Anita G
@gillilandanitac.bsky.social
Reader, writer, hopeful traveler, rescue dog Mom, coffee lover
AP Lang, Dual Credit Comp
30 yr HS Eng T, Grad student in Rhetoric & Comp
Read to Kids & Pets
Work for Justice & Freedom
AP Lang, Dual Credit Comp
30 yr HS Eng T, Grad student in Rhetoric & Comp
Read to Kids & Pets
Work for Justice & Freedom
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Hey, native tall grass prairie enthusiasts
4 pm Wednesday, November 19th, Missouri Prairie Foundation Webinar
📷 🌱 Photos of Prairie Splendor with Bruce Schuette
Register
grownative.org/event/mpf-we...
4 pm Wednesday, November 19th, Missouri Prairie Foundation Webinar
📷 🌱 Photos of Prairie Splendor with Bruce Schuette
Register
grownative.org/event/mpf-we...
November 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Hey, native tall grass prairie enthusiasts
4 pm Wednesday, November 19th, Missouri Prairie Foundation Webinar
📷 🌱 Photos of Prairie Splendor with Bruce Schuette
Register
grownative.org/event/mpf-we...
4 pm Wednesday, November 19th, Missouri Prairie Foundation Webinar
📷 🌱 Photos of Prairie Splendor with Bruce Schuette
Register
grownative.org/event/mpf-we...
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Sending (and attempting to send) Guard troops to D.C., LA, Portland, Chicago, Memphis in recent months has cost taxpayers nearly half a billion dollars so far….
theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...
theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...
Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising
Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price.
theintercept.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Sending (and attempting to send) Guard troops to D.C., LA, Portland, Chicago, Memphis in recent months has cost taxpayers nearly half a billion dollars so far….
theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...
theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...
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All eyes on Missouri where Republicans are taking every opportunity to ignore voters
Missouri’s referendum on minimum wage and paid sick leave last year won by a margin of 58 to 42 percent statewide. Under a proposal advanced by the GOP, it would have failed because it didn’t win more than 50 percent in every congressional district.
Under this GOP Measure, All of Missouri’s Recent Popular Initiatives Would Have Failed
Lawmakers just advanced a constitutional amendment to drastically raise the bar for approving citizen ballot measures. Voters get to weigh in on the scheme next year.
boltsmag.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
All eyes on Missouri where Republicans are taking every opportunity to ignore voters
It's almost as if the violence against families and the fear of losing family members to illegal, warrantless raids has an impact on students and their testing. Huh.
When ICE Arrests Rise, Student Test Scores Fall, New Study Suggests: The working paper focused on a Florida district where both foreign-born and U.S. born students saw test scores drop.
When ICE Arrests Rise, Student Test Scores Fall, New Study Suggests
The working paper focused on a Florida district where both foreign-born and U.S. born students saw test scores drop.
www.edweek.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:53 AM
It's almost as if the violence against families and the fear of losing family members to illegal, warrantless raids has an impact on students and their testing. Huh.
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Let’s be clear: the hold-up isn’t on our side. This was his campaign promise—so he needs to go ahead and fulfill it. Release the files. All of them.
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Let’s be clear: the hold-up isn’t on our side. This was his campaign promise—so he needs to go ahead and fulfill it. Release the files. All of them.
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The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging.
They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”.
They raped them.
Sex implies consent.
The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.
They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”.
They raped them.
Sex implies consent.
The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.
November 13, 2025 at 4:53 AM
The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging.
They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”.
They raped them.
Sex implies consent.
The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.
They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”.
They raped them.
Sex implies consent.
The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.
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Every 3 weeks or so students get a blank piece of paper returned to them that they "mindmap" their reflections on throughout the year. They get 5-7 minutes to add to it, then I take it back up until the next time. (I don't read them!)
Several years into doing this, zero regrets.
Several years into doing this, zero regrets.
November 14, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Every 3 weeks or so students get a blank piece of paper returned to them that they "mindmap" their reflections on throughout the year. They get 5-7 minutes to add to it, then I take it back up until the next time. (I don't read them!)
Several years into doing this, zero regrets.
Several years into doing this, zero regrets.
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the cool thing about hosting an education podcast is that you not only get to read really thoughtful books that you never would have stumbled across before—you get to talk to the incredible people who wrote them
(this conversation dropping tomorrow!)
(this conversation dropping tomorrow!)
November 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
the cool thing about hosting an education podcast is that you not only get to read really thoughtful books that you never would have stumbled across before—you get to talk to the incredible people who wrote them
(this conversation dropping tomorrow!)
(this conversation dropping tomorrow!)
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For nearly a decade, the AFT has fought for the rights of student loan borrowers to be freed from the shackles of unjust debt—and today, a huge part of that affordability fight was vindicated
www.aft.org/press-releas...
www.aft.org/press-releas...
Following Lawsuit by the AFT, Trump Administration Agrees to Deliver Student Debt Relief and Protect Borrowers from Tax Liability Due to Red Tape and Delays
WASHINGTON—Today, the parties in AFT v. U.S. Department of Education filed a joint status report in federal court agreeing to a series of actions that will protect borrowers enrolled in income-driven ...
www.aft.org
October 18, 2025 at 4:38 AM
For nearly a decade, the AFT has fought for the rights of student loan borrowers to be freed from the shackles of unjust debt—and today, a huge part of that affordability fight was vindicated
www.aft.org/press-releas...
www.aft.org/press-releas...
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Padilla: It’s not just undocumented folks who are being detained and arrested. It’s legal immigrants—even US citizens. We know of at least 170 US citizens who have been caught up in these raids and put in detention centers.
It’s the intended effect of this administration to stoke fear and terror
It’s the intended effect of this administration to stoke fear and terror
October 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Padilla: It’s not just undocumented folks who are being detained and arrested. It’s legal immigrants—even US citizens. We know of at least 170 US citizens who have been caught up in these raids and put in detention centers.
It’s the intended effect of this administration to stoke fear and terror
It’s the intended effect of this administration to stoke fear and terror
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I recently spoke to an Arizonan who is worried about health care costs.
Her name is Robin, and her story shows why we must reopen the government with a deal that stops premiums from skyrocketing in the coming months.
This is what we’re fighting for. 🧵
Her name is Robin, and her story shows why we must reopen the government with a deal that stops premiums from skyrocketing in the coming months.
This is what we’re fighting for. 🧵
October 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I recently spoke to an Arizonan who is worried about health care costs.
Her name is Robin, and her story shows why we must reopen the government with a deal that stops premiums from skyrocketing in the coming months.
This is what we’re fighting for. 🧵
Her name is Robin, and her story shows why we must reopen the government with a deal that stops premiums from skyrocketing in the coming months.
This is what we’re fighting for. 🧵
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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
open.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
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“In America, the law is king.”
-Thomas Paine
-Thomas Paine
October 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
“In America, the law is king.”
-Thomas Paine
-Thomas Paine
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File under no s*** Sherlock?
South Korea pushed AI hard in schools. The national program was aborted within months, following massive pushback from students, parents and teachers, after a fortune had already been spent by both the government and education publishers
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea
South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.
restofworld.org
October 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
File under no s*** Sherlock?
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Patriots!!! Let’s remember what our founders signed July 4, 1776…
NO KINGS!!!
March peacefully brothers and sisters.
NO KINGS!!!
March peacefully brothers and sisters.
October 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Patriots!!! Let’s remember what our founders signed July 4, 1776…
NO KINGS!!!
March peacefully brothers and sisters.
NO KINGS!!!
March peacefully brothers and sisters.
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Pope Leo calls on journalists to report facts and expose disinformation.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
October 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Pope Leo calls on journalists to report facts and expose disinformation.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
October 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."
October 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."
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TOMORROW is #NO_KINGS_DAY!!! Give me your Tired, your Poor, your Huddled Masses of Frogs, Unicorns, Pandas, T-Rexes, Mushrooms, Sharks, SpongeBobs & everyday Folks yearning to peacefully protest a clownishly incompetent buffoon of a Prez who, if there were any justice, would be in jail. 🤡
#BeThere
#BeThere
October 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
TOMORROW is #NO_KINGS_DAY!!! Give me your Tired, your Poor, your Huddled Masses of Frogs, Unicorns, Pandas, T-Rexes, Mushrooms, Sharks, SpongeBobs & everyday Folks yearning to peacefully protest a clownishly incompetent buffoon of a Prez who, if there were any justice, would be in jail. 🤡
#BeThere
#BeThere
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“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…”
~Patrick Henry
~Patrick Henry
October 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…”
~Patrick Henry
~Patrick Henry
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Nasty business
October 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Nasty business
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More #nokingsSTL locations added, Turtle Park I-64 overpass. Also, mention of S Grand side of Tower Grove Park (I’ve seen no other details yet) … just show up at any location, some grow organically, or stand on a corner and do your own. ☂️
October 18, 2025 at 3:22 AM
More #nokingsSTL locations added, Turtle Park I-64 overpass. Also, mention of S Grand side of Tower Grove Park (I’ve seen no other details yet) … just show up at any location, some grow organically, or stand on a corner and do your own. ☂️
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Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.
Georgia senators demand answers on more than a dozen deaths in immigration detention
Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.
n.pr
September 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.