Zach Lloyd

The New York Times has verified that Trump is building a 1300 bed “accountability camp” in Utah for the homeless in accordance with his previous executive order.

Trump is building concentration camps for the homeless.

You have MORE IN COMMON with them than you EVER WILL with the rich.

Speak out.

I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here.

And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.

It takes a (depraved) village

“Footage, obtained by the outlet, captured the musician face-down in the mud, with her instrument about two feet to her left, struggling as what appears to be a federal agent straddled her backside. A police officer stood next to the pair.”
The Feds then jailed her across state lines. For music.

“… it affirms what the desegregators see as an unnatural principle: that nonwhite people are equal to white people, that women are equal to men, and that LGBTQ people deserve the same rights as everyone else.”

Oh this is even worse than was shared this morning.

Shoving libraries under AI. Good work, folks shoving AI into libraries. Now they're just one in the same.

In an era we need to really be clear on the necessity and purpose of these democratic institutions, this is five hundred backward steps.

WOW! Guess I will no longer be recommending Padlet to my fellow teachers if they’re going to pull crap. I’ll gladly find an alternative that cares about human rights violations.

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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More information tomorrow about the No ICE in California Itch Charity Bundle. But for now, here is the game jam. All games on itch are welcome, please spread the word.

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LAPD when they think nobody is watching

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

"On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time
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Trump is attacking every source of university income (research grant cancellations, a proposed endowment tax, cutting Pell Grant eligibility and in the 'big beautiful bill' changing the student loan program). It's a declaration of fiscal war on universities with students as collateral damage.

My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.

"if we grade everything and then we average it all, then you focus on the grade not the learning."
@lyonsletters

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#studentengagement #EduSky

Again, Brecht's line resonates: Be careful walking through Germany, with the truth under your coat.

Reminder: jury nullification won't be in your jury instructions and is not something you're allowed to talk about in court. If you bring up jury nullification during jury selection, you WILL be thrown off the jury.

Want to nullify? Just vote to acquit. That's all nullification is: a vote to acquit.

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

The smartest people I know are all skeptical of A.I.

My punk friends see it as a tool of oppression.

My art friends see it as a creative cancer.

And then there’s LinkedIn.

This is something I’m having to teach myself after grad school. Now that I’m reading more for fun, I don’t HAVE to finished everything I pick up! It’s so freeing even if it still feels like I’ll get in trouble at times 😂

“I want us to do better. I want to feel like we are responsible for each other's transformation. Not the transformation from vibrant flawed humans to bits of ash, but rather the transformation from broken people and communities to whole ones.”

“I want us to do better. I want to feel like we are responsible for each other's transformation. Not the transformation from vibrant flawed humans to bits of ash, but rather the transformation from broken people and communities to whole ones.” adrienne maree brown

Performing AI literacy Photo by Jess Bailey on Unsplash A new international test of young people’s “AI literacy” has been announced by the OECD. Providing a global measurement of the competencies to engage with AI, the t…

The OECD has announced an international "AI literacy" assessment that could set the standard for how we think about students' engagement with AI. In this post I speculate a little about the effects of the OECD quantifying "AI literacy-as-numbers" codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/p...

Retrieval in Action: Creative Strategies from Real Teachers | Cult of Pedagogy These nine strategies make it quick, fun, and easy to build retrieval practice into any lesson.

How do we build more #retrievalpractice into our lessons? On the podcast, Dr. Pooja Agarwal (@retrievelearn.bsky.social), Dr. Janell Blunt, and Dr. Michelle Rivers share nine simple, easy, fun retrieval strategies that can be added to any lesson. www.cultofpedagogy.com/retrieval-in...

*Macarena must also be out of sync with the royalty-free background music is playing

It is eerily quiet and empty on campus today, on a week where it should be busting at the seams. I spent my lunch sitting by the Westcott fountain and it was heartbreaking to see it completely empty, a marked difference from the long lines of graduates lining up to take their iconic photos. 💔 #FSU

ChatGPT action dolls: What are the concerns? As online users create Barbie-like dolls of themselves, experts urge caution over AI's energy and data use.

It's all fun and games until …

"Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC #ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries."

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"What is actually being changed by this thing?... What new challenges might these changes introduce? And for whom? Would addressing those challenges exacerbate, or distract us from addressing,... challenges related to quality, equitable education?" @philnichols.bsky.social on "innovation" in school

Let’s Talk About Building the Innovation School — Civics of Technology An interview with Phil Nichols about Building the Innovation School

"Deep down, my hope is that this book makes it easier for education, as a field, not to get swept up in whatever the latest innovation-of-the-day is (eg MOOCs, makerspaces, the metaverse, generative AI) and, instead, to respond with questions: ... www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/buildin...