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Travis W. Jacobson

@halingogringo.bsky.social
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-Cultural Anthropologist-BA -Professional Tutor/Educator -College Mathematics Instructional Assistant -Former Substitute Teacher -Formerly Licensed HCW -English/Español/עברית -Language Coach -Writer -Gay Married 🤗💛 SF East Bay —> Sacramento, CA

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks
A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
Y'all, beloved community, that I care for as you care for me in true understanding we share of loving mutuality so we all survive, at this time I badly need mutual aid. This ain't no scam. I'm not secretly rich. I'm on medicaid. I'm recovering from the serious trauma of getting committed by cops.
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Hello friends! It's me, the author of the novel NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS and the novella FES IS A MIRROR and poetry and essay that touches your heart. You might know me from Bluesky where I constan...
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La Jam Nikita🛼🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🐱⛷️🚲🥁 @lajamnikita.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Shit my next door neighbor was missing for weeks and my husband and I truly believed that he might be laying dead inside his house and we still didn't call for a wellness check. Those checks are inherently risky and harmful for anyone you call them on.
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
El-Saayed saying that that teacher deserves a home, that anyone deserves a home, shouldn’t be seen as radical.
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Jim Mayfield @bigpoison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Agreed. I’ve zero patience for our BlueAnon Blueskyers.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
UCLA just illegally fired their DEI Director (me) for speaking the truth about Charlie Kirk, nay, for posting truth via my private, Bluesky acct, clearly designated as personal. Hounds, Cats and I still need to raise $800 to pay rent due next week. We could use your help‼️ venmo.com/u/JohnathanPerk
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UCLA fires DEI director after social media posts on Charlie Kirk's death

Johnathan Perkins with his dogs, Rex, left, and Frankie, at Pan Pacific Park in Los Angeles after he was suspended and fired from his role as UCLA DEI director. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

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Staff Writer 
Feb. 5, 2026 3 AM PT
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fox News is a part of the pushback:
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Isn’t this what CSPAN is for? Asking for a friend…
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hey, Y’all! I’m sure you haven’t noticed that I’ve been off here for the better part of a week. I’m finishing the last half of my first #book on organizing your language-learning, AND I started chapter 2 of my fiction book today Probs gonna be real quiet for a bit, but still DM me like normal! 🤗
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There is no greater social danger than a white person’s tears.
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For those who don’t understand mathspeak, the upper bound is the absolute highest value possible if you include the margin of error. That means that it could be as high as .00065% but is likely lower than that. Because voter fraud doesn’t happen.
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Money promised tomorrow does NOT erase the money people have already spent trying to survive today." Please have a listen.
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Why is he dressed like everyone’s mom in 2009?! 😭😭😂😂
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
4.17mi walked by noon. A fiber and protein-rich lunch. About 60oz of water drunk. Is my fatty liver disease reversed yet?! 😂 #helf
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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
If you are not in Madison and would like to donate I will post a thread of things to support, first and foremost this GoFundMe for Corey Ruiz’s family. www.gofundme.com/f/justice-fo...
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Donate to Justice for Corey: Telling His Story, organized by Antonio Lopez
Our beloved Corey was murdered in the street by a Madison Police Department officer… Antonio Lopez needs your support for Justice for Corey: Telling His Story
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’s the part for me where they ignore that variables are just placeholders for numbers. Algebra is just finding the unknown. If he didn’t know how sloped to make his kiln, then I guarantee he used algebra regardless of the notations used. We need to stop scaring people away from mathematics. Frfr
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Aaahhhh… a day in the life of a college mathematics instructional assistant 🤗🤩😌
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A Hegseth-Cruz ticket would be the most surefire way to guarantee that the Conservative Party—in whichever state of being it is in—will never win in the next decade. 😂😂😂😂
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
White people only give a rat’s ass about Black & Brown people when they provide a service or entertainment. I’ve been saying this for years. It doesn’t matter how much someone does or how good someone is; white people’ll only accept the parts of them that benefit or entertain them & drop the rest.
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
youtube.com/shorts/Y22WZ... Trump is exactly the kind of person that Green Lantern and Spider-Man would spend their hero careers to defend the world and the universe from.
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What is happening in America?
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Crazy* how the only time I hear Kamala’s name mispronounced, it’s a white person. *on-brand
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Looking at how booked my September is makes me wonder when I became this person and who is he? 😂
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Of course meat alternatives are being recalled when meat is being recalled. Because why wouldn’t it be?
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
From what I can tell, this midterm election might be the largest voter turnout in US history. Of course, that assumes that everyone registered as of today is still registered after ballots go out/polls open up AND all yall actually go fucking vote!
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If anyone wants to know what a day in the life of an Instructional Assistant who runs their own college math lab looks like—here is day 6 of the semester! Looking @ discontinuities & limits in calculus 1. And then the other board is full of quadratic formula examples for other students #school #math
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Nobel Prize winner Ada Yonath sadly passed away today. She was a legend for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes.
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Listen, I just watched The Pagemaster last night…
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Taylor Swift really doesn’t have a good singing voice. She’s just a good songwriter. Like, she doesn’t even use vibrato…like ever… and her vocal range isn’t that expansive.
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
No. My family & poverty trauma won’t allow that. Plus, marriage is also an economic coupling. Taxes change when you get married, and I don’t want to claim a dependent that I didn’t create or that didn’t create me.
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If ever there was a post I wish I’d written, it’d be this one! 👇
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Honey, wake up. SCOTUS ruled 5-4 that the White House can build a ballroom that no one will ever use. substack.com/@halingogrin...
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
To be fair, he probably is celebrating it.
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“Why don’t you teach for free if you’re actually for universal free education?” In case anyone was on the fence between her and El-Sayeed, here’s a reason NOT to vote for Lisa McClain. Like, what? 🤣🤣🤣
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Forever and for always, where there is money, there is corruption.
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
An absolute nothing burger of a post sauced with Islamophobia. Such a tired playbook.
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The whole world misses Dolly. This one truly is one of the hardest celebrity deaths I’ve experienced. I don’t get emotional over celebrities, but following Betty White, I’m very emotional over Dolly Parton.🥺 The things she did for our communities. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Here are local sherif dept cops, forcing a man into the back seat of an unmarked truck on his stomach, then literally sitting on top of him. Intentionally not sharing the state because the specifics don’t matter. This happens in all localities, in all 50 states. This simply cannot be reformed.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 27/08/2026
Amid the outrage over Hasan Piker’s remarks, a Jewish professor of Israel studies at UCLA argues that it’s important to acknowledge how Israel’s actions fuel a lot of the anger directed at Jews. Read: zeteo.com/p/conflating...
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Conflating Jews with Israel Is Dangerous – Whether by Antisemites, U.S. Politicians, or the Israeli State
Amid the outrage over Hasan Piker’s remarks, a Jewish professor of Israel studies at UCLA argues that it’s important to acknowledge how Israel’s actions fuel a lot of the anger directed at Jews.
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I’m reminded every day how lucky I am to both live in California and Sacramento. This is amazing work. Just amazing.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
BREAKING: Liam Tadeo was just deported by ICE.
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yoooo saaaaame! I’m like…math education would be the smartest move career wise, but everything is k-12-based & I do college math. Foreign languages sounds cool, but idk that I wanna teach foreign languages in the classroom. 😩 Maybe ESL is for me?
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Register to Vote: Vote.org/
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Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org
Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Also, notice how he waited until the US openly and repeatedly stated we are running out of munitions. Putin plays the payaso naranjo at every turn.
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Renaming Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico is literally just rage bait. It’s not the most important or significant thing that man is doing to terrorize the World and its citizens. Wipe away the water from the flooded zone and focus. Focus. We have decades of work to do & now is time to start.
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Stay Focused The Grind Is Real
ALT: Stay Focused The Grind Is Real
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Elias the Extraterrestrial @eliasvarden.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
idaho makes performing an abortion a felony. it also says no crime occurred when a child dies of an infection antibiotics would have cleared, as long as the parents prayed instead. propublica counts at least 15 dead kids since 2015. lawmakers have left that exemption alone since 2014.
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These Children’s Deaths Were Preventable. Their Parents Prayed Instead of Seeking Medical Care.
For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care. Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of treatable conditions.
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
youtube.com/post/Ugkxq66... “If I can’t have it, nobody can.” 🙄
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Post from ABC 7 Chicago - YouTube
Trump administration suggests Kennedy Center could be demolished if court blocks planned renovations https://abc7chicago.com/story/trump-administration-sugge...
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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“God didn’t let me have kids so that all kids could be mine.” —Dolly Parton 💛😭💔
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Sometimes, when someone dies, what helps me is thinking about how wonderful it is that they were even alive in the first place. Dolly was the closest you could get to an American saint. We all loved her.
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