Aaron Cleaveley
@icenin75.bsky.social
Grade 6/7 teacher and former librarian (ouch). Here for a saner place to read about the world, education, books, sports and news.
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The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 AM
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan.
Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”
Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”
January 26, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan.
Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”
Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”
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Good climate news this week
1 Global: UN biodiversity treaty enters into force, aims to protect 30% of oceans by 2030
2 EU: Parliament's environment committee approves 2040 climate target deal
3 EU: Wind and solar surpassed fossil fuels as a source of electricity last year for the first time
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1 Global: UN biodiversity treaty enters into force, aims to protect 30% of oceans by 2030
2 EU: Parliament's environment committee approves 2040 climate target deal
3 EU: Wind and solar surpassed fossil fuels as a source of electricity last year for the first time
1/6
January 25, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Good climate news this week
1 Global: UN biodiversity treaty enters into force, aims to protect 30% of oceans by 2030
2 EU: Parliament's environment committee approves 2040 climate target deal
3 EU: Wind and solar surpassed fossil fuels as a source of electricity last year for the first time
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1 Global: UN biodiversity treaty enters into force, aims to protect 30% of oceans by 2030
2 EU: Parliament's environment committee approves 2040 climate target deal
3 EU: Wind and solar surpassed fossil fuels as a source of electricity last year for the first time
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
January 25, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
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Whenever the topic of travelling to the U.S. comes up in conversation now, my friends and colleagues and acquaintances have all taken the position that they won’t, and they don’t know when or how they ever could again.
January 25, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Whenever the topic of travelling to the U.S. comes up in conversation now, my friends and colleagues and acquaintances have all taken the position that they won’t, and they don’t know when or how they ever could again.
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This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
January 24, 2026 at 5:42 PM
This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
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Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊
May 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊
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This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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How it started/how it's going
January 18, 2026 at 3:08 PM
How it started/how it's going
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It's like someone cast Bottom as Lear.
January 16, 2026 at 4:09 AM
It's like someone cast Bottom as Lear.
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This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
January 13, 2026 at 10:20 PM
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
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Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.
nyti.ms
January 12, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
Great to get a shoutout from @alangratz.bsky.social during his virtual visit hosting kids from 41 states, 7 provinces and countries like Denmark, UK, and Malaysia.
December 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Great to get a shoutout from @alangratz.bsky.social during his virtual visit hosting kids from 41 states, 7 provinces and countries like Denmark, UK, and Malaysia.
"This is your prize..." FIFA doesn't even want to own it. So corrupt and pathetic.
December 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"This is your prize..." FIFA doesn't even want to own it. So corrupt and pathetic.
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This made me wonder about the etymology of quack.
“…short for quacksalver (1570s), from obsolete Dutch quacksalver (modern kwakzalver), literally ‘hawker of salve’”
“…short for quacksalver (1570s), from obsolete Dutch quacksalver (modern kwakzalver), literally ‘hawker of salve’”
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This made me wonder about the etymology of quack.
“…short for quacksalver (1570s), from obsolete Dutch quacksalver (modern kwakzalver), literally ‘hawker of salve’”
“…short for quacksalver (1570s), from obsolete Dutch quacksalver (modern kwakzalver), literally ‘hawker of salve’”
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The Vatican returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada, a historic restitution that is part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture. n.pr/43T2xmD
Pope Leo returns 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada
The Vatican returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada, a historic restitution that is part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture.
n.pr
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The Vatican returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada, a historic restitution that is part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture. n.pr/43T2xmD
Great to get my Scholastic order today.
November 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Great to get my Scholastic order today.
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from the other place. Three years ago...
October 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
from the other place. Three years ago...
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Let’s just agree right now never to normalize the term “AI actor” and call them what they are
An animated character
An animated character
October 5, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Let’s just agree right now never to normalize the term “AI actor” and call them what they are
An animated character
An animated character
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It would take around 1.1 million acres of solar panels to (clean) power the world. That's less than a quarter of the number of acres devoted globally to golf courses. You can see where this is going, right...?
October 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
It would take around 1.1 million acres of solar panels to (clean) power the world. That's less than a quarter of the number of acres devoted globally to golf courses. You can see where this is going, right...?
Kind of fitting that a player like Eric Lauer is going to finish this #BlueJays regular season. It's indicative of the year they have had.
September 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Kind of fitting that a player like Eric Lauer is going to finish this #BlueJays regular season. It's indicative of the year they have had.
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Book launch! Standoff, bk #2 of my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy. #mglit #Ukrainewar #scholastic #brantfordontario
September 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Book launch! Standoff, bk #2 of my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy. #mglit #Ukrainewar #scholastic #brantfordontario
This would be my answer as well!
The Peripheral.
Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about.
What's yours?
What's yours?
September 14, 2025 at 6:36 AM
This would be my answer as well!