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Just Jo @munsonjo.bsky.social · 4h

The new reading rainbow is so heart warming and fun and reminds me, in the most positive and nourishing way, that I can be the mom I imagined myself to be before I had all these kids.

a group of people are sitting in front of a wall with the letter vf on it

Alt: A group of people sitting in a white background. One puts his two hands up to form a heart.

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Just Jo @munsonjo.bsky.social · 19h

My mom is an artist and she used to always say “mistakes” were part of the process because you had to use your creativity to fix it!

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Just Jo @munsonjo.bsky.social · 23h

Someone seeing a problem as a creative challenge and someone seeing a problem as something to overcome to get results is the difference between an artist and someone just doing shit.

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Just Jo @munsonjo.bsky.social · 1d

robert downey jr. is wearing a suit and tie and making a funny face .

Alt: A man wearing a suit with crossed arms rolls his eyes and sighs

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Just Jo @munsonjo.bsky.social · 1d

This doesn’t need to be said, but “was your son circumcised ‘early’” is not one of the questions doctors or autism specialists ask when we assess children or adults for autism.

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Just Jo @munsonjo.bsky.social · 1d

The afterward is just this

dwight schrute is wearing glasses and a suit and tie and making a funny face .

Alt: A man in a generic office wearing a brown suit, yellow shirt, and striped tie begins to scream

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 1d

Huge death penalty and forensic science news: Texas' highest criminal court has stayed the execution of Robert Roberson, who was less than a week away from becoming the first person in the country to be executed based on disputed evidence of shaken baby syndrome reason.com/2025/10/09/t...

Texas court blocks execution of Robert Roberson in landmark 'shaken baby' case

Roberson has been saved again from becoming the first person to be executed based on disputed evidence of Abusive Head Trauma, formerly called "shaken baby syndrome."

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Just Jo @munsonjo.bsky.social · 2d

A handful of people told me in undergrad that my degree in American history with a focus on labor movements was not a useful degree, but they were wrong then and they are ultra wrong now.

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 2d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Just Jo @munsonjo.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t handle it if it goes the other way

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Alicia Sewell, Ed.S. @techysewell.com · 4d

I have something to get off my chest. Check it out: medium.com/@aliciasewel... #edusky #blackedusky #education #mentalhealth #socialjustice

In 2025, I stand in front of my classroom as a teacher and a witness — a Black woman in America…

Teaching While Black in 2025: Carrying the Weight of the World and the Classroom

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Just Jo @munsonjo.bsky.social · 3d

This is phenomenal! It is honest and painful. I felt the pride you feel teaching your students and could resonate with the exhaustion of still teaching these things when the world teaches the opposite 💜

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Just Jo @munsonjo.bsky.social · 3d

They’re so cute but I had to have my husband pull them off me at the end of the day!

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Just Jo @munsonjo.bsky.social · 4d

I put on my blundstone boots today so I could be just aggressively PNW and I don’t think they fit and I am not sure if I can take them off…

a man 's head is sticking out of a door with a chain around it

Alt: A man’s head is sticking through a chained door. He panickes because he is not sure if he can get out

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Denise Oliver-Velez @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social · 4d

Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer was born October 6, 1917
www.womenshistory.org/education-re...

Biography: Fannie Lou Hamer

Activist Fannie Lou Hamer was one of the most powerful voices of the civil and voting rights movements. Read more at womenshistory.org.

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NPR @npr.org · 4d

From Gaza to Ukraine to South Sudan, children play to deal with the stress — and find a moment of joy.

With makeshift jump ropes and hide and seek, kids play to cope with crisis

From Gaza to Ukraine to South Sudan, children play to deal with the stress — and find a moment of joy.

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