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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seems like it should be part of the "are phones ruining the kids" debate that every marker of teen mental health has improved since 2021 www.cdc.gov/yrbs/youth-h...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/09/2026
This shit is so infuriating. We should make these parents famous. Get their faces out there: "this is the couple that demanded the right to beat and intimidate their children without interference."
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
UCLA just illegally fired their DEI Director (me) for speaking the truth about Charlie Kirk, nay, for posting truth via my private, Bluesky acct, clearly designated as personal. Hounds, Cats and I still need to raise $800 to pay rent due next week. We could use your help‼️ venmo.com/u/JohnathanPerk
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UCLA fires DEI director after social media posts on Charlie Kirk's death

Johnathan Perkins with his dogs, Rex, left, and Frankie, at Pan Pacific Park in Los Angeles after he was suspended and fired from his role as UCLA DEI director. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

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Staff Writer 
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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Conversations about K-12 ed would be much better if instead of operating as if most parents don’t care about their child and education, many would operate as if most parents do care and there are economic, social, political, and personal barriers making it hard for some to show/actualize that care.
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Sending your child to school when they are sick can spread illnesses to classmates and school staff, and these infections can have serious consequences for people who have underlying health conditions that raise their risk of complications." theconversation.com/does-my-kid-...
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Does my kid have COVID-19 or just a cold? A pediatric nurse explains how to tell – and why it matters
Keeping children home from school if they have COVID-19 protects family and school community members at high risk of serious illness.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My latest newsletter is a friendly bit of political advice for Democrats.
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Don't Surrender On Trans Rights
Many Democrats are running scared on trans issues. They shouldn't be.
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Essential reading. The Classical Education model (distinct from pre-existing Great Books programs which it borrows from) is a Trojan horse for a truly extreme Christian nationalist vision. Seeing “scrolling 2 death” podcast host/anti-screentime crusader Nikki Petrossi promoting it raised red flags
Screenshot of scrolling2death instagram with a blonde woman sitting in her car making a straight to camera video. Text caption reads “A plug for Classical Education”Screenshot of scrolling2death instagram with a blonde woman sitting in front seat  of her car making a straight to camera video. Text caption reads “Kudos to the Classical Education approach during a time when our kids are drowning in addictive tech.
Classical education is a traditional teaching method that focuses on forming the whole person-mind, character, and spirit-by using the liberal arts and great historical literature to match a child's natural developmental stages.” Tagged accounts include the “Tech-Safe Learning Coalition” which also includes the Christian nationalist app/company “protect young eyes” famously used by house speaker Mike Johnson to surveil him and his son to monitor their pornography use.
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What we’ve been saying! No school system is perfect, but only fully funded PUBLIC education is required and equipped to meet the needs of ALL students.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If you’re engaged in a heated DNC vs DSA back and forth right now I cannot express how much you’re getting hung up in the wrong enemy
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We’ve heard this absurd claim from the professional transphobes funded & elevated by the right for years now. That this fringe and baseless perspective has been mainstreamed represents the total failure of mainstream media and everyone who’s legitimized obviously bad faith “concerns” abt trans kids.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Measles outbreaks are forcing immunocompromised children to reconsider in-person school because it isn't safe for them Public health is something "we're supposed to share across humanity. It's not supposed to be carried by one person" www.wired.com/story/measle...
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Measles Outbreaks Are Forcing Immunocompromised Kids to Make Impossible Choices
With the risk of infection rising, parents and young adults are facing agonizing choices about being out in public as school starts back up.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Whiny, Spoiled California Schoolchildren Denied Air Conditioners They’ve Been Demanding
Finally, someone is looking out for PG&E.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
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Kev - I see SMART people - On Bluesky @57kev.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The right are bound and determined to destroy what's left of our education system. What they would like is for right wing religion to take over educating our children. Because ignorant brainwashed people are easier to control. Real teachers and our children deserve better!
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'At a Breaking Point': Survey Shows Teachers Working Second Jobs, Spending Hundreds on Supplies | Common Dreams
A new union survey shows US teachers are struggling with underinvestment in schools and high prices under a Republican-controlled government.
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Department of Justice now exists solely to prosecute the pathetic grievances of anti-trans bigots and people who thing “reverse racism” is real- extremely satisfying seeing it lose like this. Let all kids play!
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Gourdon P. Squash @dewterium2.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is why they coined the term "cancel culture" and attacked it so furiously. What they were calling cancel culture was actually the conscience of civil society, which is their enemy.
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Roby Bhattacharyya @roby-b.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
To underscore why this is especially awful for those who may not know, the measles vaccine is usually given at 12 months. Newborns rely on community immunity to prevent exposure, which until recently we have had in the US. This quite literally could be anyone's newborn. None of this had to happen.
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
On the ground groups like ours have been tracking for years now- reactionary attack orgs from TPUSA to Moms for Liberty to XX-XY ALL are backed by enormous amounts of oil $ (and more recently, Silicon Valley $) from the Kochs and Donor Advised Funds which anonymize billionaire contributions.
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Daisy Gardner @daisygardner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The deranged former Levi’s / Nike exec who runs the company, Jennifer Sey, works on a variety of anti-trans measures across the US. AND, XX-XY uses pictures of minor trans children to sell their terrible shirts. XX-XY harasses the kids & profits from using their images.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Organized, state-funded, industrial scale child abuse
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NEW: ICE data released under the Freedom of Information Act reveals that more than half of all ICE arrests are now people with no criminal record; no prior convictions or pending charges. In the first week of August, 55% of all ICE arrests were of people with no criminal record.
Chart showing monthly ICE arrests by criminal record, January 2025 through July 2026. The chart shows total ICE arrests rising steadily from January 2025, then peaking and falling from January 2026 to February 2026, stabilizing, then rising again in June and July to record levels. Meanwhile, the composition of ICE arrests becomes more and more weighted towards people with no criminal record, and in July 2026, the majority are people with no criminal record.
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2026
yep, i will note that the fugitive slave act was used to try to kidnap free blacks and sell them into slavery
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Okay a few things. 1) homeless Angelenos are still Angelenos, your neighbors and constituents. 2) i have never seen a taco stand deter restaurant business. 3) tacos stands rule. 4) dont demonize vendors or unhoused people
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
In 1933, 18-year-old Carrie Smith led two thousand Black women workers out of the Funsten nut processing factory in St. Louis and out onto the picket line. “Girls, we can’t lose!” she’d cried, waving a Bible in one hand and a brick in the other www.teenvogue.com/story/teens-...
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Teens Have Always Been on the Front Lines of the Labor Movement
For a century, teens have proved time and time again that they are the future.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My latest for @teenvogue.com pays tribute to all the teenage girls who built the American house of labor www.teenvogue.com/story/teens-...
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Teens Have Always Been on the Front Lines of the Labor Movement
For a century, teens have proved time and time again that they are the future.
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Candidate for state superintendent Sonja Shaw and Chino Valley, the school district she leads, now under state investigation for secretly removing books from school libraries, in violation of their own policy which is intended to include public review.
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PROJECT:PRO+ECT @glendaleout.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
An opportunity.for the kiddos. www.oneinstitute.org/youth-ambass...
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 15/08/2026
Religious-right groups have spent decades attacking comprehensive sex education and trying to impose their own religious views on public schools. Public education shouldn’t be dictated by religious ideology or manufactured moral panic. www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/202...
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ADF Demands Colorado District Scrap or Overhaul Sex-Ed Curriculum | RealClearPolitics
A national religious-liberty legal organization has sent a formal letter to Colorado’s Roaring Fork School District demanding it discontinue its human sexuality curriculum or, at minimum, overhaul...
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Joel Montfort @montfort.me · 14/08/2026
The Texas voucher scam smells more and more like rotten fish. Of the 122K vouchers initially issued, 21K were returned. Of those 21K students, 70% would have come from public schools, and 12K would have been low-income. www.audacy.com/krld/news/lo...
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More than 20,700 Texas students give up school vouchers after awards
Over 20,700 Texas students returned or opted out of school vouchers. Discover why securing private school seats remains a challenge for many families. | NewsRadio 1080 KRLD
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Yesterday was the nine year anniversary of "Unite the Right," a deadly riot in Charlottesville, VA, that killed multiple people, including antiracist activist Heather Heyer. Today, there are powerful people that want you to believe that what we saw with our own eyes is a lie. Don't let them.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"If you have followed the conversation about street safety lately, you would think the greatest threat to our community is a teenager on an e-bike. It isn’t. In 2023, drivers killed more than 1,100 pedestrians on California streets."
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Car Drivers Crashed through the Storefronts, Not E-Bikers
If a motorized two-wheeler is too fast and too powerful to be a bicycle, it cannot be marketed or sold as one, says Senate Bill 1167, currently going through the California Legislature.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/08/2026
New in PN: Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids "Miller is making his dreams come true: accelerating the arrest and removal of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant kids. This is a scene taking place out of public view across the country, impacting 24,000 children."
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Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids
That it's happening in the shadows doesn't make it less of a moral blight.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My only comment about Woke 1 vs Woke 2 is that neither of these things is real &, for the thousandth time, we don’t have to frame <every topic in American politics> on the terms of the far right authoritarian party & right-wing pundits. Other, more serious choices are readily available:
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The right manufactured the excesses of “woke” to justify attacks on public libraries & schools. The revival of segregationist strategies was obvious at the time but media fell for it anyway. Now book banners run the White House & Supreme Court & we still have to read this pathetic whining.
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It’s up to all of us to be those allies.
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Daisy Gardner @daisygardner.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
“Protect Girls Sports” 🤝 “no contact order from family”
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 09/08/2026
I spoke to the mutual aid groups and mask blocs combatting the spread of COVID and viral illness by freely distributing masks and tests and lending out air purifiers — who nationally have now distributed thousands of masks for wildfire smoke, too, amid an anti-public health admin @us.theguardian.com
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How clean air clubs are protecting Americans from wildfire smoke
Mutual aid groups that started giving out PPEs during COVID are now loaning air purifiers and distributing masks to fume-addled communities
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Must read. We ask the same questions: how are literal child abusers & people w/reactionary grievance but no experience recruited, trained and funded by orgs like Leadership Institute and TPUSA while dem establishment abandons and marginalizes grassroots groups with proven electoral track records?
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bikebike @bikebikeyyc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"The reason young people are riding their electric devices on the sidewalk is because it is not safe to ride them on the streets. The reason the streets are not safe is because of all the cars and trucks." (and increasingly, really bad driving habits) www.nsnews.com/opinion/opin...
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Opinion: Cars are the biggest threat on the road, not kids on e-scooters
All the outrage we feel about teens weaving on e-bikes and scooters would be better spent figuring out how to keep massive motorized vehicles away from all other road users
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Journalism is a public good. It needs to be publicly funded, for the same reasons that health care needs to be publicly funded. The privatization of public information has created a true crisis. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/paying-for...
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Paying for News Is Cheaper Than Not Having It
The consequences of privatizing public information.
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
El-Sayed, Lawrence and McKinney all won progressive campaigns in Michigan last night by talking about climate and clean energy like it was a kitchen-table issue — because skyrocketing energy bills and endless wildfire smoke matter to people.
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RESIST | FIGHT™ @resistfight.com · 04/08/2026
BREAKING: Trump’s Education Department deleted the federal category recording anti-trans bullying in schools. The abuse remains, but federal data will no longer name gender identity as the motive. Read the full report ↓
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Trump’s Education Department Is Deleting Nonbinary Students and Anti-Trans Bullying From Federal School Data
The 2025–26 civil-rights survey removes nonbinary reporting, eliminates separate gender-identity harassment records, and strips gender identity from rape and sexual-assault definitions.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 04/08/2026
“Here’s a radical thought: what if migration is only a problem to those who want it to be? What if we started seeing the mass movement of people less as an existential threat and more as a simple inevitability of human existence?”
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Ceuta was a carnival of anti-migrant content for hateful opportunists on the right – and a lesson for the left | Jonathan Liew
It was framed as a perfect storm because nativists dearly wanted it to be. Looking on, progressives failed to meet the moment too, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/08/2026
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.
Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
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Rep. Joyce Beatty @repbeatty.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Head Start is a vital program that invests in the well being of children and their families. Trump’s disregard for America’s children is unbelievable.
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Trump overhaul could gut Head Start preschool standards, leaving states to set the rules
President Donald Trump's administration is planning to overhaul the Head Start program. Two people familiar with the deliberations tell The Associated Press the Republican administration's proposed ch...
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such
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