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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i believe:
1. we need bureaucrats. no state worthy of sovereignty can function without an army of well trained and well compensated bureaucrats. actually existing socialism with a human face will look like a bureaucrat.
2. the bureaucrats must never be allowed to believe they understand politics
1. we need bureaucrats. no state worthy of sovereignty can function without an army of well trained and well compensated bureaucrats. actually existing socialism with a human face will look like a bureaucrat.
2. the bureaucrats must never be allowed to believe they understand politics
February 4, 2026 at 8:28 PM
i believe:
1. we need bureaucrats. no state worthy of sovereignty can function without an army of well trained and well compensated bureaucrats. actually existing socialism with a human face will look like a bureaucrat.
2. the bureaucrats must never be allowed to believe they understand politics
1. we need bureaucrats. no state worthy of sovereignty can function without an army of well trained and well compensated bureaucrats. actually existing socialism with a human face will look like a bureaucrat.
2. the bureaucrats must never be allowed to believe they understand politics
Someone smarter than me: is there a way to leverage bluesky style starter packs or lists in this regard? "i want to earmark fifteen bucks a month, to be distributed among everyone on this list"?
What major practical hurdles stand in the way of that?
What major practical hurdles stand in the way of that?
whoever figures out a way to bundle independent journalism subscriptions will be a hero
i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.
February 4, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Someone smarter than me: is there a way to leverage bluesky style starter packs or lists in this regard? "i want to earmark fifteen bucks a month, to be distributed among everyone on this list"?
What major practical hurdles stand in the way of that?
What major practical hurdles stand in the way of that?
Emboldened by knowing that I have always possessed the heart of a poster, but i put 80% of it into slack posts at work that vanishingly few of you goblins will ever see (hi, coworker mutuals😍)
February 4, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Emboldened by knowing that I have always possessed the heart of a poster, but i put 80% of it into slack posts at work that vanishingly few of you goblins will ever see (hi, coworker mutuals😍)
God, I'd forgotten about this. Is this when we first all saw Bovino on television for the first time? Was this his first major public appearance?
When Newsom had his press conference to announce Prop 50, Bovino and BORTAC showed up to harass people outside the venue.
A few weeks later, Prop 50 outperformed Kamala Harris in LA County by 25 points.
A few weeks later, Prop 50 outperformed Kamala Harris in LA County by 25 points.
February 4, 2026 at 6:15 PM
God, I'd forgotten about this. Is this when we first all saw Bovino on television for the first time? Was this his first major public appearance?
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yes this is exactly what's going to happen, they're going to yell WE'RE SENDING ICE and then there's going to be high profile video of them pulling someone out of line at an early voting location and half the country is going to go fuck YOU you can't tell ME I can't vote
They're going to fuck this up by doing it at early voting precincts and letting it be a news story for 3 entire weeks before the actual election
February 4, 2026 at 6:00 PM
yes this is exactly what's going to happen, they're going to yell WE'RE SENDING ICE and then there's going to be high profile video of them pulling someone out of line at an early voting location and half the country is going to go fuck YOU you can't tell ME I can't vote
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there's a lot of people who mock liberals with "what are you going to do, vote harder" and yes actually that is exactly what will happen if you try to intimidate people outside voting places like this! that's how you drive presidential-level turnout from normie libs in a midterm
February 4, 2026 at 5:54 PM
there's a lot of people who mock liberals with "what are you going to do, vote harder" and yes actually that is exactly what will happen if you try to intimidate people outside voting places like this! that's how you drive presidential-level turnout from normie libs in a midterm
When i was in high school during the Iraq war, i took an elective called Reading Enrichment, during which we were expected to learn ten new vocabulary words each week. This was a thing i did instead of lunch.
Anyway, you were meant to use each one in a sentence, but i found that restriction dull.
Anyway, you were meant to use each one in a sentence, but i found that restriction dull.
Top 3 Grad School Moments:
1. Prof writes in the margins of my Wordsworth & Nature paper, "Uh, do you know what nature is?"
2. Freud class: I say "Epistemology is a kind of ontology." Prof recoils: "What? No."
3. Melville class: Prof says "inchoate" aloud & I scream, "That's how you say that?!"
1. Prof writes in the margins of my Wordsworth & Nature paper, "Uh, do you know what nature is?"
2. Freud class: I say "Epistemology is a kind of ontology." Prof recoils: "What? No."
3. Melville class: Prof says "inchoate" aloud & I scream, "That's how you say that?!"
February 4, 2026 at 11:17 AM
When i was in high school during the Iraq war, i took an elective called Reading Enrichment, during which we were expected to learn ten new vocabulary words each week. This was a thing i did instead of lunch.
Anyway, you were meant to use each one in a sentence, but i found that restriction dull.
Anyway, you were meant to use each one in a sentence, but i found that restriction dull.
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This made me weepy
February 4, 2026 at 1:38 AM
This made me weepy
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Patient: But Doctor, I am Pagliacci...
Doctor: Yeah, Stewart. I'm literally holding your chart. Did you not consider maybe I was doing a confidence-building thing?
Stewart Pagliacci: Oh I didn't think-
Doctor: No, you didn't think, that's your problem. You want me to fix your problems for you.
Doctor: Yeah, Stewart. I'm literally holding your chart. Did you not consider maybe I was doing a confidence-building thing?
Stewart Pagliacci: Oh I didn't think-
Doctor: No, you didn't think, that's your problem. You want me to fix your problems for you.
February 3, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Patient: But Doctor, I am Pagliacci...
Doctor: Yeah, Stewart. I'm literally holding your chart. Did you not consider maybe I was doing a confidence-building thing?
Stewart Pagliacci: Oh I didn't think-
Doctor: No, you didn't think, that's your problem. You want me to fix your problems for you.
Doctor: Yeah, Stewart. I'm literally holding your chart. Did you not consider maybe I was doing a confidence-building thing?
Stewart Pagliacci: Oh I didn't think-
Doctor: No, you didn't think, that's your problem. You want me to fix your problems for you.
In showing a colleague a Little Passage Library of things we'd written and discarded for an ELA project, I found this poem that I'd written, which I had forgotten about
February 3, 2026 at 7:02 PM
In showing a colleague a Little Passage Library of things we'd written and discarded for an ELA project, I found this poem that I'd written, which I had forgotten about
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February 3, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Also not for nothin, but as an orangetheory class taker, my local gym's membership, sure, is disproportionately women, but they're a real wide range of ages. The one thing they have in common is that they're made of corded steel and 8 to 10 times stronger and more resilient than I am
Of all the things in the history of the world that definitely did not happen - this is the pinnacle.
February 3, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Also not for nothin, but as an orangetheory class taker, my local gym's membership, sure, is disproportionately women, but they're a real wide range of ages. The one thing they have in common is that they're made of corded steel and 8 to 10 times stronger and more resilient than I am
The Voracity of Shrimps is incredible, but let us not overlook FUTILE BLASTING
every chapter in this book (Journey to the Arctic by George Tyson) is a banger. aka "its not my fault the captain got poisoned and everyone was adrift on an ice floe for months guys! im just the navigator." --The Voracity of Shrimps.
February 3, 2026 at 1:27 AM
The Voracity of Shrimps is incredible, but let us not overlook FUTILE BLASTING
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BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 3, 2026 at 12:42 AM
BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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get in losers we're going to Costco
February 2, 2026 at 5:05 PM
get in losers we're going to Costco
oh no look out it's a tacticat
February 2, 2026 at 1:12 PM
oh no look out it's a tacticat
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We’ve got another @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com banger on our hands folks
February 2, 2026 at 11:06 AM
We’ve got another @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com banger on our hands folks
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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