Zahava Stadler

The latter, I think. My team submitted a comment. But having this administered by the IRS rather than USED means that the focus of the request was on tax credit details rather than education-relevant details, and we'll see how much they actually clarify the aspects most impt to ed equity.

Not at all clear yet! We're waiting for the IRS to issue rules. There's no obvious mechanism in the law for states to do this.

I would edit: It incentivizes taxpayer to donate to scholarship organizations, which them provide funds to WHOMEVER THEY DECIDE. There are no giving criteria, need-based or otherwise. & it's not "parental choice." The entity exercising choice over use of public funds here is the org, not the family.

Purim sameach to all those celebrating. This year is a perfect time for our community to recommit to the themes of Purim: protecting the vulnerable and the targeted, speaking truth to power, proudly claiming our Jewishness, and using what positions of privilege we have in service of what's right.

I feel a little dense here, but can you say more about what this is supposed to show?

“There is absolutely, unequivocally no appropriate way to detain a child, period.” -Dr. Lara Jones

Tweet from Ana Kasparian: "Hey, bitch, the goyim are waking the fuck up. Deal with it."

This is the Executive Producer of the (at least nominally) left-wing news program The Young Turks, with almost a million followers.

Really does feel like we're headed down a bad road with this growing Red-Brown alliance.

Why did this rich person do a rich person thing? We must investigate!

And again:

I'm confused by the framing of using a filibuster to pass anything, which is the opposite of its purpose. From the quotes in the article about Senate processes, it seems like Senate Republicans are skeptical that they can BREAK a talking filibuster, ie pass the bill despite a Democratic filibuster.

Hillary Clinton just posted her opening statement to the Comer Committee which she is testifying before today. It's part of the Save Donald from Epstein Investigation. The committee has essentially taken over the town of Chappaqua for the purpose. @hillaryclinton.bsky.social

There are too many powerful passages in here for me to choose a pull quote. Please give it a read.

This chart title made me laugh out loud. In the bitter way, but still.

And @jamellebouie.net was JUST waxing rhapsodic on the Slate Culture Gabfest about how movie theaters are democratic spaces... cc @thehighsign.bsky.social

One of the messages I see most on social media is some variant of: “no one cares as much as you do.”

Living in Minnesota through the ICE occupation has taught me that it’s untrue. It honestly might have been disinformation the whole time.

Papaya. I have no desire to do that again.

I've recently started Louise Penny's mystery series! I'm in my fifth book now.

Hand half up, but as a Torontonian whose family is all in the US east-coast blizzard zone, today is one day I'm not complaining.

When people say “race is a social construction” it can often seem abstract. The use of “Judeo-Christian” as a seemingly natural ethno-religious category—despite centuries of anti-Jewish expulsions, pogroms and mass killing—is a good example of a political project constructing identity to gain power.

Last weekend.
This weekend.

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Keep Jerseying, Jersey. We love you.

Judges Have One Defense Against Trump They (Mostly) Haven’t Used Yet Judicial contempt is a tool few jurists have reached for to curb the administration’s misrule—and for good reason. But that may be about to change.

"If we’re in a slow-rolling constitutional crisis now, then the aggressive pursuit of contempt charges... will likely put us at an acute inflection point from which there will, I think, be a clear before and after. Either the courts possess the power to constrain the executive or they don’t..."

This is going to be a day where having a split American/Canadian social media feed will make things interesting (for reasons other than hockey).

Iowa House debating K-12 school funding now. Sounds like House Rs, Senate Rs, and Gov. Kim Reynolds have a deal.
State aid per pupil will rise by 2% compared to current year, with some additional state funds.
Gov had asked for 2%; Senate Rs had asked for 1.75% and House Rs wanted 2.25%.

I think it's important for the "all government people are corrupt crowd" to really hear this. No. No, they're not.

This is why I'm excited to see some of the laid-off federal employees start to run for office. Americans need to hear from those who've actually done the work of governing.

And "[underwater] basket weaving" has been used as a stand-in for "useless college course" for decades, so it's just lazy trope invocation, not real critique.

A human-sized, brown, plush owl wearing glasses and a red judicial robe trimmed with white fur

This one reminds me of Amicus, the owl mascot of the Canadian Supreme Court.

STOP CRIMINALIZING HEALTHCARE

WOMEN HAVE TURNED TO FARAWAY STRANGERS IN THEIR DESPERATION AND YOU THINK THE PROBLEM IS THAT THOSE STRANGERS HAVE AGREED TO HELP THEM

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Chat exchange with an extremely unhelpful AI assistant

Continued chat exchange with unhelpful AI assistant

The future has arrived and it is hitting me in the face repeatedly with a rubber mallet.