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
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OPINION: "More than two centuries later, another Jewish community—this time in Jackson, Mississippi—awoke to a similarly gut-wrenching scene on Jan. 10," Daniel Stein writes.
Opinion | Mississippi Synagogue Arson Recalls Our Long History of Resilience
Daniel Stein writes about how the Beth Israel Congregation fire reminds him of how followers of Judaism have come together in times of struggle.
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February 8, 2026 at 4:45 PM
OPINION: "More than two centuries later, another Jewish community—this time in Jackson, Mississippi—awoke to a similarly gut-wrenching scene on Jan. 10," Daniel Stein writes.
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The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
“We cannot just abolish ICE!”
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
February 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM
The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
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the people who want you to believe that generative AI can paint like Picasso tend to gloss over the fact that Picasso didn’t have hundreds of Picassos to learn from. He had to make something new, which a model trained on old art is definitionally incapable of doing.
February 8, 2026 at 4:36 PM
the people who want you to believe that generative AI can paint like Picasso tend to gloss over the fact that Picasso didn’t have hundreds of Picassos to learn from. He had to make something new, which a model trained on old art is definitionally incapable of doing.
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Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) says he was uninvited from a bipartisan White House dinner for governors
"As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not"
"As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not"
February 8, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) says he was uninvited from a bipartisan White House dinner for governors
"As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not"
"As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not"
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This article was a sponsored post. A paid advertisement for this lady’s hustle and grift that flood the romance market with slop.
“Whenever the publishing industry is rocked by a technological shift, it usually hits romance first.”
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:33 PM
This article was a sponsored post. A paid advertisement for this lady’s hustle and grift that flood the romance market with slop.
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Surya Bonaly is the only Olympic figure skater to land a backflip on one blade🖤
February 8, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Surya Bonaly is the only Olympic figure skater to land a backflip on one blade🖤
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DID YOU KNOW?
If you have Delta Sky Miles, you can donate them to help a kidnapped-and-released person fly home!
They are set free on the streets of El Paso or another Texas town with no phone, no money, nothing at all. Your miles can get them back to their loved ones!
If you have Delta Sky Miles, you can donate them to help a kidnapped-and-released person fly home!
They are set free on the streets of El Paso or another Texas town with no phone, no money, nothing at all. Your miles can get them back to their loved ones!
Donate Your Miles — Stand With Minnesota
Donate your Delta Skymiles to get people home from Texas
www.standwithminnesota.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:39 AM
DID YOU KNOW?
If you have Delta Sky Miles, you can donate them to help a kidnapped-and-released person fly home!
They are set free on the streets of El Paso or another Texas town with no phone, no money, nothing at all. Your miles can get them back to their loved ones!
If you have Delta Sky Miles, you can donate them to help a kidnapped-and-released person fly home!
They are set free on the streets of El Paso or another Texas town with no phone, no money, nothing at all. Your miles can get them back to their loved ones!
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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lol I don't think a lot of white people believe that Black people are reliable narrators of our own stories.
And IMO this comes from white people wanting to downplay how much anti-Black racism shapes Black people's lives.
And IMO this comes from white people wanting to downplay how much anti-Black racism shapes Black people's lives.
How do white people delude themselves into believing that they can identify anti-Black racism better than a Black person? Enough to refute the validity of a Black person’s claim of anti-Black racism??? Like…how does one get to that level of ability to lie to themselves?
February 7, 2026 at 2:57 PM
lol I don't think a lot of white people believe that Black people are reliable narrators of our own stories.
And IMO this comes from white people wanting to downplay how much anti-Black racism shapes Black people's lives.
And IMO this comes from white people wanting to downplay how much anti-Black racism shapes Black people's lives.
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if everyone could take on the “what if we just did the thing instead of waiting for it to happen” energy that much of minneapolis has right now, the world could be pretty good
February 6, 2026 at 10:51 PM
if everyone could take on the “what if we just did the thing instead of waiting for it to happen” energy that much of minneapolis has right now, the world could be pretty good
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I think the Olympic ideal of peace and harmony is best captured by a room full of people, all from different countries from across the globe, booing JD Vance together.
May he be greeted by such vocal harmony every day.
May he be greeted by such vocal harmony every day.
February 7, 2026 at 3:28 AM
I think the Olympic ideal of peace and harmony is best captured by a room full of people, all from different countries from across the globe, booing JD Vance together.
May he be greeted by such vocal harmony every day.
May he be greeted by such vocal harmony every day.
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These are so great! I love a good foldable fancy walking stick... Might need a galaxy cane to keep in my travel bag.
Happy Black History Month!
It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.
These carbon fiber foldable walking sticks are lightweight and strong. You can fit them in a bag! And they come in 3 great patterns!!!
Store: Bibipins.com
It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.
These carbon fiber foldable walking sticks are lightweight and strong. You can fit them in a bag! And they come in 3 great patterns!!!
Store: Bibipins.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:23 PM
These are so great! I love a good foldable fancy walking stick... Might need a galaxy cane to keep in my travel bag.
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Red Wine & Blue now has more than 600,000 members. Its members and affiliated groups held 4,000 events last year, most of them in person. On Tuesday, they raised more than $100k in less than an hour to support Haitians in Springfield, OH & oppose ICE. 19thnews.org/2026/02/wine... via @19thnews.org
The original ‘wine moms’ are in Ohio. They’re mobilizing to support Haitians in Springfield.
Katie Paris founded Red, Wine & Blue to harness suburban women's political power — now more than 600,000 members are deploying it to oppose ICE in their communities.
19thnews.org
February 5, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Red Wine & Blue now has more than 600,000 members. Its members and affiliated groups held 4,000 events last year, most of them in person. On Tuesday, they raised more than $100k in less than an hour to support Haitians in Springfield, OH & oppose ICE. 19thnews.org/2026/02/wine... via @19thnews.org
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Happy Black History Month!
It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.
These carbon fiber foldable walking sticks are lightweight and strong. You can fit them in a bag! And they come in 3 great patterns!!!
Store: Bibipins.com
It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.
These carbon fiber foldable walking sticks are lightweight and strong. You can fit them in a bag! And they come in 3 great patterns!!!
Store: Bibipins.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Happy Black History Month!
It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.
These carbon fiber foldable walking sticks are lightweight and strong. You can fit them in a bag! And they come in 3 great patterns!!!
Store: Bibipins.com
It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.
These carbon fiber foldable walking sticks are lightweight and strong. You can fit them in a bag! And they come in 3 great patterns!!!
Store: Bibipins.com
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Ok I'm kind of into Canada's scarf coats
February 7, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Ok I'm kind of into Canada's scarf coats
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I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
Watching the Olympic opening ceremony and my people are weird af
February 7, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Watching the Olympic opening ceremony and my people are weird af
This thread is honestly everything great about the internet. Replies and all.
I have made... a mistake. Each auction lot had 8-12 photos, so I assumed that was the number of pieces in the lot.
It was merely a sample. Each lot contains 100-ish pieces.
I won three lots.
It was merely a sample. Each lot contains 100-ish pieces.
I won three lots.
February 6, 2026 at 9:20 PM
This thread is honestly everything great about the internet. Replies and all.
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Regarding the Discourse, lemme just say that if you can't draw, yes you can.
Everyone can draw, and folks will almost certainly respond more positively to your stick figures than some generic "A.i." slop.
Also, there are LOADS of resources for free images. Like this! 🧵
www.nga.gov/artworks/fre...
Everyone can draw, and folks will almost certainly respond more positively to your stick figures than some generic "A.i." slop.
Also, there are LOADS of resources for free images. Like this! 🧵
www.nga.gov/artworks/fre...
Free Images and Open Access | National Gallery of Art
Free open access image downloads are now available directly from the object pages located on this website. Close to 60,000 images are available for download, and we will continue to add more images fo...
www.nga.gov
February 6, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Regarding the Discourse, lemme just say that if you can't draw, yes you can.
Everyone can draw, and folks will almost certainly respond more positively to your stick figures than some generic "A.i." slop.
Also, there are LOADS of resources for free images. Like this! 🧵
www.nga.gov/artworks/fre...
Everyone can draw, and folks will almost certainly respond more positively to your stick figures than some generic "A.i." slop.
Also, there are LOADS of resources for free images. Like this! 🧵
www.nga.gov/artworks/fre...
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“At the peak of the adoption boom in the 2000s, one in 100 Guatemalan children was put up for adoption abroad.”
Some parallels here to what’s come to light about Korea’s adoption program. As in Korea, the Guatemalan state has begun to acknowledge historical problems and abuses. The US has not.
Some parallels here to what’s come to light about Korea’s adoption program. As in Korea, the Guatemalan state has begun to acknowledge historical problems and abuses. The US has not.
Torn Asunder | Oscar Lopez
As Guatemala and El Salvador were being torn apart by violent US-backed regimes, tens of thousands of children—many of them war orphans, others forcibly taken from their birth parents—were being adopt...
www.nybooks.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:10 PM
“At the peak of the adoption boom in the 2000s, one in 100 Guatemalan children was put up for adoption abroad.”
Some parallels here to what’s come to light about Korea’s adoption program. As in Korea, the Guatemalan state has begun to acknowledge historical problems and abuses. The US has not.
Some parallels here to what’s come to light about Korea’s adoption program. As in Korea, the Guatemalan state has begun to acknowledge historical problems and abuses. The US has not.
This is one of the best visual representations I have seen of how Italy is actually a bunch of smashed together societies (as are all nation states because borders are very pretend and also enormously consequential).
We're 10 minutes into this and I already feel like I'm on drugs
February 6, 2026 at 7:15 PM
This is one of the best visual representations I have seen of how Italy is actually a bunch of smashed together societies (as are all nation states because borders are very pretend and also enormously consequential).
This Friday is Fridaying hard. I have actually gotten ahead of a lot of tasks this week and am having so much trouble getting the last 5 or 6 little ones across the lines. The ADHD brain fairy is like "you have done enough this week" and also "you need to stress all weekend about not doing enough."
February 6, 2026 at 6:44 PM
This Friday is Fridaying hard. I have actually gotten ahead of a lot of tasks this week and am having so much trouble getting the last 5 or 6 little ones across the lines. The ADHD brain fairy is like "you have done enough this week" and also "you need to stress all weekend about not doing enough."
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And notice, really REALLY notice, how every single aspect of our society is designed to keep us constantly overwhelmed with awful information.
That doesn't mean close your eyes and pretend it isn't real.
It does mean know the difference between staying aware and repeatedly traumatizing yourself.
That doesn't mean close your eyes and pretend it isn't real.
It does mean know the difference between staying aware and repeatedly traumatizing yourself.
February 5, 2026 at 8:54 PM
And notice, really REALLY notice, how every single aspect of our society is designed to keep us constantly overwhelmed with awful information.
That doesn't mean close your eyes and pretend it isn't real.
It does mean know the difference between staying aware and repeatedly traumatizing yourself.
That doesn't mean close your eyes and pretend it isn't real.
It does mean know the difference between staying aware and repeatedly traumatizing yourself.