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Alfie Kohn
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author and lecturer on topics in education, parenting, and human behavior....
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Alfie Kohn is an American author and lecturer in the areas of education, parenting, and human behavior. He is a proponent of progressive education and has offered critiques of many traditional aspects of parenting, managing, and American society more generally, drawing in each case from social science research. .. more

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · Aug 12
"Podcast" comes from the Latin "paudus" (meaning "to half-listen to") and "casteratum" (meaning "while preparing food"). Mine is called "KOHN'S ZONE: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom About Education & Kids." New episodes are posted on the 1st & 15th of each month: www.alfiekohn.org/podcasts/
Logo for the podcast "Kohn's Zone"

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 7h
the whole thread
toddalcott.bsky.social Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 13h
The sign on Kristi Noem's podium reads "One of ours, all of yours." The reader will recall that this was a fascist rallying cry in the Spanish Civil War. What it means is that one of "our" people is worth all of "your" people.

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 13h
If their training is essentially to escalate rather than de-escalate, then more training is going to exacerbate the problem, no?

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Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 13h
The sign on Kristi Noem's podium reads "One of ours, all of yours." The reader will recall that this was a fascist rallying cry in the Spanish Civil War. What it means is that one of "our" people is worth all of "your" people.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."

Reposted by Nelson Flores

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 18h
Does the Trump regime's attempt to blame Renee Good for being murdered by an ICE agent sound familiar? snyder.substack.com/p/maduro-in-...
The thousands of extrajudicial killings in Maduro’s Venezuela were carried out by organized death squads. These actions were described as defensive. The Maduro regime claimed that the people they murdered were resisting government authority, and that the men who pulled the trigger had been provoked by those whom they murdered. Minneapolis has just witnessed an extrajudicial killing, at the hands of ICE, which looks more and more like a presidential paramilitary organization. The action was, horribly, excused by the president, the vice-president, and the director of homeland security, using the same lies as those told by Maduro’s Venezuelan regime. The victim was resisting government authority, they said. The man who pulled the trigger had been provoked, they said. It was not the killer who was a terrorist. It was the mom who had just dropped off one of her six-year-old at school.

Reposted by Joseph Schafer, Alfie Kohn, James Connelly

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 19h
BREAKING: Staggering scenes as brave Iranians stand up to their illegitimate government in Tehran... um, hang on, I'm being told this is actually Minneapolis. Forget I said anything...

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 1d
Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 1d
So here are some agents using a gendered insult, and you liberals *still* aren't satisfied

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 1d
The (NYT) article also describes Musk's efforts to pump up Grok's white supremacist content as "less politically correct."

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 1d
The (NYT) article also describes Musk's efforts to pump up Grok's white supremacist content as "less politically correct."

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 1d
That they can brutalize whomever they want with impunity
dominicervolina.com Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 1d
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."

The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"

"Learned what?" she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 1d
“Racy”
“Racy Images Grok Created Fuel Outcry”

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 1d
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."

The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"

"Learned what?" she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 1d
For Trump, unlike Miller, the use of force is "not so much a means of achieving American national-security goals as an end in itself," adds Susan Glasser - a "narcissistic form of unilateralism that says, loudly, 'I can do whatever I want'....Unrestrained power wielded for its own sake is the theme"

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 1d
Excellent analysis by @davidcorn.bsky.social of how three recent events converge on the Trump regime's frank rejection of the rule of law (and, indeed, of "rules-based civilization"); its motto instead is "Violence is ours to use, at home and abroad, to get what we want": tinyurl.com/388kpexf
The Trump doctrine: Violence is us
The message is clear—be afraid.
tinyurl.com

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 1d
The underappreciated educator Selma Wassermann once remarked that taking away students' right to make decisions because they've failed to make "responsible" choices is like taking away their right to read because they can't yet read well.

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 2d
It was Jonathan Swift who reminded us that "you can't reason someone out of something he didn't reason himself into."

I suspect many of us keep ignoring this caution mostly because we just don't know what else to do in the face of intractable and unreasonable beliefs or horrifying actions.

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 2d
Or a Black person. Remember in 2009 when Harvard professor Skip Gates was arrested in front of his own house - basically for being insufficiently deferential to a white cop?

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 2d
Or a Black person. Remember in 2009 when Harvard professor Skip Gates was arrested in front of his own house - basically for being insufficiently deferential to a white cop?

Reposted by Alfie Kohn

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d
"We want it, so we're going to take it" is the motto of rapists and Republicans.
Trump: "We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not."

Reposted by Alfie Kohn

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d
So why do you think Trump stopped his meeting with oil company executives, who are seeking both US security guarantees and taxpayer-funded infrastructure subsidies for Venezuelan oil production, to talk to them about his ballroom where the price tag continues to go up for it monthly?

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 2d
Good to see a background piece like this one that helps to humanize the late Ms. Good: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/....
It would be even better to see similar feature articles with details about the lives of the nonwhite immigrants being victimized by the MAGAstapo.
Renee Good’s wife says she was supporting neighbors when killed by ICE
Renee Nicole Good was a devoted mother and artist before she was fatally shot and became a flash point of anger against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 2d
Trumpians who praise ICE (and denigrate its victims) but also support the J6 seditionists' assault on Capitol police officers are not being inconsistent or hypocritical. Here's why: www.thebulwark.com/p/renee-good...
The purpose of this discussion isn't to play gotcha or to expose hypocrisy. It’s to understand a worldview: The people who run this regime do not understand law enforcement as an institution to be stewarded. The view it as a tool for the domination of their enemies. And their “enemies” include about half of America. Again: This is not hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is when someone holds to a set of values but applies them selectively. You can work with hypocrites because they share your values, even if they do not always adhere to them. Hypocrisy is, famously, the tribute that vice pays to virtue. No, what we are seeing is a worldview for which the only value is the domination of enemies. There is a name for that. It is fascism. In this worldview, Ashli Babbitt was committing violence on behalf of the regime; so she was justified, even if that violence was directed toward government agents. And because Renee Good was opposing the regime, violence against her—this time carried out by government agents—was likewise justified.

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 2d
The killer leads trainings
timmarchman.bsky.social Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 3d
NEW: Jonathan Ross is former National Guard and Border Patrol and has been part of ICE's SWAT equivalent, a team leader overseeing FBI, ATF, and IRS agents, and a firearms instructor, according to testimony obtained by WIRED. This is from @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:
ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, Per Testimony
Jonathan Ross told a federal court in December about his professional background, including “hundreds” of encounters with drivers during enforcement actions, according to testimony obtained by WIRED.
www.wired.com

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d
Something I always wondered is how it would be covered if America became a dictatorship

This is it

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 3d
NEW: Jonathan Ross is former National Guard and Border Patrol and has been part of ICE's SWAT equivalent, a team leader overseeing FBI, ATF, and IRS agents, and a firearms instructor, according to testimony obtained by WIRED. This is from @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:
ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, Per Testimony
Jonathan Ross told a federal court in December about his professional background, including “hundreds” of encounters with drivers during enforcement actions, according to testimony obtained by WIRED.
www.wired.com

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 3d
Why would Trump and his sycophants tell such obviously disprovable lies about the murder of Ms. Good? Adam Serwer has thoughts:
The blatant lies about Minneapolis serve several purposes. They perpetuate the false narrative that federal agents are in constant peril and therefore justified in using lethal force at the slightest hint of danger. They assure federal agents that they can harm or even kill American citizens with impunity, and warn those who might be moved to protest Trump's immigration policies of the same thing. Perhaps most grim, they communicate to the public that if you happen to be killed by a federal agent, your government will bear false witness to the world that you were a terrorist.

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 3d
"Please summarize the state of America in 2026 with one short post"

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 3d
Practical suggestions for how peaceful protesters can protect themselves from surveillance in a country run by an authoritarian regime
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · 3d
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · 3d
Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.

If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

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WIRED @wired.com · 3d
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · 3d
Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.

If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
www.wired.com