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Shannon Carey

@scmaestra.bsky.social

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High school history teacher. Anti-fascist. Oakland. she/her.

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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · Nov 10

Hey! Happy to be here! I teach high school history in a big public high school and I really hate fascism!

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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.

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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 3h

On either side of the fence.

Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 3h

Each day feels more and more like we're living in The Zone of Interest.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18h

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.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 18h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 19h

My dearest Gertrude,

I fear I shall not make it home. This war has ravaged our supplies and broken our will.

We arrived with weapons, purpose, and a directive. Yet at every turn, we are mocked. Belittled.

I have never experienced an insult so great in a war zone

Send my best to the children

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 2d

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 1d

Christian Siriano?

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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 1d

Assistant principal / AP Lit teacher / 2rd year TFA in an admin program

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 2d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 2d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe that's why he hates California so much. It made him speak like this.

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This is the only thing I could hear, too

Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 2d

A large, unarmed, inflatable frog costumed person facing off against dozens of ICE agents in Portland

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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 2d

Oh that's good tho

Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 2d

YIMBYvert

Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 3d

He needs to keep Vietnam war out of his mouth

Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 3d

100 percent thinking this

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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 3d

Jim Crow was a fascist regime that oppressed Black people, not white ppl. A xtian German did not have the same experience as a German Jew in 1939.

So yes, this is a fascist regime that we're not all experiencing the same way. This is the nature of fascism: artificial hierarchies, brutally enforced.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 3d

That sounds like a church I could actually get behind!

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3d

This week at an event for THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT, a reader asked in a gracious and cheeky way what I would hope white readers in particular would get out of the book. Or more directly, what I would TELL white readers. And this was basically my answer:

African-Americans are experts on America.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 3d

America should listen to Black people

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Divest from Tesla! @divesttesla.bsky.social · 3d

We need your help to keep pressure on CalPERS and CalSTRS to sell their $4B in Tesla stock.

CalPERS board has requested staff report on risk of continued investment in Tesla!

This is progress, but not final decision.

Tell CalPERS and CalSTRS to sell Tesla NOW:

actionnetwork.org/letters/emai...

Email to CalPERS and CalSTRS boards: Divest from Tesla

We're making big progress toward getting the CalPERS and CalSTRS pension funds to sell their billions of dollars in Tesla stock -- and we need your continued help to keep up the pres...

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 8d

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 4d

It’s time to post this quote again…

“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

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels

Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

www.thetimes.com

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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 4d

The creativity of this campaign continues to astound and delight

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

This Sunday, we’re SHREDDING 🎸

Join me (or someone who looks a lot like me) at one of two locations to safely dispose of old bills, bank statements and documents you no longer need.

+ DJs, family portraits and frozen treats.

12-3pm in Harlem and the Bronx. Details in the video ⬇️