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Brad V.

@brad-wv.bsky.social
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I'm an adjunct English instructor at a community college. I stand with 🇨🇦 All opinions expressed here are my own and do not represent the views or opinions of my employer.

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Derek gendvil @derekbshelby.bsky.social · 16h
Authoritarianism Leads Teachers to Self-Censor. Solidarity Lets Us Teach Truth. truthout.org/articles/aut...
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Authoritarianism Leads Teachers to Self-Censor. Solidarity Lets Us Teach Truth.
A Zinn Education Project survey reveals how collective struggle helps educators resist political intimidation.
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Education Week @edweek.org · 20h
Don't Overlook the Power of Oral Language, Reading Experts Say: It's core to reading and writing, said researchers at the annual conference of the Reading League.
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Don't Overlook the Power of Oral Language, Reading Experts Say
It's core to reading and writing, said researchers at the annual conference of the Reading League.
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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
After reading congress went on recess for the rest of the year 👇
Two outside job consultants from the movie Office Space, with the caption, "What would you say you do here?"
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His Heart was darker than the starless night
For that there is a morn
But in this black Receptacle
Can be no Bode of Dawn
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dreams are the subtle Dower
That make us rich an Hour -
Then fling us poor
Out of the Purple Door
Into the Precinct raw
Possessed before -
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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Musk doesn't want people seeing this, so make sure to spread it far and wide.
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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... #AI #OpenAI #ChatGPT
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Lawsuit demands OpenAI pay for new school after ChatGPT used in shooting
British Columbia sues OpenAI, demands Tumbler Ridge shooter’s ChatGPT logs.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
happy bday writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, b.1896, St. Paul “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
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Education Week @edweek.org · 23/09/2026
A Tax Break for Early Childhood Educators: Why This Policy Change Matters: A new law expands the federal educator expense deduction to include early childhood educators.
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A Tax Break for Early Childhood Educators: Why This Policy Change Matters
A new law expands the federal educator expense deduction to include early childhood educators.
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Petergeist Clines @peterclines.com · 13/07/2026
Nice work, everyone! Keep it up!
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The Backlash Is So Strong That People With "Pervert Glasses" Are Afraid to Use Them in Public
Meta's camera-equipped "AI Glasses" are so divisive that some adopters are reportedly leaving their expensive smart glasses at home.
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National Education Association @neatoday.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Brown University researchers found that as of the summer of 2026, 1,878 schools are now within a mile of an existing data center, or one that is currently under construction. California has 602 such schools, or roughly 30% of the national total. Florida has 49, and Virginia has 101.
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Why Are Data Centers Being Built So Close to Public Schools? | NEA
Educators are raising alarms about the impact on student learning and how much school funding is lost when the tech industry receives massive tax breaks to build data centers in their communities.
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Education Week @edweek.org · 21/09/2026
Skimping on Recess Won't Fix Test Scores, Experts Say: Parent advocates are spreading the research-backed message: Kids need to move during the school day.
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Skimping on Recess Won't Fix Test Scores, Experts Say
Parent advocates are spreading the research-backed message: Kids need to move during the school day.
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 21/09/2026
Newsom Signs Bills Expanding Community College Bachelor’s Degrees bit.ly/4hHaWQb
Governor Gavin Newsom, a light-skinned man with gray hair
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The Verge @theverge.com · 21/09/2026
As revealed in recently unsealed court documents, Microsoft’s Director of Applied Science calls ChatGPT and Copilot’s harvesting of data the “largest theft of labor in human history” and says that Microsoft’s defense makes a “complete mockery of the idea of ‘fair use.’”
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OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web
OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were driving us toward Google Zero, and they did it anyway.
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
That sacred Closet when you sweep -
Entitled “Memory” -
Select a reverential Broom -
And do it silently -

’Twill be a Labor of surprise -
Besides Identity
Of other Interlocutors
A probability -

August the Dust of that Domain -
Unchallenged - let it lie -
You cannot supersede itself,
But it can silence you.
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Mind lives on the Heart
Like any Parasite -
If that is full of Meat
The Mind is fat -

But if the Heart omit
Emaciate the Wit -
The Aliment of it
So absolute.
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Heart is the Capital of the Mind
The Mind is a single State -
The Heart and the Mind together make
A single Continent -

One - is the Population -
Numerous enough -
This ecstatic Nation
Seek - it is Yourself.
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The last of Summer is Delight -
Deterred by Retrospect.
’Tis Ecstasy’s revealed Review -
Enchantment’s Syndicate.

To meet it - nameless as it is -
Without celestial Mail -
Audacious as without a knock
To walk within the Vail.
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This dirty - little - Heart
Is freely mine -
I won it with a Bun -
A Freckled shrine -

But eligibly fair
To him who sees
The Visage of the Soul
And not the knees.
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Unto the Whole - how add?
Has “All” a further Realm -
Or Utmost an Ulterior?
Oh, Subsidy of Balm!
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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Those harassing library staff have zero interest in having an honest, civil conversation about books. They lower themselves to bullying and intimidation tactics. #bookbans #libraries pen.org/librarians-f... pen.org/librarians-f...
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Faced With Book Bans and Verbal Harassment, Public Librarians Are Reaching a Breaking Point
Public librarians speak out about how individuals, organized groups, and government officials have questioned and villainized their work.
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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Bingo!
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Oh yes, there will…. #BookSky
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
An antiquated Grace
Becomes that cherished Face
Better than prime
Enjoining us to part
We and our pouting Heart
Good friends with time
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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
From the article 👇 "OpenAI employees reportedly urged leaders to alert Canadian law enforcement about Van Rootselaar’s potential for real-world violence, but leaders decided not to contact the authorities." Of course Sam Altman is negligent. He only cares about himself. #AI #OpenAI
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Good morning from Lake Ontario. ☀️
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LoriPica 💙 @loripica.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Greed is an incurable sick and sadistic disease!!
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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Support your public library! They offer so much more than just books (though books are the main attraction). Don't let a small number of people ruin these treasures. #libraries #bookbans
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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Beautiful!
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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Don't fall for it. The only people who win when data centers go up in our backyards are the billionaires. #AI #DataCenters
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Crisis is sweet and yet the Heart
Opon the hither side
Has Dowers of Prospective
To Denizen denied -

Inquire of the closing Rose
Which rapture - she preferred
And she will point you sighing -
To her rescinded Bud -
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 31/08/2026
A U-turn is just confidence changing its mind.
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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"When some protested, they were beaten by agents, five of the deportees said. Some were slammed to the ground or struck with blows, several said." Following orders is not an excuse. #ICE www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...
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Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE (Gift Article)
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
What the heck #Google? It will always be Lake Ontario! 🇨🇦
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Rick Tyrrell @southpawed.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Right place right time in Parry Sound, Ontario, CANADA. #photography #rainbows #nature #canada
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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/u... #ice
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An ICE Shooting, an Extradition Showdown and the Federal Case That Stalled (Gift Article)
Federal prosecutors planned to charge an immigration agent arrested in connection with a shooting in Minneapolis. Then the agent walked free.
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Waldo @waldo2006.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I can never match the amazingness of Dolly Parton, but my free little library and plant stand can help continue her legacy. We just put out a pile of milkweed pods so our neighbors can take a book to read in their own butterfly garden. Every book, every word, every seed, helps grow our community.
A free little library full of books. The shelf attahxed has. Abox of green milkweed seeds
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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This book really needs to happen.
A cover of a Berenstain Bears book with Papa Bear cutting down a Flock camera.
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Sitting on a corn flake @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
any book worth banning is a book worth reading
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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
No, it's not.
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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I guarantee this will backfire. Also, "just following orders" has never been an excuse. #ICE apnews.com/article/ice-...
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ICE awards $16.7M contract to buy 6,000 pairs of gloves that deliver electric shocks
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has awarded a $16.7 million contract to purchase 6,000 pairs of gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks, saying officers would use them to control deta...
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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This article was published in 2017, but is still very applicable today. I keep a copy of 'On Tyranny' in my bag. pen.org/read-resista...
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Read the Resistance, August 2017: On Tyranny
Snyder has studied the past so we can understand the terrifying present…giving us necessary tools from history to chart a future that can make America great again—for everybody.
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 28/08/2026
2 Calif. Bills Could Let More Community Colleges Grant 4-Year Degrees College leaders disagree about whether the expansion is a good idea. bit.ly/4xq2wD4
A sign at the entrance to the Cerritos College campus on May 29, 2024 in Norwalk, California.
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Escape is such a thankful Word
I often in the Night
Consider it unto myself
No spectacle in sight

Escape - it is the Basket
In which the Heart is caught
When down some awful Battlement
The rest of Life is dropt -

’Tis not to sight the savior -
It is to be the saved -
And that is why I lay my Head
Opon this trusty word -
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This will be Dolly Parton's legacy. I'm in awe of all the good she did in the world. RIP www.today.com/health/child...
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Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Has Sent Over 100,000 Braille Books to Low-Vision Kids: She ‘Cared About Everyone’
“None of my son’s needs are special,” Jessica Caromile says of her 12-year-old, who is blind — and she believes the late country music legend understood this, too.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 27/08/2026
Bluesky adds an ‘algorithmic opt-out’ feature for those who don’t want to go viral
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Bluesky adds an ‘algorithmic opt-out’ feature for those who don’t want to go viral
Sometimes people just want to post to their followers, Bluesky says.
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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It will always be Lake Ontario to me. This American stands strong with Canada. 🇨🇦
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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Do you want robots taking over the world? Because cute robot ducks are how robots take over the world.
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