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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's. And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today. Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill

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kg @kalebgerm.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

folks will often remind you that you are not yt even when you do their bidding!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/05/2025

me: they think it should be illegal to have black people in positions of influence savvy, sophisticated pundits: don't be hysterical the trump administration:

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/05/2025

Shout out to all of the faculty and students who made it through this semester in particular. What a time to be teaching and learning in spaces that are directly under attack from people who benefited from having access to the same resources themselves.

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Three Democratic congressional representatives from New Jersey had also attempted to visit the facility on Friday. In a social media post, one of them, Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman, wrote that the facility had opened without permission from the city.

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kg @kalebgerm.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

and the destruction of the arts as a whole allows for eradication of culture, identity, knowledge and creativeness tied to place, being and difference.

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kg @kalebgerm.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

imma need folks to not stand harvard bc they’re a corporation who is banking on the brand of ‘the uni who saved democracy’ making them money down the road.. money makes money in this system & they be neglecting folks doin the work!

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Bank Street College of Education @bankstreet.edu · 15/04/2025

Thank you to guest editors Ricardo Martinez and Ezequiel Aleman; senior editor Gail Boldt; and contributors Ángela Shamira Morales Pereira, Ana Corona, Rodrigo Alemán, Kaleb Germinaro @kalebgerm.bsky.social, Alvin Logan, Jr. (1/2)

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

You know why European countries are so quiet about the El Salvador situation? Because they started the normalisation of extraterritorial detention of migrants and asylum seekers, often without any due process. The UK’s Rwanda plan. Italy’s attempted plan with Albania. And some still want to do it.

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kg @kalebgerm.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

on resisting & combatting misinformation.. this piece solidified the route that i’m currently striving towards and some of what i view as my contribution to movements as a black disabled scholar.. figure this entire issue is timely — Speculative Youth Archiving www.bankstreet.edu/research-pub...

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Germinaro & Logan – Actualizing Black Spatial Histories - Bank Street College of Education

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kg @kalebgerm.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

young folks storytelling is so rad bc how do they make connections from being cold to poison oak to jelly fish and it all be cohesive, like i love it

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

It finally happened. The first documented case of a public school teacher being fired for referring to a student by their chosen name, instead of their dead name, as required by a law signed by Ron DeSantis in 2023: www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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Florida teacher loses job for calling student by preferred name

It’s the first known dismissal stemming from the conservative campaign to limit schools' recognition of transgender identity.

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kg @kalebgerm.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

organzin folks go lobby for this is something that’s highly beneficial too!

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kg @kalebgerm.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

part of growing in my relationship with my chronic illness and disability is realizing i can’t do research the same way i was doin before.. that switch up is a lot 😮‍💨 not that the current climate would allow for either way

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 06/04/2025

We noticed some hateful flyers in our neighborhood and they were giving a rage headache every time we saw one. So instead of just being mad, we created new ones. Please feel free to use! This one is: Protect Trans Kids in black and white and in color.

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A white background with half a box outlined in black with black text that stretches across the top and says, "PROTECT TRANS KIDS!" & "GENDER AFFIRMING CARE:"
Then in two columns of 3 rows, it lists 1-6 that says:
1. Supports & affirms the gender identity of trans youth
2. Consists of a step-by-step process with social changes (e.g., shifts in name, hair pronouns, clothes)
3. Includes possible physical interventions (e.g. hair removal, voice coaching, puberty blockers)
4. Has a regret rate of less than 2%. Compared to a regret rate of 14% for all surgeries.
5. Reduces anxiety, depression & risk of suicide in trans youth.
6. Provides better mental health outcomes when provided to teens versus adults.
At the bottom it says, "Gender Affirming Care Saves Kids' Lives!"

Image description:
A cream background with half a pink box with black text that stretches across the top and says, "PROTECT TRANS KIDS!" & "GENDER AFFIRMING CARE:"
Then in two columns of 3 rows, it lists 1-6 that says:
1. Supports & affirms the gender identity of trans youth
2. Consists of a step-by-step process with social changes (e.g., shifts in name, hair pronouns, clothes)
3. Includes possible physical interventions (e.g. hair removal, voice coaching, puberty blockers)
4. Has a regret rate of less than 2%. Compared to a regret rate of 14% for all surgeries.
5. Reduces anxiety, depression & risk of suicide in trans youth.
6. Provides better mental health outcomes when provided to teens versus adults.
At the bottom it says, "Gender Affirming Care Saves Kids’ Lives!"

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Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Thank y’all for this great work, already have plans to cite in my dissertation.

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kg @kalebgerm.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

imma need a roster of 🧊 officers — so like like how student sections do at sports games — we get all their personal info for sabotage

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Lauren Gifford 🌱🌎🌲 @laurengifford.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

A brave American created a dashboard to track people who are deported, detained or renditioned for political reasons by the Trump Adminstration: @disappearedtracker.bsky.social We should all visit and learn how widespread this problem is. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/03/2025

What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

With Trump ramping up efforts to disappear people under the dubious pretext of "gang affiliation," Hannah Dreier’s gutting @propublica.org story from 2018 is a must-read. It exposes how high schools, police, and ICE funneled students into detention and deportation over nothing more than a doodle.

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He Drew His School Mascot — and ICE Labeled Him a Gang Member

How high schools have embraced the Trump administration’s crackdown on MS-13, and destroyed immigrant students’ American dreams.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

"Despite multiple attacks by the eagle, the goose remained unbowed. The raptor, defeated, flew off." The cobra chicken remains triumphant. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice

Photographer captures 20-minute clash between birds emblematic of Canada and US amid high trade tensions

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 05/03/2025

What Rep Al Green did is what they all should have done Anyone who remembers the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam War protests and ACT UP know that resistance means nothing if the party you’re resisting can just ignore you

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Most people are not political scientists using formal definitions. So I am curious when is the moment that people tell themselves "oh, I live under an authoritarian government now." Because what else is this? www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Trump says federal funding will stop for colleges, schools allowing 'illegal' protests

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that all federal funding will stop for colleges and schools that allow "illegal" protests and that agitators will be imprisoned or sent back to the country they came from.

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kg @kalebgerm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

hearin the peregrines back on campus to build their nest made my day fr

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kg @kalebgerm.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

am i learning scientist now? this was… a lot. & i’m thankful to the youth & community members that allowed for it to come to fruition — focused on seattles black geographic history, learning thru the humanities & youth design.. check it out :) #academicsky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Blackness, place and learning: Youth cultivating a sense of identity-in-place through spatial storylines

This paper examines how five youth in Seattle’s Central District and Southend participated in an architectural design-build project that centered Black spatial histories. The project aimed to foste...

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Mildred Boveda @mboveda.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Genocide, scholasticide, and epistemicide. Historically and that are happening right now… love you, Chanda, for consistently getting the word out and educating our people. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Gaining Clarity 2025: A Reading List to Know Your Political Moment

Gaining Clarity 2025: A Reading List to Know Your Political Moment Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of t...

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Aireale J. Rodgers, PhD @airealejoi.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This type of overreach is unconscionable, and if successful, sets a very dangerous precedent for overreach in university affairs and faculty hiring efforts.

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kg @kalebgerm.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

tryna still share the lil joys.. sharing a bit about my relationship with my body and ways we can learn through that relationship.. the delayed enjoyment of this piece coming out is strange as my body — and many others — are under attack. #AcademicSky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Our Spatial Orientation: Positionality, Relationality, and Learning Through the Body - Kaleb Germinaro, 2025

Components of place and sites of where we know from are pertinent to positionality, particularly in its importance for education research with and for communiti...

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sr_toliver @srtoliver.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I have two op-eds to share today! First up is an article in Fulcrum titled No Going Backwards: Cannot Take Down DOE. In it, I talk about the potential shuttering of the DOE as a movement toward (back to?) separate but equal. I’ll share the other later today! thefulcrum.us/inclusion-di...

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No Going Backwards: Cannot Take Down DOE

Growing up in New Castle, Pennsylvania, where every public school received extra federal support due to the city’s high poverty levels, I saw the importance of governmental assistance.New Castle Area ...

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kg @kalebgerm.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

i’ve had accommodations denied and myself required to do a talk in person while 75% of those I met with were online 🙃

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kg @kalebgerm.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

meanwhile confederate flags, and those boasting them, relish

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kg @kalebgerm.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

philly post super bowl is peak content bc it proves movin in mass towards one goal and being in community can put immense pressure / take it all down

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kg @kalebgerm.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

yoooo the flag motifs were crazzzzyyy.. like the intentional design to have the palestine and sudan flag and make sure someone video taped it so it could be shared immediately?!? and they had them in all black with a light going through intentionally?!?!

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kg @kalebgerm.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

black music 🤝🏾 resistance

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kg @kalebgerm.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

all the flags really did a thing

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Universities — including the schools that most aggressively shut down student activism — are now fully panicking because the Trump administration is about to shut down all kinds of funding for research and more. Too bad they made it clear that their students shouldn’t speak up and speak out.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 06/02/2025

Yes, everyone is correct. They're not advocating for a "strict meritocracy." Affirmative action is over. They're now suing over the very presence of Black people and Latinos in elite education and white collar careers. They're advocating for resegregation. Call it out every time.

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kg @kalebgerm.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

quote from prime target on apple tv ‘math nerds are the most dangerous people on the planet’ — 🥴

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