Denali
@denali.bsky.social
Early childhood and public systems researcher.
Rich inner life. No inside voice. I live in Chicago.
Photo by https://www.greginda.com/
Rich inner life. No inside voice. I live in Chicago.
Photo by https://www.greginda.com/
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Hi all. I'm seeking local (Chicago area) publications, websites, and journalists who cover arts and culture—in particular, theater and cultural activism. I'd especially like to contact Bilingual/Spanish-language pubs and writers. Respond here or reach out to me at [email protected].
kermit the frog is using a typewriter in a messy room .
ALT: kermit the frog is using a typewriter in a messy room .
media.tenor.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Hi all. I'm seeking local (Chicago area) publications, websites, and journalists who cover arts and culture—in particular, theater and cultural activism. I'd especially like to contact Bilingual/Spanish-language pubs and writers. Respond here or reach out to me at [email protected].
I love that the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families has its own wingdings cheat sheet.
dcf.wisconsin.gov
December 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I love that the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families has its own wingdings cheat sheet.
Heads up one of the things that really sucks hard about this is that you can't get marketplace insurance in December if your life event is losing your insurance bc your job ends. I know bc I tried to do this in 2024 and the lady on the phone let me know how upset this makes people.
"Last month marked the third time since 2008 that layoffs in November exceeded 70,000, with the other two times being in 2008 and 2022."
@paigemcglauflin.bsky.social reports.
www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...
@paigemcglauflin.bsky.social reports.
www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...
Employers seemingly disregard etiquette, laying off employees right before the holidays
The once common ritual fell out of fashion following the Great Recession, until this year.
www.hr-brew.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Heads up one of the things that really sucks hard about this is that you can't get marketplace insurance in December if your life event is losing your insurance bc your job ends. I know bc I tried to do this in 2024 and the lady on the phone let me know how upset this makes people.
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Senators Crapo & Cassidy have now released bill language for their health "plan". Besides nothing on expiring Marketplace credits and HSAs, it adds 3 harmful #Medicaid cuts from House version of H.R. 1 that were dropped in final law due to Senate rules (1/x): www.finance.senate.gov/download/hea...
[2025-12-08] Download: Health Care Freedom for Patients Act | The United States Senate Committee on Finance | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
[2025-12-08] Download: Health Care Freedom for Patients Act | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
www.finance.senate.gov
December 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Senators Crapo & Cassidy have now released bill language for their health "plan". Besides nothing on expiring Marketplace credits and HSAs, it adds 3 harmful #Medicaid cuts from House version of H.R. 1 that were dropped in final law due to Senate rules (1/x): www.finance.senate.gov/download/hea...
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Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
Nicole Foy
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
Marian Wright carries RFKs legacy. She went on to create the Children's Defense Fund, which advocates for the health, education and well-being of children. I'll just mention that the antivaxx advocacy group RFK Jr chaired is called Children's Health Defense.
It's like real life Goofus and Gallant
It's like real life Goofus and Gallant
This is a photograph from 1967 of RFK visiting a Head Start Center in MS. Kennedy went to the Delta bc Marian Wright told him to go and see and listen.
Here he is observing a child in an evidence-based program focused on health, education, and learning in a child's own loving community.
Here he is observing a child in an evidence-based program focused on health, education, and learning in a child's own loving community.
December 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Marian Wright carries RFKs legacy. She went on to create the Children's Defense Fund, which advocates for the health, education and well-being of children. I'll just mention that the antivaxx advocacy group RFK Jr chaired is called Children's Health Defense.
It's like real life Goofus and Gallant
It's like real life Goofus and Gallant
This is a photograph from 1967 of RFK visiting a Head Start Center in MS. Kennedy went to the Delta bc Marian Wright told him to go and see and listen.
Here he is observing a child in an evidence-based program focused on health, education, and learning in a child's own loving community.
Here he is observing a child in an evidence-based program focused on health, education, and learning in a child's own loving community.
December 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This is a photograph from 1967 of RFK visiting a Head Start Center in MS. Kennedy went to the Delta bc Marian Wright told him to go and see and listen.
Here he is observing a child in an evidence-based program focused on health, education, and learning in a child's own loving community.
Here he is observing a child in an evidence-based program focused on health, education, and learning in a child's own loving community.
I knew in my bones that this is where all the seed oil foolishness was going to end up
Fed is best. End of story.
Fed is best. End of story.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I knew in my bones that this is where all the seed oil foolishness was going to end up
Fed is best. End of story.
Fed is best. End of story.
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President Trump wants more health savings accounts. A catch: They can’t pay insurance premiums.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Health Savings Accounts, Backed by GOP, Cover Fancy Saunas but Not Insurance Premiums - KFF Health News
Health savings accounts can be used to cover medical expenses, tax-free. But while wealthier Americans are using them to pay for gym equipment, cedar ice baths, and hemlock saunas, poorer Americans ca...
kffhealthnews.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
President Trump wants more health savings accounts. A catch: They can’t pay insurance premiums.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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TONIGHT || Calling all @chidocumenters.bsky.social! Join us for a special workshop on "What Makes a Good Quote?" Come sharpen your ear, strengthen your note taking, and help boost public transparency.
https://www.citybureau.org/events/chicago-documenters-training-quotes
https://www.citybureau.org/events/chicago-documenters-training-quotes
Chicago Documenters Workshop: What makes a good quote? — City Bureau
Whether you are an experienced documenter or someone who is looking to hone their knowledge base this workshop will sharpen your ear, strengthen your note taking, and boost public transparency.
www.citybureau.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
TONIGHT || Calling all @chidocumenters.bsky.social! Join us for a special workshop on "What Makes a Good Quote?" Come sharpen your ear, strengthen your note taking, and help boost public transparency.
https://www.citybureau.org/events/chicago-documenters-training-quotes
https://www.citybureau.org/events/chicago-documenters-training-quotes
This should be the beginning and end of this conversation.
"But there is a cost even to accepting the choice. For one thing, giving in to population panic and endorsing a plan to increase birth rates implicitly supports anti-immigration politics and yields ground to racist fear-mongering."
"But there is a cost even to accepting the choice. For one thing, giving in to population panic and endorsing a plan to increase birth rates implicitly supports anti-immigration politics and yields ground to racist fear-mongering."
New from me: In the New Republic @newrepublic.com, I wrote that we should refuse to choose between the easy way and the hard way to boost birth rates.
What If Both Sides in the Birth Rate Debate Are Wrong?
The right wants to steer women away from work and toward motherhood. The left wants to provide them with more state support so it’s easier to have children. We should refuse this choice.
newrepublic.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This should be the beginning and end of this conversation.
"But there is a cost even to accepting the choice. For one thing, giving in to population panic and endorsing a plan to increase birth rates implicitly supports anti-immigration politics and yields ground to racist fear-mongering."
"But there is a cost even to accepting the choice. For one thing, giving in to population panic and endorsing a plan to increase birth rates implicitly supports anti-immigration politics and yields ground to racist fear-mongering."
Unpopular thought maybe but I think we need more relative time markers within the month. For example, I would like to pay my mortgage on the Nones but try explaining this to the bank.
December 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Unpopular thought maybe but I think we need more relative time markers within the month. For example, I would like to pay my mortgage on the Nones but try explaining this to the bank.
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this is the best thing I have ever seen!!!!! thank you @annehelen.bsky.social
Photos: When the Polar Bears Move In
The photographer Vadim Makhorov, while recently cruising on the Chukchi Sea, noticed a group of polar bears that were taking shelter inside an abandoned research station on Russia’s remote Kolyuchin I...
www.theatlantic.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
this is the best thing I have ever seen!!!!! thank you @annehelen.bsky.social
A thing my husband says that really unsettles me is "somebody peed on..."
Our house contains 2 youngish kids, 2 oldish pets + a bonus dog so he likely means "I have encountered urine. It's not mine. Send help."
The simultaneous open-endedness, inevitably, and mystery of it all is just too much.
Our house contains 2 youngish kids, 2 oldish pets + a bonus dog so he likely means "I have encountered urine. It's not mine. Send help."
The simultaneous open-endedness, inevitably, and mystery of it all is just too much.
December 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A thing my husband says that really unsettles me is "somebody peed on..."
Our house contains 2 youngish kids, 2 oldish pets + a bonus dog so he likely means "I have encountered urine. It's not mine. Send help."
The simultaneous open-endedness, inevitably, and mystery of it all is just too much.
Our house contains 2 youngish kids, 2 oldish pets + a bonus dog so he likely means "I have encountered urine. It's not mine. Send help."
The simultaneous open-endedness, inevitably, and mystery of it all is just too much.
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NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
In 2026, I will schedule despair breaks into my work week.
As somebody whose research regularly requires despair breaks, I am genuinely worried about the morale problem which improved understanding of education systems creates.
December 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
In 2026, I will schedule despair breaks into my work week.
Birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment are also extremely important to public administration because they define the scope of public services. Even though this has not been truly and fully realized in this country, it's still really important for keeping the public sector on the hook.
December 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment are also extremely important to public administration because they define the scope of public services. Even though this has not been truly and fully realized in this country, it's still really important for keeping the public sector on the hook.
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Having finished a book tracing US migration & citizenship from the colonial period to 1888, the lesson people are missing today from history is: 1) Without legal citizenship, all kinds of discrimination can be done to you & w/ no due process/equal protection. This is the very reason why the 14th 1/
Here is the question presented. It's a relatively clean vehicle for the Supreme Court to finally decide whether it is lawful for the president to deny birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
December 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Having finished a book tracing US migration & citizenship from the colonial period to 1888, the lesson people are missing today from history is: 1) Without legal citizenship, all kinds of discrimination can be done to you & w/ no due process/equal protection. This is the very reason why the 14th 1/
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Some of the very worst people I've ever met have had very bad days since they met me and I think that's beautiful.
December 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Some of the very worst people I've ever met have had very bad days since they met me and I think that's beautiful.
"This constant fundraising diverts enormous time and energy away from the actual work of governing. But the damage is deeper. It filters for a specific personality type: not necessarily the most thoughtful public servant but the one most comfortable with relentless solicitation."
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:27 AM
"This constant fundraising diverts enormous time and energy away from the actual work of governing. But the damage is deeper. It filters for a specific personality type: not necessarily the most thoughtful public servant but the one most comfortable with relentless solicitation."
Hey Chicago! Do you know of any good orgs or networks where someone could find a 2-6 week foster home for a dog? Thanks so much 🐕
December 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Hey Chicago! Do you know of any good orgs or networks where someone could find a 2-6 week foster home for a dog? Thanks so much 🐕
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Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
Is there a modern equivalent of Mr Wizard and if no, why not?
December 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Is there a modern equivalent of Mr Wizard and if no, why not?
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Hi @thedailybeast.bsky.social friends: wish you'd invited more informed people to talk about the political views of Indian Americans. Like any other group, there are uninformed people within the Indian American community who are willing to normalize bigotry. #Desis www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoNB...
Does JD Vance Actually Want Usha To Convert? | The Daily Beast Podcast Clip
YouTube video by The Daily Beast
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Hi @thedailybeast.bsky.social friends: wish you'd invited more informed people to talk about the political views of Indian Americans. Like any other group, there are uninformed people within the Indian American community who are willing to normalize bigotry. #Desis www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoNB...
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Hello all, @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social is having a fundraiser, and we're looking for Chicago-related prize donations from stores, publishers, creators, and the like. As Lit editor, I'm focusing on books, naturally, but as an arts and culture site, anything goes. Let me know if you're interested!
December 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Hello all, @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social is having a fundraiser, and we're looking for Chicago-related prize donations from stores, publishers, creators, and the like. As Lit editor, I'm focusing on books, naturally, but as an arts and culture site, anything goes. Let me know if you're interested!