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DanaMPatton

@danampatton.bsky.social

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Involved Jersey City community member. Pushing fully funded & equitable schools, deconstructing Florida lies we were raised with, moving further to the left every day. Writing, teaching, organizing.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · Nov 17

Baby I was you. I was full of self-righteousness and desperate to be good enough. Let it go. Let ppl be who they really are. Throw open your arms wide and actually love people. Really truly love your community. All of it.

Mason Mennenga @masonmennenga.bsky.social · Nov 17

conservative christians: you liberals just live in an echo chamber on bluesky

me: ummm i spent the first 19 years of my life literally not knowing there were christians who didn’t hate gay people soooooo.....

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 37m

"Jersey City Board of Education Trustee Natalia Ioffe, Jersey City Chief Municipal Prosecutor Jake Hudnut, and Jersey City Office of Emergency Management & Homeland Security Director W. Greg Kierce." These ppl + Rumba Cubana marked unsafe for me.
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Ciattarelli and Schillari back Hudson County GOP slate at rally in Jersey City - Hudson County View

Republican gubernatorial nominee Jack Ciattarelli showed some more support from Democrats at a rally backing the Hudson County GOP slate.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 42m

YES thank you ❤️

DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 19h

What in the fuck

Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 19h

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 19h

You are welcome to visit me in JC anytime.

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 19h

#Florida county commissioner proposed renaming road for Charlie Kirk, compares him to MLK. (He was nothing like MLK, so that tells you what an idiot this guy is). www.bradenton.com/news/local/a... via @bradenton.com

Charlie Kirk Boulevard? Manatee leaders move to name road after political activist

The commissioner who proposed the tribute compared Kirk to Martin Luther King Jr.

www.bradenton.com

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 19h

I am right now making crispy little baked potatoes, quiche, ratatouille, cleaning dishes, and doing laundry. also just had a lunch of pear slices with a lil balsamic & Irish cheddar.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 19h

i met some of my best friends on Jersey City Twitter

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 1d

Reminding myself it is still early in the year & there are no shortcuts to building a community of care.

I want to resist the coercive pressures of the calendar and curriculum. I want to claim our classroom as a sacred space for unwieldy and deep reflection, learning, and expression. Our curiosity, investigations, and conflicts will be too big and too wild to fit into strictly quarantined lessons, class periods, units, quarters, semesters, and grading windows. I am not interested in penalizing, punishing, regulating, or controlling them. I want students to be able to breathe. I want to be able to breathe. Breathing takes time. I want to offer comfort to my students by honoring their youth; as an adult, I want to lighten their load as they reckon with inheriting what is a very, very scary world. But I cannot offer comfort to those I do not know. And students would be foolish to let themselves be known by someone they do not trust. Trust, like breath, cannot be established without time.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 1d

Please look at what's happened in Florida, test lab for project 2025. Billions to vouchers, assault on teacher unions, closing of public schools, grifting charters...

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

NEW: 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 public schools as we know them.

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 public schools as we know them.

www.propublica.org

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 1d

Mary poppins did it first

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to three pioneering scientists for developing unique molecular frameworks, likened to Hermione's handbag in Harry Potter https://cnn.it/3WySPRX

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 1d

Black children and those with disabilities may suffer the worst consequences, since they disproportionately face harsh discipline at school.

Parents Fear Losing Disability Protections as Trump Slashes Civil Rights Office

Black children and those with disabilities may suffer the worst consequences, since they disproportionately face harsh discipline at school.

capitalbnews.org

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 1d

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Adoptable Dogs @adoptabledogs.bsky.social · 1d

Lola 🐕‍🦺
Baby female Mixed Breed
Adoptable from RUFF Rescuers United for Furbabies (Parrish, AL)

https://www.petfinder.com/dog/lola-78654493/al/parrish/ruff-rescuers-united-for-furbabies-al406/

Lola is a Baby Mixed Breed described as: Available for Rescue, Good with Dogs and Not Spayed Neutered

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 3d

Your sharing and reposting is everything I have to rebuild ❤️‍🩹🫂

Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 22d

Here is Jamal from Gaza whose family lost everything and he is trying with all his might to rebuild their lives and help them with the crazy costs in Gaza and travel outside Gaza when the crossings open. I hope you support us. Your little support, even if it is $5

chuffed.org/project/1389...

Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone and rebuild their life!

Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and eventually rebuild their lives f...

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Doaa. Doaa is the mother of 3 children Omar, 10, Yasmine, 8 and Youseff, 4 but she primarily started this fundraiser to help her sister Amal who lost a husband and son and is trying to support her children Hiam, 13, Omar, 12 and Jawad, 7.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 1d

Those are words for turkeys or kinds of corn seeds, not people.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 1d

More of a po infant

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

The government is shooting priests in the head with pepper balls. I feel like this is a kitchen table issue.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 1d

Is this public safety?

Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 1d

Conn.- A 31-year-old Hartford police officer has been arrested after police found him asleep at the wheel.

New Britain police say Brenden Lytton was arrested for operating under the influence and interfering with an officer. www.wfsb.com/app/2025/10/...

31-year-old Hartford officer arrested after New Britain police find him asleep at the wheel

A 31-year-old man has been arrested after police found him asleep at the wheel.

www.wfsb.com

DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 1d

Hear me out New Jersey... what if we didn't act like taxes were the absolute worst thing in the world.

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 1d

progressive jews and palestinians: "we refuse to be enemies."

european christians/descendants: "oh, well fuck you both then."

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 1d

He looks like a mash up of Ron Swanson and Norm from Cheers newjerseyglobe.com/campaigns/wy...

Wyatt Earp re-elected Ocean County Democratic chairman - New Jersey Globe

Ocean County Democratic Chairman Wyatt Earp turned back a challenge from former Toms River Councilman Terrance Turnbach on Thursday, winning re-election

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 1d

Also if the head of your place of worship isn't out protecting people, quit that place.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

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.

DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 1d

Wyatt Earp and Dashiell Hammett were in San Francisco at the same time

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones