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Anita G

@gillilandanitac.bsky.social
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Reader, writer, hopeful traveler, rescue dog Mom, coffee lover AP Lang, Dual Credit Comp 30 yr HS Eng T, Grad student in Rhetoric & Comp Read to Kids & Pets Work for Justice & Freedom

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State of St. Louis @stateofstlouis.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Hey, native tall grass prairie enthusiasts 4 pm Wednesday, November 19th, Missouri Prairie Foundation Webinar 📷 🌱 Photos of Prairie Splendor with Bruce Schuette Register grownative.org/event/mpf-we...
Screenshot from Missouri Prairie Foundation website. Photo of tallgrass prairie witj coneflowers in bloom and text:

MPF Webinar: Photos of Prairie Splendor with Bruce Schuette

November 19 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm CST
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Sending (and attempting to send) Guard troops to D.C., LA, Portland, Chicago, Memphis in recent months has cost taxpayers nearly half a billion dollars so far…. theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...
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Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising
Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price.
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
All eyes on Missouri where Republicans are taking every opportunity to ignore voters
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Anita G @gillilandanitac.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
It's almost as if the violence against families and the fear of losing family members to illegal, warrantless raids has an impact on students and their testing. Huh.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 14/11/2025
Let’s be clear: the hold-up isn’t on our side. This was his campaign promise—so he needs to go ahead and fulfill it. Release the files. All of them.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging. They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”. They raped them. Sex implies consent. The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.
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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Every 3 weeks or so students get a blank piece of paper returned to them that they "mindmap" their reflections on throughout the year. They get 5-7 minutes to add to it, then I take it back up until the next time. (I don't read them!) Several years into doing this, zero regrets.
mindmapping questions from today's class
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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
the cool thing about hosting an education podcast is that you not only get to read really thoughtful books that you never would have stumbled across before—you get to talk to the incredible people who wrote them (this conversation dropping tomorrow!)
Teaching without Teaching by Scott F. Parker
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
For nearly a decade, the AFT has fought for the rights of student loan borrowers to be freed from the shackles of unjust debt—and today, a huge part of that affordability fight was vindicated www.aft.org/press-releas...
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Following Lawsuit by the AFT, Trump Administration Agrees to Deliver Student Debt Relief and Protect Borrowers from Tax Liability Due to Red Tape and Delays
WASHINGTON—Today, the parties in AFT v. U.S. Department of Education filed a joint status report in federal court agreeing to a series of actions that will protect borrowers enrolled in income-driven ...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Padilla: It’s not just undocumented folks who are being detained and arrested. It’s legal immigrants—even US citizens. We know of at least 170 US citizens who have been caught up in these raids and put in detention centers. It’s the intended effect of this administration to stoke fear and terror
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I recently spoke to an Arizonan who is worried about health care costs. Her name is Robin, and her story shows why we must reopen the government with a deal that stops premiums from skyrocketing in the coming months. This is what we’re fighting for. 🧵
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks. This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
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NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
“In America, the law is king.” -Thomas Paine
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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 17/10/2025
File under no s*** Sherlock?
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Dr. Joe Krulder @joekrulder.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Patriots!!! Let’s remember what our founders signed July 4, 1776… NO KINGS!!! March peacefully brothers and sisters.
Cartoon depiction of the Declaration of Independence
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Pope Leo calls on journalists to report facts and expose disinformation. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 17/10/2025
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/10/2025
Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
TOMORROW is #NO_KINGS_DAY!!! Give me your Tired, your Poor, your Huddled Masses of Frogs, Unicorns, Pandas, T-Rexes, Mushrooms, Sharks, SpongeBobs & everyday Folks yearning to peacefully protest a clownishly incompetent buffoon of a Prez who, if there were any justice, would be in jail. 🤡 #BeThere
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A. Torch @torcho.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Is your sign ready? 🙃 #nokings
Portland Frog
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…” ~Patrick Henry
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Nasty business
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A. Torch @torcho.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
More #nokingsSTL locations added, Turtle Park I-64 overpass. Also, mention of S Grand side of Tower Grove Park (I’ve seen no other details yet) … just show up at any location, some grow organically, or stand on a corner and do your own. ☂️
Portland Resist Frog
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NPR @npr.org · 23/09/2025
Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.
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Georgia senators demand answers on more than a dozen deaths in immigration detention
Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.
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Heather Turner @techielibgrl.com · 23/09/2025
I had a request to share my upcoming FREE professional learning. Here are the first ones which are Asynchronous Book Studies October: AI in the Writing Workshop: Finding the Write Balance November: How to Listen and How to Be Heard January: Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters Sign Up HERE
Alt text: A promotional flyer for O²CM School Library System book studies. On the left, a tall stack of old books. On the right, three featured titles with months: *AI in the Writing Workshop: Finding the Write Balance* (October), *How to Listen and How to Be Heard* (November), and *Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters* (January). Logos for Southern Westchester BOCES School Library System and O²CM School Library System appear at the bottom. The heading reads “BOOK STUDIES” in bold white and orange letters.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
so Tylenol supposedly causes autism, but so does MMR, despite autism predating either of them – how could this be? negativity bias! this is why when ppl consider something to be "bad" they can invent hundreds of causes w/little evidence & ppl will believe it... juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l...
screenshot from linked to essay that reads: There is a well-studied human cognitive bias, often called negativity bias, that refers to our tendency to dwell more on negative outcomes than positive or neutral ones, and to attribute negative (but not positive or neutral) outcomes to some external agent (reviewed in Rozin & Royzman, 2001; Morewedge, 2009). Or to put it another way, we often presume that positive or neutral events occur naturally or inexplicably, whereas negative events must have been caused by something or someone.

Here is a mundane example: If you were to drive home from work without incident, nobody would care or give it a second thought. It would be considered a taken-for-granted outcome and nobody would expect you to provide an account of how or why it happened. But if you got into an accident on your way home, well, then we would all want to know why and how it happened. You couldn’t say “I don’t know, I just got into an accident” — nobody would take that answer seriously, because something must have caused the accident! And if you do not provide an explanation that is satisfactory in our eyes, people will likely attribute causes or motives for you: Perhaps another driver cut you off? Or maybe you were speeding? Or drinking? Or fell asleep at the wheel?
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
miamiherald.com
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Gupta: It is safe. That’s what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when you’re not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.
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maxgbowman @maxgbowman.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Meanwhile, here in Maine, AI crawlers have rendered the server that manages our statewide interlibrary loan unreachable by legitimate attempts to pass through requests/information Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 07/08/2025
Jeffrey Epstein took the fifth about Donald Trump. What else do you need to know?
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Anita G @gillilandanitac.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I remember wondering how the Internet would change people, if it would harm our thinking/our abilities; now I question AI. I want more people thinking, creating. I want ppl to wrestle concepts, savor words, create art. We need more ppl w/ skills. Beware the gift of AI - a Trojan horse, poison apple?
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i be knowing @nthatsthetruth.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
We have a messaging problem w NPR & PBS (among other things) Folks are just accepting the idea that they’re shutting down asap. Not true. They need donations to continue w/o fed funding ❌ aw man Trump strikes again 🤷🏾 ❌ damn I loved Tiny Desk😔 ❌ not Elmo! 😭 ✅ DONATE‼️ npr.org/donate pbs.org/donate
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azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Did you know that you can donate $5 a month to your local PBS, get their "passport" benefit, and watch Leonard Cohen in concert (Dublin, September 12, 2013), without ads, bullshit or guilt? Go forth, enjoy great performances, #FundPBS
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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Just printed more—let me know if you want a copy.
My very barebones zine called Why I am saying no to “AI” and saying yes to you.
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
We have concentration camps in America and it still has not truly hit public consciousness or the level of discussion we see around other subjects. This is how these things become normalized. We simply cannot let ourselves become desensitized, we *have* to keep pushing the discussion.
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Brian K. @briank.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
My small hometown has a group fundraising for phone cards for ICE detainees at the local jail. It would be awesome if we could surprise them with a bomb of support. Please give what you can and/or RT this post. givebutter.com/AbideSteGen
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Abide in Love Ste. Genevieve Launch!
Help us build our community
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Anita G @gillilandanitac.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I've never used it and don't want to use it. I enjoy having my own thoughts, writing skills, and experiences to use.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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Opinion | Mark Kelly: My Fix for NASA
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/08/2025
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
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pamwalkerstl.bsky.social @pamwalkerstl.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
St. Louis, there is absolutely no excuse for a woman and her children to be homeless and sleeping in Lucas Park today. There are programs funded to find them a home. Who is in charge of addressing this? I can no longer tell since the city outsourced the programs. Do NOT tell me to call 211
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Biscuits and gravy are a southern staple because everyone can get a little bit of meat when you cook off a small amount and add flour and milk to the grease. Pour it over a biscuit and there’s protein for all. Poverty foods will be back soon.
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
After 50 Years of Writing, Jamaica Kincaid Insists She’s Still an Amateur A new, career-spanning essay collection shows how she has never lost touch with the mischievous creativity of her 7-year-old self. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/m...
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After 50 Years of Writing, Jamaica Kincaid Insists She’s Still an Amateur
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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
it’s all fun and games until Mom eats your watermelon 🍉
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Anita G @gillilandanitac.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Sending peace and strength to all teachers returning to meetings and students this week! I have 3 more weeks but will start working on lessons and materials tomorrow because my brain has started working. If I want to have a few more days of summer rest, I have to let the ideas out.
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Anita G @gillilandanitac.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Finishing vacation with book buying, like this stack from several Chicago area Goodwill stores. Some for fun, some for teaching and study.
A stack of books I bought to read for fun and also to help my teaching and learning.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/07/2025
I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
if there's any truth to this, it's worth remembering that Gen Z grew up with leveled reading "benchmarks" and ELA assessments and and were for years asked to produce answers about "the main idea"/conflict/resolution/etc. instead of being encouraged to engage with & love literature on their own terms
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‘It’s so boring’: gen Z parents don’t like reading to their kids – and educators are worried
Screen time has increasingly replaced story time, and experts warn this could lead to children falling behind
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 24/07/2025
ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through August 22nd! ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽
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