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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 9h

My favorite Springsteen song. Really.

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Arlene Kirsch ❌👑 10.18.25 Peaceful Love America Event @arliek.bsky.social · 13h

📣 Michiganders!

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Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 14h

We can organize everywhere.
We can flip red seats.
We can flip entire chambers.
And we can govern like we give a damn.

Let’s show the rest of the country how to fight like Michigan.

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 21h

At 12:37 AM, Donald Trump posted on his social media that “THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6…DO SOMETHING!!!”

Donald Trump was the president on January 6, 2021.

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Diane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️‍🌈✡️🇨🇦 @dianeravitch.bsky.social · 1d

"The Comander in Chief is not Okay." A gift article from the Atlanticcabout Trump's incoherent speech to the nation's military speech.
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Commander in Chief Is Not Okay

Trump put on a disturbing show for America’s generals and admirals.

www.theatlantic.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

This Is Fascism

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 1d

'The long-running nature of the project caused confusion after the October 2025 announcement, with some wrongly attributing the decision to President Biden. However, the agreement's finalization was a decision by the Trump administration.' (ChatGPT)

Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 1d

'In April, the Trump family company struck a deal with Qatar to build a luxury golf resort there, featuring Trump-branded beachside villas and an 18-hole golf course. The planned resort will be developed by a Qatari company owned by the Qatari government.'

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coopmike48 @coopmike48.bsky.social · 1d

Big Education Ape: LOOKING BACK: THE WEEK IN REVIEW bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2025/10/look...

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 1d

Really? Qatar gets its own air force facility inside the United States? Why?

When Trump is fighting the "enemy within" America and kicking out anyone who can't prove they belong here? robertreich.substack.com/p/really-qat...

Really? Qatar gets its own air force facility inside the United States? Why?

When Trump is fighting the "enemy within" America and kicking out anyone who can't prove they belong here?

robertreich.substack.com

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 1d

No fingerprint or DNA tests were conducted in Jeffrey Epstein's cell after his death. Sus AF.

Release the Epstein files. Now.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

The hush money payoff to Stormy Daniels cost more than house Leticia James bought for her grand niece.

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 1d

Most teachers would acknowledge there are objective truths, common values upon which we've built our enduring institutions, inc. pub schools. Anyone who’s spent time in front of a classrm knows dispensing assigned content is only small fraction of the job teacherinastrangeland.blog/2025/09/29/m...

Moral Clarity in the Classroom

We need to make sure our coverage is rooted in enduring principles and values. We need to make sure we don’t “both sides” the issues when it comes to objective truths. We need to speak and deliver …

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 1d

'Late-stage democracy can manifest in many ways. In American context, if we are in late-stage democracy, then it involves 2 changes:

A citizenry no longer primarily responsive to real-world inputs

Constitutional mechanisms that no longer function as designed' www.thebulwark.com/p/is-this-wh...

Is This What ‘Late-Stage Democracy’ Looks Like?

What if the Constitution *is* a suicide pact?

www.thebulwark.com

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 1d

'What we are facing now isn't simply a new technology (an "arrival technology," Reich calls it); it is a new political and information environment, one that seeks the optimization of compliance and control, and one that is openly hostile to "literacy."' 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/banking-on-i...

Banking on It

The news is bad. I mean that in both senses: "bad news" and "news, bad." There's been much discussion this week of Trump's "university compact," his attempt to bribe the administrations at nine unive...

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 1d

Community complaints start to be acknowledged as patriotic duty. This isn't abt protecting students or young minds. It's about manufacturing compliant citizens. When we surrender our 1st Amendment right to access ideas, we've already lost the fight for freedom. www.islandernews.com/local/kbvote...

The Playbook of Oppression: Florida's Book Bans Echo History's Darkest Chapters

When a Florida high school student couldn't find Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" in their school library, it had been removed indefinitely after a single complaint, it sparked a federal

www.islandernews.com

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Steve Hofstetter @stevehofstetter.bsky.social · 1d

More than half of ALL government shut down days in the history of America have come under just one president.

Simply put, the man is a terrible leader.

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Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · 2d

Lots of wise observers of edu policy such as those at @nepc.bsky.social are pointing policy makers to a better direction for edu but Books is too busy scrolling through videos of defunct pols like Rahm Emanuel to pay attention to those who know better.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Opinion | Why Are the Democrats Increasing Inequality?

www.nytimes.com

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 1d

Stale collection, indeed. With a frosting of lies.

National Education Policy Center @nepc.bsky.social · 1d

Yikes! I hadn't read Brooks' column until now. What a stale collection of 2-decade-old talking points (plus enough misleading statements to make Trump blush, if that were possible)!
Mr. Brooks, it's simple: Kids learn when they have rich opportunities to learn. No, it won't help to bring back NCLB.

Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · 2d

Lots of wise observers of edu policy such as those at @nepc.bsky.social are pointing policy makers to a better direction for edu but Books is too busy scrolling through videos of defunct pols like Rahm Emanuel to pay attention to those who know better.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 1d

New - “Dozens of sitting federal judges have shared their concerns about risks to the courts’ legitimacy as the Supreme Court releases opaque orders about Trump administration policies.”

Gift Article - www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Healing Nation @healingnation.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to Mike Johnson.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 1d

Senior officials at the EPA directed scientists over the summer to assess whether the govt could develop methods for detecting traces of abortion pills in wastewater — a practice sought by anti-abortion activists seeking to restrict the medication. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

The E.P.A. Followed Up on an Unusual Request About Abortion Pills

www.nytimes.com

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 1d

Concert tomorrow-- and it's free.
I love playing in Encore.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed. Even though I'm kinda heartbroken this morning.

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