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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 1h

Exactly! It's the macro/micro scale that teachers are continuously adjusting to. The constant, everyday adjustment, even for lessons that were successful last year or even for the previous class.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 1h

Complicated process = tailored product When I was at Berlin International School, we did a multi-month deep dive into 5 national curriculums as inspiration to rewrite and realign our K-5 curriculum for social studies/science. It was very complex and the product was incredibly bespoke.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 1h

It feels like they're saying that curriculum writing is this bizarrely labyrinthine process but at the same time the product is so simple & vague that it's applicable to every single child with no adaptation at all. Both those things cannot be true. They're not true in any industry.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 1h

Went to Verizon to set up my mom's phone and the associate and I started talking about this. So many seniors come in dealing with scams. He's recommending this phone specifically to families who have a loved one with dementia: www.razmobility.com/solutions/me...

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RAZ Memory Cell Phone | Easy-to-use phone for seniors with dementia

Easy-to-use, groundbreaking cell phone for people with memory loss, dementia, Alzheimer’s or seniors who prefer a simple experience

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 3h

no kings includes draftkings

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 10h

I don't think people understand that training in law enforcement changes how you perceive situations. I worked with several law enforcement agents who retrained as teachers & they were *terrible* at risk assessment. Zero emotional regulation. Most crashed out in two to three years or were fired.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 11h

LOL we both focused on the same thing.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 11h

It's like that Tiktok trend with the soundtrack from Boyz n the Hood where the saxophones keep getting louder 🤣😭🎷

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 11h

It was the days of Bill Gates' "merit pay" where all the teachers in Title 1 schools were financially kneecapped because we wanted to help educate children in poverty. And then they had the audacity to complain about teacher shortages so we ended up with a bunch of TFA people who crashed out. 🙃

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 16h

I'm sorry, does that say "model number"? 😱 This is going in my "really bad graphs" PowerPoint I do every year for 8 year olds I teach.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

it's not a horseshoe. it's just whiteness.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

horseshoe theory isn't real. you just followed a bunch of racist leftists who reached their inevitable conclusion.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 20/10/2026

Exactly! They can blame the LGBTQ community, communism, liberals, etc. everyone but themselves. It's just bizarre seeing the shift from a very niche Christian cultural phenomenon to mainstream media this fast which tells you there is a pipeline of Christian nationalists in these newsrooms now.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 20/10/2026

Children have always cut off their parents. But white Christian nationalists demand a stream of victims, young people to train up in their abusive system and tithe to their orgs and churches. You can see the leak from niche Christian denominations into the mainstream media in less than two years.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 20/10/2026

When I say "moral panic", I mean manufactured problem that seemingly originated from a white Christian nationalists, a group that is losing a significant amount of young people. Just like the Satanic panic in the 80s where Christian nationalists used moral issues to gain political gains.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

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Michigan heckler the son of Republican adviser paid for ‘influencer marketing’ against El-Sayed

Timmy Teepell’s firm paid $250,000 by America Next, which has been trying to gin up ‘organic’ opposition to El-Sayed

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geneva 🖍️ @gdbee.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

Good Advice Fairy

Illo of a cheerleader fairy wearing a tiger print dress and holding pink and green pom poms, in front of a blue background with text. Large text: STAY HOME. Small text: Sleep in, kick back, eat carbs. The art is decorated with circles and sparkles. Drawn by gdbee, paint tool sai 2 / Affinity photo / Oct 2026

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

Just like the connection between patriarchy/paternalism and rape culture the line from abusers at home DARVO and social/political DARVO seems like a straight one to me and many people grew up being told their abuse and manipulation was not abuse and was in fact normal or not a big deal.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

I’m not shocked that in this moment of widespread normalization of toxic behavior folks are being shamed for setting boundaries w/ abusive family members. I imagine most of the impulse to normalize and downplay the berating, lying, manipulation & narcissism of public figures starts at home.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 20/10/2026

We had such a lovely, dedicated staff. We survived so much. One long holiday weekend, our ceiling collapsed & destroyed all our kindergarten classrooms. I sat with a first year teacher sorting through the wreckage of books, toys & stuffed animals. Found out later she was the one who nominated me!

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 20/10/2026

In a hilarious turn of events, I won teacher of the year for the district 🤣 My principal, Dr. Roz Fisher, worked so hard to keep us safe both from the state and from disaster.

A very young Rachel, a white woman with short hair, is wearing a blue and white floral shirt, smiling and holding a teacher of the year plaque. Standing next to her also smiling is Dr. Rosalind Fisher, a Black woman with short hair a navy top and black rimmed glasses in a stylish shape.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 20/10/2026

I still lost $9000 worth of my salary for the year we were a "failing" school. Not as in the school lost it, each teacher personally lost part of their salary. It was at that point I left US public school teaching. And here we are, 20 years later and they're trying the same tired shit.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 20/10/2026

Superintendent saw 32 kids reading books, doing activities, able to converse with her about their thoughts and she loved it. Congratulated my principal on all the improvements. I was doing the opposite of everything the state mandated for improvement. No script, just good teaching.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 20/10/2026

After a week, I refused and went back to teaching the standards with the resources we had. I used my own money to buy $1 Scholastic books to create literature circles. I ran literacy stations. My students were happy and learning. So the principal brought the superintendent to observe my class.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 20/10/2026

It was quite literally impossible. I had 32 children from 9-10 years old with ability levels spanning 4 separate grade standards. We were rationing paper because the state refused to pay for more than one box per class for the entire semester. For 32 students.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 20/10/2026

The big push was for scripted curriculum because obviously as a "failing school" we couldn't be trusted. Despite a talented staff, the state that consultants from textbook companies who had never been in a classroom needed to tell us how to teach. Their constant drum was "follow the script".

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 20/10/2026

What happened next is that our school was inundated with state mandated consultants who quite literally screamed at us for "hating our students and failing them". Remember two out of 800 had failed and we knew exactly why and had already been supporting them. But context didn't matter.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 20/10/2026

Storytime: 19 years ago, my school was labelled a "failing" school by our state because 66% of students from a certain ethnicity failed our state exam for elementary students. There were only three students of this ethnicity. The two that failed were from the same family who had been struggling.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

Waymo is cops. It's a remote control car data scraper and surveillance system pretending to be a cab. The secondary revenue stream is you paying for a ride. The main source is selling data. And they're dangerous as hell. I'm always amazed how many people are unwilling to see that shit.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026

Just me, a stranger on the internet countering that curse to say you deserve so much goodness in life! May the care you put out into the world, return to you double. May you experience gentle seasons and yummy food. May you enjoy the company of good friends!

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026

Talk about a working actor! Went to look up something he was in on IMDB and saw this. He was in everything!

A screenshot from IMDB showing Richard Riehle's credits as an actor. It shows that he has 10 upcoming projects and 430 previous projects.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026

An interesting context is these articles were showing up about two years ago in conservative Christian spaces and have now appeared in big Christian publications. It's quite literally a "moral panic" as so many churches have lost young people who don't want to participate in abuse & fascism.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026

I had this happen a few days ago, went to block the person and turns out they were already blocked by three other blocklists for three different types of bigotry. 😂 Being argumentively pro-AI is uniting a very particular set of person.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

It’s telling that the cut-off parents in these sob stories are almost always cut off by daughters—we socialize women not just to absorb abuse, but to misinterpret abuse as bids for care. Meanwhile men are socially expected to distance themselves from their natal families anyway.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026

Deleted my post and reposted yours because you said it so much better. Yes! There's no longer plausible deniability and parents are socially embarrassed. That phone call doesn't cost $24 dollars anymore. That email can't get lost like a letter can.

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Virginia S. O'Possum, but scary @virginiaopossum.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

Remember: People have been cutting off their parents for centuries. It just used to be easier to disappear. Going to America? Bye! Settling the West? Bye! More recently, people have been cutting off their parents and telling them why using therapy terms since at least the 1980s.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026

I was talking to a friend about this and what it came down to is these are apps help us stay connected to long distance friends & acquaintances. If you delete them, you delete the real life connections. If someone is deleting all the apps, it may just mean that all their connections are local.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026

I have *stories*. Like I don't think people understand how coordinated this is, who is sitting into all those planning Zoom calls and how long people have been waiting to do this.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026

If friends say, "Hey, have you listened to the new season of Sold a Story?" just say, "No, they're a propaganda podcast". That's it. They got so much traction with last season because teachers were tired and just wanted help and instead got sold out to curriculum companies.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026

The way they work is how all propaganda works: take a real problem that is incredibly complex and insist there's only one solution, a simple solution that they personally can sell you either through a product or service.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026

So many educators and scholars tried to reason with the Sold a Story people in the first season in good faith. It's become really obvious that this is a political propaganda project. Teachers need to treat it as such and stop friends and family from listening to it as if it were gospel.

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Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

The first thing I figured out about teaching is how hard it is to teach somebody else’s lesson plan. Not only do you need to adapt to the actual students in front of you, but you need to find your own way to do it. That’s why we design backwards from where we want our students to get to.

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 19/10/2026

What’s really incredible to me is how the big theme of S1 was “education experts can’t be trusted bc they develop cults of personality around junk science,” and here in S2 it’s like, “teachers ought to unquestioningly implement the lessons that experts feed them.”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/10/2026

Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a picture of a boat you like.

SCURVY
When life doesn't give you lemons

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 18/10/2026

My dad's watching a football game right now and the commercials are sports betting, ChatGPT and anti-trans political commentary where they are lying about basic facts. It's dire.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

Haunting explanation from a ESPN producer on why she quit over the network’s all-out embrace of sports betting: www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

My grandfather, my father, and one of my brothers were pretty much destroyed by sports gambling addiction. I grew up in Ventura, California, and multiple times, we suddenly had to move because of extreme financial ups and downs. I mean, I grew up in a sportsbook. We didn’t go to museums and typical places kids go to. We were dragged to Las Vegas in the eighties and hanging out in the Hilton and Caesars sportsbooks, when kids weren’t supposed to be around there. I remember going to the horse track, going to the dog track.
My brother died thirteen years ago on the sidewalk in downtown Las Vegas. It’s a stark reality, but it illustrates the tragic arc of being brought there as kids so our dad could gamble at sportsbooks, to then surviving on the streets there as a homeless person and dying at thirty-six.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 18/10/2026

I grew up in a hospitality home but we did it through rhythms, hosting pancake lunch after church with new people and a rotating group of widows. Thursday afternoon snacks after sports practice, etc. So many people don't have common rhythms or aren't already in community & it makes it hard.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

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'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer with Christian nationalist ties

Thomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who's close to Sean Feucht.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 18/10/2026

I saw a reel about how elder daughters were all going to be inheriting a bunch of money and property and I was like who? Where? We're out here caring for our folks losing income as our "inheritance" is eaten up by healthcare and grocery costs.

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John Travolta Waiting and Looking Around

Alt: John Travolta meme from Pulp Fiction of him wandering around and looking like, "Where? who?"

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