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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Nate @jessenathaniel.bsky.social · 3d

You co-led an online book study of Beloved, right? That was extremely influential for the broader education community and an example of how you’re able to model your practice in public.

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Nate @jessenathaniel.bsky.social · 4d

I am doing a book study in our PLC with the aim of laying the foundation for more thinking about *theory*, but I confess that the book very much eludes any deep historical analysis, which is fair because I think the practical impact builds buy-in to going deeper… but that’s exactly the tension…

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Nate @jessenathaniel.bsky.social · 4d

This is definitely a question we should sit with more, but I think a major (underrated?) challenge is that everyone comes in with entrenched preconceived notions of the profession based on their *own* schooling — interrogating those is essential to being open to developing a historical mindset.

Chris Lehmann @clehmann.bsky.social · 4d

New Post: Meeting the Moment by Knowing Our History

Are educators ahistorical about their own profession?

What do the last 150 years of American public education teach us about how we must meet this current educational moment?

Meeting the Moment by Knowing Our History

Recently, I was lucky enough to talk to one of the truly transformational educators of the previous generation. They're getting older and starting to have some real health challenges, and they are someone who deserves all the flowers and thank yous for creating schools that changed the parameters of what many people - students, parents, educators, policy makers - thought school could be.

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 4d

A post worth reading

Chris Lehmann @clehmann.bsky.social · 4d

New Post: Meeting the Moment by Knowing Our History

Are educators ahistorical about their own profession?

What do the last 150 years of American public education teach us about how we must meet this current educational moment?

Meeting the Moment by Knowing Our History

Recently, I was lucky enough to talk to one of the truly transformational educators of the previous generation. They're getting older and starting to have some real health challenges, and they are someone who deserves all the flowers and thank yous for creating schools that changed the parameters of what many people - students, parents, educators, policy makers - thought school could be.

practicaltheory.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Idiocracy was unrealistic only because we got dumber quicker than the movie anticipated

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "On June 14 next year we're gonna have a big UFC fight at the White House, right at the White House, on the grounds of the White House."

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Nate @jessenathaniel.bsky.social · 4d

Klein has made it painfully clear that he’s so concerned with connecting to “the other side” bc he “recognizes some commonality with” people like Kirk—he literally said that while defending his article. His investment in whiteness & dividends gained cannot be ignored; it’s a MAJOR piece of all this.

An image from the quoted article with the following lines highlighted: “this tendency to latch onto any argument that helps to normalize Trump and his supporters is also indicative of how strong the incentives are within mainstream discourse to sanitize the political choices of white conservative Christians…They are just “regular folks,” and as such, they can do no wrong.”

Image from the quote tweeted article with the following excerpt:

“Usually, this is achieved by exculpatory tales about why they didn't mean to or had to support extremism. Maybe they were seduced by a brilliant demagogue; maybe they lack political agency entirely: Economic anxiety, anti-elite backlash, or just a reaction to Liberals being mean - someone or something made them do it.
Whenever people rode waves of racial resentment to political prominence, their success has been described in such terms. Whether it was George Wallace's surprisingly successful presidential run in 1968 or David Duke's near-victory in the 1990 senate election in Louisiana.”

Image from the quoted article with the following phrases highlighted:

“White innocence is achieved…by decreeing that whatever a significant portion of
"regular folks" are supporting categorically cannot be extremism in the first place.”

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4d

Van Jones got shamed so much for joking about dead babies in Gaza with Bill Maher that he tried to personally apologize to imam Dr. Omar Suleiman on Twitter but nobody is accepting the apology because it's not a real apology it's a "I didn't say that but if I did I didn't mean to".

@omarsuleiman
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Truly disgraceful and vile @VanJones68.
I'm sorry dead Gaza babies bother you so much. Maybe tell the people paying you to put lipstick on a genocide to stop killing them.
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• • VAN JONES WARNS OF IRAN-QATAR SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN
Jones claims Qatar and Iran running massive disinformation operation on TikTok and Instagram to divide the West using repetitive Gaza casualty content. x.com/

Van Jones
@VanJones68
X.com
Yeah, I messed up on this one. And I'm sorry. I was trying to raise awareness about foreign
adversaries creating chaos online - which is undermining democracy everywhere. But what I said was easily misunderstood, and the way I said it was flat-out insensitive.
Babies are dying every day in Gaza.
Nobody should dispute that fact or make light of it in any way. To the people living in fear and burying family members every day, of all

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4d

I can’t believe that as recently as a few months ago, the consensus Democratic Party position, even on the left, was that you couldn’t call to ‘abolish ICE.’

Good luck to the Democratic candidates who run in 2028 while opposing the abolition of ICE.

A rogue fascist agency.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

There's a lot to be upset about in the world. Strangers on the internet should not bear the brunt of your rage.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 5d

Pritzker needs to take some sort of demonstrative action against this. But nothing he does will stop this.

Still, liberal voters and elected leaders are confronted by the fact that the police are not democratically accountable. They have no interest in protecting you or your rights from the feds.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

Gov. Pritzker has said all the right things, but now he needs to act and get these state troopers out of there.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6d

A protester with a mobility aid (cane) was sitting in the road. Illinois state troopers dragged them to the grass and arrested them.

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 6d

Thoughts and prayers

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 6d

Pity the ADL. It went out of its way to defend Elon Musk's definitely-not-a-sieg-heil, and in return gets this.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7d

Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick.

Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

Gov. Pritzker has said all the right things, but now he needs to act and get these state troopers out of there.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6d

A protester with a mobility aid (cane) was sitting in the road. Illinois state troopers dragged them to the grass and arrested them.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8d

But also we’re terrified of the subway

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Stephen Miller: "All that bullshit is done, over, it's finished. The gangbangers you deal with- they think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore than they are"

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8d

Doing some historical research for a project and while it's an obvious point that we all "know" in some sense, it's bracing and shocking to be reminded of just how violent a place America has been throughout its history.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 8d

The word that keeps running through my head about this administration (among others) is "adolescent." These are people with a little boy's idea of what sounds manly.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Stephen Miller: "All that bullshit is done, over, it's finished. The gangbangers you deal with- they think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore than they are"

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 8d

Swear her in.

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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 9d

A Republican state senator just got exposed by his own daughter — and she was 100% right.

New Mexico’s Jay Block came back from Israel’s propaganda junket parroting lies that the IDF is “doing everything possible” to avoid killing civilians and denying the genocide.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 10d

LOL, watching the video of their conversation, it’s very clear that Ezra Klein was learning in real-time that he was way out of his depth. Hit his head on the ceiling of his mediocrity REAL hard.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11d

"I don't know, your breath reeks of booze and you're apparently wet yourself, and last time you deliberately hit three of us with the car, but I guess if you pinky promise to drive safe I'll give you the keys."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Kaine: "We're just asking if we do a deal, please Mr President don't sign the deal and then immediately start taking away funds, rescinding agreements that you just made yesterday. A deal should be a deal."

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Nate @jessenathaniel.bsky.social · 10d

Klein should be embarrassed by this interview.

It was already evident from his recent writing that he has no moral compass. But I didn’t expect his repeated rejection of historical context, epitomized by this moment.

He just threw his credibility down the memory hole he wants to exist in.

C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 11d

Coates says Black Americans have stories about relatives who were lynched or had to flee and that a life free of political violence is not in reach in his time

Klein:
"Sometimes I think that having a historical scope that wide can make the present too deterministic."

They lynched a kid last week.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 11d

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Nate @jessenathaniel.bsky.social · 10d

I was telling someone this just a couple weeks ago: Klein is every smug, entitled dude in grad school who has been told their entire life that their ideas are amazing because they’re theirs … and shows up to class trying to argue with you without having completed the assigned reading. Infuriating.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 11d

This Ezra Klein conversation with Ta-Nehesi Coates is absolutely infuriating.

It’s like Klein wants Coates to give him permission to accept White supremacy.

And then him talking in this soft, reasonable voice trying to convince Coates, oh my God. I remember this from my time in academia.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 11d

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 11d

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 11d

I've been visiting Sardinia for the last 5 days, and in that time there have been more mass shootings in the United States than the last three years combined in Italy.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 11d

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.”

Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins?

www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

Man in custody after 3 killed, at least 8 injured in shooting at a waterfront bar in North Carolina, officials say | CNN

A 40-year-old man is facing murder charges after allegedly pulling up on a boat to a waterfront bar in North Carolina Saturday night and opening fire, killing three and injuring at least eight others.

www.cnn.com

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