Zarstar
@allyloprete.bsky.social
College Professor for the Incarcerated. Communication Studies, Social Diversity, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, Professional and Personal Development. Human Rights Activist. Empath. Lifelong Dem. Eternal Optimist.
Does anyone know if there is any truth to this? I fear it’s a matter of time until we lose all of them…and then what? #DEI
I just heard from a from a friend - and I don’t know if it’s true - that companies are being penalized with crazy high taxes by the current admin if they DO NOT succumb to rolling back #DEI initiatives. Does anyone know if there is any truth to this? It would explain why so many are doing it.
January 31, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Does anyone know if there is any truth to this? I fear it’s a matter of time until we lose all of them…and then what? #DEI
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Trump’s Plan to Crush the Academic Left www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...
Opinion | Harvard Has Already Capitulated to Trump’s War on Academia
The administration is trying to assert political control over American higher education.
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Trump’s Plan to Crush the Academic Left www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...
Interested in an open dialogue with #educators
Currently teaching a #college (NC) career dev course called #WorkplaceDiversity and I don’t want to ignore the elephant in the room. Because #DEI has become increasingly politicized how can we overcome the narrative that its liberal brainwashing”?
Currently teaching a #college (NC) career dev course called #WorkplaceDiversity and I don’t want to ignore the elephant in the room. Because #DEI has become increasingly politicized how can we overcome the narrative that its liberal brainwashing”?
January 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Interested in an open dialogue with #educators
Currently teaching a #college (NC) career dev course called #WorkplaceDiversity and I don’t want to ignore the elephant in the room. Because #DEI has become increasingly politicized how can we overcome the narrative that its liberal brainwashing”?
Currently teaching a #college (NC) career dev course called #WorkplaceDiversity and I don’t want to ignore the elephant in the room. Because #DEI has become increasingly politicized how can we overcome the narrative that its liberal brainwashing”?
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
January 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Serious question. How am I supposed to teach these 4 college sections on Diversity in the Workplace now??
January 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Serious question. How am I supposed to teach these 4 college sections on Diversity in the Workplace now??
I want to love Blusky and leave all META platforms but I feel invisible here. Help!
January 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I want to love Blusky and leave all META platforms but I feel invisible here. Help!
While grading final reflections…came across this. It has me unable to move.
December 10, 2024 at 7:57 PM
While grading final reflections…came across this. It has me unable to move.
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Checking to see if I am seen here. Feeling a little invisible here on Blusky. If you can see me 👋
November 23, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Checking to see if I am seen here. Feeling a little invisible here on Blusky. If you can see me 👋
Can someone explain starter packs to me like I’m in kindergarten?
November 22, 2024 at 2:28 AM
Can someone explain starter packs to me like I’m in kindergarten?
So this is where we are now? No more sweetly and discreetly spelling out K. A. M. A. L. A.?
Yup, I’m in. Let’s go.
Yup, I’m in. Let’s go.
November 19, 2024 at 7:31 PM
So this is where we are now? No more sweetly and discreetly spelling out K. A. M. A. L. A.?
Yup, I’m in. Let’s go.
Yup, I’m in. Let’s go.
I kinda love this idea. Thinking the black woman candidate would win every time.
MAGA voters actually love progressive policies. They just don’t know it. This would be great for Democrats.
November 19, 2024 at 7:26 PM
I kinda love this idea. Thinking the black woman candidate would win every time.
My trauma response is from when Brett Kavanaugh became a Supreme Court Justice. #notagain #traumaresponse #trigger
Gaetz is rapist and a criminal and he cannot be our Attorney General.
November 18, 2024 at 11:23 PM
My trauma response is from when Brett Kavanaugh became a Supreme Court Justice. #notagain #traumaresponse #trigger
Okay! Starting to understand this and love Blusky❤️❤️❤️
One thing I am using, and would like to encourage the use of, is the "Hide reply for everyone" option.
When I see MAGA trolls, I'm just hiding the reply from everyone and sending them to the block party. Fire needs oxygen to burn. Don't give it to them.
When I see MAGA trolls, I'm just hiding the reply from everyone and sending them to the block party. Fire needs oxygen to burn. Don't give it to them.
November 18, 2024 at 5:04 AM
Okay! Starting to understand this and love Blusky❤️❤️❤️
Never knew how to respond to the “both sides” argument until now. Dams this puts things into perspective.
If you're blaming "polarization," as if magnets or zombies or "both sides," caused it - you're an accomplice to the authoritarians. Making people ask pronouns and making plans for concentration camps are not, in fact, the same thing.
November 18, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Never knew how to respond to the “both sides” argument until now. Dams this puts things into perspective.
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I know it’s not popular to stay hopeful. But still, I am. I simply cannot imagine that the Dems aren’t working quietly behind the scenes. Keeping out of MSM is not a stupid idea.
November 17, 2024 at 4:57 PM
I know it’s not popular to stay hopeful. But still, I am. I simply cannot imagine that the Dems aren’t working quietly behind the scenes. Keeping out of MSM is not a stupid idea.
I know it. You know it. How did half the country not know it?
Imagine, people thought he stopped so much sex trafficking when he was president, just for him to put a Sex Trafficker in charge of the people cracking down on sex trafficking.
November 17, 2024 at 4:53 PM
I know it. You know it. How did half the country not know it?
Being in a safe space is not necessarily comfortable all the time. We need public discourse for progress. But public discourse cannot happen outside of a safe space.
November 17, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Being in a safe space is not necessarily comfortable all the time. We need public discourse for progress. But public discourse cannot happen outside of a safe space.
Exactly this.
Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an “echo chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.
November 17, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Exactly this.
Add this to the list of reasons we are all living the same nightmare.
Just to be clear: the incoming Trump administration is going to war against their own Republican senate majority and the constitution's advice and consent provision so they can make a man investigated for ***sex trafficking a minor*** into the most powerful law enforcement officer in the country.
November 16, 2024 at 1:40 AM
Add this to the list of reasons we are all living the same nightmare.
Today it hit me: How much I am missing Momala and the energy of her campaign. I still don’t understand how we got from there to here.
November 15, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Today it hit me: How much I am missing Momala and the energy of her campaign. I still don’t understand how we got from there to here.
Because keeping the people sick helps to control them.
I'm old enough to remember when polio ripped through the globe and put my six-year-old friends into iron lungs.
We dutifully lined up at school to get polio shots (without the howling of governors or anti-vaxxers). And we eradicated polio.
Why has saving lives become political?
We dutifully lined up at school to get polio shots (without the howling of governors or anti-vaxxers). And we eradicated polio.
Why has saving lives become political?
November 14, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Because keeping the people sick helps to control them.