Texpatriate
@texpatriate.bsky.social
Public school teacher of English II and English III. Interested in mythology, Shakespeare, art, and history.
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"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 AM
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
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If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
September 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
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District leaders are calling it a culture shift within Jefferson County Public Schools. Less than a month into the district’s first school year with a new cellphone ban, JCPS has found that students are checking out library books at a record rate. (Wave)
School cell phone ban creates surge in JCPS library visits
District leaders are calling it a culture shift within Jefferson County Public Schools.
www.wave3.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
District leaders are calling it a culture shift within Jefferson County Public Schools. Less than a month into the district’s first school year with a new cellphone ban, JCPS has found that students are checking out library books at a record rate. (Wave)
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500 billion dollars and the robot can't even count to twelve
August 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
500 billion dollars and the robot can't even count to twelve
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Musk really turned his AI into a Hitlerbot. Wild.
July 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Musk really turned his AI into a Hitlerbot. Wild.
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Also do notice, these two Supreme Court decisions dropped the *same day*:
- States can restrict online speech if it is "adult".
- The mere depiction of homosexual existence can be objectionable adult content.
A plus B equals C
- States can restrict online speech if it is "adult".
- The mere depiction of homosexual existence can be objectionable adult content.
A plus B equals C
Alito includes screenshots from the books he thinks parents should be able to bar schools from letting their children read.
June 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Also do notice, these two Supreme Court decisions dropped the *same day*:
- States can restrict online speech if it is "adult".
- The mere depiction of homosexual existence can be objectionable adult content.
A plus B equals C
- States can restrict online speech if it is "adult".
- The mere depiction of homosexual existence can be objectionable adult content.
A plus B equals C
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Rob Sand, Dem candidate running for Governor in Iowa on school choice.
June 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Rob Sand, Dem candidate running for Governor in Iowa on school choice.
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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
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(the black hole here, too, is how can you possibly evaluate the analysis that your LLM produces if you are not trained to interpret, analyze, historicize?) everything is amazing if you know nothing
June 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
(the black hole here, too, is how can you possibly evaluate the analysis that your LLM produces if you are not trained to interpret, analyze, historicize?) everything is amazing if you know nothing
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I am of the apparently radical opinion that we should invest in books in schools.
April 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I am of the apparently radical opinion that we should invest in books in schools.
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I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning
April 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning
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Trump is clearly guilty of at least 13 of the 27 grievances Founding Fathers laid out in the Declaration of Independence www.archives.gov/founding-doc... against King George III, many of them translate word-for-word to Trump with no additional context needed ...
Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling a...
www.archives.gov
March 31, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Trump is clearly guilty of at least 13 of the 27 grievances Founding Fathers laid out in the Declaration of Independence www.archives.gov/founding-doc... against King George III, many of them translate word-for-word to Trump with no additional context needed ...
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This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
March 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
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Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.
Trump Decried Millions Spent 'Making Mice Transgender.' It Was Cancer and Asthma Research
President Trump falsely claimed that Biden spent $8 million on 'making mice transgender,' but the real research was for human health.
www.rollingstone.com
March 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.
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Imagine the response if a European leader laughed it up about 9/11.
HANNITY: The Biden administration called Putin every name in the book
JD VANCE: And he still invaded anyway! hah hah hah
JD VANCE: And he still invaded anyway! hah hah hah
March 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Imagine the response if a European leader laughed it up about 9/11.
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AOL warned us of the dangers of logging on. It would play for us the screams of the damned. But we didn’t listen. We didn’t listen.
February 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
AOL warned us of the dangers of logging on. It would play for us the screams of the damned. But we didn’t listen. We didn’t listen.
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Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:
February 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:
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Wife responded to Elon’s email even though she’s not a federal employee.
February 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Wife responded to Elon’s email even though she’s not a federal employee.
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“This is nice behaviour, that I write to you again and again, and you pay no attention to me.”
This almost 4,000-year-old Babylonian letter in clay is proof that we have been finding ways to say “per my last email” for some time
This almost 4,000-year-old Babylonian letter in clay is proof that we have been finding ways to say “per my last email” for some time
February 16, 2025 at 7:20 AM
“This is nice behaviour, that I write to you again and again, and you pay no attention to me.”
This almost 4,000-year-old Babylonian letter in clay is proof that we have been finding ways to say “per my last email” for some time
This almost 4,000-year-old Babylonian letter in clay is proof that we have been finding ways to say “per my last email” for some time
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
...really fucking illegal AGAIN.
1. Yes, this is some weird shit.
2. He’s getting ready to do something really fucking illegal.
2. He’s getting ready to do something really fucking illegal.
February 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
...really fucking illegal AGAIN.
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If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
February 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?