@michellemagnusson
Probably pondering: 1. how history, religion, education, civic engagement shape society and/or 2. sustainable community building, biking, walking, transit, trees, urban design #okc #cargobike #bikebus #mobilitycommissioner
Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.
“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
We are absolutely seeing this at @community-share.bsky.social through the projects teachers and students are shaping!
We just had parking weaponized to overturn plans for a mosque (that was just White Christian Nationalism) and two story modest apartments next to a uni and other apartments (that was racism and classism). The quest for “parking” is literally going to get the city sued while violating rights.
White supremacy explains many apparent contradictions.
Conservative calls for free speech were always about freedom to use slurs without sanction.
Calls for small government were always about denying Black folks rights and state protections.
This is conservatives achieving their goals.
Just got a compliment regarding how perfectly I did all the kids' passport applications from a guy who had 8 billion signs one of which was "please do not lick your fingers"
#formgoddess
We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.
And then they pull these shenanigans. Come on
In a statement, Mary Vought, Heritage’s vice president of strategic communications, said Antoni was presenting to interns on the subject of economic freedom when a participant posed a question on the workforce. She said Antoni cited what is commonly referred to as the “greater male variability hypothesis” among other statistics to answer the question. “A statistician cited statistics when asked — that’s not a story or controversial. As BLS commissioner, Dr. Antoni will rely on objective data to restore integrity, accountability and America’s trust in the agency,” Vought said. “I’m proud to call him a colleague and a friend.”
This is a very DC story. The comms person for organization that created Project 2025, and wife of a lead architect of Project 2025, is then brought out that telling female summer interns they have lower IQs on average is just statistics!
This just proves that Antoni is qualified to lead BLS!
When people quote them in isolation I am this gif personified, trying to sort them out. Also a lot of overlap in their topics of interest!
I'm looking for evidence showing it would be safer for kids to cross a crosswalk where cars are stopped rather than where cars are zipper merging and turning two directions. This seems like a no brainer, but I need evidence. Graphics? Studies? Please help save our school active transport program!
👋 waves from Oklahoma, where this is now enshrined in our state standards 🫠
i didn't get into it in my essay on this speech, but beyond the basic incoherence of vance's assorted grievances, i'm struck by how ungrateful *he* is, a man who owes his fame and fortune to the open, cosmopolitan society he is trying to destroy for the sake of power
The British pediatrician D. W. Winnicott once wrote, “There’s no such thing as a baby. There is a baby and someone.”
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Middle school is a pivotal time to help students see themselves in #STEM. In Tucson, students used GIS & mentorship to explore green infrastructure gaps & build skills thanks to a powerful community-university partnership. Learn about the project featured by @gettingsmart.bsky.social
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NEW: Minnesota just ranked the third best state to have a baby. That’s no coincidence.
We’re expanding paid leave and child care, delivering a nation-leading child tax credit, and investing in public schools. We’re putting families first and it’s making a difference.
Fingers crossed I can make all the pieces line up!
(Gift link): as always (to my reading) @tressiemcphd.bsky.social keeps her focus on power, then interprets what’s happening through that lens.
Watching this play out as Oklahoma'd public school system gets dismantled.
But why do Americans care so much about winning? And care so much more than people in many other high-income countries?
Research shows that it's *because* we're so unequal. And because our policies make us that way.
academic.oup.com/ser/article/...
Instead, these cross-national differences in parenting are at least partly a function of differences in policies and the inequalities that result.
Essentially, weaker safety nets make it riskier to be at the top of the social ladder, because there's less to catch you and further to fall. 5/
Active transit friends... I have a chance to be in many places in Germany and perhaps Amsterdam next year. What active transit can I explore (and envy)? Will also have three active transit-living kids with me. #mobilitycommissioner
Important: this isn't a study of gun violence per se. It's a study of 170 health indicators in US children, finding that in ALL of them, kids are measurably less healthy than they were 20yrs ago. Across the board, kids are less healthy than they used to be here and less healthy than peers worldwide.
Homeland Security DHS account on X: Remember your Homeland's Heritage. New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling
The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”
Student journalism folks.
