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HS math teacher, Voice of SF columnist, SF Dems Everyday Hero 2024, Buddhist, ex-NeXT, Jew. #IHRA. Protecting clarity is the antidote to gaslighting.| SF, CA || she/her cheesemonkeysf.blogspot.com & thevoicesf.org/author/elizabeth-sta…

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
All right, pick your marble and... Let's roll. 🎱 #marblerun #fun #race
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Will the @neatoday.bsky.social exec board finally vote to admit that the entire 3-million member teachers union officially embraces Jew-hate as union policy? k12trackers.substack.com/p/the-nation...
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The National Education Association Representative Assembly votes to cut ties with the ADL
Over 6000 public school teachers attend the NEA annual Representative Assembly - this year, they voted to cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The people have spoken. Voters in Wisconsin rejected Elon Musk and MAGA style extremism. Susan Crawford - an incredibly well qualified jurist was just elected!! Great news tonight!!
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/03/2025
Now you can read the Signal group chat texts and decide for yourself whether this is information that should have been classified www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/03/2025
Castro: "The idea that this information, if it was presented to our committee, would not be classified, you all know is a lie. That's ridiculous."
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Chris Matthews Declares WH Attack Plan Leaks Moved From ‘Blunder’ to ‘Cover Up’ After Texts Drop: ‘There Is No Accident Here!’ twp.ai/1VHQju
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Chris Matthews Declares WH Attack Plan Leaks Moved From ‘Blunder’ to ‘Cover Up’ After Texts Drop: ‘There Is No Accident Here!’
Chris Matthews declared the White House attack plans leak chaos has moved from "blunder" to "cover up" following the full texts being released.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
“Is Elmo now or has Elmo ever been a member of the Communist Party?” Rep Garcia treats the hearing with the level of concern it deserves, showing various muppets and asking about their hidden agendas.
The Red MuppetA poster or Bert and Ernie - are they repping the homosexual agenda?
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The most disturbing thing to me about the national security group chat was that Tulsi Gabbard responded to Hegseth's war plans with "lol lmao."
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Probably best not to lie about things like this when you know a journalist documented the whole thing.
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 26/03/2025
Today at 12:30 pm ET, @benjaminwittes.bsky.social will talk to @shaneharris.bsky.social about the decision to release the attack plans that Trump’s advisers shared in the Signal group chat that included the Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg. Watch their discussion here:
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Lawfare Live: Attack Plans Shared on Signal Released by the Atlantic
YouTube video by Lawfare
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 26/03/2025
This is really, really bad. @michaeldweiss.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social to discuss the now released war plans texts and why it's such a big deal
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Worse Than We Thought! War Plans TEXTS RELEASED! Did Russia Get The Info? (w/ Michael Weiss)
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
DNI Gabbard testified she maintains her "First Amendment rights" to post comments through personal accounts regarding views that might be different from her official work positions. Yet law firms & lawyers (incl me) are being targeted by Administration for excercising their 1st Amendment rights. 🤦‍♂️
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
A fantastically important postscript to this piece: David Graham asks Jeffrey Goldberg about possible retaliation, and Goldberg gives a perfect answer — with perfect swipes. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
David: Are you concerned about retaliation from the Trump administration because of this story?

Jeffrey: It’s not my role to care about the possibility of threats or retaliation. We just have to come to work and do our jobs to the best of our ability. Unfortunately, in our society today—we see this across corporate journalism and law firms and other industries—there’s too much preemptive obeying for my taste. All we can do is just go do our jobs.
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AFT @aft.org · 24/03/2025
To the folks curious about their vaccination status: 💉If you're born before 1957, and you're not sure if you had measles: Get a booster or ask your doctor to screen you with bloodwork. 💉If you're born between 1957 & 1989, and you don't have documentation of 2 shots: Get a booster.
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Rachel Vindman @natsechobbyist.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
There’s always that one person in the group chat who communicates 50% in emoji. We made that person the National Security Adviser.
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Ohio Federation of Teachers @oftunion.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
OFT President Melissa Cropper on Governor DeWine's support for the Executive Order for the closure of the Dept of Education: “We strongly agree with Mike DeWine when he talks about the importance of improving student wellness, literacy and math skills, and career technical education in Ohio..." 🧵
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Excellent statement from a number of Con Law scholars--including some notably conservative ones--on the government's funding cutoff at Columbia/ www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia | Eugene Volokh, Michael C. Dorf, David Cole
We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to defend academic freedom and the First Amendment in the wake of the
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Christopher Danielson @triangleman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"Please take this short survey." [clicks] 10 screens of demographic questions later... [closes tab]
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
NEW at The Voice of San Francisco "SFUSD can learn from Boston’s track record of excellence in early childhood mathematics." thevoicesf.org/transitional...
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Transitional kindergarten is counting on us - The Voice of San Francisco
The 4-year-olds steady themselves in a raggedy circle around their veteran teacher, box braids and crew cuts and fluttering hands wiggling in anticipation of what comes next. All eyes are on the teach...
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
My latest, in The Voice of San Francisco ♾️ #MTBoS #iteachmath thevoicesf.org/transitional...
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Transitional kindergarten is counting on us - The Voice of San Francisco
The 4-year-olds steady themselves in a raggedy circle around their veteran teacher, box braids and crew cuts and fluttering hands wiggling in anticipation of what comes next. All eyes are on the teach...
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
It’s not so fun to be a Jew in America right now.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
After a lifetime of work, employees, deserve to retire w/ dignity. Social Security is a bedrock foundation for working people's retirement security, but Musk is spreading blatant lies about waste & fraud to give tax breaks to billionaires. apnews.com/article/elon...
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Musk eyes Social Security and benefit programs for cuts while claiming widespread fraud
Elon Musk says Social Security and other federal benefit programs will be targeted in his hunt for fraudulent spending.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
It’s an illegal attack on millions of dedicated public service workers who placed their faith in PSLF’s bipartisan promise, only to see it ripped away. AFT won’t stop fighting, in court and in Congress, until every single public service worker gets the help the law affords them.
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Advocates Blast Trump Plans to Sign Executive Order to Weaponize Public Service Loan Forgiveness and Stifle Free Speech Across America
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Trump signaled his intent to sign an executive order to revoke eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) from borrowers employed at non-profit organizati...
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
You want to see some "fraud," just wait until Republicans create their multi-billion-dollar federal school voucher program www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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GOP voucher plan would divert billions in taxes to private schools
Donations to scholarship programs would be fully reimbursed through a new tax credit, creating the largest federal tax incentive for charitable giving.
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Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · 06/03/2025
All of that and more. In the book that I co-wrote on teaching math, we devoted two chapters to teaching math as a language...because math is a language, and we should teach it like one.
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Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · 06/03/2025
Both. There's a lot of research that indicates that students process more when they write by hand.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I would prefer the rule of law to survive by more than 5-4. But I'm getting used to disappointment.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This is a wildly dangerous sign — the idea that there are only five SCOTUS votes for paying congressionally mandated invoices for work *already* done!? This should be as basic a test of Article I as you can get. And that does not bode well for decisions to come.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Somewhere, Jeff Bezos is angrily clicking “track shipment” to see what happened to his new editorial page.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
My God: they are selling off federal buildings and no longer planning on collecting revenues. Again, none of this is about efficiency. I know the IRS is not popular, but for every dollar invested it generates about $7 in returns. The goal is not to save money but to stop collecting it.
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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Spotted on campus this morning. Thanks to the person who posted this.
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
If social security payments stop going out, the pitchforks and torches are going to come out. The real test is whether hardcore Trumpers will turn on him over not getting checks. I'm not convinced they will.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A disgraceful day.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I was in Israel last week, when the bodies were returned. The whole country is in mourning.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Stranger than fiction department:
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Olivia of Troye @oliviaoftroye.com · 19/02/2025
Can someone currently on the White House national security staff tell Donald Trump that Putin is lying to him, again? Parroting Russia’s talking points on Ukraine makes him look so weak…
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Wall Street Journal editorial board: "Senate Republicans have an obligation to scrutinize his giant closet of business conflicts and dubious ideas..." www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...
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Opinion | Why RFK Jr. Is Dangerous to Public Health
He’s made millions from referring clients to trial lawyers, and he advocates mass tort litigation that would ruin the vaccine industry.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
do you enjoy knowing that when you deposit money in a US bank, you won't lose that money? nice, right? it's because bank deposits are insured by FDIC. i don't know what FDIC ever did to these people, but apparently it too is now on their blow-it-up list: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Banking regulator rescinds more than 200 job offers for examiners it needs
A government-wide hiring freeze is adding to a staffing shortage at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., complicating the agency’s efforts to oversee thousands of banks across the country.
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Sari Beth Rosenberg @sari.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Deplorable
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
OVERHEARD IN THE MATH OFFICE: TEACHER 1: Is there anything that is not improved by drenching it in hot sauce? TEACHER 2: Tell Europe that. ♾️
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Incredible to see Marc Andreesseen, master of the universe elite thinker w/billions under management, cite Shellenberger & Benz as reliable sources. If he had all this inside visibility into the rise of a “”censorship edifice”” over “12 yrs”…why didn’t he say anything? (Bc it’s all bullshit)
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NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics @csmapnyu.org · 16/01/2025
As the social media landscape continues to fragment, @noupside.bsky.social has an excellent new piece looking at how moving from centralized to decentralized platforms could impact social cohesion and democratic consensus.
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Jamie and the More @groovelife.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Please read from @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social an expert on fascism and authoritarianism, a well known and gifted historian , and an expert on Italian history open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...
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Pete Hegseth and the Autocratic Strategy of Engineered Incompetence
Three Ways that Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense Could Harm the U.S. Military
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Hegseth refuses to commit to follow the Constitution. He refuses to say he won’t follow an illegal order from Trump. This alone is disqualifying. But no Republican Senator will defy their leader. So Hegseth will be approved. So screw the Constitution.👇
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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
A revelation that hit me during my conversation w/ @pernille.bsky.social is the tension & pressure of training American teachers to be superheroes needed to rescue kids from failing economic systems while ignoring those systemic failures. The demand to be superhuman is ultimately dehumanizing.
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Joce Dagenais @jocedage.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Coming in March from my wonderful friend @triangleman.bsky.social
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
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5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don't know about COVID
Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries.
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Amie Albrecht @nomadpenguin.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year! And a new blog post as a treat (a week earlier than planned). NEW Blog Post: ‘Stop asking if we should tell and start asking how’ Why does telling remain such a charged issue in mathematics teaching? Reframing telling through its functions rather than its form offers a way forward.
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Stop asking if we should tell and start asking how
Why does telling remain such a charged issue in mathematics teaching? Reframing telling through its functions rather than its form offers a way forward.
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
This post from Amie Albrecht is a must-read to start the new year. ♾️
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