@theedcollab.bsky.social ‘s #SpringGathering2026 is filled with hope but did not come to play.

This Teacher Appreciation Week, stand alongside educators across the country who are demanding better. #theedcollab #teacherappreciationweek

Today! Join us at 10AM EST / 7AM PST as our 25th Gathering kicks off with @ichrislehman.bsky.social and an Opening Keynote by @sjeducate.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/ISDZ5Ph...

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Spring 2026 Gathering: Opening Keynote

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Online, Sat, May 2 Opening Keynote, Dr. Sawsan Jaber! @sjeducate.bsky.social She is a multi-award-winning educator, best selling author, community activist, and consultant. Her tireless fight for freedom of speech, civil rights, and equity for all serves as an invaluable example.

Doesn’t matter if is 62 million or 1. If you fantasize, post about, talk about, plan, or actually assa*ult women, or anyone, you are not a man. You are a predator. Get help.

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

The UnPopulist@theunpopulist.net · 4mo ago

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

Awesome filing taxes seeing in real time what horrific violence, greed, and utter stupidity my contribution is funding. We could and should be building.

lawyer randos are just walking into federal court and racking up Ws against the federal government lol gj everyone

Daniel Suitor@danielsuitor.com · 6mo ago

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

electric dulcimer?!?

Republicans in the Michigan House voted to cancel $8.3 million of funding for programs aimed at supporting Flint water crisis victims The cuts affect support services for Flint students, including psychologists, nurses, social workers, and counselors

Michigan House blocks funding for Flint water crisis programs

Republicans in the Michigan House voted to cancel $8.3 million of funding for programs aimed at supporting Flint water crisis victims and potentially the RxKids expansion.

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It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

So… this is happening. 🥹 #NCTE2025 ncte.org/awards/richa...

Ah yes, the ‘ol accidentally sitting down on the subway right near puke trick.

I am so incense at @schumer.senate.gov’s lack of leadership. Record public sentiment in favor of Dems not even one week ago and he can’t hold the Senate caucus together. He just nullified the fight and risk the House Democratic caucus has undertaken AND sold out the American public’s healthcare.

We sold out 2 tamale vendors, bought out 2 more vendors, and absolutely swarmed a family owned bakery. It was a good day with some the very best of #BikeChi 🥰 for the 4th installment of the Street Vendor Bike Tour. We persist. ✊🏽

SideStreets@sidestreets.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Lovely fall ride with CyclingxSolidarity and @sharrows.bsky.social to get some street treats.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

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Wow, really appreciate this deep reporting on how Equifax stands to reap considerable gains under Medicaid work requirements — including some new visibility into "prices per ping" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/h...

Speaker Johnson is putting House in recess for another week IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SHUTDOWN. Instead of GOP members returning on Tuesday, they now won’t come back until after 10/19.

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

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🧵 In 2025, book censorship in the United States is rampant and common. Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country. Read our new report "The Normalization of Book Banning" at: pen.org/report/the-n...

If you're a government employee and you want to talk, you can reach me at Vittoria89.82 on Signal. We can speak anonymously.

Vittoria Elliott@telliotter.bsky.social · 11mo ago

NEW! Dept of Education workers say their OOO replies were forcibly changed to blame Democrats for shutdown. When employees changed their responses back to the more neutral language, it changed yet again to the partisan response. @wired.com @leahfeiger.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/govern...

Dr. Goodall was speaking in defense of climate justice and peace until the very end. Grateful we lived in the same time as her. She inspired millions to see intelligence and grace in the animal kingdom and how interlocked humans are with nature. We must fight on. Rest in Power Dr. Goodall.

Adams dropping out of a race he had no chance of winning so he can make Trump happy perfectly sums up what it was like to have him as mayor.

I wonder what it's like to be as shameless as Eric Adams. Just going through life openly being a corrupt piece-of-shit. Truly a wonder to behold.

Indeed. LLMs are LLMs. Machine learning is machine learning. AIs are Astro Boy, Robby the Robot, Cmdr Data, the Ghost in the Shell Puppet Master, etc. I will not use the term for anything less. Don’t feed the hype machine. Don’t call it AI.

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 11mo ago

There is absolutely no good faith reason to use the term “AI” for any technology one is selling. It serves only for dazzling people into thinking the technology has capabilities that it doesn’t. If one wants a technology to be trustworthy, just use a transparent, informative term without hype.

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

South Bay Queer Solidarity@sbqsolidarity.bsky.social · 11mo ago

A huge win for trans people in California: the state legislature passed five bills protecting our rights! Now it's time to call on Governor Gavin Newsom to sign them. Contact him before October 12th: transfamilysos.org/action-neede... #TransRights #TransYouth #TransCalifornia