Tom K
@gctom.bsky.social
Elementary school teacher. Cognitive science and how brains learn. Baltimore Orioles
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Tom K
@gctom.bsky.social
· Feb 15
"Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers."
Does this even matter?
6/20
#BookSky #20BookChallenge
Does this even matter?
6/20
#BookSky #20BookChallenge
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u shall not pass
November 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
u shall not pass
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THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
When I see this happen in my elementary classrooms, it almost always indicates a lack of fluency; children expend all their mental effort decoding the words and have nothing left over for comprehension. Fluent readers read words as sight words and can focus their mental resources on meaning-making.
it's pretty scary to watch people making things up in real time because they can't parse the text in front of them! that part has pretty widespread implications that are unpleasant to think about!
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
When I see this happen in my elementary classrooms, it almost always indicates a lack of fluency; children expend all their mental effort decoding the words and have nothing left over for comprehension. Fluent readers read words as sight words and can focus their mental resources on meaning-making.
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Has Mr. Respect, Ezra Klein, ever written a column on how Republicans are so disrespectful of Democrats that they refuse to call the party by its real name and instead use a McCarthyite slur?
Leavitt on Epstein: "This is truly a manufactured hoax by the Democrat Party"
November 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Has Mr. Respect, Ezra Klein, ever written a column on how Republicans are so disrespectful of Democrats that they refuse to call the party by its real name and instead use a McCarthyite slur?
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At some point is this some kind of cognitive dissonance test. Where we try to see ho much cognitive dissonance one country can take before it explodes?
This Regime is killing millions of kids around the globe, and is committing violence and hunger against millions in the US.
This Regime is killing millions of kids around the globe, and is committing violence and hunger against millions in the US.
Trump: The bible tells us that one of the measures of any society is how it cares for vulnerable children and orphans—so important and so big in the bible.
November 14, 2025 at 1:12 AM
At some point is this some kind of cognitive dissonance test. Where we try to see ho much cognitive dissonance one country can take before it explodes?
This Regime is killing millions of kids around the globe, and is committing violence and hunger against millions in the US.
This Regime is killing millions of kids around the globe, and is committing violence and hunger against millions in the US.
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Not to be missed/not long to book: *Reconstructing Reading: translating research into powerful
practice*
Hear from Timothy Shanahan, Jan Hasbrouck, Young-Suk Grace Kim, Kate Cain, Kate Nation & more.
See video below for full lineup.
Full info/bookings: literacytrust.org.uk/events/recon...
practice*
Hear from Timothy Shanahan, Jan Hasbrouck, Young-Suk Grace Kim, Kate Cain, Kate Nation & more.
See video below for full lineup.
Full info/bookings: literacytrust.org.uk/events/recon...
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Not to be missed/not long to book: *Reconstructing Reading: translating research into powerful
practice*
Hear from Timothy Shanahan, Jan Hasbrouck, Young-Suk Grace Kim, Kate Cain, Kate Nation & more.
See video below for full lineup.
Full info/bookings: literacytrust.org.uk/events/recon...
practice*
Hear from Timothy Shanahan, Jan Hasbrouck, Young-Suk Grace Kim, Kate Cain, Kate Nation & more.
See video below for full lineup.
Full info/bookings: literacytrust.org.uk/events/recon...
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Their political philosophy hinges on a vision of white supremacy in which people who aren’t white are here at the privilege of white people, which they can revoke at any time, which they expect to be received with gratitude.
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "I look at somebody who comes from Somalia...and she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this, the Constitution says that.' The whole thing is crazy."
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Their political philosophy hinges on a vision of white supremacy in which people who aren’t white are here at the privilege of white people, which they can revoke at any time, which they expect to be received with gratitude.
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I feel like the headline should be something more like, "Joyce Carol Oates eviscerated Elon Musk and wore his intestines as a necklace. Yes somehow he keeps making it worse."
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I feel like the headline should be something more like, "Joyce Carol Oates eviscerated Elon Musk and wore his intestines as a necklace. Yes somehow he keeps making it worse."
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Man responsible for uninsuring 15 million Americans lays out a plan to uninsure up to 24.3 million more.
I wrote here about Trump’s limited understanding of health insurance and how relying on direct payments to people for payment toward health care costs is a terrible idea. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Man responsible for uninsuring 15 million Americans lays out a plan to uninsure up to 24.3 million more.
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I wrote here about Trump’s limited understanding of health insurance and how relying on direct payments to people for payment toward health care costs is a terrible idea. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
November 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I wrote here about Trump’s limited understanding of health insurance and how relying on direct payments to people for payment toward health care costs is a terrible idea. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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You’ve been hit by 👏👏
You’ve been struck by 👏
A cool townhouse row
You’ve been struck by 👏
A cool townhouse row
November 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
You’ve been hit by 👏👏
You’ve been struck by 👏
A cool townhouse row
You’ve been struck by 👏
A cool townhouse row
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There's also a deeper point, here. If what knit the American People into a single nation is the Constitution, then the blood and soil nationalism of someone like J.D. Vance simply must be wrong:
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
There's also a deeper point, here. If what knit the American People into a single nation is the Constitution, then the blood and soil nationalism of someone like J.D. Vance simply must be wrong:
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Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.
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Here's a partial list of suspected guilty parties. Call them if they're your senators, friends, right now.
blacksky.community/profile/did:...
blacksky.community/profile/did:...
John Fetterman, Angus King, Maggie Hassan, Dick Durbin, Jon Ossoff, Jeanne Shaheen, Kirsten Gillibrand, Catherine Cortez Masto, Mark Warner, Cory Booker, and of course Chuck Schumer. Maybe others not top of mind. Not all responsible will publicly vote for the cave - that's not how this works.
November 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Here's a partial list of suspected guilty parties. Call them if they're your senators, friends, right now.
blacksky.community/profile/did:...
blacksky.community/profile/did:...
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Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line.
Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!
Find them here: reps.fyi
Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!
Find them here: reps.fyi
yep
November 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line.
Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!
Find them here: reps.fyi
Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!
Find them here: reps.fyi
I called @repaprildelaney.bsky.social and @vanhollen.senate.gov and @alsobrooks.senate.gov to ask them not to cave and to not provide cover for any of their dem colleagues who want to cave. Call your senators and reps.
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I called @repaprildelaney.bsky.social and @vanhollen.senate.gov and @alsobrooks.senate.gov to ask them not to cave and to not provide cover for any of their dem colleagues who want to cave. Call your senators and reps.
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
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At some point we have to let pain hurt Trump instead of helping him. Every time we let pain help him, he’ll do more and bigger next time.
Each acquiescence means the next one will be *more* painful.
Each acquiescence means the next one will be *more* painful.
November 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
At some point we have to let pain hurt Trump instead of helping him. Every time we let pain help him, he’ll do more and bigger next time.
Each acquiescence means the next one will be *more* painful.
Each acquiescence means the next one will be *more* painful.
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Absolutely insane goal in insane conditions in the CPL final. Absurd.
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Absolutely insane goal in insane conditions in the CPL final. Absurd.
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I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
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They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
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Have you seen it?! Romare Bearden’s mural “Baltimore Uproar” in the Upton Metro Station.
November 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Have you seen it?! Romare Bearden’s mural “Baltimore Uproar” in the Upton Metro Station.
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initially thought that this was a shadow being projected on his face. didn’t realize he was in blackface
November 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
initially thought that this was a shadow being projected on his face. didn’t realize he was in blackface