Brad
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Your teacher in 2005: don't use Wikipedia as a source! People can change it! Use dot gov sites!
Teacher in 2025: don't use dot gov sites, they say Tylenol causes autism. Wikipedia is curated by honest and trustworthy nerds who require real citations. 1
Teacher in 2025: don't use dot gov sites, they say Tylenol causes autism. Wikipedia is curated by honest and trustworthy nerds who require real citations. 1
December 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Your teacher in 2005: don't use Wikipedia as a source! People can change it! Use dot gov sites!
Teacher in 2025: don't use dot gov sites, they say Tylenol causes autism. Wikipedia is curated by honest and trustworthy nerds who require real citations. 1
Teacher in 2025: don't use dot gov sites, they say Tylenol causes autism. Wikipedia is curated by honest and trustworthy nerds who require real citations. 1
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Well well well
The Tour de France slows rise of far right: "It looked like our town was actually important" | BikeRadar
Voting in towns and villages on the route of the Tour found to shift less to the right than nearby areas, according to new research
www.bikeradar.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Well well well
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My friend and colleague Wesley Morris and I had a very sobering conversation about America since the 1619 Project published and how it feels to be falling back under the veil that W.E.B. Du Bois so mournfully wrote about. I hope you’ll listen to this episode of Cannonball @nytimes.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
My friend and colleague Wesley Morris and I had a very sobering conversation about America since the 1619 Project published and how it feels to be falling back under the veil that W.E.B. Du Bois so mournfully wrote about. I hope you’ll listen to this episode of Cannonball @nytimes.com
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Crowdfunding, second jobs, credit card debt. This is how teachers are stocking their classrooms to serve students during a period of economic uncertainty. 19thnews.org/2025/08/teac...
Teachers are spending more and more on school supplies. Here's why.
As prices soar and family contributions shrink, America's teachers are footing the bill, spending hundreds — sometimes thousands — of their own dollars on school supplies.
19thnews.org
August 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Crowdfunding, second jobs, credit card debt. This is how teachers are stocking their classrooms to serve students during a period of economic uncertainty. 19thnews.org/2025/08/teac...
A masterclass review
to wit bsky.app/profile/just...
Only a great critic can go into a movie as drecky as FREAKIER FRIDAY and emerge with a review as expansive, considered, and thoughtful — not just about the movie, but about the industry that produced it — as the incomparable @szacharek.bsky.social does here: time.com/7308212/frea...
August 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
A masterclass review
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Undocumented immigrants can’t enroll in Medicaid. They can only ever access it temporarily, when they need lifesaving medical care.
This only makes people afraid to access the medical care they’re legally allowed to receive.
But Trump doesn’t care. His only goal is to sow fear.
This only makes people afraid to access the medical care they’re legally allowed to receive.
But Trump doesn’t care. His only goal is to sow fear.
July 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Undocumented immigrants can’t enroll in Medicaid. They can only ever access it temporarily, when they need lifesaving medical care.
This only makes people afraid to access the medical care they’re legally allowed to receive.
But Trump doesn’t care. His only goal is to sow fear.
This only makes people afraid to access the medical care they’re legally allowed to receive.
But Trump doesn’t care. His only goal is to sow fear.
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[as my neighbors are kidnapped off the street in front of their screaming children] the important thing is, we played fair
Gerrymandering is bad actually
And anyone, even governors, who are proposing this are playing a dangerous game that’ll further undermine democracy and further the race to the bottom of fascism
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
And anyone, even governors, who are proposing this are playing a dangerous game that’ll further undermine democracy and further the race to the bottom of fascism
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
‘Crazy hill to die on’: Newsom jolts California with bid to throw out House maps
Newsom’s new obsession has energized, enraged, and confused Democrats.
www.politico.com
July 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
[as my neighbors are kidnapped off the street in front of their screaming children] the important thing is, we played fair
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McSweeney’s continues to Do The Work.
We have revamped our catalog of Trump's atrocities. Now, each month gets its own entry, which we hope will make it easier to read and share. Here's the list for May 2025. buff.ly/MRA3S0l
Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: May 2025: Atrocities 207-272
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...
www.mcsweeneys.net
June 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
McSweeney’s continues to Do The Work.
I pressed play to hear they, but couldn’t stop watching. What an incredible speech, what a moral vision for decency and community
I did not know that I needed to hear Ed Yong, one of the nicest people on earth with one of the poshest, say “he can fuck off into the sun,” thank you Karen for bringing this joy into my life
March 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I pressed play to hear they, but couldn’t stop watching. What an incredible speech, what a moral vision for decency and community
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So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.
To review what we from @washingtonpost.com are reporting out of the IRS today:
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
March 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.
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every person involved in this needs to be in prison
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
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So very efficient
March 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
So very efficient
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Donald Trump signed an executive order to dismantle these key programs
March 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Donald Trump signed an executive order to dismantle these key programs
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Amazon:
-weaponized devices that direct & discipline workers, using them to send anti-union messages, gauge union sympathies, and surveil workers during “captive audience” meetings
-loosened quotas (the "electronic whip") only during the election
-ran social media surveillance on workers
-weaponized devices that direct & discipline workers, using them to send anti-union messages, gauge union sympathies, and surveil workers during “captive audience” meetings
-loosened quotas (the "electronic whip") only during the election
-ran social media surveillance on workers
Amazon Uses Arsenal of AI Weapons Against Workers
A study of a union election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, shows that the company weaponizes its algorithmic surveillance tools to prevent organizing.
prospect.org
March 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Amazon:
-weaponized devices that direct & discipline workers, using them to send anti-union messages, gauge union sympathies, and surveil workers during “captive audience” meetings
-loosened quotas (the "electronic whip") only during the election
-ran social media surveillance on workers
-weaponized devices that direct & discipline workers, using them to send anti-union messages, gauge union sympathies, and surveil workers during “captive audience” meetings
-loosened quotas (the "electronic whip") only during the election
-ran social media surveillance on workers
I feel like the pop. support for this comes from the idea that modern teachers are overburdened by ‘woke’ curricular rules. I’ve heard so much from parents who “can’t imagine teaching now.” But the attacks are coming from these ghouls, over and over. They made a fake crisis solved by fake history.
January 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I feel like the pop. support for this comes from the idea that modern teachers are overburdened by ‘woke’ curricular rules. I’ve heard so much from parents who “can’t imagine teaching now.” But the attacks are coming from these ghouls, over and over. They made a fake crisis solved by fake history.