Clover88
@clover88.bsky.social
Voracious reader, retired teacher-librarian, literacy PhD, teacher-consultant of UCDHSSP & GVWP. Interests/Actions: teaching info/media literacy, community activist working for racial, gender and economic equity.
Got into the market at 8:00 with my list and left, finished, at 8:15. Now I’m sitting outside in the sun drinking coffee. Feeling smug.
I forgot something, didn’t I?
I forgot something, didn’t I?
November 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Got into the market at 8:00 with my list and left, finished, at 8:15. Now I’m sitting outside in the sun drinking coffee. Feeling smug.
I forgot something, didn’t I?
I forgot something, didn’t I?
Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday, my wallet's ignoring Target, Home Depot, & Amazon. I'm tired of corporations enabling this administration ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, & chase tax breaks. Join me! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 app.sosha.ai/s/gC4YGTVe
We Ain't Buying It - Target, Home Depot & Amazon
app.sosha.ai
November 18, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday, my wallet's ignoring Target, Home Depot, & Amazon. I'm tired of corporations enabling this administration ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, & chase tax breaks. Join me! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 app.sosha.ai/s/gC4YGTVe
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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If Russell Vought wants a progress report on how his federal worker “trauma strategy” is performing, Virginia, who has the 2nd largest federal workforce, flipped 13 seats blue yesterday.
November 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
If Russell Vought wants a progress report on how his federal worker “trauma strategy” is performing, Virginia, who has the 2nd largest federal workforce, flipped 13 seats blue yesterday.
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If you're having events over the next couple of months in NYC and you'd be open to having some members of @nycplan.org table at the event, please reach out. We want more people in NYC to know about our demand to increase public library funding. Email info@nycplan.org if you are interested.
October 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
If you're having events over the next couple of months in NYC and you'd be open to having some members of @nycplan.org table at the event, please reach out. We want more people in NYC to know about our demand to increase public library funding. Email info@nycplan.org if you are interested.
Visited about 10 artists’ studios at #openstudio in #santacruz. People persisting in making beauty and sharing their processes and spaces with us: awe inspiring.
October 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Visited about 10 artists’ studios at #openstudio in #santacruz. People persisting in making beauty and sharing their processes and spaces with us: awe inspiring.
“I never thought federal officers could behave this way. I really didn’t,” she said. “I always thought people must be provoking them or something, that they would never do this unprovoked. Obviously, I was wrong.”
I think this is an important read. This could be my own parents - NOT 'antifa,' NOT aggro. Just a couple octogenarians, one a Vietnam vet, who are concerned about the state of our country.
Will they be the next brutalized by our own forces in their small Oregon town?
SHOCKING. OUTRAGEOUS.
Will they be the next brutalized by our own forces in their small Oregon town?
SHOCKING. OUTRAGEOUS.
An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.
October 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
“I never thought federal officers could behave this way. I really didn’t,” she said. “I always thought people must be provoking them or something, that they would never do this unprovoked. Obviously, I was wrong.”
I helped provide security at a local LGBTQIA2S+ conference for youth from 6-18 and their friends ups. Amazing experience seeing young people in such safety, peace, and joy.
September 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I helped provide security at a local LGBTQIA2S+ conference for youth from 6-18 and their friends ups. Amazing experience seeing young people in such safety, peace, and joy.
Deportation Data Project www.law.berkeley.edu/article/voic...
‘Voices Carry’ podcast: Professor David Hausman’s Deportation Data Project pulls the curtain back on immigration enforcement
Host Gwyneth Shaw talks to Hausman about the grant-funded project, which is the first centralized repository of individual-level U.S. government immigration enforcement data.
www.law.berkeley.edu
September 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Deportation Data Project www.law.berkeley.edu/article/voic...
@emilyinyourphone.bsky.social said it best: “Shutdown brinkmanship is one of my least favorite parts of modern politics, a manufactured crisis amongst people who are incapable of doing the bare minimum of their jobs, which is to make the government run.”
September 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
@emilyinyourphone.bsky.social said it best: “Shutdown brinkmanship is one of my least favorite parts of modern politics, a manufactured crisis amongst people who are incapable of doing the bare minimum of their jobs, which is to make the government run.”
Great writing! What Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson Knows About Pain www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/m...
What Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson Knows About Pain
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Great writing! What Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson Knows About Pain www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/m...
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NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable.
This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed.
From me for @rollingstone.com:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed.
From me for @rollingstone.com:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.
www.rollingstone.com
September 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable.
This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed.
From me for @rollingstone.com:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed.
From me for @rollingstone.com:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Saw a (juvenile?) bobcat cross a path 150 ft in front of me at #SycamoreGrovePark in #Livermore this morning. 😳
September 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Saw a (juvenile?) bobcat cross a path 150 ft in front of me at #SycamoreGrovePark in #Livermore this morning. 😳
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Cremin, T., & Scholes, L. (2024). Reading for pleasure: scrutinising the evidence base – benefits, tensions and recommendations. Language and Education, 38(4), 537–559. doi.org/10.1080/0950...
Reading for pleasure: scrutinising the evidence base – benefits, tensions and recommendations
Compelling international evidence illustrates the potential of reading for pleasure for enhancing student reading achievement along with other learning and wellbeing outcomes. Yet profound challeng...
doi.org
September 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Cremin, T., & Scholes, L. (2024). Reading for pleasure: scrutinising the evidence base – benefits, tensions and recommendations. Language and Education, 38(4), 537–559. doi.org/10.1080/0950...
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Shoutout to libraries for keeping fiction and non-fiction separate, that is not easy to do these days
September 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Shoutout to libraries for keeping fiction and non-fiction separate, that is not easy to do these days
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The only reason you assassinate every Al Jazeera journalist left in Gaza is because you don’t want anyone to document the genocide you are about to accelerate.
Any politician and any journalist who cannot call this genocide for what it is, is complicit, and I hope history remembers you as such.
Any politician and any journalist who cannot call this genocide for what it is, is complicit, and I hope history remembers you as such.
August 11, 2025 at 5:11 AM
The only reason you assassinate every Al Jazeera journalist left in Gaza is because you don’t want anyone to document the genocide you are about to accelerate.
Any politician and any journalist who cannot call this genocide for what it is, is complicit, and I hope history remembers you as such.
Any politician and any journalist who cannot call this genocide for what it is, is complicit, and I hope history remembers you as such.
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ICYMI
Norway's greenhouse gas emissions in 2024
A detailed look at Norway's greenhouse gas emissions in 2024.
robbieandrew.github.io
August 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
ICYMI
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apnews.com/article/tesl...
Tesla stock is not a good investment for California teachers' and public employees' pension funds. Tell CalSTRS and CalPERS to sell TSLA:
wonderl.ink/@divest-tesla
Tesla stock is not a good investment for California teachers' and public employees' pension funds. Tell CalSTRS and CalPERS to sell TSLA:
wonderl.ink/@divest-tesla
Tesla's monthly sales in Europe plunge by half, signaling backlash against Musk runs deep
Tesla sales across Europe plunged by half last month even as growth in the electric car market picked up pace. That's according to fresh data released Tuesday.
apnews.com
May 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
apnews.com/article/tesl...
Tesla stock is not a good investment for California teachers' and public employees' pension funds. Tell CalSTRS and CalPERS to sell TSLA:
wonderl.ink/@divest-tesla
Tesla stock is not a good investment for California teachers' and public employees' pension funds. Tell CalSTRS and CalPERS to sell TSLA:
wonderl.ink/@divest-tesla
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Going to a #TeslaTakedown picket in California?
Spread the word about statewide teachers' and public employees' pension fund's billion-dollar investments in Tesla stock. Tell them to sell TSLA:
Spread the word about statewide teachers' and public employees' pension fund's billion-dollar investments in Tesla stock. Tell them to sell TSLA:
#TeslaTakedown #DIvestTesla #SellTSLA
Tell our pension funds #CalPERS and #CalSTRS to divest from Tesla (symbol TSLA) stock.
CalPERS Board meeting Mon., June 16, Sacramento.
CalSTRS Board meeting Wed., July 9, San Diego.
More info and links to what you can do to help:
wonderl.ink/@divest-tesla
Tell our pension funds #CalPERS and #CalSTRS to divest from Tesla (symbol TSLA) stock.
CalPERS Board meeting Mon., June 16, Sacramento.
CalSTRS Board meeting Wed., July 9, San Diego.
More info and links to what you can do to help:
wonderl.ink/@divest-tesla
May 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Going to a #TeslaTakedown picket in California?
Spread the word about statewide teachers' and public employees' pension fund's billion-dollar investments in Tesla stock. Tell them to sell TSLA:
Spread the word about statewide teachers' and public employees' pension fund's billion-dollar investments in Tesla stock. Tell them to sell TSLA:
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This must’ve affected the price… nope, meme stock, no change www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Swedish pension fund AP7 blacklists Tesla, has sold entire stake
Swedish pension fund AP7 said on Friday it has blacklisted and sold all its shares in U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla , citing violations of union rights in the United States.
www.reuters.com
June 14, 2025 at 3:18 AM
This must’ve affected the price… nope, meme stock, no change www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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July 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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"Immigrants contributed to the eventual industrial and scientific dominance of the United States. In virtually every sector, immigrants brought both the high-skilled innovations to elevate the United States’ economy and the low-skilled labor to realize those innovations."
Imagining America Without Immigrants - Dame Magazine
Daniel was not where he wanted to be. The Honduran man in his mid-40s had traveled more than 2,000 grueling miles before coming to a halt in Tijuana, somehow both closer and further from his goal than...
www.damemagazine.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
"Immigrants contributed to the eventual industrial and scientific dominance of the United States. In virtually every sector, immigrants brought both the high-skilled innovations to elevate the United States’ economy and the low-skilled labor to realize those innovations."
