Neuroscientists provide a glimpse into what happens in a student’s brain when they're given a break (hint: it’s not downtime). 💡 🧠 edut.to/3YisI1X

Some really off-base thinking here: Schools are not manufacturing plants, teaching and learning doesn't belong on a conveyor belt, and students aren't widgets. Sometimes "squandered time" is a mental health necessity or a time for relationship and school culture building.

In Mexico, a number of autoworkers are refusing voluntary overtime in support of the U.S. strike. Bosses want to pit us against each other. They won’t win. inthesetimes.com/article/uaw-st…

CNN (accidentally?) interviewed Mustafa Barghouti about Israel-Palestine. Can’t think of the last time I saw anything like this on mainstream U.S. television. Zakaria seems not even to know who he’s talking to.

Minnesota is leading by example when it comes to addressing the climate crisis in specific and actionable ways. By 2040, every Minnesotan will have access to carbon-free electricity from the state’s utility companies. #climatecrisis Sarah Lahm progressive.org/magazine/minne…

Israeli Holocaust scholar Raz Segal says Israel's war on Gaza constitutes "a textbook case of genocide." democracynow.org/2023/10/16/raz…

Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet; during this past week of extreme violence in Gaza, he and his family are sheltering in the Jabalia refugee camp north of Gaza. Here are two poems from the poet. #Palestine #Gaza #Poetry progressive.org/latest/bearing…

Thousands protested in New York City on Friday evening to demand an Israeli ceasefire in Gaza. truthout.org/articles/jewis…

The U.S. is also responsible for the horror in Gaza. 80% of the bombs that the Israeli military drops on Gaza, that are used to kill these children, are American-made. We are called on to do everything we can to stop this genocide. 3/5

Israel claims that Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital serves as a command center for Hamas. Norwegian physician Mads Gilbert, who has worked at Al-Shifa for 16 years says there is "no evidence at all" that that is the case. "If it was a military command center, I would not work there."

Number of Journalists killed in wars: Vietnam War: 63 journalists in 20 years. World War II: 67 journalists in 7 years. Gaza: 105 journalists in nearly 3 months. They don’t want the world to know!

"I found a considerable lack of work after doing concerts for Palestinian children.. if that's the way it has to be, that's the way it has to be. If you support human rights, you gotta support them everywhere." - Kris Kristofferson

"For these women, the liberty of privacy means that they alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability. It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their

10/ It’s not just Knox County. Across the country, oil, gas, and power companies have exploited a struggling news industry and a fraught political process to fight clean energy. Read more via ProPublica, Floodlight and Tow Center: propublica.org/article/ohio-m…

What can we expect from TimWalz as VP in terms of ed policy? Rare to read such a thoughtful piece on #education . And I'm quoted accurately! @sarahlahmTV lays it out in The Progressive : progressive.org/magazine/can-t…

We need a movement to end the exploitation and crimes done by health care corporations. The “Free Luigi” fever didn’t get us far enough. Sarah Lahm #Luigimangione #healthcare progressive.org/latest/luigi-m…

ICE is arresting third graders, handcuffing them and putting them in detention with adult criminals.

NEWS: the Trump admin has “temporarily” paused enforcement of a desperately needed silica rule aimed at combating the rising black lung crisis in Appalachia. Coal miners and their advocates have been fighting for *decades* to lower deadly silica dust exposure levels in the mines.

If you start a book club or reading group to read Copaganda with at least 10-15 people, I’ll zoom in to discuss it with you! Start organizing your friends + coworkers and get those copies. And last chapter has a lot of stuff you can do together once you’ve finished reading.

Al Jazeera has published the names of every journalist killed since Oct 7th. 231 Palestinian journalists have been slaughtered in Gaza. A whole generation of reporters wiped out while many of their colleagues in the West simply shrugged.