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ashley (should be writing) @existentialhope.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

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The other side of this pain, though, was an amazing sense of solidarity that nurtured the children of these victims of the red purges, as well as their parents. The children had teenage clubs (ours was led by Alan Arkin) and summer camps (often run by fired teachers). The adults belonged to a community that maintained networks of connection for years, helping the unemployed find jobs, supporting their legal challenges attending celebrations of political wins, visiting the sick, offering eulogies at funerals. My father benefited from this network, which found him a series of jobs, none so rewarding as working with developmentally disabled children and advocating for group homes for them as part of the movement for deinstitutionalization in 1972. But when my mother died, Sam had their tombstone inscribed to capture the sense of vocation that never left him. “Ever teachers” is their epitaph. This was, in a sense, his final riposte to those who may have denied him a job but could never take away his calling. Tucked away in a rural cemetery in Western Massachusetts, this monument to the family story is foundational to my very being: one in which, no matter the costs, principled integrity is a priority, taking a stand means standing fast, and contesting the predations of the powerful gives meaning to the lives we lead.

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ashley (should be writing) @existentialhope.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

"In the 1950s, the targets were individual teachers—communists, progressives, liberals—and their left-wing unions. Now the target is the system itself."

We are again confronting a massive attack on the very foundations of democratic education and, this time around, the stakes feel even higher. In the 1950s, the targets were individual teachers—communists, progressives, liberals—and their left-wing unions. Now the target is the system itself. Its value as a public good is being redefined as a matter of parental choice (vouchers, charter schools, home-schooling, all paid for by public funds), and its commitments to principles of equality and justice—to say nothing of truthful accounts of history—are being trashed. In their place, stories of violence and greed are forcibly imposed to glorify our nationalist destiny. I am reminded—for a second time in my life—that the stakes we have in a democratic system of education are always under threat and that, for those of us who value it, the fight for its preservation is an urgent, if never-ending, challenge.

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ashley (should be writing) @existentialhope.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Fan Appreciation night off to a strong start with free tequila! #DucksHockey

Last few Ducks players on the ice for warmups.

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ashley (should be writing) @existentialhope.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

See, mixed in on this corner and trying to start shit.

Hands Off protestors intermixed with pro-Trump counterprotestors while the cops watch.

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ashley (should be writing) @existentialhope.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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ashley (should be writing) @existentialhope.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Anime night at the Ducks v Bruins game! #FlyTogether

Picture of warmups for the Ducks vs Bruins game.

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ashley (should be writing) @existentialhope.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

A finishers medal that says "Fly Together - Run Together" for the Anaheim Ducks 5k with a beautiful sunny morning in the background.

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ashley (should be writing) @existentialhope.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Warmups! #FlyTogether

Anaheim Ducks players warming up on ice.

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ashley (should be writing) @existentialhope.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

In enemy territory tonight! Honestly I'm sure it'll feel like a freely face-off at Honda Center. Kings fans outnumber/outshout us there anyway lol #FlyTogether

A picture of a sign reading:
Freeway Face-Off
Los Angeles Kings
VS
Anaheim Ducks

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ashley (should be writing) @existentialhope.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Tom Morello was fantastic tonight.

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ashley (should be writing) @existentialhope.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Seven Hours After Violet on stage at House of Blues.

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ashley (should be writing) @existentialhope.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

They got a FIRIS map of the #HughesFire. share.watchduty.org/i/41039?ts=1...

A picture of the mapped fire hitting Castaic Lake. Fire is currently mapped at 3,407 acres at approximately 12:30pm.

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ashley (should be writing) @existentialhope.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Let's go Ducks! #FlyTogether

A picture of the ice at the Honda Center

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ashley (should be writing) @existentialhope.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Just started Survive and Thrive by @dzbillfulton.bsky.social and Jeanne Chilton Devon. First impression: Genuinely uplifting for a disaster prep book. I really needed that.