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Very senior PLC lead at a Model PLC school. Disruptor, deconstructor of systems that need it, ELA teacher ~30 years, now taking on teaching ethnic studies as a resident of the reddest of the red California counties, bibliophile, listener, thinker...
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I'd love to call this wrong, but this is exactly the cycle with punk***wannabebrownshirts in a classroom previously protected by the DOE.

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You kan not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys meant to make a profit. Educacioun ys meant to make the future. A businesse ys meant to serve customers. Educacioun ys meant to empower citizens.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

“Procurement capture” www.anildash.com//2025/01/04/...

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this

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 7 days ago • 186 comments

Salix (commonly called pussy-willow) buds popping out with spring all over in two looks: soft sulky will kill you later, and fuzzy green, pollen-claws out will kill you now. 📷🌿

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This administration is a daily DDOS on our brains and attention.

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

February 12, 2025

submitted 10 days ago • 82 comments

Is everything terrible right now? Pretty much. But if you try to focus on all of it, you will not be able to function. So do what you can to make the world a better place to exist in- in the ways that you can & forgive yourself for what you can't. Doing something is always better than doing nothing.

submitted 25 days ago • 33 comments

And you will learn that they see the Real Bird Lens and vanish with a high-pitched squick!!!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This is a weekend appreciation post. My beloved and I went to where no one else wandered and breathed very cold air and risked our cameras in the mist. It was lovely and refreshed my soul.📷

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Not just keep them stupid, but empower them to run amok and reestablish the norms of pre Brown v Board of Ed by mob rule

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

submitted 17 days ago • 145 comments

IDK but the world has to pick 1: counsel students not to panic about ICE raids where they have family, teach students not to drive into water deep enough to drown them, or discuss real future plans other than their complete and total conviction that they will just make a living internet gambling

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Please don’t act shocked or surprised. He TOLD us that was on his agenda

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

I really don’t think it’s happenstance that pretty much every remaining institutional safeguard broke down within 15 years of Citizens United

submitted 21 days ago • 257 comments

Friday was .....baaaaaad. New rule: I should not go to school when I want to scream about book bans. The children do not deserve that version of me.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Another thing re antidotes... the people you love, who you value... be in the moment with them. Not distracted, not on your phone, but fully present. Open to them. So you can see them and be seen. This feels even more important right now.

submitted 22 days ago • 10 comments

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

submitted 22 days ago • 94 comments

Research shows that spending a lot of time on social media—especially during periods of constant bad news— accelerates decision fatigue as well as increases the likelihood of anxiety, depression, and difficulty falling asleep. Make sure to plan offline activities, like a walk or reading a book.

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

Whhoooooboy....that would have been so much easier 9 days ago!

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 Even numbed, keep your back to a wall. Teachers are about to see a level of empowered ignorance and hate that will prove dangerous to careers and communities. Brace yourself for PB and MAGA children to rise up in the room when you least expect it, and don't let it endanger your actual life!

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

A day like today calls for tiny Sammy in a tiny corgi sploot

submitted 25 days ago • 121 comments

This is actually a fascinating window into CA. His general idea—ship water to southern CA—would drain water from the Central Valley (the most conservative part of the state). His stated goal, more water for LA, would benefit one of the bluest parts of the state….

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

If you see this, quote post with flowers from your gallery 🌿 #nativeplants

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no. - Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

So....does primal scream therapy sound good right after lunch to everyone else, too? I've gotta stop surfing news while I eat!

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Stopped in the wild woods for a bathroom break. These little jewels were peeking up at me. No idea what might have made just some leaves so bright, but I've decided they are my new style role model. I shall exist in a bright fashion against the background of whatever harshness I encounter.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Probably why I woke up at oh, dark o'clock, having a nightmare that my daughter and I were being pursued by a mountain lion that would not quit in a space where we had no way to protect ourselves.

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