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Jenn Stevens

@jennmstevens.bsky.social
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Early childhood, higher-ed ed tech, creeping dread about the state of the world. She/her

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 09/10/2026
You know the xkcd strip about how all modern internet architecture is eventually built on something a hobbyist maintains for free? Someone went out and found them all. sheets.works/data-viz/hol...
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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
On tonight's city council agenda: "That the Commissioner of Public Works immediately repair the urinal fixture, otherwise known as 'The Blaster', at the Winter Hill Innovation School and present written updated work timelines on a regular basis until the urinal fixture is entirely repaired."
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A lot of people are not well right now: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This is an excellent time to de-escalate conflicts and to lean into patience. This is true in our personal lives and also (maybe especially) online when it's overwhelmingly strangers crashing into each other.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap
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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 25/08/2026
It’s amazing that in a world with so much constant bad news we’re currently all so united that it’s obvious what this refers to
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25/08/2026
thinking about how they were having to fire & arrest people to try to bully them into being sad about some of these fuckers, and if you want the whole world to stop and grieve your loss, there's one simple life hack: be a good person who just wants to do good things
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
going to do this right now. Such an important, worthwhile, terrific program.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25/08/2026
bluesky is actually a bubble today and I'm glad because this one hit me in a way few others could
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
was alerted by a reader that the bloom county house is for sale, though apparently in some disrepair www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
AP has the details on David Brouillette, the ICE agent who murdered Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine this week—a long trail of wild violence against women that got him kicked out of a Maine police force, but made him a prime hiring target for ICE. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to c...
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/07/2026
Justice for Joan Sebastian Guerrero. Consequences for everyone involved, all the way up the chain. And abolish ICE/CBP.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/07/2026
I also hate that you can turn your phone off for a handful of hours and come back and ICE murdered another human being in cold blood. Maine, we love you and I’m so sorry.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
ICE murdered two people in less than a week. Claimed they were “ramming their vehicle”. They said the same about Marimar Martinez who they shot FIVE times. She survived. Went to court to get the body cam footage released. Proved them wrong. Every shooting since they’ve left no survivors:
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The Preschool Teaching Assistant Shot by Border Patrol, Then Called a “Domestic Terrorist”
When Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent, the D.H.S. justified it by calling her a “domestic terrorist.” In the aftermath, she’s been trying to recover her reputation and, wi...
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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Hey, should it be relevant to you: Know that they’re evacuating the Esplanade in Boston due to incoming lightning
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
In the era of the loose bipartisan consensus around disability, the debate around special ed was over who qualified and how much should it be funded. Now we're at - should it exist at all.
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Handmaid @handmaid.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
@universalhub.com #ICEKILLS #OldSouthChurch #CopleySquare Old South Church memorial to those killed/neglected/died in I.C.E custody.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The Trump administration is hosting an event on the national mall this Sunday to "give thanks for God's providence, reflect on our nation's story, and rededicate America as One Nation under God." Well, about that ...
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Rededicate* 250
This coming Sunday, the Trump White House is holding "Rededicate 250," a massive religious event on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., designed to "give thanks for God's providence, reflect on our...
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
it is called hand picked by may archer, it is so tropey it is winking at the tropes while also eating them all up, sadly it is the third in a series, but it is delightful, there's an apple thief and a ceremonial bugle involved
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
i am having an extremely shit tastic day and i found a romance novel so silly and adorable it actually snapped me out of my misery spiral
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Here I go risking being struck by lightning again... The LMS is not necessary is probably true for many (most) postsecondary courses; almost certainly for face-to-face courses. But, some of you have not taught in a fully online program or a graduate professional program and it shows.
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daviss @daviss.org · 14/04/2026
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The View From Inside Trump’s DHS (Gift Article)
Dozens of agents and officials share their stories about working in the Department of Homeland Security during the harsh crackdown on illegal immigration.
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Kim McLarin @kimmclarin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Having a really hard time with humanity today.
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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
See, this is the sort of thing TikTok is for, not keeping up with news: hearing a baritone use the acoustics of a sewer to deliver Phantom of the Opera.
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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
It’s called the Cycle of Abuse or the Walker Wheel: calm followed by rising tension, the explosion of violence, the reconciliation, the incremental intensification of violence over time.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
for the ten thousandth time, it's been proven the the best way to deal with this guy is look him in the eye and go "oh yeah make me buddy boy" and the lesson they take away in the USA will of course be that they continue to give him everything he demands in case he gets upset with them
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/04/2026
the vibe
trolley problem meme, only there's just one track covered with bodies that are being run over by the trolley and the person lacks any sort of control, captioned "You can only watch"
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/04/2026
you have to get him out of office and you have to do it today even if it gets blocked you force an impeachment vote right now how else can you live with yourself if he follows through with this and you didn’t do everything you could to stop it
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when IS it going to be his turn!!!!!!!!!!!!! @compilingyestrdays.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
If you've seen this piece before, "The New American Gothic" by Criselda Vasquez, Then heartbreakingly, I have to inform you that—according to Vasquez's Instagram as of 4/03/26—Vasquez's father has been taken by ICE. GoFundMe below to help financially support their family.
A painting of a Mexican American couple, a woman and a man in their 30s to 50s, in front of a red Chevy. The woman holds a bucket with cleaning supplies hanging off of it, and the man holds a garden hoe in the same way the pitchfork is held in the original 1930 painting American Gothic. They hold themselves with a sense of dignity.
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 04/04/2026
A federal judge ruled last night that public universities in 17 states with Democratic attorneys general do not have to provide data for the massive new IPEDS admissions survey, pointing to staffing challenges within the Department of Education. It's a maze of deadlines to navigate across higher ed.
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Judge blocks Trump's college admissions data push in 17 states
The order reflects how the president's efforts to dismantle the Education Department are getting in the way of his policy goals.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 02/04/2026
I appreciated this article by Michael Taggart, on the temptation to use some of these coding tools and the pitfalls, from the POV of an experienced software engineer. This is why it's important to fight these issues collectively rather than at the individual level. taggart-tech.com/reckoning/
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I used AI. It worked. I hated it.
I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 28/02/2026
The King is mad
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Meta, Reddit and Google comply with Homeland Security requests for anti-ICE user information.
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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Annual Boston-coded warning: tomorrow, do not tell your observant Catholic friends that they have dirt on their foreheads.
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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 25/01/2026
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STATEMENT FROM MATT MOBERG, CHAPLAIN OF THE
MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES

IF YOU'RE A CHURCH POSTING
PRAYERS FOR PEACE AND UNITY TODAY
WHILE MY CITY BLEEDS IN THE STREET.
MISS ME WITH THAT SOFTNESS
YOU ONLY WEAR
WHEN IT COSTS YOU NOTHING.

DON'T DRESS AVOIDANCE UP AS HOLINESS.

DON'T CALL SILENCE "PEACEMAKING."

DON'T LIGHT A CANDLE AND THINK IT SUBSTITUTES FOR SHOWING UP.

TONIGHT AN ICE AGENT TOOK A PHOTO OF ME NEXT TO MY CAR,
LOOKED ME IN THE EYE AND TOLD ME,
"WE'LL BE SEEING YOU SOON."

NOT METAPHOR.
NOT HYPERBOLE.
A THREAT DRESSED UP IN A BADGE AND A PAYCHECK.

PEACE ISN'T WHAT YOU ASK FOR WHEN THE BOOT IS ALREADY ON SOMEONE'S NECK.
PEACE IS WHAT THE POWERFUL ASK FOR WHEN THEY DON'T WANT TO BE INTERRUPTED.

UNITY ISN'T NEUTRAL.
UNITY THAT REFUSES TO NAME VIOLENCE
IS JUST LOYALTY TO THE ONES HOLDING THE WEAPONS.

STOP USING SCRIPTURE LIKE CHLOROFORM.
STOP CALLING YOUR FEAR "WISDOM."
STOP PRETENDING JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED BECAUSE HE PREACHED GOOD VIBES AND PERSONAL GROWTH.

YOU DON'T GET TO QUOTE SCRIPTURE
LIKE A LULLABY,
WHILE INJUSTICE STAYS WIDE AWAKE.

YOU DON'T GET TO ASK GOD TO
"HEAL THE LAND"
IF YOU WON'T EVEN LOOK AT THE WOUND.

THERE IS A KIND OF PEACE THAT ONLY EXISTS
BECAUSE IT REFUSES TO TELL THE TRUTH.

THAT PEACE IS A LIE. AND LIES DON'T GROW ANYTHING WORTH SAVING.

THE SCRIPTURES YOU LOVE WEREN'T WRITTEN TO KEEP THINGS CALM.
THEY WERE WRITTEN TO SET THINGS RIGHT.
AND SOMETIMES THE MOST FAITHFUL THING YOU CAN DO IS STOP PRAYING AROUND THE PAIN AND START STANDING INSIDE IT.

IF THAT MAKES YOU UNCOMFORTABLE-GOOD.

GROWTH ALWAYS IS.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/01/2026
“That children and their parents would risk retribution under these conditions to speak up is a testament both to how courageous they are and how abysmal the conditions of this place is,” he said.
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Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota
Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/01/2026
Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽 ‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘
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Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota
Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.
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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.
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RI DaSēr @sotreu.blacksky.app · 25/01/2026
But what folks don't realize, is that an antiblack society is a society built around death. Slaughter and necromancy ass settler colony. The violence is *never* limited to only Black people, and by not opposing Black death, you give you ok for ALL manner of life to be obliterated by this society.
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Eliza 7777777🌟 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I’m also adding this here because she deserves our help paying her legal fees against this regime, especially given how much they’ve slandered her:
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The Rodney King video is one of the most important moments in American history because it showed people, particularly comfortable white people, irrefutable evidence that marginalized people’s stories of how police behaved - which were never believed - were in fact true.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
If this is what they do when they're out on the street with people pointing cameras at them, what do you think is happening inside the ICE prison camps that they keep denying Members of Congress access to?
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
One of the most critical skills to develop when you’re new to activism is knowing the difference between people who are teachable vs people who gleefully refuse to engage with reality. We need to change as many minds as we can, as fast as we can—AND we have no time for minds that refuse to change.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Minnesota is the best of us.
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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This is one of the most insane protests I've ever been to. Tens of thousands of Minnesotans in -20°F (-28°C) cold with absolutely manic energy. We are going to throw these goddamn bastards out of our cities.
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