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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
On this note, the capture of public education by corporate interests brings the misery and drudgery of the workplace into schools to a further extent, and it shows up in a lot of facially neutral practices (bell-to-bell instruction, short lunch breaks, relentless emphasis on quantifiable growth).
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is a great thread, we should listen to Erin!
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‘stina is a spooky spectral one 👻🧛🧟‍♀️🐈‍⬛🦇🎃🧟 @stinapag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
TEXANS: You have until OCTOBER 5. To register to vote in November’s election. Check your registration to make sure no rat-fuckery has occurred and, if so, get your ass onto the rolls. www.votetexas.gov/register-to-... Texas makes it a right pain in the ass to vote so be sure to get it right.
A disco goat, surrounded by bunting a voter registration card and a bichon poodle mix next to a handmade sign that says “register Barry The disco goat wants you to vote.”
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My official count after the first week is 25 new registered voters.
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Kinda lost count, but I think I got another 5-10 today. Turned them in and I've gotta get one corrected. I keep running into older ladies at the county elections office who tell me what a nice young man I am for doing this. Getting all the gramma merit badges this week.
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
After Day 1, got 16 new applicants to register.
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This happened to me! I moved this summer so when I applied for my new DL, I requested my registration to be updated. I checked my county; it hadn't updated two months later, so I went to the county voting office and submitted a change of address form.
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Became a volunteer deputy registrar today. Gonna rustle up some votes!
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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ok because I can't help myself: What happened to NHJ's daughter happens at a lot of schools, black and white, in America! The only way your kid is going to get a "great" education is if you are micromanaging it to an extent that is offensive. Which is why systemic changes are necessary
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I just published an uncharacteristically long piece on what conservatives' response to the Lindsay Clancy case really means. I hope you'll take the time to read it—I think it's important
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The Real Stakes of the Lindsay Clancy Gender War
Conservatives are using a Massachusetts murder case to argue for an end to women’s voting rights
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
First two weeks of the school year in the books. I've got a student teacher in my class for one period (his usual teacher has athletics at the end of the day, so he comes to me) and I'm finally in a position to be spreading my messy existentialist Type B ways to the next generation of teachers.
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I am feeling a little better and less angsty, just normal baseline amounts of anxiety. It is surreal to think I am moving away from the place I've called home for 14 years in a few days.
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I am moving on Saturday and I feel like all I've been doing the last two weeks is getting ready and I still don't feel ready. And move-out costs + move-in costs. And everyone is sad. Finally getting that crisis that's promised to you at mid-life, hurray!
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 03/07/2026
But he did visit the US in November to hang out with one of the most famous abusers of women in the whole world and a man who had a journalist killed. Cool dude. www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...
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Ronaldo, Trump, MBS at the White House? This is the world in 2025 (and World Cup in 2026) (Gift Article)
Why was Ronaldo at the White House with President Trump for a black-tie dinner, along with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman?
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 03/07/2026
WHY SO LONG www.nytimes.com/athletic/736...
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Cristiano Ronaldo set to play on U.S. soil for the first time in 4,337 days (Gift Article)
It has been more than 10 years since Cristiano Ronaldo played in the United States. The Athletic explains the background
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
4. UT claims "safety issues" are the reason. 5. KUT organizers show all the emails and comm receipts and reveal UT is lying. 6. UT tells KUT manager to resign for speaking out. 7. KUT manager tells them to fuck off. 8. (Today) UT fires KUT manager.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Here is what seems to be happening at KUT, Austin's NPR affiliate. 1. The GOP regime cuts NPR funding. 2. KUT organizes a festival to raise money. 3. GOP political appointees at the University of Texas try to kill the festival by banning it from UT facilites just before it starts, with no warning.
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Whenever "spending doesn't matter" yutzes point out per pupil expenditure is equalizing between rich and poor districts (dubious) I'm always like, if spending doesn't matter why do wealthy parents keep spending more?
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
It's my fault for following so many NY-based journalists and shit but ughhhhhhh y'all's revelry sickens me right now. Also! If De'Aaron Fox plays for the Spurs come October, I will know this team is not very serious about winning multiple titles.
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Might be more Knicks fans at the Frost Bank Center Games 1 and 2 than at the Garden at tip-off tonight.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
It's been almost a week since I reported that the Texas Republican party is publicly supporting a group that wants to execute abortion patients. There hasn't been one bit of media coverage since jessica.substack.com/p/texas-gop-...
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Texas Republican Party Publicly Supports 'Abolitionists' Who Want Abortion Patients Executed
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
If *I* knew the president was a Knicks fan and *I* played for the Knicks, I would have all kinds of doubts about playing my hardest tonight.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 28/05/2026
I don’t want to scare anyone, but basically every time I talk to a current or former government lawyer they tell me we are going to need a new Constitution. Because this one is inoperative.
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Paxton thinks he's running against me for Senate, smh.
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
More like Jokelahoma Shitty Blunder.
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A great thread!
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Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Here is another quote by Arendt that even though written more than 50 years ago speaks better to the current moment "we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it" "whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world" two counts the church 13/
Hannah Arendt quote “Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.”
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I was looking for screencaps of the original, but I couldn't resist sharing this.
Top image: in a reversal of the classic Simpsons episode where Milhouse's parents get a divorce, an anthropomorphic race car while holding a beer proudly displays a grotesque Kirk Van Houten shaped bed, boasting to Homer, "I sleep in Kirk Van Houten. Do you?", a parallel of line from the original episode.

Bottom image: a screengrab from the Simpsons episode where Homer works at the bowling alley. Caption: This is getting very abstract, but thank you I do enjoy working at the bowling alley."
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The thread includes multiple links to orgs that urgently need funds, everyone with a “Protect the Dolls” shirt better be sending money
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Eddy Conroy @econroy.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
My favourite line from this piece: “Humans are not primarily self-interested at all. We are social to the core. We cooperate, we reciprocate, we punish cheaters even at cost to ourselves—consistently, across every culture ever studied.”
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 23/05/2026
I want to see all the cis people that claim to support us to really show us this time. We really, really need y'all to stand up and defend our rights, now.
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This is the lore you've gotta craft for the grandkids. "Son, people really did not know who Mike Jones was, and the hoes? They did not want him."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/05/2026
if there is a single song i associate with being a teen tho it is “still tippin”
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I had a cool moment at work this week. Got to share my water-damaged, marked-up copy of @annieabrams.bsky.social's Shortchanged with a relatively new colleague (at least new to AP/advanced courses).
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I was at one of my former student's college graduation yesterday and deep into the roll call, lady next to me says the grad who'd walked the stage reminded her of some character I'd not heard of. Me, confused: Oh that's interesting! She explains it's from the new H*rry Pott*r show. 🤦
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
RIP to former NBA player Jason Collins, the first openly Gay, active, male pro athlete. Hard to explain what a big deal it was in 2014 when Collins signed with the Nets. He took number 98 in tribute to Matthew Shepard, the Gay teen murdered in a horrific hate crime. JC was brave and will be missed.
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
slightly increase a band Radiohead and Shoulders
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
If you haven’t read Dr. Sinha’s “The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic” get on that ASAP. It is soooo rich and informs so much of the way I look at the narrative of US history.
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
It is cold comfort to realize that 2 of the 3 Spurs losses have happened when Wemby left the game in the first half and the the remaining Spurs players at least made it interesting. But woof. Gotta win it in 6 now I guess.
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
People arguing that Wemby getting ejected was the right call are a bunch of deontological rulebook humpers. This is a clear case for consequentialism -- removing Wemby is an unfit punishment for the crime because it so drags down the Spurs' chances for what was a minor shot in the head.
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This is something I wish people better appreciated about why AP (or its would-be successors) sucks. It tests for very specific slices of cognitive skills (processing speed, long-term storage and retrieval) that are not usually the things that matter in scholarship or creative/divergent thought.
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Something heart-warming in this age of algorithmic advertising that something ostensibly tailored for me could be so far off.
An email subject line from AutoZone that reads "Hello Matt—is your boat ready to launch?" which is funny because I do not own a boat.
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Students have also deeply internalized this point of view. When we discuss W. E. B. Du Bois’s critique of Booker T. Washington in my Intro to Political Theory class - broadly, education as emancipation versus education as job training - their instinct is to side with Washington as “more realistic.”
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Back on the "Fox is an anti-clutch klutz when it matters" wagon.
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
He's doing the thing!
A crudely drawn dude stares at a computer and implores it to say "i am alive." The computer repeats the phrase and the crude dude replies back "oh my god" in awe like a sap.
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I’m stealing this line.
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I was preparing my AP Gov students yesterday for the SCOTUS Comparison question they'll see next week on their exam. Here, they have to compare a case they studied as part of the curriculum (there are 14 they need to memorize) to one they are introduced to in the prompt.
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Puro pinche Spurs, brother.
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crybaby cowboy @tejasglass.com · 25/04/2026
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Fun work things in the offing: next year, I think I'm unloading my one AP class and getting...Dual Credit Mexican American Politics?? YES.
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