Amanda Williams
@amwilliams.bsky.social
CMO of a Black-led CDFI 💵 | Founder of Seattle Green Book 💚| Former Teacher👩🏽🏫 |
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PragerU's "conservative" alternative to PBS has hit classrooms in 10 states, but ‘they have a 50 state strategy,' warns @msnbc.com’s @ahylton26.bsky.social. What these videos present is "not just a little wrong -- it's really insidious." #Velshi
‘They have a 50 state strategy’: PragerU’s ‘insidious’ alternative to PBS hits U.S. classrooms
PragerU has found an ally in the White House and is presenting itself as the “conservative” option to PBS. The media company currently has partnerships with 10 states but MSNBC’s Antonia Hylton, who has long reported on PragerU, warns that the company has a bigger plan. PragerU has found their biggest champion in Oklahoma, but “we don’t need PragerU to come in and tell us how to teach our kids,” says State Rep. and social studies teacher John Waldron.
www.msnbc.com
August 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
PragerU's "conservative" alternative to PBS has hit classrooms in 10 states, but ‘they have a 50 state strategy,' warns @msnbc.com’s @ahylton26.bsky.social. What these videos present is "not just a little wrong -- it's really insidious." #Velshi
The youth learning conservative/christian pop tiktok dances is giving Hendry Ford era school children line dancing.
July 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The youth learning conservative/christian pop tiktok dances is giving Hendry Ford era school children line dancing.
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Weird priorities. President Trump is illegally withholding $7 billion Congress appropriated for afterschool and summer programs, teacher training and other educational needs. Meanwhile, he’s demanding a trillion in tax breaks for the 1%.
That's not what the American people want.
That's not what the American people want.
July 3, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Weird priorities. President Trump is illegally withholding $7 billion Congress appropriated for afterschool and summer programs, teacher training and other educational needs. Meanwhile, he’s demanding a trillion in tax breaks for the 1%.
That's not what the American people want.
That's not what the American people want.
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NEW: People are being involuntarily committed to psychiatric care facilities — and even ending up arrested or jailed — after becoming fixated on ChatGPT and other chatbots and spiraling into psychosis.
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June 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
NEW: People are being involuntarily committed to psychiatric care facilities — and even ending up arrested or jailed — after becoming fixated on ChatGPT and other chatbots and spiraling into psychosis.
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futurism.com/commitment-j...
My team just hit our goal of 3 million out to small (mainly)Black businesses before our state grant ended in July. No funding lost. All disbursed. We are a team of 4. This is unreal 😭
July 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
My team just hit our goal of 3 million out to small (mainly)Black businesses before our state grant ended in July. No funding lost. All disbursed. We are a team of 4. This is unreal 😭
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The AI conversation is exhausting and I am mad that it’s something I even need to think about.
All I know is that I am doubling down on being a household that reads, spends time outside, creates with our hands and has a physical community around us.
This shit is bleak.
All I know is that I am doubling down on being a household that reads, spends time outside, creates with our hands and has a physical community around us.
This shit is bleak.
June 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The AI conversation is exhausting and I am mad that it’s something I even need to think about.
All I know is that I am doubling down on being a household that reads, spends time outside, creates with our hands and has a physical community around us.
This shit is bleak.
All I know is that I am doubling down on being a household that reads, spends time outside, creates with our hands and has a physical community around us.
This shit is bleak.
I would pay good money for a service that would take care of fruit flys and gnats.
June 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I would pay good money for a service that would take care of fruit flys and gnats.
+ Great Big Beautiful Life ebook
My current book list makes me happy 😊
My current book list makes me happy 😊
May 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
+ Great Big Beautiful Life ebook
My current book list makes me happy 😊
My current book list makes me happy 😊
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PSA: Harvard offers free introductory online courses on US citizenship essentials including government, law, justice, public policy, and public health. For FREE. They're right there for the taking and sharing. And they're FREE.
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Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.
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May 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
PSA: Harvard offers free introductory online courses on US citizenship essentials including government, law, justice, public policy, and public health. For FREE. They're right there for the taking and sharing. And they're FREE.
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Last night I got to spend my evening in community with Black business leaders doing amazing work in everything from healthcare to technology, to education.
We thanked them with good food and gifts. My heart is full and ready to move 2 more million into Seattles small business community. #cdfi
We thanked them with good food and gifts. My heart is full and ready to move 2 more million into Seattles small business community. #cdfi
May 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Last night I got to spend my evening in community with Black business leaders doing amazing work in everything from healthcare to technology, to education.
We thanked them with good food and gifts. My heart is full and ready to move 2 more million into Seattles small business community. #cdfi
We thanked them with good food and gifts. My heart is full and ready to move 2 more million into Seattles small business community. #cdfi
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Staffed by just 100 federal workers, the CDFI Fund is one of the best deals in government — it funds local financial institutions that have financed thousands of small businesses and 45,000 housing units. Many rural. But it's on the chopping block.
Trump Order on CDFI Fund Risks Aid for Small Businesses, Housing
Credit unions, banks and nonprofits are alarmed by an executive order targeting Community Development Financial Institutions, which support projects in low-income areas.
www.bloomberg.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Staffed by just 100 federal workers, the CDFI Fund is one of the best deals in government — it funds local financial institutions that have financed thousands of small businesses and 45,000 housing units. Many rural. But it's on the chopping block.
Educators love giving out certificates. 😆
I’ve been out of the classroom for longer than I was in it but I will contribute my time to open dialogue, community building, and advocating for quality public education.
I’ve been out of the classroom for longer than I was in it but I will contribute my time to open dialogue, community building, and advocating for quality public education.
May 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Educators love giving out certificates. 😆
I’ve been out of the classroom for longer than I was in it but I will contribute my time to open dialogue, community building, and advocating for quality public education.
I’ve been out of the classroom for longer than I was in it but I will contribute my time to open dialogue, community building, and advocating for quality public education.
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My love of reading is strongly link to this man…
May 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
My love of reading is strongly link to this man…
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I cried, so now y’all can too. Mr. Riddick graduated at 80 years old! It’s never too late, and this is important as I constantly doubt myself. 💙💙💙 congratulations to you sir!!!
May 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I cried, so now y’all can too. Mr. Riddick graduated at 80 years old! It’s never too late, and this is important as I constantly doubt myself. 💙💙💙 congratulations to you sir!!!
It’s multicultural night at school and the transracial adoptee kid inside of me is freaking out. 🤪
May 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It’s multicultural night at school and the transracial adoptee kid inside of me is freaking out. 🤪
Happy teacher appreciation week!
Bought my daughters teacher a giant pack of tissues and Clorox wipe because we don’t full fund education 🙃
Bought my daughters teacher a giant pack of tissues and Clorox wipe because we don’t full fund education 🙃
May 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Happy teacher appreciation week!
Bought my daughters teacher a giant pack of tissues and Clorox wipe because we don’t full fund education 🙃
Bought my daughters teacher a giant pack of tissues and Clorox wipe because we don’t full fund education 🙃
My daughter’s teacher is pushing the addition and subtraction regrouping algorithm in 1st grade.
It’s a 2nd grade standard and she isn’t ready for this skill. it’s discouraging her.
So we made an abacus for homework instead.
Math should be hands on before using the algorithm.
It’s a 2nd grade standard and she isn’t ready for this skill. it’s discouraging her.
So we made an abacus for homework instead.
Math should be hands on before using the algorithm.
April 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
My daughter’s teacher is pushing the addition and subtraction regrouping algorithm in 1st grade.
It’s a 2nd grade standard and she isn’t ready for this skill. it’s discouraging her.
So we made an abacus for homework instead.
Math should be hands on before using the algorithm.
It’s a 2nd grade standard and she isn’t ready for this skill. it’s discouraging her.
So we made an abacus for homework instead.
Math should be hands on before using the algorithm.
Working on creating equity by empowering parents to have a voice. Build communities where it’s not intimidating to talk to an elementary school teacher and advocate for your kid
April 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Working on creating equity by empowering parents to have a voice. Build communities where it’s not intimidating to talk to an elementary school teacher and advocate for your kid
We always find fun things thrifting. Today it was a $36 piano.
April 27, 2025 at 6:24 AM
We always find fun things thrifting. Today it was a $36 piano.
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Free Museum Passes, Free Books, Free Movies, Free TV, Free language learning classes, Free career development resourses, Free wifi hotspots and y’all don’t want parts? Tuh! Could never be me chile
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Happy National Library Week. Do 🫵🏾YOU🫵🏾 have a Library card yet? You’re sitting on the couch, watching TV, and life is passing you by. You keep procrastinating over and over “well maybe I’ll get a library card next year” no! Do it RIGHT NOW!
April 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Free Museum Passes, Free Books, Free Movies, Free TV, Free language learning classes, Free career development resourses, Free wifi hotspots and y’all don’t want parts? Tuh! Could never be me chile
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200+ companies publicly state their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI or by any other name). And the list is growing every day.
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DEI Employer of the Day - Impactivize - Home of DEI Job of the Day™
✅ DEI Employers of the Day™ Suggest a Company View Criteria A growing list of corporations that have publicly stated their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Whether called DE...
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April 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
200+ companies publicly state their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI or by any other name). And the list is growing every day.
www.impactivize.org/dei-employer...
www.impactivize.org/dei-employer...