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Dan Kearney

@dankearney.bsky.social

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Progressive educator in California / Host of the education podcast What’s the Big Idea? / Host of the music podcast But I Won’t Do That / Lover of running and comic books

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Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · Nov 29

In addition to teaching middle school I also host this education podcast, which lets me talk to some very cool people. Hope you can check it out…or be a guest!
#education #podcast

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What's the Big Idea?

A podcast about big ideas in education. Tune in to listen and think, then respond on Twitter and Instagram @BigIdeaEd

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Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · May 26

From the new episode of What’s the Big Idea?

@jessehagopian.bsky.social talks about how teachers are a crucial part of democracies…and the target of fascist regimes.

Full episode: shorturl.at/eHNUd
#podcast #education #truth #historyteacher

Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · May 26

In the new episode of But I Won’t Do That

Total Eclipse of the Heart

We ask:
What’s the most accurate vampire movie? What’s the best song for a solar eclipse? And would Meatloaf have done a better or worse job with this song? #podcast #musicpodcast #laugh
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Turn Around, Bright Eyes

But I Won't Do That · Episode

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Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · May 4

We really are living in peak hoodie times.

Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · May 2

When you’re a teacher you realize how bad the world is at explaining things.

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Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · Apr 30

New episode!
More cringey lyrics!!
More questionable fashion!!!
#music #podcast
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He's So Thug!

But I Won't Do That · Episode

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Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · Apr 26

There are 100 education policy podcasts? 😂

Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · Apr 24

“I can’t think of a way this could help ME” often equals “this can’t do anything” in many people’s minds

Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Apr 24

There are a lot of critiques of LLMs that I agree with but "they suck and aren't useful" doesn't really hold water.

I understand people not using them because of social, economic, and environmental concerns. And I also understand people using them because they can be very useful.

Thoughts?

Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · Apr 24

new podcast alert
#podcast #music #MusicSky

Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · Apr 22

Finally made it over to the @wendemuseum.bsky.social

Wow, it’s beautifully curated and full of thoughtful, fascinating artifacts. #history #historyteacher #coldwar

Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · Apr 21

It’s not really about Hegseth or Trump, both noted chumps. It’s all about the sycophants who confirmed Pete. Government just doesn’t work without thought and skepticism.

Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · Apr 21

We’re also on Apple Podcasts! We kicked off the #podcast with John Denver’s “Leaving on a Jet Plane.” So much to say about this one 😅 #music #musicpodcast

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Ready, Jet Set, Go!

Podcast Episode · But I Won't Do That · 04/18/2025 · 38m

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Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · Apr 21

Feels like Coogler-Jordan is destined to be one of the great filmmaking teams ever.

Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · Apr 20

Classic fake tough guy who won’t say it to their face.

Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · Apr 20

I’m so excited to announce the release of my new #podcast project, But I Won’t Do That.

My co-host and I take a humorous look the lyrics & videos of some of our favorite #songs. Tune in to hear us shooting the shit about #music and #popculture. New episode weekly
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But I Won't Do That

Podcast · Becky & Dan · Where we side eye the lyrics and videos of some of our favorite songs

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Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · Apr 15

From my recent interview with @garystager.bsky.social

Trust the kids! #EduSky

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Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · Apr 13

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Apr 12

I tell my undergrads that my 20th c lecture course revolves around two big questions — what is America and who counts as American?

Seth Boo!-ger Trueger @mdaware.org · Jan 19

this was more or less my conclusion from my undergrad lib arts degree:

Seth Trueger @MDAware

arguably the biggest question that drives history is "who counts as people?"

QTL:
Alan Lavinovitz Point about this story that's lost: The heroic rescuer didn't care whether people being rescued were heroes.. just that they were people AM Sep 5, 2017

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Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · Apr 12

Ai Weiwei’s graphic memoir is remarkable. It’s as much a meditation on how to exist in the world as it is his life story. A really beautiful work. #graphicnovel #comics

The cover of Zodiac, Ai Weiwei’s graphic memoir

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Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · Apr 10

I set Spotify to radio based on “Set Adrift on Memory Bliss” and it’s on an absolute heater

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · Apr 10

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD

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Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · Apr 10

It’s difficult rn to talk civics and history with teens who, for as far back as they can remember, there’s Trump.

Me: this isn’t normal

Them: what do you mean yeah it is

#EduSky

Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · Apr 7

It’s all fun and games when you’re not accountable and you can sit on some asshole’s podcast and lie

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Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · Apr 6

So true. A local “Patriot Store” (that’s literally its name) sells Trump merch and its all cheap shit made overseas

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Apr 6

I’ve gone out of my way for years to buy Tshirts that are made in US. Do you know where you most often find them? Festivals, fairs, concerts and events run by progressives. You know where you rarely find them? Being sold by ‘America First’ influencers & companies.

Dan Kearney @dankearney.bsky.social · Apr 6

Weeks like this I miss patriot act @hasanminhaj.com