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Gary Stager, Ph.D.

@garystager.bsky.social
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Progressive educator, journalist, speaker, author, book publisher. Founder & CEO of Constructing Modern Knowledge professorgarystager.com Expertise = edtech, 1:1 computing, teacher education, school reform, jazz cmkpress.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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U.S. sends torture survivor back to Nicaragua, where he is immediately jailed again
Jeffrey Jarquín, a former Nicaraguan political prisoner who said he was tortured for opposing President Daniel Ortega, was jailed at Managua’s Modelo prison immediately after the U.S. deported him, ad...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h
(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 17h
Troy Jackson: Senator Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out. She stood with Trump whenever he wanted. We're not going to have any rural healthcare left because of the $3 billion in cuts that we're going to be having.
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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 16h
As one of the MANY women who visited Collins' Maine offices & begged her not to confirm Kavanaugh, I'm so grateful Troy Jackson is pushing her on this.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 17h
Senator Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire and now she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 17h
Troy Jackson: Brett Kavanaugh was against abortion when Susan Collins met with him. She knew that was going to happen, and now after it's been overturned, she doesn't regret the vote. Everybody else in Maine and across this country regrets her vote.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 17h
everyone has their own personal senate race this fall that will be more satisfying than any other if the republican goes down for some it’s texas, for some it’s kansas, etc maine is mine
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 16h
I don't vote in Maine, but if I did, I would find this pretty convincing. Electing criminals has not served us well.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 18h
Troy Jackson: Eight years ago today, Maine women begged Susan Collins not to confirm Brett Kavanaugh. She did it anyway. He helped overturn Roe v. Wade. And today, she says she has no regrets. Would you trust her to pick the next Supreme Court justice?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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Gary Stager, Ph.D. @garystager.bsky.social · 17h
I turned a regular source of frustration into a case for optimism. I'd love your thoughts on this short essay. This meditation on social media reminds us that extending grace to those making obvious discoveries may unlock the key to educational progress. stager.tv?p=7790
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Welcome to the Wheel! We've Been Expecting You!
Extending grace to those making obvious discoveries may unlock the key to educational progress.
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Taegan Goddard @politicalwire.com · 04/10/2026
Trump Backs Data Centers in Ohio Amid Tight Senate Race politicalwire.com/2026/10/04/trump-…
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Trump Backs Data Centers in Ohio Amid Tight Senate Race
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Gary Stager, Ph.D. @garystager.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I know all about LaGuardia. It’s not jazz focused like the hip hop school.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 02/10/2026
"Since late September, the Daily Wire has quietly been shooting a pro-ICE action film in Montana that dramatizes the raids and protests around last winter’s Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis—including the fatal shooting of protester Renée Good." www.thebulwark.com/p/daily-wire...
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The Daily Wire Is Quietly Shooting a Pro-ICE Movie. We Got the Script.
Locals aren’t happy about the film’s take on the ICE shooting of Renée Good.
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Gary Stager, Ph.D. @garystager.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Imagine if they funded school instrumental music programs.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026
53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.
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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
CASE MOTHEREFFING KEENUM
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Massive Russian attack on #Kyiv continued throughout the night. Russia added missiles to the drones that are now attacking Kyiv almost 24/7. Residential buildings, vehicles, office building were damaged, transportation network damaged. In Kyiv region, private homes were on fire, two people injured
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"the best is yet to come"
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
During an address, Trump referred to U.S. Amb. to Greece Guilfoyle using a creepy nickname. "Kimberlay. Kimberly Guilfoyle. I love calling her Kimber-LAY. That's my little pet name, but you are the greatest. I hope you come back here in 12 years or whenever the term ends,"
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/09/2026
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warned of an impending Hamas attack in 2023 by the UAE. The information wasn't passed on to Israeli security officials.
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Netanyahu Said to Have Been Warned by Emirati Leader About Hamas Attack Before Oct. 7
The warning from the leader of the United Arab Emirates, which lacked specific details about the nature of an attack, never reached the chiefs of Israel’s security establishment, Israeli officials said.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Our tax dollars are being spent to indulge the fantasies and to soothe the fragile ego of a narcissistic sociopath who is falling deeper and deeper into psychosis.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“I simply do not want to see innocent children being detained. Prisons are not a place for innocent children...” “We need to go to these board meetings... to all our other meetings, our city council. We need to be in all these spaces and insist upon being heard.” veritenews.org/2026/09/22/o...
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Opponents of Alexandria ICE detention facility hold community forum - Verite News New Orleans
The England Authority Board of Commissioners is slated to discuss the planned ICE detention facility at a meeting on Thursday.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"A group of pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere... to preach and sell white supremacy, antisemitism and patriarchy to angry young men..." religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...
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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“'You don’t live here,' the crowd shouted like they were in a basketball arena...” kansasreflector.com/2026/09/18/u...
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US Sen. Roger Marshall leaves paper trail in Florida while calling Kansas home • Kansas Reflector
U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall established deeper roots than previously disclosed in Sarasota, Florida, where he had a vacation home that he traveled to on official business and said he used for visiting fa...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Because of the Texas state government's error, Texas "counties are now dealing with nearly a year of backlogged voter registration tasks to process. They could include new registrations or simply updates to voters’ existing records, like a change in address..." www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...
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Tens of thousands of Texas voter registration applications likely ensnared in state error
Democrats are calling for investigations into why voter registration applications submitted via a DPS portal weren’t forwarded to counties.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s up! Our new film “Kill.Bury.Print” is streaming now on Peacock #KillBuryPrint trailer here: youtu.be/ZLfo4At-stg?... and here’s a clip:
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“‘Ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation or promoted voluntary return of non-white immigrants'... This is, of course, beyond alarming...” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation
Inside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is crazy! How may direct, urgent warnings were there? www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Egypt’s Warning to Israel
Cairo’s intelligence chief visited Tel Aviv shortly before October 7 with a dire message about Gaza.
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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”
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Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.
Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 28/09/2026
Ukrainian leader Zelenskyy says Moscow launched nearly 4,000 drones, aerial bombs and missiles on Ukraine in past week.
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Russian strikes kill eight, injure dozens across Ukraine
Ukrainian leader Zelenskyy says Moscow launched nearly 4,000 drones, aerial bombs and missiles on Ukraine in past week.
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Gary Stager, Ph.D. @garystager.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
But the screens and the AI! #gaskighting
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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."
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"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Tafoya described herself on her podcast as 'sort of a Florida woman'..." www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/p...
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Republican Senate nominee said she was ‘embarrassed’ to be from the state she’s now running to represent | CNN Politics
In a local radio interview earlier this month, Michele Tafoya, the Republican Senate nominee in Minnesota and former sports broadcaster was asked about her past criticism of the state and whether she ...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Two men deported to Equatorial Guinea by the Trump administration were hooded, bound, beaten with guns and shoved down a flight of stairs recently by police officers at a remote hotel where Trump administration deportees are being held indefinitely..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (Gift Article)
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
$9.5 billion not to work… www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
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Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort
As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
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John F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you
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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@aaup.org @biblioracle.bsky.social & Katie Rainwater nails what everyone misses. Heritage Foundation hates college full stop. They bash DEI to get in the door, but the point is to close the door on everyone. That's why they want to own accreditation. Say no today: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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With Proposed Federal Rules, Heritage Foundation Upends Higher Education
Who is up for a little Christian Nationalism embedded into our higher education system?
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Tonight marks the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Wishing peace, hope, happiness, and health to all who celebrate in Michigan. Shana Tova!
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Too many people online seem to conflate left politics with being obnoxious and scathing and Mamdani is such a model for combining a principled ideological vision with civility and grace. You shake hands, you act like a grown up even whether others aren’t. You show up.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The only one who wasn’t at Ground Zero was Trump, because they wouldn’t let him tell his stories about rescuing firefighters.
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Gary Stager, Ph.D. @garystager.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Giuliani did not attend a single funeral of a Port Authority Police Officer. 37 of those officers died. Giuliani resented his lack of control over the PA and left the command post there after '93 attack. @jonlemire.bsky.social @mika-brzezinski.bsky.social
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Gary Stager, Ph.D. @garystager.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Woke up to buy Stevie Wonder tickets on Ticketmaster. They ALL sold out while I was choosing seats. This is a scam.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Inside Trump’s Nightmare for Haitians in Springfield: ‘We’re Following Our Orders’
The most urgent moral test in all of Trump’s America today is happening in a small Ohio city – and we as a country are failing it miserably.
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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Richard Alles, a New York Fire Department battalion chief on 9/11, told PolitiFact he had no knowledge of Trump being @ Ground Zero or sending hundreds of workers to help. "I was there for several months—I have no knowledge of his being down there" Alles said, adding "there would be a record of it."
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Fact Check: Did Donald Trump help clear rubble on 9/11?
Video from 2016 of Trump claiming that he helped at Ground Zero on 9/11 has gone viral.
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