Travis
@travtufts.bsky.social
Bostonian by choice | BPS parent | Public Ed enthusiast | Bike rider | Occasional organizer | Personal Chef to three | Broadcast editor & colorist
Exclusion ≠ Excellence
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Travis
@travtufts.bsky.social
· Sep 26
Last night @bostonschools.boston.gov made recommendations to the school committee that will double down on exclusionary policies for the city's "exam schools".
We are *addicted* to the idea of merit – because it's easier to pick "winners" than provide an equitable education for all students.
We are *addicted* to the idea of merit – because it's easier to pick "winners" than provide an equitable education for all students.
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without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
December 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
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If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Just unspeakable assholery.
December 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Just unspeakable assholery.
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“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
I finished Patricia Evangelista's Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country.
Her description of Duterte cultists *deprogramming* themselves – at great personal cost – stuck with me.
A united front needs EVERYONE who eventually recognizes the peril of strong man authoritarianism.
Her description of Duterte cultists *deprogramming* themselves – at great personal cost – stuck with me.
A united front needs EVERYONE who eventually recognizes the peril of strong man authoritarianism.
December 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I finished Patricia Evangelista's Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country.
Her description of Duterte cultists *deprogramming* themselves – at great personal cost – stuck with me.
A united front needs EVERYONE who eventually recognizes the peril of strong man authoritarianism.
Her description of Duterte cultists *deprogramming* themselves – at great personal cost – stuck with me.
A united front needs EVERYONE who eventually recognizes the peril of strong man authoritarianism.
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Enjoying the punishment of an entire group for the actions of some members of that group is something Trump fans and liberals have in common.
December 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Enjoying the punishment of an entire group for the actions of some members of that group is something Trump fans and liberals have in common.
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So they used ICE as a weapon in a custody battle
www.wbur.org/news/2025/12...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/12...
Brother of White House press secretary Leavitt had contentious custody battle with ex, now in ICE custody
Michael Leavitt denies his family called ICE on his ex. Court records and police reports reveal a bitter custody battle, years-old allegations of threats to call immigration authorities and concerns f...
www.wbur.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
So they used ICE as a weapon in a custody battle
www.wbur.org/news/2025/12...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/12...
“Take one of the most addictive behaviors in mankind and then combine it with one of the most addicting devices of all time.”
Congrats to the sports leagues & sports media destroying the integrity of their products, and to the state legislatures chasing revenue on the backs of addicts!
Congrats to the sports leagues & sports media destroying the integrity of their products, and to the state legislatures chasing revenue on the backs of addicts!
'I just gambled our entire savings away': Young adults in Mass. are hooked on online sports betting
Addiction specialists, treatment programs and 12-step recovery groups tell WBUR they’re seeing a rise in young adults — ranging from their late 20s to early 30s — seeking help for serious gambling pro...
www.wbur.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“Take one of the most addictive behaviors in mankind and then combine it with one of the most addicting devices of all time.”
Congrats to the sports leagues & sports media destroying the integrity of their products, and to the state legislatures chasing revenue on the backs of addicts!
Congrats to the sports leagues & sports media destroying the integrity of their products, and to the state legislatures chasing revenue on the backs of addicts!
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restaurant depot wrapped just dropped, restart your app if you don't see it yet
December 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
restaurant depot wrapped just dropped, restart your app if you don't see it yet
Take Out
Kinetic Strike
Double Tap
Neutralize
So many cool euphemisms for killing people; so much rhetorical dissociating from death.
Kinetic Strike
Double Tap
Neutralize
So many cool euphemisms for killing people; so much rhetorical dissociating from death.
December 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Take Out
Kinetic Strike
Double Tap
Neutralize
So many cool euphemisms for killing people; so much rhetorical dissociating from death.
Kinetic Strike
Double Tap
Neutralize
So many cool euphemisms for killing people; so much rhetorical dissociating from death.
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I would really love if our governor @massgovernor.bsky.social was actually doing something to protect people from being kidnapped from her state, instead of continually saying she's "happy to work with ICE."
“She wasn’t told why she was detained...She was shackled like she was some type of hardened criminal, and then deported to Honduras with no opportunity to have a court hearing or even talk to an attorney...If that isn’t unconstitutional, I don’t know what is." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Student describes ‘horror show’ ICE deportation to Honduras at Thanksgiving
Any Lucia López Belloza, 19, was detained at Boston airport while on the way to see family in Austin for a surprise trip
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I would really love if our governor @massgovernor.bsky.social was actually doing something to protect people from being kidnapped from her state, instead of continually saying she's "happy to work with ICE."
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These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
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this is not ok.
this stuff can never be normal.
Don't ever get desensitized to this kind of hate.
this stuff can never be normal.
Don't ever get desensitized to this kind of hate.
Trump goes on another racist rant about Somalis: "Ilhan Omar should be thrown the hell out of our country, and most of those people -- they have destroyed Minnesota. It's a hellhole right now. Those Somalians should be out of here. They have destroyed out country ... go back to your own country."
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
this is not ok.
this stuff can never be normal.
Don't ever get desensitized to this kind of hate.
this stuff can never be normal.
Don't ever get desensitized to this kind of hate.
The number of times people didn't believe that even PBS Lifestyles shows have VFX in them!
APT and PBS are not okay promoting branding and logos, and those logos aren't going to paint themselves out if they made it into frame...
APT and PBS are not okay promoting branding and logos, and those logos aren't going to paint themselves out if they made it into frame...
Also - SURPRISE! A show like "Mad Men" uses visual effects!
December 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The number of times people didn't believe that even PBS Lifestyles shows have VFX in them!
APT and PBS are not okay promoting branding and logos, and those logos aren't going to paint themselves out if they made it into frame...
APT and PBS are not okay promoting branding and logos, and those logos aren't going to paint themselves out if they made it into frame...
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basically, this whole debacle's side effect is that we get to see digital visual effects breakdowns for the show
December 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
basically, this whole debacle's side effect is that we get to see digital visual effects breakdowns for the show
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no story about elon musk or his companies is complete without reference to both his overt white nationalist agitation, or his willingness to put that rhetoric into action by gleefully consigning countless thousands of people of color to death while running DOGE
it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
December 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
no story about elon musk or his companies is complete without reference to both his overt white nationalist agitation, or his willingness to put that rhetoric into action by gleefully consigning countless thousands of people of color to death while running DOGE
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I will say, if I never again hear “private public partnership” again in my life, I will have heard it enough.
December 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I will say, if I never again hear “private public partnership” again in my life, I will have heard it enough.
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
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Today! Stop the school closures in the Boston Public Schools. 12/3/25 5 pm. Bolling Building. Roxbury.
December 3, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Today! Stop the school closures in the Boston Public Schools. 12/3/25 5 pm. Bolling Building. Roxbury.
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What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
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A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
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His obsession with me is creepy. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs.
Trump on Walz: "You look at what he's done with Somalia where Somalia, which is barely a country -- they have no anything, they just run around killing each other. When I see somebody like Ilhan Omar, I always watch her, for years I've watched her complain about our Constitution ... "
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
His obsession with me is creepy. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs.
It’s not close to the biggest problem, but I’m thinking of all the teachers who will be greeting their Somali American students tomorrow with extra care.
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
It’s not close to the biggest problem, but I’m thinking of all the teachers who will be greeting their Somali American students tomorrow with extra care.
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An article that wasn't focused on elite colleges might be capable of considering that disability accommodations are about a student getting a good education for themselves rather than framing things in terms of a hunger games competition for who gets to be elite in society
December 3, 2025 at 12:41 AM
An article that wasn't focused on elite colleges might be capable of considering that disability accommodations are about a student getting a good education for themselves rather than framing things in terms of a hunger games competition for who gets to be elite in society
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Hundreds of volunteers collected 124,000 signatures in 322 Massachusetts cities and towns for the rent control ballot measure
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December 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Hundreds of volunteers collected 124,000 signatures in 322 Massachusetts cities and towns for the rent control ballot measure
flipsidenews.net/volunteers-s...
flipsidenews.net/volunteers-s...