Diane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️🌈✡️🇨🇦
I write about the history and politics of education. I oppose the privatization of public schools. I support democracy, teachers, students, unions, liberal education, freedom to teach and to learn. Born in Houston, live in Brooklyn. Twitter refugee.
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- So many layers of corruption.
- NEWS: U.S. and China agree to a 90-day pause on new tariffs after shipping to U.S. ports plummeted. Tariffs on Chinese imports will be cut from 145% to 30%. Tariffs on U.S. imports will be cut from 125% to 10%. If tariffs should result in massive job growth and make the U.S. rich, why lower them?
- Amen to this! 💙
- Putin and the rest of the world continuing to laugh at these bumbling fools.
- Oops.
- WATCH: Chris Murphy gives a masterclass in how to dismantle the cosplay queen, AKA Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.
- Q: “What’s the difference between Donald Trump and trans people?” A: “There are trans people courageous enough to serve in our military.”
- BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bdd9...
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- Trump is signing everything they’re putting in front of him. 😨 to see current status of progress: www.project2025.observer
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- NEW, a big loss for the right on the (large) Katy school board, in the greater Houston area. Voters have ousted Victor Perez, the board's ultra-conservative president. Perez had championed a policy against trans students that had passed on a 4-3 vote & that prompted a federal investigation.
- Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races. And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards. I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.
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View full thread4️⃣ Finally, let's finish with Mansfield: bsky.app/profile/tani...
- RESULT: Voters in Mansfield, Texas, have ousted three conservative members of their local school board tonight. This is a school board that has been at the frontlines of book-banning in Texas, as you can see here: fortworthreport.org/2025/03/19/m...
- In my voter guide of the most important elections to watch in May, I had spotlighted the two biggest elections on this list—but there's a lot more to see, including upcoming elections for school boards in Pennsylvania & Oregon. Explore! boltsmag.org/whats-on-the... And support this work!
- Glad so many people are up watching Texas school board results! If you've come to rely on me or bolts to follow these, keep in mind... *follow us at @boltsmag.org or sign up to our newsletter! boltsmag.org/newsletter *& if you can, support us & become a donor or subscriber! boltsmag.org/donate
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- Good Morning, 🦊 Foxy and Fellow #BlueCrew! ☕ It's not me but I HAD to share! ✊🏾
- This is blatantly anti-Catholic and makes fun of Catholicism. Will ANYONE in the Catholic Church speak out against it?
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- Every year, the IRS loses over a 100 billion dollars because it doesn't tax businesses called "churches." Look into that waste, Elon! youtu.be/37cZqx349xU
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- Desantis loses it after he gets heckled about ripping off $10 million from FL taxpayers for Casey’s charity.
- worth every second
- Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47
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- @scarycutedinos.bsky.social Thanks!
- In Pope Francis’s last public address, he preached care of the marginalized, the vulnerable, and migrants, saying: “I would like all of us to hope anew and to revive our trust in others, including those who are different than ourselves.” May we heed his wish.
- The Trump administration has quietly doubled down on its decision to stop sending emergency food to children starving in Bangladesh, Somalia, and other countries. Without urgent intervention, these children might die within months, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports. theatln.tc/kQAZFJJw
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- I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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- In fairness, China's pronouncers of state propaganda have a much better game then America's.
- When Trump changed sides in Russia’s war against Ukraine, Republicans acted as if nothing had changed. It takes a special talent to betray an entire worldview without missing a beat:
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