I wonder if students today would be less likely to lean on AI for writing assignments if schools had made sure they could touch-type (at least 60wpm) before having them submit all their assignments online. 1/🧵
Bren
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📖 HS ELA and APLAC Teacher. Reader. Backpacker. 🌒🌕🌘 Gen X 🤘✌️ Every post comes with a typo. 😖
💯 🎯 @startribune.com #Minnesota #BWCA These pix were taken fewer than 24 hours apart. Grand Marais and Hwy 61 near Tofte in mid-July.
St. Pauliner@stp-mn-guy.bsky.social · last wk.@startribune.com if you haven’t already, you should be running this story on the front page. There is a direct link between DOGE cuts and the BWCA fires. Every Minnesotan needs to understand this. www.adn.com/nation-world...
Finally watched Hamnet. I read and loved the book years ago, and was worried the film couldn’t match my expectations . . . The film was excellent. 🥰😭🎉
This Buried Apple Feature Turns an iPhone Into the Perfect Kids’ Dumb Phone
This is fantastic news! I had melanoma 5 years ago (early ~ish detection 🙏) and have had several precancerous spot removed since. Staying vigilant and sun-safe is extremely important; knowing a vaccine is a possibility is reason to celebrate. Everyone needs a skin cancer screening by a derm.
Chise@sailorrooscout.bsky.social · last mo.GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.
I wrote up some thoughts about the new required list of literary works that Texas just adopted including ways to resist: www.ryansmits.com/2026/06/thou... They don't go into effect for a few more years, but now is the time to start thinking about how to respond. #Texas #censorship #EduSky
Thoughts on Texas' 2026 Literary Works Requirement
Thoughts on the 2026 Texas Literary Works List The State of Texas just adopted a new policy where they are going to require specific t...
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You’ve crashed your last test dummies.
Tof Eklund@tofeklund.bsky.social · last mo.You've petered your last paul, mary
The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.
Mark your calendars! 🗓️ Jane Fonda is livestreaming a concert from NYC during the UFC fight. 🎶 Sunday, June 14th at 7:30PM ET 🎤 #1A #FreeSpeech #Pinks
Twin Cities friends: we'll be tabling at the Book Fair for Grown-Ups this July! The first ten people who buy a ticket with the code CURSED23 get 50% off the entrance fee. Can't wait to see you there!
Jason Reynolds asks a powerful question about AI in education: What happens when the tool disappears? This piece explores effort, literacy, resilience, and whether AI is quietly stealing students’ fortitude. (Sidenote: Luv Jason Reynolds ❤️) www.edutopia.org/video/jason-...
Jason Reynolds on What AI Is Quietly Stealing From the Next Generation
What opportunities could a generation of students potentially lose when technology does the hard work for them? The celebrated author shares his thoughts on the hidden price of convenience.
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Handwriting isn’t just “slower typing.” EEG studies show writing by hand recruits broader sensorimotor, visual, memory, and attentional networks than typing the same words. The brain learns through movement too, not only through information. 🧠✍️ #neuroskyence #neuroscience #brain #EEG #words
The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
For more than a decade, Stephen Colbert has been one of the top voices of late night—making us laugh and, even more importantly, reminding us who we are and what America stands for. Michelle and I enjoyed being Stephen’s guests—even when the games were rigged—and we’re grateful to call him a friend.
"Democratic governors and state legislators need to realize that this is no longer about fairness; it’s about fighting back so that they are not engineered out of the House forever. And I get that Dems don’t have the stomach for this kind of warfare--- find it."
1/ 📢 Minneapolis neighbors — your input matters. This Wed, May 13 at 6PM. I'm proposing a pause on data center development in Minneapolis to build a regulatory framework that truly protects our community on May 21 🧵
Michelle Obama warned everyone. Kamala Harris warned everyone. Hillary Clinton warned everyone.
Californians, vote Strategically to stop the Republicans taking your state. #CaliforniaGovernor #stopmaga
In 23, a 20 year moratorium on mining was placed on the pristine portion of the Superior National Forest that drains into the famed Boundary Waters in Minnesota. Why are immigrants who help the USA being rounded up, but foreign mining companies, who will strip the minerals & beauty welcomed in?
Boundary Waters at Risk Again As Trump Administration Declares Support for Copper Mine
In a series of tweets, high-level officials at USDA and Interior said they’re working to renew leases for a previously banned mining project on the edge of America’s most popular wilderness area
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THE SENATE IS VOTING ON THE BOUNDARY WATERS RIGHT NOW! Tonight, while most people are watching TV or putting their kids to bed, the U.S. Senate is taking a vote that could permanently end protections for one of the most beloved wilderness areas in America.
I’m holding the Senate floor tonight in protest of legislation that would allow a copper-nickel sulfide mine on the doorstep of the Boundary Waters. Not this mine. Not this place.
SENATOR HOLDS THE FLOOR TO DEFEND THE BOUNDARY WATERS
YouTube video by Senator Tina Smith
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If you can automatically register people for the draft, then you can automatically register people to vote. www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
Automatic registration for US military draft-eligible men to begin in December
Automatic registration into Selective Service was mandated in December 2025, when President Donald Trump signed into law the fiscal year 2026 NDAA.
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