Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumKQED News @kqednews.kqed.org · 15hww2.kqed.orgDon’t Skip the School Board Races on Your Ballot. Here’s Why They Could Be PivotalPublic schools across the Bay Area are facing “some unambiguously big problems,” education experts say, but the elections for local school boards often fly under the radar. 051
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumUnited Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026A foreman oversees his crew in Mettler CA. The workers are weeding a carrot field. It is intense, repetitive work that is very necessary as weeds compete for water, nutrients, and light. Thanks to these workers the carrots will grow straighter, healthier, and larger. #WeFeedYou 221300264
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026FCC Chair Andrew Ferguson touts the administration's work to "protect white American men from discrimination" 6911608633
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumUnited Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026In WA State farm workers are harvesting Granny Smith apples. Hector says, "I feel very unhappy about what they're paying us. Last year, we were paid $33/900lb bin. This year they are only paying us $30/bin. It's increasingly difficult to cover my family's expenses. #WeFeedYou 32766259
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Televised executions? Killer Pete Hegseth is a sick person. He, like his boss, never should have been allowed near the levers of power. 1583042640
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumAnne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This week in the US of A: watch live a human being massacred by firing squad, but be careful how you treat the tech boys' imaginary friend 1227
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumConor P. Williams @conorpwilliams.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"[D]own in the gym, no one is asking if student-athletes are allowed to use AI during cross-country races." www.the74million.org/article/ai-b...the74million.orgAI & Back-to-School Night: Anxious Parents, Nervous Teachers and Chill CoachesWilliams: The only adults not fretting about AI use can be found in the gym because no one is going to ask if a chatbot can run laps for their kid. 001
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books 4083519010590
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.wapo.stTrump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policyThe purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk. 6338711406
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumDwayne Godwin, PhD @dwaynegodwin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine goes to the developers of optogenetics. Did you know that optogenetics is based on a discovery made in green algae? Well, now you do! Here’s a comic explainer we did back when it was still new. @phdcomics.com 🧠 #neuroskyence #neuroscience 27828
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumLarry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The Best Resources For Teaching About Elections larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/10/08/t...larryferlazzo.edublogs.orgThe Best Resources For Teaching About ElectionsThe mid-term elections are coming up. Here are some resources for how to teach about them: Teach the 2026 Midterm Elections is from The NY Times Learning Network. Teaching Resources for US E… 042
Sandy Brumbaum @sbrumbaum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Is he playing a recording while the child sits on his lap, turning the pages and looking at the pictures? Or is he playing a recording while he goes about his business? What other parenting tasks does he turnover to AI? 000
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“I see protest as a genuine means of encouraging someone to feel the inconsistencies, the horror, of the lives we are living. Social protest is to say that we do not have to live this way." — Audre Lorde 025963
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 07/10/2026We are facing a psychiatric emergency. We are facing a constitutional emergency. Anyone with eyes and ears who’s paying attention can see it. Our republic is teetering. The good news: We the people have the power to stop this accelerating descent before it’s too late. 1132904800
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I keep forgetting to share that our (Sojourners for Justice Press) 2027 Calendar is available for pre-orders until November 1. It's the only way to get one. Also, purchasing a calendar helps us to continue to publish & organize events. sojourners4justice.press/calendar/sojourners4justice.pressSojourners for Justice Press 32216
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?bbc.comParamount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood mergerThe merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition 676147646002
Sandy Brumbaum @sbrumbaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Important read. “Among the Steps to Promote Institutional Courage: Commit to seek the truth. Add checks and balances to power structures. Cherish the whistle-blowers.” 010
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026TODAY is the last day to register to vote in several states. I urge you to double check your state's deadline, verify that you are registered, and make changes to your registration if needed. Then contact three friends or family members and have them do the same. whenweallvote.org 10231982273
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumNate Bowling @natebowling.com · 05/10/2026Here's the original video from George Brett Olson that got me started on all of this The fact this is actually happening continues to baffle me 18433126
Sandy Brumbaum @sbrumbaum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There were many rebuttals in the first round from educators, K-12, higher ed, professional organizations, consultants. The larger public heard the “story” which pulled on their heartstrings (and cited “people who know”).There is no reasoning with that. 011
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumChristopher Martell @chrismartell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This era of U.S. history that we are living through is so insane and so dangerous. Case in point... Some amazing investigative reporting on what "DOGE" did at the IRS. Worth the read. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.com‘Elon is my prophet’: how Musk’s Doge team took a wrecking ball to WashingtonWhen the new ‘department of government efficiency’ sent young techies to disrupt federal agencies, not everyone complied. Here’s what happened when one worker fought to protect immigrant data 031
Sandy Brumbaum @sbrumbaum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026FWIW, I’m not sure how to get notifications when there is a new pick. I just happened to run across this thread as I was scrolling. So we may want to tag the group and give them a few more days to give input. @hcodymiller.bsky.social 110
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumDaniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Global model ensembles are in strong agreement that a prolonged &anomalous nearly West-wide autumn heatwave will develop this week & persist for 10+ days. While some daytime records may be set, this event will be more notable for its persistence & breadth. [Thread] 1325894
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 119116032879
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I’m publishing something tomorrow about Alpha School. One of the things I focus on is how it is an incubator for EdTech platforms with the ambition to hyperscale. Alpha may only have a few hundred students nationwide, but its founders are developing MANY extractive EdTech brands. This is one: 13724964
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026They are playing in our faces 408125925971
Reposted by Sandy Brumbaumcaithow @caithow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The early info we have is damning: SoR doesn’t lead to long term success, but it DOES: normalize high stakes testing & holding children back, justify punitive policies and privatization, stigmatize teachers, & further drains education of its capacity to generate an educated, thoughtful electorate. 183
Reposted by Sandy Brumbaumcaithow @caithow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The federal government, by which I mean THIS federal government, picking this up, at a time when they are otherwise draining edu of all substance, should be all you need to know about what a grift SoR is. If it were effective at enhancing understanding and education, they’d destroy it. 2175
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumUrsula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I left several copies of this little zine I made in my classroom at the start of the year. They are all gone now and no one has said anything but I am pleased. 77624
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumGreg Porter @gporterwx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This isn't normal. #ElNiño 24514
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumGreg Porter @gporterwx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This #ElNiño is basically creating one big monsoon season across the Pacific. Not an easterly to be found anywhere. 0103
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Literacy is load-bearing, y'all. Not AI literacy, not digital literacy, not media literacy. Literacy literacy. 014335
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Then, if you’re able, try to get your body moving. You’re going to need your senses and movement is good for your brain. If you have kids in your care, protect their developing brains and their image. That’s all I can say about that. 41251139
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain. 52530662
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I've spent a lot of time inside classrooms of very poor schools, including working with well-resourced parents like @nhannahjones.bsky.social who opted for those schools out of social obligation. Her experience - and agony - is common and wrenching. She's just one of (very few) willing to be honest.nytimes.comIn Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice. 1726822
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumMark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Don’t you dare @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov, do not cave. 5670 film makers put their necks on the line for you to fight this merger. Another 75,000+ and counting have signed to tell you not to concede in just 3 weeks. Please sign to send a message to the AG’s and Paramount. noparamountconcessions.com 7645031423
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/09/2026We are not living through "an authoritarian impulse," we are living through actual AUTHORITARIANISM. 6989204
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women 6138783684
Reposted by Sandy BrumbaumAlex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"Kids don't read anymore." My circ stats beg to differ. The feedback I got back from Summer Reading really begs to differ. Kids are reading, and kids want to read more. The way kids are being taught means they don't read a lot of full books in class. But that doesn't mean they don't want to read. 1040894