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Ale Checka

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 20/09/2026
he is (For so I know he is, they know he is) A most arch-heretic, a pestilence That does infect the land
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Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Texas Students Deserves Better Than “Nice, But Inexperienced and Ineffective”
Ale's Substack is a reader-supported publication.
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Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The state of public education in Texas hinges on the governor’s race and the stakes are so, so, high. I know so many teachers and parents holding on til the election results to decide to stay or not
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
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There is no more "state of the humanities" as such. There is no condition in which the humanities are under attack in which the whole university is not under attack. There is no condition in which the university is under attack that the whole of educational
infrastructure, public and private, from pre-K up, is not under attack. And there is no condition in which education is under attack
in which civil society can remain unimperiled. There is no sense calling for independent or solitary action by something called "the humanities" when that category has been so thoroughly absorbed by concerted attacks on democratic governance, due process of law, rights to privacy, security, assembly, and expression.
We are all humanists now.
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Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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Advocacy 101 for Non-Confrontational People
Disclaimer - I am not any kind of expert.
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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The arrest — for using the word "shit" during a city hearing — took place more than a week after the fact. What is going on in Fort Worth?
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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A Fort Worth podcaster named EJ Carrion was arrested at 3am on Wednesday morning and charged with disrupting public proceedings because he said "shit" during a contentious Tarrant County legislature meeting: www.star-telegram.com/news/politic...
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Man arrested after profanity at last week’s Tarrant commissioners meeting
Efrin “EJ” Carrion was arrested early Wednesday morning for using profanity in his public comment a week ago.
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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 28/07/2026
So basic and yet so important, @plainy.bsky.social bringing us actual useful school advice alechecka.substack.com/p/dear-paren...
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Dear Parents, These Two Things Would Really Help
Encourage your kid to sleep at night and eat lunch at lunch time
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I didn't know anything about the Artemis II astronauts a week ago and now I would fight my way into Hell for any of them.
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Astronauts Dedicate Moon Crater to Carroll Wiseman, Wife of NASA Commander
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Looking forward to ICE ending these long lines at TSA checkpoints the only way they know how -- dispersing tear gas and savagely assaulting anyone who's left
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S.E. Dávila @uapfreely.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Isaac Newton discovers Pink Floyd's Dark Sude of the Moon (1660s)
Painting of Isaac Newton's prism experiment
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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 16/03/2026
If you want to go slightly insane about city bureaucracy this article is for you
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I hear this but it is an ongoing issue with people needing people to win only FOR THE RIGHT REASONS. A messy win is a win. An accidental win is a win. I get wanting people to understand, uh, grid investment and aggregate demand before they want the right thing. But why?
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Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
It was after work and everyone in the line was tired and hungry, but we were all determined to stick it out because by golly we deserve better representation than we have in Texas.
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Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Hour two and half: we met Turtleini the Turtle. His tank was a highlight of line waiting
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Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
In retrospect it is deeply funny that ten minutes into the three hour wait I talked the dude in front of me into guest speaking at my school and by hour two I was sharing the relationship between Macbeth and Lord of the Rings with my line cohort
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it
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Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Also, not for nothing, but I’m a Latina living in the latinx neighborhood they tried to gerrymander away. Backfired when we showed up, voted in Taylor Rehmet and flipped the district. So, yeah. Tarrant County votes now.
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Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Listen. I was there because we need a new judge and new county commissioners. I’m all about local races where you can make a material change.
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Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
We talked to each other in the line a lot (we were together for hours!) and it was interesting to hear people’s motivations for being there. One guy said that the times call for all of us to aggressively do good and I like that
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Votebeat @votebeat.org · 04/03/2026
Hundreds of voters showed up at the wrong polling place after the Dallas County GOP forced both parties to abandon countywide vote centers in the March primary. www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...
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Voter confusion plagues Texas primary in key county
Republicans’ decision to shake up polling locations led to mass confusion in the Texas primary election.
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Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Joshua my voting line in Tarrant County was just shy of three hours. What a night
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Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Yall. I voted in Fort Worth and it took just shy of three hours. For a primary!! By hour two, the R line was done, so for the last hour I waited it was just us Dems. Tiring but also convivial and nice being in community - the vibe in line was great
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
There are no more adults in any of these rooms
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.
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Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Delightful
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country. www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...
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Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers
More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
shame is back on the menu boys
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 25/02/2026
The thought lodged in my head — intrusively, as I’d rather not connect the names of these two people, frankly — is that Claudine Gay is owed _such_ an apology.
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Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Note that norms have shifted so completely that there is no expectation at all, from anyone, that the President of the United States should apologize to a gold medal Olympic team representing the US
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littlestormcloud.bsky.social @littlestormcloud.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Masterful Troll, TCM.
screenshot of a tv user guide, showing two channels under Tue 8PM:

MSNOW - State of the union
TCM East- Gaslight
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
4 Minnesota guys
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bibliotequetress @bibliotequetress.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
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Senator Durbin calls for probe into FBI chief’s alleged misuse of aircraft, including during Brown shooting - The Boston Globe
Whistleblowers allege Director Kash Patel’s alleged excessive use of FBI aircraft for personal travel delayed responses to high-profile criminal investigations, including the Dec. 13 shooting at Brown...
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 23/02/2026
EN DIRECT, violences au Mexique après la mort d’« El Mencho » : 73 personnes ont été tuées lors de l’opération militaire et des représailles du cartel
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EN DIRECT, violences au Mexique après la mort d’« El Mencho » : 73 personnes ont été tuées lors de l’opération militaire et des représailles du cartel
Selon l’agence américaine Associated Press, qui relaie le décompte de responsables sécuritaires mexicains, ce bilan inclut notamment les membres du cartel tués dans l’opération de dimanche ainsi que des agents de police.
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