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nochbaya.bsky.social
Shrieking about education law and policy since 1992. Former Mormon, prison teacher and foster parent (not concurrently). It’s a great time to be allergic to eggs. 🏳️‍🌈
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To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

NO KINGS is extremely effective because it’s simple, an extremely widely held belief, and gets right to the core of Trump’s assault without having to use words lots of people don’t understand

Boldog vagyok hogy ez a bölcs tanács jön egy magyartól (talán magyar-amerikai de mindegy)

There is no more quiet part.

Dear Manager, today I: 1. Heard the song of a bird 2. Looked at the blue, blue sky 3. Felt the rain on my face, and the wind as it rushed by 4. Touched a velvet rose 5. Walked by a lilac tree Please let me know if you have any questions or if I can help in any other way. Sincerely

I’m positive you all saw the video from Coeur d’Alene, where a woman was pulled out of her seat and arrested by men who claimed to be sheriff deputies, but were not in uniform. I need the men to do something: When you see a woman being abused, step in. Step up. Get in the way. Put your body to use.

I’ve been working my way through the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Banned Books List since 2011, but I realized that many of the top 10 banned books from 2023 are ones I hadn’t heard of! So yesterday when we were doing a show at the comic shop I bought Genderqueer by @redgoldsparks.bsky.social ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Absolutely

I think it would make a big difference in our health if we banned Pharma ads from America like the rest of the world does.

FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics

All this bullshit immediately crumbles when it's presented to anyone who's not a sympathetic cohost on your podcast

Yes, you did label people when your were younger too… Just instead of Autism/ADHD/etc., they were labelled “disruptive”, “stupid”, “difficult”, “problems”, and all sorts of slurs (even more than they are today).

This is incredibly dangerous—which is, of course, the intention.

Today at work we spent over an hour researching why so many teenagers are shackled without cause during juvenile hearings. Anyway if anyone wants to buy these kids some books that would be cool. Any books are allowed! Even the DEI ones.

Dammit Mark I voted for you (I’m pretty sure I did right before we moved) (Regardless I’m mad — he’s not a Synema level traitor YET but I got my eye on u Kelly)

I have a demonstrative, borderline fawning way of interacting with people that’s often mistaken for flirting. Mormons did NOT care for it, especially when I was a missionary. Part of deconstruction for me was accepting that being genial wasn’t obscene. I’m just a lil sweetie and that’s okay 🥰

You gotta be fucking shitting me with these pansy ass cowards

Buying Hooters to turn it into the world's first pay-what-you-can food pantry with virulently sexual undertones.

Wow way to fuck over disabled Americans, rural Americans, immunocompromised Americans, Americans who rely on inconsistent public transit, Americans who live in dangerously hot or cold climates, Americans who are full time caregivers, and and and

Guys...

NEW: The Education Department is “lifting the pause” on investigating civil rights complaints in schools — but only for disability cases. Race and gender investigations largely are still sitting idle. (Exceptions are the few priority cases such as one re: an all-gender bathroom in Denver)

Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

Spineless, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, weak-kneed, pusillanimous chickenshits.

My union fucking rules

Kids These Days pedagogy edition

I feel compelled to share that if you’re ever trying to cut matted hair off of a kitty, don’t just put scissors directly under the mat. They have thin skin and you might cut them. Take a flea comb, put it underneath the mat and then snip the mat above the flea comb. Thank you, and God bless America.

A movie you’ve watched more than 6 times

GOP: "The Revolutionary War was fought against King George, whose taxes hampered freedom. Not against kings." Democrats: "Just because he's wearing a robe and a crown doesn't mean he meant this literally. Everybody calm down and send us twenty dollars" newspapers: "What did he mean by 'king'?"

Iowa Citizen Action Network is collecting human impact stories from those impacted by DOGE and the choices of the current administration.

I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?

It’s not a metaphor it’s not a metaphor it’s not a metaphor