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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 4h

Relatedly, how about a statement of outrage regarding what the Trump admin is doing to your colleague, Ilhan Omar?

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 5h

Can we have more political ads like this?

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 10h

I would like to see an explicit response to the targeting of Ilhan Omar by this administration and a strong defense of her by all Dems.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

We’re living through a campaign of discrimination comparable to many historical abuses. It’s shocking to me how many people are capable of identifying state-sanctioned bigotry when they encounter it in a history book, but cannot recognize it at all when they encounter it in a newspaper.

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not to mention almost entirely cutting the connection to San Diego transit. Just so, so dumb. I5, here I come, I guess.

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just so, so stupid and shortsighted. I'm beside myself.

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ughhhhhh this is a nightmare.

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So it looks like they're cutting service to Oceanside entirely?

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I hear you--I'm in O'side and it was 96 inside yesterday. Brutal.

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is a lot more expensive than Metrolink. The rail-to-rail is nice, but only works if you buy a month pass, which doesn't always make sense with my schedule, and also Amtrak doesn't make as many stops so there's a lot less flexibility. Plus there's no Amtrak from Oside in the 6am hour.

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The cuts to trains going to Oceanside has been brutal for all of us. I'm driving half the time now because leaving at 5:18 am and getting home at 6:45 pm (assuming an on-time situation which is a big if) is just not doable every day.

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A middle schooler doing a wheelie on his e-moto killed an elderly substitute teacher crossing the street in front of our school last year--yes, I that's an exception, not a rule, but he sure learned the hard way and he and his mom are facing serious charges. So I'm not quite as sanguine about this.

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm still sometimes shocked at how AP World went from an imperfect but rigorous model of university level approaches to the field that got a lot of kids into history to boring and simplistic history-lite in a mere 8 years.

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Everyone should read this.

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sure, but it would be odd if those kids were running around to different schools to take all their tests. Possible, I suppose.

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yeah, sadly I teach AP so I know; I just assumed the poster was talking about the audit which implies some degree of human organization of the course, and (I think?) you have to have a valid audit in place to administer a particular test at your site.

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Are the "teachers" even being accredited? The available test prep/AP Classroom stuff means increasing numbers of students are taking the tests as "self-study" without taking a class. They might need to just allow the school to administer.

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And young teachers can't understand how we actually used to have time to prepare cool lessons that had a lot of intellectual heft and depth because we were not micromanaged with ridiculous numbers of data tasks and technology requirements.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every other headline now is "Huge liar who's financially motivated to lie says"

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Wild. I'm a high school history teacher on the west coast and I had the TV on in class all day; it was the 4th day of school. We watched the towers fall together. I remember crying and telling the kids that this was going to change everything.

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Extremely sorry to have just discovered her work via your post on the day she deactivated her account. I teach AP World History and AP Research and I am almost completely disillusioned with AP at this point. I ordered her book, but def hoping she comes back here after a mental health break.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We’ve entered the period of the evening when I can’t tell whether the “it’s all over now” vagueposts are about Platner, the USMNT or McConnell.

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It really, really is. The teachers talk about it all the time, and with the kids too, but we’re at a loss what to do about it

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I teach high school and this is absolutely a thing, across school activities.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Remarkable how many billionaires are like, "Boy, Apartheid was sweet," compared to "I really fucking miss the Voting Rights Act and Roe."

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Building near jobs and transit costs taxpayers $21K less per unit upfront than fringe development, cuts annual maintenance in half, and recoups public investment in 9 years vs. 13, consistent across 10 states. cayimby.org/blog/why-bui...

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Why Building Homes in Your Neighborhood's Backyard Is Actually the Fiscally Conservative Move - California YIMBY

Building homes near jobs, transit, and stores costs governments roughly $21,000 less per unit in upfront infrastructure than building at the suburban fringe — and that gap widens over time. …

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Kateration @kateration.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Someone has been projecting images all over D.C. “It’s swampier than ever.” The Kennedy Center one is pretty hilarious. 😂😂😂

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I mean, I teach high school in CA and I have literally never heard a kid use that term.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

i hope media executives are taking note of the tens of thousands of people who for several hours on a friday night have stayed glued to livestreams of scaffolding being built just so they could witness his name getting knocked off a building

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

You did. They have dumbed the tests down to an absolutely bonkers degree.

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

College Board is a blight. I teach AP World, and in the last 10 years they’ve dumbed the course and the test down to something almost unrecognizable by comparison to its origins. Universities should stop accepting the credits, imo.

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 05/06/2026

OCTA is doubling down on its agenda to cut Metrolink service, rejecting Metrolink's request for 3 months of stable funding that LA Metro already agreed to. Metrolink needs you right now. Show up in Orange on Monday at 9:30 to tell OCTA to fund Metrolink!! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Toolkit: OCTA Metrolink Cuts

Toolkit to speak out against OCTA funding cuts to Metrolink OCTA Board Meeting:June 8th at 9:30 AM550 South Main St., Conf Room 07-08, Orange CA WHAT IS HAPPENING AND WHY ARE WE TAKING ACTION? Met...

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

SoCal: The word is pack the meeting room in the OC next week.

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I also find it depressing. There's so much vocab, etc. I learned from reading older books when I was a kid. I skimmed over the e-version of some Lois Duncan books from the 70s recently, and the publisher had added in cell phones and other stuff and it just read very off in context of the whole book

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Trump’s second term is all about being fairly blamed for things that Presidents are usually unfairly blamed for.

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Thank you! I've sent it to all the riders I have contacts for.

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Thanks for posting about this-I've been riding Metrolink from O'side to OC for work for 13 years and the riders are all absolutely freaking out. We already faced minimum 6:18am-5:48pm days due to last year's cuts--and now 6:18 is suspended so its 5:18am. A nightmare.

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

If I had to pick tenure or a union, it would be a union every time.

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I'm a teacher, in a union, and the amount of work the union does in keeping me less underpaid and less overworked than the district would like is immense. As evidenced by the fact that we still have over 95% membership even in the wake of Janus. I feel very well served by my union.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Supreme Court Holds, 6-3, That Black People Voting Violates Rights Of White Voters

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Beth @lpdreams.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I don't disagree with the point that this would send a message, but black student athletes shouldn't have to make sacrifices to address white fuckery (and, also, what are the white student athletes doing?)

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

What we're seeing in the climate crisis, Trump's sabotage of the world system, & RFK's sabotage of public health is the unsolving of the problems earlier generations made progress on & destruction of the systems we inherited to address them in an ongoing way.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The John Roberts Court has done more to reduce the political power of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the 1800s. I opposed his nomination in 2005, and I stand by that.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is perhaps the most significant Supreme Court race-related decision in modern history. While people will focus on Congress, this decision will dismantle thousands of districts electing representatives of minority communities at the state and local levels

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Moving forward the Supreme Court has basically made only one viable redistricting reform pathway forward: change the process to independent commissions. Any criteria-based gerrymandering restrictions can be rationalized away to the god of partisan gerrymandering

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/04/2026

There are over 3,000 May Day events planned across the country on Friday. Find your local event: www.mobilize.us/mayday/map/?... Take the May Day pledge: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8705046/i... Join tomorrow’s mass call to learn more about why we’re taking action: www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...

MAY DAY 2026

NO WORK
NO SCHOOL
NO SHOPPING

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

notice the casual conflation of “free speech” and “no big deal” as if these are not categorically different claims; the contempt for his colleagues; and the inability to distinguish interrupting class out of retaliatory spite from the protest of an address by a public official

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@ProfDBernstein Every time a leftist professor defends
students disrupting an event on campus as "free speech" or "no big deal," there should be an action squad that shows up to that professor's next class and disrupts it in similar
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