Miriam Walden
@educatoratlarge.bsky.social
Retired HS world history teacher, studying for an MA in Public History at CSUEB, grieving mother, organizer, union member, guest in Huchiun. Free Palestine! Abolish the police! Fuck ICE!
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We don't have much time left. Everyone within these institutions has to put aside their defensiveness and accept responsibility. Center your heart with the most vulnerable and your mind on the truth, and then relentlessly speak that truth before it's too late.
This.
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Artist is TenderRebellions on IG
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Artist is TenderRebellions on IG
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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Windmill Farms workers are fighting for a union! Support their boycott. This holiday season, don’t buy Windmill mushrooms!
¡Los trabajadores de Windmill Farms están luchando por una Unión! Apoya su boicot. ¡Estas fiestas, no compres hongos Windmill!
#BoycottWindmillMushrooms
¡Los trabajadores de Windmill Farms están luchando por una Unión! Apoya su boicot. ¡Estas fiestas, no compres hongos Windmill!
#BoycottWindmillMushrooms
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Windmill Farms workers are fighting for a union! Support their boycott. This holiday season, don’t buy Windmill mushrooms!
¡Los trabajadores de Windmill Farms están luchando por una Unión! Apoya su boicot. ¡Estas fiestas, no compres hongos Windmill!
#BoycottWindmillMushrooms
¡Los trabajadores de Windmill Farms están luchando por una Unión! Apoya su boicot. ¡Estas fiestas, no compres hongos Windmill!
#BoycottWindmillMushrooms
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While ICE abductions, often in broad daylight, have provoked fear and outrage, the escalation is also unleashing a less visible form of economic treachery on Chicago’s immigrant working class: wage theft, lost income, work speedups, and economic slumps that spread through neighborhoods. My latest.
Visible and Invisible: How ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago’s Working Class
Fear, panic, hiding for days—this is the experience of families under assault by the Trump Administration
inthesetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
While ICE abductions, often in broad daylight, have provoked fear and outrage, the escalation is also unleashing a less visible form of economic treachery on Chicago’s immigrant working class: wage theft, lost income, work speedups, and economic slumps that spread through neighborhoods. My latest.
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
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This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
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In reflection, these leaves fallen across a puddle, have found a way back into their parents’ arms.
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
In reflection, these leaves fallen across a puddle, have found a way back into their parents’ arms.
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The response from university administrations to genocide and fascism has been roundly disappointing.
Don't know why I expected better.
Don't know why I expected better.
“International students and members of the community are not anxious and concerned.
They are terrified.“
They are terrified.“
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The response from university administrations to genocide and fascism has been roundly disappointing.
Don't know why I expected better.
Don't know why I expected better.
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In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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November 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org
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It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere!
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So real. Been there, done that.
I don’t want 2 read anything ✍️ by 🖐️ by my sts ever again. It is really, really hard sometimes. And, yet, I HAVE to do this, because this ✍️’s more authentically theirs, more immediate assessment & I can gage the subtleties of their language/syntax. It’s really, really hard when it’s hardly legible.
a man in a suit and tie is holding his head in his hands
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is holding his head in his hands and pulling his hair
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
So real. Been there, done that.
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This is really good. Advanced literacy and critical thinking skills. Wake Productions is working on videos like this as well:
youtu.be/MWdeCSxGLPg?...
youtu.be/MWdeCSxGLPg?...
Academia hates its best historians
YouTube video by Sim's Books
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November 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This is really good. Advanced literacy and critical thinking skills. Wake Productions is working on videos like this as well:
youtu.be/MWdeCSxGLPg?...
youtu.be/MWdeCSxGLPg?...
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There is an irony in Trump's Department of Education de-classifying education as a professional degree. This will hurt educators (increase student loan debt) and exacerbate the teacher shortage. www.newsweek.com/full-list-de...
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
There is an irony in Trump's Department of Education de-classifying education as a professional degree. This will hurt educators (increase student loan debt) and exacerbate the teacher shortage. www.newsweek.com/full-list-de...
Sim Kern is the best.
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Sim Kern is the best.
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
As a teacher who has been told by zionist parents that I must use the word 'terrorist," I say we need to stop using the term, period. Describe what happened, use the names prefered by the groups themselves, remind folks of the dispropotionate power that states have, let people THINK for themselves.
Watching a BBC doc about the troubles and the British narrator keeps referring to Irish resistance as terrorists...in a story about British occupiers in the heart of Ireland. Why do we put up with this shit?
November 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
As a teacher who has been told by zionist parents that I must use the word 'terrorist," I say we need to stop using the term, period. Describe what happened, use the names prefered by the groups themselves, remind folks of the dispropotionate power that states have, let people THINK for themselves.
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Every bomb Israel drops on any country is a message from the West to the rest of the world
November 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Every bomb Israel drops on any country is a message from the West to the rest of the world
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They Are The Greatest Threat To Democracy…..
November 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
They Are The Greatest Threat To Democracy…..
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"I dont want anymore of us to die" - Trans Youth Deserve Better.
Powerful @notaphaseorg.bsky.social vigil for Trans Day of Remembrance.
Stop trans people being scapegoated, erased or used as a political football, it is costing lives.
Love & solidarity to anyone who has lost friends or family 💗
Powerful @notaphaseorg.bsky.social vigil for Trans Day of Remembrance.
Stop trans people being scapegoated, erased or used as a political football, it is costing lives.
Love & solidarity to anyone who has lost friends or family 💗
November 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
"I dont want anymore of us to die" - Trans Youth Deserve Better.
Powerful @notaphaseorg.bsky.social vigil for Trans Day of Remembrance.
Stop trans people being scapegoated, erased or used as a political football, it is costing lives.
Love & solidarity to anyone who has lost friends or family 💗
Powerful @notaphaseorg.bsky.social vigil for Trans Day of Remembrance.
Stop trans people being scapegoated, erased or used as a political football, it is costing lives.
Love & solidarity to anyone who has lost friends or family 💗
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This Trans Day of Remembrance, my heart hurts thinking of all the people we couldn't carry through to the other side of this moment in history.
Amidst all the fighting we've done for our community, amidst the unshakeable belief that we will win in the end, grief still takes hold.
Amidst all the fighting we've done for our community, amidst the unshakeable belief that we will win in the end, grief still takes hold.
November 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This Trans Day of Remembrance, my heart hurts thinking of all the people we couldn't carry through to the other side of this moment in history.
Amidst all the fighting we've done for our community, amidst the unshakeable belief that we will win in the end, grief still takes hold.
Amidst all the fighting we've done for our community, amidst the unshakeable belief that we will win in the end, grief still takes hold.
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The US collaborates with the genocide in many ways.
US revokes visa of former South African minister who initiated genocide case against Israel - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-revokes-visa-south-africa-naledi-pandor-led-case-icj-israel-genocide
US revokes visa of former South African minister who initiated genocide case against Israel
Naledi Pandor played a key role in South Africa's case against Israel at the International Court of Justice
www.middleeasteye.net
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The US collaborates with the genocide in many ways.
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In 1889, schoolkids in Britain held a nationwide wave of school walkouts, taking to the streets to demand shorter hours, less homework, less corporal punishment and free education. We have now mapped lots of these & built a timeline on our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/15377/18...
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
In 1889, schoolkids in Britain held a nationwide wave of school walkouts, taking to the streets to demand shorter hours, less homework, less corporal punishment and free education. We have now mapped lots of these & built a timeline on our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/15377/18...
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