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@teachrprecarity.bsky.social

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PhD | researching teachers w/ precarious labour contracts in a polycrisis. #PublicEducation #PoliticalEconomy #PrecariousWork #FreePalestine 😷 ♑️ 🇵🇸 he/they https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/handle/11375/28889

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andrew🌹🍉 @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · Mar 16

"The more we learn about the dangers of repeated COVID infections, it seems that without better protections, workers’ rights to safe work and students’ rights to safe learning spaces are being ignored to maintain the status quo." #covid #students #education #workers
www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...

COVID five years later: Governments are ignoring the rights of workers and students

Trying to avoid COVID-19 is seen as a personal choice, despite it being a public health threat for everyone.

www.thespec.com

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 1d

This is a five alarm fire.

Serious implications here: a sitting governor saying basically that the U.S. president is planning to use the military to overthrow democracy in America.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 1d

Prisons never beating the slavery torture death camp allegations

Source: Texas prison officials refused to let inmate out of burning cell

Two former TDCJ employees are charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide following an inmate's death in the Bill Clements unit near Amarillo, Texas

www.newschannel10.com

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 1d

Canpost owns Purolator which reported a $294 million profit in 2024 yet this is not included in Canpost's earnings.

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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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andrew🌹🍉 @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 1d

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. #PublicEducation #education
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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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andrew🌹🍉 @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 2d

When Will the Lion Concern Himself
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When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 1d

Hey MAGA — we’re not going to forget about the Epstein files.

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andrew🌹🍉 @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 2d

When Will the Lion Concern Himself
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 3d

This absolutely needs to be a bigger story 👇

The Intercept @theintercept.com · 3d

She’s been in ICE detention since MARCH for sending money to her family in Gaza. Leqaa Kordia’s story needs to be heard.

Read more: interc.pt/4gQG3aV

✍️ @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com

Sending Money To Family In Gaza Has Kept Her In ICE Detention For Months

YouTube video by The Intercept

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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about the political marriage between crony capitalism and fringe health conspiracism in the Trump administration, and its many many contradictions. theintercept.com/2025/10/02/r...

MAHA Slams “Corporate Capture” by Food and Pharma Giants — While Trump Strips Regulations

RFK Jr.’s rhetoric can appeal to desperate parents in a broken health system. But experts say his policies only hurt children.

theintercept.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

the usual useful list:

go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

once again encouraging you all to support independent, worker owned, billionaire free News media when and how you are able

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3d

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 4d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 4d

"We don’t receive the same college experience as outside students. And we don’t benefit from modern technology like outside students."

I Don't Pay Tuition in Prison, but My College Education is Not Free

You must still obtain funding and scholarships. And the college experience is much more limited in prison.

prisonjournalismproject.org

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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 4d

Dear Educators:

You were the highlight of a dinner conversation this week.

You are the reason a child knows they can do hard things.

You are the reason someone is looking forward to Monday Morning.

Happy #WorldTeacherDay.

a chalkboard with the words happy world teachers day written on it

Alt: a chalkboard with the words happy world teachers day written on it

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4d

Video shows Israeli settlers attacking a Palestinian Bedouin family on their land in Masafer Yatta, in the occupied West Bank area of South Hebron Hills.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4d

Abolish ICE.

Pass it on.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4d

I can’t not believe how hard it is to sleep when you’re watching your country, be dismantled by the dumbest people.

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andrew🌹🍉 @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 4d

Ezra Klein Just Showed Us Everything Wrong With Secularized Meditation
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Ezra Klein Just Showed Us Everything Wrong With Secularized Meditation

There’s a moment in Ezra Klein’s recent interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates that’s been bugging me.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 4d

Someone said today, "What if we just didn't support Genocide?"

Which is apparently a crazy radical opinion.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5d

Wellness culture feeds directly into eugenics.

Eugenics feeds directly into fascism.

This is nothing new, and it’s why disabled people have been screaming for solidarity for years.

We saw this coming. We know it’s going to get worse.

Refuse to leave vulnerable people by the wayside.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d

Pick one or two lanes and keep at it. You are one person and cannot do everything or take 10 actions a day.

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andrew🌹🍉 @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 6d

Ontario’s plan to eliminate school boards is anti-democratic #onted #onpoli
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Ontario’s plan to eliminate school boards is anti-democratic - CCPA

It seems that every few years, another province toys with the idea of eliminating school boards—those pesky thorns of local democracy that stick in the side of governments flush with neoliberal fantas...

www.policyalternatives.ca

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andrew🌹🍉 @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 7d

Long COVID associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection among children and adolescents in the omicron era (RECOVER-EHR): a retrospective cohort study - The Lancet Infectious Diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Long COVID associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection among children and adolescents in the omicron era (RECOVER-EHR): a retrospective cohort study

Children and adolescents face a significantly higher risk of various PASC outcomes after reinfection with SARS-CoV-2. These findings add to previous evidence linking paediatric long COVID to multisyst...

www.thelancet.com

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