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Kathryn Coffey

@literacygurl.bsky.social
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PhD Ed Leadership, Retired teacher. Interested in education policy, ELA & Math literacy, kayaking, fiddling, gardening 💫 Michigander

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Thank god. Christ. But seriously folks. We cannot continue to live like this.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I have a long night in front of me. But for those asking how to stay informed about Trump's latest attack on voting and the legal cases that will follow, my advice is to subscribe to Democracy Docket. I started it for times just like this. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The chance of an incident involving nuclear weapons is more likely now than it was during the Cold War.
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M.A. @mobbima.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Best one today!
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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Matt Barnum reports on new study, Early Grade Retention Harms Adult Earnings (Economist Jiee Zhong) which demonstrates children who are retained might show initial progress but will eventually face significant employability problems including lower earnings as adults nancyebailey.com/2026/03/21/g...
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Grade Retention: The Debate Had Its Day, Now End It! - Nancy Bailey's Education Website
The permanency of retention and the message it sends students may have long-term effects on self-esteem and school attachment that may override even short-term academic benefits (1995). ~Melissa Roder...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Nurul Amin Shah Alam crossed oceans to flee unimaginable violence, only to die here — where he should have been safe. The cruelty is endless.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media. Off the top of my head: www.thehandbasket.co 404media.co www.garbageday.email Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.
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The Handbasket
100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch
An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.
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Michelle R. Smith @bymichellersmith.com · 21/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
ICE is MASSIVELY overpaying for the concentration camp warehouses it is buying up. Like…four times market value or even more than that. Why do you think that is? Who is getting rich off of this scheme?
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M.A. @mobbima.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The year of the snake is gone To #firehorse is here to help us move on
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
one of those things you need to watch if for no other reason than the trump administration doesn't want you to:
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Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Precisely this.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
🚨 President Trump’s Claim of an “Irrefutable” Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text in the Shadows of a Microfilm Copy of the U.S. Constitution electionlawblog.org?p=154326
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President Trump's Claim of an "Irrefutable" Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text ...
Yesterday I noted the latest set of unhinged social media posts from President Trump in which he declared that voter id requirements and other election changes would be imposed in the midterms via exe...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
NEW EPISODE: Republicans know they’re on track to lose the 2026 midterms—and they’re trying to rig the election to stop it. I break down the Save America Act, the most sweeping voter suppression bill in a generation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYsx...
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URGENT: GOP Passes Bill to Rig the 2026 Elections
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/02/2026
My Trump-supporting cousin-in-law just texted my husband to say he encountered this Mother Jones on social media, read it, realized I wrote it, and told him to tell me I’m doing good work and to keep going. Things are changing, y’all. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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ICE deportation flights are getting longer and crueler
A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/02/2026
Trump tapped white nationalist Jeremy Carl for Assistant Secretary of State for International Orgs. He called the Civil Rights Act an “anti-white weapon,” pushed the “great replacement,” called Juneteenth a “race hustle,” and compared J6 defendants to Black defendants in Jim Crow trials. 1/2
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13/02/2026
"From the first moment a soldier is issued a rifle, they are taught a principle so basic it becomes instinct: Know what’s beyond your target." The problem here is it wasn't soldiers who did this: lnk.thebulwark.com/4659MsH
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The cruelty of this regime in a nutshell.
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Steve Morgan @steveve.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
House Judiciary Cmte Democrats "Not only has Atty General Bondi failed to bring a single indictment against a single co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. But now Bondi and her team are spying on Members of Congress conducting oversight"
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
“I know it when I see it.”
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Diane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️‍🌈✡️🇨🇦 @dianeravitch.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Public money for public schools only!! dianeravitch.net/2026/02/11/b...
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Bernie Sanders Speaks Out Against Vouchers
Blogger Meg White posted on her Wordpress blog (@reflectionsined) about Senator Bernie Sanders’ opposition to vouchers, which are overwhelmingly used by students who are already enrolled in p…
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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The SAVE Act Will End Voting Rights for Women in America. The SAVE Act has passed the House—we cannot let it pass the Senate www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-save-a...
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The SAVE Act Will End Voting Rights for Women in America
The SAVE Act has passed the House—we cannot let it pass the Senate
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Gabi 雪 @gabimccauley.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I know, I know, stop being so naive, but this is utterly fucking outrageous. @ablativmeatshld.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Local police aid ICE by tapping school cameras amid Trump’s immigration crackdown
Local police assisted federal immigration agents by repeatedly searching school cameras that record license plate numbers, data show
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Every one of these stories needs to be told. Then told again. And again.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
KL: He did it. But it was harmless. White House: It was a mistake. It was an intern. Random observers: He really didn’t see what he posted. Trump: YOURE GOD DAMN RIGHT I ORDERED THE CODE RED
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Trump's racism should be no surprise. His company got caught committing racial housing discrimination. He spread lies about the exonerated Central Park 5. He entered politics with the racist birther lie. There's a reason Trump was once endorsed by David Duke and the KKK's newspaper.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today. Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Five-Year-Old Liam Ramos Is In His Asylum Hearing Right Now
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/02/2026
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Easy to agree with Elie here. I don't think an "elections czar" will do it, but every state-level official who cares about democracy - and a battalion of lawyers - better buckle up for what's coming.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
No masks on cops. No masks on cops. No masks on cops. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Real Reason ICE Agents Wear Masks
Face-coverings may work less to protect federal agents from danger than to make it easier for them to do unconstitutional things.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I testified Friday before Gov. Pritzker's commission studying abuses of ICE and CBP and tried to explain how the agencies went so far off track. It's actually way worse than I ever realized. Please read and share my testimony as Congress considers reform: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
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Accountability for ICE and CBP
However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2026
This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
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SilentSnerk @silentsnerk.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Unsurprisingly, when your denomination was forged by their support for slavery, they're not going to be great on racial *or* labor issues. To be clear, other denominations aren't perfect, but the difference is real & mappable. Scandinavians, of course, are mostly Lutheran.
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Sage Petoskey @sagepetoskey.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Correct.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
"Who's city is it Chief? Bovino: "It's our fucking city." And that, in a nutshell, is the problem. It is not a democracy when men with guns and uniforms believe they have more control over a city than its residents.
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
To those who think I don't support the First Amendment, even though I represent countless journalists and media orgs (🤷‍♂️), yet another effort my firm is undertaking to protect our free speech rights.
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/01/2026
Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.
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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆ @eviebauer727.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
She warned us all. Nobody wanted to listen. She was right about all of it. He’s even more unhinged than we imagined. We could be just living our peaceful lives right now. But, no.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
BILL CLINTON: "Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come. This is one of them. If we give our freedoms away after 250 years, we might never get them back."
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
A grassroots network of mutual aid volunteers called Safe Haven has been doing nearly round-the-clock jail support for everyone released from detainment at Whipple, the federal building ICE operates from. They provide medics, rides, food, clothes, phones—anything people need after being released.
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