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morahsarah.bsky.social @morahsarah.bsky.social · 15d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

The victims of this tragedy aren’t receiving the level of attention they deserve,” she said. “Under any other circumstances, we’d know their names and their stories by now.”

"Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)"
Song by Woody Guthrie
Written 1948
Genre Protest song
Composer(s) Martin Hoffman
Lyricist(s) Woody Guthrie

The crops are all in, and the peaches are rotten
The oranges are packed in the creosote dumps
They're flying us back to the Mexico border
To pay all our money to wade back again

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mi amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be Deportee

Now my father's own father, he waded that river
They took all the money her made in his life
Six-hundred miles to the Mexico border
They chased us like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
No all they will call you will be Deportee

The sky-plane caught fire, over Los Gatos Canyon
A big ball of fire, it shook all the ground
Who are these friends, who are falling like dry leaves
The radio said they were just deportees

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
No all they will call you will be Deportee

But we died in your hills, we died in your valleys
We died in your orchards, we died on your plains
We died on your deserts, we died in your treetops
Both sides of the river we died just the same

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
No all they will call you will be Deportee

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morahsarah.bsky.social @morahsarah.bsky.social · 16d

Me, wearing a black top, a black and silver scarf, a black and gray skirt

Student: Is today a special day where we have to wear all black? Is it a sad day?

Me: No, I'm just a New Yorker and sometimes I wear a lot of black!

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morahsarah.bsky.social @morahsarah.bsky.social · 20d

Better eating through food science.

Sections of oranges and blood oranges in a metallic bowl with no rind or pith.

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morahsarah.bsky.social @morahsarah.bsky.social · Aug 28

What I Teach 3rd Graders
Lisa Shulman

I teach them to multiply
legs on dogs
fingers on hands
(not shootings in schools),
and how in subtraction you start
with the bigger number
and when you’re done taking away
you have less.
(17 less in Parkdale, 15 less in Columbine, 27 less in Sandy Hook.)

I teach about places
(unmarred
by children murdered at school),
the lives of people
who have made a difference
(not a massacre),
how water can be absorbed
or repelled
(like blood on linoleum)
and that some words, like repel,
mean more than one thing.

I teach them to walk quietly
in a line when the fire alarm sounds,
to duck and cover
until the earth stops shaking,
and to lay on the floor
(like fish in a barrel)
if a bad man comes.

What I don’t tell them
is in that hellish haze
of gunfire and screams
I plan to toss them like ragdolls
behind bookshelves,
stack them like cordwood
behind cubbies,
that my only calculation
will be how many can I save,
how many will I leave to die?

So when I rescue
a spider from the sink
scoop it into a paper cup
set it down among green leaves,
they breathe as one, relieved,
because I’ve taught them
it’s wrong to kill
small creatures.

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morahsarah.bsky.social @morahsarah.bsky.social · Sep 10

Yes, but I've spent years being aware of that one!!

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morahsarah.bsky.social @morahsarah.bsky.social · Sep 10

Every moment is fraught!

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morahsarah.bsky.social @morahsarah.bsky.social · Sep 10

As a middle school teacher, I'm really excited to get further into my curriculum because already twice this year I've accidentally said, "Open your packets to pages six and seven and..."
"Six Seven!!" 😮‍💨

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · Sep 9

No, for real, though, here’s my proposal:

As soon as you crest into $1 billion, we throw you a party, congratulate you for winning the game, and then we build a bunch of affordable housing and you wake up tomorrow in an apartment with $1000 to your name.

When you win the game, it resets.

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morahsarah.bsky.social @morahsarah.bsky.social · Sep 5

I love NYC because when my building's washing machine is down I can go a block away and wash my laundry somewhere else, and then wait at the bar above it with a beer while my laundry dries. But also, why aren't there more laundromat bars?! Come on, NYC!

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morahsarah.bsky.social @morahsarah.bsky.social · Aug 28

What I Teach 3rd Graders
Lisa Shulman

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morahsarah.bsky.social @morahsarah.bsky.social · Aug 28

Kosher restaurants are making some interesting food choices.

Collage of four menu items with pictures and descriptions. 1. Pizza with French fries. 2. Mac and cheese tacos. 3. Mushroom perogies with melted cheese. 4. Penne pasta stuffed inside garlic bread.

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morahsarah.bsky.social @morahsarah.bsky.social · Aug 25

Great moment this morning. I went to shul this morning for Rosh Chodesh Elul. We're finally at the end (it's going so slow...) and I'm rushing to finish Barchi Nafshi when I'm suddenly interrupted. Shofar!! I'd thought it was after L'David. Honestly it was fantastic.
Anyway, Chodesh Tov! 📯👑🌿

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spooky joseph reed @josephsreed.bsky.social · Aug 21

but i was told we weren't allowed to erase our history

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · Aug 21

Workers under cover of night removed a rainbow crosswalk outside of the former Pulse nightclub, apparently as part of state and federal transportation officials’ aim to wipe “political banners” from public roadways. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/21/r...

Rainbow crosswalk outside Pulse nightclub removed overnight

“We did everything according to state law, everything was compliant,” said Patty Sheehan, the city’s first openly gay elected official. “FDOT never moves that quickly with anything.&#82…

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · Aug 15

Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps.

A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · Aug 6

Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.

@DHSgov on X: We’re taking father/son bonding to a whole new level.

JOIN.ICE.GOV
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[Young man and old man in ICE gear]

Wehrschiessen des Deutschen Volkes 1944
[Young man and old man sharing a rifle]

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · Jul 29

An eloquent image:

Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults.

I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.

Emma Roller @emmaroller.bsky.social · Jul 29

Caption: The Museum of Contemporary American Teenagers' mural was covered up by the Smithsonian Folklife Festival after a depiction of protesters included the slogan "Free Palestine." (Photo taken by Léda Pelton)

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morahsarah.bsky.social @morahsarah.bsky.social · Jul 15

I went to a different location today. And after donating platelets I asked for one of the dry pack things and I got one! They offered an umbrella, too, but I declined.

Small white bag still in plastic wrap that says "I'm a lifesaver."

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Avi Zollman @avi.zollman.com · Jul 15

this is a horrifying story, and shows -- through the very last line -- how broken Florida is.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...

Brightline death toll surpasses 180, but safeguards are still lacking

Brightline trains have killed 182 people, significantly more than publicly known, an investigation by the Miami Herald and WLRN has found.

www.miamiherald.com

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morahsarah.bsky.social @morahsarah.bsky.social · Jul 12

Rolled into the lunch room. OJ Simpson verdict.

Utopia District @utopiadistrict.bsky.social · Jul 11

Name something you remember watching in this!

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · Jul 8

Every time I see conservative fearmongering about how dangerous the NYC subway is, I feel the need to defend it. I grew up in Ohio. It’s cars that are dangerous. It’s car accidents that are terrifyingly common. I’m not being dramatic when I say the subway is one of the best parts of my life now.

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morahsarah.bsky.social @morahsarah.bsky.social · Jul 8

Yeah, the article talks about the difference between warning pavers and directional ones. I was just getting you started on how to look into it if you wanted the right words, but yes, they're for accessibility and are in all sorts of places.

morahsarah.bsky.social @morahsarah.bsky.social · Jul 8

Would you have ten years ago?
(I mean, I still wouldn't, but also we're old.)

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morahsarah.bsky.social @morahsarah.bsky.social · Jul 8

Tactile paving is everywhere in Europe and Asia. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactile...

Tactile paving - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · Jul 8

Great geography trivia by @civixplorer: every year on July 8th at 11:15 UTC, 99% of the world population gets sunlight.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · Jul 6

To me this feels like a similar moment to Sandy Hook.

If republicans aren’t willing to accept responsibility and change policy to protect young white christian girls in Texas, they won’t do it for anyone.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jul 6

Reporter: Do you think the federal government needs to hire back any of the meteorologists who were fired?

Trump: I would think not. This was a thing that happened in seconds. No one expected it. Nobody saw it. Very talented people are there, they didn’t see it

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