and Black voters. (Via @kyleingram.bsky.social) www.newsobserver.com/news/politic... #ncpol #nced

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The Most Exhausting Part of Teaching Isn't the Students (Opinion) Teachers reveal what drives them from the field and what leaders can do to improve teachers' lives.

The Most Exhausting Part of Teaching Isn't the Students www.edweek.org/teaching-lea... with @bobsonwong.com and others is new @edweek.org post

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

The surprising way to fight political exhaustion Sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom discusses uncomfortable truths about the way power works in America and what people can do about it

PBS @pbsnews.org Classroom Lesson: The surprising way to fight political exhaustion

Ask students: What do you normally do when you feel exhausted or overwhelmed by the news? What types of civic activities would you be interested in trying? https://loom.ly/NUAI17g

Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping. Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

This is interesting and worth a read. Particularly considering we may need to replicate the effort elsewhere, repeatedly.
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www.ms.now/opinion/minn...

In the Twin Cities, ICE resistance goes mainstream • Minnesota Reformer The week before an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in south Minneapolis, her 67-year-old neighbor Terri Sullivan heard that a school in nearby Richfield that serves mostly Latino students needed ...

Businesses are posting signs on their doors telling ICE to keep out. Observers are visible outside of restaurants, stores and schools. "Upstander" trainings are reaching capacity — and so are neighborhood signal chats.

In the Twin Cities, the resistance is everywhere.

Classroom Solutions in Action – 3-Part Virtual PD on Autism & Behavior
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NC Council for Exceptional Children is providing some great looking, low cost Virtual PD opportunities this Spring! CEU's!
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Building Communication Pathways: 3-Part Virtual PD on Autism, Deaf/HH & Deaf-Blindness,
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This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...