Susan K Reardon
@susankreardon.bsky.social
Early childhood special educator, reader, meanderer, aspiring gardener. Interested in poetry, language development, phenomenology, autism, nature.
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It's official.
Resistance Summer School is happening.
Columbia cancelled my class on Race, Media and International Affairs, but I'm going to teach it anyway.
100+ people have enrolled in just six hours.
karenattiah.substack.com/p/enrollment...
Resistance Summer School is happening.
Columbia cancelled my class on Race, Media and International Affairs, but I'm going to teach it anyway.
100+ people have enrolled in just six hours.
karenattiah.substack.com/p/enrollment...
Enrollment for Race, Media and International Affairs 101 is now open!
Grab your spot in Karen Attiah's Resistance Summer School pilot course.
karenattiah.substack.com
April 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
It's official.
Resistance Summer School is happening.
Columbia cancelled my class on Race, Media and International Affairs, but I'm going to teach it anyway.
100+ people have enrolled in just six hours.
karenattiah.substack.com/p/enrollment...
Resistance Summer School is happening.
Columbia cancelled my class on Race, Media and International Affairs, but I'm going to teach it anyway.
100+ people have enrolled in just six hours.
karenattiah.substack.com/p/enrollment...
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From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
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The rush to destroy things like USAID and other agencies before lawsuits can stop them is to make it moot. When our stupidly slow judicial system finally moves to stop them it will be far too late. If all 10,000 USAID employees are home and projects abandoned it’s done. It’s evil.
February 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
The rush to destroy things like USAID and other agencies before lawsuits can stop them is to make it moot. When our stupidly slow judicial system finally moves to stop them it will be far too late. If all 10,000 USAID employees are home and projects abandoned it’s done. It’s evil.
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Black history month starts today and this administration would like us to forget it,
February 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Black history month starts today and this administration would like us to forget it,
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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
www.finance.senate.gov
February 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
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My therapist recently recommended the Feminist Survival Project podcast. I thought everyone could use the ideas in the episode, given the insanity of the world right now.
02: Complete the Stress Cycle: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fsp...
02: Complete the Stress Cycle: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fsp...
02: Complete the Stress Response Cycle by Feminist Survival Project
So if solving actual stressors isn’t enough to deal with the stress in your body, what does deal with it? How do we complete the stress response cycle? This episode is a catalog of a dozen concrete, s...
podcasters.spotify.com
January 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
My therapist recently recommended the Feminist Survival Project podcast. I thought everyone could use the ideas in the episode, given the insanity of the world right now.
02: Complete the Stress Cycle: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fsp...
02: Complete the Stress Cycle: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fsp...
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People on TikTok are reporting ICE raids happening in small cities in various states.
To get past algorithmic censorship, they’re writing down the information on paper and holding up and shuffling through the handwritten signs as they talk about pretend subjects like shopping, food, and animals.
To get past algorithmic censorship, they’re writing down the information on paper and holding up and shuffling through the handwritten signs as they talk about pretend subjects like shopping, food, and animals.
January 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
People on TikTok are reporting ICE raids happening in small cities in various states.
To get past algorithmic censorship, they’re writing down the information on paper and holding up and shuffling through the handwritten signs as they talk about pretend subjects like shopping, food, and animals.
To get past algorithmic censorship, they’re writing down the information on paper and holding up and shuffling through the handwritten signs as they talk about pretend subjects like shopping, food, and animals.
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I love this so much!
At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.
This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.
This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
January 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I love this so much!
At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.
This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.
This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
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Gov. Brian Kemp wants to run for the U.S. Senate, and possibly the presidency. When he does, people like me will remind the public that a murder epidemic in state prisons emerged on his watch with little action. At least, until now.
The $372 million ask for fixes is a start.
#gapol
The $372 million ask for fixes is a start.
#gapol
Kemp Finally Gets the Prison Problem
Enough dead bodies have piled up on the governor's watch for him to spend money on a problem that wins no one votes for solving.
open.substack.com
January 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Gov. Brian Kemp wants to run for the U.S. Senate, and possibly the presidency. When he does, people like me will remind the public that a murder epidemic in state prisons emerged on his watch with little action. At least, until now.
The $372 million ask for fixes is a start.
#gapol
The $372 million ask for fixes is a start.
#gapol
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I wrote a thing, because these fires are in the increasingly common category of shocking but not surprising. Neither unprecedented nor unforeseen by those who study the subjects.....
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The chronicle of a fire foretold | Rebecca Solnit
The current fires in Los Angeles are reminders of the costs of forgetting
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I wrote a thing, because these fires are in the increasingly common category of shocking but not surprising. Neither unprecedented nor unforeseen by those who study the subjects.....
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Thanks to everyone who pointed to the crucial sentences: Catastrophic fire erases what was there before. So does forgetting. Memory is a resource for facing the future; it’s equipment for imagining, planning, preparing.
January 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Thanks to everyone who pointed to the crucial sentences: Catastrophic fire erases what was there before. So does forgetting. Memory is a resource for facing the future; it’s equipment for imagining, planning, preparing.
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They swept up baby pictures like
they swept up obituaries. They swept up
ashes of a husband, & told no one
where to find him.
—Seth Peterson
they swept up obituaries. They swept up
ashes of a husband, & told no one
where to find him.
—Seth Peterson
“The Year of Disappearing Tents” by Seth Peterson
They swept up baby pictures like they swept up obituaries. They swept up ashes of a husband, & told no one where to find him.
www.rattle.com
January 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
They swept up baby pictures like
they swept up obituaries. They swept up
ashes of a husband, & told no one
where to find him.
—Seth Peterson
they swept up obituaries. They swept up
ashes of a husband, & told no one
where to find him.
—Seth Peterson
If I had to only drink one brand of beer for the rest of my life, it would be this one. What’s your favorite drink?
December 21, 2024 at 8:37 PM
If I had to only drink one brand of beer for the rest of my life, it would be this one. What’s your favorite drink?
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1. A teacher in Ohio who has worked at the same public school for 34 years was suspended without pay and threatened with termination for offering four books in her classroom library that contained LGBTQ characters.
She's fighting back.
She's fighting back.
Ohio teacher suspended for including four books with LGBTQ characters in her classroom library
Karen Cahall has been a teacher in the New Richmond School District in Ohio for 34 years.
popular.info
December 12, 2024 at 1:51 PM
1. A teacher in Ohio who has worked at the same public school for 34 years was suspended without pay and threatened with termination for offering four books in her classroom library that contained LGBTQ characters.
She's fighting back.
She's fighting back.
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Ending on time is a feminist act.
This came up at a conference I was at on Friday, and I was curious if other think about this similarly.
I view keeping to my assigned time in presentations as an embodiment of my feminist values at work. There is a set amount of total time and going over takes time away from ~someone~ else.
I view keeping to my assigned time in presentations as an embodiment of my feminist values at work. There is a set amount of total time and going over takes time away from ~someone~ else.
December 9, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Ending on time is a feminist act.
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I’m curious how much federal funding he thinks the ACLU receives (it’s none).
December 5, 2024 at 6:06 PM
I’m curious how much federal funding he thinks the ACLU receives (it’s none).
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“I’ll stop drinking if you let me run the Pentagon” is maybe the most alcoholic thing anyone has ever said
December 5, 2024 at 2:38 AM
“I’ll stop drinking if you let me run the Pentagon” is maybe the most alcoholic thing anyone has ever said
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6 hours under martial law: a drunk scene report from Seoul www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...
6 hours under martial law in Seoul
On the ground from the protests outside the National Assembly building
www.theverge.com
December 4, 2024 at 10:04 AM
6 hours under martial law: a drunk scene report from Seoul www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...
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Buy local, friends
"Unfortunately, your box was apparently one pound too heavy for the carrier aircraft, which experienced a massive mechanical failure, resulting in a geyser of jet fuel raining down on a nearby bird sanctuary."
Your Amazon Order of Reusable Metal Straws Is Currently on Its Way Via the Most Ecologically Devastating Route You Could Imagine
SHIPPED: Your Amazon Order of GaiaGulp Earth-Friendly Metal Straws and EcoGO Reusable Shopping Bags is on its way to you in Chicago. You’ve opted t...
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December 2, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Buy local, friends
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Vivek is literally an unelected federal bureaucrat.
December 1, 2024 at 11:44 PM
Vivek is literally an unelected federal bureaucrat.
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Join poets, publishers & readers from around the world for 24hr Global Reading for Freedom of Expression & in Solidarity with Palestine & Lebanon
Fri. 29 Nov
From 5pm EET / 3pm UK
Live stream: m.youtube.com/watch?v=RxJN...
Fri. 29 Nov
From 5pm EET / 3pm UK
Live stream: m.youtube.com/watch?v=RxJN...
November 26, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Join poets, publishers & readers from around the world for 24hr Global Reading for Freedom of Expression & in Solidarity with Palestine & Lebanon
Fri. 29 Nov
From 5pm EET / 3pm UK
Live stream: m.youtube.com/watch?v=RxJN...
Fri. 29 Nov
From 5pm EET / 3pm UK
Live stream: m.youtube.com/watch?v=RxJN...
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With readings from Palestine-Egypt-Sudan-N.Africa-Greece-Italy-Albania-Catalan poets-Chile-US-Japan-Germany-Ireland-UK-Canada-Caribbean poets-Puerto Rico-Mexico-Australia-Aotearoa NZ
November 26, 2024 at 7:48 PM
With readings from Palestine-Egypt-Sudan-N.Africa-Greece-Italy-Albania-Catalan poets-Chile-US-Japan-Germany-Ireland-UK-Canada-Caribbean poets-Puerto Rico-Mexico-Australia-Aotearoa NZ
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In the past day I’ve heard two people who really should know better say they asked ChatGPT for factual info.
ChatGPT is not a search engine. It is predictive text based on other people’s stolen writing; its whole job is to make stuff up. Please do not ask it for facts. Tell a friend.
ChatGPT is not a search engine. It is predictive text based on other people’s stolen writing; its whole job is to make stuff up. Please do not ask it for facts. Tell a friend.
Don’t know what to buy your loved ones for Christmas? Just ask ChatGPT
Don’t know what to buy your loved ones for Christmas? Just ask ChatGPT
Santa has a new little helper. But can an AI-powered shopping assistant really master the subtle art of gift giving?
Some people love buying Christmas presents. Polly Arrowsmith starts making a note of what her friends and family like, then hunts for…
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:37 PM
In the past day I’ve heard two people who really should know better say they asked ChatGPT for factual info.
ChatGPT is not a search engine. It is predictive text based on other people’s stolen writing; its whole job is to make stuff up. Please do not ask it for facts. Tell a friend.
ChatGPT is not a search engine. It is predictive text based on other people’s stolen writing; its whole job is to make stuff up. Please do not ask it for facts. Tell a friend.