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@scrappyteacher.bsky.social
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2nd Grade teacher, 2018 NJ non public teacher of the year. #nErDcampNJ

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The last Pope to visit Ground Zero, Francis’ penned prayer during September 2015 US visit: “God of understanding, overwhelmed by the magnitude of this tragedy,we seek your light and guidance as we confront such terrible events.” www.vatican.va/content/fran...
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Vatican office that handles every sainthood case in the world, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, has approved the first portion of the file assembled to make Dorothy Day a saint. mikefoxcatechist.substack.com/p/rome-advan...
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Rome Advances Dorothy Day Toward Sainthood
As she would expect, not everyone is pleased.
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Tom Richmond @tom-richmond.com · 04/07/2026
"Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ​use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learning" Sometimes, good policymaking is incredibly simple. www.reuters.com/technology/n...
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Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ​use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learni...
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 23/06/2026
I get folks not involved in education might not realize how severe the current situation is but... The speed and magnitude of how capitalism driven AI has infiltrated education is horrifying.
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Say The Thing Tee @saythethingtee.com · 20/06/2026
It appears Grok killed the schoolchildren in Iran, in tandem with a US military under Pete Hegseth who DGAF. Remember when Anthropic said 'No' to Hegseth's demand that they allow the DoD to use Claude to kill autonomously, with no human oversight? Check out this timeline:
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Julia @scrappyteacher.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Important read by an incredibly brilliant teacher
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United States Conference of Catholic Bishops @usccbofficial.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Archbishop Coakley Invites All to Join Pope Leo XIV’s Vigil for Peace in Midst of Threats of Increased Military Action in Iran | Read the full release at: ow.ly/HFHg50YF3RT
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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Called my three. Call yours, too.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If you’ve never called your congressional reps before, do it right now.
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Julia @scrappyteacher.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Genuinely enjoy that part of vampire lore is that they can’t come in without an invitation. Nothing to add to vampire discourse, just think it’s neat
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Julia @scrappyteacher.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
“Ugh, tomorrow could’ve been a normal day, but I ruined it by being FUN.” - me thinking about the Glow Day I have planned for the 100th day of school tomorrow.
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Julia @scrappyteacher.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Catholic hive, rise up!! Call!!! Follow the examples of Saints who detested fascism like Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati and servant of God Dorothy Day
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This is actually one of the most troubling ICE stories I’ve seen recently — an eye-popping sign of how corrupt, broken, and racist the internal culture is:
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 22/01/2026
A Cuban detainee’s death at an El Paso federal immigration detention center was ruled a homicide Wednesday, with the medical examiner finding he was suffocated while restrained, contradicting immigration officials’ claim that he died by suicide.
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El Paso medical examiner rules death in ICE camp a homicide
Immigration officials initially said the 55-year-old Cuban detainee died of “medical distress” but later changed the cause to suicide. The medical examiner ruled he was suffocated while being restrain...
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 13/01/2026
I'm sorry ... but this not crazy to you????? abc7.com/post/federal...
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Federal agents allegedly drive off with baby in car after father detained in Cypress Park raid
The father, who is a U.S. citizen, was detained for allegedly throwing rocks at agents. He says agents then drove off in his car, with his 1-year-old daughter in the backseat.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Pope Leo in State of the World address: “War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading.  The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
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Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good
After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Pope Leo: “The world is not saved by sharpening swords, nor by judging, oppressing or eliminating our brothers and sisters. Rather, it is saved by tirelessly striving to understand, forgive, liberate and welcome everyone, without calculation and without fear.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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Julia @scrappyteacher.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Godspeed to all the nerds out there on the Christmas bird count! I look forward to the day when I retire from working at a Catholic church and can join you in your dorkdom! 🎄🦉
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 20/12/2025
BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
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At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
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claudia irizarry aponte @clauirizarry.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
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ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
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Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
with so much other stuff going on it doesn't often make headlines, but Florida has executed SEVENTEEN people so far this year, with the eighteenth set to be killed tonight.
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Colin Moore @colinmoore.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
This story now includes video, released by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, of the baby being exposed to chemical irritants fired by federal agents from their convoy into the car she was riding in with members of her family near 26th Street and Ogden Avenue in Cicero.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 06/11/2025
Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection. The arrest reportedly took place in front of children. 19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...
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‘I have papers’: Child care worker detained by ICE officers inside a Chicago day care
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
When we were deployed, some Afghans risked their lives to help us. Now Trump wants to send them out to be killed by the Taliban. It’s a disgrace, a betrayal, and a decision that endangers future US troops.
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
In Addison, Illinois an immigration agent using an American flag as a mask smashes a woman’s car window while her family sits in the vehicle. Video from social media.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?
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NPR @npr.org · 11/10/2025
Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."
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Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'
Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
DHS Includes ‘White Supremacist’ Meme in Video Promoting Deportation Blitz talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-inc...
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DHS Includes ‘White Supremacist’ Meme in Video Promoting Deportation Blitz
A video posted on X by the Department of Homeland Security included...
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Julia @scrappyteacher.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I just got an email from Katmai National Park saying that until the government shutdown ends, the Zoom I scheduled with them to end a unit my class has been working hard on is off. Never thought that an event tertiarily related to Fat Bear Week would be what pushed me over the edge but here we are
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Julia @scrappyteacher.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
A little pleasure of having a middle schooler is hearing the snips of conversations on the phone with their friends as they walk by 💜
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Julia @scrappyteacher.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Streaming video services have become an expensive scam. Bring back the cable of my youth at this point.
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National Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The head of the Italian Bishops’ Conference took turns with dozens of other members of his diocese reading the names and ages of the 16 Israeli children and the 12,211 Palestinian children who have been killed in the war.
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Cardinal Zuppi leads seven-hour prayer, naming every child killed in Holy Land war
The head of the Italian Bishops’ Conference took turns with dozens of other members of his diocese reading the names and ages of the 16 Israeli children and the 12,211 Palestinian children who have be...
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
This clip of the Korean production of Chicago is several years old, but it features Choi Jae-rim, the actor playing Billy Flynn, doing **actual ventriloquism**: youtu.be/kCWBWXyUh2Q?...
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2021 '시카고' 프레스콜 We Both Reached For the Gun 민경아 최재림
YouTube video by NEWSTAGE뉴스테이지
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
It's the "Gen Z boss and a mini" thing all over again. A viral video of young female workers in Australia goofing around became proof that your local Democratic state senator hates white men and doesn't want them to have jobs.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 28/07/2025
All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.
Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution
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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
This will help you find a public radio or television station that stands to lose 50 percent or more of its revenue:
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Adopt A Station
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/07/2025
Wow -- the Journal reports that when reporters contacted Trump two days ago about this story👇, he threatened to sue if it was published, then hours later claimed that Obama and Biden "made up" the Epstein files
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Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.
The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’
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