Miriam Walden
@educatoratlarge.bsky.social
Retired HS world history teacher, studying for an MA in Public History at CSUEB, grieving mother, organizer, union member, guest in Huchiun. Free Palestine! Protect Trans Kids! Abolish the police! Fuck ICE!
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Birzeit University raid seen as warning against Palestinian defiance
Israeli forces raided Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank during a solidarity event for Palestinian prisoners.
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Israel is shooting up classrooms with students inside, but my teachers union @albanycateacher.bsky.social won't speak out, and neither will my trade association @historians.org aje.io/p6ojdq
Don't forget about Gaza, where war is peace and death is life.
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Israel kills 10 in Gaza as US declares phase two of ceasefire deal launched
Israeli forces carry out various attacks across the war-torn enclave, including hits on family homes in Deir el-Balah.
aje.news
January 16, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Don't forget about Gaza, where war is peace and death is life.
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aje.news/xypn30
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Ms. Cohen is getting to the heart of the matter.
pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
January 16, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Ms. Cohen is getting to the heart of the matter.
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"All things considered, Teaching with AI is not without value; it is a case study in how even well-meaning educators operating in good faith can become inadvertent agents of a pedagogical de-skilling and institutional dehumanization."
A Pedagogy of the Inevitable | Critical AI | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
January 16, 2026 at 1:19 AM
"All things considered, Teaching with AI is not without value; it is a case study in how even well-meaning educators operating in good faith can become inadvertent agents of a pedagogical de-skilling and institutional dehumanization."
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Hey folks Calvary Food Shelf has been helping out people in Minneapolis for 30 years, and now they’re ramping up to meet the crisis, including doing home deliveries so people don’t have to risk going out.
They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?
They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?
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January 15, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Hey folks Calvary Food Shelf has been helping out people in Minneapolis for 30 years, and now they’re ramping up to meet the crisis, including doing home deliveries so people don’t have to risk going out.
They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?
They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?
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"Student debtors would be wise to fight back at every opportunity."
"The truth is, there are a host of options at debtors' disposal that the Department of Education does not tell borrowers about."
#USA #Education #Labour
"The truth is, there are a host of options at debtors' disposal that the Department of Education does not tell borrowers about."
#USA #Education #Labour
Here's How You Can Challenge Wage Garnishment for Defaulted Student Loans
The Trump administration announced that it will start forcibly collecting money from student loan debtors.
truthout.org
January 15, 2026 at 2:10 PM
"Student debtors would be wise to fight back at every opportunity."
"The truth is, there are a host of options at debtors' disposal that the Department of Education does not tell borrowers about."
#USA #Education #Labour
"The truth is, there are a host of options at debtors' disposal that the Department of Education does not tell borrowers about."
#USA #Education #Labour
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ICE Out Protest & General Strike happening January 23rd in Minneapolis: kare11.com share.google/ivKgA9CrcqIu...
#iceout #ice #protest
#iceout #ice #protest
Activists call for 'ICE Out' day of no work, school or shopping
Activists plan to march on Jan. 23 and not go to work or school.
share.google
January 15, 2026 at 4:49 AM
ICE Out Protest & General Strike happening January 23rd in Minneapolis: kare11.com share.google/ivKgA9CrcqIu...
#iceout #ice #protest
#iceout #ice #protest
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My daughter's school in Richfield, MN (adjacent to Minneapolis) is closing tomorrow due of out-of-control federal agents. Fourth graders spent the week building walls of snow at recess to protect their classmates from ICE. This isn't about immigration enforcement, it's about terror.
January 15, 2026 at 12:54 PM
My daughter's school in Richfield, MN (adjacent to Minneapolis) is closing tomorrow due of out-of-control federal agents. Fourth graders spent the week building walls of snow at recess to protect their classmates from ICE. This isn't about immigration enforcement, it's about terror.
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Read more about Project Esther and learn how you can resist. www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/whats-projec...
What’s Project Esther? - JVP
What’s project esther? An Explainer What’s project esther? Inside Trump’s blueprint to destroy the progressive movement, starting with unraveling Palestine solidarity. Released quietly in late 2024, P...
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org
January 15, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Read more about Project Esther and learn how you can resist. www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/whats-projec...
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This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
ictnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:31 PM
This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
So, the expensive Palantir software isn't working for ICE I guess? Or they just trying to terrorize/radicalize every single person?
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
January 15, 2026 at 4:10 AM
So, the expensive Palantir software isn't working for ICE I guess? Or they just trying to terrorize/radicalize every single person?
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Someone else co-wrote a book titled No More Police... thenewpress.org/books/no-mor... - I don't promote my own books enough. There are a bunch of people who have no idea that I have any, lol.
No More Police - The New Press
An instant national best sellerA persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizers
“One of the world’s most prominent advocates, organizers and political educators of the [abolitionist...
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January 15, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Someone else co-wrote a book titled No More Police... thenewpress.org/books/no-mor... - I don't promote my own books enough. There are a bunch of people who have no idea that I have any, lol.
As the song goes, "urine speaks louder than words." youtu.be/gQzKOENLcrE?...
January 15, 2026 at 2:50 AM
As the song goes, "urine speaks louder than words." youtu.be/gQzKOENLcrE?...
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The Spanish Civil War through contemporary eyes
Faced with a fascist coup and polarising conflict, an international aid effort was launched - our digitised collection on the Spanish Civil War, 1936-9, contains 4,000+ archive sources freely available
Find out more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Faced with a fascist coup and polarising conflict, an international aid effort was launched - our digitised collection on the Spanish Civil War, 1936-9, contains 4,000+ archive sources freely available
Find out more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
January 14, 2026 at 1:23 PM
The Spanish Civil War through contemporary eyes
Faced with a fascist coup and polarising conflict, an international aid effort was launched - our digitised collection on the Spanish Civil War, 1936-9, contains 4,000+ archive sources freely available
Find out more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Faced with a fascist coup and polarising conflict, an international aid effort was launched - our digitised collection on the Spanish Civil War, 1936-9, contains 4,000+ archive sources freely available
Find out more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
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Awesome! Just wanted to make sure you saw that plaudit. And, this one from managing editor at @thecity.nyc. ⤵️
Thank you for making the frightening events happening in Minnesota right now intelligible to those of us far away. 🙏🏼
Thank you for making the frightening events happening in Minnesota right now intelligible to those of us far away. 🙏🏼
this is an unbelievably good story
(read and support local reporters)
(read and support local reporters)
In the car with the Minneapolis community patrols working to disrupt ICE operations — Minnesota Reformer
As Elle Neubauer drove before dawn past the darkened windows of the immigrant-owned businesses on Lake Street in Minneapolis, her co-pilot and friend Patty O’Keefe scanned the passing vehicles with bi...
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January 14, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Awesome! Just wanted to make sure you saw that plaudit. And, this one from managing editor at @thecity.nyc. ⤵️
Thank you for making the frightening events happening in Minnesota right now intelligible to those of us far away. 🙏🏼
Thank you for making the frightening events happening in Minnesota right now intelligible to those of us far away. 🙏🏼
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THREAD. This can be an important educational moment for progressive people who don't work in or study the punishment bureaucracy. Having spent 20 years in it--and just publishing a book on exactly this topic--I can say that reality works in the opposite way that Jamelle assumes.
maybe an unpopular position on this website but i think the moderate dem focus on ICE training can be, with political pressure, the pathway to more fundamental reforms. rhetorically it is not too hard to move from “more training” to “turns out they’re untrainable and we have to start all over.”
January 14, 2026 at 3:17 AM
THREAD. This can be an important educational moment for progressive people who don't work in or study the punishment bureaucracy. Having spent 20 years in it--and just publishing a book on exactly this topic--I can say that reality works in the opposite way that Jamelle assumes.
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A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a DHS agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protest last week, according to family of the victim. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Anti-ICE protester blinded by federal agent during demonstration in Santa Ana, family says
A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind in one eye after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protes...
www.latimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:48 AM
A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a DHS agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protest last week, according to family of the victim. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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The quote posts on this are so lovely. Don't let anybody tell you who you are or that there's nothing good out there for people like us.
It's a stressful day with trans sports bans at the Supreme Court, but we have counterprogramming in the form of a lovely story about trans people playing games with little painted figurines.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Trans People are Wargamers Whether the Fandom Likes it or Not — Assigned
Wargaming, a traditionally masculine-coded hobby, has, in recent years, become a home to many trans and queer players.
www.assignedmedia.org
January 13, 2026 at 9:27 PM
The quote posts on this are so lovely. Don't let anybody tell you who you are or that there's nothing good out there for people like us.
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Educators: This is a useful news story for teaching about the Trump administration's use of White supremacist propaganda.
#sschat 🗺️ 🍎 🗃️
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
#sschat 🗺️ 🍎 🗃️
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Trump administration's posts echo rhetoric linked to extremist groups
Just weeks into the new year, the Trump administration has rolled out a campaign across departments that draws on images and ideas borrowed from right-wing and white nationalist circles. Liz Landers r...
www.pbs.org
January 13, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Educators: This is a useful news story for teaching about the Trump administration's use of White supremacist propaganda.
#sschat 🗺️ 🍎 🗃️
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
#sschat 🗺️ 🍎 🗃️
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Keep boycotting Target.
From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.
January 13, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Keep boycotting Target.
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There are a hell of a lot more of us than there are of them
January 13, 2026 at 2:13 AM
There are a hell of a lot more of us than there are of them
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I keep seeing people asking why the police aren't arresting ICE or protecting people from ICE and I desperately need you to understand that the police aren't protecting you from ICE because protecting YOU is not and never has been their function and that's why we need to defund them.
January 12, 2026 at 4:34 PM
I keep seeing people asking why the police aren't arresting ICE or protecting people from ICE and I desperately need you to understand that the police aren't protecting you from ICE because protecting YOU is not and never has been their function and that's why we need to defund them.
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There is a country where in the 21st century there have been over 32,000 people killed by security forces, with a death rate in encounters with those forces higher than Sudan, Rwanda, Pakistan, or Egypt, and with an underreporting problem so significant that experts think it's significantly higher.
January 11, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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Israel is currently holding over 11,000 Palestinians in detention, most of whom have never been convicted of a crime.
The US currently is detaining about 500,000 (that's half a million) people who've never been convicted of a crime *not* including military detention or immigration detention.
The US currently is detaining about 500,000 (that's half a million) people who've never been convicted of a crime *not* including military detention or immigration detention.
January 11, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Israel is currently holding over 11,000 Palestinians in detention, most of whom have never been convicted of a crime.
The US currently is detaining about 500,000 (that's half a million) people who've never been convicted of a crime *not* including military detention or immigration detention.
The US currently is detaining about 500,000 (that's half a million) people who've never been convicted of a crime *not* including military detention or immigration detention.
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"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.”
— Frederick Douglass
— Frederick Douglass
January 11, 2026 at 5:17 AM
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.”
— Frederick Douglass
— Frederick Douglass
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Congratulations to all of you at #AHA26 for reintroducing--AND PASSING--member resolutions to 1) condemn scholasticide and 2) stand for academic freedom! This has been a wonderful conference of reconnecting with friends, meeting new allies, and pushing important conversations in our discipline!
January 11, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Congratulations to all of you at #AHA26 for reintroducing--AND PASSING--member resolutions to 1) condemn scholasticide and 2) stand for academic freedom! This has been a wonderful conference of reconnecting with friends, meeting new allies, and pushing important conversations in our discipline!