Hey, native tall grass prairie enthusiasts 4 pm Wednesday, November 19th, Missouri Prairie Foundation Webinar 📷 🌱 Photos of Prairie Splendor with Bruce Schuette Register grownative.org/event/mpf-we...
Anita G
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Reader, writer, hopeful traveler, rescue dog Mom, coffee lover AP Lang, Dual Credit Comp 30 yr HS Eng T, Grad student in Rhetoric & Comp Read to Kids & Pets Work for Justice & Freedom
Sending (and attempting to send) Guard troops to D.C., LA, Portland, Chicago, Memphis in recent months has cost taxpayers nearly half a billion dollars so far…. theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...
Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising
Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price.
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All eyes on Missouri where Republicans are taking every opportunity to ignore voters
Bolts@boltsmag.org · 10mo agoMissouri’s referendum on minimum wage and paid sick leave last year won by a margin of 58 to 42 percent statewide. Under a proposal advanced by the GOP, it would have failed because it didn’t win more than 50 percent in every congressional district.
It's almost as if the violence against families and the fear of losing family members to illegal, warrantless raids has an impact on students and their testing. Huh.
Education Week@edweek.org · 10mo agoWhen ICE Arrests Rise, Student Test Scores Fall, New Study Suggests: The working paper focused on a Florida district where both foreign-born and U.S. born students saw test scores drop.
Let’s be clear: the hold-up isn’t on our side. This was his campaign promise—so he needs to go ahead and fulfill it. Release the files. All of them.
The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging. They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”. They raped them. Sex implies consent. The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.
Every 3 weeks or so students get a blank piece of paper returned to them that they "mindmap" their reflections on throughout the year. They get 5-7 minutes to add to it, then I take it back up until the next time. (I don't read them!) Several years into doing this, zero regrets.
the cool thing about hosting an education podcast is that you not only get to read really thoughtful books that you never would have stumbled across before—you get to talk to the incredible people who wrote them (this conversation dropping tomorrow!)
For nearly a decade, the AFT has fought for the rights of student loan borrowers to be freed from the shackles of unjust debt—and today, a huge part of that affordability fight was vindicated www.aft.org/press-releas...
Following Lawsuit by the AFT, Trump Administration Agrees to Deliver Student Debt Relief and Protect Borrowers from Tax Liability Due to Red Tape and Delays
WASHINGTON—Today, the parties in AFT v. U.S. Department of Education filed a joint status report in federal court agreeing to a series of actions that will protect borrowers enrolled in income-driven ...
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Padilla: It’s not just undocumented folks who are being detained and arrested. It’s legal immigrants—even US citizens. We know of at least 170 US citizens who have been caught up in these raids and put in detention centers. It’s the intended effect of this administration to stoke fear and terror
I recently spoke to an Arizonan who is worried about health care costs. Her name is Robin, and her story shows why we must reopen the government with a deal that stops premiums from skyrocketing in the coming months. This is what we’re fighting for. 🧵
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks. This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
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File under no s*** Sherlock?
Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 11mo agoSouth Korea pushed AI hard in schools. The national program was aborted within months, following massive pushback from students, parents and teachers, after a fortune had already been spent by both the government and education publishers restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
Patriots!!! Let’s remember what our founders signed July 4, 1776… NO KINGS!!! March peacefully brothers and sisters.
Pope Leo calls on journalists to report facts and expose disinformation. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."
TOMORROW is #NO_KINGS_DAY!!! Give me your Tired, your Poor, your Huddled Masses of Frogs, Unicorns, Pandas, T-Rexes, Mushrooms, Sharks, SpongeBobs & everyday Folks yearning to peacefully protest a clownishly incompetent buffoon of a Prez who, if there were any justice, would be in jail. 🤡 #BeThere
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…” ~Patrick Henry
More #nokingsSTL locations added, Turtle Park I-64 overpass. Also, mention of S Grand side of Tower Grove Park (I’ve seen no other details yet) … just show up at any location, some grow organically, or stand on a corner and do your own. ☂️
Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.
Georgia senators demand answers on more than a dozen deaths in immigration detention
Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.
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I had a request to share my upcoming FREE professional learning. Here are the first ones which are Asynchronous Book Studies October: AI in the Writing Workshop: Finding the Write Balance November: How to Listen and How to Be Heard January: Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters Sign Up HERE
so Tylenol supposedly causes autism, but so does MMR, despite autism predating either of them – how could this be? negativity bias! this is why when ppl consider something to be "bad" they can invent hundreds of causes w/little evidence & ppl will believe it... juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l...
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
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Gupta: It is safe. That’s what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when you’re not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.
Meanwhile, here in Maine, AI crawlers have rendered the server that manages our statewide interlibrary loan unreachable by legitimate attempts to pass through requests/information Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.
Shannon Carey@scmaestra.bsky.social · last yr.Gavin, you massive disappointment, what are you doing?? (I mean, I know what you're doing, but I need you to stop) How many educators did you talk to when you made this decision? Oh, none, you say? Ohhhh this is for presidential donations, you say? www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/07/n...