Iron Librarian
@ironlibrarian.bsky.social
School Librarian CTU WOSO Chicago ‘24-‘25 Fellow University of California Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement
Former Canada Prime Minister Jean Chrétien: "I have message for American friends...never mistake our generosity for weakness. Never mistake our tolerance for lack of determination. And never, never mistake our kindness for softness...We bow to no one."
For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...
Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland Signal
Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1...
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the “practice having no fear” mural of alex pretti on nicollet ave in minneapolis is finished, just a few blocks north of where he was killed by border patrol during operation metro surge. the inclusion of a medicine wheel makes me wonder if a native artist did this, couldn’t find a signature
taylr@taylordahlin.com · 5mo agonew mural going up on nicollet ave in whittier, minneapolis depicting alex pretti filming federal agents with his phone during operation metro surge before he was shot and killed, just 4 blocks south of here
Midcentury American hotel letterheads, gleaned from the papers of actress/author Ilka Chase.
youtube.com/shorts/hH3Ln... #USDemocracy #ProudBlue Just like clockwork every time Republicans have a big event, GRINDR usage soars causing stress outages on the Gay Hookup site Republicans love to hook up with other closeted MAGA’s wherever they meet Hypocrites to their very core
Grindr Outages Reported in Dallas as Republican Convention Kicks Off
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TODAY: We often get requests for how to get involved in the work LPL is doing. We are finally re-opening our volunteers process up. Let's meet-up on Discord on Sept 8th and talk.
11yo: “Bro [the president) is doing evil side quests at this point.”
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d agothis is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
The tee shirt I designed for the paper doll was modeled on the cover of the feminist anthology edited by the late Robin Morgan.
Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 6d agoRobin Morgan was the editor of the groundbreaking 1970 feminist anthology “Sisterhood is Powerful.” She went on to become the editor in chief of Ms. Magazine and was a co-founder of the Women’s Media Center with Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisterh...
No charges for shooting Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis. Charges for lying to the FBI about it.
ICE officer charged with lying to investigators in the shooting of Venezuelan man, AP source says
Federal prosecutors are charging a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer with lying to investigators about the events leading up to the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Minneapolis i...
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BTW this was something I wrote to a press outlet in April during the Mythos hype. I'm realizing more & more the trap of constantly having to spend the time debunking this stuff. We spend time on that instead of implementing our visions, while they implement their dystopian tech futures.🧵
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 4w ago“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
The list of schools 12News had to sue to obtain makes clear: vouchers are forcing tithing for taxpayers. Religious institutions are the primary beneficiaries of $1 billion as "Arizona ranks near last in public school funding."
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Absolutely astounding how people will look me in the eye and detail the supremely mundane ways in which they use genAI while professing that “it’s not going anywhere“ as though they have no individual will whatsoever.
BREAKING: Devastating new report from @humanrightswatch documents the dismantling of civil rights enforcement in the year and a half since Trump took office. “This report documents what was lost and what it is costing the victims of discrimination.” www.hrw.org/report/2026/...
Remedies Abandoned
The 112-page report, “Remedies Abandoned: US Civil Rights Enforcement Under the Trump Administration,” documents the administration’s efforts to unravel the work of four key agencies between January 2...
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Last week, we spoke to the Chicago Board of Ed about the Pledge to Protect Human-Centered Education, which 13 of 21 sitting board members have now committed to as well as issues with CPS compliance with the transparency requirements of the Student Online Personal Protection Act. Full statements 👇
Comments at the Aug. 27th Chicago Board of Education meeting
Taking action for the public good
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A piece that gobbles up industry talking points and completely ignores the growing backlash to both AI and edtech overuse generally. The one blaring truth: AI means more, not less, work for teachers where you capitulate to it or not.
Schools adopting AI could see benefits (and more work)
Schools are shifting the "show your work" model to AI assignments.
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I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI. I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet
Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...
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Today in It’s Ray Bradbury’s World and We Just Live In It: Those shock gloves they’re buying are also sold for “officer safety.” ICE should be renamed DARVO (deny, accuse, reverse victim and offender)
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2w agoNew: ICE plans to spend millions of dollars on Boston Dynamics dog robots. ICE says this is to improve "officer safety." The robots can open doors, pick up objects, have 360 cameras, infrared vision, etc. Boston Dynamics didn't respond to question on its stance on ICE www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
“Mirror entities are never friends. They come to replace you.”
Your Reflection Is Not You
On mirrors, magic, and obsession
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Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥
“The majority of Americans are open to living car-free even after decades of car-centric planning, a new survey finds…A stunning 18% of car-owning U.S. residents indicated that they were ‘strongly interested’ in living car-free, and another 40% said that they were ‘open’ to it.” @usa.streetsblog.org
Survey: Most Americans Are Open To Ditching Their Cars — Streetsblog USA
Automakers have spent a century and countless trillions of dollars making car-dependent living the American norm. But U.S. resident still aren't sold, a new survey suggests.
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DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive Chicago apartment raid was prompted by intel on a Venezuelan gang takeover. Records reveal the real story behind the raid: targeting alleged squatters with the landlord’s blessing. 👂 Listen to the full episode:
The True Story of Why Immigration Agents Raided a Chicago Apartment Building
Podcast Episode · Paper Trail · August 20 · 42m
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Competitive pay is necessary to attract and retain qualified teachers. Reversing these trends will require targeted, sustained investment in public education at the local, state, and federal levels.
The teacher pay penalty remained high in 2025: Teachers and students nationwide are still paying the price of decades of neglect
Key takeaways: In 2025, the teacher pay penalty stood at an estimated 25.2%—meaning teachers earned about a quarter less than comparable college graduates in other professions. That's a slight improve...
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Teachers were paid less than other college graduates in every state, with relative teacher pay gaps ranging from 10.4% in Rhode Island to 40.7% in Colorado. 👉 The teacher pay penalty was at least 25% in 25 states. Visit the report for an interactive map (Figure D) to see your state's gap. 3/4
👉 Teacher pay has fallen further and further behind. After accounting for inflation, public school teachers' weekly wages FELL 6.2% over the past three decades, while wages for other college graduates rose 28.8% over the same period. 2/4
