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Carrie Mattern

@thoughtsthatcarrie.bsky.social
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mother, organizer, educator, disruptor she/her; Past President of MCTE; ELA in the SoCal desert; avid horror reader & writer; Survivor fan; #golions Donate to my classroom: acesse.one/hgkrkw6

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
there are 32 starting quarterbacks in the NFL and they found a way to put the 39th and 40th best ones in primetime
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Carrie Mattern @thoughtsthatcarrie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m less than $100 away from a class set of non fiction books for AP Lang. Pls help if you can or share within your networks! As always, I couldn’t do this work without your continued support & positive thoughts! Thank you. www.donorschoose.org/project/come...
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Come Hang With AP Lang!, a project from Mrs. Mattern
Help me give my students a non fiction text for AP Language that covers an array of social justice issues, superb models of writing, and a deep dive into the American justice system for synthesis w...
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The Detroit Lions Podcast @detlionspodcast.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Lions vs Bills Week 2 Wednesday game status Lions vs Bills Week 2 Wednesday game status
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Lions vs Bills Week 2 Wednesday game status
Lions vs Bills Week 2 Wednesday game status
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
📣 Brand new zine published to celebrate Labor Day: "Don’t Cross the Picket Line : Strike Solidarity for Beginners." Free to print or read online at violetbfox.info/dontcross/. This 24-page zine was created for anyone who's *not* part of a union and doesn't know much about unions or strikes.
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Carrie Mattern @thoughtsthatcarrie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
AP Language choice reads! The kids in the desert have made some really awesome initial choices: Jennette McCurdy, Trevor Noah, Hanif Abdurraqib, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Bryan Stevenson, and more.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)
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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"It's given a lot of people permission to be themselves, to not dream it, be it, which is the motto of the movie, really. I would like to be remembered for that." Farewell to Tim Curry (1946-2026) #RIP
Tim in costume as Dr. Frank-N-Furter
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Dork @readdork.com · 25/08/2026
Olivia Rodrigo has shared her fiery new track, ‘serena joy’ New single benefits the Daisy Chain Fields Fund tied to her Irvine festival.
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Olivia Rodrigo has shared her fiery new track, ‘serena joy’
New single benefits the Daisy Chain Fields Fund tied to her Irvine festival.
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Carrie Mattern @thoughtsthatcarrie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It’s that time of the year again! Any help you can send my classroom is appreciated. Here is the donation link: acesse.one/hgkrkw6 Art by @liberaljane.bsky.social
Art by liberal Jane showing a non binary Asian student at a school desk. A poster on the front of the desk reads-Protect Kids from guns Not Books. A copy of Gender Queer and The Hate U Give are near the desk.
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Carrie Mattern @thoughtsthatcarrie.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Switching it up & starting this year with hero cycle and Odyssey given the film plus Spider-Man’s release. What are your best hacks to keep ninth graders engaged with epic poetry? @theedcollab.bsky.social @educolor.org @jessycamathews.bsky.social @melaltersmith.bsky.social @bnjmnkwdcck.bsky.social
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed understands the assignment. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/u...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
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Carrie Mattern @thoughtsthatcarrie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Teaching novels never implied giving students packets.
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Woman with Literature Book
Alt: Woman with Literature Books walking confidently.
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Shana V. White (she/her) @shanavwhite.blacksky.app · 03/08/2026
Thanks RFK jr.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/07/2026
This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”
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Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives
One Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data center next door for a couple of years now, and they say the sound has changed their lives.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Many many people in this country cannot recognize Islamophobia because they are swimming so deeply in it on a daily basis and have so internalized it that it isn't actually legible to them as racism. It's why it's so casually deployed in a way that other forms of racism in the country are not.
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Carrie Mattern @thoughtsthatcarrie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Here’s to year 24, my unhinged era. #obsession #nononononono
A hall pass with daisy border on pastel colors reading: Mattern Hall Pass at the top. It features in the center an image of Nikki from the horror movie Obsession. The image is from the scene where she is smiling and replying No over and over again.
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”
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Carrie Mattern @thoughtsthatcarrie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Two years today since our family moved across the country!
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Carrie Mattern @thoughtsthatcarrie.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The smoke is clearing and the loon is calling.
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Carrie Mattern @thoughtsthatcarrie.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Come home this summer, they said. It will be fun, they said. #michigan
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Of USA highlighting Michigan with 3300 cases of explosive diarrhea.Map of air quality in Harrison, MI at 500 labeled hazardous.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
📚 “I stand by my decision. I will not change my mind.” RUTHERFORD COUNTY library director LUANNE JAMES 🦸‍♀️ was just fired for refusing to move kids books into the adult section simply because the board doesn’t like what they’re about. Full: www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...
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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Three Lebanese journalists were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a clearly marked press vehicle. We are up to what? 189 journalists killed by Israeli forces at this point?
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Israeli Strike Kills 3 Lebanese Journalists; Committee To Protect Journalists Decries “Disturbing Pattern” Of Targeting Media Workers
Three Lebanese journalists have been killed in an Israeli airstrike, according to officials.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/03/2026
Last summer, a pilot wrote to the agency to “Please do something,” after air traffic controllers at LaGuardia reportedly failed to disclose that other airplanes were nearby.
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CNN: Concerns Raised About Safety at LaGuardia Airport Before Deadly Runway Crash
CNN is reporting that pilots repeatedly pleaded with NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System to address safety concerns in New York’s LaGuardia Airport for months before a deadly airplane crash Sunday...
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
My latest. "The only place I know how to begin is here: We are at war, and I want it to stop."
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The Zombie Dressed Up as an Ordinary Tuesday
“The forced choreography of everyday life continues, even as the stage is dismantled beneath our feet.”
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Zach Heltzel @zachheltzel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Kat Abughazaleh used her campaign to try a lot of things that the party should been embracing a long time ago. The entire left coalition is better off because she ran.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 18/03/2026
And more from Dolores Huerta: "I have never identified myself as a victim, but I now understand that I am a survivor — of violence, of sexual abuse, of domineering men who saw me, and other women, as property, or things to control."
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March 18, 2026
Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:
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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 16/03/2026
Ryan Coogler accepts his first-ever Oscar to a standing ovation “To my parents who are here, thank you for making me believe in myself… Memories are all we have. I hope we give you some great ones.”
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 16/03/2026
Ryan Coogler joins Jordan Peele as the only Black filmmakers to ever win Best Original Screenplay at the #Oscars
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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Will never get tired of hearing Ryan Coogler talk, just infectious sincere energy that is also as palpably anxious as the rest of us
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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 16/03/2026
Autumn Durald Arkapaw wins Best Cinematography for Sinners #Oscars
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16/03/2026
Ludwig Göransson won the #Oscar for original score for “Sinners.” Göransson previously won original score Oscars for 2018’s “Black Panther” and 2023’s “Oppenheimer.”
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‘Sinners’ wins Oscar for best original score
Ludwig Göransson is taking home the Oscar for original score for “Sinners.” The win marks his third Academy Award.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse. 1/2
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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Two Black Boys in Paradise: The queer film you probably don’t know that just won a BAFTA www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/23/two-…
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Two Black Boys in Paradise: The queer film you might not know just won a BAFTA
Sunday’s BAFTA ceremony was glaringly light on LGBTQ+ stories. But in the British Short Animation category, Two Black Boys in Paradise won.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/02/2026
Fuck BAFTA for not nominating him and fuck BAFTA for this and fuck BBC for censoring “free Palestine” and fuck BBC for not censoring the N word variety.com/2026/film/aw...
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Delroy Lindo Wishes ‘Someone From BAFTA Spoke to Us’ After N-Word Was Shouted While He and Michael B. Jordan Presented: We ‘Did What We Had to Do’
Delroy Lindo says no one from BAFTA contacted him or Michael B. Jordan after the N-word was shouted out loud as they presented an award.
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Nothing about this is legal. The US is quietly deporting Palestinians arrested by #ICE to the occupied West Bank via private jet owned by an Israeli-American property tycoon & friend of President Trump, with two such flights taking place in coordination w the Israel: www.972mag.com/us-secretly-...
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U.S. secretly deporting Palestinians to West Bank in coordination with Israel
Palestinians arrested by ICE are being flown, bound and shackled, on private jet belonging to Israeli-American tycoon close to Trump, investigation reveals.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.
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“We Belong to Each Other Now”: Lessons from Minneapolis
“This extreme closeness, togetherness and intimacy — you cannot infiltrate your way into a space where you'll understand that," says May, a rapid responder in Minneapolis.
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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
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7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody
The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I realize that dunking on the NYT is passé; but, motherfuckers, the reason Americans consume a shitton of weed is that it’s cheaper than the physical and mental healthcare we can’t afford.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The silence from the game broadcast crew when they returned was cowardly and very, very rude. They didn’t even acknowledge the show or the artist. #NFLhalftime
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 09/02/2026
If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico
The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
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Carrie Mattern @thoughtsthatcarrie.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Rest in power Dr. Morrell. Thank you for your lessons in leadership, language as a craft, and the application of social justice as a literary lens.
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 04/02/2026
Today is a great day to unsubscribe from WaPo if you've been holding out thus far
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Carrie Mattern @thoughtsthatcarrie.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Beyond proud of the thousands of students exercising their rights today. And thank you to their teachers for reminding them of their right to protest, right to stay in class working if they choose, and right to freedom of speech.
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a block of ice is being lit up by a flame .
ALT: a block of ice is being lit up by a flame .
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Ricci @riccisergienko.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have
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ICE TRACKER
01/28/2026 11:30 am
NATIONAL CITY:
ICE / WALMART / 1200 HIGHLAND AVE /
UNSURE OF TIME / ATTEMPTED
KIDNAPPING /
ENCINITAS:
ICE/ MANCHESTER, UNDER HWY 5 W
BRIDGE /
9:30AM / 1 KIDNAPPING/
COSTA MESA:
ICE / HARBOR & WILSON /
6:20AM / 1 KIDNAPPING /
SANTA BARBARA:
ICE / HUTASH & VOLUNTARIO /
6:45AM / SIGHTING /
PISMO BEACH:
ICE / CAFE / 1053 PRICE ST / 8:00AM / UNSURE IF ANYONE WAS TAKEN /
JURUPA VALLEY:
ICE/ MARLATT & 60TH /
8:00AM / UNSURE IF ANYONE WAS TAKEN /
JURUPA VALLEY:
ICE/DODD &54™*/
8:20AM / SIGHTING /
LOS ANGELES:
ICE / COURT & WELCOME /
7:25AM / ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING/ SAN BERNARDINO:
ICE / COURT / ARROW & 3RD /
9:10AM / SCOUTING /
LOS ANGELES:
СВР / OLYMPIC & VANCOUVER /
9:08AM / SIGHTING /
LOS ANGELES:
CBP / CHINATOWN / MAIN & LEROY /
9:30AM / 1 KIDNAPPING/ LOS ANGELES:
CBP / BOYLE HEIGHTS/ MOTT & 2ND /
9:45AM / 1 KIDNAPPING/
LOS ANGELES:
CBP / OLYMPIC & AMALIA / 9:48AM / 1 KIDNAPPING/
LOS ANGELES:
CBP / 1001 N MISSION DR / 10:05AM / 1 KIDNAPPING /
LOS ANGELES:
CBP / RAMONA GARDENS /
2830 LANCASTER AVE /
10:20AM / AT LEAST 1 KIDNAPPING /
LOS ANGELES:
CBP / 8T & ALVARADO /
10:40AM / 1 KIDNAPPING/ EL MONTE:
ICE / COURTHOUSE / 11234 E VALLEY
BLVD /
10:50AM / AT LEAST 1 KIDNAPPING /
LOS ANGELES:
CBP / FIGUEROA & PASADENA /
11:18AM / SIGHTING /
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
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