David Rheinstrom
@icarusfloats.bsky.social
English Language Arts video-maker at @KhanAcademy.org.
Children's book author, bean evangelist, wife guy, bon vivant, bon-bon vivant.
He/him
davidrheinstrom.com
Children's book author, bean evangelist, wife guy, bon vivant, bon-bon vivant.
He/him
davidrheinstrom.com
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Real world: Scrimp, Splurge, or Strategize | Teacher resources | Financial Literacy | Khan Academy
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Finally, last but by no means least, is the video I longed to make with @meowtima.bsky.social, were they still my KA colleague!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qf3...
Heather plays the narrator, and Kami, Qandeel, and I play three friends who each represent a different grocery shopping tendency.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qf3...
Heather plays the narrator, and Kami, Qandeel, and I play three friends who each represent a different grocery shopping tendency.
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BRB, drawing my state's maps to create a buffer of +35 seats so that when the -30 wave hits, we have 5 seats in the state legislature instead of 0
February 1, 2026 at 5:45 AM
BRB, drawing my state's maps to create a buffer of +35 seats so that when the -30 wave hits, we have 5 seats in the state legislature instead of 0
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This is tear gassing protesters just for protesting. There is no threat, and the only danger presented is ICE behaving recklessly. There is no provocation; this is just straight up assault.
Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:07 AM
This is tear gassing protesters just for protesting. There is no threat, and the only danger presented is ICE behaving recklessly. There is no provocation; this is just straight up assault.
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Chat is it good for your chances in court when the judge is writing 18th century broadsides about "the perfidious lust for unbridled power" as their opinion
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Judge orders US to release father and 5-year-old taken into custody during Minnesota immigration crackdown.
January 31, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Chat is it good for your chances in court when the judge is writing 18th century broadsides about "the perfidious lust for unbridled power" as their opinion
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They said "free speech" and "academic freedom" but never believed in either and now in texas you need a permission slip to mention race in class and they're fine with it. Might not have worked if people with large platforms weren't furious about marginal increases of black people in their offices
January 31, 2026 at 12:35 PM
They said "free speech" and "academic freedom" but never believed in either and now in texas you need a permission slip to mention race in class and they're fine with it. Might not have worked if people with large platforms weren't furious about marginal increases of black people in their offices
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Is Trump fascist? One Wall Street Journal columnist believes to ask the question is un-American--how could one question the judgment of the American people? To do so raises the appalling prospect that everything might be broken. I discuss why it matters:
open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...
open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...
The Appalling Vista
Clear vision in hard times
open.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Is Trump fascist? One Wall Street Journal columnist believes to ask the question is un-American--how could one question the judgment of the American people? To do so raises the appalling prospect that everything might be broken. I discuss why it matters:
open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...
open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...
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I really urge you to not just shake your head at the headline of this but to read each word, to imagine each step these kids took, to sit with the terrible dilemma of the mother, to imagine the principal driving toward Whipple.
“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.
‘I don’t have words’: 2 more kids from Liam Ramos’ Columbia Heights school taken into ICE custody
The children were taken into ICE custody after their mother was detained at a court appointment. School leaders say the mother asked them to bring the kids to the detention center because there were n...
www.mprnews.org
January 30, 2026 at 1:20 PM
I really urge you to not just shake your head at the headline of this but to read each word, to imagine each step these kids took, to sit with the terrible dilemma of the mother, to imagine the principal driving toward Whipple.
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if I could enlist to fight these pricks I would do it. and I would paint “THEY STOLE LIAM’S SPIDEY BACKPACK” on the artillery shells
January 29, 2026 at 8:18 PM
if I could enlist to fight these pricks I would do it. and I would paint “THEY STOLE LIAM’S SPIDEY BACKPACK” on the artillery shells
Hey how come Gandalf gets such a good sear on his steaks?
It's the Maiar Reaction
It's the Maiar Reaction
January 29, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Hey how come Gandalf gets such a good sear on his steaks?
It's the Maiar Reaction
It's the Maiar Reaction
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whoever did this should get life. at a minimum. not joking bsky.app/profile/tiff...
“[Liam] keeps asking about that hat and that backpack that are in the picture,” the congressman said. “I think they took that from him.”
www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...
Rep. Joaquin Castro meets with the 5-year-old boy held with his father at a Texas detention facility | CNN
US Rep. Joaquin Castro met Wednesday with Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old Minnesota boy taken from his family’s suburban Minneapolis driveway last week after federal agents apprehended his father, t...
www.cnn.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:12 PM
whoever did this should get life. at a minimum. not joking bsky.app/profile/tiff...
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You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.
Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
January 28, 2026 at 10:34 PM
You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.
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They sure as hell ought to. These assholes are trying to foment secession in one of our closest allies. Another day, another national embarrassment.
This is grounds to expel Hoekstra, right?
January 29, 2026 at 12:34 AM
They sure as hell ought to. These assholes are trying to foment secession in one of our closest allies. Another day, another national embarrassment.
You know, it's funny: part of me wonders if Melania would relish being on trial, if only for the spotlight.
Melania Trump told her husband to course correct in Minneapolis because she was furious Alex Pretti's shooting put the release of the documentary about her life in the shade, according to a biographer of Donald Trump.
Melania furious that Minneapolis shooting eclipsed premiere of movie about her: biographer
Melania Trump told her husband to course correct in Minneapolis because she was furious Alex Pretti's shooting put the release of the documentary about her life in the shade, according to a biographer of Donald Trump.The first lady intervened in her husband's immigration enforcement operations becau...
bit.ly
January 28, 2026 at 7:21 PM
You know, it's funny: part of me wonders if Melania would relish being on trial, if only for the spotlight.
*Quietly, from the front row of the theater* Bo-o-osh.
January 27, 2026 at 4:16 AM
*Quietly, from the front row of the theater* Bo-o-osh.
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Excited for Bovino and his new office.
January 27, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Excited for Bovino and his new office.
Brring brriiiing
Kahonk kahonk kahonk
Kahonk kahonk kahonk
they finally threw greg under the novelty miniature clown tricycle
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
January 27, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Brring brriiiing
Kahonk kahonk kahonk
Kahonk kahonk kahonk
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Better things are possible, and if we keep pushing, we'll get to see this motherfucker getting perp-walked in a couple of years on his way to some well-earned justice for his many crimes
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Better things are possible, and if we keep pushing, we'll get to see this motherfucker getting perp-walked in a couple of years on his way to some well-earned justice for his many crimes
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The same people who cannot control a city of 400,000 are manifestly incapable of cancelling a midterm or ending the peaceful transition of power. Keep reminding yourself that you are a lot stronger than they are.
![01/26/2026 15:27:26[TWT]
Priscilla Alvarez
@priscialva
BREAKING: Top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino and some of his
agents are expected to leave Minneapolis and return to their respective
sectors, sources tell me, @KristenhCNN + @kaitlancollins.
Sent via Twitter Web App. View original tweet.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pnx2fjuannbdpy3337ggthpp/bafkreiglia3lsgoularsdrttknes76e3otad6xpnyp2eia2nmg5ckrc7cq@jpeg)
January 26, 2026 at 8:39 PM
The same people who cannot control a city of 400,000 are manifestly incapable of cancelling a midterm or ending the peaceful transition of power. Keep reminding yourself that you are a lot stronger than they are.
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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He’s going to be very disappointed when it turns out that it means “the National Guard writes you a traffic ticket”
January 25, 2026 at 9:47 PM
He’s going to be very disappointed when it turns out that it means “the National Guard writes you a traffic ticket”
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
It's treasonous and gross. And just a weird, bullying thing to say! What does public service even mean to these small-minded chuds?
“ICE > MN” is impeachable by itself.
This is an actual post from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: Praising ICE after Alex Pretti was killed, blaming the Democratic leadership of Minnesota, and writing that ICE is greater/better than Minnesota.
He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
January 24, 2026 at 11:28 PM
It's treasonous and gross. And just a weird, bullying thing to say! What does public service even mean to these small-minded chuds?
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Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
January 24, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
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have said it before but I’ll say it again: believing in evil in our secular age is a radical proposition. that’s partially why it feels unbelievable to see what you’re seeing. ICE and its enablers are evil, and if you are on the side of the good you have a responsibility to stop them
January 24, 2026 at 7:17 PM
have said it before but I’ll say it again: believing in evil in our secular age is a radical proposition. that’s partially why it feels unbelievable to see what you’re seeing. ICE and its enablers are evil, and if you are on the side of the good you have a responsibility to stop them
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I’m on Instagram telling people not to watch it. There’s no good reason to unless you’re a journalist or public figure.
The people at social media companies whose job it is to filter out murder and CSAM go insane. It is not your civic duty to also go insane.
The people at social media companies whose job it is to filter out murder and CSAM go insane. It is not your civic duty to also go insane.
January 24, 2026 at 7:06 PM
I’m on Instagram telling people not to watch it. There’s no good reason to unless you’re a journalist or public figure.
The people at social media companies whose job it is to filter out murder and CSAM go insane. It is not your civic duty to also go insane.
The people at social media companies whose job it is to filter out murder and CSAM go insane. It is not your civic duty to also go insane.
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anyone who tells you that you have to watch it wants to observe you suffering and has no other reason for doing it
Remember you don't have to watch the videos. You are allowed to just trust honest people who describe what happens.
January 24, 2026 at 4:01 PM
anyone who tells you that you have to watch it wants to observe you suffering and has no other reason for doing it