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Ursula

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I am a high school teacher. (she/they)

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To make things worse I saw my first one of these in the wild. Just like everyone said: so much more monstrous than a photo can convey. And yes, it ran a red light right in front of me.

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Me too. 😉

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I return to this quote a lot. It coaxes me away from my two worst impulses—overwhelming urgency and doomerism—and reminds me to act, daily, as best I can, because one never knows the exact historical coordinates of windows of possibility.

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Comrade card for 4/3/2024

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There is a wonderful chapter about seasons & avoiding burnout in Let This Radicalize You.

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I have written/published multiple pieces (curriculum, ed articles) every year since 2016. I just realized it has been a year since I last wrote or published anything. Will I ever write again? Does it even matter? Ugh. Sigh. We all have seasons, right?

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Good morning from 6am in the garden.

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This is soooooo fucking CRUEL. What a damned shame. I'm sorry to hear this.

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đŸ€– AP Breaking News (unofficial)'s avatar đŸ€– AP Breaking News (unofficial) @ap-bot.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Hurricane Beryl grows to Category 5 strength as it razes southeast Caribbean islands.

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I can clear up one thing—it’s not about logic, it’s about power.

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So many of these people spent YEARS telling people that things that political organizers said would happen would not happen due to 'precedent', norms, collegiality, etc and they were fucking wrong 100%.

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I don’t know how the health care workers of Gaza will ever recover from these unbearable, impossible circumstances. The likelihood is that they won’t. So many lives being destroyed in so many unique & cruel ways.

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Freire is so good at simplicity & clarity: “I myself felt that Marx must be understood in a Marxist manner
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Aww, thanks. My goals are pretty humble: take what I learned this year and do better next year.

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Today I was at a curriculum camp prepping for what I’m gonna teach in the fall! 😉

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"Let us take a knife and cut the world in two— and see what worms are eating at the rind.” ― Langston Hughes

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Almost everyone in Gaza is being told move again I swear this is so cruel

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Wesley Hogan has put together this collection of primary sources to illustrate the history of abortion care in the United States.

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COVER REVEAL:
Yesterday was the 3-year anniversary of a horrifying pandemic milestone--half a million people in prison had contracted Covid.
My newest book chronicles this heartbreaking (& enraging) reality. Now available for pre-sale: t.co/mpqTUVWUxy

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“Decisions are being taken that affect our lives without any trans people in the room, let alone trans young people. Too often trans kids are portrayed as a monolith of confused, depressed teenagers. We are denied choice and robbed of our autonomy.”

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“Many voiced their anger at the circumstances of Nyah’s death: He was already on the ground, subdued by officers, when he was shot.”

This is about a 13-year old child.

www.nytimes.com/2024/06/30/n...

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I have a refrain (that, oddly, comes from VĂ” NguyĂȘn GiĂĄp) that pops into my head every time I read one of these stories: “Human beings! Human beings!” What we need are investments in human beings carried out by human beings.

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Good morning from 5:45 in the garden—and happy June 31st!

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The LLM spit it out at them and they were like, “yeah, *democratize*, that sounds good!”

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Despite the evidentiary and procedural weaknesses of the case the prosecution has already accomplished one of the state’s key goals by sapping and redirecting energy from many in the movement..the goal of the sprawling RICO indictment is not necessarily to get convictions-it’s to attack a movement

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In an April speech promoting the software, he [Alberto Carvalho, the district’s superintendent] promised it would “democratize” and “transform education.” In response to skeptics of A.I., he asked, “Why not allow this edutainment approach to capture & captivate their attention, be the motivator?” 🙃

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Calendars are socially agreed upon lies! June 31st it is! Thank you for this helpful reframing. One more day (at least!) to get my June stuff done.

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I think a lot about the two hospice nurses who helped our family. Through their example, I learned something about how I wanted to show up in the world—with clarity & straightforwardness (reject euphemism!), unrushed listening, & lots of care.

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“Muhammad Arab and the other prisoners in the detention center call on the international community and the international courts to act to save them. It is inconceivable that the whole world talks about the Israeli abductees, and no one talks about the Palestinian prisoners.”

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