Amity
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Amity
@amitygc.bsky.social
Educator, reader, advocate
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May 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Look at what my garden made! Look at it!!

#gardensky🌱🌱
May 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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May 9, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
PSA:
Yall. LinkedIn is not a dating site. It’s bad enough on there without folks trying to leverage their profession into a date. Stop it already.

Sincerely,
Amity
April 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
edsource.org/updates/fede...

Sad day for education research. I have used ERIC innumerable times and this makes me sad.
UPDATE: Federal database of historical education documents ceasing operations
The latest education news updates from EdSource.
edsource.org
April 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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When the moment came, Harvard didn’t hedge or flinch—it stood up. A reminder that integrity isn’t complicated, it’s just rare.
April 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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April 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Embrace expressing yourself 🙌 lite.spr.ly/6002GQCp

#memes #imgur
April 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
No words for this. Well, a bunch of choice ones, but I’ll keep my outrage to a simmer on here. SAMHSA’s work has helped millions, including me. Shame on this admin.
apha.org APHA @apha.org · Apr 16
Sweeping staffing reductions and funding takebacks will threaten access to lifesaving substance use disorder care, APHA and partners warn: "These deep cuts leave us deeply concerned about how this vital work can continue." www.lac.org/news/joint-s...
Legal Action Center | Joint Statement Opposing SAMHSA Cuts and Any…
Eighty leading stakeholder groups join together to oppose recent funding and staffing cuts to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Admini...
www.lac.org
April 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Ok, ok. Thoughts? Sounds like she was ambushed...
Good discussion between Reshma Saujani and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, in which she talks about what led to the viral awkwardness of her recent Oval Office meeting.
April 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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April 15, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Miss me with that malarkey 😤 lite.spr.ly/6008Gqqm

#memes #imgur
April 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Seems like El Salvador was not hit with the 10% tariffs? Hmmm I guess that tracks…
April 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Leadership. Plain and simple.
April 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Thank you @altnps.bsky.social for explaining what things mean for those of us who aren’t legalese-literate!
Claim by the White House:

The Supreme Court ruling made it “very clear” that Trump was “well within his constitutional authority” to carry out deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.

What the Supreme Court actually ruled:
April 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
A doctoral candidate I have the privilege of supporting is looking for educators who have worked under traumatic leadership.
If you’re an educator who has had this experience, please complete her survey:
lnkd.in/eCv6Sxhw

Please share this post so that teachers are heard!!
April 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

So a stationary store in Florida is suing Trump over the tariffs. Maybe we all might need some new paper?
Opinion | How Donald Trump got the power to impose tariffs on the world
You wouldn’t necessarily know it listening to the president, but the Constitution assigns the power to impose tariffs on Congress, not the White House.
www.msnbc.com
April 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Please help, if you can! I’m already providing support at another TDOV event during that time or I’d be there.
Baltimore/Annapolis people, I need your help. If you can’t attend, please share this post.

The Anne Arundel County Public Library in Glen Burnie is having a Trans Pride event tomorrow, since it’s March 31. Unfortunately, the Maryland Republican Party has gotten wind and is organizing a protest.
March 31, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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This is seriously such an amazing tool. St. Louis City has also started using it for their soccer games.

Two teams I love both doing really cool things
The Portland Trail Blazers became the first NBA team to offer the service to visually impaired fans.

Using a laptop-sized device that has the outline of the basketball court, users feel vibrations that indicate ball movement.

🔗: http://dlvr.it/TJpwYq
March 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Yep
March 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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We discussed this a lot when trump insisted he declassified all the shit he stole with his mind.
NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence."
 
The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."
Negligently disclosing national defense information is illegal — and it doesn't have to be classified
The Espionage Act, the law that often has been used in criminal cases involving leaks or mishandling of classified information, contains a provision making it
www.nbcnews.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Local Indivisible member was abducted by ICE in Washington. If you're in the state, please elevate this thread to your electeds and ask for their help in getting his release.
We are heartbroken and outraged to learn that Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez was violently detained by ICE while dropping his partner off at work. He is reportedly being held at a private detention facility in Tacoma, Washington. 🧵
ICE arrests WA farmworker activist in Sedro-Woolley
Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez, 25, has organized on behalf of farmworkers' rights in Washington state since he was 14 years old.
www.seattletimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM