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Shannon for School Board @shannon-for-d3.bsky.social · 15h

Soooo excited about this! 🎃👻 Please join us and share widely.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🗣️Ex FTC Chair Lina Khan on A.I. Regulation: “The idea that just because we have new technological capabilities there’s some blanket exemption from the laws on the books is totally laughable.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If a productivity task is easily automated, chances are good that some invisible labor is managing the work that makes the task easy to automate. bsky.app/profile/tres...

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Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Proud to announce that I co-edited an issue of Research on Diversity in Youth Literature, focused on representations of adoption, and it came out today! ✊🏽✊🏽🤩 Thanks to my co-editor Kim McKee, and journal editors Sarah Park Dahlen and Sonia Rodriguez for all their work, patience, and guidance.

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Jason Garcia for MPRB District 4 @jason4parks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Statement on the MPS Transformation plans made public last week

Black text on a white background, reading:
“Over the past week, I have spoken with a number of constituents who have expressed great concerns about the plans Minneapolis Public Schools announced to potentially close several schools around the city.

There have been questions about how this would impact park programming and before/after school care through Rec Plus. As we await further information from MPS about these impacts, it has become clear that the community has not felt heard or supported in the communication of these potentially seismic transformation plans.

As a Minneapolis resident and as a fellow elected, I urge the Directors of the MPS School Board to delay a vote on these plans until the community at large has been engaged and understands the potential impacts on their families, friends, and neighborhoods. If the vote cannot be delayed, I urge them to vote against these massive changes- this can be discussed again in the future, but closing the schools will have immediate consequences for the affected communities.

I appreciate the constraints and challenges they’re facing. Delaying this vote and helping community partners understand the way this will impact our joint efforts will be a net positive. I look forward to working with them going forward to see how MPRB and MPS can work together to serve our communities.”

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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 20/09/2026

We banned rental junk fees! Starting July 1st, 2027, the price you see is the price you pay — no pet rent, no admin fees, no lease renewal fees. Step by step, we’re building an affordable Seattle. Thanks to City Attorney Evans and Councilmember Foster, and to the Stay Housed, Stay Healthy Coalition!

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Shannon for School Board @shannon-for-d3.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Spread the word…And come through!

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Shannon for School Board @shannon-for-d3.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“As Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) leadership rolls out their proposal to close around 16 schools throughout the district next year, the face of this campaign to squeeze ordinary citizens and families of our basic dignities takes a new, far more genteel face.”

startribune.com

Opinion | Minneapolis Public Schools closure plan is absurd and reckless

Minneapolis school board candidates write: Exactly how and why are we supposed to the next incredibly disruptive district redesign when MPS blundered the last one so spectacularly?

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Shannon for School Board @shannon-for-d3.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Their plan sucks,” she said. “It’s going to be very obvious once it hits the street that it sucks, and they’re going to have to justify why they plan on closing 13 schools with zero cost savings whatsoever.”

sahanjournal.com

Minneapolis could close up to 16 schools

Minneapolis Public Schools officials rolled out a plan Tuesday night that could see up to 16 schools close as the district tries to address ongoing budget deficits.

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Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“The defining political emotion of the age may be the sense that power, and with it the ability to push back on what bears down on you, is somewhere other than where you are, that you are unheard and unseen, that you are acted on but lack the means to act.”

nytimes.com

Opinion | What Happens on the Subway Doesn’t Stay on the Subway (Gift Article)

The System Is Rigged. The Cavalry Is Not Coming. We’re on Our Own.

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Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Lots of community members, including myself, featured in this. ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I could not be prouder to have a piece included in this remarkable collection. ✊🏽❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 An excerpt: “This is the worst thing we have ever lived through, but it is also the thing that is forcing us to become absolutely whole — to recognize our own eyes in the faces of others,” 🧵(1/2)

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/09/2026

i feel like we just need to admit to a lot of young people that our systems completely failed them. we let digital tools in the classroom and social media algorithms use them like lab rats and now half of them cannot have a basic, polite human interaction.

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Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

When you have to tell four students that they will be receiving zeros for their discussion posts they had AI write for them *on an article about how AI is killing the university and learning itself,* you know you’re living in hell.

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Elmoerc Elmo in Flames

ALT: Elmoerc Elmo in Flames

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The idea that classrooms are chiefly spaces for product testing, and that it is irresponsible pedagogy not to enforce this, is both cynical and vile, and “fuck off” is a cogent response from any professional educator to any non-teaching salescreep or tech-but-not-subject-matter expert who voices it.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And if you think this is wrong and needs to be addressed they call you a communist

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Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

So, I think I wanna develop a multidisciplinary class on the ICE invasion of Mpls for students at my two-year college in downtown Mpls. Encompassing lit, music, film, organizing, political analysis, etc. Especially since so much art about it is starting to come out. What should I include?

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Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“The communal tradition has deep roots, dating back thousands of years to Indigenous communities that cooked meats and vegetables over a fire, with enslaved Africans later becoming early innovators of what we would now recognize as barbecue. The modern cookout emerged in the 20th century…”

nytimes.com

Keeping the Cookout Going (Gift Article)

Black barbecues have long offered a joyful, safe space for attendees. A new generation is determined to keep the fires burning.

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

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Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Her work was basically the soundtrack to and in some important ways, the bedrock of, my young adulthood. 🙏🏾 “The gospel that I’m trying to get out is that, OK, it’s fine to have a beautiful voice, but it will be even finer if you are able to communicate with that instrument as a musician.”

nytimes.com

Cassandra Wilson, Star Jazz Singer, Dies at 70

With a low and smoky voice, she conjured the blues tradition of her native Mississippi in both her own songs and in covers.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026

I really want to write a second book about the COVID pandemic from a Black epidemiologist perspective but my family and friends have begged me not to out of fear of my safety. And it’s incredible that even has to be taken into consideration b/c of insane conspiracy theorists.

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Congressman Gabe Amo @amo.house.gov · 31/08/2026

We’ll keep marching until voting rights are no longer under attack. Because when they attack, we stand up and fight back! Committed to pushing for the vision of a more just nation that Dr. King and so many civil rights leaders advanced 63 years ago.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Moderation isn’t the answer — progressive populism is. I don’t understand how some members of my party hate the DSA and Hasan Piker more than literal white supremacists in our government. Especially if Democrats actually want to win.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 30/08/2026

someone was just calling learning about local politics "gatekeeping" and i think if you have such a lack of curiosity that being told you should educate yourself on what happened before you paid attention to an issue to know context & framework feels exclusionary, that's just sad anyone can learn!

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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Here’s your daily reminder that when you go to cast your ballot in November please vote all the way down the ballot. The further down you go, those races really do get closer to your front door and ultimately your wallet. Let’s turn these laboratories of autocracy back into democracy.

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Blue Jays fans chanting "LAKE ONTARIO!" in the stands while the Mariners are pitching? You absolutely love to see it

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Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“Without exception, every high performer I’ve studied credits a host of supporters for success. Research has found that a willingness to ask for help is crucial to achievement.”

nytimes.com

Opinion | I Study Successful People. They Have One Habit in Common. (Gift Article)

Being a successful self-starter doesn’t mean pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

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Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Don’t do it, Germany. 😬🕳️🕳️

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I feel like I’m living In a dystopian novel written in 1993 that was rejected by dozens of publishers because it was incredibly stupid.

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Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I would just like to point out that my son and his besties apparently work the same job as MN Gov. Walz now. 😆🤔🕳️ Although they look like they worked a few more hours than him yesterday.

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Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I do not do the MN State Fair. Anyone who knows me knows this. But I may have to make an exception this year, for the ICE resistance crop art. Got me like 😭😭😭 Is there anything more Minnesotan???

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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/08/2026

That’s $2,800 per pair.

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