Tracy O’Connell Novick

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On Chris Hayes podcast with Jamelle Bouie they talked about a possible reason for optimism: Project 2025 seems to have deeply penetrated TikTok. Anecdotally, my 15 yr old mentioned to me all the counselors she works with at camp have been talking about it and what rights they’re worried about losing

Another super resource!

Our team's new brief on "What's at Stake for Education in the Election" tries to be a bit more specific on what eliminating USED would actually mean (phase-out of Title I, elimination of federal accountability, block-granting of IDEA, weakening NCES and OCR, etc.) www.newamerica.org/education-po...

10 Education and Work Issues at Stake in the 2024 Electionwww.newamerica.org The results of the U.S. presidential election will have immense implications on the future of education and world of work.

Educators, I'm going to urge you to read this interview, particularly around the concern about kids not doing the hard work of thinking. www.the74million.org/article/benj...

Benjamin Riley: AI is Another Ed Tech Promise Destined to Failwww.the74million.org Deans for Impact founder urges educators to ‘calm down’ and resist the ‘overhype and magical thinking’ that often accompany innovation.

so it appears he really just had them put a big bandage on it so everyone could see he was really hurt, huh? Like he's five?

[email protected] on J.D. Vance "Folks outside Appalachia devoured Hillbilly Elegy because it reinforced what they already believed about us." www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

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Uhm I see a flaw in the plan?

Federal authorities have charged the suspected leader of an Eastern European-based neo-Nazi group with harboring plans to have an associate dress up as Santa Claus and hand out candy laced with poison to Jewish and minority children in New York City.

Alleged neo-Nazi ‘murder cult’ leader accused of plot to poison childrenwapo.st The Georgian national was charged with scheming to have an associate dress up as Santa to hand out poisoned candy to Jewish and minority children in Brooklyn.

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Someone should create a book consisting of deleted and/or retracted comments by JD Vance and call it “Conscience of a Conservative.” This is a tweet he deleted when he ran for Senate.

It is July 17, Massachusetts. Do you know where your state budget is?

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Gavin gives me the creeps and even so I hate him less than most lefties and the sole reason is because he understands (correctly) that you cannot equivocate or yield even a little bit on this culture war bullshit

California bans school districts from outing trans kidswww.politico.com Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the legislation, which is sure to infuriate conservative activists.

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Always surprising to me how often my job is saying to people: "It's the law that we have to do that thing. No, you can't not do it because you don't want to or it's a bit hard. Literally the law. No, getting your manager to speak to me is not going to change that. BECAUSE IT'S THE LAW."

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I can't stop thinking about how Trump would eliminate our free, public weather service, NOAA. It's an institution that goes back 53 years and protects Americans everyday with warnings for tornados, thunderstorms and more. That's the Project 2025 plan. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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It is comically irresponsible how the news media claims Trump is a "changed man" and "somber" and "serene" and "adopting a new tone"

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This is a BFD and reflects both a recognition of deep structural reforms and a tectonic shift in the politics of the Supreme Court. It isn't everything we need but it's a big, big deal. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

There's been some good coverage on this already; some of this is just gathering it together: who-cester.blogspot.com/2024/07/you-...

You need to know about Project 2025who-cester.blogspot.com I am hoping that by now you've heard of Project 2025 , the Heritage Foundation's "Presidential Transition Project," which not only involve...

And this is why English teachers give “but did you actually read it” quizzes

I will never forget the interview, shortly after Ozy Media Inc. was formed, where Carlos Watson said he named it after the poem, because "the lesson you take from [Ozymandias] is that you have to dream big." So that's why liberal arts education is important.

Yes, AND please note that far too many people in public ed don't know what U.S. DoE does. Tell 'em we'll lose Title I, for starters.

if you’re trying to engage with politically disconnected people about project 2025, identify a specific part that you think will resonate with them. i just told my friend who’s a public school teacher about the plan to abolish the department of education and that got her hooked.

[email protected] to Democrats: "Get a grip." YES PLEASE!

I am absolutely biased (because I live here), but I do love it when WORCESTER gets a "here's a great hike!" shout out www.telegram.com/story/lifest...

Five easy hikes in Central Massachusetts to do before summer's endwww.telegram.com It's the perfect time to head out for a hike with family, friends or maybe just your pet.

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Mostly agree except on reflection I feel like the three-day combo of the shooting, the Cannon decision, and the Vance pick was a powerful reminder of how miserable and exhausting it was to live with one goddamn thing after another when this guy had the spotlight for four straight years

I think Trump getting shot and being photographed with a defiant fist in the air, bloodied and unbowed, will actually lead to zero changed votes. He might be the only person in the universe that would be true of.

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"At my public rallies, I’ve always done my best to rile up disaffected voters with needlessly violent rhetoric. So imagine my shock when a disaffected voter showed up to one of my public rallies and committed a needless act of violence." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-c...

I Can’t Believe Such a Hateful, Violent Act Could Happen in the Hateful, Violent Era I’ve Createdwww.mcsweeneys.net “It is incredible that such an act can take place in our country.” — Donald Trump, writing on Truth Social after an attempt on his life, 7/13/24 - ...

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Read this. Hell of a kicker

This whole excerpt tells you multitudes about our current political moment.

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Via me and Aleja: Five Faith facts on J. D. Vance — his Catholic conversion, his ties to Catholic integralism, his views on Christianity and American identity, his multi-faith marriage, and more: religionnews.com/2024/07/15/f...

Five Faith Facts about Trump's VP pick, JD Vancereligionnews.com (RNS) — If Trump is elected, Vance would be the second Catholic Vice President in U.S. history — after Joe Biden.

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Evergreen: "We Fight over School Because It's a Convenient Way to Fight About Other Things: When Americans start fighting over their schools, you can be fairly sure of one thing: it probably isn't really about school.

“He clearly had Christ protecting him at that moment” Actual quote on 🦊noon news just now.

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Founders: as I have written **extensively**, it is very important that the country not elect Trump and presidents are not kings Judges in 2024: hmm if I squint at the text very hard looks like maybe the founders expected--nay, even demanded--that the president be a king, so long as he is Trump

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It really feels like we’re exiting the previous era of plausible deniability and entering a new era of corrupt rulings begetting more corrupt rulings.

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The invention of "an app that shows you a map, but it also shows you /where you are/ on that map" is in retrospect incredibly obvious, but my god, what an innovation

If you actually care about kids and their well-being, be sure you don’t miss this, which is straight up GAO data: www.k12dive.com/news/school-...

Student arrest rates more than double when police are on-sitewww.k12dive.com Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, Black and American Indian/Alaska native students were arrested at two to three times the rate of White peers, GAO finds.

Most of Massachusetts is under heat advisories straight through Wednesday. Be careful out there.

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so let me get this straight: there just weren't people checking tickets at various gates, and people started hopping the fence, which is why the Copa America final hasnt started?