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Robert Cotto Jr.

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Educator, Scholar, Dad | Black Puerto Rican + Indigenous Peruvian | Ph.D. | My posts are just me. Reposts are not endorsement. robertcotto.com

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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 10h
The “Kids Today Can’t Read” Problem: Reading Crisis or “Perennial Gripe”? paulthomas701128.substack.com/p/the-kids-t...
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The “Kids Today Can’t Read” Problem: Reading Crisis or “Perennial Gripe”?
“[R]ecent editorials...maintain that current deficiencies in reading are the product of ‘pseudo-scientific bungling’ and ... progressive methods of teaching.” William S. Gray (1942)
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Network for Public Education @network4pubed.bsky.social · 8h
Tell Your Governor: Do Not Opt-in to the Federal Voucher Program. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 23h
seems bad
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At the time of the sentencing the judge who oversaw the case, Todd Lang, seemed to appreciate the use of AI. 

"I loved that AI. Thank you for that. As angry as you are, as justifiably angry as the family is, I heard the forgiveness," judge Lang said. "I feel that that was genuine."
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The “Kids Today Can’t Read” Problem: Reading Crisis or “Perennial Gripe”? paulthomas701128.substack.com/p/the-kids-t...
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The “Kids Today Can’t Read” Problem: Reading Crisis or “Perennial Gripe”?
“[R]ecent editorials...maintain that current deficiencies in reading are the product of ‘pseudo-scientific bungling’ and ... progressive methods of teaching.” William S. Gray (1942)
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 03/10/2026
This is the ad! bsky.app/profile/self...
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 02/10/2026
The tagline was something like "When the pressures on, Jay Feely won't come through for you" as the image of a kick going wildly wide right plays in screen.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 02/10/2026
So former NFL kicker Jay Feely is running for Congress as a MAGA guy and his opponent just put out an ad with a bunch of his missed kicks lol
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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
apropos of recent events, there is a VAST scholarship on the death penalty and this list can get you started www.oah.org/process/capi...
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It should be scaring more people how ‘AI’ is being used to displace, avoid, and control actual living human beings but for some reason some of us seem more fascinated by the conveniences and novelties of it all, like magpies with shiny baubles
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The “Kids Today Can’t Read” Problem: Reading Crisis or “Perennial Gripe”? paulthomas701128.substack.com/p/the-kids-t...
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The “Kids Today Can’t Read” Problem: Reading Crisis or “Perennial Gripe”?
“[R]ecent editorials...maintain that current deficiencies in reading are the product of ‘pseudo-scientific bungling’ and ... progressive methods of teaching.” William S. Gray (1942)
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 01/10/2026
‘Just hours after Paramount Skydance issued $52B of debt to fund the biggest Hollywood buyout ever, investors were nursing hundreds of millions in losses, triggering a flurry of angry calls from money managers to Wall Street banks that underwrote the debt.’ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Angry Bondholders Flood Wall Street With Complaints on Paramount Losses
Just hours after Paramount Skydance Corp. issued $52 billion of debt to fund the biggest Hollywood buyout ever, investors were nursing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, triggering a flurry of...
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 01/10/2026
AI is already being used to deny disabled people medically necessary care, and anywhere it costs money to include us is likely next. I've spent most of 2026 on public opinion research with TechTonic Justice about how to fight back, and we're unveiling it tomorrow, Friday, at 1PM ET
shouldntneedtobealawyer.com
Webinar Invite: Winning Against AI & Economic Injustice | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
For almost all of 2026 I have been facing a medical crisis. As many of you know all too well, attempting to navigate the American health car
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Robert Cotto Jr. @robertcottojr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
4-5 years ago there were MDs like Lucy McBride crowing about the urgency of normal, getting kids back to school. There were PR hacks like David Zweig supporting them. Now kids are being sent to immigration detention, getting measles & these folks are nowhere to be found. It was never about the kids.
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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What I think people need to take from JD is that he and others see the future of the party as a viciously, overtly racist Christian nationalist party and they are laying the groundwork to be successful in that future while Democratic consultants are stuck in the 90s.
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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike, who was supposed to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years, is still alive after the state tried and failed to execute her on Wednesday. TDOC officials refused to comment after the state’s second failed execution this year. nashvillebanner.com/2026/09/30/c...
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Christa Pike survives botched lethal injection attempt - Nashville Banner
Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike for a 1995 murder, but the lethal injection failed. Pike survives and was moved to a medical facility.
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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the 8th amendment is so deeply inadequate; it has failed to stop so much suffering and death in jails and prisons every single day. at this point it is practically a tool for professionalizing and institutionalizing violence against incarcerated people
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Update: Christa Pike still alive after administered execution drugs, attorneys say. www.tennessean.com/story/news...
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reading Crisis as a Distraction from Addressing Poverty Directly paulthomas701128.substack.com/p/reading-cr...
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Reading Crisis as a Distraction from Addressing Poverty Directly
"This rigid refusal to look at ourselves may well destroy us." James Baldwin, "Lockridge: 'The American Myth'"
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A welcome change to see Dems go left on immigration, something Obama didn't do until pushed by DACA activists and Biden didn't either. We need to see a full-throated defense of immigration as a good thing, and not just on economic grounds. Talarico is doing that. Hope more Dems follow.
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Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Same in CT. It's cuts cuts cuts ideology at extreme. Society way past 1980s tax/welfare revolt, past peak neolib austerity of early 2000s. Now completely culturally+socially submerged and political-economically engaged in race of cuts. No space for other creative thinking. Only cuts. @aaup.org
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
relatedly: no amnesty bsky.app/profile/oluf...
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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
everything, no matter how well-intentioned, is always about more slots in the abstract. as if "slots" don't require human beings and infrastructure beyond a physical space.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Public preschool providers say they’re losing teachers to better-paying jobs, running up debts and having to pay out of pocket because their city contracts don’t pay them enough." gothamist.com/news/nyc-chi...
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NYC childcare providers say city contract rates fall $12.6K short per child
Providers say what the city pays them isn’t enough to cover the true cost of care.
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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it's almost like people who work on child care policy knew this was a longstanding systemic problem with pre-k, which was exacerbated by 3k. and why nobody who works in child care programs or policy thought 2k was a good approach 🙂
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here he is literally recreating the event in the same place as 2018. He's wearing the same clothes and doing similar gestures as his dad. www.brasil247.com/sudeste/flav...
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Flávio Bolsonaro recria encenação em evento de campanha em Juiz de Fora
Flávio Bolsonaro usou uma camiseta igual à utilizada por seu pai, o ex-presidente, Jair Bolsonaro, naquele que ficou conhecido como o Evento de Juiz de Fora, o…
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
(*straightens bowtie*) If we were truly serious about "fixing schools" and improving education, we would start with a comprehensive anti-poverty policy agenda.
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Robert Cotto Jr. @robertcottojr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don Omar in Hartford!
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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"affordable" child care is not "universal." sliding scales and means tests are not universal. work requirements are not universal.
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Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Animated - America's most screwed districts over time:
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Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Over a decade later - America's (still) most financially screwed school districts schoolfinance101.com/2026/09/26/a...
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America’s Most Financially Disadvantaged (e.g. Still Screwed) School Districts, 2022–2024
A decade after I last published these lists, 47 districts with at least 2,000 students still have more than 1.5 times the child poverty rate of their labor market and spend less than 90% of what th…
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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 27/09/2026
The reason tech oligarchs scoop up media properties is to control societal narratives about their products and themselves. They want to blunt criticism and shape public perception because deep down they know that no one wants any of this.
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Mark Weber @jerseyjazzman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dear airport/airline staff: please don't touch my cell phone. Definitely don't grab it out of my hand. Aside from being rude, I don't know you and where you've been. Frankly, you don't know me, why would you want to touch my stuff?
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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ignaz Semmelweis and Joseph Lister changed medical practice by washing and sterilizing hands and instruments before surgery and reducing the spread of infections. Jay Bhattacharya advocated for the spread of infection.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
you can’t operate a jail without exposing the county to liability!!!!
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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
suggesting that more public information about jail conditions opens the county up to liability is something that only seems rational when the jail has *much* to hide.
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Misleading Tower of PISA paulthomas701128.substack.com/p/pisa-2025-...
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The Misleading Tower of PISA
PISA 2025: Reading Score “Plummet”? No. Y Axis Shenanigans? You Bet.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was a content creator who spent the pandemic “calling for” other people to do things. Now, he’s in power and as pathogens spread out of control, all he can say is he’s doing his “best.” I believe him. This is his best. My latest.
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Measles: “I Think I’ve Done My Best.”
As football coach Bill Parcells famously said, “you are what your record says you are”.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/09/2026
I told ya she did it.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Imagine going from hanging out with Lula to...this
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
On the left, Mamdani is smiling with Lula
On the right, Mamdani is frowning with Trump
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ask the U.S. Senate to Halt Federal “Science of Reading” Mandates September 2026 dr428.substack.com/p/ask-the-us...
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Ask the U.S. Senate to Halt Federal “Science of Reading” Mandates September 2026
URGENT ACTION ALERT
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Brain scans reveal a possible cause of long COVID fatigue and brain fog www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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Brain scans reveal a possible cause of long COVID fatigue and brain fog
Researchers have found evidence that long COVID may damage dopamine releasing neurons in the brain, potentially explaining persistent fatigue, low motivation, slowed movement, and memory difficulties....
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Feels like illegally funneling money to politicians in exchange for government contracts should be against the law, you know? 
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
@joho.bsky.social doesn't hold back on challenging Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee and their over-the-top endorsement of Jay Bhattacharya. From "In COVID's Wake" to this doozy of a piece, he was a hero to them. Now? Crickets. sciencebasedmedicine.org/macedo-lee-m...
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Stephen Macedo And Frances Lee: Defend Your Essay That Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Would Restore Trust in Public Health
From shuttered labs to kids with measles, others are paying the price for your need to feel "special" and "heterodox," and no one should let you forget that.
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