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The EDU Ledger @theeduledger.bsky.social · 5h

Last call! | In our November 6 edition, we'll spotlight Native American History Month and the future of health sciences. We'll explore heritage, leadership, and access across #highered and healthcare.

Be a part of this edition: bit.ly/4nSs4UZ

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 4h

Here's my full breakdown of yesterday's voting rights case, where the Supreme Court will likely say that overrepresntation of whites in Congress is constitutionally mandated.

My latest in @thenation.com

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Supreme Court Left No Doubt: It Will Gut the Voting Rights Act

The ruling, when it comes, will be disastrous for Black voters and for Democrats.

www.thenation.com

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Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · 23h

Guaranteed basic income programs WORK - especially for mothers and their babies.

Proud to be part of the team at Mothers Trust Alliance, working to bring a GBI program to life in central Ohio for Black parenting and pregnant people. 💚

Cash Transfers Improve Maternal, Infant, and Child Health Outcomes Memo - 2Oct2025 [PUBLIC]

Cash Transfers Improve Maternal, Infant, and Child Health Outcomes in the U.S. The United States has among the worst maternal and infant health outcomes of all high-income countries. Moreover, these o...

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Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · 1d

“No physician is racist”?’!?!?

Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · 1d

Glad to be in the number 🥰❤️

#ECMCFFellow #DoctoralScholar #CTEResearcher #InclusionStillMatters #EquityStillMatters

The EDU Ledger @theeduledger.bsky.social · 2d

The Ohio State University's Kioshana LaCount Burrell (@kioshana.bsky.social) has traveled the country and encountered the same troubling pattern: programs inadequately modified for neurodivergent participants.

This frustration led her to pursue a Ph.D. #RisingGraduateScholars

Championing Equity in Workforce Development

Over her 15 years in workforce development, Kioshana LaCount Burrell has traveled the country and encountered the same troubling pattern: programs inadequately modified for neurodivergent participants...

www.theeduledger.com

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Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · 15d

This is the bright spot for the week, for sure. 💚

Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 15d

There have been two hosts in the history of Reading Rainbow. The Legend of Literacy, LeVar Burton! And... me, Mychal Threets, a librarian 🥹🤯

I am a reader, a librarian because LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow made us believe and see we belong in books, we belong everywhere ✨

youtu.be/e7es7qdWVnU

Smiling Mychal with hands raised wears an outer space shirt in a library. It is a still from an episode of Reading Rainbow.

LeVar Burton smiles with hands behind his head as he lies down on a colorful pile of books. ENEMY PIE book rests on his chest.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 15d

WATCH: "They are underwater across the board, and they know it. And that is causing them to double down in public. But it is backfiring. That is why—whether it's a shutdown, whether it's all of this—they want us to blink first. And we have too much to save," says AOC.

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Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · 15d

I hope the Congressional Dems know that no one outside of the MAGA-sphere blames them for not agreeing to gut Medicaid to keep the government open.

But if any cave to the pressure without securing concessions, they should probably go ahead and pack it in because they’re 100% gonna be primaried.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28d

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions

Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue)

West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)

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Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · 29d

Ezra Klein truly killed all semblance of integrity in his work last week. It’s never been more clear he’s here for the theater of it all. ✌🏼

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29d

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.

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Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · Sep 16

The narrative of that lawsuit is bonkers. I cannot believe that’s actually allowed in a court filing.

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Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · Sep 15

Here in Ohio, our local public schools are paying millions to bus kids to charter or private schools, while being forced to cut services to their own students because “school choice”.

Here’s my take on why American individualism is ruining education in our country, and what we can do to stop it.

The Real Cost of "School Choice": How Ohio is Bankrupting Public Education

This is what "school choice" really looks like.

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Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · Sep 15

I love everything about this.

Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · Sep 15

Side note: I can’t tell you how often I’ve been (jokingly) made fun of for my *very analog* need to hand-write everything before I type it.

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Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · Sep 15

Personal archiving you say? Tell us more (if you’re up to it 💚).

Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · Sep 12

I seriously hate it here 🫠

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · Sep 5

Vaccines don't cause autism. What does? Mostly genes.
The number of people diagnosed with autism as screening has improved and the definition of autism has been expanded.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Vaccines don't cause autism. What does?

Scientists say most brain changes that contribute to autistic traits occur before birth.

www.nbcnews.com

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · Sep 4

In 1900, 31% of all deaths were children under the age of 5. Today it’s 0.7%. Vaccines, medications, and modern science are the reason why. Trust the science, it’s been proven to work safely and efficiently time and time again.

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Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · Sep 3

I love this for them. I’m sad I don’t live there.

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 3

In response to the dismantling of the CDC, California, Oregon, and Washington have launched the West Coast Health Alliance, which will make their own science-based vaccine guidelines, and make sure vaccines are accessible to everyone.

California, Oregon, and Washington to launch new West Coast Health Alliance to uphold scientific integrity in public health as Trump destroys CDC’s credibility

Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · Sep 3

Another one for your lunchtime reading pleasure: on *Pedagogy of the Oppressed* and what it means for us as educators and freedom dreamers in the current moment.

#ECMCFFellow #doctoralscholar #criticalhope
#FreedomDreaming

The Past as Prologue: What Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed Can Teach About the Current Moment in American Politics and Education

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end - Semisonic (1998)

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Kioshana🩷 @kioshana.bsky.social · Sep 3

Respectfully, Governor Walz, our elected officials in Washington resigned us to that fate on December 14, 2012. I wish so much that this wasn’t the case. Our children deserve so much better. ❤️

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · Aug 29

No, President Trump.

Forcing seniors with traditional Medicare to get prior approval from AI companies before they can receive the health care they need won’t make America healthy again.

It will make AI companies even richer by denying care to seniors.

DON’T CUT MEDICARE.

Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures

www.nytimes.com

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