Stephanie Hall (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@stephmhall.bsky.social
▫️writing about ed policy and politics
▫️former middle & high school teacher (13 years 🇺🇲 & 🇧🇷)
▫️PhD in international ed policy
▫️posts are mine & reposts mean "hey look at this”
https://campsite.to/stephmhall
▫️former middle & high school teacher (13 years 🇺🇲 & 🇧🇷)
▫️PhD in international ed policy
▫️posts are mine & reposts mean "hey look at this”
https://campsite.to/stephmhall
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How a Republican Lawsuit Targeting Trans Kids Could Undo Major Disability Protections
Texas v. Becerra is a fight for the future of civil rights in America.
www.teenvogue.com
The ADA turns 35 this summer, and we should be celebrating & talking about more/new ways to make sure our disabled students and friends (and ourselves!) can _be_ in society. Instead, just about everything that makes that possible is at risk, including Section 504: www.teenvogue.com/story/texas-...
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The bizarre framing of the hand position and movement hides the truth that this is just another useless system to let school administrators do what they do best: waste money and immiserate poor students
![Here’s a timeline of the Kenwood High incident on Oct. 20, according to school officials:
7:04 p.m. — Omnilert sent an alert for review
7:05-7:06 p.m. — School system safety personnel and the Maryland Safe Schools facilitator reviewed the alert and canceled it.
7:17 p.m. — Kenwood’s principal reported the alert to a school resource officer. “Because this alert was received after school hours, the SRO called the local [police] precinct,” school officials stated.
7:23 p.m. — Police arrived at Kenwood after receiving a report of a suspicious person with a weapon.
Trained school system safety professionals review the images and either validate or cancel alerts based on what they see. Canceling means that no action is taken. Validating means that safety personnel notify police.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bc6mgrkful5zby6tozdlrdxk/bafkreiefkeriyudgcgzhsfjhlikxbs4hk7tatmc6ebgp3kqvlrohysnvtm@jpeg)
![“The Omnilert system did not detect a single blue potato chip bag as a threat,” the report stated. “The perceived threat was based on the student’s hand movement, including its position and angle.”
Investigators reported that Allen was holding an “unidentified item that extended slightly beyond the fingers and was held at a slight angle near the hip or pocket level.”
Looking at the image on a phone screen and zooming in on the student’s hand “could cause the user to overlook the cancellation text message” that was sent after staff determined it was a non-issue.
The Kenwood principal viewed the alert in a text, clicked the link that led to the video of the event and paused to enlarge the image.
“The principal said that it wasn’t until after they watched the video, tried to contact safety staff, and spoke with BCoPD [Baltimore County Police Department] personnel — who informed them that the police had cleared the school grounds — that they noticed a cancellation had been issued,” the report stated.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bc6mgrkful5zby6tozdlrdxk/bafkreic3lfa5qgka4z2gvhc223rzibsl5lzbyhrqbq2azqqcqkt7o4nwzm@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The bizarre framing of the hand position and movement hides the truth that this is just another useless system to let school administrators do what they do best: waste money and immiserate poor students
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We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
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why bother with dystopian fiction when the united states is already doing worse in real life
absolutely harrowing description of adx supermax in colorado boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
November 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
why bother with dystopian fiction when the united states is already doing worse in real life
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An incredibly important read from our friend @seemiaroll.bsky.social
"Obtaining an education is one of the best ways to help disabled people secure a stable income—and by weakening the IDEA, the Trump administration is trying to take those opportunities away."
"Obtaining an education is one of the best ways to help disabled people secure a stable income—and by weakening the IDEA, the Trump administration is trying to take those opportunities away."
Weakening the IDEA Threatens Millions of Disabled Americans Like Me
Ives-Rublee: Federal law made it possible for disabled students like me to go to school. Those opportunities may vanish for the next generation.
www.the74million.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
An incredibly important read from our friend @seemiaroll.bsky.social
"Obtaining an education is one of the best ways to help disabled people secure a stable income—and by weakening the IDEA, the Trump administration is trying to take those opportunities away."
"Obtaining an education is one of the best ways to help disabled people secure a stable income—and by weakening the IDEA, the Trump administration is trying to take those opportunities away."
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One of the ways I’m getting through the RFK texts news cycle is to imagine him sending those same messages to other people in journalism like Chris Matthews from Hardball
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
One of the ways I’m getting through the RFK texts news cycle is to imagine him sending those same messages to other people in journalism like Chris Matthews from Hardball
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"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee
Politician reportedly taken from his villa into custody at a federal police base about 7 miles from presidential palace
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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GRAAAAANDE DIAAAAAA
GRANDE DIA 🥳🥳🥳🥳
BOLSONARO É PRESO PELA POLÍCIA FEDERAL
BOLSONARO É PRESO PELA POLÍCIA FEDERAL
November 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
GRAAAAANDE DIAAAAAA
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And if I have to hear the phrase "do his work" in relation to schooling for 6yos I'm going to lose my damn mind.
See, learning isn't a problem my son has. It's the construction of school-as-work that he can't tolerate. The message for 1st graders is: school is work, and work sucks, get used to it!
See, learning isn't a problem my son has. It's the construction of school-as-work that he can't tolerate. The message for 1st graders is: school is work, and work sucks, get used to it!
March 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
And if I have to hear the phrase "do his work" in relation to schooling for 6yos I'm going to lose my damn mind.
See, learning isn't a problem my son has. It's the construction of school-as-work that he can't tolerate. The message for 1st graders is: school is work, and work sucks, get used to it!
See, learning isn't a problem my son has. It's the construction of school-as-work that he can't tolerate. The message for 1st graders is: school is work, and work sucks, get used to it!
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Why does it take a diagnosis and a legal document to ensure a kid can move their body and have agency in ways that make sense and feel safe to them?
March 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Why does it take a diagnosis and a legal document to ensure a kid can move their body and have agency in ways that make sense and feel safe to them?
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Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
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The stupid term "underage girls" needs to be buried forever.
November 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The stupid term "underage girls" needs to be buried forever.
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Ofc, no one brought this up to me until AFTER congress called for my head. They destroyed every university in Palestine & the careers of many pro-Palestinian professors. They are now weaponizing a student customer mindset (cultivated for decades) to destroy DEI, LGBTQ & general academic freedom
November 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Ofc, no one brought this up to me until AFTER congress called for my head. They destroyed every university in Palestine & the careers of many pro-Palestinian professors. They are now weaponizing a student customer mindset (cultivated for decades) to destroy DEI, LGBTQ & general academic freedom
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Mafia governance in action
"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Mafia governance in action
"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
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So housing is both too expensive, but also cheap enough for illegal immigrants to afford?
November 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
So housing is both too expensive, but also cheap enough for illegal immigrants to afford?
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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You can tell how much money is tied up in chatbots because it's getting the kind of fearful leeway even as it demonstrably causes the deaths of children that we normally only allow for guns
November 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
You can tell how much money is tied up in chatbots because it's getting the kind of fearful leeway even as it demonstrably causes the deaths of children that we normally only allow for guns
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Is it good politics to ask the Supreme Court if you can continue starving people?
November 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Is it good politics to ask the Supreme Court if you can continue starving people?
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so it turns out that fascism is unpopular
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
so it turns out that fascism is unpopular
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No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?
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not only does the richest known nazi in the world endorse andrew cuomo but he’s boosting it as a paid ad on twitter
November 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
not only does the richest known nazi in the world endorse andrew cuomo but he’s boosting it as a paid ad on twitter
this really hurts to see
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
this really hurts to see
Reposted by Stephanie Hall (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.
November 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.
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The use of “risk” here is so fucking terrible. Like having an autistic kid is a bad thing. A risk you want to avoid. Like autistic people are something to get rid of.
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A new study adds to the evidence that viral infections during pregnancy might contribute to a child’s likelihood of having autism
COVID During Pregnancy May Increase Risk of Autism in Kids
A new study adds to the evidence that viral infections during pregnancy might contribute to a child’s likelihood of having autism
www.scientificamerican.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The use of “risk” here is so fucking terrible. Like having an autistic kid is a bad thing. A risk you want to avoid. Like autistic people are something to get rid of.
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Hi, we're Silicon Valley- you probably recognize us from classic inventions like 'Chatbot That Drives You Crazy', 'The App That Gives You An Eating Disorder', 'A Bus, Except Worse', and 'Doorbell That Reports Directly to the NSA'
November 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Hi, we're Silicon Valley- you probably recognize us from classic inventions like 'Chatbot That Drives You Crazy', 'The App That Gives You An Eating Disorder', 'A Bus, Except Worse', and 'Doorbell That Reports Directly to the NSA'