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Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 6d

Feels worth noting that this phase-out is for kindergarten through 2nd/3rd grade, where there’s a separate gifted track that doesn’t rely on pre-k teachers nominating students

Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 6d

My wife is an elementary gifted ed specialist. The idea that gifted kids either don't exist or don't benefit from gifted education services is both wrong and harmful to those kids. Phasing out gifted programs is stupid. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...

Mamdani Says He Would Phase Out N.Y.C. Gifted Program for Early Grades

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · 8d

This looks amazing, Ej! Congratulations! Can't wait!

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 8d

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · 11d

I am excited to share my inaugural post for my new Substack, "Recording Memories," about Suzanne Vega, whose music about alienation and torment managed to make my young tormented, alienated self feel a lot less ... alone.
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In the Fringes, In the Corner

On Suzanne Vega, whose music about alienation and torment managed to make my young tormented, alienated self feel a lot less ... alone.

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · 11d

Why is he declaring war on Portland, Oregon? Was he injured by a Willamette Valley Pinot Noir?

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · 15d

My Rapture look (wish I had thought of this much earlier had they given us a heads up that it was a-comin’ so I could’ve had it made in time): a T-shirt with Debbie Harry on one side, Anita Baker on the other …

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · 25d

I’ve started a substack about music, memory, and Gen X. Check it out. This is the intro essay — more to come in the next couple weeks.

Welcome to Recording Memories

Essays and musings of a queer Gen-Xer about the way music triggers memories.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 28d

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · 29d

Please read and share this gutting, urgent piece by one of DAME's most searing writers. @brynntannehill.bsky.social is one of our "Cassandras" who has been warning us for years about the devastating impact this administration would have on trans people. Tragically, she's been right every time.

The Case for Transgender Asylum From Trump’s America - Dame Magazine

Leaders of free nations of the world need to hear my message: Genocide has already started in plain view, and it is following the exact template of the last great genocide in Western society. So far, ...

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · Sep 4

Same.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Aug 29

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US government orders 46 states to destroy trans education materials
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The US government is reportedly demanding that almost every state in the US remove sex education materials referencing trans and non-binary people.

Book burning after looting of the Institute of Sexology, Germany, 1933

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · Aug 26

Well, AI drinks our water, raises our electric bills, and tells kids to off themselves, but at least it’s making us dumber

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DAME Magazine @damemagazine.bsky.social · Aug 14

Psychedelics hold the tantalizing possibility of being effective drugs to treat chronic mental health issues like depression and anxiety.

@moxieluhu.bsky.social reports for us on the possibilities and potential drawbacks.

Can We Shroom Our Way Out of Depression? - Dame Magazine

When news dropped last month that Department of Health & Human Services head Robert F. Kennedy Jr. aimed to get psychedelic therapy into clinical use within a year, scientists, advocates, practitioner...

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · Aug 13

Agree!

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Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social · Aug 13

This is great. I would add Belinda on White Lotus as another exemplary character

Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · Aug 13

I had the pleasure to publish the award-winning Canadian TV (e.g., Baroness von Sketch, Schitt's Creek) and fiction writer @zoewhittall.bsky.social in @damemagazine.bsky.social, who offers expert advice on how to write fat characters. Writers, have this bookmarked. It's really helpful.

What ‘Too Much’ Teaches Us About Writing Fat Characters - Dame Magazine

Recently, I read a headline that appeared in the British online magazine, Stylist U.K., declaring: “Netflix’s Too Much: It’s refreshing to see a plus-size lead whose story has nothing to do with her w...

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · Aug 13

I had the pleasure to publish the award-winning Canadian TV (e.g., Baroness von Sketch, Schitt's Creek) and fiction writer @zoewhittall.bsky.social in @damemagazine.bsky.social, who offers expert advice on how to write fat characters. Writers, have this bookmarked. It's really helpful.

What ‘Too Much’ Teaches Us About Writing Fat Characters - Dame Magazine

Recently, I read a headline that appeared in the British online magazine, Stylist U.K., declaring: “Netflix’s Too Much: It’s refreshing to see a plus-size lead whose story has nothing to do with her w...

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · Aug 13

Absolutely not

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · Aug 2

Thanks, Kate!

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · Aug 2

Yes! Music+Laughter via @kerabolonik.bsky.social
“As soon as David told people to come over, I muscled my way in and didn’t leave until he kicked us all out,” said Mr. Marino, who has a karaoke room in his home. “I wouldn’t let anybody else go to the mic,” which is how he became MADJB’s lead singer.

Everyone Wants to Be a Rock Star. Including These Comedians.

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · Aug 2

P.S. Just wanted to add, there are full-time members of the band whose names got cut for space, and wanted to mention here: backup singers and strings Kestrin Pantera (cello) and Allie Stamler (violin), Jon Spurney (keyboard and musical director), Sweet Teddy P (bass) ...

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · Aug 2

My recent NYT Style dispatch from the Gen X files: a profile of the Middle Aged Jam Band, a group of comics & writer friends who got together during the pandemic and the writers’ strike to play music together. Comedy & rock are a perfect pairing, & anyway, who doesn’t wanna be a rock star?

Everyone Wants to Be a Rock Star. Including These Comedians.

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · Jul 24

Yup

Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · Jul 24

Such an important piece, by @ashadore.bsky.social, in today's DAME.

DAME Magazine @damemagazine.bsky.social · Jul 24

In states where abortion and gender-affirming care are restricted or banned, medical data collection on cis women and trans people can make going to the doctor a crime.

The Danger in Filling Out “Organ Inventory” Forms - Dame Magazine

If you’re living in a state where abortion is restricted, you may find signs posted around the doctor’s waiting room reminding you that it is illegal for your medical provider to facilitate an abortio...

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DAME Magazine @damemagazine.bsky.social · Jul 22

Autocracy, Fascist, Kleptocracy. There are plenty of ways to describe this government.

But, there's one concept that fully encapsulates the policies of the White House and its servile GOP: necropolitics. 🧵

There Is a Name for MAGA’s Death Cult Policies - Dame Magazine

“Well, we are all going to die,” said Iowa Senator Joni Ernst to her constituents who were concerned about losing access to Medicaid. It’s a frightening way to talk to the people you represent, almost...

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