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Former social studies teacher, just starting special education teacher, mom of wonderful grown kids, New York Ranger Fan. Save Democracy.
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I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
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February 4, 2026 at 4:30 PM
I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
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Thinking today of Jimmie Lee Jackson.
“On February 18, 1965, while unarmed and participating in a peaceful voting rights march in his city, he was beaten by troopers and fatally shot by an Alabama state trooper. Jackson died eight days later in the hospital.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_...
“On February 18, 1965, while unarmed and participating in a peaceful voting rights march in his city, he was beaten by troopers and fatally shot by an Alabama state trooper. Jackson died eight days later in the hospital.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_...
Murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson - Wikipedia
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January 25, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Thinking today of Jimmie Lee Jackson.
“On February 18, 1965, while unarmed and participating in a peaceful voting rights march in his city, he was beaten by troopers and fatally shot by an Alabama state trooper. Jackson died eight days later in the hospital.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_...
“On February 18, 1965, while unarmed and participating in a peaceful voting rights march in his city, he was beaten by troopers and fatally shot by an Alabama state trooper. Jackson died eight days later in the hospital.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_...
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This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."
January 12, 2026 at 1:45 AM
This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
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Talentless frauds close to the White House are making billions by crashing the American economy and selling out America’s allies. Here’s why democratic socialism is unthinkable.
November 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Talentless frauds close to the White House are making billions by crashing the American economy and selling out America’s allies. Here’s why democratic socialism is unthinkable.
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makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
October 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
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"Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections?"
Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections? Am I irrita...
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October 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections?"
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Again, this is a broad coalition of people across the ideological spectrum whose top concern is making sure everyone rues and laments the “Woke Times” forever. It’s very much akin to the myths around “Negro misrule” in Reconstruction, which justified Jim Crow.
I will not link to it. I just want to reiterate that thousands of books have been banned by the right. And American Dirt sold millions of copies.
September 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Again, this is a broad coalition of people across the ideological spectrum whose top concern is making sure everyone rues and laments the “Woke Times” forever. It’s very much akin to the myths around “Negro misrule” in Reconstruction, which justified Jim Crow.
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Let me suggest that if I have tanks invade my city, that if the courts declare me a second-class citizen, that if masked men abduct my neighbors, and I go to you, my rep, and say “help me fight my persecutors,” and you say “shush, talk about healthcare subsidies,” you, too, are my persecutor
September 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Let me suggest that if I have tanks invade my city, that if the courts declare me a second-class citizen, that if masked men abduct my neighbors, and I go to you, my rep, and say “help me fight my persecutors,” and you say “shush, talk about healthcare subsidies,” you, too, are my persecutor
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In the minds of most Americans, we’ve tended to mythologize the Warren Court as most representative of the Supreme Court, when in truth, for most of our history the Court has ruled against minority rights, upheld the power of wealthy white men, and rarely protected the most vulnerable.
September 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
In the minds of most Americans, we’ve tended to mythologize the Warren Court as most representative of the Supreme Court, when in truth, for most of our history the Court has ruled against minority rights, upheld the power of wealthy white men, and rarely protected the most vulnerable.
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Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
September 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
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“But our march had done its work. We had drawn the attention of the nation to the crime of child labor…The Pennsylvania legislature passed a child labor law that sent children home from the mills, and kept others from entering the factory until they were fourteen.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
Labor Day: ‘The March of the Mill Children’
Remembering what it took, across decades, to end the exploitation of children in factories.
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September 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM
“But our march had done its work. We had drawn the attention of the nation to the crime of child labor…The Pennsylvania legislature passed a child labor law that sent children home from the mills, and kept others from entering the factory until they were fourteen.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
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I wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...
Your Ignorance Doesn't Make You An Expert
Let's go chasing waterfalls.
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August 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...
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"Some students are still writing their own essays, if you can believe that. Some of them even aspire—and I promise you that I’m not making this up—to write an entire book at some point in their life."
How I Learned to Stop Teaching and Love AI
Like a fool, I used to resist, but no more. In the past, I railed against the rise of AI. I preached small-minded sermons to students who had to si...
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August 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
"Some students are still writing their own essays, if you can believe that. Some of them even aspire—and I promise you that I’m not making this up—to write an entire book at some point in their life."
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Not sure if people have realized yet on just how many levels the #zcavengerhunt is working. Not only is it activating a bunch of people, not only is it getting people out and about in NYC, not only is it highlighting public transits, not only is it highlighting NYC history... it's also:
The scavenger hunt is using NYC mayoral history to paint Mamdani as firmly within the mainstream of that history. On age. On DSA membership. On public transportation policy. It's such a smart way to launch the general election campaign.
OMG the Mamdani campaign is utterly brilliant. Chef's kiss. Art.
August 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Not sure if people have realized yet on just how many levels the #zcavengerhunt is working. Not only is it activating a bunch of people, not only is it getting people out and about in NYC, not only is it highlighting public transits, not only is it highlighting NYC history... it's also:
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Sixty years ago today, the first federal examiners went to work in the first nine counties covered by the Voting Rights Act.
Here's my account of the first day in Selma from the first draft of The Division manuscript.
Here's my account of the first day in Selma from the first draft of The Division manuscript.
Work in Progress: Registered
Work in Progress is a recurring feature on CAMPAIGN TRAILS, in which I share some of the more interesting materials I’ve uncovered in my book-in-progress on the work of John Doar and the Civil Rights ...
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August 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Sixty years ago today, the first federal examiners went to work in the first nine counties covered by the Voting Rights Act.
Here's my account of the first day in Selma from the first draft of The Division manuscript.
Here's my account of the first day in Selma from the first draft of The Division manuscript.
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Texas Democratic state rep. James Talarico. I feel like I'll be seeing more of him.
July 31, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Texas Democratic state rep. James Talarico. I feel like I'll be seeing more of him.
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This from NY'S lieutenant governor is maybe the best take on the Democrats I've read yet (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...
Opinion | Democrats, This Is Our Moment to Lead. We Can’t Blow It.
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July 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
This from NY'S lieutenant governor is maybe the best take on the Democrats I've read yet (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...
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"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God." --U.S. founding father Thomas Jefferson
July 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God." --U.S. founding father Thomas Jefferson
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For the average homebuyer, single-family houses are affordable in just three of the nation’s 100 largest metro areas streetlightnews.org/housing-costs/
For the third year in a row, a record number of renters can’t afford their housing costs - Streetlight
Zoning updates that allow more types of housing are helping some Americans become homeowners
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July 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
For the average homebuyer, single-family houses are affordable in just three of the nation’s 100 largest metro areas streetlightnews.org/housing-costs/
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"Hello Mr. Mamdani, I'm calling from the Wall Street Journal to fact-check exactly how many verses of 'Wheels On The Bus' you could sing in the 2nd grade? Do you have evidence for the claim that you knew the "Swish Swish Swish" verse or do you expect us to take your goddamn word for it?"
July 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
"Hello Mr. Mamdani, I'm calling from the Wall Street Journal to fact-check exactly how many verses of 'Wheels On The Bus' you could sing in the 2nd grade? Do you have evidence for the claim that you knew the "Swish Swish Swish" verse or do you expect us to take your goddamn word for it?"
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“We are witnessing a capitalist class so drunk on its own power that it has become incapable of recognizing its own interests…So contemptuous of the institutions that created their wealth that they are destroying the conditions that make capitalism possible.”
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June 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
“We are witnessing a capitalist class so drunk on its own power that it has become incapable of recognizing its own interests…So contemptuous of the institutions that created their wealth that they are destroying the conditions that make capitalism possible.”
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“Once a constitutional crisis becomes an endemic condition, the term no longer usefully describes our collapsing system. Instead, we live in an era of constitutional failure when the relevant institutions cannot fulfill their responsibilities.”
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It’s Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It’s Constitutional Failure | Washington Monthly
While Trump defies constitutional norms, Congress remains conspicuously silent and the Supreme Court has abdicated its responsibility.
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June 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“Once a constitutional crisis becomes an endemic condition, the term no longer usefully describes our collapsing system. Instead, we live in an era of constitutional failure when the relevant institutions cannot fulfill their responsibilities.”
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...
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Tapping my "writing is thinking" sign in the key of @biblioracle.bsky.social
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Tapping my "writing is thinking" sign in the key of @biblioracle.bsky.social