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Nate @jessenathaniel.bsky.social · 13h

Whoa … catching up on this pod now … and this could be an incredible curriculum resource, even if just as an outline for a unit …

Scene on Radio @sceneonradio.bsky.social · 6d

Calling all educators! We’re creating a high school curriculum for Scene on Radio Season 7: CAPITALISM.

If you've used any part of the series in your teaching, we'd love to hear from you. Please fill out our short survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Thank you!

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Scene on Radio Capitalism Curriculum

We’re creating a high school curriculum based on Scene on Radio’s Season 7: Capitalism. If you’re a teacher who’s already listened to episodes from this season with your students, we’d like to learn a...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18h

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 20h

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 2d

If you think its a coincidence that they are pushing BS autism causes while the DeptEd empties its special education division and ICE had an autistic child in dention without any of their family knowing, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

This is a purposeful attack on our most vulnerable.

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Nate @jessenathaniel.bsky.social · 1d

In short, it’s hard to overstate the extent of this disaster because it’s going to impact every state and LEA differently based on a range of factors; there’s going to be varying degrees of disaster.

This is really bad.

Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 2d

This article I had published at @motherjones.com in January feels very relevant with federal special ed office layoffs. Project 2025 targeted disability education services. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Project 2025's plan to dismantle public education—and screw over disabled kids

Nearly nine million students rely on DOE-backed disability accommodations.

www.motherjones.com

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 2d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Nate @jessenathaniel.bsky.social · 1d

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Writer of Wrongs 🧙‍♀️📓🖊️ @writerofwrongs.bsky.social · 1d

This is happening in my district HS right now. English and history teachers were given an AI tool for students to practice writing, with the stated goal of increasing test scores. The AI gives feedback and grades the writing. My former students are devastated and want me to help.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

On top of the endless performative public lying (bsky.app/profile/donm...), this is more of the endlessly offensive/inane “government jobs are not real jobs, except when they’re cops & soldiers” nonsense that every right-wing politician from Ronald Reagan to Scott Walker has been selling for years.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

WELKER: During the 2019 shutdown when Trump was president, no federal workers were laid off. Why are these firings necessary?

VANCE: Who do we care more about- federal bureaucrats or the troops getting the payment they need?

WELKER: But layoffs are a priority?

VANCE: They have forced us to choose

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Nate @jessenathaniel.bsky.social · 2d

I think people would be surprised by the number of families that already have lawyers to fight for the SpEd services their kids require.

This will not just quietly fade from the news cycle without parents across the political spectrum making noise and organizing to protect their kids’ rights.

Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine these being your values: I think disabled children have it too easy, they should have less stuff. That's the global right atm, those are the people we're dealing with.

Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 7d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Nate @jessenathaniel.bsky.social · 7d

You co-led an online book study of Beloved, right? That was extremely influential for the broader education community and an example of how you’re able to model your practice in public.

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Nate @jessenathaniel.bsky.social · 8d

I am doing a book study in our PLC with the aim of laying the foundation for more thinking about *theory*, but I confess that the book very much eludes any deep historical analysis, which is fair because I think the practical impact builds buy-in to going deeper… but that’s exactly the tension…

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Nate @jessenathaniel.bsky.social · 8d

This is definitely a question we should sit with more, but I think a major (underrated?) challenge is that everyone comes in with entrenched preconceived notions of the profession based on their *own* schooling — interrogating those is essential to being open to developing a historical mindset.

Chris Lehmann @clehmann.bsky.social · 8d

New Post: Meeting the Moment by Knowing Our History

Are educators ahistorical about their own profession?

What do the last 150 years of American public education teach us about how we must meet this current educational moment?

Meeting the Moment by Knowing Our History

Recently, I was lucky enough to talk to one of the truly transformational educators of the previous generation. They're getting older and starting to have some real health challenges, and they are someone who deserves all the flowers and thank yous for creating schools that changed the parameters of what many people - students, parents, educators, policy makers - thought school could be.

practicaltheory.org

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 8d

A post worth reading

Chris Lehmann @clehmann.bsky.social · 8d

New Post: Meeting the Moment by Knowing Our History

Are educators ahistorical about their own profession?

What do the last 150 years of American public education teach us about how we must meet this current educational moment?

Meeting the Moment by Knowing Our History

Recently, I was lucky enough to talk to one of the truly transformational educators of the previous generation. They're getting older and starting to have some real health challenges, and they are someone who deserves all the flowers and thank yous for creating schools that changed the parameters of what many people - students, parents, educators, policy makers - thought school could be.

practicaltheory.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Idiocracy was unrealistic only because we got dumber quicker than the movie anticipated

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump: "On June 14 next year we're gonna have a big UFC fight at the White House, right at the White House, on the grounds of the White House."

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Nate @jessenathaniel.bsky.social · 8d

Klein has made it painfully clear that he’s so concerned with connecting to “the other side” bc he “recognizes some commonality with” people like Kirk—he literally said that while defending his article. His investment in whiteness & dividends gained cannot be ignored; it’s a MAJOR piece of all this.

An image from the quoted article with the following lines highlighted: “this tendency to latch onto any argument that helps to normalize Trump and his supporters is also indicative of how strong the incentives are within mainstream discourse to sanitize the political choices of white conservative Christians…They are just “regular folks,” and as such, they can do no wrong.”

Image from the quote tweeted article with the following excerpt:

“Usually, this is achieved by exculpatory tales about why they didn't mean to or had to support extremism. Maybe they were seduced by a brilliant demagogue; maybe they lack political agency entirely: Economic anxiety, anti-elite backlash, or just a reaction to Liberals being mean - someone or something made them do it.
Whenever people rode waves of racial resentment to political prominence, their success has been described in such terms. Whether it was George Wallace's surprisingly successful presidential run in 1968 or David Duke's near-victory in the 1990 senate election in Louisiana.”

Image from the quoted article with the following phrases highlighted:

“White innocence is achieved…by decreeing that whatever a significant portion of
"regular folks" are supporting categorically cannot be extremism in the first place.”

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 9d

Van Jones got shamed so much for joking about dead babies in Gaza with Bill Maher that he tried to personally apologize to imam Dr. Omar Suleiman on Twitter but nobody is accepting the apology because it's not a real apology it's a "I didn't say that but if I did I didn't mean to".

@omarsuleiman
X.com
Truly disgraceful and vile @VanJones68.
I'm sorry dead Gaza babies bother you so much. Maybe tell the people paying you to put lipstick on a genocide to stop killing them.
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• • VAN JONES WARNS OF IRAN-QATAR SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN
Jones claims Qatar and Iran running massive disinformation operation on TikTok and Instagram to divide the West using repetitive Gaza casualty content. x.com/

Van Jones
@VanJones68
X.com
Yeah, I messed up on this one. And I'm sorry. I was trying to raise awareness about foreign
adversaries creating chaos online - which is undermining democracy everywhere. But what I said was easily misunderstood, and the way I said it was flat-out insensitive.
Babies are dying every day in Gaza.
Nobody should dispute that fact or make light of it in any way. To the people living in fear and burying family members every day, of all

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 9d

I can’t believe that as recently as a few months ago, the consensus Democratic Party position, even on the left, was that you couldn’t call to ‘abolish ICE.’

Good luck to the Democratic candidates who run in 2028 while opposing the abolition of ICE.

A rogue fascist agency.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 9d

There's a lot to be upset about in the world. Strangers on the internet should not bear the brunt of your rage.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 9d

Pritzker needs to take some sort of demonstrative action against this. But nothing he does will stop this.

Still, liberal voters and elected leaders are confronted by the fact that the police are not democratically accountable. They have no interest in protecting you or your rights from the feds.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10d

Gov. Pritzker has said all the right things, but now he needs to act and get these state troopers out of there.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10d

A protester with a mobility aid (cane) was sitting in the road. Illinois state troopers dragged them to the grass and arrested them.

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 10d

Thoughts and prayers

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10d

Pity the ADL. It went out of its way to defend Elon Musk's definitely-not-a-sieg-heil, and in return gets this.

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