Reposted by Jordan P. MardelleLynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 03/02/2026abc7chicago.comHundreds of North Side high school students walk out of class, hold anti-ICE rally at River ParkHundreds of North Side high school students walked out of class on Monday to protest against ICE. 016119
Reposted by Jordan P. MardelleICE must be destroyed 🏳️⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 25/01/2026The thing that haunts me the most at night is that they're going to kill another person in the next few weeks. They're going to kill another and another and another and another until we fucking stop them Moreover, ICE must be destroyed 14932173
Reposted by Jordan P. MardelleJoshua Collins @murosinvisibles.bsky.social · 25/01/2026You’ve been lied to about borders your whole life Justifications for nativism and xenophobia simply don’t hold up to scrutiny, as Minneapolis is showing the world LATEST by me for PWSpiratewireservices.comYou’ve been lied to about borders your whole lifeJustifications for nativism and xenophobia simply don’t hold up to scrutiny, as Minneapolis is showing the world 06526
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 24/01/2026“If you’re not a Zoroastrian, I’m afraid you are bound for Hell.” The man looked amazed and shocked. “It’s not fair.” The demon gave a mirthful laugh. “Well it was fair when you were sending all the Chinese to Hell who had never heard of Jesus.” -A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck #booksky 030
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 29/12/2025I had a revelation that my mom isn’t dumb, she’s just been fighting for survival her entire life until like 2017. Now I need to read books about it. 000
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. harpers.org/archive/1941...harpers.orgWho Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson 110
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 15/12/2025media.tenor.coma man in a suit and tie is talking to a woman on an airplane and the words you go dancing are visibleAlt: Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally explaining a dance move called “the white man’s overbite” 010
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Holy shit they murdered Rob Reiner? I was just doing the White Man Overbite from When Harry Met Sally :( 000
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 11/12/2025No countries, no borders. Let them in and let them stay. 010
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 09/12/2025“Admitting large numbers of students who are profoundly underprepared risks harming the very students we hope to support” Sounds like what’s going down in the charter schools in MI 010
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 09/12/2025“After all, when a thought takes one’s breath away, a lesson in grammar seems impertinent.” -Thomas Wentworth Higginson, friend of Emily Dickinson and editor of her poems (along with Mabel Loomis Todd) #booksky 030
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 09/12/2025In 2000-2002 I was Fall Out Boy adjacent; I ran in a crowd that sometimes overlapped with theirs. I saw them in church basements, I had their first EP in a cardboard sleeve, we were all in a McDonald’s together one time etc. Anyway I’ve been listening to From Under the Cork Tree and it holds up! 110
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 09/12/2025“People who have not weathered massive repressions of individual thought find it difficult to believe in the cultural centrality of reading and writing.” Benjamin DeMott, March 1990 000
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 07/12/2025My stance on immigration: if you’re here, you get to stay. If you want to come here, you can. No countries, no borders. 010
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 06/12/2025“I think that a lot of us are young apprentices who believe that we know our work at this moment except that we’ve never fully practiced that work because we’re afraid to make mistakes. We are learned people but lacking in practice.” Feeling called out, @prisonculture.bsky.social shorturl.at/Lk11Oshorturl.atWe Don’t Know Where We Will End Up…A Year Since the 2024 Election 132
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 04/12/2025This woman looks like exactly the type of person who would complain about a person using a bathroom 010
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 04/12/2025“The discrimination complaint, the media tour, the outrage — it’s all in service of the goal stated plainly in the posts Kristi Fulnecky is boosting: trans people should not be allowed to work in education.” @parkermolloy.com www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...welcometohellworld.comA coordinated campaign to drive trans people out of public lifeParker Molloy on the latest Oklahoma anti-trans work 200
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 04/12/2025“It is the worst kind of failure and disgrace to steal, from people like myself, a world where we can find meaning and love and participation in a human community after we were given the chance to comfortably grasp it.” www.welcometohellworld.com/i-will-not-g...welcometohellworld.comI will not give up that which I have tastedPromotion of the myth 100
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 03/12/2025From @newrepublic.com …parenthood has changed me in at least one way: I hate robots even more than I did before…Humanoid robots are the perfect symbol for the suicidal absurdity of the AI frenzy…Those metal toddlers want your job, particularly if you work in manufacturing. 000
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 03/12/2025“…the Frankfurt edition of this poem which states that the Nazis first persecuted the communists, then ‘‘got rid of the ill, the so-called incurables.’’ Via @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/the-devils-b...liberalcurrents.comThe Devil's BargainNazism and the moral collapse of German Christendom. 1113
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 02/12/2025OOF “We will never know quite what was lost. We will never know which ones could have been saved, or how many; we will only know that an uncertain but likely significant proportion of the victims died because of the actions of RFK Jr” @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/medical-rese...liberalcurrents.comMedical Research Is a Life and Death IssueThe casualties of the war on research will mount for years. 12810
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 30/11/2025One thing I love about working in childcare is that we’re all women or present as women (2/7 of us are non-binary) so when an unfamiliar man shows up we all go on alert like “why is there a MAN here? Who is that MAN???” 000
Reposted by Jordan P. MardelleGlenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 29/11/2025"[D]ooming is itself a liberation from the burden of choice. If everything is ruined forever, if your allies have already forsaken you, if the battle is already lost, you aren't responsible for your choices. They can't affect the outcome. You're free." www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...liberalcurrents.comDemocrats Must Embrace War MindsetWe have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake. 14513
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 29/11/2025LOL “Catholics think they’ve got the market cornered on miracles … if something happens in their own backyard, which just happens to be a Baptist backyard, well then, that’s really not worth a thing.” -The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett #booksky 110
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 28/11/2025What the actual hell you guys I am a year older than this moldy potato of a person and it messes me up that people still think this way 000
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Okay this one is so good I just want to quote it all 182
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Yesterday, at an EcoSchool site, I went to a staff meeting and refused to consent to being recorded by ChatGPT. I feel like I need a tinfoil hat AND I feel bad that I inconvenienced my boss but AI gives me the existential dread. Also. It’s EcoSchool! 010
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Madeline Lane-McKinley uses the term “lactational dogma” and I just really enjoy it #booksky 000
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 24/11/2025in 1689, John Locke famously claimed that the child is born as a tabula rasa…Today, this idea…remains incredibly prevalent, providing the foundation for some of the worst forms of pedagogy—that myth of teaching as “molding young minds.” -Solidarity W Children by Madeline Lane-McKinley #booksky 150
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Re: the war in Gaza While the only reasonable response may be shock and rage, El-Rifae asks how we can avoid the ways this rage ossifies into feelings of guilt or shame, “which uselessly burrow inwards.” -Solidarity With Children by Madeline Lane-McKinley #booksky 140
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 23/11/2025This is how it felt when the first boy who ever told me he loved me died of Covid in May 2020 0323
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Currently reading an essay by Madeline Lane-McKinley called Solidarity With Children and the intro is about Gaza. I can’t believe it’s been TWO YEARS. 020
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Wait. What? Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin? 200
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 21/11/2025I’m coming to realize that “eco” does not necessarily equal “nature” in the context of education. 000
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 20/11/2025I had planned on attending tonight; got notified by the local DSA that I no longer have to www.interlochenpublicradio.org/2025-11-20/a...interlochenpublicradio.orgAfter chilly response from public, Rocklocker calls off plans for Kalkaska data center'We heard you,' said a statement from the company's Matt Rine, who faced stiff opposition at tense public forums to consider the idea this week. 100
Reposted by Jordan P. MardelleBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 18/11/2025The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza. The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door. 503954935
Reposted by Jordan P. MardelleLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 17/11/2025[1:1] On the seventh day God rested. [1.2] And for the six days straight before that as well. [1.3] Resting whips ass he said. [1.4] It was all formless and empty and always would be. [1.5] And none of this ever happened to any of us. [1.6] We were all resting too. 822626
Reposted by Jordan P. MardelleMichigan Advance @michiganadvance.com · 17/11/2025“If the roles are reversed and our people are not having treaty obligations met by the U.S., then why are we still participating in a system that harms us?” Meredith Migizi, the executive director of indigenous advocacy organization Miigwech, Inc., asked. Story by @kdailey.bsky.socialmichiganadvance.comAfter SNAP lapse, Michigan tribal officials and advocates reaffirm the need for food sovereignty • Michigan AdvanceAmid November’s honoring of Native American Heritage Month — a time when many communities reflect on the responsibilities embedded in ancestral teachings —Meredith Migizi, the executive director of in... 02010
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Meredith Migizi … sees the way that Michigan’s tribal governments respond to the lapse in SNAP benefits amid a government shutdown as parallel to an Anishinaabe oral history of the Hoof Nation Treaty. michiganadvance.com/2025/11/17/a...michiganadvance.comAfter SNAP lapse, Michigan tribal officials and advocates reaffirm the need for food sovereignty • Michigan AdvanceAmid November’s honoring of Native American Heritage Month — a time when many communities reflect on the responsibilities embedded in ancestral teachings —Meredith Migizi, the executive director of in... 100
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Did you accept the apology? says Connell. She nods, looking down at her nails. Of course I did, she says. I don’t go in for grudges. Luckily for me, he replies. (🙄🙄🙄 shut UP Connell) - Normal People by Sally Rooney #booksky 000
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 16/11/2025She wishes that she could have forgiven Rob, even if it meant nothing to him. When she thinks of him now, it’s always with his face hidden, turning away, behind his locker door, behind the rolled up window of his car. (1/2) -Normal People by Sally Rooney #booksky 000
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Dwelling on the sight of Connell’s face always gives Marianne a certain pleasure, which can be inflected with any number of feelings ... His appearance is like a favorite piece of music to her, sounding a little different each time she hears it. -Normal People by Sally Rooney #booksky 100
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 16/11/2025If I watch Normal People the show I will dissolve into a puddle of tears and possibly not return, and I just have a lot to do #booksky 010
Jordan P. Mardelle @jpmardelle.bsky.social · 16/11/2025“The Republic was revealed as only a state of mindm no more real than unicorns or pixie dust if you had enough power to safely ignore it and not believe in it.” fearhonorinterest.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/t...fearhonorinterest.wordpress.comThe Chains of the Improbable vs. The Chains of the ImpossibleAn old Vulcan proverb advises us that only Sulla could march on Rome. This proverb may contradict another ancient proverb that claims that all roads lead to Rome. This seeming contradiction is reso… 100
