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Sandy Brumbaum

@sbrumbaum.bsky.social
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Literacy educator, life-long learner, book lover, Reading Recovery teacher leader; fascinated by brain science/neuroplasticity. Currently spending my days with 5th graders.

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KQED News @kqednews.kqed.org · 15h
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Don’t Skip the School Board Races on Your Ballot. Here’s Why They Could Be Pivotal
Public schools across the Bay Area are facing “some unambiguously big problems,” education experts say, but the elections for local school boards often fly under the radar.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A foreman oversees his crew in Mettler CA. The workers are weeding a carrot field. It is intense, repetitive work that is very necessary as weeds compete for water, nutrients, and light. Thanks to these workers the carrots will grow straighter, healthier, and larger. #WeFeedYou
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
FCC Chair Andrew Ferguson touts the administration's work to "protect white American men from discrimination"
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In WA State farm workers are harvesting Granny Smith apples. Hector says, "I feel very unhappy about what they're paying us. Last year, we were paid $33/900lb bin. This year they are only paying us $30/bin. It's increasingly difficult to cover my family's expenses. #WeFeedYou
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 09/10/2026
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Televised executions? Killer Pete Hegseth is a sick person. He, like his boss, never should have been allowed near the levers of power.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This week in the US of A: watch live a human being massacred by firing squad, but be careful how you treat the tech boys' imaginary friend
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Conor P. Williams @conorpwilliams.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"[D]own in the gym, no one is asking if student-athletes are allowed to use AI during cross-country races." www.the74million.org/article/ai-b...
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AI & Back-to-School Night: Anxious Parents, Nervous Teachers and Chill Coaches
Williams: The only adults not fretting about AI use can be found in the gym because no one is going to ask if a chatbot can run laps for their kid.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Dwayne Godwin, PhD @dwaynegodwin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine goes to the developers of optogenetics. Did you know that optogenetics is based on a discovery made in green algae? Well, now you do! Here’s a comic explainer we did back when it was still new. @phdcomics.com 🧠 #neuroskyence #neuroscience
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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Best Resources For Teaching About Elections larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/10/08/t...
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The Best Resources For Teaching About Elections
The mid-term elections are coming up. Here are some resources for how to teach about them: Teach the 2026 Midterm Elections is from The NY Times Learning Network. Teaching Resources for US E…
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Sandy Brumbaum @sbrumbaum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Is he playing a recording while the child sits on his lap, turning the pages and looking at the pictures? Or is he playing a recording while he goes about his business? What other parenting tasks does he turnover to AI?
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Everyone influences the world in some way. No matter how powerless we may feel, each of us is a creator who continually churns out energy that bends and shapes our world and the people in it. 

What is the signature of your effect? How do you change the environments you pass through? What magic, for good or ill, do you perform in the daily rhythm of your life?” - Rob Brezsny
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“I see protest as a genuine means of encouraging someone to feel the inconsistencies, the horror, of the lives we are living. Social protest is to say that we do not have to live this way." — Audre Lorde
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We are facing a psychiatric emergency. We are facing a constitutional emergency. Anyone with eyes and ears who’s paying attention can see it. Our republic is teetering. The good news: We the people have the power to stop this accelerating descent before it’s too late.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I keep forgetting to share that our (Sojourners for Justice Press) 2027 Calendar is available for pre-orders until November 1. It's the only way to get one. Also, purchasing a calendar helps us to continue to publish & organize events. sojourners4justice.press/calendar/
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Sojourners for Justice Press
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Sandy Brumbaum @sbrumbaum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“…clearly, the work continues.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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Sandy Brumbaum @sbrumbaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Important read. “Among the Steps to Promote Institutional Courage: Commit to seek the truth. Add checks and balances to power structures. Cherish the whistle-blowers.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TODAY is the last day to register to vote in several states. I urge you to double check your state's deadline, verify that you are registered, and make changes to your registration if needed. Then contact three friends or family members and have them do the same. whenweallvote.org
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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 05/10/2026
Here's the original video from George Brett Olson that got me started on all of this The fact this is actually happening continues to baffle me
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Sandy Brumbaum @sbrumbaum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There were many rebuttals in the first round from educators, K-12, higher ed, professional organizations, consultants. The larger public heard the “story” which pulled on their heartstrings (and cited “people who know”).There is no reasoning with that.
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Christopher Martell @chrismartell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This era of U.S. history that we are living through is so insane and so dangerous. Case in point... Some amazing investigative reporting on what "DOGE" did at the IRS. Worth the read. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Elon is my prophet’: how Musk’s Doge team took a wrecking ball to Washington
When the new ‘department of government efficiency’ sent young techies to disrupt federal agencies, not everyone complied. Here’s what happened when one worker fought to protect immigrant data
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Sandy Brumbaum @sbrumbaum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
FWIW, I’m not sure how to get notifications when there is a new pick. I just happened to run across this thread as I was scrolling. So we may want to tag the group and give them a few more days to give input. @hcodymiller.bsky.social
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Sandy Brumbaum @sbrumbaum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Global model ensembles are in strong agreement that a prolonged &anomalous nearly West-wide autumn heatwave will develop this week & persist for 10+ days. While some daytime records may be set, this event will be more notable for its persistence & breadth. [Thread]
Map showing predicted temperature anomalies in early October from the ECMWF ensemble across the western U.S. Nearly the entire region is painted red and pink, indicating widespread very warm anomalies.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m publishing something tomorrow about Alpha School. One of the things I focus on is how it is an incubator for EdTech platforms with the ambition to hyperscale. Alpha may only have a few hundred students nationwide, but its founders are developing MANY extractive EdTech brands. This is one:
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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caithow @caithow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The early info we have is damning: SoR doesn’t lead to long term success, but it DOES: normalize high stakes testing & holding children back, justify punitive policies and privatization, stigmatize teachers, & further drains education of its capacity to generate an educated, thoughtful electorate.
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caithow @caithow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The federal government, by which I mean THIS federal government, picking this up, at a time when they are otherwise draining edu of all substance, should be all you need to know about what a grift SoR is. If it were effective at enhancing understanding and education, they’d destroy it.
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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I left several copies of this little zine I made in my classroom at the start of the year. They are all gone now and no one has said anything but I am pleased.
Words: Why I am saying no to "AI" and saying yes to you.
Image: sharpie black boxes with a green check in on the "you" box and a red x on the "AI" box.
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 26/09/2026
happy mid-autumn festival! 🍂🌕
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Greg Porter @gporterwx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This isn't normal. #ElNiño
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Greg Porter @gporterwx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This #ElNiño is basically creating one big monsoon season across the Pacific. Not an easterly to be found anywhere.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Literacy is load-bearing, y'all. Not AI literacy, not digital literacy, not media literacy. Literacy literacy.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Then, if you’re able, try to get your body moving. You’re going to need your senses and movement is good for your brain. If you have kids in your care, protect their developing brains and their image. That’s all I can say about that.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I've spent a lot of time inside classrooms of very poor schools, including working with well-resourced parents like @nhannahjones.bsky.social who opted for those schools out of social obligation. Her experience - and agony - is common and wrenching. She's just one of (very few) willing to be honest.
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?
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.
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Don’t you dare @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov, do not cave. 5670 film makers put their necks on the line for you to fight this merger. Another 75,000+ and counting have signed to tell you not to concede in just 3 weeks. Please sign to send a message to the AG’s and Paramount. noparamountconcessions.com
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We are not living through "an authoritarian impulse," we are living through actual AUTHORITARIANISM.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Kids don't read anymore." My circ stats beg to differ. The feedback I got back from Summer Reading really begs to differ. Kids are reading, and kids want to read more. The way kids are being taught means they don't read a lot of full books in class. But that doesn't mean they don't want to read.
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