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Andy Charrier.

@acharrier.bsky.social
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Author of www.TeenSuperpower.com K-12 technology, art, photography, lefty politics, and dad to Attax the Therapy Husky.

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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And she’ll win. That’s the part that’s most disappointing- people willfully vote for her.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Patriot
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To your point, in a different time of journalism this would be the CNN front page topic.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Accurate
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Look up European tractor pulling and you’ll see the US is still losing.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
People also share tables at cafes. #communism for sure :)
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Weed is legal in DC. Dispensaries.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
There is a community of RWNJ Catholics.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
His district is so full of stupid red people and racists.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
More Land Acknowledgements! More performances.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Yes. Had this discussion with a friend: We are so used to Dems being one inch to the left of the GOP that anything else is marked as extreme.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Recent survey show Republican Catholics love Trump > Pope Leo.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We need a big old clot that breaks away and finds a new lodgement
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Google is the new Facebook - used by older people who don’t know a better way. Younger people use TikTok because they perceive it to be easier to process, sometimes expert opinions, etc.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Or another way to look at this: We have performative Democrats and we have progressive Democrats. I feel like my SD love the former far more than the latter.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Politics of this state are messy. I perceive that the city and younger people are moving left, suburbs remain swingy, and outstate is crazy-right. Hard to campaign and to govern.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
It’s the money. So much money has been invested…
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Younger than Kurt Loeder
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
It’s been that since middle school
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
It’s shocking how bad the choices are.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I think she’ll go along with what a DFL legislature will want. She won’t be the kind of leader Walz was, that’s for sure.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
It’s not conditional- vote no
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Universal excuse is now fraud
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Came here to say Electoral College
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
He needs to read a book.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Access to a game, a league, a building, or a historical record is never just about talent. It’s about who decides who belongs. open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Minnesota Told Women Hockey Would Scar Their Faces. They Played Anyway — and Built a Dynasty
The 125-year history your curriculum erased, and why your students need it now
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Drive 20 minutes north of Minneapolis and you’ll find entire communities convinced this will happen.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I had a similar thought today because we’ve had a string of substitute teachers for whom there is no way that it is their choice to be subbing at their age.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Churchill and The Dardanelles, very successful!
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The flattening of Iran into “the enemy” is not accidental. It is a form of designed erasure—a deliberate reduction of a complex civilization into a manageable threat narrative.
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Your Students Have an Opinion About Iran. They Formed It Without Reading a Single Iranian Author
How 7,000 years of civilization got reduced to a foreign policy problem—and what justice-centered teachers can do about it.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
This isn’t a technology problem. It’s a consent crisis hiding in STEM classes—because consent has never been explicitly taught as a foundational engineering principle. #stem #education
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STEM Class Teaches Innovation. It Doesn’t Teach Consent. That’s Not an Accident.
The curriculum gap turning smartphones into weapons—and whose bodies pay the price
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I’m really sorry the Democrat establishment has gotten so deep into the pockets of corporate America.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
There need to more discussion of this. The number of people looking for uncensored LLM on Reddit is plentiful.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The lies are a loyalty test.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Day 2 of 10. Lessons for teachers who want to teach more about the power of protest and how to get things done. open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Gandhi Wasn’t a Peace Guy. He Was a Strategic Genius.
The Salt March is a masterclass in how to challenge systems that seem unbeatable—and your students need this playbook
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
These mouth-breathing Trumpers like Tafoya and Lindell throwing their lives away. A long drop from a Stanford-educated national sports gig to laughingstock.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Yes, it’s total propaganda. The war on Minnesota continues on elevated. Signed Minneapolis resident.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
When students learn to interrogate photographs—who took them, why, what’s deliberately left out—they start asking harder questions about all media they encounter.
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Your Textbook Is Erasing Black Women. Here's How to Teach the Truth.
Five investigation methods that transform historical photos from wallpaper into evidence—and teach students to question whose stories survive.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This case study shows students how powerful groups manipulate historical narratives to justify oppression—and how the oppressed reclaim those same stories for liberation. #historyteacher
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The Racist Lie Hiding in Your Egypt Unit
Pro-slavery Americans didn’t just admire ancient Egypt—they rewrote its entire history to make slavery seem like God’s plan.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Power rarely recognizes peace walks as legitimate until after they’ve changed history. open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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A Stray Dog Is Leading 19 Monks to D.C. Your Students Are Already Watching.
The viral Walk for Peace is a real-time lesson in nonviolent resistance—and a blueprint for your own school walk
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The discomfort white people are feeling right now—the horror at ICE raids, the sense of powerlessness before Trump’s consolidated power, the grief over what’s being lost—risks becoming exactly what both thinkers warned against. open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Your Discomfort Isn’t Solidarity
What Hannah Arendt and Malcolm X understood about the limits of white empathy—and why it matters right now
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
When your student says “I have brain rot,” what they mean is “my attention has been hijacked and I can feel it happening but I can’t make it stop.” open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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“Brain Rot” Isn’t a Tech Problem. It’s a Justice Problem.
Billion-dollar companies design platforms to be addictive. We respond by telling teenagers to have more self-control. If that sounds backwards to you, your students already noticed.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Framing this as “kids these days can’t focus” lets Silicon Valley off the hook. Student attention is being extracted and sold. That’s not a discipline problem. That’s capitalism. open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Your Students Aren't Distracted. They're Being Robbed.
New research proves teachers were right about phone bans. Now here's how to protect your classroom from a $1 trillion industry built on stealing student attention.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Oh wow, the Penicillin story is going to make its way into my science lessons!
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Here’s what most textbooks erase: Helen Keller didn’t just overcome disability. She analyzed it. And what she discovered led her to dedicate her life to dismantling the economic system she believed created most disabilities in the first place. #historyteacher open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Helen Keller Called Rockefeller a Monster. Teach That Tomorrow.
The socialist labor organizer your curriculum hid behind "miracle worker" sentimentality
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Your students are drowning in this pattern. Fake quotes from resistance leaders. Historical figures claimed by movements they’d have opposed. The language of justice inverted to defend injustice. open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Sophie Scholl Died Fighting Nazis. Now the Far Right Claims Her Name.
Teaching students to recognize when resistance gets weaponized against itself
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
If “real artist” has historically required certain credentials, training, or abilities, who does that definition protect? open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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The Art World Took 41 Years to See a Disabled Artist. That’s the Story.
Nnena Kalu makes sculptures from VHS tapes and bubble wrap. She just won Britain’s biggest art prize. The art world is acting surprised.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
This story intersects everything we teach about justice: whose labor gets recognized, how communities respond when institutions abandon them, and what solidarity costs. #education #historyteacher open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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When the Government Abandoned a Community, Lesbians Stepped In
The untold story of the Blood Sisters and how solidarity works when institutions fail
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The tools we’ve handed students to read are training their brains to skim. #teaching #reading #education open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Tech Companies Profit When Your Students Can't Focus
Inside the shallowing hypothesis—and how to fight back
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Your students think scientific discovery is a meritocracy? Show them Eunice Foote. #historyteacher #science open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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She Discovered Climate Change. History Erased Her Name.
In 1856, Eunice Foote proved CO2 heats the planet. A man got the credit—and a moon crater. Here's what your textbooks won't tell you.
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