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EdD, Middle school humanities teacher, & QSA club advisor, & trying to make the chaos functional. This is obviously a personal account & my opinions are my own.
Last week, my middle schooler spoke at a rally to fund education and I could not be prouder of her. She wrote the speech on her notes app and absolutely nailed the delivery. Anyway, here’s the text of it:
December 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Last week, my middle schooler spoke at a rally to fund education and I could not be prouder of her. She wrote the speech on her notes app and absolutely nailed the delivery. Anyway, here’s the text of it:
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Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Under RFK Jr., U.S. plans to stop recommending most vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better
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Nobody is “becoming” anything. Trans women are women and trans men are men and that’s not going to change even if you take away their medical transition (because transitioning doesn’t make them trans, they are born trans). I’m so tired of people opining who don’t even have the vocab for the convo.
December 19, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Nobody is “becoming” anything. Trans women are women and trans men are men and that’s not going to change even if you take away their medical transition (because transitioning doesn’t make them trans, they are born trans). I’m so tired of people opining who don’t even have the vocab for the convo.
More politicians need to be like Emily Randall, who sees this for exactly what it is.
They don’t believe they have a future because they are watching and listening to politicians who do not care if they survive.
This bill isn’t about keeping kids safe. It’s about criminalizing parents and doctors who are just trying to get their kids the lifesaving care they need.
This bill isn’t about keeping kids safe. It’s about criminalizing parents and doctors who are just trying to get their kids the lifesaving care they need.
December 19, 2025 at 3:28 AM
More politicians need to be like Emily Randall, who sees this for exactly what it is.
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Republicans are putting the lives of trans children at risk and getting in the way of families making personal decisions for their own children.
We should be HELPING these kids survive and thrive — but Republicans would prefer to use them as a political prop.
We should be HELPING these kids survive and thrive — but Republicans would prefer to use them as a political prop.
December 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Republicans are putting the lives of trans children at risk and getting in the way of families making personal decisions for their own children.
We should be HELPING these kids survive and thrive — but Republicans would prefer to use them as a political prop.
We should be HELPING these kids survive and thrive — but Republicans would prefer to use them as a political prop.
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👇 Many Congress members are too old to have children exposed to lockdown drills and shootings. We must vote out anyone unwilling to value our children over our guns.
"Every lockdown drill is a confession of failure. Every barricaded classroom is an indictment. Every child taught to hide is proof that the adults in charge have surrendered."
What Are We Doing to Our Children?
We taught kids to read, write, and dream; then trained them to hide, barricade, and bleed quietly while adults chose guns, cowardice, and silence over their future.
www.meidasplus.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
👇 Many Congress members are too old to have children exposed to lockdown drills and shootings. We must vote out anyone unwilling to value our children over our guns.
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I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
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Be mindful of and gentle with the ways you use Newtown and Sandy Hook today and tomorrow. Those moms, dads, brothers, cousins, and loved ones are here, dealing a hurt most of us can never understand, over and over again.
Listen to them. Amplify their voices.
Listen to them. Amplify their voices.
December 14, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Be mindful of and gentle with the ways you use Newtown and Sandy Hook today and tomorrow. Those moms, dads, brothers, cousins, and loved ones are here, dealing a hurt most of us can never understand, over and over again.
Listen to them. Amplify their voices.
Listen to them. Amplify their voices.
Day 1 of the WERA conference (I’m speaking on day 2)
December 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Day 1 of the WERA conference (I’m speaking on day 2)
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If people were really bothered about women's rights they would sort out the gender pay gap, give more focus to stopping domestic violence, sort out the court system, deal with systemic problems affecting women. But that's not what all this bigotry is about is it. 😔
December 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
If people were really bothered about women's rights they would sort out the gender pay gap, give more focus to stopping domestic violence, sort out the court system, deal with systemic problems affecting women. But that's not what all this bigotry is about is it. 😔
"the federal funds stopped arriving, without explanation, in 2024" <--because that's how we do it now apparently.
A tsunami that starts in Alaska can reach the Washington coast in less than four hours.
Nine Alaska seismic stations to go dark in January, slowing West Coast tsunami alerts
www.kuow.org
December 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"the federal funds stopped arriving, without explanation, in 2024" <--because that's how we do it now apparently.
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the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
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41% of acute care beds in Washington state are at Catholic hospitals. Banning care trans people need means removing access to care in many communities.
transnews.network/p/u-s-cathol...
transnews.network/p/u-s-cathol...
December 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
41% of acute care beds in Washington state are at Catholic hospitals. Banning care trans people need means removing access to care in many communities.
transnews.network/p/u-s-cathol...
transnews.network/p/u-s-cathol...
Transphobic rhetoric is so mainstream that people need reminders that trans people are human beings. My QSA trans kids are musicians, artists, athletes, actors, fierce friends, readers, scouts, and school leaders. They are kids and deserve so much better that America is giving them right now.
“When she was young she rescued spiders”: Here’s what parents wish folks knew about their trans kids
www.lgbtqnation.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.lgbtqnation.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
“When she was young she rescued spiders”: Here’s what parents wish folks knew about their trans kids
We asked parents of trans youth to share what the world doesn't understand about their kids. They had a lot to say.
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Transphobic rhetoric is so mainstream that people need reminders that trans people are human beings. My QSA trans kids are musicians, artists, athletes, actors, fierce friends, readers, scouts, and school leaders. They are kids and deserve so much better that America is giving them right now.
Home languages are a gift and being fluent in two or three languages is a huge asset in adulthood. Something to keep in mind when schools rush students towards English fluency at the expense of the home language.
Home languages are a superpower and should be respected and valued as such in our classrooms.
Encouraging students to continue to discuss, play, research, sing, read, and write in their home languages is important-and not just as a “bridge to English” for students at beginner STEP levels. #OntEd
Encouraging students to continue to discuss, play, research, sing, read, and write in their home languages is important-and not just as a “bridge to English” for students at beginner STEP levels. #OntEd
November 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Home languages are a gift and being fluent in two or three languages is a huge asset in adulthood. Something to keep in mind when schools rush students towards English fluency at the expense of the home language.
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NYT is asking the public to donate to education charities. Ok, sure. But individual donations can’t make up for the huge gap created by the loss of federal funding. Vote to restore funding education if you want an educated public.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...
Opinion | America Has Sidelined Education. You Can Help.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
NYT is asking the public to donate to education charities. Ok, sure. But individual donations can’t make up for the huge gap created by the loss of federal funding. Vote to restore funding education if you want an educated public.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...
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We have an Afghan refugee family in our kid community and I am so stressed on their behalf.
I cannot imagine being a mom with AFAB kids and being thrust into this kind of uncertainty vis a vis deportation to fucking Taliban-run Afghanistan.
Jesus fucking Christ.
I cannot imagine being a mom with AFAB kids and being thrust into this kind of uncertainty vis a vis deportation to fucking Taliban-run Afghanistan.
Jesus fucking Christ.
November 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
We have an Afghan refugee family in our kid community and I am so stressed on their behalf.
I cannot imagine being a mom with AFAB kids and being thrust into this kind of uncertainty vis a vis deportation to fucking Taliban-run Afghanistan.
Jesus fucking Christ.
I cannot imagine being a mom with AFAB kids and being thrust into this kind of uncertainty vis a vis deportation to fucking Taliban-run Afghanistan.
Jesus fucking Christ.
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Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?”
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?”
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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“black boys ain’t meant to vanish”
tamir was a name
before it was a hashtag.
was a laugh
before it was a lesson.
was twelve—
not a prophet,
not a threat,
just a kid
with a toy
& a country
that never learned to love
Black joy.
#TamirRice #BLM #BlackSky #RIP
tamir was a name
before it was a hashtag.
was a laugh
before it was a lesson.
was twelve—
not a prophet,
not a threat,
just a kid
with a toy
& a country
that never learned to love
Black joy.
#TamirRice #BLM #BlackSky #RIP
June 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
“black boys ain’t meant to vanish”
tamir was a name
before it was a hashtag.
was a laugh
before it was a lesson.
was twelve—
not a prophet,
not a threat,
just a kid
with a toy
& a country
that never learned to love
Black joy.
#TamirRice #BLM #BlackSky #RIP
tamir was a name
before it was a hashtag.
was a laugh
before it was a lesson.
was twelve—
not a prophet,
not a threat,
just a kid
with a toy
& a country
that never learned to love
Black joy.
#TamirRice #BLM #BlackSky #RIP
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The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
November 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
Weird way of dealing with the nursing shortage
I realized it was only a matter of time for other professions once I heard the professional, moral, intellectual & ethical requirements to be POTUS were completely eliminated. 🤷🏻♀️
November 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Weird way of dealing with the nursing shortage
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NEW: Officials at the Indian Health Service have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations for patients.
The Indian Health Service Is Flagging Vaccine-Related Speech. Doctors Say They’re Being Censored.
Officials have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations.
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
NEW: Officials at the Indian Health Service have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations for patients.
Ele & secondary edu would be under the dept of labor, and foreign language edu would be under the state dept? 🙄 It’s the ultimate version of the stereotype that education is easy and anyone can do it.
www.npr.org/2025/11/18/n... Trump administration shares new moves to dismantle more of the Education Department
Trump administration shares new moves to dismantle more of the Education Department
Some of the responsibilities the administration aims to move were explicitly assigned to the U.S. Education Department by Congress, raising questions about the legality of these changes.
www.npr.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Ele & secondary edu would be under the dept of labor, and foreign language edu would be under the state dept? 🙄 It’s the ultimate version of the stereotype that education is easy and anyone can do it.