Linda
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I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Share this with the ranchers and farmers and federal workers not getting paid and the people who just lost SNAP benefits.
A little apt metaphor, on the other hand,…
Per Danny Kemp via press pool
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
November 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Share this with the ranchers and farmers and federal workers not getting paid and the people who just lost SNAP benefits.
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I'm the English dept chair at my high school. I have recommended that my dept read this so we can discuss it. I have spent countless hours of my life over the last 19 years reading, commenting on, and grading student writing, all with the goal of helping them to become better writers. (1)
Vital words on why educators should push back against using plagiarism-slop machines for grading: "grading written responses is messy by design. It’s also one of the most human activities we can do within teaching." 1/2
I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
October 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I'm the English dept chair at my high school. I have recommended that my dept read this so we can discuss it. I have spent countless hours of my life over the last 19 years reading, commenting on, and grading student writing, all with the goal of helping them to become better writers. (1)
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Look what’s chalked all over the sidewalks of Bloomfield, NJ.
Free speech is a power we should use while we can.
Chalk is cheap.
#NoKings October 18.
Free speech is a power we should use while we can.
Chalk is cheap.
#NoKings October 18.
October 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Look what’s chalked all over the sidewalks of Bloomfield, NJ.
Free speech is a power we should use while we can.
Chalk is cheap.
#NoKings October 18.
Free speech is a power we should use while we can.
Chalk is cheap.
#NoKings October 18.
Presented without comment.
October 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Presented without comment.
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If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.
September 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.
It hurts my heart to see a human being thrown to the ground for exercising her 1st amendment right to protest. It's hurts more to see a TV personality celebrate that mistreatment. You know damn well that Laura would call for firings if the woman being physically mistreated was MAGA.
I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.
Ingraham: A Democrat congressional candidate was thrown to the ground by an ICE agent. Good work
September 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
It hurts my heart to see a human being thrown to the ground for exercising her 1st amendment right to protest. It's hurts more to see a TV personality celebrate that mistreatment. You know damn well that Laura would call for firings if the woman being physically mistreated was MAGA.
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A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
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On the morning of 9/11/2001, it wasn’t Democrats or Republicans that were attacked, but the United States.
Today is not just the anniversary of one of the darkest days in modern history, but a reminder that we are all Americans first.
Today is not just the anniversary of one of the darkest days in modern history, but a reminder that we are all Americans first.
September 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
On the morning of 9/11/2001, it wasn’t Democrats or Republicans that were attacked, but the United States.
Today is not just the anniversary of one of the darkest days in modern history, but a reminder that we are all Americans first.
Today is not just the anniversary of one of the darkest days in modern history, but a reminder that we are all Americans first.
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We've launched a new D.C. campaign demanding that federal agents take off their masks — because public servants should face the public.
Our posters and mobile billboard will be blanketing the District, demanding accountability.
Our posters and mobile billboard will be blanketing the District, demanding accountability.
August 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
We've launched a new D.C. campaign demanding that federal agents take off their masks — because public servants should face the public.
Our posters and mobile billboard will be blanketing the District, demanding accountability.
Our posters and mobile billboard will be blanketing the District, demanding accountability.
Of all the things they SHOULD HAVE talked about...I mean, they only had a few hours to talk peace deal, and they talk about THIS? I call BS.
Trump: "Vladimir Putin said something- one of the most interesting things. He said 'your election was rigged because you have mail in voting. It's impossible to have mail in voting & have honest elections.' He said that to me because we talked about 2020. He said, 'you won that election by so much'"
August 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Of all the things they SHOULD HAVE talked about...I mean, they only had a few hours to talk peace deal, and they talk about THIS? I call BS.
Uh oh.
Remember when Trump’s CEA chair, Stephen Miran, assured us that his policies would cause the dollar to rise, thereby softening the extent to which tariff-fuelled higher prices boost inflation and undermine purchasing power?
August 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Uh oh.
I'm a public school teacher. If I don't like my year-end evaluation, can I fire the person who gave it to me?
August 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I'm a public school teacher. If I don't like my year-end evaluation, can I fire the person who gave it to me?
Wow. Good for Senators Padilla and Booker. They certainly got an education.
United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero -
Two years ago, we invited all 100 senators to work in the fields. Only two of them accepted: Alex Padilla and Cory Booker.
Two years ago, we invited all 100 senators to work in the fields. Only two of them accepted: Alex Padilla and Cory Booker.
July 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Wow. Good for Senators Padilla and Booker. They certainly got an education.
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Posting this as a general note: I continue to see people responding to my posts with suggestions that ICE and CBP officers are deputized right wing militia, or J6ers, or things like that.
I want to emphasize again that there is NO evidence for this. Not a single credible source has confirmed it.
I want to emphasize again that there is NO evidence for this. Not a single credible source has confirmed it.
July 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Posting this as a general note: I continue to see people responding to my posts with suggestions that ICE and CBP officers are deputized right wing militia, or J6ers, or things like that.
I want to emphasize again that there is NO evidence for this. Not a single credible source has confirmed it.
I want to emphasize again that there is NO evidence for this. Not a single credible source has confirmed it.
My goal is for everyone to read Haidt's book and follow him.
I’m not calling for any bans. We don't say “there's an age ban on driving.” Just a minimum age. There should be a minimum age for smartphones and social media. Interview in People Magazine:
people.com/anxious-gene...
people.com/anxious-gene...
'Anxious Generation' Author Jonathan Haidt Shares New Worries About Kids — and Why You Should Be Concerned (Exclusive)
'Anxious Generation' author Jonathan Haidt's shares his biggest fears for kids now. His book has been a bestseller for more than a year and has prompted smartphone bans in schools across the country, ...
people.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
My goal is for everyone to read Haidt's book and follow him.
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Congress eliminated public media funding. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.
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July 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Congress eliminated public media funding. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
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Wow. History still repeating.
"I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character & conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July! America is false to the past, false to the present, & solemnly binds herself to be false to the future." -Frederick Douglass
www.npr.org/2003/07/04/1...
www.npr.org/2003/07/04/1...
Frederick Douglass
On July 5, 1852, orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass gave a speech at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Ben Guillory, producing/artistic director of the Los...
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July 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Wow. History still repeating.
One of my state's senators is against the Big Bullsh*t Bill. Good for him. Thank you, @fetterman.senate.gov
Not one single Democrat will vote for the “big beautiful bill.”
I’m here to vote on these amendments and keep the ball rolling.
I’m a HARD NO on the final bill and won’t support cutting Medicaid, SNAP or adding up to $5T to our national debt.
I’m here to vote on these amendments and keep the ball rolling.
I’m a HARD NO on the final bill and won’t support cutting Medicaid, SNAP or adding up to $5T to our national debt.
July 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
One of my state's senators is against the Big Bullsh*t Bill. Good for him. Thank you, @fetterman.senate.gov
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Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
June 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
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I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
June 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
I need to remember this. I'm learning about AI as a teacher, the ways it can help me to do my job, and the ways some of my students use it to avoid having to think. But it is a technician at best...not the origin of unique ideas and creativity.
The good part of AI is that the only thing a writer can do to combat it is to become more human. Make your writing weirder, hornier, more violent, absurd, poetic, difficult, political, jagged, dreamlike, ironic, surreal, alive. You don't have any choice but to plumb the depths.
May 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I need to remember this. I'm learning about AI as a teacher, the ways it can help me to do my job, and the ways some of my students use it to avoid having to think. But it is a technician at best...not the origin of unique ideas and creativity.