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Kat @learningwhilehuman.com · Apr 12

Yessss! Let people have their joy!

Kat @learningwhilehuman.com · Apr 3

Love when editors make a point so eloquently.

Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · Apr 2

chef’s kiss

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Heather Antos @heatherantos.bsky.social · Apr 3

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Kat @learningwhilehuman.com · Mar 26

And now no one knows where she is… this is so scary.

Sean Ryder @seanryderphd.bsky.social · Mar 26

Six masked agents in street clothes disappearing a Tufts Ph.D. student in broad daylight on the streets of Somerville. There is video footage out there every person should watch.

Kat @learningwhilehuman.com · Mar 24

If we want our children to spend less time on their phones, we should show them how to do that by spending less time on our phones.

If we want them to be thoughtful with their use of technology, we have to be thoughtful with our use of technology.

#edusky
#primaryrocks
#eduskyprimary
#eduskytech

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Kat @learningwhilehuman.com · Mar 21

Today, I learned that a clock face is based on an astrolabe, and clockwise is the same direction in which an astrolabe moves. The past is always connected to us.

Astrolabe, 18th century

An 18th century Astrolabe. This is copy made in the late 18th century of a popular astrolabe originally designed in the early 18th century. I found this in a souk in Marrakech. An astrolabe is a hi...

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Kat @learningwhilehuman.com · Mar 19

“In no uncertain terms is this an audit,” claims the second auditor. “It’s a heist, stealing a vast amount of government data.”

𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗱 @photoframd.bsky.social · Mar 19

‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE. WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite. #StopElonMusk #DOGEscam
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‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE

WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.

www.wired.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Mar 16

America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.

X post by Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW
), featuring a verification badge. The post reads, "The USA is weird now. If you're a person under 30, you probably think it's normal but that's because you don't know. Trust me. It's weird."

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Kat @learningwhilehuman.com · Mar 15

I have no words.

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Mar 15

That is both messed up and disgraceful! You can’t just delete history!

Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.

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Kat @learningwhilehuman.com · Mar 14

Mahmoud Khalil has a green card and was exercising his protected right to free speech. He was arrested for his *opinion* and that should worry everyone.

Columbia Is Betraying Its Students. We Must Change Course.

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Kat @learningwhilehuman.com · Mar 13

TIL: Robert Smalls stole a Confederate ship, gave it to the Union Army, and went on to fight the Confederacy as the first Black US Navy Captain.

A model for courage, steadfastness, and grace, as is his wife, this conversation on Criminal is what I needed today.

Episode 142: Robert Smalls (6.19.20)

On May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls took command of a Confederate ship and liberated himself and his family from enslavement. His great-great-grandson, Michael Boulware Moore, tells the story.

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Kat @learningwhilehuman.com · Mar 13

As a Canadian looking through the trending topics today, that was my first thought. I had no idea what NHS England was. Your post was the first time I knew that NHS and NHS England were two different things!

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Kat @learningwhilehuman.com · Mar 12

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Mar 12

Imagine this: On the evening of March 8, you and your spouse unlock the door to your apartment building. As you step inside, two men—not in uniform—push their way in behind you. They tell you your visa has been revoked and that they are there to deport you.

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Kat @learningwhilehuman.com · Mar 12

Yesterday: Set writing goal. Met writing goal.

Today: If I write something on Bluesky, that counts towards my word count, right?

#writing
#nonfiction

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Kat @learningwhilehuman.com · Mar 12

"'Green card holders also have the right to free speech,' according to David Cole, a Georgetown Law professor.

'The First Amendment does not distinguish between citizens and non-citizens,' says Cole, who successfully represented Palestinian clients in a lengthy First Amendment case."

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NPR @npr.org · Mar 12

A New York federal judge is set to hear pivotal questions in the case of Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of large Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia University who now faces deportation after his arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Mahmoud Khalil case goes to court, spotlighting green card holders' rights

A New York federal judge is set to hear pivotal questions in the case of Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of large Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia University who now faces deportation after his arrest by...

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Kat @learningwhilehuman.com · Mar 12

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days (or however you like), in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚❤️🌹

Day 16

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#OwlMoon
#BeautifulFiction
#picturebook
💙📚

A mostly blue book cover. The image is a snowy scene with a parent and child in the snow silhouetted against a full moon rising (or is it setting?). The parent is reaching up to help the child carefully walk down a gentle slope. A bare tree is on the right side of the page and framing the words (also in blue) Owl Moon. There is a Cadelcott medal on the bottom right above the words "by Jane Yolen, illustrated by John Schoenherr".

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Kat @learningwhilehuman.com · Mar 12

This is what ally-ship looks like. I don't know who the man who stood up to the chairman is, but koodos to you, sir. Well done.

Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · Mar 11

More of this!

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Kat @learningwhilehuman.com · Mar 11

I was not there during this day, but I was there many other days. It was not dangerous. It was not violent. The pro-divestment encampment was supportive and peaceful. See the comments on this post for videos from the day he was there. 🍉🕊️

Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · Mar 11

He is lying.

I was on Columbia's campus the day Johnson visited, April 24. The congressional delegation spoke from the steps of the Low Library, hundreds of feet from the pro-divestment encampment. No one could even hear Johnson– only press microphones. He was heckled. That's all.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 11

Q: What crime did Mahmoud Khalil commit to warrant his arrest?

JOHNSON: Let me tell you something. I faced down the angry mob at Columbia at the height of that stuff...if you're on a student visa and you're an aspiring young terrorist who wants to prey upon your Jewish classmates, you're going home

Kat @learningwhilehuman.com · Mar 11

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days (or however you like), in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚❤️🌹

Day 15

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#TheLostCityofZ
#Amazon
💙📚 💡📚

A book cover for The Lost City of Z, typed in white block letters in the center of the page. The words look like they are being grown over by trees and vines from the rainforest photograph that makes up the background picture. A red box is positioned next to the Z reading: A tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon.

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Kat @learningwhilehuman.com · Mar 11

This feels like it should be a bigger deal. Why would we rather pollute than work to keep our waters clean?

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Supreme Court Rules the Clean Water Act Doesn’t Actually Require That Water Be Clean

Amy Coney Barrett was not having it.

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Kat @learningwhilehuman.com · Mar 10

In case you were wondering, the Office of Chief Scientist does a lot www.nasa.gov/ocs/, which is unsurprising for a scientific organization.

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Joann @jojo59.bsky.social · Mar 9

Amen

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Kat @learningwhilehuman.com · Mar 4

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Mar 4

Trudeau: We’re probably going to keep booing the American anthem. But let me tell Americans, we're not booing you. We're booing a policy that is designed to hurt us.

But we're Canadian. We're going to fight. And we're going to win.

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · Mar 2

Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual.
cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

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Jaci Turner @scienematters.bsky.social · Feb 25

Curiosity is the engine of discovery! 📚💡

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