Day: December 1, 2025

Lawmakers To Consider 19 Bills for Childproofing the Internet

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Source: reason.com 12/1/25 KOSA is back, along with more than a dozen other bills that will erode free speech and privacy in the name of protecting kids.   Can you judge the heat of a moral panic by the number of bills purporting to solve it? At the height of human trafficking hysteria in the 2010s, every week seemed to bring some new measure meant to help the government tackle the problem (or at least get good press for the bill’s sponsor). Now lawmakers have moved on from sex trafficking to social…

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CA: For Incarcerated Students in California, Education Is a Collective Endeavor

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Source: truthout.org 12/1/25 Often denied access to the books and materials they need, incarcerated students rely on mutual aid to succeed. Kenneth Butler, an inside-outside prison education training coach who grew up in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, spent 15 years incarcerated prior to his release from prison in June 2021. He’s since implemented reentry programs and conducted recidivism research in Uganda while on a Fulbright Fellowship, and he has served as a mentor to formerly incarcerated youth and young adults in Southern California. Before all that, Butler was…

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