Miriam Walden
@educatoratlarge.bsky.social
Retired HS world history teacher, studying for an MA in Public History at CSUEB, grieving mother, organizer, union member, guest in Huchiun. Free Palestine! Protect Trans Kids! Abolish the police! Fuck ICE!
Today's reminder that the current genAI boom is powered by GPUs manufactured with the mineral coltan (and other rare earths, and cobalt) mined through the labor of enslaved children in Congo, and the US and UAE fund the paramilitaries which protect those mines and keep those children enslaved.
@wearecta.bsky.social, I cannot understand why we are not endorsing a tax on billionaires to fund healthcare. What is wrong with our union?
I would like to return to the classroom. I don’t know anyone who’s been teaching since I left who is happier now than they were 8-10 years ago. Plus, y’know, salaries.
Anne Lutz Fernandez@lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 2d agoNew data debunks the teacher shortage contrarians. I wrote about new data available on the exodus from K-12 classrooms, teachers like me who left and the professionals we left behind in jobs that have only become more challenging.
President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
trib.al
“Without this, people become homeless. They lose their income. They lose their stability. Whatever tiny safety net they had is gone,” @shannonrosa.bsky.social said. “It’s just cruel.” My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty
Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states over alleged caregiving fraud
theguardian.com
The Trump administration has shown they are willing to deport people to their deaths by systematically attacking pathways to seek protection. People seeking asylum contribute to our communities and economy. Turning our backs on them is wrong and dangerous.
Asylum-seekers and kids in court are Trump’s next deportation target
This is the moment for politicians to defend asylum and finally engage with policies that create a safe and humane border arrivals system.
thehill.com
A health worker union has accused Kaiser Permanente of screening patients and making care recommendations through “a digital, automated algorithm” without clinician oversight — a practice the union says violates state law. cal.news/4fISnd7 📸 Jules Hotz
Two children among eight Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/two-children-among-eight-palestinians-killed-overnight-israeli-strikes
Two children among eight Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza
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middleeasteye.net
Join us for another collaborative edit‑a‑thon as we work together to update and expand the Oakland Wiki, a community-driven resource for all things local. This session will take a deeper look at analog research materials in the Magazines & Newspapers Department. Details ➡️ https://bit.ly/4vYa8ew
The school year is around the corner. If you work for BUSD, now is a good time to see whether this #berkeley affordable housing opportunity could work for your household. Applications close Aug. 12.
BUSD staff, others: Apply for affordable housing by Aug 12 | City of Berkeley
110 new affordable units available in Berkeley to BUSD employees and others. Apply for waitlist lottery by 5:00 PM on August 12, 2026. Berkeley Unified School District employees as well as others with low or moderate incomes have until August 12 to apply for a waitlist lottery for 110 new affordable apartments in Berkeley.You’ll have to earn at least double the monthly rent, while also not making more than the maximums for the different income levels. The size of your household is also considered when calculating income.
berkeleyca.gov
Making a certain kind of explicitly right-wing Jewish Studies a carveout to the general assault on the humanities is not ultimately good for Jews or Jewish Studies as an academic discipline. It makes us court Jews, only able to study and teach at the whims of the rulers, and easy scapegoats.
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
futurism.com
So much gratitude to the organizers still pushing back on the concentration camp/warehouses.
Next SF Airport Commission meeting is 8/25, 9am, City Hall Rm. 400. Let them know you want them to rein in ICE at SFO: www.flysfo.com/sites/defaul...
Home [Unofficial]@missionlocal.org.web.brid.gy · 5d ago
"But boycotts don't work..." *stern history voice* The boycott in Ireland that gave the tactic its name was so wildly successful the UK had to send in the literal army and was so terrified at how fast it was spreading that they conceded most of the peasants' demands by the next year. Grow a spine.
Charles Boycott - Wikipedia
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Quit the NYT! There are other great online games: a thread.
mady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️@mady.cat · 6d agoIn other words, NYT is increasingly becoming a gaming and recipe company, with revenue from that business helping subsidize the higher costs of their journalism (which has been weaponized in favor of trans genocide). They depend on liberals not caring enough to boycott them.
🧵 Who's profiting from the imprisonment of children at the Dilley ICE Camp? #1 is of course CoreCivic, which expects to generate $180M in revenue annually running the facility. 1/4
Joaquin Castro@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · last wk.112 children are imprisoned at Dilley. The youngest child imprisoned at Dilley is 2 months old. None have committed any crime. Private investors make money for each new child taken into Dilley. We need to #ShutDownDilley and end family detention.
When straight, cis people say "don't shove your lifestyle down my throat" what they mean is "pretend you too are cis and straight around me and don't exist in public."
Yes Senator @adamschiff.com - sign on now-and work on this! Protect our neighbors
Most plastic items are too small for recyclers to bother sorting and processing, or they're assembled in such a way that it's less expensive to just make new plastic. In fact, only 5% of Americans’ plastic finds new life. (Published Aug. 2024)
When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable? When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means.
Companies whose futures depend on plastic production are trying to persuade the federal government to allow them to put the label “recyclable” on plastic shopping bags and other items virtually guaran...
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Just emailed Adam Schiff. Not sure why people think Ossoff is cool...he hasn't actually opposed the Trump admin on this or most issues.
Alyssa S.@drsepinwall.bsky.social · last wk.THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS & we can still stop it. Please call your Senator NOW & ask that they sign onto S.4814 & extend TPS for Haitians for 3 years. This will be a catastrophe for our neighbors who have been here legally!! Here's the call script! drive.google.com/file/d/1XXEs...
Trump's illegal war with Iran continues. A war launched on a whim. A war in violation of the US Constitution, the UN Charter, the War Powers Resolution, and the US Congress's recently reaffirmed will.
🧵 20 years since the passing of Nicola Ziadeh, one of the foremost Palestinian historians, educators, and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Through decades of scholarship and teaching, he helped shape the study of Arab and Palestinian history across the region: palquest.org/en/biography...
Nicola Ziadeh - Scholars and Historians (1907 - 2006)
Biography - Nicola Ziadeh was born in Damascus, where his father worked as an assistant engineer on the Hijaz Railway. His father was Abduh Ziadeh from Nazareth...
palquest.org
Diana Ledesma alleges forced pregnancy tests, a potential infectious disease outbreak, and human-sized cages during her nearly four-month imprisonment at the San Diego facility. The full story: lataco.com/otay-mesa-de... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
Breaking news from Tuesday night in Gaza, continued... 🚨 20:00 - Palinfo - People were wounded after a violent Israeli raid destroyed Al-Mutqin mosque near Yarmouk Stadium, after the occupation threatened to evacuate a number of adjacent areas. (part 2 of 2) #Gaza #TheyLiedToYou
🧵🧵There are a bunch of lessons from India’s Cockroach Janata protest movement, which in a matter of weeks brought an increasingly authoritarian prime minister to heel and achieved real gains from a govt that’s been largely immune to forces of accountability. Here are a few off the top of my head🧵
