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Tristan Reynolds

@tristanreynolds.bsky.social
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Educator; Writer. Interested in international education, comparative education, educational policy, and making learning accessible to everyone. Newsletter at continuinged.substack.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Right-wing nationalist populist movement led by charismatic demagogue, failed in coup attempt but later got some power electorally and illegally seized more, deployed secret police to put minorities in concentration camps, and launched aggressive war, but do not compare to the Nazis, that’d be rude.
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What a strange story. California woman finds a man, allegedly drunk, sleeping on her lawn early in the morning & sends her dad out to move him. The man wakes up & allegedly assaults the (elderly) dad, who shoots him Turns out the man is off-duty ICE agent David Gonzalez abc7.com/story/off-du...
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Off-duty ICE agent shot after assaulting 72-year-old man and his daughter at Fresno home, police say
Authorities say a woman found the ICE agent sleeping on her front lawn.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I can’t help but notice that ICE keeps claiming that people it shoots were trying to ram the agents with a car, and then video keeps proving that’s a lie.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026
This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.
A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drinkThe console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders. In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 03/10/2026
Of recent interest here in Minnesota is that ICE is releasing detainees to satisfy Habeas requests, and then immediately detaining again. This really ought to be national news.
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 03/10/2026
I've been waiting for this to be published. Such a bonkers story: www.propublica.org/article/prop...
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Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.
Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...
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Jared Rutecki @jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Amazing work by @propublica.org and partners illustrating the lack of regulations around microschools in some states. www.propublica.org/article/prop...
In Arkansas, all it took was a few clicks on the Arkansas secretary of state website, $45 and an American flag to form a bona fide private school with the Arkansas Times.
We established a school with Mountain State Spotlight in West Virginia after filing our new school's name and location with authorities on a piece of notebook paper, then exchanging a few emails.
And with The Assembly in North Carolina, we filed an online notice of intent to open a private school at Ponysaurus Brewing Co. in Durham, while perched on its metal bar stools, eyeing glasses of a crisp kolsch.
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Of course I agree with Kevin as we limp along at CUNY hobbled by decades of under-funding. It hasn't been costless. I am not feeling sanguine given the Dems even in blue states have decided public higher ed = vocational training. But will I stop pushing the Dems on it? No.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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accidentalflyer 🇨🇦🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @accidentalflyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Taiwan went through that under Chiang Kai-shek's White Terror. Mom was a child refugee from mainland China and one of her grade school classmates hated her for that for years, because her father, a Taiwanese doctor involved in pro-democratic movement, got disappeared during that era.
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Tristan Reynolds @tristanreynolds.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand fucking pound.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
this feels like the more crucial problem to solve tbh. we need Democrats to treat the civil rights and dignity of the trans community with the same seriousness as Black Americans.
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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I think that’s the heart of this, comprehending the cruelty. You could comprehend an outburst after October 7th that built to war crimes, but then ended. That would be wrong, but comprehensible. You could understand why it could unfold that way. Three years of open genocide is incomprehensible.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/09/2026
Today at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago: Dozens of ICE agents violently confronted protesters, deploying chemical irritants on the crowd. Multiple people were injured. No arrests were observed.
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Tristan Reynolds @tristanreynolds.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
To be clear: the way UT does admissions is a shining example of how public universities should work, and more states (especially California!) should have a similar policy. That's also why it's so bad that Republicans are trying to destroy academic freedom in the UT system.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Republican Governor Jim Pillen has been a champion of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. But at least 20 of his family farms employed undocumented immigrants, according to a new investigation by the Flatwater Free Press and The New York Times. youtu.be/5RZgrR1_7Dc?...
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This GOP governor said ‘illegal aliens’ have ‘invaded.’ His family farms EMPLOYED them, report finds
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Tristan Reynolds @tristanreynolds.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This has some implications for education that are profoundly unsettling, to say the least. One of the things I'm struggling with is that we can't even really start to unpack those implications , though, while half the field is still in its denial of reality phase.
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Tristan Reynolds @tristanreynolds.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Truly my education hot take is that calculus needs to be replaced with stats for almost every high school student.
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Tristan Reynolds @tristanreynolds.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is the Brian Eno idea about the sound of failure, I think.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Kings and Emperors put their faces on coins, Presidents do not. Today is also the anniversary of the Battle of Actium, the day the Roman republic died. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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Gold-colored Trump $1 coins available now on US Mint website
They come in either a 25-coin roll for $61 or a 100-coin bag for $154.50, with an initial limit of two orders per household.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 31/08/2026
canada: "fuck you, americans!" americans: "yeah, that's fair, fuck us up"
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Grotesque
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/08/2026
Measles-linked deaths since RFK Jr became HHS Secretary now surpass those recorded in the previous 20 years combined.
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
no amnesty
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/08/2026
If this were happening somewhere else, we would call them what they are: Internally Displaced People.
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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
where are the 500 professors signing an open letter about a professor being fired for talking about gender?
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." Hannah Arendt
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 22/08/2026
There will be a lot of well meaning people who will tell you to temper your hate in the coming years
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Gov. Mike DeWine directed Ohio State University to adopt the IHRA Definition of antisemitism, which explicitly prohibits “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.” Am I allowed to teach this Haaretz article in my Peace Studies class? I don’t know.
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Tristan Reynolds @tristanreynolds.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
One of the things that I am really grateful for is growing up during the blog days where, if you used weak sourcing, people would call you out on it.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's increasing clear the primary uses of our surveillance state are not to prevent crime or to track down criminals, but to engage in criminal activity. Nothing about that should be surprising given the elaborate legal structures we have in place to create a culture of impunity in law enforcement.
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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Higher ed was one of the United States’ most powerful “exports.” This is tragic.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026
Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
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Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If they were so inclined, Democrats could make some brutal TV ads tying Republicans to these torture devices designed to be used on protesters
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AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
1. "They tried to run us over" has been institutionalized as DHS's license to shoot people. They reflexively go to this lie when they draw their guns. 2. Even with a masked man is waving a gun in her face, this woman repeatedly tells them they are full of shit. Hero.
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Abolish the agency 1/20/2029. Fire every single person, publish all their names and list of all assignments, ban them from federal employment for life.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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Tristan Reynolds @tristanreynolds.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I mean, you claim to be a small-d democrat, yet worked for how many GOP administrations?
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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“The evidence is pretty unambiguous that one of the United States’ superpowers is its ability to attract the top talent from essentially every other country in the world and put them to work here for a time, if not for their full careers,” Gross said. “I think that’s what’s at stake right now.”
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Rafael Mentges @mentges.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
If any students are following me, some advice. Take the difficult courses, the ones teach you methods, statistics, econometrics, models. If you are motivated you will read and learn the other stuff anyway but most people won't sit down and read about methods.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Wow. I'm curious how common such reactions from military families were in previous conflicts.
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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
It brings me great joy to see that renewables are now so big an industry that they can order political hits on Congressmen.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
These people are weird and evil. Going after children bc they are so fucked in the head and in the heart they just need to spread misery.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This couple came legally. They applied for asylum before their visas expired, wanting to do it all by the books. After six months, they applied for work permits to stay afloat, passing background checks. They worked legally and paid taxes while government delay dragged on. Then ICE came for them.
The couple quickly became key to Chicago’s nightlife, curating events and performing in some of Chicago’s most popular venues. They were getting ready for their biggest venture yet: following Karol G’s tour across the country, hosting unofficial afterparties.
But on Sunday morning, as the couple walked out of their rideshare outside of Midway Airport, they were apprehended by federal immigration agents. The two were on their way to take a flight to Washington, D.C., the first stop of the tour. They never made it through the door.
The Department of Homeland Security said it had arrested Panqueva, 26, and Paez, 27, for overstaying their visas, which both expired in 2022. But their attorney, Enrique Espinoza, said the pair had applied for asylum within the required time frame before their visas expired. The two both have asylum cases, Social Security numbers, work permits and the documents required for their ongoing legal process, Espinoza said.
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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
It remains one of my greatest hopes that people who write about school in America come to understand that there's no such thing as an American education system. (Blue states CAN'T do book lists! Sometimes by because there is a literal law saying they can't!) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
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Opinion | What Blue States Can Learn From the Texas Book List (Gift Article)
Educational traditionalism is not the same as political conservatism.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Tristan Reynolds @tristanreynolds.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I wonder how much of that is related to the 2012 presidential race being the last time both candidates actually cared about policy.
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