Reposted by Peter GreeneRachel Pinnelas 💭 @racheaissance.com · 12/10/2026“Women wearing short shorts to the gym does not make them whores. It makes the men calling them ‘whores’ misogynists.”variety.comDan Levy Calls Out Shane Gillis’ ‘SNL’ Monologue and Says ‘More Men Need to Be Standing Up’: ‘Speechless That Something Like That Can Exist on Live National Television’"Schitt's Creek" star Dan Levy is calling out Shane Gillis' "Saturday Night Live" monologue, saying that "more men need to be standing up." 1174004741
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 2hHere Comes Direct Instruction, Again curmudgucation.substack.com/p/here-comes...curmudgucation.substack.comHere Comes Direct Instruction, AgainEmily Hanford is back with another story to sell about a story someone’s been sold. 354
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 2hMAGA Moms Sic AI On School Districts curmudgucation.substack.com/p/maga-moms-...curmudgucation.substack.comMAGA Moms Sic AI On School DistrictsIn the midst of their current summit (cleverly scheduled for the end of Banned Books Week), Moms for Liberty unveiled a new AI tool. 000
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 3hHere Comes Direct Instruction, Again curmudgucation.substack.com/p/here-comes...curmudgucation.substack.comHere Comes Direct Instruction, AgainEmily Handford is back with another story to sell about a story someone’s been sold. 000
Reposted by Peter GreeneRachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 12hTr*mp cut down 430 trees at a historic D.C. public golf course over the weekend with another 299 trees scheduled for removal the next day. After being court-ordered not to. Horrifying de-forestation. Imagine hating tress that much.apnews.comFederal judge orders Trump administration to halt work for a day on historic DC golf courseA federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt work for a day on a historic D.C. golf course, pending more court action. U.S. 001
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 14hThe rise of the Jim Crow theobros open.substack.com/pub/confront...open.substack.comThe rise of the Jim Crow theobrosHow a growing network of Reformed pastors and influencers is blending segregationist theology, the manosphere, and internet outrage to monetize white supremacy. 030
Reposted by Peter GreeneBruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 20hAn Economically Conservative Approach to Deciding Whether to Adopt or Expand Vouchers schoolfinance101.com/2026/10/12/a...schoolfinance101.comAn Economically Conservative Approach to Deciding Whether to Adopt or Expand VouchersFive questions any fiscal conservative should ask before spending $5 billion a year on private school vouchers, using Florida’s own numbers. 023
Reposted by Peter GreeneAdam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Yep. Defending Main Street PAC—a GOP SuperPAC focused on boosting non-MAGA Republicans—spent $20-25K on digital ads against Troy Jackson in Portland ... OREGON. Receipts: adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A... 961603324
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 12/10/2026MAGA Moms Sic AI On School Districts curmudgucation.substack.com/p/maga-moms-...curmudgucation.substack.comMAGA Moms Sic AI On School DistrictsIn the midst of their current summit (cleverly scheduled for the end of Banned Books Week), Moms for Liberty unveiled a new AI tool. 032
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Or you could, you know, talk to them and listen to them. 010
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 11/10/2026MAGA Moms Sic AI On School Districts curmudgucation.substack.com/p/maga-moms-... @masspolprofmo.bsky.socialcurmudgucation.substack.comMAGA Moms Sic AI On School DistrictsIn the midst of their current summit (cleverly scheduled for the end of Banned Books Week), Moms for Liberty unveiled a new AI tool. 012
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 11/10/2026www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...theatlantic.comAll the Things You’re Not Allowed to Say In TexasThe state now controls what professors can teach. 021
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 11/10/2026ICYMI: Banned Edition (10/11) curmudgucation.substack.com/p/icymi-bann...curmudgucation.substack.comICYMI: Banned Edition (10/11)I have deliberately waited until after Banned Books Week this year to talk about banned books because it’s a topic I hate to see relegated to just one week where we all wring our hands with concern an... 011
Reposted by Peter GreeneCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026You can lie to yourself every day that this horseshit doesn't make you lazy and stupid, but reality comes at you pretty fastnews.berkeley.eduUsing AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley NewsA UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life. 111089281
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I started my car, put a brick on the gas pedal, and put it in gear. The rogue vehicle went down the street and smashed into someone's kitchen on its own. Clearly no human can be held responsible for the destruction. 1223
Reposted by Peter GreeneBethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 10/10/2026*sigh* They didn’t just write the code. They trained the agents on data pertaining to what they did and TOLD THEM TO DO IT. The “rogue” and “we can’t control this” shit is PR hype. I need Journalists to stop being the most credulous marks on the planet. 116037
Reposted by Peter GreeneElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.theguardian.comControversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-BissauRecommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers 731808856
Reposted by Peter GreeneMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Thank goodness they were acting on their own and no one could be held accountable🥸 416130
Reposted by Peter GreeneDr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The mathematicians have absolutely had enough of Open AI’s bullshit www.ahmath.org/statementsahmath.orgStatements — AHM 0104
Reposted by Peter GreeneHigh Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 09/10/2026by all means, AI evangelists: leave me behind, off with you, godspeed, don’t let the door hit you news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...news.berkeley.eduUsing AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley NewsA UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life. 191478488
Reposted by Peter GreeneEmma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 09/10/2026A product no one asked for, that no one wants, that doesn't do what it claims, that burns moneyfuturism.comAI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure in Leaked DocumentsIt turns out that AI demand is significantly lower than expected, as OpenAI shaves $20 billion off its revenue expectations for 2026. 961419524
Reposted by Peter GreeneEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >> 471782595
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 09/10/2026buckscountybeacon.com/2026/10/9-re...buckscountybeacon.com9 Reasons Why Governor Josh Shapiro Must Say ‘No’ to Trump’s Federal School Vouchers - Bucks County BeaconThe Democratic governor has shown himself to be voucher-curious in the past. 063
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Banned Books Week: The Florida Law That Opened the Floodgates accountabaloney.substack.com/p/banned-boo...accountabaloney.substack.comBanned Books Week: The Florida Law That Opened the FloodgatesByron Donalds touts his role in the law that helped make Florida a national leader in book challenges. 020
Reposted by Peter GreeneBucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 09/10/20269 Reasons Why Governor Josh Shapiro Must Say ‘No’ to Trump’s Federal School Vouchers | The Democratic governor has shown himself to be voucher-curious in the past, writes @palan57.bsky.social.buckscountybeacon.com9 Reasons Why Governor Josh Shapiro Must Say ‘No’ to Trump’s Federal School Vouchers - Bucks County BeaconThe Democratic governor has shown himself to be voucher-curious in the past. 2136
Reposted by Peter GreeneJennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I wrote about how the hollowing out of higher education is hurting rural students. Wisconsin is an extreme cautionary tale but rising inequality and the obsessive focus on ROI are happening everywhere barnraisingmedia.com/gutting-two-...barnraisingmedia.comGutting Two-Year Colleges Leaves Rural Students BehindExperts warns the demise of Wisconsin’s two-year liberal arts transfer colleges represents the equivalent of “desertification” of education for rural and first-generation students. 1159
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A ‘Gold Rush Moment’ for Private Education progressive.org/public-schoo...progressive.orgA ‘Gold Rush Moment’ for Private EducationState officials weigh a new federal school voucher program that is ripe for profiteering and discrimination. 011
Reposted by Peter GreeneEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere). 141039323
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Fascism Warning Play “The Wave” Silenced at Ocean County Vocational in New Jersey hesherman1.substack.com/p/fascism-wa...hesherman1.substack.comFascism Warning Play “The Wave” Silenced at Ocean County Vocational in New Jersey“It’s School Theatre Censorship Season,” Part 3 043
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 08/10/2026What's Wrong With Educational Research (Part 23,881) curmudgucation.substack.com/p/whats-wron...curmudgucation.substack.comWhat's Wrong With Educational Research (Part 23,881)Noah Smith is an “econ blogger” who mostly does econ stuff, but a week ago he decided to take a swipe at education. 023
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Department of Education denies Freedom of Information Act request for school voucher data otherduties.substack.com/p/department...otherduties.substack.comDepartment of Education denies request for school voucher dataOn September 24, 2026, I submitted a Freedom Information Act request to the South Carolina Department of Education requesting “copies of all student test results submitted to the Department for the 20... 032
Reposted by Peter GreeneMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/10/2026"I don’t know what every person in that group saw or knew. But I am raising one of the others. The boy who might someday be in the room. Or holding the phone. The boy who didn’t do it. The boy who could therefore spend the rest of his life explaining that he didn’t do anything." buff.ly/z7yWbR2buff.lyAn Open Letter to Cornell University from the Mother of a Prospective Male Student“Seven former Cornell students are accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting another Cornell student who says she was incapacitated. Messages alleged... 530091
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"Pushing back"? She only votes against measures after being assured her vote won't matter. Making sad faces while fully supporting Trump is still supporting Trump. A "concerned" partisan is still a partisan. 0171
Reposted by Peter GreeneAdam "I Was Hoping We Could Keep It" Laats @adamlaats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026School people: We're about a month away from SCOTUS deliberations in St. Mary's v. Roy. It's a big deal: Private schools want to take public money but keep their "right" to discriminate against LGBTQ families. They built their case on a bogus history, so we filed a brief telling the real story:supremecourt.gov 2169
Reposted by Peter GreeneBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026Theory-free inference is a bid to substitute one for the other: the beauty and terror of being able to manipulate the world without studying or understanding it is that it can be done with money alone. No experts needed. 14211
Reposted by Peter GreeneBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026The fact that a theory-free AI might demand far more cash to accomplish a task (even a "solved" one like playing chess) than an expert would charge is beside the point. Billionaires *have* money, they *don't* have expertise. 46014
Reposted by Peter GreeneProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026In Wisconsin alone, there were 39 private schools where every student used tuition vouchers during the most recent school year. Together, these schools educated 7,923 children and took in roughly $87 million from the voucher program. (Published August)propublica.orgAt “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve... 561064610
Reposted by Peter GreeneHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026This product should not exist.nytimes.comWhy My Conversations with OpenAI’s ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ Made Me Very WorriedA new mode includes a study tool, but it still does a user’s homework. And a children’s safety nonprofit says the chatbot flunked its tests. 9377114
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 07/10/2026What We Mean When We Say "Good School" (pt. 3) thejosevilson.com/what-we-mean...thejosevilson.comWhat We Mean When We Say "Good School" (pt. 3) | The Jose VilsonWhat did an awkward ride to the airport teach me about good schools? Read the story and let me know what you think here! 011
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I don't understand. DFER assured me that privatizing public education is a super-duper winning strategy. 040
Reposted by Peter GreeneAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026New in PN: Roger Marshall is running an all time terrible campaign "After decades of crawling further and further into the orifice of the right-wing media bubble, GOP candidates no longer know how to distinguish truth from propaganda, much less how to persuade skeptical voters."publicnotice.coRoger Marshall is running an all time terrible campaignRed state MAGAs aren’t equipped for real competition and accountability. 411128270
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The NYT slowly catching up to @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The School Policy Scam Turning Voters Blue (Gift Article)In Texas and Iowa, Democrats are successfully tying universal school vouchers to corruption. 073
Reposted by Peter GreeneNancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026@palan57.bsky.social is right: Teachers need to know stuff, especially in an era where information is suspect, misleading and paywalled. When teachers are not seen as experts—or don’t see themselves as experts—we’re in trouble. teacherinastrangeland.blog/2026/10/06/i...teacherinastrangeland.blogInformation vs. Knowledge vs. ApplicationLet me cut to the chase: You should read Peter Greene’s piece, Teachers Should Know Stuff, if you’re involved in education in any way. Actually, you should subscribe and read all his work, because … 012
Reposted by Peter GreeneArianna Prothero @ariannaprothero.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Education Week reviewed what is on the ballot in all 50 states and the District of Columbia and assembled this guide to highlight the statewide races and ballot initiatives of greatest consequence to schools. www.edweek.org/policy-polit... @edweek.org #eduskyedweek.orgEdWeek's Guide to the 2026 Elections: Where Education Is on the BallotEducation Week reviewed what's on the ballot in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. 021
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Big Money Continues to Roll into Massachusetts Coalition for a Stealthy Oligarchy mauricecunningham153.substack.com/p/latest-fro...mauricecunningham153.substack.comBig Money Continues to Roll into Massachusetts Coalition for a Stealthy OligarchyThe October 5 reports have dropped from Office of Campaign and Political Finance and add to what we’ve seen from the Coalition for Healthy Democracy 2026. 010
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 06/10/2026That special distinction of creating a typo so bad that auto-correct cannot determine what the hell you meant. 061
Reposted by Peter GreeneEducation Week @edweek.org · 06/10/2026Why Don’t We Talk More About Family Structure in Schooling? (Opinion): A new report examines the role of family structure on academic success.edweek.orgWhy Don’t We Talk More About Family Structure in Schooling? (Opinion)A new report examines the role of family structure on academic success. 001
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yes, setting more rules for a guy whose defining features is that he ignores rules-- that's an awesome plan. 010