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If you think fertilized eggs have rights but 2-year-old US citizens with cancer don’t, stop pretending your concerns are “the children.”

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This is a point that I've failed to verbalize effectively. Forced and so ever quickly. #TLsky #EduSky

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Closing out a 504 plan for a kid who was banging their head on desks a couple years ago before accommodations and now is “possibly the strongest participant” in AP Lit? Amazing when interventions and support are given and work😤✨ Can we please keep the DOE so more autistic kids can thrive?

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Saw an excellent heron today

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"To that end, I have twenty questions for Mr. Rubio, and I encourage all reporters covering him and the State Department to be candid in seeking clarification on what constitutes 'anti-Christian bias' under his new policy..." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/questions-...

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MORE more MORE more! Oregon Governor Says… 💙NOPE💙 🇺🇸WE WILL NOT COMPLY🇺🇸 WE ARE NOT GOING BACK

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Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.

submitted 17 days ago • 1531 comments

Imagine how deeply pathetic your life has to be to cheer for canceled library funding. We might be hurting right now, but at least we aren't them.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Time to check in on social media for my little hit of dopamine.... what??? All cortisol???? Again??!?!

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

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submitted 18 days ago • 297 comments

TL;DR: The new U.S. tariff rate against our two largest trading partners is either 10%, 25% or 35%, and so far no one I've reached out to at the White House is able to tell me which.

submitted 18 days ago • 195 comments

At a mandatory Title IX staff training and he opens with “you may already know this but it looks like we’re going to be folded into the Department of Agriculture.”

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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

submitted 20 days ago • 528 comments

As I find myself saying with depressing frequency these days, what the actual fuck?

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You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

submitted 21 days ago • 845 comments

Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top. #HandsOff2025

submitted 22 days ago • 1026 comments

Trillium Festival and Hands Off protest. Excellent Saturday.

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THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.

submitted 25 days ago • 299 comments

People gonna be trying to pay rent with their hatred of pronouns.

submitted 25 days ago • 87 comments

After getting some rest, I am in awe of everyone who continues to lift their voice and speak out. This is a moment for our country, and we must make a choice about the America we want to be.

submitted 25 days ago • 4422 comments

I want to sincerely thank every single one of my Senate Democratic colleagues who came to the floor, not to just support me, but to share incredibly powerful stories and ask important questions their constituents want answers to.

submitted 25 days ago • 1876 comments

Here are some nice mushrooms

submitted 25 days ago • 277 comments

SO, does anyone know any Portland, OR area Spanish or bilingual children's authors I could contact about a school visit? #librarians #Skybrarians #TLSky

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Danielle Schwessinger receives AASL Innovative Reading Grant: bit.ly/AASLschwessi...

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thought kids were supposed to love nursery rhymes but i can't get mine interested at all... any recommendations? (already tried cursory and bursary)

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

please don’t text me war plans, because I’m actually at capacity right now and I don’t think I can hold appropriate space for you. do you have someone else you could reach out to?

submitted 34 days ago • 153 comments

Today my library had a mouse running around, a 2nd grader who puked on the carpet, a recent immigrant from Vietnam using Google Translate to tell me he likes being in the library, and a different 2nd grader checking out “Stacy’s Big Words” because “she looks like me!” A win?

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Sandal would love to hear your work stories. he will not make comparisons to his own experiences. he will not make suggestions on how to fix your problems. he will act very offended on your behalf when you talk about your jerk coworkers. indeed, he will seem even more enraged than you are.

submitted 39 days ago • 182 comments

Totally normal to be getting “they’re cutting IMLS!” SOS’s from the library world and “they’re gutting the dept of Ed!” ones from the teaching world. Only good moment online is when I accidentally sent a mildly saucy message to my husband in the family chat and horrified our teen.

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Found a way to push on the shelf so it makes a cool thump sound over and over. Then someone moved it so the thumps don’t work :(

submitted 40 days ago • 109 comments

My "We do not support eugenics" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

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The strength to publicly admit to being wrong, to listening and learning, should be celebrated

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5 Years Today. Breonna Taylor Gone too soon 3/13/2020 #BlackLivesMatter

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The purple connections is obvious to those of a certain age. (Me. I even knew the year.)

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"Time to clean up the Uno game," I inform a group of 3rd graders. The one who speaks very little English immediately hands me an Uno reverse card. "You clean, teacher." LOLOL #TLSky #EduSky

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Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

submitted 51 days ago • 812 comments

There’s a nonprofit in my town called Schoolhouse Supplies. For the last 25 years they’ve solicited donations of school supplies. Teachers in 3 of the area’s poorer districts can swing by monthly and “shop” for free. Just got pencils, folders, tape, glue, crayons, & 50 books. ❤️

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

This photograph is perfection! Credit: Mervyn Sequeira from Ontario #OhCanada

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