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Anne Lutz Fernandez

@lutzfernandez.bsky.social

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Ex-banker, marketer, & English teacher: pick your ad hominem. Co-author of nonfiction books Carjacked & Schooled. Cranky in the AM. Newsletter: https://nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 2d

"And when masked men grab a parent from the school car line or the corner coffee shop, all students in that school or neighborhood are subject to trauma and made to understand: The state can make people disappear. It is to be feared."

The Assault on Children

MAGA's use of kids to consolidate authoritarianism

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 43m

Disgusting Nazified Time magazine cover touting the triumph of Trump's will in Gaza

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2h

This from the great @sulliview.bsky.social on the media's anemic (or non-) coverage of the massive No Kings movement is such a great point

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2h

"The media should be covering the Trump administration’s invasion of Chicago as an enormously important story, but it’s not. Trump’s comments regarding Charlottesville pale in comparison to the radical actions he takes almost daily in his second term." newrepublic.com/article/2016...

The Mainstream Media Is Moving Right. Here’s What We Can Do About It.

At The Washington Post, CBS, and maybe CNN, the trend line is terrible. But liberals do have the power to reverse these trends.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

We love guns more than kids. I don't see how you can interpret this as anything other than a diseased country in the latter stages of destroying itself.

OPB @opb.org · 1d

Researchers discovered that since 2017, firearms have surpassed motor vehicle collisions as the leading cause of mortality for youth ages 11-18, spiking from 1,945 deaths in 2001 to 3,224 in 2022.

Gun deaths among high schoolers on the rise, WSU study finds

The researchers found that, nationwide, high schoolers ages 14 to 18 are at an exceptionally elevated risk for gun-inflicted injury and death compared to children in other age groups in both rural and urban settings.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 2h

The piece Andy quotes from:

The Assault on Children

MAGA's use of kids to consolidate authoritarianism

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 2h

Andy Spears at Tennessee Education Report writes about my latest piece:

The Fear is The Point

The latest edition of the Trump Presidency is about control – about achieving compliance with a radical view of how America should be and doing so by any means necessary. The bottom line: It’…

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 2h

A grassroots, peaceful, diverse, multi-generational, multiethnic, cross-regional, cross-class coalition doesn't give them what they want to satisfy their curiosity or desire for conflict-driven clickbait.

But ignoring us is anti-democracy and anti-American.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 3h

Of all the pubs I've cancelled this year, the Atlantic is the one that rewards me the most for it.

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Bean @beanunity.bsky.social · 3h

That is why the protest have to occur in large numbers peacefully. MSM has failed & or afraid to capture the majority of how Americans feel about this failure as an administration. To call it out for what it truly is, a mob regime. MSM has gone silent on P2025 and how close they are to completing.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 3h

It doesn’t give them the conflict btw individuals they want, which is why they have to focus on the insults thrown by Miller and Johnson.

They also seem to like to cover groups that appear exotic to them, like MAGA conspiracy theorists.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 3h

Trump and his MAGA followers have given legacy media more reason than ever to be cowards, fearful of appearing partisan. But I suspect it’s also driven by the desire to focus on individuals. A truly diverse mass protest doesn’t give them the hero they want.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 3h

I’ve been to more protests in 2025 then I went to over the entire four years of Trump’s first administration. I am far from alone. Millions are out.

Americans are organizing and attending protests for the first time in their lives. Each of these people have something critically important to say.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 3h

Amen.

we’ve heard more from Legacy media on the lies the right tells about the protesters and protests of 2025 then we hear from them about the protesters and why they are protesting.

The media is largely ignoring the trauma of millions. Here's why.

Plus: Watch George Stephanopolous pushes JD Vance with follow-up questions, cringe at Bari Weiss's pep talk to CBS journalists; and more

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 16h

Why now would anyone we would want to be in the military want to be in the military?

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 1d

"Militarized occupations of entire cities communicate a message...that your existence is suspect, likely criminal. Tanks and armed soldiers in the streets broadcast to those children and their younger siblings: Your country is at war with you."

The Assault on Children

MAGA's use of kids to consolidate authoritarianism

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17h

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 17h

Probably because if they even listed them all, their enthusiasm would look ridiculous.

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 17h

I keep finding that discussions of ethics around AI keep being limited by the folks who want to use it or are excited about it to one or two of the technology's many -- and even then they often bring those up just to minimize, dismiss, or ignore them.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17h

What horrifies me is that the man who wrote this seems only to think of the ethics of what Sora AI is now able to do as something to discuss to discuss in the context of image rights and permissions.

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 1d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

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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.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 1d

Below is a collection of many other people of Italian heritage worthy of attention — people who have played an active role in the struggle for labor rights, gay and lesbian rights, human rights, and civil rights.
#TeachTruth Defend the #FreedomtoLearn

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Italian Americans Who Fought for Justice

Profile. Brief bios of people of Italian heritage who were committed to social justice.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 1d

I will confess I bought some pizza

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

This sentient disposable napkin should stop talking so cavalierly about other people’s jobs while he grifts billions for his pet LLM

Futurism @futurism.com · 1d

So that's where we're at.

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 1d

I have one week left of my old subscription. It can’t come too soon.

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 1d

I wish more people understood that K-12 education has essentially become a massive data harvesting operation.

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 1d

From @thorbenson.bsky.social, a reminder that MAGA is "collecting our data to realize its authoritarian goals."

A key reason why districts, schools, parents, admins, and teachers cannot be complacent about what the tech bros' edtech--especially AI tools--is collecting on children.

The threat of mass surveillance under Trump

The Trump administration is collecting our data to realize its authoritarian goals.

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