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Chris Lehmann

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Founding Principal / CEO - Science Leadership Academy Schools Co-Author of "Building School 2.0: How to Create the Schools We Need" Dad to Jakob and Theo. Still writes here when I can: http://practicaltheory.org

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Chris Lehmann @clehmann.bsky.social · Aug 24

New Post: 20 Years of SLA

What lessons have we learned as we open our doors for our 20th first day of school?

20 Years of SLA

Tomorrow morning, Science Leadership Academy opens its doors for the 20th time. To say that it has been a heck of a run is purely an understatement. In that time, we've worked with thousands of kids, and we've done all that we can to show the world that an inquiry driven, project based, caring school really can make a difference in the lives of the students and the educators who inhabit it.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Chris Lehmann @clehmann.bsky.social · 17h

Also... HS Principal here.

We don't let kids talk like this. If a group of students were discovered with a group chat like this, they'd be disciplined.

JD Vance never runs out of reasons to excuse hate speech.

It's because he's telling on himself.

Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 18h

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today

I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.)

Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear.

But… no “kids”!

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Chris Lehmann @clehmann.bsky.social · 19h

A free press is the hallmark of a free society.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
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Chris Lehmann @clehmann.bsky.social · 2d

Then this post was for you. :)

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Chris Lehmann @clehmann.bsky.social · 2d

In case you need this tonight... I'll just leave it right here.

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Chris Lehmann @clehmann.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah... but now you can't unsee it, am I right?

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Chris Lehmann @clehmann.bsky.social · 2d

Me too... and yet, I can't remember my kids' phone numbers.

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Chris Lehmann @clehmann.bsky.social · 2d

That gif is *not* doing what I thought it was doing at first.

Good lord.

Chris Lehmann @clehmann.bsky.social · 3d

Why does anyone listen to him?

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Chris Lehmann @clehmann.bsky.social · 3d

Every journalist has to put a stop to this.

When they slander and name call, journalists have to call it out and demand it stops.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

STEPHANOPOULOS: ProPublica reported that several members of the Trump administation have similar questions about their mortgages

VANCE: ProPublica is basically a left-wing blog

S: Do you dispute the facts they reported?

VANCE: I haven't read it. I have no idea. I certainly question the source

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Chris Lehmann @clehmann.bsky.social · 4d

I genuinely wonder why TV folks let this administration get away with their tactics.

Interrupt them. Hold them to ask. Or don’t have them on.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 5d

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 5d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.