Nerds for Justice w/ Dr. Ced Simmons
@nerdsforjustice.bsky.social
Nerds for Justice uses research, critical thinking, networking and culturally responsive organizing to address barriers to learning for students.
A day on, not a day off!
January 19, 2026 at 5:26 PM
A day on, not a day off!
Upstanders need support and ongoing learning too, friends!
January 19, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Upstanders need support and ongoing learning too, friends!
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In the first of what's likely to be many collaborations with @hebagowayed.bsky.social (and my @us.theguardian.com debut) we argue that abolishing ICE would be a good start.
Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray
It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 4:52 PM
In the first of what's likely to be many collaborations with @hebagowayed.bsky.social (and my @us.theguardian.com debut) we argue that abolishing ICE would be a good start.
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It’s the latter. And it answers a question I kept posing: how do you punish people with complex bureaucracy if you dismantle…the complex bureaucracy that can punish?
You can’t.
You can’t.
On the Friday afternoon before a three-day weekend, the Department of Education announces that borrowers will not have their wages or tax refunds garnished for being in default on their student loans. This could be driven by political considerations or difficulties in actually collecting funds.
U.S. Department of Education Delays Involuntary Collections Amid Ongoing Student Loan Repayment Improvements
ED announced that it will delay the implementation of involuntary collections on federal student loans, including Administrative Wage Garnishment and the Treasury Offset Program, to enable the Departm...
www.ed.gov
January 16, 2026 at 9:58 PM
It’s the latter. And it answers a question I kept posing: how do you punish people with complex bureaucracy if you dismantle…the complex bureaucracy that can punish?
You can’t.
You can’t.
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They're escalating the violence to recalibrate our outrage needles. Because the higher our tolerance for abuse, the more harm they'll be free to do.
So, don't let the "little" stories stop upsetting you.
So, don't let the "little" stories stop upsetting you.
January 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM
They're escalating the violence to recalibrate our outrage needles. Because the higher our tolerance for abuse, the more harm they'll be free to do.
So, don't let the "little" stories stop upsetting you.
So, don't let the "little" stories stop upsetting you.
This is where my brain goes when I can't sleep but I am trying not to doomscroll: Is this what it would feel like if the Sith ran the empire? Or if Voldemort took over Hogwarts? Or when Thanos got a gauntlet?
January 13, 2026 at 6:53 AM
This is where my brain goes when I can't sleep but I am trying not to doomscroll: Is this what it would feel like if the Sith ran the empire? Or if Voldemort took over Hogwarts? Or when Thanos got a gauntlet?
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I can’t emphasize enough how shocked my out of state friends and family are when I tell them what has happened in Minneapolis since Renee Good’s murder.
Without reliable media, most not-chronically-online people are completely in the dark. If you want to help Minnesota, tell people what you know.
Without reliable media, most not-chronically-online people are completely in the dark. If you want to help Minnesota, tell people what you know.
January 13, 2026 at 3:21 AM
I can’t emphasize enough how shocked my out of state friends and family are when I tell them what has happened in Minneapolis since Renee Good’s murder.
Without reliable media, most not-chronically-online people are completely in the dark. If you want to help Minnesota, tell people what you know.
Without reliable media, most not-chronically-online people are completely in the dark. If you want to help Minnesota, tell people what you know.
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The Trump administration said that it would suspend funding of food stamps and other hunger relief programs in Minnesota just as a federal judge blocked a similar effort to freeze funding for social services amid allegations of widespread fraud in the state.
Trump Administration Freezes Food Stamps in Minnesota
The move was part of a broader effort to to freeze social services to some Democratic-led states amid a fraud investigation in Minnesota.
nyti.ms
January 10, 2026 at 10:45 PM
The Trump administration said that it would suspend funding of food stamps and other hunger relief programs in Minnesota just as a federal judge blocked a similar effort to freeze funding for social services amid allegations of widespread fraud in the state.
Please, don't run this back
January 10, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Please, don't run this back
Does anyone want to play a professional learning game about instructional equity that I call "The Parliament Pit?" I am recruiting people who are proud to still be "nerds for justice" nowadays and I want to try out a new protocol that I call "parliament pit" because it is a learning pit 4 nerds.
January 10, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Does anyone want to play a professional learning game about instructional equity that I call "The Parliament Pit?" I am recruiting people who are proud to still be "nerds for justice" nowadays and I want to try out a new protocol that I call "parliament pit" because it is a learning pit 4 nerds.
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Can't say I didn't warn you...
"Those betting on Trump's promise to bring back manufacturing risk... pushing us back to Gilded Age levels of inequality, and to a time when the 'good life' was accessible only to the robber barons, while the rest of America struggled to get by."
"Those betting on Trump's promise to bring back manufacturing risk... pushing us back to Gilded Age levels of inequality, and to a time when the 'good life' was accessible only to the robber barons, while the rest of America struggled to get by."
January 9, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Can't say I didn't warn you...
"Those betting on Trump's promise to bring back manufacturing risk... pushing us back to Gilded Age levels of inequality, and to a time when the 'good life' was accessible only to the robber barons, while the rest of America struggled to get by."
"Those betting on Trump's promise to bring back manufacturing risk... pushing us back to Gilded Age levels of inequality, and to a time when the 'good life' was accessible only to the robber barons, while the rest of America struggled to get by."
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FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE UNIVERSE
PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records
But it’s ‘not intended for diagnosis or treatment.’
www.theverge.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:55 PM
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE UNIVERSE
PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
January 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
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We are so beyond the dark place that it’s not even enough to use metaphors
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
The Dean “also clarified that faculty may assign textbooks with chapters that cover transgender identity, so long as they do not talk about the material or include it on assignments or exam questions.”
And they call this an education?
The Dean “also clarified that faculty may assign textbooks with chapters that cover transgender identity, so long as they do not talk about the material or include it on assignments or exam questions.”
And they call this an education?
Plato Censored as Texas A&M Carries Out Course Review
A&M officials have also instructed English faculty not to teach books in core classes that have major plotlines concerning gay, lesbian or transgender identities.
www.insidehighered.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:20 PM
We are so beyond the dark place that it’s not even enough to use metaphors
This is why some of us have been talking about the anti-diversity cancel culture. The more it is enforced by board members, who are like the supreme court of education, the harder it is to reinforce civil rights and human rights values.
Also, I am praying for social studies/DEI teachers. 🙏🏿
Also, I am praying for social studies/DEI teachers. 🙏🏿
January 9, 2026 at 12:58 AM
This is why some of us have been talking about the anti-diversity cancel culture. The more it is enforced by board members, who are like the supreme court of education, the harder it is to reinforce civil rights and human rights values.
Also, I am praying for social studies/DEI teachers. 🙏🏿
Also, I am praying for social studies/DEI teachers. 🙏🏿
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This is something else.
apologies to (and for) flaubert, but these people are so corrupt they'd pay to pimp themselves...
www.rawstory.com/karoline-lea...
www.rawstory.com/karoline-lea...
Leavitt's abrupt stage exit triggers 'insider trading' accusations in prediction markets
Gamblers who bet on the length of the White House's daily press briefings cried foul on Wednesday after Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made the curious decision to end her comments just seconds shy ...
www.rawstory.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
This is something else.
Courage is a personal trait and a group project
January 7, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Courage is a personal trait and a group project
Any tips for people who want to self publish? My draft is almost ready
January 5, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Any tips for people who want to self publish? My draft is almost ready