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celiaoyler.bsky.social
Life long reader of dystopian fiction and antiracist & ant-fascist history and memoir; still not prepared for this moment. Retired teacher educator: from segregated special ed to Rethinking Schools orientation. Dyke. Widow. Anti-imperialist.
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My America!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

OMG Sarah Cooper is brilliant www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cJ1...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Unquestionably, major policy changes, edicts and directives handed down by the new Trump administration will upend lives. But I've also been struck by the widespread efforts to erase/whitewash history. Stick with me for a pretty shocking series of events from just the past few weeks.

submitted 18 days ago • 79 comments

ICYMI — ICE protests across 🇺🇸

submitted 24 days ago • 36 comments

It’s Black History Month! Teach Black resistance and Black existence. Go to linktr.ee/sonjacherrypaul for the free educator’s guide for Revolution In Our Time and for the full interview with @keklamagoon.bsky.social.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency. (Photos shared with me)

submitted 23 days ago • 383 comments

A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

submitted 23 days ago • 2483 comments

They're here to enter the building! Join me while we watch: www.youtube.com/live/stI7ZIb...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.

submitted 29 days ago • 2072 comments

Read, share, act.

submitted 29 days ago • 38 comments

This is such a helpful piece!

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I have the wild hope that beings from elsewhere have received the signal that humans are on a path to planetary descent so are now sending scouting missions to help humans abandon capitalism and tribalism and expansionism and build a world based on climate and economic and racial justice!

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Educators: This piece by Teachers College grad Cara Furman about why we should not be guided by fidelity to publishers' curriculum is so spot on!

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

It’s still stunning me that this is where we are….I have read dystopian and speculative fiction all my life, and here we are living #OctaviaButler’s imagination (and prescience).

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Small acts matter! At my retirement party from teaching, many people thanked me for helping them feel included and valuable. All my actions were tiny. One colleague said my laptop sticker "Keep the immigrants, deport the racists" made him feel safe with me facilitating meetings. Small acts matter!

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

All my life I have been drawn to histories of brave humans stepping up — at great personal risk — to fight for other humans’ liberty. When I saw the film The Good Fight, I looked for memoirs and narratives about the Abraham Lincoln Brigade who joined the International other anti-fascists. Heroes!

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Sanders: It is a war against the Palestinian people. 60% of those killed are children, women, and the elderly. 84% of health facilities damaged. Raw sewage running through the streets of Gaza. Every one of Gaza's 12 universities have been bombed, as have many hundreds of schools.

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment