Derek E. Baird

How Much Screen Time Is Your Child Getting at School? We Asked 350 Teachers.

“I cannot in good faith allow students to stare at screens for hours at school when I know that when they go home, the majority of students spend the majority of time watching screens.”

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When Kids Fall In Love With AI Issue #129

💘 Nearly 1 in 5 teens say they or someone they know have been in a romantic relationship with AI.

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Trump’s FIFA Boss Bestie Is Getting the Kennedy Center for Free to Present Made-Up Peace Prize FIFA President Gianni Infantino cooked up his new award as the MAGA leader was licking his wounds.

Trump’s soccer pal will use the Kennedy Center free of charge to present a new peace prize cooked up after the president was snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Stock Up on Fancy Pasta Now Just when Americans got hooked on Italian imports, they may slip away.

I just popped into the grocery store to stock up on some De Cecco pasta, and the shelves were already pretty wiped out!

If you love pasta, better get on it!

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Michigan's LGBTQ+ Clubs Create Safe Spaces in Public Schools – MindSite News Since gay and trans students are often bullied, LGBTQ+ clubs can provide a sense of joy, belonging and an affirming place to connect.

bout two in 10 #LGBTQ + students missed school because of safety concerns in 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s national survey of youth risk behavior.

Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves The Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of the tariffs it has levied.

BRB. Stockpiling De Cecco.

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Effectively immediately, I need @allinwithchris.bsky.social back on Mondays.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Cc @msnbc.com

40 days for nothing. Thanks for nothing, @schumer.senate.gov.

No.

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.

My response ⬇️

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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Burger King Braces for the Demise of the Penny Restaurants operators are hoarding the coins and warning customers to not expect exact change. Cashiers are getting stuck with a math quiz.

Rounding to the nearest nickel can create a quiet “rounding tax,” reduce price transparency for cash payers, and complicate change management for retailers.

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Attorney General James and Multistate Coalition Secure $5.1 Million from Education Software Company for Failing to Protect Students’ Data NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong today announced that

Multistate Coalition Secures $5.1 Million from Education Software Company for Failing to Protect Students’ Data

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#edtech #DataPrivacy

A Light in Very Dark Days: Nancy Pelosi and AIDS

I learned a lot about Nancy Pelosi this week — including her very early advocacy for AIDS patients. She visited them in SF General’s AIDS ward and convinced the Reagan administration to allow the AIDS Memorial Quilt to be displayed on the National Mall in 1987.

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GOP SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: It may be 2026 when we'll come out of the shutdown.

REPORTERS: 😳

KENNEDY: I'm not kidding, you guys. I mean, you see what I see. Okay? This shutdown is going to last a long time. What's going to get us out of it?

We're Not The Anxious Generation In his best-selling book, The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt argues that smartphones have “rewired” childhood and broken a generation. He calls Gen-Z the least flourishing generation in modern hi...

Maximilian Milovidov's excellent article for @cooneycenter.bsky.social provides a thoughtful, authentic counterpoint to the sensationalized "Anxious Generation" narrative by assessing social media's true impact on Gen Z.

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Whether you think so or not, your kids are using AI.
It's time to have the AI talk.

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OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.

OpenAI's Sora 2 is flooding social media with videos of women being strangled. Yet another example of generative AI companies failing to prevent users from creating media that violates their own policies against violent content.

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It's going to be bad. I flew from DC to LA yesterday and it took over 14 hours to get home because flights were delayed, rebooked, or cancelled.

And that was before the airspace reductions.

“I Wish AI Didn’t Exist”: Teen Perspectives on AI in Education At the 2025 SETDA Summit, Virginia students highlight the unseen impacts of AI in schools and emphasize t

"AI is a drug. Students are dependent on it."

Direct quote from a teen.

We're deploying AI in schools while students tell us it's encouraging eating disorders, replacing friendships, and killing critical thinking.

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Zohran Mamdani has crossed the 1 million vote threshold in the New York City Mayoral Election.

He’s the first mayoral candidate to do that since 1969.

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

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Speaking with Deadline, Cohen revealed his "Gio Moldonado" character filmed an interview with an unspecified Las Vegas hotel concierge that broached the subject of Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault cases. Cohen then pivoted toward "extreme comedy," implying his character had molested a young boy, though the concierge didn't react as anticipated. "We thought that the guy would leave the room," recalled Cohen. "Instead, this concierge stays in the room and I go, listen, you've got to help me get rid of the problem.' And this guy starts advising Gio how to get rid of this issue. We even at one point talk about murdering the boy, and the concierge is just saying, 'well, listen, I'm really sorry. In this country, we can't just drown the boy. This is America we don't do that." Cohen went on to explain how the concierge offered to connect him with a lawyer to silence the boy, but that wasn't the end of it. His character next inquired if the concierge could fetch him a "date" with a boy "lower than Bar Mitzvah but older than eight," and the concierge reportedly replied "yeah, I can put you in touch with somebody who can get you some boys like that." The stunt was considered "too dark and wrong" for even This Is America, and Cohen's team subsequently sent their footage to the F.B.I. to investigate. According to Cohen, the bureau evidently decided not to pursue the matter, though the actor noted "This concierge had said that he'd worked for politicians and various billionaires."

Thinking about the time Sacha Baron Cohen, while shooting "Who Is America?," accidentally uncovered a Las Vegas child sex trafficking ring for billionaires and politicians and the FBI's response was just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Hunger impacts red states and blue, Mr. President. We're elected to serve every American, and politics should never get in the way of that.

More than thirty data protection and privacy authorities from around the world will examine websites and mobile applications commonly used by children as part of the 2025 Global Privacy Enforcement Network privacy sweep taking place this week.

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The patron saint of college bros.

"Younger people are often denied the legitimacy that other constituencies are granted. And it's made to seem as if their struggles are indicative of themselves, as opposed to the ways in which our city and our state and our country has failed them…."
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Four panels of graphics summarizing the Governor’s latest executive orders. Full text available at governor.maryland.gov/news/Pages/executive-orders

Four panels of graphics summarizing the Governor’s latest executive orders. Full text available at governor.maryland.gov/news/Pages/executive-orders

I’ve declared a State of Emergency because the federal government is — illegally and cruelly — withholding funding for food assistance.

We are providing $10 million in emergency aid so Maryland families don’t go hungry.

Dems have a bill to fund SNAP and feed families through the shutdown. Yesterday, Senate R’s blocked it.

It’s needless and cruel to use hungry children as bargaining chips. Previous shutdowns did not cut SNAP. Release the funds.

Here's how you can help: give.feedingamerica.org