Dana Palubiak
@dlpalubiak.bsky.social
Dana at MindLink Social
Retired teacher, writer, and neurodivergent mom building tools for a better system. Here for the kids who got left behind and the parents who never stopped fighting. Substack Link-https://substack.com/@danapalubiak
Retired teacher, writer, and neurodivergent mom building tools for a better system. Here for the kids who got left behind and the parents who never stopped fighting. Substack Link-https://substack.com/@danapalubiak
Trout Pouts and Mean Girls: How Cosmetic Culture and School Culture Feed Each Other
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August 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Trout Pouts and Mean Girls: How Cosmetic Culture and School Culture Feed Each Other
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White women in schools quote Audre Lorde, sip wine, and center “equity”—until harm shows up. Then you’re the problem.
New essay: The House, the Shoutouts, and the Wine
Let them keep their comfort. I’ll keep my voice. open.substack.com/pub/danapalu...
New essay: The House, the Shoutouts, and the Wine
Let them keep their comfort. I’ll keep my voice. open.substack.com/pub/danapalu...
August 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
White women in schools quote Audre Lorde, sip wine, and center “equity”—until harm shows up. Then you’re the problem.
New essay: The House, the Shoutouts, and the Wine
Let them keep their comfort. I’ll keep my voice. open.substack.com/pub/danapalu...
New essay: The House, the Shoutouts, and the Wine
Let them keep their comfort. I’ll keep my voice. open.substack.com/pub/danapalu...
A fifth grader got a full-time sub to “monitor” her. They called it support. It was surveillance. Brentwood calls this The Brentwood Way. I call it what it is.
Read Mayberry Part 2: The Surveillance Didn’t Stop open.substack.com/pub/danapalu...
Read Mayberry Part 2: The Surveillance Didn’t Stop open.substack.com/pub/danapalu...
July 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
A fifth grader got a full-time sub to “monitor” her. They called it support. It was surveillance. Brentwood calls this The Brentwood Way. I call it what it is.
Read Mayberry Part 2: The Surveillance Didn’t Stop open.substack.com/pub/danapalu...
Read Mayberry Part 2: The Surveillance Didn’t Stop open.substack.com/pub/danapalu...
open.substack.com/pub/danapalu... A personal reflection on parenting, pain, and the love we pass down. This one’s for anyone who’s ever wondered if love is enough to break the cycle. New essay up now
July 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
open.substack.com/pub/danapalu... A personal reflection on parenting, pain, and the love we pass down. This one’s for anyone who’s ever wondered if love is enough to break the cycle. New essay up now
New piece: The Village Beneath the Birkenstocks
What happens when “All Are Welcome” becomes a mask for silence, gatekeeping, and curated progressivism?
It’s not a callout. It’s a calling in.
📖 Read & share:
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What happens when “All Are Welcome” becomes a mask for silence, gatekeeping, and curated progressivism?
It’s not a callout. It’s a calling in.
📖 Read & share:
open.substack.com/pub/danapalu...
The Village Beneath the Birkenstocks
By Dana Palubiak
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July 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
New piece: The Village Beneath the Birkenstocks
What happens when “All Are Welcome” becomes a mask for silence, gatekeeping, and curated progressivism?
It’s not a callout. It’s a calling in.
📖 Read & share:
open.substack.com/pub/danapalu...
What happens when “All Are Welcome” becomes a mask for silence, gatekeeping, and curated progressivism?
It’s not a callout. It’s a calling in.
📖 Read & share:
open.substack.com/pub/danapalu...
Somewhere, Lauren Sanchez is drifting off the coast of Capri, lips inflated like a flotation device.
This one’s about faces, homes, and everything we’re taught to toss.
Landfill Filler-now up. Link in bio. open.substack.com/pub/danapalu...
This one’s about faces, homes, and everything we’re taught to toss.
Landfill Filler-now up. Link in bio. open.substack.com/pub/danapalu...
July 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Somewhere, Lauren Sanchez is drifting off the coast of Capri, lips inflated like a flotation device.
This one’s about faces, homes, and everything we’re taught to toss.
Landfill Filler-now up. Link in bio. open.substack.com/pub/danapalu...
This one’s about faces, homes, and everything we’re taught to toss.
Landfill Filler-now up. Link in bio. open.substack.com/pub/danapalu...
They didn’t just cut $600M.
They gutted the training that helps teachers support disabled and neurodivergent kids.
This isn’t about saving money.
It’s about erasing care.
Call it what it is: a direct attack on inclusion.
They gutted the training that helps teachers support disabled and neurodivergent kids.
This isn’t about saving money.
It’s about erasing care.
Call it what it is: a direct attack on inclusion.
April 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
They didn’t just cut $600M.
They gutted the training that helps teachers support disabled and neurodivergent kids.
This isn’t about saving money.
It’s about erasing care.
Call it what it is: a direct attack on inclusion.
They gutted the training that helps teachers support disabled and neurodivergent kids.
This isn’t about saving money.
It’s about erasing care.
Call it what it is: a direct attack on inclusion.
BREAKING: China just cut off 7 rare earth metals, including ones essential for defense and clean tech.
Trump’s too busy sabotaging immigration law and tanking trade with pointless tariffs.
What’s your plan now, champ? Because this isn’t a reality show, it’s national security.
Trump’s too busy sabotaging immigration law and tanking trade with pointless tariffs.
What’s your plan now, champ? Because this isn’t a reality show, it’s national security.
April 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
BREAKING: China just cut off 7 rare earth metals, including ones essential for defense and clean tech.
Trump’s too busy sabotaging immigration law and tanking trade with pointless tariffs.
What’s your plan now, champ? Because this isn’t a reality show, it’s national security.
Trump’s too busy sabotaging immigration law and tanking trade with pointless tariffs.
What’s your plan now, champ? Because this isn’t a reality show, it’s national security.
If Kilmar Abrego Garcia is dead, this isn’t just an immigration mistake, it’s a human rights cover-up. He was deported after a court said not to. Now he’s vanished into one of the world’s harshest prisons. Where is Kilmar? Why the silence? We need answers. #WhereIsKilmar
April 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
If Kilmar Abrego Garcia is dead, this isn’t just an immigration mistake, it’s a human rights cover-up. He was deported after a court said not to. Now he’s vanished into one of the world’s harshest prisons. Where is Kilmar? Why the silence? We need answers. #WhereIsKilmar
Ashley St. Clair (yes, that one) says Elon had botched enhancement surgery.
That’s not a subplot, that’s the collapse of the main arc.
Navarro’s flaming him. Trump’s tariffing him.
And now… the meat of the matter.
That’s not a subplot, that’s the collapse of the main arc.
Navarro’s flaming him. Trump’s tariffing him.
And now… the meat of the matter.
April 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Ashley St. Clair (yes, that one) says Elon had botched enhancement surgery.
That’s not a subplot, that’s the collapse of the main arc.
Navarro’s flaming him. Trump’s tariffing him.
And now… the meat of the matter.
That’s not a subplot, that’s the collapse of the main arc.
Navarro’s flaming him. Trump’s tariffing him.
And now… the meat of the matter.
When even the billionaires think your economic plan is trash, you’ve officially lost the yacht vote. Tides are turning, and they’re not red.
April 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
When even the billionaires think your economic plan is trash, you’ve officially lost the yacht vote. Tides are turning, and they’re not red.
Peter Navarro just said Elon isn’t a car manufacturer but a car assembler. On live TV. This administration isn’t a circus, it’s the tent collapse after the elephants stampede.
April 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Peter Navarro just said Elon isn’t a car manufacturer but a car assembler. On live TV. This administration isn’t a circus, it’s the tent collapse after the elephants stampede.
Trump’s loudest threat is irrelevance. The world’s moving on without him. Even Taiwan’s offering zero-tariff trade deals TO US. When the strongman shouts and no one listens? That’s when the game is truly over.
April 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Trump’s loudest threat is irrelevance. The world’s moving on without him. Even Taiwan’s offering zero-tariff trade deals TO US. When the strongman shouts and no one listens? That’s when the game is truly over.
Trump’s presidency ranked, by chaos, delusion & spray tan. A satirical history lesson for those who survived it.
Read it now on Medium: medium.com/@danapalubia...
Read it now on Medium: medium.com/@danapalubia...
A Plurality of Worst: Ranking the Trump Presidencies Like It’s a Franchise Nobody Asked For
From Orange Is the New Hack to The Apprentice: Autocrat Edition, here’s how history will sort through the timeline multiverse of Donald J. Trump. In what historians now call the “Groundhog Day of…
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April 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Trump’s presidency ranked, by chaos, delusion & spray tan. A satirical history lesson for those who survived it.
Read it now on Medium: medium.com/@danapalubia...
Read it now on Medium: medium.com/@danapalubia...
Privilege vs. Possibility.
Legacy vs. Becoming.
We didn’t win the game.
We changed it.
Read “Serve, Set, Protest”https://medium.com/@danapalubiak/what-we-took-from-the-court-a-volleyball-game-that-felt-like-the-country-ced2a98d7d7f
Legacy vs. Becoming.
We didn’t win the game.
We changed it.
Read “Serve, Set, Protest”https://medium.com/@danapalubiak/what-we-took-from-the-court-a-volleyball-game-that-felt-like-the-country-ced2a98d7d7f
April 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Privilege vs. Possibility.
Legacy vs. Becoming.
We didn’t win the game.
We changed it.
Read “Serve, Set, Protest”https://medium.com/@danapalubiak/what-we-took-from-the-court-a-volleyball-game-that-felt-like-the-country-ced2a98d7d7f
Legacy vs. Becoming.
We didn’t win the game.
We changed it.
Read “Serve, Set, Protest”https://medium.com/@danapalubiak/what-we-took-from-the-court-a-volleyball-game-that-felt-like-the-country-ced2a98d7d7f
Just cooked taco meat & it’s got a weird spongy texture I can’t ignore. Even Red Hut salsa & crunchy chips can’t save it. Is this Bill Gates’ beta fake-meat rollout? I didn’t sign up to be part of The Great Meat Swap.
#TexturedTacos #TMJDoesntApprove #SuspiciousSponges
#TexturedTacos #TMJDoesntApprove #SuspiciousSponges
April 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Just cooked taco meat & it’s got a weird spongy texture I can’t ignore. Even Red Hut salsa & crunchy chips can’t save it. Is this Bill Gates’ beta fake-meat rollout? I didn’t sign up to be part of The Great Meat Swap.
#TexturedTacos #TMJDoesntApprove #SuspiciousSponges
#TexturedTacos #TMJDoesntApprove #SuspiciousSponges
Schools are using The Anxious Generation as a book study… while still pushing high-stakes testing & compliance. They blame parents & tech but won’t fix their own anxiety-inducing policies. Irony at its finest.
March 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Schools are using The Anxious Generation as a book study… while still pushing high-stakes testing & compliance. They blame parents & tech but won’t fix their own anxiety-inducing policies. Irony at its finest.
Reposted by Dana Palubiak
Look into the works of “author” Victoria Yerburgh on Amazon.
December 30, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Look into the works of “author” Victoria Yerburgh on Amazon.