Jake Wertz
@jakewertz.bsky.social
Living + gardening just west of Chicago. PhD sociologist doing research + transformation in a large suburban public school district. 🏡🪴🌉📈📊👨🏫
I thought commonweal was a typo for Commonwealth. And then I thought of the Catholic social justice magazine. But then I looked it up and learned a word.
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I thought commonweal was a typo for Commonwealth. And then I thought of the Catholic social justice magazine. But then I looked it up and learned a word.
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How it started/How it is going
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
How it started/How it is going
Has Schumer talked to Mamdani after Tuesday?
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Has Schumer talked to Mamdani after Tuesday?
Anyone else caught thinking Elissa Slotkin and Elise Stefanik are the same person when you read their names in headlines?
Keep tagging them and commenting on their posts, it is having an impact!!!!
And thank @slotkin.senate.gov !!!! remember honey catches more flies than vinegar
And thank @slotkin.senate.gov !!!! remember honey catches more flies than vinegar
November 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Anyone else caught thinking Elissa Slotkin and Elise Stefanik are the same person when you read their names in headlines?
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Consistent with a court order, Wisconsin legally loaded FoodShare payments to cards. Now, the Trump Administration has spent the last 48 hours making a last-ditch effort to yank those payments from nearly 700,000 Wisconsinites, including 270,000 kids. It's pathetic.
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Consistent with a court order, Wisconsin legally loaded FoodShare payments to cards. Now, the Trump Administration has spent the last 48 hours making a last-ditch effort to yank those payments from nearly 700,000 Wisconsinites, including 270,000 kids. It's pathetic.
Random letter of recommendation but somebody gave my son this solar-powered spinning prism suction cup thing for his birthday a couple years ago, and it transforms our living room with a magical rainbow light show whenever the sun peaks out.
November 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Random letter of recommendation but somebody gave my son this solar-powered spinning prism suction cup thing for his birthday a couple years ago, and it transforms our living room with a magical rainbow light show whenever the sun peaks out.
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“gambling is the worst, most game integrity destroying crime you can commit against the game of baseball
now please read this sports betting advertisement, they’re our biggest sponsor”
truly one of the most predictable disasters of all time
now please read this sports betting advertisement, they’re our biggest sponsor”
truly one of the most predictable disasters of all time
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
“gambling is the worst, most game integrity destroying crime you can commit against the game of baseball
now please read this sports betting advertisement, they’re our biggest sponsor”
truly one of the most predictable disasters of all time
now please read this sports betting advertisement, they’re our biggest sponsor”
truly one of the most predictable disasters of all time
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This is really important.
The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
November 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
This is really important.
The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
Nice little bit of snowfall to wake up to
November 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Nice little bit of snowfall to wake up to
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“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
Can’t wait til these kids discover the Beatles. “1” was the best-selling album of the 2000s, it could be the best selling album of the 2020s.
November 9, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Can’t wait til these kids discover the Beatles. “1” was the best-selling album of the 2000s, it could be the best selling album of the 2020s.
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Wow looks like my favorite team is in an entertaining, competitive college football game. If only the YouTube TV package I pay $90/month for allowed me to watch it!
November 9, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Wow looks like my favorite team is in an entertaining, competitive college football game. If only the YouTube TV package I pay $90/month for allowed me to watch it!
We are 11 months into 2025 and this has turned out to be completely wrong.
AI agents are creating interactive, personalized learning experiences. Discover how they're reshaping education from the ground up! 🎓🤖 #Education #AIEDU
AI Agents Will Shape Every Aspect Of Education In 2025
The AI Story for Education
www.forbes.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:59 AM
We are 11 months into 2025 and this has turned out to be completely wrong.
Here at last is the fabled “Air Raid”offense we Badger fans were promised
It’s the fourth quarter and Wisconsin is currently winning a game against a ranked opponent where their punter is their leading passer because he competed one pass
November 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Here at last is the fabled “Air Raid”offense we Badger fans were promised
Some of my favorites for fall colors in my garden right now - magnolia, serviceberry, red twig dogwood, cranberrybush viburnum
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Some of my favorites for fall colors in my garden right now - magnolia, serviceberry, red twig dogwood, cranberrybush viburnum
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"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
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25 years ago today: the most consequential presidential election of my lifetime. 36 days later, it was effectively decided by the Supreme Court. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who voted with the majority, would later she regretted that the court accepted the case.
November 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
25 years ago today: the most consequential presidential election of my lifetime. 36 days later, it was effectively decided by the Supreme Court. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who voted with the majority, would later she regretted that the court accepted the case.
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are no words for how evil this is
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“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”
Families "horrified" after daycare teacher pulled out of school by federal agents.
The incident happened in front of parents and children at Rayito de Sol in North Center, a parent said. They believe the employee, who cares for infants, is legally allowed to work in the United State...
www.chalkbeat.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”
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No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
Newsom lacking the juice, rambling
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Newsom lacking the juice, rambling
New York City has at last found its own version of Brandon Johnson
November 5, 2025 at 4:46 AM
New York City has at last found its own version of Brandon Johnson
Beautiful country
Trump’s travel ban inspired state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi to first run for office. Now, as candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, she could make history Tuesday night as the first Muslim woman ever elected to statewide office in the United States.
Virginia could make history with first Muslim woman elected to statewide office
Trump’s travel ban inspired state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi to first run for office. Years later, she said fighting bigotry and the “chaos” of Trump’s second term is top of mind.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Beautiful country
On average, American troops who invaded Normandy on D-Day were born in 1922. They were 79 years old on 9/11, the same age Donald Trump is now.
30 Rock did a joke about Nixon's chief of staff H. R. Haldeman in an episode from 2007. The joke was that young people wouldn't understand a reference to events from 34 years earlier.
A TV episode airing in 2025 could do the same thing about a political event from 34 years ago, which would be 1991.
A TV episode airing in 2025 could do the same thing about a political event from 34 years ago, which would be 1991.
My wife’s 25 year old coworker asked who Dick Cheney was today
November 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
On average, American troops who invaded Normandy on D-Day were born in 1922. They were 79 years old on 9/11, the same age Donald Trump is now.