Travis
@travtufts.bsky.social
Bostonian by choice | BPS parent | Public Ed enthusiast | Bike rider | Occasional organizer | Personal Chef to three | Broadcast editor & colorist
Exclusion ≠ Excellence
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Exclusion ≠ Excellence
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Happy 30,004 miles to my trusty Blanchi Frankenbike. We celebrated with a 15°F headwind on my ride to work, as is the custom.
December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Happy 30,004 miles to my trusty Blanchi Frankenbike. We celebrated with a 15°F headwind on my ride to work, as is the custom.
The Boston @bostonglobe.com editorial team has barely disguised its disdain for students and teachers for over a decade.
I guess the mask is just fully off now.
I guess the mask is just fully off now.
December 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The Boston @bostonglobe.com editorial team has barely disguised its disdain for students and teachers for over a decade.
I guess the mask is just fully off now.
I guess the mask is just fully off now.
The @bostonschools.boston.gov comms team needs to stop promoting these garbage, arbitrary rankings from a defunct magazine that only exists now as a yard stick for elitism.
December 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The @bostonschools.boston.gov comms team needs to stop promoting these garbage, arbitrary rankings from a defunct magazine that only exists now as a yard stick for elitism.
I finished Patricia Evangelista's Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country.
Her description of Duterte cultists *deprogramming* themselves – at great personal cost – stuck with me.
A united front needs EVERYONE who eventually recognizes the peril of strong man authoritarianism.
Her description of Duterte cultists *deprogramming* themselves – at great personal cost – stuck with me.
A united front needs EVERYONE who eventually recognizes the peril of strong man authoritarianism.
December 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I finished Patricia Evangelista's Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country.
Her description of Duterte cultists *deprogramming* themselves – at great personal cost – stuck with me.
A united front needs EVERYONE who eventually recognizes the peril of strong man authoritarianism.
Her description of Duterte cultists *deprogramming* themselves – at great personal cost – stuck with me.
A united front needs EVERYONE who eventually recognizes the peril of strong man authoritarianism.
Extra-judicial killings (murders) done in the name of a “war on drugs”.
I’ve been doing a lot of “history rhymes” reading over the past couple years and this is another installment.
I’ve been doing a lot of “history rhymes” reading over the past couple years and this is another installment.
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Extra-judicial killings (murders) done in the name of a “war on drugs”.
I’ve been doing a lot of “history rhymes” reading over the past couple years and this is another installment.
I’ve been doing a lot of “history rhymes” reading over the past couple years and this is another installment.
Your Boston ENGLISH High School Eagles just beat BLS 40-30 in their 138th Thanksgiving Football matchup. 🏈🦅💙🎺
November 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Your Boston ENGLISH High School Eagles just beat BLS 40-30 in their 138th Thanksgiving Football matchup. 🏈🦅💙🎺
It’s fair to say that this is exactly what they have been for.
They are desperately looking for any possible pretext to ramp up the military occupation of American cities.
They are desperately looking for any possible pretext to ramp up the military occupation of American cities.
November 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
It’s fair to say that this is exactly what they have been for.
They are desperately looking for any possible pretext to ramp up the military occupation of American cities.
They are desperately looking for any possible pretext to ramp up the military occupation of American cities.
Getting older really does mean watching people make the same damn mistakes over and over again
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Getting older really does mean watching people make the same damn mistakes over and over again
We must not allow a truck bloat gap!
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
We must not allow a truck bloat gap!
“President Trump demands a reunion episode of CAROLINE IN THE CITY.”
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“President Trump demands a reunion episode of CAROLINE IN THE CITY.”
"He doesn't know how to use the Dyson Shells"
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"He doesn't know how to use the Dyson Shells"
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love.
It presaged our post-9/11 era of mass-surveillance and data harvesting. Plus Regina King kills it in her few minutes of screen time.
It presaged our post-9/11 era of mass-surveillance and data harvesting. Plus Regina King kills it in her few minutes of screen time.
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love.
It presaged our post-9/11 era of mass-surveillance and data harvesting. Plus Regina King kills it in her few minutes of screen time.
It presaged our post-9/11 era of mass-surveillance and data harvesting. Plus Regina King kills it in her few minutes of screen time.
Nothing had a bigger impact on getting me back into camping after 40 than a cozy, down-enveloped hammock.
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Nothing had a bigger impact on getting me back into camping after 40 than a cozy, down-enveloped hammock.
Carrie Coon knows what’s up.
November 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Carrie Coon knows what’s up.
An old favorite, one streamer, and two theatrical releases. #LastFourWatched
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
An old favorite, one streamer, and two theatrical releases. #LastFourWatched
Carrie Coon is a real one!
November 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Carrie Coon is a real one!
Community forum on these and future closures THIS THURSDAY 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
November 18, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Community forum on these and future closures THIS THURSDAY 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Boston Public Schools is recommending the closure of 3 schools (Lee Academy, Another Course to College, and Community Academy of Science and Health). Also reconfiguring grades at The Henderson, Tobin, and Russell.
Come on Thursday for a community forum in Boston school closures. 👇🏻
Come on Thursday for a community forum in Boston school closures. 👇🏻
November 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Boston Public Schools is recommending the closure of 3 schools (Lee Academy, Another Course to College, and Community Academy of Science and Health). Also reconfiguring grades at The Henderson, Tobin, and Russell.
Come on Thursday for a community forum in Boston school closures. 👇🏻
Come on Thursday for a community forum in Boston school closures. 👇🏻
That rush when the book you’re reading *directly references* an excellent book (Larson’s DEMON OF UNREST) that you read a year ago. 🤌🏻
November 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
That rush when the book you’re reading *directly references* an excellent book (Larson’s DEMON OF UNREST) that you read a year ago. 🤌🏻
Meanwhile Jackie Jr. provided a cautionary tale of a [gasp] Rutgers education:
November 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Meanwhile Jackie Jr. provided a cautionary tale of a [gasp] Rutgers education:
Norman Rockwell painted the scene of Bridges walking to school with her escorts, past racial slurs and thrown produce.
He titled the painting “The Problem We All Live With”.
In many ways – as Americans have resegregated schools – it is a problem we live with 65 years later.
He titled the painting “The Problem We All Live With”.
In many ways – as Americans have resegregated schools – it is a problem we live with 65 years later.
November 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Norman Rockwell painted the scene of Bridges walking to school with her escorts, past racial slurs and thrown produce.
He titled the painting “The Problem We All Live With”.
In many ways – as Americans have resegregated schools – it is a problem we live with 65 years later.
He titled the painting “The Problem We All Live With”.
In many ways – as Americans have resegregated schools – it is a problem we live with 65 years later.
Ruby’s parents Lucille and Abon lost jobs and were banned from shopping at the local grocery store. Her grandparents were forced off their land as sharecroppers.
November 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Ruby’s parents Lucille and Abon lost jobs and were banned from shopping at the local grocery store. Her grandparents were forced off their land as sharecroppers.
In a move that foreshadowed white Massive Resistance to school desegregation, white parents pulled their children out of Bridges’ school.
Barbara Henry was the only white teacher who would teach Ruby, and she taught her alone in the classroom.
Barbara Henry was the only white teacher who would teach Ruby, and she taught her alone in the classroom.
November 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
In a move that foreshadowed white Massive Resistance to school desegregation, white parents pulled their children out of Bridges’ school.
Barbara Henry was the only white teacher who would teach Ruby, and she taught her alone in the classroom.
Barbara Henry was the only white teacher who would teach Ruby, and she taught her alone in the classroom.