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
Children have rights. Parents have a responsibility to safeguard and support those rights.
John James needs to go away. Undermining public schools, interfering in the educational instruction of other people's kids, making it easier for right wingers to control their children as they develop into young adults ... that's what he means by parent's bill of rights.
In bid for governor, John James proposes ‘bill of rights’ for Michigan parents - Bridge Michigan
In a new 'bill of rights' for Michigan parents, GOP gubernatorial candidate John James proposes opting into a private school choice program and limiting transgender athletes.
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February 11, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Children have rights. Parents have a responsibility to safeguard and support those rights.
February 11, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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February 11, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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Post from an El Paso city councilor on one of the aviation subreddits
February 11, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Post from an El Paso city councilor on one of the aviation subreddits
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Philosophers working at the Magic 8 Ball Factory have come to understand that the spheres' psychic powers, like our own, are a matter of having a deep spiritual connection with the ether, which will be broken unless you buy more Magic 8 Balls
February 11, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Philosophers working at the Magic 8 Ball Factory have come to understand that the spheres' psychic powers, like our own, are a matter of having a deep spiritual connection with the ether, which will be broken unless you buy more Magic 8 Balls
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Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
February 11, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
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Happy Lydia Maria Child Day & Harriet Jacobs Day! Damn right that’s America.
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February Nominees
February 1: Langston Hughes , one of America’s most talented poets and writers , and the only one equally adept writing about himself , ent...
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February 11, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Happy Lydia Maria Child Day & Harriet Jacobs Day! Damn right that’s America.
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As a kid I used to play with my cousin's magic 8 ball and I thought that asking it questions really got me meaningful if sometimes confusing answers.
The problem with the Turing test is that we as a species are really happy to discover and interact with other intelligences and fill gaps in meaning.
The problem with the Turing test is that we as a species are really happy to discover and interact with other intelligences and fill gaps in meaning.
Maybe a lot of our controversies around "AI" could be solved if we took it off the pedestal and saw it as an NLP tech that lets us build NLP interfaces on systems that require consciously building other components that do actual reasoning, data collection and decision making etc.
February 11, 2026 at 12:35 PM
As a kid I used to play with my cousin's magic 8 ball and I thought that asking it questions really got me meaningful if sometimes confusing answers.
The problem with the Turing test is that we as a species are really happy to discover and interact with other intelligences and fill gaps in meaning.
The problem with the Turing test is that we as a species are really happy to discover and interact with other intelligences and fill gaps in meaning.
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I know that there is just so much going on in every direction, but it does really feel like we've reached a point of class divide where the people making Big Money Decisions are an alien species who can't imagine what the rest of us are thinking at any point.
That Super Bowl Ring ad backfired spectacularly.
People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
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February 11, 2026 at 5:57 AM
I know that there is just so much going on in every direction, but it does really feel like we've reached a point of class divide where the people making Big Money Decisions are an alien species who can't imagine what the rest of us are thinking at any point.
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Today for @theflytrapmedia.com I wrote about the (techno)fascist push to grant personhood to anything except people
Dehumanizing Humans, Personifying Computers: Why Modern Fascism Wants You to be Lonely
Welcome to fully-automated luxury fascism. Can I take your personhood?
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February 10, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Today for @theflytrapmedia.com I wrote about the (techno)fascist push to grant personhood to anything except people
This was the lingering question I had from yesterday. The facilitation of ICE activity by WPD and the ongoing misinformation they were giving the public was excused in testimony over and over.
If it happened today - what would our police have done? How would they take our side. How would they help get ICE out? I hope that is the planning that is happening. ICE created horror on Eureka St. community responded w little information and wanting to protect our immigrant community. 😔
February 11, 2026 at 12:39 PM
This was the lingering question I had from yesterday. The facilitation of ICE activity by WPD and the ongoing misinformation they were giving the public was excused in testimony over and over.
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I can’t stop laughing about “and from New Jersey”
February 10, 2026 at 10:58 PM
I can’t stop laughing about “and from New Jersey”
My MIL gave me a very fancy sarafina holiday sampler for Hannukah in an elaborate 8 nights box. It was so large, I just took the little sampler baggies out. Fast forward to now I have a bag of baggies of candy with no info... anyway I accidentally had a chocolate covered espresso bean at midnight.
February 11, 2026 at 5:05 AM
My MIL gave me a very fancy sarafina holiday sampler for Hannukah in an elaborate 8 nights box. It was so large, I just took the little sampler baggies out. Fast forward to now I have a bag of baggies of candy with no info... anyway I accidentally had a chocolate covered espresso bean at midnight.
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A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 AM
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
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MINNESOTA IS NOT OK. EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE TALKING ABOUT MINNESOTA… THEY ARE LITERALLY FEEDING FAMILIES THROUGH UNDERGROUND RAILROAD STYLE ROUTES THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND APPARENTLY HELICOPTERS AND DRONES FLY OVERHEAD CONSTANTLY EVEN THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT.
February 11, 2026 at 12:41 AM
MINNESOTA IS NOT OK. EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE TALKING ABOUT MINNESOTA… THEY ARE LITERALLY FEEDING FAMILIES THROUGH UNDERGROUND RAILROAD STYLE ROUTES THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND APPARENTLY HELICOPTERS AND DRONES FLY OVERHEAD CONSTANTLY EVEN THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT.
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In Dublin last year, an annoying interviewer demanded of me: “Your country has been overtaken by fascists. Why are you smiling?” I was too jetlagged to have a sensible answer so I said, “I’m smiling because I have a knife between my teeth.” The knife might look like this:
Auspicious Omens and Excellent Insubordination
I started this out as a letter to a friend who's feeling down about where we as a nation are at in this moment, and I am still learning how this newsletter thing works so thought I could use the newsl...
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February 11, 2026 at 2:42 AM
In Dublin last year, an annoying interviewer demanded of me: “Your country has been overtaken by fascists. Why are you smiling?” I was too jetlagged to have a sensible answer so I said, “I’m smiling because I have a knife between my teeth.” The knife might look like this:
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Why Has This Columbia University Protester Been in ICE Detention for Nearly a Year?
Leqaa Kordia's family worries about her health after she was briefly hospitalized last week. DHS refused to give them information about her condition and she is still 'very sick.'
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Leqaa Kordia's family worries about her health after she was briefly hospitalized last week. DHS refused to give them information about her condition and she is still 'very sick.'
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Why Has This Columbia University Protester Been in ICE Detention for Nearly a Year?
Leqaa Kordia's family worries about her health after she was briefly hospitalized last week. DHS refused to give them information about her condition and she is still 'very sick.'
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February 11, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Why Has This Columbia University Protester Been in ICE Detention for Nearly a Year?
Leqaa Kordia's family worries about her health after she was briefly hospitalized last week. DHS refused to give them information about her condition and she is still 'very sick.'
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Leqaa Kordia's family worries about her health after she was briefly hospitalized last week. DHS refused to give them information about her condition and she is still 'very sick.'
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We have an update on the Liam Ramos family, and it isn’t good.
The family is in hiding, and Liam is waking up in the middle of the night screaming for his daddy.
The family is in hiding, and Liam is waking up in the middle of the night screaming for his daddy.
February 11, 2026 at 1:33 AM
We have an update on the Liam Ramos family, and it isn’t good.
The family is in hiding, and Liam is waking up in the middle of the night screaming for his daddy.
The family is in hiding, and Liam is waking up in the middle of the night screaming for his daddy.
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Why is it even legal to *make* such a thing? Nothing good ever can come from a bomb that literally boils and incinerates people. Absolutely nothing.
February 11, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Why is it even legal to *make* such a thing? Nothing good ever can come from a bomb that literally boils and incinerates people. Absolutely nothing.
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What are we doing?
5-year-old twins were denied bond because lack of assets and property.
Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Me. 😡
Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Me. 😡
February 11, 2026 at 1:34 AM
What are we doing?
@billshaner.bsky.social with a good quick rundown of day 1 of trial. www.worcestersucks.email/p/eureka-str...
February 11, 2026 at 1:44 AM
@billshaner.bsky.social with a good quick rundown of day 1 of trial. www.worcestersucks.email/p/eureka-str...
My entire feed is just the most dystopian ICE news on a loop. Meanwhile I spent all day in court with a blue state DAs office trying to convince a jury that a police officer who was not even injured was the only victim when a mom was kidnapped by ICE and her teen daughter violently arrested.
a woman in a black dress says it - it - the f - it - flam - flames
Alt: a woman in a black dress says it - it - the f - it - flam - flames on the side of my face
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February 11, 2026 at 1:16 AM
My entire feed is just the most dystopian ICE news on a loop. Meanwhile I spent all day in court with a blue state DAs office trying to convince a jury that a police officer who was not even injured was the only victim when a mom was kidnapped by ICE and her teen daughter violently arrested.
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Hours after Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum shot a Chicago woman 5 times, his boss, Cmdr. Greg Bovino, emailed him about extending his mandatory retirement.
"In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much left to do!!” Bovino wrote
Story:
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"In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much left to do!!” Bovino wrote
Story:
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Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino praised agent after shooting Marimar Martinez in Chicago, evidence shows
A trove of evidence was released Tuesday in the controversial shooting of Marimar Martinez by a Border Patrol agent at the height of Operation Midway Blitz last October, including a body-worn camer…
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February 10, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Hours after Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum shot a Chicago woman 5 times, his boss, Cmdr. Greg Bovino, emailed him about extending his mandatory retirement.
"In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much left to do!!” Bovino wrote
Story:
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"In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much left to do!!” Bovino wrote
Story:
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/10/m...
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THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
February 10, 2026 at 11:19 PM
THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude