Reposted by Sarah AMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 12hThis is not beautiful to see. This is the most racist democracy on planet earth, and people just expect Black people to sing negro spirituals and "overcome." It's not working. This still happens for one reason and one reason only: white US folk don't hold each other accountable for this racism. 212409578 0
Reposted by Sarah APhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12hStudents from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g... 424134823653 2
Reposted by Sarah ACourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/10/2026This is such important work, and the thing to keep in mind is that when AI people tell you that games will be personalized for you, this is the kind of thing they are more likely to mean. 131400616 0
Reposted by Sarah AAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap 122770881801 0
Reposted by Sarah AAnise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Why parents make great scientists: Because they recognize that "Lauren errors" happen all the time. 622184 0
Reposted by Sarah ADr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/10/2026nytimes.comMargaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died (Gift Article)Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90. 3341100 0
Reposted by Sarah ADon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is a classic Voughtism: we have not eliminated the program - it still exists. It is just not distributing any resources. 13602145 0
Reposted by Sarah AQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026this reads like doj is saying the guy did a really great fraud 3090497 0
Reposted by Sarah AKate Watson @loreandordure.com · 06/10/2026THAT IS NOT THE ONLY THING EDUCATION IS FOR! IT ISN’T EVEN THE MAIN THING! 27459152 0
Reposted by Sarah AAnna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant 952072465 0
Sarah A @sarahleeab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Already obliquely referenced in the replies, but, step aside amateur. m.youtube.com/watch?v=maAF...m.youtube.comTim and Eric - Celery ManYouTube video by Twinfold11 0181 0
Reposted by Sarah AAdam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 04/10/2026This hits too close to home 1848855 0
Sarah A @sarahleeab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This list has a few middle school level books that look great. greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...greatergood.berkeley.eduEight of Our Favorite Arab American Children’s BooksReading children's books with authentic representations of Arab Americans can cultivate empathy and a sense of identity in children. 041 0
Reposted by Sarah AProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I see some folks asking: what motivates RFK Jr to tell such horrific, dangerous, repulsive lies about the HPV vaccine? Well, he has made $856,559 from suing the HPV vaccine maker (his vaccine adviser, Dr Kulldorff, also got rich the same way) Always follow the 🤑! www.npr.org/sections/sho...npr.orgRFK Jr. plans to keep a financial stake in lawsuits against the drugmaker MerckRFK Jr. plans to keep collecting referral fees in lawsuits against the drug company Merck even if confirmed as HHS secretary, according to new filings with the Office of Government Ethics. 26701273 0
Sarah A @sarahleeab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026What’s at Risk for Students with Disabilities Under the Federal Voucher Program? edlawcenter.org/whats-at-ris...edlawcenter.orgWhat’s at Risk for Students with Disabilities Under the Federal Voucher Program? - Education Law CenterLast year, the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act created the first nationwide federal private school voucher program... 000 0
Reposted by Sarah AThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows... 199113352170 0
Sarah A @sarahleeab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Very much appreciated this thoughtful piece by Dr. Yating Liu on the Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) blog today artofproblemsolving.com/blog/article...artofproblemsolving.comWhat Calculators Taught Me About Math Education in an AI WorldIf calculators can compute faster and more accurately than any human, why do we still teach students multiplication and long division? And as AI becomes capable of solving far more complex math proble... 020 0
Sarah A @sarahleeab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Well... yeah.npr.orgThe Education Dept. hasn't been dismantled. It's become more inefficient, staff sayEducation staff are being scattered across several other federal agencies. Despite the Trump administration's claims, employees say it's adding bureaucracy and making it harder to serve students. 000 0
Reposted by Sarah ALupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026Been avoiding this but it’s Super Important to have access to knowledge & experience w neurodivergence ASAP. A big source of lifetime torture among people with ADHD roots from inability to contextualize & put into words what we are experiencing both within & from how the outside world responds to us 281176283 0
Reposted by Sarah AJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 27/09/2026Being not Jewish, I was not aware of the key role Fruit Gems had in Bar/Bat Mitzvahs and other celebrations, I was just sad on my own account they were no longer going to be made. But now we all will have reason to celebrate: ejewishphilanthropy.com/sunkist-says...ejewishphilanthropy.comSunkist says it will bring back beloved Fruit Gems after national outcry following eJP report‘We hear you, Sunkist Fruit Gems fans!’ the company wrote, saying it had found a new manufacturer for the kosher synagogue staple 63982108 0
Reposted by Sarah AKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it 58982761859 0
Reposted by Sarah AClaire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I hate it so much. This can happen to you too. A year ago, almost everyone doubted this would happen. I had faculty at other schools telling me I was hysterical. (Irony!) Watch for the installation of right wing figureheads without an academic background. Watch for assaults on faculty governance. 19724286 0
Reposted by Sarah APookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ringen.wikipedia.orgIron Ring - Wikipedia 2074292327 0
Reposted by Sarah AKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually 11896951920 0
Reposted by Sarah AHakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Nikole Hannah-Jones w/ a sobering follow-up on her decision yrs ago to enroll her daughter in a poor, majority-Black public school rather than a wealthier, whiter private school. You leave heartbroken for the kids being failed by this grossly unequal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...nytimes.comIn Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice. 21522361 0
Reposted by Sarah A"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Higher Education is not just about training workers, but also about training citizen leaders and good citizenship in part means thinking that the details matter, that getting them right matters, because it impacts some of your fellow citizens. "It only matters if job" is poison to citizenship. 6577105 0
Reposted by Sarah ARyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I graduated med school in 2014. I was taught-and saw-how hard melanoma was to treat, like a death sentence Since then, new treatments have made it possible for people w/ the most advanced melanoma, like Jimmy Carter, to live to 100! We are killing ourselves by letting them destroy American science 3634291029 0
Reposted by Sarah Ataylr @taylordahlin.com · 15/09/2026a new study shows that closing schools does not save money in the end, as students withdraw from the district entirely to attend school elsewhere www.edweek.org/leadership/c...edweek.orgClosing a School? Don't Expect to Save Money, a New Study WarnsThe hope is that closing schools can reduce fixed costs. A new study looks into whether that happens. 49231 0
Reposted by Sarah ANed Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is. 7270751518 0
Reposted by Sarah AMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16/09/2026me: hey so I was thinking of maybe watching a documenta- streaming platform: about MURDER? me: no I mean I was maybe thinking like a history show, or like sp: MURDER? YOU WANNA WATCH WOMEN BEING KILLED? BY SERIAL KILLERS? me: no honestly something on the Ottomans maybe or sp: DEATH! DEATH! 2855452 0
Reposted by Sarah AMeredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 16/09/2026Today was the day. It was the first time my newly minted elementary schooler came home and informed me he had done his first active shooter lockdown drill. (He did not use the words “active shooter”). He reported it so matter of factly. But all I could think about is how these shouldn’t be facts. 1724623 0
Reposted by Sarah AStephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I feel every few weeks there's a meticulously researched @stephenjacobsmith.com post that's like "here's this one dude in charge of the California Doorknob Industry Commission who has statistically caused 67k more people to be homeless" 539343 0
Reposted by Sarah APatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 15/09/2026Unbelievable www.instagram.com/p/DdUmGqOEpST 342826324 0
Reposted by Sarah Ashauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026he did many of cher’s and dolly’s most glamorous gowns but what i will always remember most about bob mackie was this iconic look. and i think he’d be fine with that. 13161741039 0
Reposted by Sarah ADiedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 14/09/2026When my son was 5 he had a sartorial flair To go to arts delicatessen he wore a midnight blue cape, top hat &monocle As we were leaving an older gent stopped him saying “young man, i like your style” Meant the world to our son that man was Bob Mackie RIP 285169341486 0
Reposted by Sarah ANot the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 08/09/2026double nickels on the dime 939566 0
Reposted by Sarah ASix Dettmar @sixdettmar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I’M AT THE URGENT CARE I’M AT THE TACO BELL I’M AT THE COMBINATION URGENT CARE AND TACO BELL 266118113035 0
Reposted by Sarah AMike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 08/09/2026He called it "Gilligan's Island" 1140341 0
Reposted by Sarah ARex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT." 7890982927 0
Reposted by Sarah ARoland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comNo cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in ScotlandA study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective". 6461332286 0
Reposted by Sarah AMychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old when she stepped into the history books. Bravely accompanied by her mother, she was the first Black child to desegregate an all-white school in the South. It was not long ago… Today is her birthday. She is still with us. She is 72. Happy birthday, Ruby Bridges 💜 4074332349 0