Nick Covington
@covingtonedu.bsky.social
Dad. Iowan. Former HS social studies teacher.
Pinned
“And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.”
— Howard Zinn
— Howard Zinn
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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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Congress could end this today if they had either spine or integrity
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 4:33 PM
Congress could end this today if they had either spine or integrity
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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.
Reposted by Nick Covington
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 4:07 PM
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...
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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"Slavery was real"
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
January 23, 2026 at 3:22 PM
"Slavery was real"
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
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I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
"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 10:05 PM
I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
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We're not allowed to see the faces of the taxpayer-funded goon squad who is committing crimes in the streets, but the goon squad is allowed to record the faces of taxpayers who have committed no crimes.
“We have a nice little database, & now you’re considered domestic terrorists” says an ICE agent after photographing a civilian who was videotaping them. Posted today by Brian Allen on X. h/t @allenanalysis.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 7:15 PM
We're not allowed to see the faces of the taxpayer-funded goon squad who is committing crimes in the streets, but the goon squad is allowed to record the faces of taxpayers who have committed no crimes.
Reposted by Nick Covington
"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.
I don't get it. For the people who oppose having books and lessons about gender and sexuality in public schools, can't they get taxpayer money to send their kid to a private school? You got school choice, use it.
Iowa lawmakers may ban K-12 teaching about gender, sexual identity
Iowa's K-12 schools could not teach students about gender identity and sexual orientation under a bill lawmakers advanced expanding current law.
www.desmoinesregister.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:27 PM
I don't get it. For the people who oppose having books and lessons about gender and sexuality in public schools, can't they get taxpayer money to send their kid to a private school? You got school choice, use it.
My kids' school cancelled for tomorrow...before school was even out today! Now I'm nervous about how cold it'll actually get. 🥶
January 22, 2026 at 9:01 PM
My kids' school cancelled for tomorrow...before school was even out today! Now I'm nervous about how cold it'll actually get. 🥶
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Disney produced a propaganda film loosely based on it in 1943. I show in to my grade 10 history class.
youtu.be/xgehQnJYYtk?...
youtu.be/xgehQnJYYtk?...
Walt Disney Animated Short - Education for Death (1943) Remastered 4K 60FPS
YouTube video by Public Domain Remastered
youtu.be
January 22, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Disney produced a propaganda film loosely based on it in 1943. I show in to my grade 10 history class.
youtu.be/xgehQnJYYtk?...
youtu.be/xgehQnJYYtk?...