Nick Covington
@covingtonedu.bsky.social
Dad. Iowan. Former HS social studies teacher.
Pinned
Getting to talk with @dianeravitch.bsky.social about her life is one of the highlights of mine. What a pleasure to share it with listeners as well!
Changing My Mind About Schools (and Everything Else) w/ Diane Ravitch: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cha... @humanrestorationproject.org
Changing My Mind About Schools (and Everything Else) w/ Diane Ravitch: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cha... @humanrestorationproject.org
I've got a small platform, but I want to help how I can. If any educators and students in Minneapolis want to talk or write about how the ICE occupation has impacted your community and schools, I want to host you. My DMs are open. Can anonymize however much you need to feel safe.
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I'm honestly just sick. If you can stomach watching any of this footage & still let the words "more training" escape your mouth, I cannot ever forgive you. These are state-sanctioned street executions. This is the training.
January 24, 2026 at 5:39 PM
I'm honestly just sick. If you can stomach watching any of this footage & still let the words "more training" escape your mouth, I cannot ever forgive you. These are state-sanctioned street executions. This is the training.
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sorry, but the Founding Fathers' original intent for the 2nd Amendment was always *just* to do school shootings
January 24, 2026 at 10:28 PM
sorry, but the Founding Fathers' original intent for the 2nd Amendment was always *just* to do school shootings
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We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
January 24, 2026 at 6:02 PM
We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
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Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
January 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
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I just watched the shooting video. It's a horrific beating and execution in the middle of the street.
If local and state officials don't move to arrest everyone involved for murder, they need to resign. Making arrests will de-escalate the situation. Do nothing and this is going to explode.
If local and state officials don't move to arrest everyone involved for murder, they need to resign. Making arrests will de-escalate the situation. Do nothing and this is going to explode.
January 24, 2026 at 3:56 PM
I just watched the shooting video. It's a horrific beating and execution in the middle of the street.
If local and state officials don't move to arrest everyone involved for murder, they need to resign. Making arrests will de-escalate the situation. Do nothing and this is going to explode.
If local and state officials don't move to arrest everyone involved for murder, they need to resign. Making arrests will de-escalate the situation. Do nothing and this is going to explode.
I've got a small platform, but I want to help how I can. If any educators and students in Minneapolis want to talk or write about how the ICE occupation has impacted your community and schools, I want to host you. My DMs are open. Can anonymize however much you need to feel safe.
Getting to talk with @dianeravitch.bsky.social about her life is one of the highlights of mine. What a pleasure to share it with listeners as well!
Changing My Mind About Schools (and Everything Else) w/ Diane Ravitch: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cha... @humanrestorationproject.org
Changing My Mind About Schools (and Everything Else) w/ Diane Ravitch: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cha... @humanrestorationproject.org
January 24, 2026 at 5:03 PM
I've got a small platform, but I want to help how I can. If any educators and students in Minneapolis want to talk or write about how the ICE occupation has impacted your community and schools, I want to host you. My DMs are open. Can anonymize however much you need to feel safe.
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One of six ICE agents reaches for his side arm as they are wrestling a single person to the ground, perhaps he meant to grab a taser but he just shoots a restrained man point blank 5-6 times.
please please please i cannot warn you enough if you dont want to see this video
January 24, 2026 at 3:54 PM
One of six ICE agents reaches for his side arm as they are wrestling a single person to the ground, perhaps he meant to grab a taser but he just shoots a restrained man point blank 5-6 times.
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Remain peaceful as criminal gangsters blind you with chemicals and break your skulls with "less than lethal" ammunition, if they don't kill you outright.
January 24, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Remain peaceful as criminal gangsters blind you with chemicals and break your skulls with "less than lethal" ammunition, if they don't kill you outright.
It's being reported that the victim was carrying a gun. While I wish every gun could be confiscated and thrown into a volcano, in a country that has more guns than people and where gun ownership and carry is an expansive and protected right, being in possession of a gun is NOT a capital crime.
Here's the video of ICE beating a man and then shooting him while he was on the ground from a credible source. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say
A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.
www.startribune.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:41 PM
It's being reported that the victim was carrying a gun. While I wish every gun could be confiscated and thrown into a volcano, in a country that has more guns than people and where gun ownership and carry is an expansive and protected right, being in possession of a gun is NOT a capital crime.
And it's just as insane to demand citizens peacefully accept a violent police occupation that kidnaps children, brutalizes communities, and murders their neighbors. The dam is going to break, and it will be entirely on officials who failed to protect the civil and human rights of those people.
We can all see how insane all of this is.
How much more suffering must be inflicted to satisfy this one guy?
How many more lives, cities, families, and communities must be turned upside down?
How many people have to die?
The only reasonable question left is: How quickly can we end this?
How much more suffering must be inflicted to satisfy this one guy?
How many more lives, cities, families, and communities must be turned upside down?
How many people have to die?
The only reasonable question left is: How quickly can we end this?
January 24, 2026 at 4:38 PM
And it's just as insane to demand citizens peacefully accept a violent police occupation that kidnaps children, brutalizes communities, and murders their neighbors. The dam is going to break, and it will be entirely on officials who failed to protect the civil and human rights of those people.
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We can all see how insane all of this is.
How much more suffering must be inflicted to satisfy this one guy?
How many more lives, cities, families, and communities must be turned upside down?
How many people have to die?
The only reasonable question left is: How quickly can we end this?
How much more suffering must be inflicted to satisfy this one guy?
How many more lives, cities, families, and communities must be turned upside down?
How many people have to die?
The only reasonable question left is: How quickly can we end this?
January 22, 2026 at 3:02 PM
We can all see how insane all of this is.
How much more suffering must be inflicted to satisfy this one guy?
How many more lives, cities, families, and communities must be turned upside down?
How many people have to die?
The only reasonable question left is: How quickly can we end this?
How much more suffering must be inflicted to satisfy this one guy?
How many more lives, cities, families, and communities must be turned upside down?
How many people have to die?
The only reasonable question left is: How quickly can we end this?
ICE is a band of criminal gangsters with state immunity. At least 6 or 7 ICE agents are involved in what looks like the gang beating of a single man until one of the agents decides to shoot him point blank.
Here's the video of ICE beating a man and then shooting him while he was on the ground from a credible source. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say
A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.
www.startribune.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:31 PM
ICE is a band of criminal gangsters with state immunity. At least 6 or 7 ICE agents are involved in what looks like the gang beating of a single man until one of the agents decides to shoot him point blank.
9 times out of 10 I'll take physical copies over ebooks of non-fiction books, but being able to ctrl+F is a game changer. I'll get ebook copies of certain books just to be able to search them!
January 24, 2026 at 3:59 PM
9 times out of 10 I'll take physical copies over ebooks of non-fiction books, but being able to ctrl+F is a game changer. I'll get ebook copies of certain books just to be able to search them!
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Diane Ravitch was once a leading champion of charters, vouchers, and testing until the evidence came in and she changed her mind about all of it.
Changing My Mind About Schools (and Everything Else) w/ @dianeravitch.bsky.social: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cha... #K12 #edchat
Changing My Mind About Schools (and Everything Else) w/ @dianeravitch.bsky.social: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cha... #K12 #edchat
January 24, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Diane Ravitch was once a leading champion of charters, vouchers, and testing until the evidence came in and she changed her mind about all of it.
Changing My Mind About Schools (and Everything Else) w/ @dianeravitch.bsky.social: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cha... #K12 #edchat
Changing My Mind About Schools (and Everything Else) w/ @dianeravitch.bsky.social: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cha... #K12 #edchat
Getting to talk with @dianeravitch.bsky.social about her life is one of the highlights of mine. What a pleasure to share it with listeners as well!
Changing My Mind About Schools (and Everything Else) w/ Diane Ravitch: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cha... @humanrestorationproject.org
Changing My Mind About Schools (and Everything Else) w/ Diane Ravitch: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cha... @humanrestorationproject.org
January 24, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Getting to talk with @dianeravitch.bsky.social about her life is one of the highlights of mine. What a pleasure to share it with listeners as well!
Changing My Mind About Schools (and Everything Else) w/ Diane Ravitch: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cha... @humanrestorationproject.org
Changing My Mind About Schools (and Everything Else) w/ Diane Ravitch: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cha... @humanrestorationproject.org
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Read the caption and understand what is happening here in Minnesota.
Our local schools are empty, many are at 50% or 70% absenteeism, it’s like COVID except with zero resources to support families or students. Because the federal government keeps specifically targeting them with terror tactics.
Our local schools are empty, many are at 50% or 70% absenteeism, it’s like COVID except with zero resources to support families or students. Because the federal government keeps specifically targeting them with terror tactics.
January 24, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Read the caption and understand what is happening here in Minnesota.
Our local schools are empty, many are at 50% or 70% absenteeism, it’s like COVID except with zero resources to support families or students. Because the federal government keeps specifically targeting them with terror tactics.
Our local schools are empty, many are at 50% or 70% absenteeism, it’s like COVID except with zero resources to support families or students. Because the federal government keeps specifically targeting them with terror tactics.
January 24, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."
8 weeks under siege in Minnesota • Minnesota Reformer
Frank has a hard time explaining to his 8-year-old daughter why they rarely leave their home in the Twin Cities. Why she can’t go to school, and why he can’t work. “The only thing we tell her is that ...
minnesotareformer.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:42 PM
"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."
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Started sending my kids (both of whom have Arabic first and last names) to school with copies of their birth certificates in their backpacks, in case you're wondering how things are going over here
January 23, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Started sending my kids (both of whom have Arabic first and last names) to school with copies of their birth certificates in their backpacks, in case you're wondering how things are going over here
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"Through intention or its absence, built by us or built for us, the very real and shared world we inhabit is built bit by bit each day. So is our work in education a world-building project."
So what is it about the world that is worth building?
www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/we-a...
So what is it about the world that is worth building?
www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/we-a...
January 23, 2026 at 4:53 PM
"Through intention or its absence, built by us or built for us, the very real and shared world we inhabit is built bit by bit each day. So is our work in education a world-building project."
So what is it about the world that is worth building?
www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/we-a...
So what is it about the world that is worth building?
www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/we-a...
"[John Dewey and Goodwin Watson] understood that the worlds of possibility we build through our work in schools become the shared world in which we live, and the ways we learn become the ways we are."
We Are Worldbuilders: www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/we-a...
We Are Worldbuilders: www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/we-a...
January 23, 2026 at 5:01 PM
"[John Dewey and Goodwin Watson] understood that the worlds of possibility we build through our work in schools become the shared world in which we live, and the ways we learn become the ways we are."
We Are Worldbuilders: www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/we-a...
We Are Worldbuilders: www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/we-a...
My latest @humanrestorationproject.org is me wrestling with all of *this* in relation to education:
"What is worth thinking, writing, learning, and discussing? What are we going to build with this time we have together?"
www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/we-a... #edchat #K12
"What is worth thinking, writing, learning, and discussing? What are we going to build with this time we have together?"
www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/we-a... #edchat #K12
January 23, 2026 at 4:59 PM
My latest @humanrestorationproject.org is me wrestling with all of *this* in relation to education:
"What is worth thinking, writing, learning, and discussing? What are we going to build with this time we have together?"
www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/we-a... #edchat #K12
"What is worth thinking, writing, learning, and discussing? What are we going to build with this time we have together?"
www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/we-a... #edchat #K12
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The students who will begin college in the fall were in 8th grade when rampant book banning began in the USA.
A look at the generational impact of book bans on teenagers–one of the most impacted groups by this First Amendment violation.
bookriot.com/the-generati...
A look at the generational impact of book bans on teenagers–one of the most impacted groups by this First Amendment violation.
bookriot.com/the-generati...
The Generational Impact of Book Bans on Teens: Book Censorship News, January 23, 2026
For generations, the research has been clear: young people read more and do better in school when they aren't subject to book bans.
bookriot.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:19 PM
The students who will begin college in the fall were in 8th grade when rampant book banning began in the USA.
A look at the generational impact of book bans on teenagers–one of the most impacted groups by this First Amendment violation.
bookriot.com/the-generati...
A look at the generational impact of book bans on teenagers–one of the most impacted groups by this First Amendment violation.
bookriot.com/the-generati...
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National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
January 22, 2026 at 8:25 PM
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.