Bonnie O'Keefe

You've now gotten Comfort Eagle stuck in my head, too.

Transcendent artists will find a means.

NY/NJ better come with 3D glasses. Or a commemorative championship magic eye poster.

"free/cheap/non-toxic youth sports" feels like one of those skeleton keys that would have knock-on effects accidentally fix 100 unrelated things about America

or, you know, even if it didn't, at least a bunch of kids would be able to have fun playing sports

If only there was an intellectual discipline that could explain why the white men who run universities are so eager to shut down gender studies.

thrilled and honored to announce that I will not

All these headlines about how "Bad Bunny avoided politics" are WILD and underline how we've come to understand "doing politics" uniquely as "making a speech" or "posting on Instagram"

Bad Bunny, Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin at the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show - Tom + Lorenzo Benito called up his friends Steffi and Ricky and said "Hey, how about we show the world what America really is and also look totally sickeningly hot

Benito texted his friends Steffi and Ricky and said "Hey, how about we show the world what America really is and also look totally sickeningly hot while doing it?” On Bad Bunny, style & the #SuperBowl:
tomandlorenzo.com/2026/02/bad-...

Notably: Congress did not agree to any of the big slashing of the education budget that the Trump administration requested. They wanted to zero out Title III funding for English learners and the dedicated allocation for migrant students, and Congress ignored them.

i can't wait to develop my quadrennial curling crush

The Education Department's efforts to fire staff cost over $28 million, watchdog says A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office calculates the cost of efforts to fire civil rights staff and questions the department's ability to enforce federal civil rights laws.

The Education Department's efforts to fire staff in the Office of Civil Rights cost over $28 million, watchdog says www.npr.org/2026/02/02/n...

'This is about children … being treated as less than human,' says Twin Cities district superintendent at state Capitol news conference. @bethhawkins.bsky.social reports www.the74million.org/article/minn...

Stand With Minnesota A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation

This directory of places to donate to all comes from activists on the ground, plugged into the situation. Everything is vetted, with the exception of individual GoFundMes

#StandWithMinnesota

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

nine years old

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.

Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Applications for @aefpweb.bsky.social's Innovation Day are open! Intended for #education leaders interested in:

- increasing #math achievement
- implementing workforce #Pell grants
- strengthening the #teacher workforce

Thanks @arnoldventures.bsky.social for support!

aefpweb.org/innovation-day

We @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social are hiring a director for our Policy-Aligned Research Agenda Buildling Lab (PARABL), to help education system leaders build research roadmaps to effect change in a particular area.

More info here:

wheelockpolicycenter.org/wp-content/u...

[Disclosure/shameless plug that I spoke to the RI commission about weighted student funding last spring, and am happy to be acknowledged and cited within!]

Equalizing Opportunity: Creating a Fair and Transparent Funding… Recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Commission

Back at my desk and reading this commission report on school funding in Rhode Island -- lots to like in here, with a big underline on 1) introducing tiered, student-based funding for special education and ELs and 2) fixing their strange local revenue calculation. rifoundation.org/news/equaliz...

2026 marks my first year dealing with summer camp planning, my spreadsheet is all in disarray already, and I don't even live in a place with competitive/crazy summer camp demand.

The New Year's Child Care Freeze: A Primer Unpacking a story that is spinning wildly out of control

I appreciate this breakdown of "what fresh hell is this?" from @ehaspel.bsky.social familyfrontier.substack.com/p/the-new-ye...

loved the phrasing here

When Rebecca Solnit asks you to turn a thread into an essay, you fucking do it. jessica.substack.com/p/cbs-news-f...
bsky.app/profile/rebe...

three women smoking subtitled I'd like to set fire to this dump.

'Female Trouble' (1974)
dir. John Waters 📽️

“Southwest used to have free checked baggage! When I was young, all the airlines did!” “Sure, grandma, let’s get you to bed.”

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE