Colleen
@dalgal412.bsky.social
Mom of 3 | Full time volunteer | @Everytown and @Momsdemand Organizer | Former candidate | Future whatever-needs-done | She/her
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One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
December 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
When these school shootings happen in the US, there are often complaints that "nothing happened after Sandy Hook." This is false. In places that elect lawmakers who are willing to take action, action has been taken. 1/2
December 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
When these school shootings happen in the US, there are often complaints that "nothing happened after Sandy Hook." This is false. In places that elect lawmakers who are willing to take action, action has been taken. 1/2
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This is college in the United States. Video from inside a Brown University building shows the moment that police found a group of students who were sheltering after the shooting on campus. This isn't freedom.
December 14, 2025 at 4:24 AM
This is college in the United States. Video from inside a Brown University building shows the moment that police found a group of students who were sheltering after the shooting on campus. This isn't freedom.
Not just block efforts, but UNDO policies implemented under Biden/Harris which were working.
www.thetrace.org/2025/02/trum...
www.thetrace.org/2025/02/trum...
December 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Not just block efforts, but UNDO policies implemented under Biden/Harris which were working.
www.thetrace.org/2025/02/trum...
www.thetrace.org/2025/02/trum...
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so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.
insanity.
insanity.
December 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.
insanity.
insanity.
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![An infographic that reads:
BREAKING NEWS CONSUMER'S HANDBOOK
1. In the immediate aftermath, news outlets will get it wrong.
2. Don't trust anonymous sources.
3. Don't trust stories that cite another news outlet as the source of the information.
4. There's almost never a second shooter.
5. Pay attention to the language the media uses.
• "We are getting reports"... could mean anything.
• "We are seeking confirmation"... means they don't have it.
• "[News outlet] has learned"... means it has a scoop or is going out on limb.
6. Look for news outlets close to the incident.
7. Compare multiple sources.
8. Big news brings out the fakers. And photoshoppers.
9. Beware reflexive retweeting. Some of this is on you.
ON THE MEDIA
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December 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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This was a dinner table conversation between my 2 kids in middle school--comparing notes on which room would be best to be in when the shooting started, how they would escape various rooms, etc. I've told them about my school, pre-Columbine/lockdown drills, and it's unfathomable to them.
I teach Sociology of Childhood, and when we talk about school shootings, my students tell me about how they also do these checks in their classes--noting locks on doors, thinking about how to escape and where to hide. I hate that they have to mind those risks while trying to learn.
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM
This was a dinner table conversation between my 2 kids in middle school--comparing notes on which room would be best to be in when the shooting started, how they would escape various rooms, etc. I've told them about my school, pre-Columbine/lockdown drills, and it's unfathomable to them.
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Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
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As always, we don’t yet know the identity of the shooter or the motivation for the massacre but we *do* know it involved one of the millions of guns that are drowning this country.
December 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
As always, we don’t yet know the identity of the shooter or the motivation for the massacre but we *do* know it involved one of the millions of guns that are drowning this country.
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To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
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Wow, that must be so terrifying to think you're being abducted.
The agent, who’s assigned to another HSI office and is in Minnesota on “temporary detail for an operation,” is unfamiliar with the Twin Cities, did not know where they were going, and “was in fear that he was being abducted.”
FBI: Man, woman drive to police station with Homeland Security agent trapped in vehicle
A man and a woman are facing charges of assaulting a federal officer after Homeland Security Investigations agents tried to arrest the man Wednesday for overstaying his student visa. The pair drove to...
www.mprnews.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Wow, that must be so terrifying to think you're being abducted.
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“Mubashir said he told officers multiple times that he is a U.S. citizen and asked if he could show them his I.D. Officers ignored him, dragged him in the snow and pushed him into a car as witnesses yelled and blew whistles, according to the video of his arrest.”
Don’t look away. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
“Mubashir said he told officers multiple times that he is a U.S. citizen and asked if he could show them his I.D. Officers ignored him, dragged him in the snow and pushed him into a car as witnesses yelled and blew whistles, according to the video of his arrest.”
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Prasad & Hoeg are now going after adult Covid vaccines
Their anti-vaxx activism comes on the heels of this HUGE study (28.6 million adults), showing efficacy & safety
Vaxxed: 74% lower risk of dying from COVID-19 in hospital, & lower all-cause mortality over 4 yrs
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Their anti-vaxx activism comes on the heels of this HUGE study (28.6 million adults), showing efficacy & safety
Vaxxed: 74% lower risk of dying from COVID-19 in hospital, & lower all-cause mortality over 4 yrs
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France
This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...
jamanetwork.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Prasad & Hoeg are now going after adult Covid vaccines
Their anti-vaxx activism comes on the heels of this HUGE study (28.6 million adults), showing efficacy & safety
Vaxxed: 74% lower risk of dying from COVID-19 in hospital, & lower all-cause mortality over 4 yrs
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Their anti-vaxx activism comes on the heels of this HUGE study (28.6 million adults), showing efficacy & safety
Vaxxed: 74% lower risk of dying from COVID-19 in hospital, & lower all-cause mortality over 4 yrs
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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If you live in Maryland and you want to contact Bill Ferguson, his number is 410-841-3600 or 800-492-7122. You can email him at [email protected].
Important: Maryland senate leader refuses to redistrict to counter Trump/GOP, but Rep Jamie Raskin says if Indiana GOPers move, MD must act:
"There’s nothing ethical or moral about unilaterally disarming before authoritarians in a game they’ve created."
On the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
"There’s nothing ethical or moral about unilaterally disarming before authoritarians in a game they’ve created."
On the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
December 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
If you live in Maryland and you want to contact Bill Ferguson, his number is 410-841-3600 or 800-492-7122. You can email him at [email protected].
Worth pointing out that the junior senator from Kansas has been referring to this as The Marshall Plan. Which was already a thing, and specifically was a thing that helped people and which today's Republicans would have ended and called "waste, fraud, and abuse."
December 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Worth pointing out that the junior senator from Kansas has been referring to this as The Marshall Plan. Which was already a thing, and specifically was a thing that helped people and which today's Republicans would have ended and called "waste, fraud, and abuse."
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That is patently false: not only do immigrants score better than native-born Americans in tests, the mere presence of immigrants improve test scores for all students, when factoring in white flight
sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
December 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
That is patently false: not only do immigrants score better than native-born Americans in tests, the mere presence of immigrants improve test scores for all students, when factoring in white flight
sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
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“When they come to power for the second time, they feel more ruthless, and they behave as if there are no boundaries any more. I think especially in the leader’s head, that association of ‘me and the country’ [being] the same thing becomes very prominent.”
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said
Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“When they come to power for the second time, they feel more ruthless, and they behave as if there are no boundaries any more. I think especially in the leader’s head, that association of ‘me and the country’ [being] the same thing becomes very prominent.”
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This is about Putin’s Russia. Tell me it doesn’t ring a bell. slate.com/culture/2025...
December 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is about Putin’s Russia. Tell me it doesn’t ring a bell. slate.com/culture/2025...
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Justice Jackson nails it, but that this has to be spelled out is so depressing.
Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
December 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Justice Jackson nails it, but that this has to be spelled out is so depressing.
"It is the color of a corporate apology. It is the color of a machine saying, 'I hear you.'"
sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...
'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response
Regarding Pantone's decision, and so on, and so forth
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"It is the color of a corporate apology. It is the color of a machine saying, 'I hear you.'"
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In the era of slavery, free black people had to carry their "free papers" with them so they could prove to the authorities that they were free, or else they would be thrown in jail and sold.
BASH: If ICE says it doesn't arrest US citizens, why do we keep seeing incidents of them aggressively pursuing citizens?
HOMAN: I can't tell you how many times an illegal alien claims to be a US citizen. It happens all the time.
HOMAN: I can't tell you how many times an illegal alien claims to be a US citizen. It happens all the time.
December 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
In the era of slavery, free black people had to carry their "free papers" with them so they could prove to the authorities that they were free, or else they would be thrown in jail and sold.
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The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991.
From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991.
From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
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And I’m not gonna say whether I participated in chasing ICE off. I can say that Minneapolis is holding it down. But even with no kidnapping, our neighbor had to deal with being held and questioned illegally, plus whistles and horns and people milling around outside his house all afternoon.
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
And I’m not gonna say whether I participated in chasing ICE off. I can say that Minneapolis is holding it down. But even with no kidnapping, our neighbor had to deal with being held and questioned illegally, plus whistles and horns and people milling around outside his house all afternoon.