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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The outsourcing of reading to automation derails learning in all disciplines. Reading isn't just cute & fun, it is foundational to all other literacies. We continue to test this unethical tech on children at our peril. #EduSky #AIrefusal #Humancreativity #NoAI www.edweek.org/leadership/3...

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3 Takeaways From the Latest PISA Test of Reading, Math, and Science

The results show reading performance dropping across the world—and one uniquely troubling U.S. trend.

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Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

As a professor, I embrace the idea that many students have been affected by COVID & long COVID. They don't want to think that they are. I don't believe it's (solely) cell phones. Also, they lost key social skills that develop vocabulary & focus. (As did many adults..)

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Ellen Van @ellenvan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Note the only person, but worrh reading

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Here's a French video (with English subtitles) about what would happen if the far-right racists got their way and all foreigners and people of colour were forced to leave.

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Log Off. Live More. ✊ @logofflivemore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Federal agencies are buying Americans' phone location data from brokers instead of getting warrants. ICE acquired a tool built to watch a neighborhood and follow phones from work to home over time. No judge signed anything. Somebody signed a purchase order. #Surveillance www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

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Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant

Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Your sex is none of the state's business. They don't get to tell you what it is, and there is literally no reason for sex markers to appear on driver's licenses or any other form of government ID.

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God @thegodshow.com · 01/06/2026

When the AI bubble pops, every AI company will beg for a bailout and say AI is “too big to fail.” These companies tried to replace the artists, writers, workers, teachers, and journalists whose work they stole. They will demand you save them so they can take your job, too. Can God get a hell no?

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Man yelling into bored woman's ear in nightclub meme captioned

I can summarize that for you

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The dismissal of the vindictive charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia was an unqualified win for justice, the best thing to happen in a federal court since last January. Even better: the decision itself is a remarkably vindicating summary of everything that we thought we knew about the situation

First page of the order dismissing Kilmar abrego Garcia's criminal charges in he Middle District of Tennessee

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breadedhamster.bsky.social @breadedhamster.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

There exists a type of liberal who wants to abolish ICE and not the police and it astounds me how anyone takes anything they say seriously.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Librarians who co-sign deliteracy & deskilling can go straight to hell, which is an infinite slidedeck presentation of inaccurate AI summaries of books deaccessioned into oblivion.

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Kristin DeMarco Wagner @kcdemarcowagner.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

And literally AI CANNOT describe it ONE because it fucking lacks understanding of what it’s like to be a soul and a brain and a meat bag all in one and TWO because we don’t publish almost anything about disabled experiences that it can steal and scape and mush together and spit back out.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

NEW: The government tells Americans to use VPNs to protect their privacy. The government also automatically presumes communications of unknown origin are foreign. Foreign communications don't require a warrant to wiretap. Lawmakers who've done the math want answers. My latest @wired.com:

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Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying

US lawmakers are pressing Tulsi Gabbard to reveal whether using a VPN that connects to overseas servers can strip Americans of their constitutional protections against warrantless surveillance.

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Ellen Van @ellenvan.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I thought this country liked having vulnerable brown people as cannon fodder for their ridiculous wars

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Ellen Van @ellenvan.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

This is a response to a disgusting video

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

You can’t really learn much if you’re having AI generate your homework, your papers, and everything else you need to complete a class, but for some reason universities keep shoving AI into the learning environment on the assumption that it’s an improvement.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

"These attacks are causing much suffering for Iranian people, and it’s destroying the space in which Iranians were struggling for social justice and civil liberties” - Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, once imprisoned on death row in Iran. www.democracynow.org/2026/3/2/ira...

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.

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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The U.S. government keeps telling us there’s no money for schools. While funding the murder of elementary school girls in Iran.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Enough can’t be said about how “machine-learning” simply reiterates the anti-blackness of tech bros and their ilk. And that includes the violence of disregard: “oh, we didn’t anticipate that as a possible problem.” That’s racist too.

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Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Today, in honour of WEB DuBois's birthday in 1868, the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social features the hand-drawn infographics DuBois made with his students to depict the conditions of African-American life in 1900. Arts-based pedagogy all those years ago! buff.ly/3kdWqRD

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Ellen Van @ellenvan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I've written some pretty angry letters, looks like one more. So tired of this AI bullshit.

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DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

"A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men." W. E. B. Du Bois (born on this day) ❤️🖤💚

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Stephen Murray, MPH, NRP @stephen-murray.com · 22/02/2026

If we want to actually do something about the cartels, we can start by ending the War on Drugs. We already ran this experiment with the mob during Prohibition. Turns out banning things just made organized crime richer. A regulated drug market is safer for everyone.

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Kristin McFall @kristinmcfall.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

This is such common sense.

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Ellen Van @ellenvan.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Yes, this is exactly what I recommend when people ask me how to learn more about XYZ topic.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Every state should pass emergency public health legislation that would make concentration camps impossible.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Reducing human value to what we can be trained to do is straight up technofascism. Every fascism has its suhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Trump destroys Venezuela’s healthcare: “Cuban security advisers and doctors have been leaving Venezuela as Interim President Delcy Rodriguez's govt faces intense pressure from Washington to unwind Latin America’s most consequential leftist alliance, according to 11 sources familiar with the matter.”

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Exclusive: Cuban security forces exit Venezuela as US pressure mounts

Cuban security advisers and doctors have been leaving Venezuela as Interim President Delcy Rodriguez's government faces intense pressure from Washington to unwind Latin America’s most consequential le...

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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Reminding myself, & you, that if we see something horrible we want to repost to make it known, quoting the post & linking a way for people to usefully counter the horrible thing is both good practice & good mental hygiene, even if we have to pause a minute & search for the useful action

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Ellen Van @ellenvan.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I keep seeing the original reposted, so hope more people can see this discussion. Current events are bad enough without more misinformation.

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Ellen Van @ellenvan.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

There is a longstanding tension between the US and Canada that most USians don't know anything about. I don't think it took much for many Canadians to say that was the line in the sand for them.

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The Gray Matters Report @graymattersrep.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

anyone who still says the new york times is a left-wing (or even liberal) newspaper is either willfully delusional or deliberately lying

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Ellen Van @ellenvan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Sorry to the athletes and whatever, but here is more evidence of how fucked up the IOC is

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Anyanka @quitabunnies.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I desperately miss everyone standing 6 feet away from me

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Disabled people are part of the future. We must and should imagine and dream of futures where disabled people don't just exist but are everywhere, as we should be. This need to fix/cure all disability is a eugenicist dreaming, and we should want better for ourselves.

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Ellen Van @ellenvan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I feel like I am always late to these things, but seriously what the hell

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Boy sounds like a great time to fire tens of thousands of Haitians with TPS working in the healthcare sector, I’m sure that’s going to go well!

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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

In discussions with JUNIORS IN HIGH SCHOOL yesterday about the big ideas underlying the Gilded Age, multiple kids brought up "ai" as an example of unregulated capitalism that is harming individuals and communities. It was a reasonable discussion. 🤷‍♀️

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Absolutely amazing - and to be shown immediately if someone says "what about China?"

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