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Writer & Educator. www.mrtomrad.com

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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 21/08/2026
Your back-to-school activities are ready and your classroom is designed with care—but how do you feel? @biblio-phile.bsky.social shares 3 books that can make you feel seen *and* help protect your emotional well-being throughout the school year. 📚 #TeacherPD #NewTeachers
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3 Books That Support Teacher Mindset Going Into the School Year
These books help new educators gain insight into the emotional labor of the profession and prepare for the first day of school and beyond.
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Christina Torres Cawdery @biblio-phile.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
New teachers: check out these reads! My latest for @edutopia.org ft. Elena Aguilar, @mrtomrad.bsky.social, and Parker Palmer. #edusky www.edutopia.org/article/3-bo...
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3 Books That Support Teacher Mindset Going Into the School Year
These books help new educators gain insight into the emotional labor of the profession and prepare for the first day of school and beyond.
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Hi teachers! before you start decorating your rooms and getting ready, I shared some ideas last year on the @cultofpedagogy.bsky.social podcast... there's a blog and episode here: www.cultofpedagogy.com/classroom-de...
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Before You Decorate Your Classroom, Here’s a Better Idea | Cult of Pedagogy
These two back-to-school activities will help you get to know your students and make your classroom a space that belongs to everyone.
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I keep seeing arguments about Orwell (especially Animal Farm) and the messages of his stories. "Every line of serious work I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for Democratic Socialism, as I understand it." Why I Write, George Orwell, 1946
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Christina Torres Cawdery @biblio-phile.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
What books would you add to your list?! I went with @mrtomrad.bsky.social’s “It Won’t Be Easy”!
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Not Just Phlogiston @notphlogiston.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I give people: "Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain" Zaretta Hammond "This is Not a Test" @thejosevilson.com "It Won't Be Easy" @mrtomrad.bsky.social
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If you place a frog into cool water and heat it very very slowly, the frog won't notice the corporate-sponsored gladiator fights on the White House lawn.
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Christopher Danielson @triangleman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I just had the opportunity to play Which One Doesn't Belong? with a group of fifth graders via remote technology, and it was by far the most delightful 40 minutes of my week. Deep gratitude for the opportunity and for these young people sharing their joy and hearts and minds with me. ❤️
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The thing every teacher knew would happen with these trash digital curriculums is indeed happening with them. www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...
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The revolt against i-Ready: Private equity-backed software faces parent, teacher and student fury
A growing number of families and educators say they’re fed up with i-Ready’s personalized math and reading lessons, which feature repetitive cartoons and slow voice-overs.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/05/2026
Thinking a lot about how the NYT helped push a moral panic about trans youth into the mainstream yet failed to include interviews with actual trans youth in their reporting. It's because if allowed to speak, they'd show how much gender affirming care has allowed them to not only survive but thrive.
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Oh please please please let them do a full year of Education books... open.spotify.com/episode/4WUR...
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Grit
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
If you are a word or book person, I have an Instagram account where I just post lines that grab me from things I've read for no reason other than that words are pretty neat. If you have lines that you read that fit together nice, I would love to read them. www.instagram.com/favoritesent...
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I made a little zine about the data fallacies that drive me the most nuts (pun intended... you'll see). You can grab pdf's to share and print on my website, www.mrtomrad.com/library or read it on my medium page medium.com/@mrtomrad/th...
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Library
A short booklet of various laws, fallacies, and fables common in how data is created, collected, and used. This booklet is offered for free use by any person to reproduce, adapt, or improve upon.
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Working on my first ever zine today...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂
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Mike Deutsch @mdeutschmtl.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
@mrtomrad.bsky.social quoting the one properly-reticent executive on an AI panel a year ago: “We can only transfer a portion of reality into computational language.” Pretty sure that take is still a good one. mrtomrad.medium.com/i-went-to-30...
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I went to 30 hours of meetings on AI so you don’t have to.
I went to 30 hours of meetings on AI so you don’t have to. Overview on Corporate/Education AI Innovation I started the last week as an AI pessimist and ended it in the back of a driverless car …
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I've been quite hard on myself lately, but in the last couple of days I bussed and trained and metro'd from Bilbao to Barcelona by myself using only my limited Spanish and I posted a piece I've been working on for a year. So... maybe I get a little treat today.
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I've been engaging in a bit of a double side-project. First, I've been trying to build a relationship with visual art that I've never really had; and second, writing without masking my neurodivergent patterns. This piece is one I've been building for about a year. medium.com/p/c6cb848c0a...
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The Time of a Painting
I visit the Oakland Museum of California. I visit the Minneapolis Museum of Russian Art. I walk to the Cantor Art Center at Stanford…
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This is golden. danmeyer.substack.com/p/rip-khanmi...
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RIP Khanmigo & Edtech Industry Dreams of AI Tutors
Never forget.
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I like Edutopia because they so often come at Ed topics with nuance. Like... anyone TEACHING knows we have to take a little bit from everything and anyone trying to tell you there's one right way that works every time is selling you something.
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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 05/04/2026
Over the course of a single day, the President moves between declaring victory and hinting at dramatic escalation; between touting negotiations and claiming there is no one left to talk to. He is both erratic and in over his head and the usual guard rails are gone. buttondown.com/natebowling/...
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The King's Speech
The story from Washington is victory. The story in the region is much messier.
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
It's wild how "I am friends with some of the coolest and best people I've ever met in the world and they legitimately like me" can exist at the same time as "I suck and am fully unlikeable" can exist in my brain at exactly the same time.
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Oh cool... 'heat islands' around data centers.... thank god ai is totally worth it. www.cnn.com/2026/03/30/c...
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Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN
The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that they’re heating up their surroundings, according to new research. It’s an alarming finding given the number of data c...
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 30/03/2026
Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:
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"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism
"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.
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Shannon for School Board @shannon-for-d3.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I'm Shannon Gibney, and I'm running to represent District 3 on the Minneapolis School Board. Learn more by visiting my campaign website. Thank you for your support! www.shannonforschoolboard.com
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Shannon Gibney for School Board | Get Involved Today
Support Shannon Gibney for District 3 Minneapolis School Board. Join us to promote community engagement and accountability in public education.
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
"To complete, as art historians and experts have called it in whispers and dreams, ‘A Full Ninja Turtle,’ I have to wake up early on my last day in London..." mrtomrad.medium.com/the-shudderi...
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The Shuddering Awe of Standing Feet From the Works of Rennaissance Masters Compared to How Their…
I’ve worked at plenty of jobs where bosses were full of ideas but easily distracted and never seemed to finish anything they started. In…
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
"To complete, as art historians and experts have called it in whispers and dreams, ‘A Full Ninja Turtle,’ I have to wake up early on my last day in London..." mrtomrad.medium.com/the-shudderi...
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The Shuddering Awe of Standing Feet From the Works of Rennaissance Masters Compared to How Their…
I’ve worked at plenty of jobs where bosses were full of ideas but easily distracted and never seemed to finish anything they started. In…
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Last week, I went to two of the most impressive art museums I've ever been in and had a profound experience standing in front of the art of masters... but have also been thinking ever since of all the art and thought we missed by only paying white dudes to make it.
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
There's a few good reasons that selling books (or even getting attention for one) is very hard. And yet, like 4 million of us were dumb enough write one anyway. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Book Output Topped Four Million in 2025
The total number of books published in the U.S. in 2025 jumped 32.5% over 2024, according to statistics compiled by Bowker, led by a boom in self-published titles. The number of traditionally publishe...
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Love that Fetterman has ALREADY announced he'll vote for Mullin's confirmation. I'm not even sure Noem knows yet... that fuckin' guy.
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I've been thinking, as I often do, about Kurt Vonnegut. There's this scene in Slaughterhouse Five where Billy, who is having some time-traveling issues, watches a war movie backwards. It's just such a powerful example of speculative fiction, of imagining a world that could be better... here it is:
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Worth remembering that many of these students spent high school under Florida's education censorship laws allegedly meant to protect them from learning "divisive" material or feeling a bit sad or icky about the history and current state of race relations in the US.
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I think Nate and I had a great conversation here... and also my audio is awful and depression had slowed my speaking down by about 60%... but still... got to give lots of love to all (not Jacob Frey) of Minneapolis.
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Love this!
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/03/2026
1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration: Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure. Its a horrifying escalation.
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Texas AG Paxton Declares Therapists Affirming Trans Youth To Be Illegal And Child Abuse
The declaration echoes his 2022 efforts to target parents of trans youth with child abuse, and may force conversion therapy on trans youth in the state.
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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 02/03/2026
Before the US started another dumb war in the Middle East, I had a great conversation with my friend @mrtomrad.bsky.social about his decision to move his family to Spain and the ICE siege of his beloved Minneapolis. open.spotify.com/episode/2Y4R...
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Leaving the US and ICE in Minneapolis – Tom Rademacher, Teacher & Author – #259
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
So many words in one headline signaling just how much danger we're in as a society. People are BETTING ON BOMBINGS. www.npr.org/2026/03/01/n...
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Prediction market trader 'Magamyman' made $553,000 on death of Iran's supreme leader
It's the latest trade drawing scrutiny on the popular prediction market site for appearing to show an insider making profits on military secrets.
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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 26/02/2026
“The persecution is the point,” said Rep. Abi Boatman, Kansas’ only trans state legislator, in a statement to the Star on Wednesday. “It tells me that Kansas Republicans are interested in being on the vanguard of the culture war and in a race to the bottom.”
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Kansas Orders Trans Drivers to Surrender Licenses With One Day’s Notice
Trans people affected are required to replace their state identification at their own expense.
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Today, I'm excited to launch SmrtTails, an AI-driven boutique hard mocktail disruptororporation. We're taking the health and popularity of the mocktail movement and adding alchohol to make those mocktails really POP. With AI, also. AI will be super involved and scaleable. Agents. Growth. .
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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 26/02/2026
Bush era war monger Bill Kristol continues to run absolute circles around Democratic Congressional leadership in standing up for democracy and fighting against authoritarianism
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This is about @ziibiing.com , who has been doing important and beautiful acitivism work since forever. It's inspiring, but that one piece is one I'll be thinking about... building a helper reflex. How do we build our own, how do we help others build theirs?
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"We’re building a helper reflex where instead of encountering a problem and saying that we can’t do anything, we’re just trying to do it. Anyone could start with something like this, by collecting together where they see people asking for help in their community." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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She’s raised almost $20m to help Minnesota – she thinks you can do it too
Ashley Fairbanks launched Stand with Minnesota as ICE raids rocked her home town – now donations are pouring in, and families’ rent is being paid
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
So if 90% of tariffs were paid for by U.S. consumers, and if $134-billion dollars of that money could now be sent to businesses... then America will be great again? fortune.com/2026/02/13/n... www.bbc.com/news/article...
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90% of Trump's tariffs are paid for by American consumers and companies, New York Fed says | Fortune
The president has insisted other countries are paying for his import taxes. American companies and consumers are telling a different story.
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I've been reading about DaVinci and have found two reasons why I feel some sort of kindred spirit that connects us. For one, my guy started about 10,000 projects based on a sudden fascination that he never finished. "this pattern of noncompletion was to become a feature of his career as a painter"*
"His activities in Milan embraced painting, sculpture, achritecture, and civil and military enginnering, often as somone who generated ideas rather than as the hands-on executant."
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
This is giving me an undue amount of hope: "The Thames Valley Police said in a statement that it had 'arrested a man in his sixties from Norfolk on suspicion of misconduct in public office and are carrying out searches at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk.'" Just a man. Just an ordinary criminal.
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Live Updates: U.K. Police Arrest Former Prince Andrew Over Epstein Ties, BBC Reports
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
SHOCKING. I am SHOCKED they had plans to use this against people. Next, we'll find out that all the surveliance tech that ICE purchased might be used against U.S. citizens as well! (also, thank you 404 for your reporting and for being a sanity harbor in this storm of WTF)
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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
If your goal is to build a personal brand, go start a podcast. Go run for Congress. Go get a ring light and argue with strangers online.
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mrtomrad.bsky.social @mrtomrad.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Look, I'm sorry I missed the funeral, but the company I bought my new cell phone protector screens from seemed really desperate to get my review of their service.
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