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clserdaigle.bsky.social @clserdaigle.bsky.social · 14h

Spaniards actually famously exploited the larger ambitions and hegemony of the Aztecs and their associated city states to drive a wedge between them. All involved were engaged in active diplomacy and adaptation to the political circumstance.This is such a fucking lie.

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clserdaigle.bsky.social @clserdaigle.bsky.social · 14h

This is ideologically noxious but also flatly untrue lol. The Maya were no longer a “ruling civilization” by the time Spaniards arrived. The Aztecs had quite historically recently undertaken a project of establishing hegemony over other cities and regions of Central America.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 22h

"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism

Had the Aztecs and Incas shown a bit more interest in the world surrounding them - and had they known what the Spaniards had done to their neighbours - they might have resisted the Spanish conquest more keenly and successfully.

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Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 18h

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but it sure is lucrative.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 15h

Showing up to No Kings with a sign reading “monarchy is an affront to human dignity but, when incorporated into a liberal democratic system, may nevertheless be a useful safety valve for nationalist and/or authoritarian impulses” and then getting clobbered by a Buttigieg-supporting grandmother

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 16h

Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 18h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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clserdaigle.bsky.social @clserdaigle.bsky.social · 1d

Putting together pictures for my mom’s funeral made me appreciate how precious mom pictures are

clserdaigle.bsky.social @clserdaigle.bsky.social · 1d

I have a personal rule that whenever I see a mom in public taking a posed picture of her family I offer to take a picture of all of them because moms do not get enough pictures

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clserdaigle.bsky.social @clserdaigle.bsky.social · 1d

woulda been very easy to say “sorry, Gordon Ramsay put those here. He’s not from here so he didn’t understand it might be in poor taste to have a picture of a person who murdered community members here in recent living memory”. Instead they outed themselves as callous assholes too

clserdaigle.bsky.social @clserdaigle.bsky.social · 1d

The funniest thing about this story is that Gordon Ramsay put the pictures there as part of his undercover-themed kitchen nightmares reboot (including white van stakeouts), and the owners didn’t take the obvious road out of the controversy when they were first confronted about it

MassLive @masslive.bsky.social · 1d

Mob-themed bar featuring Whitey Bulger sparks concern in Dorchester | Bay State Briefing

"I feel the community shouldn’t glorify the image of a mobster," one concerned neighbor said.

www.masslive.com

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

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. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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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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clserdaigle.bsky.social @clserdaigle.bsky.social · 6d

(By the end of term 1 I had talked to the aforementioned student about this, and she stopped doing it. This was around the same time that she started asking for academic support and doing much, much better in school)

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clserdaigle.bsky.social @clserdaigle.bsky.social · 6d

Because that’s *true* and it’s in the kid’s voice. It gives me insight into who they are and where they are at socially, academically, often emotionally— especially when it’s a panicked email about a grade or a homework question. I can respond to those cues in a way that is helpful!

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clserdaigle.bsky.social @clserdaigle.bsky.social · 6d

I had a student last year who at the beginning of the year used AI to write her emails to me (because she didn’t feel like her own words were good enough). It muddled up communication a lot. I would much rather have the messy emails where they accidentally put everything in the subject line

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 6d

I'm sorry this is crazy

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 6d

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 6d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 7d

"Ballerina Aesha Ash wandering around inner city Rochester breaking the stereotypes about women of color and to inspire young kids."

its a picture of a ballerina teaching future young ballerinas!!!

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mother dysnomia 🌚 @mamatried.bsky.social · 7d

lol it’s this guy

Tweet from 11/2/24 showing Harry Sisson and his 4 friends in a car that reads “we’re Gen Z voters and we all PROUDLY voted for Kamala Harris! Real men support Harris”

Robert J O’Neill quotes it with

“You're not men. You're boys. If there was no social media, you would be my concubines.”

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clserdaigle.bsky.social @clserdaigle.bsky.social · 7d

Any kind of bullying is fundamentally anathema to public education. Which is probably another reason they like it.

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clserdaigle.bsky.social @clserdaigle.bsky.social · 8d

Not all 12 year olds are evil, but I can concede that some of the worst people do act like the worst 12 year olds, just aged out of the time that their teachers and parents are able to give them consequences for their actions. And I think a lot of them still resent the teachers who tried.

Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 8d

The grand unified “Everyone is Twelve” theory is a legit contribution to contemporary thought and critique. We really are ruled by evil adult children!

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clserdaigle.bsky.social @clserdaigle.bsky.social · 8d

I subscribed to clarkesworld last month and just read this, and as a middle school teacher at an urban public school for very motivated kids, I loved it

Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 13d

In a future where the rich kids are being raised with a digital Cyrano beside them to sweet-talk their way into the best jobs, four friends train together for a battle to prove that other kinds of minds might still have the edge.

My new story “Understudies” in Clarkesworld.

Understudies by Greg Egan

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

clarkesworldmagazine.com

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clserdaigle.bsky.social @clserdaigle.bsky.social · 8d

You would not BELIEVE how hard it is to find a half decent superintendent. That’s why districts hire contractors to do searches.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 11d

the federal government is running ethnic terror pogroms executed by washed out skinheads

alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 11d

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby.

"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.

“I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

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clserdaigle.bsky.social @clserdaigle.bsky.social · 11d

Here’s a picture of my parents’ cat from the summer. My mom died 6 months ago this week. I’m sending you lots of love.

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clserdaigle.bsky.social @clserdaigle.bsky.social · 12d

but there’s been lots of complaining and entire lawsuits about the changes to admissions policies in Boston, the storm has been weathered, and Michelle Wu is cruising to re-election.

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clserdaigle.bsky.social @clserdaigle.bsky.social · 12d

I teach at an exam school in Boston (and Mamdani went to a specialized public high school in NYC) and I believe in the importance of G&T education and I think Boston has done a good job in the last few years bringing more equity to exam schools, and some controversy is worth weathering.

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