Dr. Cara Berg Powers
@clbergpowers.bsky.social
I post about public education, school integration, cultural theory, media literacy, sex ed, parenting, and random thoughts from my ADHD brain. Proud co-editor of uncoveringpossible.com out now from Vernon Press! CFC166871CD4B 24% off
My little brother turns 40 next week and my Dad (who doesn't drive anymore) just saw a commercial for Burger King doing TMNT kids meals, so I've been given a special birthday mission. Since I'm a vegetarian, he promised he'll eat all the kids meals and we'll try to collect all the Ninja Turtles.
two teenage mutant ninja turtles stand in front of a brick wall
Alt: Michaelangelo and Donatello of the teenage mutant ninja turtles stand in front of a brick wall and high five
media.tenor.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:26 AM
My little brother turns 40 next week and my Dad (who doesn't drive anymore) just saw a commercial for Burger King doing TMNT kids meals, so I've been given a special birthday mission. Since I'm a vegetarian, he promised he'll eat all the kids meals and we'll try to collect all the Ninja Turtles.
What a huge loss
AERA is saddened by the passing of Dr. Ernest Morrell, AERA Fellow and former at-large member of Council. A distinguished scholar of English and Africana studies, he made enduring contributions to education research. We extend our heartfelt condolences.
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February 10, 2026 at 3:18 AM
What a huge loss
Had back to back meetings from 11-8 today and then successfully changed the broken heating element on our 14 year old oven which appears to *not* be the reason the oven won't heat up. So it's been a day. But the kid is in bed with the lights out before 11 so I'm taking the win.
February 10, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Had back to back meetings from 11-8 today and then successfully changed the broken heating element on our 14 year old oven which appears to *not* be the reason the oven won't heat up. So it's been a day. But the kid is in bed with the lights out before 11 so I'm taking the win.
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Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
www.mprnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
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When Texas lawmakers tried to visit 33-year-old “political prisoner” Leqaa Kordia at an ICE facility, she’d already lost 50 pounds and was running a high fever.
By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/09/l...
By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/09/l...
‘Political Prisoner’ Leqaa Kordia Has Been Hospitalized, DHS Says. After Calling 16 Hospitals, Her Lawyers Say They Can't Find Her.
The Columbia University protester had a fever when lawmakers tried to visit her last month — and her health is declining fast.
thebarbedwire.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:25 PM
When Texas lawmakers tried to visit 33-year-old “political prisoner” Leqaa Kordia at an ICE facility, she’d already lost 50 pounds and was running a high fever.
By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/09/l...
By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/09/l...
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Monday, February 16, at 7:00 pm ET for the launch of Power in Solidarity — a four-part, skill-building training series designed to help you organize effectively, take meaningful action, and build lasting power for immigrant justice. actionnetwork.org/events/train...
Training Series: Power in Solidarity
Movements don’t win by chance; they win with skill, strategy, and solidarity. Join the Solidarity Organizing Initiative for a dynamic four part skill training, 'Power in Solidarity,' where we’ll learn...
actionnetwork.org
February 9, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Monday, February 16, at 7:00 pm ET for the launch of Power in Solidarity — a four-part, skill-building training series designed to help you organize effectively, take meaningful action, and build lasting power for immigrant justice. actionnetwork.org/events/train...
Or any official account from a self-interested authority (like police)
IDK who needs to hear this (Ok, I do, but I'm being diplomatic) but you cannot simply report what DHS says as fact in 2026 without looking into it
February 9, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Or any official account from a self-interested authority (like police)
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"Anybody knows, who studies history, what happens when you have folks who are now treating these humans as bodies, and you have no reason to believe you’re going to make it out alive from a place where they’re already calling you a body." Thank you, Aliya Rahman, for this brave testimony & analysis💥
Meet Aliya Rahman, Disabled U.S. Citizen Assaulted, Jailed & Traumatized by ICE in Minneapolis
We speak with Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who was violently dragged from her car by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis last month and detained at the Whipple Federal Building, which has beco...
www.democracynow.org
February 9, 2026 at 8:40 PM
"Anybody knows, who studies history, what happens when you have folks who are now treating these humans as bodies, and you have no reason to believe you’re going to make it out alive from a place where they’re already calling you a body." Thank you, Aliya Rahman, for this brave testimony & analysis💥
All I know is that since last night I have been really wanting a coconut limber.
February 9, 2026 at 8:37 PM
All I know is that since last night I have been really wanting a coconut limber.
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Appalling, but in no way surprising. We should believe people when they show us who they are.
This is a must read from @aislinn.bsky.social about parents, power, and when we count in Worcester. Also shines a critical light on the nastiness of some and the cowardice of others. Our kids deserve much better. www.worcestersucks.email/p/it-was-nev...
It was never about the snow
The quiet lessons of local power
www.worcestersucks.email
February 9, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Appalling, but in no way surprising. We should believe people when they show us who they are.
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I knew without clicking which School Committee Member was misbehaving in public, again.
This is a must read from @aislinn.bsky.social about parents, power, and when we count in Worcester. Also shines a critical light on the nastiness of some and the cowardice of others. Our kids deserve much better. www.worcestersucks.email/p/it-was-nev...
It was never about the snow
The quiet lessons of local power
www.worcestersucks.email
February 9, 2026 at 8:19 PM
I knew without clicking which School Committee Member was misbehaving in public, again.
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This is gender.
Living in this country, it’s just a reality that the left and liberals are expected to do more and uphold more. I don’t know how you can come away with any other conclusion than that when you flip the script on the above premise.
February 9, 2026 at 7:59 PM
This is gender.
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I just found out Ricky Martin and Kid Rock are the same age…wut
February 9, 2026 at 7:12 PM
I just found out Ricky Martin and Kid Rock are the same age…wut
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In the past year, Trump administration appointees at the Department of Energy have canceled $815 million of a $1-billion fund meant to bolster the island’s grid against storms and outages.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-...
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show highlighted Puerto Rico’s power grid. Here’s why
Bad Bunny performed part of the Super Bowl halftime show from a power-line-themed set, drawing attention to the problem of widespread blackouts in Puerto Rico
www.scientificamerican.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:21 PM
In the past year, Trump administration appointees at the Department of Energy have canceled $815 million of a $1-billion fund meant to bolster the island’s grid against storms and outages.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-...
Do you know how many times I have brought my neighbor's dog back to the yard? They want us to mediate ALL of our relationships through their technology. Just talk to your neighbors. Borrow some sugar. Make them some cookies. The "technology" of finding lost pets hasn't changed for good reason.
February 9, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Do you know how many times I have brought my neighbor's dog back to the yard? They want us to mediate ALL of our relationships through their technology. Just talk to your neighbors. Borrow some sugar. Make them some cookies. The "technology" of finding lost pets hasn't changed for good reason.
This is a must read from @aislinn.bsky.social about parents, power, and when we count in Worcester. Also shines a critical light on the nastiness of some and the cowardice of others. Our kids deserve much better. www.worcestersucks.email/p/it-was-nev...
It was never about the snow
The quiet lessons of local power
www.worcestersucks.email
February 9, 2026 at 7:01 PM
This is a must read from @aislinn.bsky.social about parents, power, and when we count in Worcester. Also shines a critical light on the nastiness of some and the cowardice of others. Our kids deserve much better. www.worcestersucks.email/p/it-was-nev...
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okay i know ppl who have had this disorder. my aunt was an emergency room doctor in oregon and has treated people with it. we do not know enough about it.
but there's no fucking way 30% of daily cannabis users have it. never in a million years could that be true.
but there's no fucking way 30% of daily cannabis users have it. never in a million years could that be true.
second, a new-to-me humdinger, the claim that “nearly 2.8 million people suffer from cannabis hyperemesis syndrome”. this is bonkers on its face, a stat made up to scare the uninvolved. Click through the studies mentioned, you end up with a projection from a single study, spun up to a What If number
February 9, 2026 at 6:51 PM
okay i know ppl who have had this disorder. my aunt was an emergency room doctor in oregon and has treated people with it. we do not know enough about it.
but there's no fucking way 30% of daily cannabis users have it. never in a million years could that be true.
but there's no fucking way 30% of daily cannabis users have it. never in a million years could that be true.
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Jorell is quite rightly being lauded for collaborating with Bad Bunny, and his PUERTO RICO, from @princetonupress.bsky.social, is fantastic, I keep thinking, as I've watched MPLS, of his earlier book THE LETTERED BARRIADA, about PR organizing and educating under occupation in the first half of C20.
The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico
www.dukeupress.edu
February 9, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Jorell is quite rightly being lauded for collaborating with Bad Bunny, and his PUERTO RICO, from @princetonupress.bsky.social, is fantastic, I keep thinking, as I've watched MPLS, of his earlier book THE LETTERED BARRIADA, about PR organizing and educating under occupation in the first half of C20.
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Since the early days of the space program, astronauts have quarantined before missions because any illness could be disastrous. It’s eminently logical — not “extreme” — for athletes who’ve trained their WHOLE LIVES for one event to take similar precautions in order to stay in peak physical condition
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy. n.pr/4akK70l
Olympic Covid restrictions are gone, but some athletes still self-quarantining
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy.
n.pr
February 9, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Since the early days of the space program, astronauts have quarantined before missions because any illness could be disastrous. It’s eminently logical — not “extreme” — for athletes who’ve trained their WHOLE LIVES for one event to take similar precautions in order to stay in peak physical condition
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Petra and Vanessa are back today with a guide to last night's show in @rollingstone.com! Read this, then grab their book from @dukepress.bsky.social!
"But Bad Bunny always finds a way to get many complex messages in his performances, just as he does with his songs."
"But Bad Bunny always finds a way to get many complex messages in his performances, just as he does with his songs."
February 9, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Petra and Vanessa are back today with a guide to last night's show in @rollingstone.com! Read this, then grab their book from @dukepress.bsky.social!
"But Bad Bunny always finds a way to get many complex messages in his performances, just as he does with his songs."
"But Bad Bunny always finds a way to get many complex messages in his performances, just as he does with his songs."
Some of the corporate media takes on half-time are giving me flash backs to when Formation came out and a prominent boomer white feminist wrote to a media listserv we were both on desperate to clarify "she doesn't REALLY take him to Red Lobster though, right? I mean that's ridiculous."
February 9, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Some of the corporate media takes on half-time are giving me flash backs to when Formation came out and a prominent boomer white feminist wrote to a media listserv we were both on desperate to clarify "she doesn't REALLY take him to Red Lobster though, right? I mean that's ridiculous."
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I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage.
The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.
Follow along!
The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.
Follow along!
February 9, 2026 at 5:08 PM
I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage.
The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.
Follow along!
The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.
Follow along!
One of my favorite things about my neighborhood is the dominoes abuelos at the park. They bring a whole set up. One of them has a Dominican flag hammock that he strings up between 2 hundred year old elm trees. That's how you know it's Spring. They're out there with the card table and folding chairs.
Hard to get pictures that aren't blurry
Anyway, next stop was a table of abuelos playing dominoes
Often considered Puerto Rico's national pastime and enjoyed by people of all generations
He specifically talks about playing dominoes with his abuelo in "DtMF"
Anyway, next stop was a table of abuelos playing dominoes
Often considered Puerto Rico's national pastime and enjoyed by people of all generations
He specifically talks about playing dominoes with his abuelo in "DtMF"
February 9, 2026 at 6:01 PM
One of my favorite things about my neighborhood is the dominoes abuelos at the park. They bring a whole set up. One of them has a Dominican flag hammock that he strings up between 2 hundred year old elm trees. That's how you know it's Spring. They're out there with the card table and folding chairs.
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Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.
Thursday at 7 PM ET
events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.
Thursday at 7 PM ET
events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
February 9, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.
Thursday at 7 PM ET
events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.
Thursday at 7 PM ET
events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...