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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Another campaign finance report from the Yes on 3 (top-two primary) campaign, and again, it's almost all from private equity and the investor class. $1.3M in new money, and 80+% of it coming from just 8 donors--7 private equity executives and investment firm managers plus 1 investment firm itself
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 11h
Whatever the merit of Direct Instruction, the current campaign to promote it expects you to accept that educators professional history and collective knowledge means nothing. Also, to accept that the half-formed ideas of journalists and software developers have never been considered before. And...
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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 11h
The enclosure of K12 is real & it’s coming at us fast. @mattseybold.bsky.social
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 11h
That educators are a professional class who should & will accept being puppeteered by whatever slopreneur wins a culture war. Whatever the merit of DI, what Sold A Story 2 is, is an attempt to deskill teaching & destabilize public education, so as to facilitate its capture by for-profit EdTech.
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Chris Dolgos @cjdteaches.bsky.social · 7h
The stats: "Last year there were 235 shooting incidents at K-12 schools in the U.S., according to data from the K-12 School Shooting Database. So far this year, there have been at least 149, including the one in Bend, Oregon."
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 14h
can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Right so the war against social science. Yes it’s ideological. It’s also a termination letter from the state saying it no longer needs legitimation. that’s the public crisis — ask yourself why it doesn’t need legitimacy.
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jen ramos-eisen @jenramose.online · 13/10/2026
please do not give any ammo to those weirdo white ladies I encountered who said Lena Dunham was "the voice of our generation" that is not true Charlie Brown did not have hoes either
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"We should be asking ourselves: When is civility useful and when is it a canard for oppression? When is anger a detriment and when is it a righteous tool?" www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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What’s Wrong With Civility?
Civility can be a tool of engagement. But history has shown it can also be used to oppress the powerless.
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Gavin, Small Beer (closed due to long covid), &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Kelly and I made ANOTHER NEW T-SHIRT! Because Trans Rights Are Human Rights! 100% of profits go to translategender.org — who gave us the ok to go ahead with this. Please help spread the word, thank you!
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BKMN: Trans Rights Are Human Rights | Bonfire
Speaking plainly while looking at that Pale Blue Dot, Earth, from a bookshop on the moon.. You can't run a democracy by running over some of the participants. It's all...
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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
fucking finally
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
if this post doesn't apply to you, would still appreciate you sharing around.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/10/2026
A small printing press in every high school is an idea I have that I think is good.
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Mylo Minderbinder @duffomatic.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Bottom line: we can’t rely on billionaire-owned news outlets to do fair & accurate reporting of Trump’s abuse of power. And we need to demand more action from DC Council and our in coming Mayor. They need to be vocally fighting for transparency & accountability of Guard and Feds actions in DC 13/
Heavily-armed National Guard and FBI agents outside Bruce Monroe elementary school in DC on 9/17/26
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Multiple things are true here. This is a fascist, authoritarian administration. It has not yet fully consolidated power. Some of its efforts to do so have been frustrated. Trump is a doddering, confused egomaniac who started an unpopular war that's costing everyday people a lot of money.
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daviss @daviss.org · 13/10/2026
Hundreds showed up tonight at Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis for a rally to support Rep. Ilhan Omar after her DC home was searched by federal agents this morning. The Department of Justice says it was "part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation".
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 13/10/2026
Three ICE charters are currently staging for Africa removals over the next 24 hours. A small jet at Mesa, AZ, a small jet at Harlingen, TX, and a large jet at Alexandria, LA. All could include third-country removals, particularly the last one. Gonna be a bad week.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
off the fucking rails. a rogue government.
apnews.com
Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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Ms. Lonnie🦋🩵🫂 @lonsj.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
ICE staging it's dangerous raids from Target 🎯 parking lots If you shop 🎯 you need to look into other options
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
YARD SALAMANDER!! WITH TEENY FEETS!!! (Eastern Red-backed Salamander) #herps 🌿
A small rust colored salamander in a curving backwards s shape with its little feet sticking out so they’re visible and adorable.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Can we be honest that so called 'wokeness' meant Black people demanding full social personhood and refusing to be silent about getting murdered/harmed by the state? So yes, that is more threatening to many in this country than is fascism. I think that's been clear.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 11/10/2026
'Rogue Signage' Judy Lichtman
assemblage of street signs, yellow ones reading FALL IN LINE, orange ones reading STAY IN YOUR LANE and smaller blue ones reading YOU'RE BEING WATCHED
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Proposing analog to,”racism can explain every weird thing in America” is, “women are busy working for money is the secret reason everything we miss about a society is now dying.”
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Found a midge this morning, Goeldichironomus carus, that appears to mimic a jumping spider.
macro photo of a small brown midge in front view, with six triangular black spots on its back above the head, and the legs arranged a bit like jumping spider legs.macro photo of a small brown midge in oblique front view, with six triangular black spots on its back above the head, and the legs arranged a bit like jumping spider legs.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 09/10/2026
The Trump administration has removed crucial reporting requirements, making it easier for ICE to try to escape accountability when people die shortly after being released from their custody. No one should die because of ICE's dangerous detention conditions.
aclu.org
Deaths in ICE Detention More Than Doubles Under Trump
Death rate could be higher if it includes hidden deaths of people released from detention that ICE is reporting under Trump administration.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026
Aminata Seck has been freed. "I'm just ready to go back to school, get my master's and get this surgery done,” she said. ICE kept her in pain in detention for two months for no reason. www.espn.com/womens-colle...
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Kentucky State player released on bond from ICE custody
Kentucky State University women's basketball center Aminata Seck was released on bond Wednesday after spending two months in ICE custody.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
My cousin organized a series of masked concerts in NYC so immunocompromised and other covid-conscious folks can still enjoy live music events, and is raising funds so he can keep doing so! Love and appreciation to anyone able to chip in 🙏🏾♥️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...
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Positive Deviance NYC: Building Clean Air Culture
Back our next three clean-air NYC music events in 2027 and join a growing community building a more accessible cultural life.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Kennedy would never be able to do the trial in the US because of its significant ethical concerns, Offit added. “He’s taking advantage of a developing country … Is it because children in Africa are more expendable than children here?”" Yes. That is evident. That and the fact "Bobby" is an evil man.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One of the most disconcerting moments of living in this timeline of the world in the U.S. is that A LOT of people in this country keep acting like there's a special line that needs to be crossed for fascism to *arrive.* The reality is that we are CURRENTLY living under Federal fascism. NOW.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026
In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 09/10/2026
update: per a hearing today Oscar Belgal was detained overnight in Elizabeth NJ and is now being held in Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn as his attorneys push for his release. he is still in pain and apparently has a bullet still in his body.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.”
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
There’s already video of some NYPD helping ICE leave after the shooting and the role of the police in aiding these incidents has to be addressed.
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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Inks done!
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“At a press conference, Espaillat said that he attempted to visit the shooting victim in the hospital, but was prevented from doing so by federal authorities. ‘I went to the hospital to see the victim,’ Espaillat said, ‘but we were not allowed by ICE agents to go in the room.’”
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BIG NEWS. Martin Soto, one of the orginal organizers of the Delaney Hall hunger strike, whose wife Gabi was an integral part of organizing on the outside against deplorable conditions, IS FREE. He was released just a few moments ago.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks to generosity of Elmira College alums, Carl & Cindy Hayden, the Center for @marktwain.bsky.social Studies is offering two new Quarry Farm Fellowships for high school students & teachers. Part of our emphasis on involvement in scholarship for educators at every grade level & career stage.
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Elmira College Alumni Establish Prize and Teaching Fellowships at Mark Twain’s Historic Quarry Farm
ELMIRA, N.Y. — High school students and educators in the Elmira area will soon have the rare opportunity to study at Quarry Farm — the historic summer home where Mark
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We murdered four more people in a boat today
U.S. southern Command: On October 4, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. @DeptofWar
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Another person has died in Trump's concentration camps. 47-year-old Julian Curo-Churata was from Peru. He died on Sept. 29 after he was imprisoned for three months in Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana. That camp is run by LaSalle Corrections. There's no cause of death listed.
ice.gov
Illegal alien from Peru passes away in ICE custody in Louisiana
ICE is committed to ensuring that all those in custody reside in safe, secure and humane environments.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources
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Scott Lyons @scottwhitegloves.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Can we (progressive people) destroy the meaning of "civil" and "civility" the way the right destroyed "woke"? Because "the civility industry" is already a heinous perversion of language.
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The Gazette @thegazette.com · 01/10/2026
Hundreds rally for Iowa City mother detained by ICE: ‘I want my sister back now’
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Hundreds rally for Iowa City mother detained by ICE: ‘I want my sister back now’
Fatou Traore, 43, was detained by ICE on her way to work at the University of Iowa on Sept. 24. From the Ivory Coast, Traore has been told she’s being deported to Sierra Leone — a place she’s never been — leaving behind a husband and four sons.
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Something that's surprisingly useful is asking my students to draw their research papers. They make all sorts of interesting diagrams and some always say they find it clarifying in unexpected ways (realizing a side point is the main point kind of thing). Low tech, done in class, no outsourcing.
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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The decline reflects a 7% drop in enrollment for the state’s immigrant students, the first since the pandemic. "
texastribune.org
Texas lost at least 14,200 immigrant students last year
The actual enrollment loss amid increased deportation efforts is much higher as the federal definition that identifies immigrant students is limited, experts said.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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