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Dustin Park @dustbag44.bsky.social · 21h

I can tell you from experience, there is no room less impressed with your “energy” than a room full of veteran journalists.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News current president Tom Cibroski praised Weiss on the call, saying "Bari's energy and passion is infectious and you will feel it, big time." He also added that the Free Press and CBS News "are going to learn a lot from each other...that's what this is all about."

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Dustin Park @dustbag44.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you for helping me find my wife’s bday present for this year! ☺️

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 15d

Things today's White House autism announcement did not do:

-Discuss strategies to increase supports and services for autistic people/families
-Highlight why autistic people and families deserve respect, not pity or fear
-Endorse one speck of autism research that is not dangerous pseudoscience

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Dustin Park @dustbag44.bsky.social · 18d

Jill was that professor for me. She expanded how I thought about art and the world. I have always considered it a privilege to have had the opportunity to learn from her and will always carry her lessons with me. May her memory be a blessing.

James Schamus @jamesschamus.bsky.social · 22d

RIP the great filmmaker and teacher Jill Godmilow, one of the all-time originals. vimeo.com/jillgodmilow

The Films of Jill Godmilow

Jill Godmilow, a working independent film and video-maker and Emerita Professor in the Dept. of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.

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Dustin Park @dustbag44.bsky.social · Sep 7

An absolutely vital piece providing the history and context of the corporatization of public education. This stuck out to me as something I increasingly see from AP classes:

“They’re more likely to encounter these as decontextualized excerpts in corporate-produced test prep materials.”

Jennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · Sep 6

Long weekend read: for decades there's been a bipartisan consensus that the purpose of school is workforce preparation. Now the right is abandoning that view. My latest for @thebaffler.com thebaffler.com/outbursts/un...

Uniform Policy | Jennifer C. Berkshire

Democrats must come up with a defense of public schools that goes beyond bloodless workforce preparation

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Sep 6

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.

The Onion News Network truck featuring the headline ICE Opens New Supermax Prison for Most Hardened Toddlers stationed outside the ICE facility.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · Sep 5

With the Trump Administration about to roll its ugly occupation into Chicago, I wanted to write a little lyrical love letter to the city. dansinker.com/posts/202…

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Dustin Park @dustbag44.bsky.social · Sep 5

This is why I love Big Ears so much, a never ending sense of discovery. And love this for Chicago!

Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · Sep 5

A lot of great stuff in @jamieludwig.bsky.social’s interview with Mike Reed!

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Popular culture in itself doesn’t necessarily fall into a very specific reason for being in a place. Anyone could be there. You might buy a ticket not even knowing who’s on the thing or why. Lollapalooza is a version of that. Coachella down to the smaller festivals too.

You have to remember that a festival should be special. If there are mounds of the same sort, they cookie-cut themselves to every degree—the way they were designed, the people that work at them, the lineups, the rollouts. It’s like, “Well, what about doing something that’s not the standard, doing something that’s different?” Because the audience, even though they’re not necessarily thinking it, they’re feeling it.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · Sep 3

This is the worst gimmick. Every time I see one of his stupid posts I feel dumber.

Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · Sep 2

No notes

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Dustin Park @dustbag44.bsky.social · Aug 30

Welcome back college football!

Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · Aug 30

Dustin Park @dustbag44.bsky.social · Aug 28

Beck/Sonic Youth/Sneaker Pimps/Built to Spill/Elliott Smith backed by Quasi 1997 Champoeg State Park

Greg ✨️ @gsarafan.bsky.social · Aug 28

What is your biggest concert flex?

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · Aug 24

The president plans to invade Chicago this week. Now to schedule the vet appointment and get the kids’ backpacks ready for school!

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Aug 21

Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · Aug 19

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

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Dustin Park @dustbag44.bsky.social · Aug 14

When it came to education policy, Obama was all in on the neoliberal project - he was responsible for foisting the likes of Arne Duncan and Rahm Emanuel on us, who did significant work to get us where we are today, particularly when it comes to destroying public education.

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Dustin Park @dustbag44.bsky.social · Aug 9

I see Izzy Mandelbaum has entered the chat.

Dustin Park @dustbag44.bsky.social · Jul 29

Existential Philosophy. Kierkegaard-Sartre-Nietzsche. Also the only class I ever had with a page limit on papers, nothing over 5 pages I believe, which was way harder than writing 15 pages.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Jul 28

What was your favorite early clas NOT in your eventual major. Mine was Ethnomusicology: an introduction to folk music.

Anthrodiva La Chatte @anthrodiva.bsky.social · Jul 28

I invariably get, "Ooh anthro that was my favorite class/cool professor" from people I meet. I tend to think soms of it is our outré material, being willing to talk "taboo" subjects in a cross-cultural context.

Ironically MY favorite class was probably Geology 101...

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Dustin Park @dustbag44.bsky.social · Jul 23

I couldn’t believe this was real, so checked my email and, yes sure enough, it’s real. Smashed that unsubscribe button.

Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · Jul 23

Axios should change its name to Axis

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · Jul 20

Attention K-12 schools: you cannot predict the jobs of the future. Don’t let the AI pushers tell you they can.

According to an analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, graduates in computer science, computer engineering and graphic design all have unemployment rates at 7% or greater; young workers who hold a number of much-maligned humanities degrees—including English, history and philosophy—are all more hirable.

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Dustin Park @dustbag44.bsky.social · Jul 14

This is my family. And it’s not just my family, it’s our friends and the wonderful teachers and staff who care and educate our kids. They give their whole heart to their jobs and get spit in the face by this radical court. A deeply shameful decision.

Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · Jul 14

a disaster for many reasons, but I’m especially livid thinking about countless disabled students whose families who will have even less in the way of recourse when their kids’ educational rights are violated

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Jul 14

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

From Sotomayor's dissent:

Dustin Park @dustbag44.bsky.social · Jul 8

I was just in NYC with my wife and three kids, we rode the subway all over Manhattan from morning through the night. Never felt unsafe once. The ease of getting around was honestly one of my favorite parts of the trip.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 8

Sean Duffy on Fox: "It's dangerous to ride the subway in New York ... it's just stupid liberals with stupid policies that impact the lives of New Yorkers"

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Kate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · Jul 5

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Dustin Park @dustbag44.bsky.social · Jun 26

This made me look up when I saw Ida in Portland at the Meow Meow and found out it was 6/22/2000. 25 years ago! 🤯 A lovely memory where the whole audience sat on the concrete floor gently swaying to gorgeous harmonies.

Lars Gotrich @totalvibration.bsky.social · Jun 26

Ida forever. youtu.be/6pYWcC8tFwY?...

Ida - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · Jun 25

"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

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Dustin Park @dustbag44.bsky.social · Jun 25

The Best Movies of the 21st Century: You Decide www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Vote for Your 10 Best Movies of the Century

More than 500 directors, actors and other notable movie fans submitted their ballots for the Best Movies of the 21st Century. Now it’s your turn to vote.

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