Letterman Joins Colbert for CBS Farewell: “Goodnight and Good Luck, Motherf**kers"

Stop Trump’s Planned Army of Millionaire Insurrectionists

 

1,600 loyal traitors x $1M for each of them= $1,600,000,000. That would leave $100M for logistical support, planning, and weapons. Wonder what Felon47 might use this army of deplorable millionaires for?

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— James Horn (@schools-matter24.bsky.social) May 15, 2026 at 11:35 AM

Louisiana Resident Speaks Truth to Idiocy

 

A Louisiana resident who identified himself as Marshawn delivered a fiery, emotional speech to lawmakers during a state Senate hearing over redistricting Monday, accusing Republicans of trying to “cheat” Black voters out of political power. 

 “The MAGA party is the last breath of the Confederacy,” he told lawmakers. 

“If y’all could give us less than zero seats, you would do it.” 

Marshawn’s testimony came as Louisiana Republicans advance a new congressional map after the Supreme Court weakened key protections in the Voting Rights Act. 

 “There will be no more of your party,” he said. “The midterms gonna come, y’all gonna get wiped out,” he said. 

 #Louisiana 

#Redistricting 

#VotingRights 

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Ideology, Rather Than Science, Continues to Control NAEP

In the important Substack commentary linked below, Paul Thomas offers an update on the 40 year-old battle to return NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) testing to the status of a useful and scientifically-grounded assessment tool, rather than the high-stakes political bludgeon created by Chester Finn and his band of renegade right-wingers (including Diane Ravitch) to pummel public schools in the U.S. for failure to reach out-of-reach proficiency levels that were instituted to regularly demonstrate the failure of public education. 

In a 2008 article in The School Administrator, Gerald Bracey provided this snapshot history of the unresolved controversy: 

The [NAEP] governing board hired a team of three well-known evaluators and psychometricians to evaluate the process — Daniel Stufflebeam of Western Michigan University, Richard Jaeger of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Michael Scriven of NOVA Southeastern University. The team delivered its final report on Aug. 23, 1991. This process does not work, the team averred, saying: "[T]he technical difficulties are extremely serious … these standards and the results obtained from them should under no circumstances be used as a baseline or benchmark … the procedures used in the exercise should under no circumstances be used as a model.” 

NAGB, led by Chester E. Finn Jr., summarily fired the team, or at least tried to. Because the researchers already had delivered the final report, the contract required payment. 

The inappropriate use of these levels continues today. The achievement levels have been rejected by the Government Accountability Office, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Education, the Center for Research in Evaluation, Student Standards and Testing and the Brookings Institution, as well as by individual psychometricians. 

 I have repeatedly observed that the NAEP results do not mesh with those from international comparisons. In the 1995 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, or TIMSS, assessment, American 4th graders finished third among 26 participating nations in science, but the NAEP science results from the same year stated that only 31 percent of them were proficient or better. 

 As you will see from the piece below, little has changed in the ongoing war except that minority rule by fascist bastards has become more intense.

NAEP 2026: The Politics of Testing by Paul Thomas

"Despite the best of intentions, however, in practice, reading assessments sometimes negatively impact students and their learning opportunities." Forzani, et al. (2022)

Read on Substack

Rep. Justin Pearson on TN House Floor May 7, 2026

"These maps are racist tools of white supremacy at the behest of the most powerful white supremacist in the United States of America, Donald J. Trump. . . .” —Rep. Justin Pearson

 

RETRACTION NOTICE: Peer-Reviewed Article on AI Learning Benefits Found to Be Bullshit

This bogus meta-analysis of AI studies from 2025 has been used to pump the benefits of AI in schools. Since publication, it has been cited over 500 times by other authors. On April 22, it was retracted by the journal that published it. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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— James Horn (@schools-matter24.bsky.social) May 6, 2026 at 7:23 AM

Watch Lower Merion Supt. Deny Parents the Right to Opt Out of 24/7 Tech Plan

 

Books Return to Swedish Schools; Achievement Goes Up

 Surprise, surprise!  From the BBC:

Schools in Sweden are returning to more traditional learning methods - such as reading from physical books - after seeing their reading standards drop while ipads and laptops were used.

There is now a focus on using more printed textbooks, handwriting and less screen time in early education. Experts say reading levels are getting better because of this.

Some teachers have said students are asking for more books and paper based learning in schools, saying they learn more quickly and retain information better than using a laptop. 

This isn't a total ban on technology in the classroom and digital devices are still used, but the government is spending millions buying physical textbooks, and library books. . . .

Trump Stooge, Gov. Bill Lee, Calls Special Session to Further Disenfranchise Tennesseans

Four in ten Tennesseans are Democrats, most of them concentrated in Nashville and Memphis.  Even so, Democrats controlled only two of the nine House seats in 2020, when Nashville’s electoral district was further gerrymandered to disenfranchise Nashville Democrats and deliver to the Gangster-in-Chief another House stooge.

That left one Congressional seat held by Dems in Memphis, where the African-American population is over 50 percent. 

With the recent evisceration of the Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Fascists Court, the Don has given his underling, Gov. Bill Lee, orders to call a special legislative session to chop up the Memphis electoral district before the Fall 2026 election in a desperate effort to steal the remaining House seat.  

If democrats and Democrats don’t mobilize now, this will mean no representation for 40 percent of Tennesseans in the U.S. House of Representatives.