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Shannon Carey

@scmaestra.bsky.social

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High school history teacher. Anti-fascist. Oakland. she/her.

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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · Nov 10

Hey! Happy to be here! I teach high school history in a big public high school and I really hate fascism!

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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 6h

Well, we make the road by walking, I suppose!

Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 6h

OMGGGGGGG

Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 7h

I told a class that someone had "aura" today, and I may have disturbed the tectonic plates with the amount of earth-shattering cringe I apparently caused

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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 16h

The reason why I, and perhaps others, are so taken by the Portland Frog is because it reflects two things we very much need in liberation movements:

Creativity

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Joy

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

The Portland frog protester has become a WWII-era meme

World War II-era poster that reads "this man is your FRIEND, He fights for Freedom" with the word Canadian

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 18h

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 1d

Exceptional essay from @brianbeutler.bsky.social:

"If the politics of tyranny were self-discrediting, we wouldn't need mantras like 'never again.'"

"Despotism doesn’t impose itself on everyone all at once. It creeps inward from the margins of society."

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The Median Experience Of Tyranny

If the politics of tyranny were self-discrediting, we wouldn't need mantras like "never again."

www.offmessage.net

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 1d

The Portland protest frog has done more to protect American democracy and fight fascism than all but the tiniest handful of elected officials

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 1d

On either side of the fence.

Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 1d

Each day feels more and more like we're living in The Zone of Interest.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 1d

My dearest Gertrude,

I fear I shall not make it home. This war has ravaged our supplies and broken our will.

We arrived with weapons, purpose, and a directive. Yet at every turn, we are mocked. Belittled.

I have never experienced an insult so great in a war zone

Send my best to the children

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 3d

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 2d

Christian Siriano?

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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 2d

Assistant principal / AP Lit teacher / 2rd year TFA in an admin program

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 3d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 3d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe that's why he hates California so much. It made him speak like this.

Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 3d

This is the only thing I could hear, too

Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 3d

A large, unarmed, inflatable frog costumed person facing off against dozens of ICE agents in Portland

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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 3d

Oh that's good tho

Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 3d

YIMBYvert

Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 4d

He needs to keep Vietnam war out of his mouth

Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 4d

100 percent thinking this

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