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Brad V.

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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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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Idiot. More proof ICE agents don't collectively have 2 brain cells between them. "An off-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent (David Gonzalez)was shot early Friday after he was found sleeping on the lawn of a home in Fresno, Calif., the authorities said." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
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Off-Duty ICE Agent Is Shot and Arrested After Sleeping on Lawn in California (Gift Article)
A woman found the agent asleep on her lawn early Friday, and her 72-year-old father shot the agent after he assaulted her, the police said.
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ALA stands with library workers, readers, and communities working to keep books available. Our work helps ensure everyone can seek information and make their own reading choices. Your gift makes that work possible. Helps us protect the freedom to read at ala.org/protect. #BannedBooksWeek
Colorful art of various monsters and creatures reading books. Art by Hyesu Lee, copyright ALA. Text reads: "HELP US PROTECT THE FREEDOM TO READ." ALA.ORG/PROTECT. American Library Association logo
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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
All ICE agents are cowards.
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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court." www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They have apparently forgotten San Diego is also home to the second largest surface ship naval base in the US. They're literally cheering an attack on our own military.
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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And this is one of many reasons why I use LibreOffice.
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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 25/09/2026
A hidden list of 100 abusers in Silicon Valley. Left unstated: some are abusing *men* Sam Altman used to date Peter Thiel, known for recruiting young men for sex (one died of suicide). Sam's sex parties are notorious for how hard they go, and the abuse. Three sources told me about this:
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Silicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100 ‘ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid
“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene”
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Long Years apart - can make no
Breach a second cannot fill -
The absence of the Witch does not
Invalidate the spell -

The embers of a Thousand Years
Uncovered by the Hand
That fondled them when they were Fire
Will stir and understand
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.
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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Repression does not produce only silence & resignation. Our survey is also filled with educators resisting — and their responses offer an important clue about what makes resistance possible." -- @jessehagopian.bsky.social in article about ZEP study via @truthout.org ⬇️ 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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Unite Against Book Bans @uabookbans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Banned Books Week starts today! This year’s theme is: #LetBooksBe What do you think books should be? Share your answer in the comments: ✨ Let Books Be Free 🎉 Let Books Be Fun 🌎 Let Books Be Diverse 💡 Let Books Be Thought-Provoking ❤️ Let Books Be Themselves
Drawn image of a woman reading, surrounded by books, birds, flowers, clouds, vines, stars. Text reades: Protect the Freedom to Read - Let Books Be - Banned Books Week, Oct. 4-10, 2026. American Library Association. ala.org/bbooks
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Derek gendvil @derekbshelby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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 · 03/10/2026
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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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I doubt they yearn to do this job. They do it to hold the government accountable and provide independent third-party accounts of the execution. Many suffer long-term mental health consequences as a result, like PTSD. Same with prison staff. Many former wardens are now anti death penalty.
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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 · 26/09/2026
Athletes are also being threatened when sports bettors lose. www.espn.com/betting/spor...
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NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS urge action against threats from bettors
The NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS and their players' unions are urging state gambling regulators to combat escalating harassment and violent threats from sports bettors.
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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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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ah yes, now we're shoving AI into regular household items. The new business model is to: 1. Pick any item in your house. 2. Create an app that integrates AI. 3. Somehow connect app to that item. 4. Charge an absurdly high price. 5. Profit!
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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
Case in point, from the article: "...a local group called Purple for Parents has repeatedly attacked the library’s openly queer director. After making a flyer targeting her, members of the group went door-to-door delivering it to community members, Czernisz said."
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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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Brad V. @brad-wv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Like all billionaires, he's a grifter.
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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
Does it require a subscription to work properly?
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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
Billionaires should not exist. That much wealth hoarding is a mental illness.
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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
Also this 👇 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Cities are suing residents who try to take action against data centers
‘I don't think anyone was expecting citizens to personally be held liable to a civil lawsuit,’ says Kimberly Twente, who was sued by her local government
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