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Jake Wertz

@jakewertz.bsky.social
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PhD sociologist leading transformation in large suburban public school districts in Chicago suburbs. School Board member and district assessment/data/research leader 🏡🪴🌉📈📊👨‍🏫

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Rachel Pinnelas 💭 @racheaissance.com · 4h
“Women wearing short shorts to the gym does not make them whores. It makes the men calling them ‘whores’ misogynists.”
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Dan Levy Calls Out Shane Gillis’ ‘SNL’ Monologue and Says ‘More Men Need to Be Standing Up’: ‘Speechless That Something Like That Can Exist on Live National Television’
"Schitt's Creek" star Dan Levy is calling out Shane Gillis' "Saturday Night Live" monologue, saying that "more men need to be standing up."
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 3h
Another giant succumbed to Dutch elm disease. Bucky for scale
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 15h
To illustrate that they’re in working condition?
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Maybe we will. At least 3 more chances.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Not hearing much from the Sound of Freedom crowd about this child trafficking operation, are we
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Core, The (DO NOT PERCEIVE) @the-core.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Charles Entertainment Kelly is just having fun out there
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There are 9,000 undergrads at this school. About 100 are in the marching band. They make up half of the student section. Tickets are free to students. Embarrassing.
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Why on earth were tickets to this game $100 and only available to non-season ticket holders starting two weeks ago? Is it because it’s homecoming and they wanted to give alums that nostalgic Northwestern experience of a half-empty stadium?
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Love this statement from Robert Hass on the back of a children’s anthology of poems I recently rediscovered
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Misogyny meets tautology
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The big mistake they made is building the stadium in Evanston, which is 90 minutes away from 90% of Chicagolands population. I’m going Saturday, but it’s 90 minutes from my home in the inner western suburbs. Will have to be a pretty incredible experience to make me want to go twice a year.
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Damn man I paid $103 for a nosebleed seat a month ago, and they said that was a reunion early-access discount.
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The way you can tell this story is bullshit is that nobody reads books to babies. We sing songs to babies, feed them, rock them, hold them. Computers can’t do that. We read books to toddlers and young children, who are big enough to express their own dissatisfaction severely if using a bot
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The American Dream is amazing: within just a few years you can go from being the child of Cuban immigrants to the great-grandson of Spanish settlers.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Julián Curo-Churata, dead in a Trump concentration camp. ICE cited “convictions for driving with expired vehicle registration” and an unspecified judgment against him in favor of the Maryland comptroller (taxes). He "had volunteered to leave the country on his own, but a judge denied the request."
thebanner.com
Laurel father and husband died in ICE custody in Louisiana
Julián Curo-Churata lived in Laurel for about 17 years before he was detained in June by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. He died in the agency’s custody on Sept. 29.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 07/10/2026
A Portage Park restaurant owner remembers Silverio Villegas González, the quiet, hardworking cook who was killed by an ICE agent. bit.ly/47F0Ryf
chicagoreader.com
A year without Silverio - Chicago Reader
A Portage Park restaurant owner remembers Silverio Villegas González, the quiet, hardworking cook who was killed by an ICE agent.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 29/09/2026
New: We obtained witness videos and surveillance footage showing ICE parking their cars, arresting an observer, and transferring detainees in parking lots across 4 of Chicago's police districts. Local officials have tried banning ICE from city property. But incidents in the lots keep stacking up:
unraveledpress.com
In plain sight: a year of ICE using Chicago police parking lots for its operations
Videos and witness testimony show immigration agents continue using Chicago police station parking lots despite a ban on their access to city property. Records obtained from the Civilian Office of Pol...
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
MLB broadcasts need to cut the crowd mic the second Atlanta starts doing its racist chant. Stop broadcasting hate.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 06/10/2026
Well that's certainly a way to advertise food I guess.
An in-store display in a grocery store, advertising "Simple Truth™ protein; affordable & free from unwanted ingredients."
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
so incredibly massively fucking tired of this
Three National guard soldiers walking through a metro station
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Gourd (pumpkin) @gourdisin.space · 06/10/2026
In Chicago we call this a "soccer player takeover" and pay cops half a million dollars in overtime to stand around so it doesn't happen
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
this is stunning information to me. the colts franchise has been preaching a basic misunderstanding of horse information for 50 years. they have been lying to our faces
history of Colts logos, they adopted the horseshoe in 1979
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NPR @npr.org · 06/10/2026
Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border, the last of a grove estimated to be up to 250 years old. (via @kjzz.org) n.pr/4hKJ79B
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At least 10 arrested at Arizona-Mexico border as 250-year-old cottonwood tree cut down for wall
Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border in the tiny town of Lochiel. The tree was the last of an old grove estimated to be up to 250 years old.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Trump regime’s border wall construction damaged the Las Playas Intaglio, a 6,500-7,300-year-old fish-shaped geoglyph in Arizona.
gadgetreview.com
Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Professor Frink saying this
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I can recall maybe 5 or 6 moments in my life that I’ve felt as locked-in as this bird here.
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Two garden projects this weekend. I also gave my 15’ juniper tree a haircut 🌱
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Before/during/after our sewer line replacement. Praying for no frost in October. 🌱
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Incredible that both Chicago and San Francisco turned down offers from Lucas to build these incredible monuments (“for free” “as a gift”) in their cities if they only would have given him a few dozen acres of prime public real estate for it
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Good morning just wanted to let everybody know Northwestern ran for 413 yards (FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN YARDS) against Penn State last night
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Jane B. Kulow @cvlkulow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“It wasn’t until April 1975 that women had a word for talking about what their male bosses were doing to them.”
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Go ‘Cats!
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yes and it looked bad then
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Feels icky to see Northwestern play on astroturf at home
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Feels like a free thinking computer would pick up on the sex assault story. Meanwhile here is what Google’s Gemini had to say about what’s going on with Watson
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Curiously, in the same week we begin to reckon with Cornell, “prosecute the pervasive sexual violence occurring at school” didn’t bear any consideration on the list of potential “fixes” to Americas schools. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
nytimes.com
30 Ideas for Fixing U.S. Schools, Ranked by Experts
Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?
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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 01/10/2026
A new federal rule weakens the Endangered Species Act by redefining "harm" to wildlife. This change makes it much harder to protect the habitats that endangered species need to survive. Tell Congress to undo this change and protect endangered species here: mbayaq.co/4xSPQUZ
mbayaq.co
Stand with the Aquarium for Endangered Species - title
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cruel, unusual, inhumane, deplorable, despicable, ungodly, the hallmarks of the Catholic anti-life majority on this Supreme Court www.tmz.com/2026/09/30/c...
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Christa Pike Still Alive After 2 Lethal Injections
Christa Pike is still alive after 2 attempted lethal injections in Tennessee.
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not an abrupt one-album change, but the transformation of Watermelon Man from 1962 to 1973 is genius youtu.be/RzPZvKSdN7g?...
youtu.be
Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man
YouTube video by Pat Haskell
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It would work in Texas, just as it did in one of the most famous political speeches of the 20th century
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tutoring lends itself to experimental research. I was trained in causal methods in education research, and what I recognize in the remedies promised here is the drunkard looking for his keys beneath the street lamp - not because that’s where he lost them, but because it’s where the light shines
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If schools were truly in crisis and in need of fixing, we would be in need of much bigger ideas for reforming the whole system. That’s where charter and voucher proponents came in. How’d that work out? We need a reckoning with this rhetoric
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Many scholars I deeply respect contributed to this survey. I’m struck none took issue with the framing that US schools need “fixing” - as though they’re broken. Tutoring and phonics instruction are good ideas for improving schools. Many schools are already putting those improvements into action.
nytimes.com
30 Ideas for Fixing U.S. Schools, Ranked by Experts
Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don't forget that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social wants to let the GOP get away with all of this. He said let's turn the page and get on with business. He's on the side of the Nazis if he thinks this kind of thing is acceptable in the United States of America. This can't be allowed to slide. It can't.
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t think he is healthy or strong enough to lift one shovel-full of Iowa soil, but I’m willing to be proven wrong
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I would love to see Trump lift a golden shovel full of dirt in Iowa like he did at the groundbreaking of Foxconn’a multi-billion $ manufacturing plant in Wisconsin back in 2018! … Say, it’s been 8 years, how’s that factory doing now that it’s up and running?
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