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Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: This is a long, a very long, article in the New Yorker. It was written by Evan Osnos, David Remnick, and Joshua Yaffa. David Remnick is the editor-in-chief of the New Yorker and a Russian specialist. The article is a history of the past twenty years of relations between the United States and Russia.…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: This post is about pollution and the environment. Please don’t say it is unrelated to education or children. Many children have asthma or other illnesses that are caused or aggravated by pollution. This damages their health, their well-being, even their performance in school. It wasn’t so long ago that the idea of protecting the…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Everywhere I turn, people are citing the Indivisible Guide. These are the former Congressional staff members who wrote a guide to making change. The Indivisibles are connecting people with their neighbors. Their guide encourages people to attend Town Halls and to speak directly with their elected representatives. It shows what members of Congress care…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: A group of former government officials, scholars, and activists have joined together to act as an informal “Shadow Cabinet,” for the express purpose of exposing and debunking Trump’s errors, mistaken policies, and alternative facts. I am pleased to share with you that I was invited to be the Shadow Secretary of Education. Laurence Tribe…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Trump recently quoted Thomas Jefferson to sustain Trump’s campaign against the press, which he has called “The enemy of the American people.” Trump certainly didn’t read Jefferson, but someone on his staff found this quote for him, to make it appear that Jefferson opposed a free press. “When Thomas Jefferson said ‘nothing can be…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Sidney Blumenthal, an advisor in the Clinton administration, wrote a brilliant and well-resourced article for the London Review of Books about the history of the Trump family and about the personal anxieties of Donald Trump, as expressed in his own words. His statements are documented. It may be the best, most comprehensive article you…

Originally posted on GFBrandenburg's Blog: (Copied from elsewhere; author unknown but reprinted with thanks to whoever it was. Also thanks to my friend Kathryn Wadsworth who put this out on FB!) A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE REPUBLICAN AMERICAN Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: The Trump administration proves what some of us long feared and suspected: the crackpot fringe of the right wants to dumb down the populace by eliminating funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. These Yahoos hate education. They want the public…

The Inner Musings of Steve Bannon By James W. Gaynor In fourth grade no one Would sit next to me at lunch. Not a lot has changed. According to Vlad Bloody Marys require Fresh human plasma. POTUS is nuts and Armageddon is taking More time than I thought. Nobody knows […] via To Russia, With Love: Single Malt Haikus — Open…