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Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 3h

Awesome DC-based project worth supporting!

dead manu walking @profchander.bsky.social · 3h

Bol is a project rooted in a vision: worker ownership, free exchange of ideas, and political empowerment. And they’re moving into their own space! Support if you can?

Donate to Help BOL Launch Its First Brick-and-Mortar Store, organized by Bol Coop

IT’S HAPPENING! Bol is excited to announce that we are moving into a brick-a… Bol Coop needs your support for Help BOL Launch Its First Brick-and-Mortar Store

gofund.me

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Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 3h

This is very cool—thanks for sharing!

Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 8h

This is not even to mention Can’t Hardly Wait, a masterpiece!

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Chimmy and Ada are still gay @chimerror.blacksky.app · 12h

One of the most frustrating things about what's likely going to happen is that people are going to become quickly aware of all colonial spoils they assumed would be there forever, and that'll drive anger at the regime far more than any amount of more severe human suffering in the vulnerable.

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 12h

Oh coffee, no big deal, just the global crop that shaped world history as empires created trade routes around it that enjoying has become ritual in so many cultures. And Americans are whining because Trump's tariffs mean we can't have coffee anymore?

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 14h

At the University of Illinois, rolling blackouts and brownouts are expected in 2026 due to increased energy demands from A.I. Scientific labs are expected to be affected.

Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 15h

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 11h

The potential for shit like this is one reason why groups like LUCE in Massachusetts urge people to report sightings to them so they and their partners can directly warn people. A decentralized network is a lot harder to shut down. No big tech company will be in ally in the fight against ICE.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 11h

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

trib.al

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Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 11h

#teachlearnsky

Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 12h

#teaching #pedagogy folks: in a course that I've inherited there is a required group project. Looking for resources to help guide students in fundamentals of group work.

Group work is often something that they don't enjoy, but I'm also sure there are ways to make it manageable/constructive. Ideas?

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Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 11h

And this for assessment: www.cmu.edu/teaching/ass...

Grading Methods for Group Work - Eberly Center - Carnegie Mellon University

Grading Methods for Group Work

www.cmu.edu

Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 11h

This is a great resources on group contracts:

Making Group Contracts | Centre for Teaching Excellence | University of Waterloo

Working in groups can be both rewarding and challenging.

uwaterloo.ca

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Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 11h

Asking students to reflect on the best group project experiences they've ever had, followed by the worst, can set the stage really nicely for collaborative decision-making about what students want this experience to look like.

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Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 11h

Stages of group development: www.wcupa.edu/coral/tuckma...

Tuckman's Stages of Group Development - WCU of PA

www.wcupa.edu

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Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 11h

Group roles are here--the nice thing about this is that it's not "each person does one thing" but "the team has to have all these roles met; how can we make sure that happens?"

www.belbin.com/about/belbin...

The Nine Belbin Team Roles

The nine Belbin Team Roles; their strengths and weaknesses, and how to use the nine Belbin Team Roles when working with a team. To find out your Belbin Team Role profile you need to complete the Belbi...

www.belbin.com

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Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 11h

Lots of ideas! And happy to troubleshoot more specifically, too. To start:
1. In the design phase, making sure you have a group-worthy task
2. Teaching groups how to work together. Group contracts/promises, group roles, and stages of group development are all good ways into this

Group-Worthy Tasks

Carefully constructed group learning activities can foster students' academic and social growth and help close the achievement gap.

www.ascd.org

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Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social · 1d

"free indirect discourse" is an absolutely terrible phrase to describe one of the most important features of prose fiction and we should have found a new term decades ago

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 1d

Have you checked in with your campus center for teaching and learning? We try very hard to be just this!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

do you guys ever think about how in a better world José Andres could just like. have some restaurants. and instead he’s consistently doing the work we’re supposed to have governments for

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Government workers 👇🏾

Lunch is on the house:

Being in the heart of downtown DC, we love that so many of our Federal employees stop by during lunch for a Donburi at China Chilcano or a Fútbol Club at Jaleo. And just because the government is shut down doesn't mean you have to miss out on your favorite lunch spot- because this time, its on us!
Join us for lunch from 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM at any of our participating restaurants and enjoy a free lunch item when you present your government ID-you heard that right! Dine in with us Monday through Friday and choose your favorite: a sandwich at Jaleo, a donburi at China Chilcano, a wrap or pita at Zaytinya, or a torta at Oyamel.
We've always believed in serving our community with open arms and good food-no shutdown can stop that.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 1d

On this #IndigenousPeoplesDay I'd like to draw attention to the western #Alaska storm that is causing whole houses to float away into waters that will make you hypothermic in no time, especially around the town of Kotzebue. The latest on Fbook says the Coast Guard is there now.

Espy @esp1371.bsky.social · 2d

There is a major storm with high winds causing severe flooding on SW Alaska near the Bering Sea and the Yukon Delta. This follows severe flooding in NW Alaska in Kotzebue earlier this week. A lot of native villages are going to need a lot of help and you know it's not coming from the feds.

ᒪᑰᓯ Mark Springer @markspringer.bsky.social · 2d

FB reports of major flood damage in Kipnuk - homes and store floating, people swimming.
Very high water in Quinhagak as well.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

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@gooseymaine on Twitter writing: can somebody explain to me why it's bad if immigrants take our jobs but it's good if AI does?

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logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 2d

Step 1: disband ICE
Step 2: give ICE's entire bloated budget to the IRS
Step 3: record white collar crime task force kicking in penthouse doors and macing unresisting billionaires
Step 4: one hundred years of Dem reign

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 2d

This is happening right now, to a friend of mine in Chicago. This is a peaceful area, with no previous unrest or crime problem. Just people trying to live their lives. My heart hurts. They're having conversations no family should have to have.

A white box with text. "Y'all. They're tear gassing my neighborhood. Right by the place we get hummus from. Right by where we get the extra large pizzas for sleep overs. Tell your people."

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 2d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Pleasant day out in my neighborhood in Chicago. There was a farmer’s market and people are out strolling, chatting, and sitting out on porches. Just like every weekend.

Except now most of us are wearing whistles to alert neighbors if unidentified guys in tactical gear show up to kidnap people.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 23d

a group of people were like "i found a way to live my life as a truer version of myself" and instead of being like "that's beautiful, how can i help" people were like "i don't think schools should have books in them anymore"

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