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· Mar 7
FWISD Teachers Speak Out Against Abbott's Voucher Bill and What We Know About School Closures
Podcast Episode · 817 Podcast - Fort Worth's Monday Morning Show · 03/03/2025 · 1h
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Y'all, I was on the 817 Podcast to talk about Texas school vouchers. They are disastrous policy! Give a listen -
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Lord, I see what you’ve done for others
A Supreme Court judge ruled the former Brazilian president’s legal appeals have been exhausted on.ft.com/3XeOgNj
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Lord, I see what you’ve done for others
I guess the new fourth period game is to name something (category 1: kind of math, cat 2: elements of the period table, cat 3: numbers), and I'll tell kids if it's good or evil
November 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I guess the new fourth period game is to name something (category 1: kind of math, cat 2: elements of the period table, cat 3: numbers), and I'll tell kids if it's good or evil
Harvard fired Claudine Gay but they won’t fire Larry Summers?????
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students
November 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Harvard fired Claudine Gay but they won’t fire Larry Summers?????
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NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
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Friends, I'm trying to purchase some Arduino kits for my engineering classes. If you're able to either purchase or share, I'd be so appreciative!
#clearthelist
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
#clearthelist
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
Check out my list on Amazon
www.amazon.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Friends, I'm trying to purchase some Arduino kits for my engineering classes. If you're able to either purchase or share, I'd be so appreciative!
#clearthelist
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
#clearthelist
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
Friends, I'm trying to purchase some Arduino kits for my engineering classes. If you're able to either purchase or share, I'd be so appreciative!
#clearthelist
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
#clearthelist
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
Check out my list on Amazon
www.amazon.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Friends, I'm trying to purchase some Arduino kits for my engineering classes. If you're able to either purchase or share, I'd be so appreciative!
#clearthelist
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
#clearthelist
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
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US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
November 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
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As a parent, unless your child is with a rouge teacher, chances are they’re reading even less than the bare minimum from your high school English class.
November 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
As a parent, unless your child is with a rouge teacher, chances are they’re reading even less than the bare minimum from your high school English class.
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Another horrific story from these times, featuring the tireless and heroic work of my Cornell Law colleague Liz Brundige and her clinic students. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
She Was Deported in Error. Her Child Was Left Behind.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Another horrific story from these times, featuring the tireless and heroic work of my Cornell Law colleague Liz Brundige and her clinic students. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
I gave a quiz today and felt like a Real Teacher today
November 14, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I gave a quiz today and felt like a Real Teacher today
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attn fountain pen friends:
Also I got my husband this ink advent calendar a few years ago and he loved it, it took him a year to go through all the ink. cultpens.com/products/dia...
Diamine Inkvent Calendar 2025 Teal Edition
Diamine's annual Inkvent calendar has become the stuff of legend, and this year's is probably the best yet. It's filled, not with chocolate (that doesn't last anyway), but with... ink! Naturally. This...
cultpens.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
attn fountain pen friends:
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And so it shall be
And so it was.
November 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
And so it shall be
Pepys was such an unbelievable jerk to his wife
Up and began our discontent again and sorely angered my wife, who indeed do live very lonely, but I do perceive that it is want of work that do make her and all other people think of ways of spending their time worse.
November 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Pepys was such an unbelievable jerk to his wife
These devil children made my tall chair TOO TALL while I was absent so now I can’t teach anymore
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
These devil children made my tall chair TOO TALL while I was absent so now I can’t teach anymore
This is cool
A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire
go.nature.com/4nHZmoM
go.nature.com/4nHZmoM
‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
Nature - A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
go.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is cool
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
I use this as an example in engineering class
I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I use this as an example in engineering class
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This was a fun interview! And they let me point out that museums, full of colonial loot, are both victims and perpetrators in the black market for stolen art… www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
BBC Audio | The Global Story | The Louvre daytime heist that shocked the world
How thieves stole France’s crown jewels and what they could do with them
www.bbc.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This was a fun interview! And they let me point out that museums, full of colonial loot, are both victims and perpetrators in the black market for stolen art… www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
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am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
This time they’ve gone Too Far
THESE KIDS
THESE KIDS
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This time they’ve gone Too Far
THESE KIDS
THESE KIDS
Et tu, Shakespeare? ET TU
Look you bring me in the names of some six or seven
November 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Et tu, Shakespeare? ET TU
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and then turn to the green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land
November 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
and then turn to the green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land
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Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
October 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Today I discovered that a colleague is not just a poet but a really talented poet. A delightful discovery
October 31, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Today I discovered that a colleague is not just a poet but a really talented poet. A delightful discovery