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Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · 8d

This is the bright spot for the week, for sure. 💚

Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 8d

There have been two hosts in the history of Reading Rainbow. The Legend of Literacy, LeVar Burton! And... me, Mychal Threets, a librarian 🥹🤯

I am a reader, a librarian because LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow made us believe and see we belong in books, we belong everywhere ✨

youtu.be/e7es7qdWVnU

Smiling Mychal with hands raised wears an outer space shirt in a library. It is a still from an episode of Reading Rainbow.

LeVar Burton smiles with hands behind his head as he lies down on a colorful pile of books. ENEMY PIE book rests on his chest.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 9d

WATCH: "They are underwater across the board, and they know it. And that is causing them to double down in public. But it is backfiring. That is why—whether it's a shutdown, whether it's all of this—they want us to blink first. And we have too much to save," says AOC.

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Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · 9d

I hope the Congressional Dems know that no one outside of the MAGA-sphere blames them for not agreeing to gut Medicaid to keep the government open.

But if any cave to the pressure without securing concessions, they should probably go ahead and pack it in because they’re 100% gonna be primaried.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21d

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions

Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue)

West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)

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Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · 23d

Ezra Klein truly killed all semblance of integrity in his work last week. It’s never been more clear he’s here for the theater of it all. ✌🏼

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23d

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.

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Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · 23d

The narrative of that lawsuit is bonkers. I cannot believe that’s actually allowed in a court filing.

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Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · 24d

Here in Ohio, our local public schools are paying millions to bus kids to charter or private schools, while being forced to cut services to their own students because “school choice”.

Here’s my take on why American individualism is ruining education in our country, and what we can do to stop it.

The Real Cost of "School Choice": How Ohio is Bankrupting Public Education

This is what "school choice" really looks like.

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Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · 25d

I love everything about this.

Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · 25d

Side note: I can’t tell you how often I’ve been (jokingly) made fun of for my *very analog* need to hand-write everything before I type it.

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Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · 25d

Personal archiving you say? Tell us more (if you’re up to it 💚).

Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · 28d

I seriously hate it here 🫠

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · Sep 5

Vaccines don't cause autism. What does? Mostly genes.
The number of people diagnosed with autism as screening has improved and the definition of autism has been expanded.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Vaccines don't cause autism. What does?

Scientists say most brain changes that contribute to autistic traits occur before birth.

www.nbcnews.com

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · Sep 4

In 1900, 31% of all deaths were children under the age of 5. Today it’s 0.7%. Vaccines, medications, and modern science are the reason why. Trust the science, it’s been proven to work safely and efficiently time and time again.

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Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · Sep 3

I love this for them. I’m sad I don’t live there.

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 3

In response to the dismantling of the CDC, California, Oregon, and Washington have launched the West Coast Health Alliance, which will make their own science-based vaccine guidelines, and make sure vaccines are accessible to everyone.

California, Oregon, and Washington to launch new West Coast Health Alliance to uphold scientific integrity in public health as Trump destroys CDC’s credibility

Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · Sep 3

Another one for your lunchtime reading pleasure: on *Pedagogy of the Oppressed* and what it means for us as educators and freedom dreamers in the current moment.

#ECMCFFellow #doctoralscholar #criticalhope
#FreedomDreaming

The Past as Prologue: What Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed Can Teach About the Current Moment in American Politics and Education

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end - Semisonic (1998)

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · Sep 3

Respectfully, Governor Walz, our elected officials in Washington resigned us to that fate on December 14, 2012. I wish so much that this wasn’t the case. Our children deserve so much better. ❤️

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · Aug 29

No, President Trump.

Forcing seniors with traditional Medicare to get prior approval from AI companies before they can receive the health care they need won’t make America healthy again.

It will make AI companies even richer by denying care to seniors.

DON’T CUT MEDICARE.

Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures

www.nytimes.com

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · Aug 29

For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · Aug 29

I keep thinking about how the COVID vaccine was rolled out for free for all Americans in 2021 by the federal & state governments with support from local health departments & universities. Since, we have seen the privatization of delivery thru commercial pharmacies & the need for insurance coverage.

Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · Aug 29

NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.

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Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · Aug 29

Toothless! 💚

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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · Aug 28

Seeing critiques of people at the CDC for leaving their positions and thereby leaving a post to be filled by unqualified & malicious leadership.

One of the most important actions to resist authoritarian rule is to refuse to be suborned.

See 2, 5, 8, 10, and 20:
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Twenty Lessons on Fighting Tyranny from the Twentieth Century

Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so. From acr...

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Forbes @forbes.com · Aug 28

Multiple CDC leaders have resigned in the wake of layoffs and a shooting at the agency’s headquarters this month.

CDC Staffers Walk Out: Ex-Agency Leader Says ‘Let’s Get The Politics Out Of Public Heath’

Multiple CDC leaders have resigned in the wake of layoffs and a shooting at the agency’s headquarters this month.

www.forbes.com

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Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · Aug 29