Ursula
@ladyofsardines.bsky.social
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I am a high school teacher. Earnest posting until the end. (she/they)
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A good question to ask oneself at the start of each day, imho. Comrade card for 7/26/2024.
Round watercolor card with 11 colorful segments and the question in the center, “What does solidarity demand of you?”
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ojrcenter.bsky.social
🧊Know Your Rights Training!

This year, our attorneys have conducted numerous Know Your Rights trainings to prepare Oregonians for potential encounters with ICE. We want to help as many people as possible prepare so we're offering an online training.

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Know your rights online training. What to do in encounters with law-enforcement or ice. Thursday, October 9 at noon. RSVP for a Zoom link.
ladyofsardines.bsky.social
Good morning from the dysregulation disco — otherwise known as my classroom over these last two weeks. I am not sure exactly why it's been so rough, but I have my suspicions that the fascism has something to do with it.
ladyofsardines.bsky.social
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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prisonculture.bsky.social
This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.
royalpratt.bsky.social
The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.
The Emergency Is the Atmosphere
“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."
organizingmythoughts.org
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melissagiragrant.com
one of my most durable political lessons out of Occupy is: not only is it a bad look to instruct people at protests you are not part what to do based on posts online, it’s bad tactics to order around people with local experience and who are doing countless things you won’t know about from posts
ladyofsardines.bsky.social
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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ladyofsardines.bsky.social
There seem to be several large holes in my emotional armor. I trust I am not alone.
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harpua.bsky.social
New Portland Frog fan art just dropped
jeffreysens.bsky.social
My alt text will suck, but this is going around now. Portland frog facing off ICE really has become a mascot here.
A painting of a lone green and white belly frog wearing a blue scarf is facing off a line of feds, who are in helmets and faceguard and carrying batons. A line of tear gas flows up into the sky from the cops.
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ladyofsardines.bsky.social
crying in my classroom, a memoir
ladyofsardines.bsky.social
"Kill the cop in your head," she whispers to herself as she drafts — and then deletes — the email.
ladyofsardines.bsky.social
Solidarity from Portland. I hope you find some relief from the pain & some treatment that helps you heal.
ladyofsardines.bsky.social
Create a Harriet Tubman chatbot as an "alternative" to "traditional student research approaches"?

Pleading, begging, throwing up: No, no, no.
ladyofsardines.bsky.social
Yesterday: marathon, lesson planning, organizing meeting #1, lesson planning, organizing meeting #2. Today: dragging my ass into one of the hardest jobs on the planet b/c you absolutely cannot fake it.

All happening in Portland, ffs. 🙃
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joshuajfriedman.com
Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.
ladyofsardines.bsky.social
As others have said it was a beautiful day for a run through Portland.
ladyofsardines.bsky.social
Finished the Portland Marathon & opened my phone to see what happened in the 4 hours I was running & he’s trying to deploy the California Nat’l Guard here? I’ll admit I did not see that coming.
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alexbaumhardt.bsky.social
Motion granted. Guard blocked from activation in Portland. Story to come @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
alexbaumhardt.bsky.social
Cannot believe we are still waiting for Judge Immergut to make a decision here. Especially given what we heard in court yesterday. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/03/f...