Nate
@jessenathaniel.bsky.social
Black. Special Education administrator. Holding fast to the belief that education and restorative justice can meet the political moment. Committed to racial justice inside & outside of school.
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For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now.
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No crypto in Canton: Town blocks data centers and crypto mining operations
Canton’s makeshift town hall in a tiny trailer was bursting at the seams Wednesday night with citizens united against data centers and cryptocurrency mining.
www.themountaineer.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:27 AM
For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now.
www.themountaineer.com/news/no-cryp...
www.themountaineer.com/news/no-cryp...
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Bad Bunny’s beautiful and joyful portrayal of Puerto Rico stands on the shoulders of Kendrick Lamar’s love letter to Compton last year.
Watching the biggest performance in the world become a representation of real people in real, American places is beautiful. #SuperBowl
Watching the biggest performance in the world become a representation of real people in real, American places is beautiful. #SuperBowl
February 9, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Bad Bunny’s beautiful and joyful portrayal of Puerto Rico stands on the shoulders of Kendrick Lamar’s love letter to Compton last year.
Watching the biggest performance in the world become a representation of real people in real, American places is beautiful. #SuperBowl
Watching the biggest performance in the world become a representation of real people in real, American places is beautiful. #SuperBowl
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There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.
February 9, 2026 at 1:47 AM
There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.
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The #SuperBowl is emblematic of all that’s wrong with America and
tonight, for the second year in a row, millions watched as historically and systemically marginalized Americans showed us pieces of their beautiful, rich, and complex humanity that is so much bigger than oppression.
Multitudes.
tonight, for the second year in a row, millions watched as historically and systemically marginalized Americans showed us pieces of their beautiful, rich, and complex humanity that is so much bigger than oppression.
Multitudes.
February 9, 2026 at 4:04 AM
The #SuperBowl is emblematic of all that’s wrong with America and
tonight, for the second year in a row, millions watched as historically and systemically marginalized Americans showed us pieces of their beautiful, rich, and complex humanity that is so much bigger than oppression.
Multitudes.
tonight, for the second year in a row, millions watched as historically and systemically marginalized Americans showed us pieces of their beautiful, rich, and complex humanity that is so much bigger than oppression.
Multitudes.
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"This is a shallow vision of education as achievement without agency that we should question vigorously. Is achievement without agency truly the goal of a literate society? How can we harmonize this with education as a democratic practice?"
www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/who-...
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February 9, 2026 at 1:20 AM
"This is a shallow vision of education as achievement without agency that we should question vigorously. Is achievement without agency truly the goal of a literate society? How can we harmonize this with education as a democratic practice?"
www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/who-...
www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/who-...
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ICE agents! Keep quitting, spill the beans and help us take down the institutuon that's not going to pay you anyway.
February 8, 2026 at 3:29 PM
ICE agents! Keep quitting, spill the beans and help us take down the institutuon that's not going to pay you anyway.
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It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.
Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
February 9, 2026 at 1:54 AM
It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.
Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
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I hope someone will write up the ads that were clearly made using ai and those that used real actors. Something tells me that people can sense the difference. But maybe not.
February 9, 2026 at 2:03 AM
I hope someone will write up the ads that were clearly made using ai and those that used real actors. Something tells me that people can sense the difference. But maybe not.
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They sang “American Idiot”
Green Day avoids making political statement during Super Bowl 2026 opening performance
Green Day avoids making political statement during Super Bowl 2026 opening performance
A rocking start to the Super Bowl.
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February 8, 2026 at 11:35 PM
They sang “American Idiot”
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Call it what it is, @nbcnews.com. Concentration camp.
Every time.
The OED defines a concentration camp as “a camp in which large numbers of people, esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities.”
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Every time.
The OED defines a concentration camp as “a camp in which large numbers of people, esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities.”
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The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates.
ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern
Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses — and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them — would present safety problems.
www.nbcnews.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:32 AM
Call it what it is, @nbcnews.com. Concentration camp.
Every time.
The OED defines a concentration camp as “a camp in which large numbers of people, esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities.”
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Every time.
The OED defines a concentration camp as “a camp in which large numbers of people, esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities.”
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So … I think this is a fairly incredible idea and something that I was just trying to figure out for myself after the most recent quarterly updates.
Haven’t tried using it with a team yet, but it seems like an incredible idea!
Haven’t tried using it with a team yet, but it seems like an incredible idea!
If rushing to put together required IEP documentation sounds familiar, try @cathleenbeachbd.bsky.social and her co-teacher’s free template!
By helping Ts regularly and quickly provide updates, it not only eases the paperwork burden but also results in better support for students. 🌟
By helping Ts regularly and quickly provide updates, it not only eases the paperwork burden but also results in better support for students. 🌟
How to Streamline IEP Paperwork for Special and General Education Teachers
With this simple Google Form and spreadsheet—free template included—the whole IEP team can keep up to speed on the supports students need.
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February 8, 2026 at 2:20 AM
So … I think this is a fairly incredible idea and something that I was just trying to figure out for myself after the most recent quarterly updates.
Haven’t tried using it with a team yet, but it seems like an incredible idea!
Haven’t tried using it with a team yet, but it seems like an incredible idea!
We don’t need to keep engaging in false binaries: we don’t have to use living conditions as excuses for not teaching. Inquiry lessons are not antithetical to teaching kids facts. And expecting a tolerance for ambiguity isn’t a reason to deny kids meaningful connections between school & life (8/8 /🧵)
February 7, 2026 at 10:40 PM
We don’t need to keep engaging in false binaries: we don’t have to use living conditions as excuses for not teaching. Inquiry lessons are not antithetical to teaching kids facts. And expecting a tolerance for ambiguity isn’t a reason to deny kids meaningful connections between school & life (8/8 /🧵)
None of this is to say that we should dismiss all learning sciences research as irrelevant - it can be useful! But the way some expect teachers to dogmatically accept these principles wholesale while literally dismissing any attempt at relating it to the world “fluff” is just irresponsible. (7/8)
February 7, 2026 at 10:40 PM
None of this is to say that we should dismiss all learning sciences research as irrelevant - it can be useful! But the way some expect teachers to dogmatically accept these principles wholesale while literally dismissing any attempt at relating it to the world “fluff” is just irresponsible. (7/8)
2b. Trust is not a lifetime contract—it’s a contract renewed at random intervals.
Expecting that students should go along with a plan shrouded in ambiguity amid lives full of ambiguity is insensitive at best. They should expect us to help make meaning of the facts they encounter with us. (6/8)
Expecting that students should go along with a plan shrouded in ambiguity amid lives full of ambiguity is insensitive at best. They should expect us to help make meaning of the facts they encounter with us. (6/8)
February 7, 2026 at 10:40 PM
2b. Trust is not a lifetime contract—it’s a contract renewed at random intervals.
Expecting that students should go along with a plan shrouded in ambiguity amid lives full of ambiguity is insensitive at best. They should expect us to help make meaning of the facts they encounter with us. (6/8)
Expecting that students should go along with a plan shrouded in ambiguity amid lives full of ambiguity is insensitive at best. They should expect us to help make meaning of the facts they encounter with us. (6/8)
2a. I fully agree that part of learning is Trusting the Process, but I also think some folks take a student’s trust for granted: if school has repeatedly failed (or harmed) them, they’re not following you up a mountain. And that leaves us with an important question: how DO you establish trust? (5/8)
February 7, 2026 at 10:40 PM
2a. I fully agree that part of learning is Trusting the Process, but I also think some folks take a student’s trust for granted: if school has repeatedly failed (or harmed) them, they’re not following you up a mountain. And that leaves us with an important question: how DO you establish trust? (5/8)
1c. None of this is to lower expectations; to the contrary, it’s actually raising them.
It’s establishing that I, as a teacher, should be expected to do more that deliver instruction / disseminate facts — I should be expected to tell you how anything I’m teaching connects to your life. (4/8)
It’s establishing that I, as a teacher, should be expected to do more that deliver instruction / disseminate facts — I should be expected to tell you how anything I’m teaching connects to your life. (4/8)
February 7, 2026 at 10:40 PM
1c. None of this is to lower expectations; to the contrary, it’s actually raising them.
It’s establishing that I, as a teacher, should be expected to do more that deliver instruction / disseminate facts — I should be expected to tell you how anything I’m teaching connects to your life. (4/8)
It’s establishing that I, as a teacher, should be expected to do more that deliver instruction / disseminate facts — I should be expected to tell you how anything I’m teaching connects to your life. (4/8)
1b. So if I’m going to ask them to also climb a mountain of my choosing, the very least I can do is establish why they should follow me at all — I *have* to be willing to take some time at the outset to establish why it’s meaningful within the context of competing life priorities (3/8)
February 7, 2026 at 10:40 PM
1b. So if I’m going to ask them to also climb a mountain of my choosing, the very least I can do is establish why they should follow me at all — I *have* to be willing to take some time at the outset to establish why it’s meaningful within the context of competing life priorities (3/8)
1a. I’ve spent my career working with students from urban schools. The Ss I’ve worked with come to school having experienced trauma, housing instability, food insecurity, racism, and community violence — it’s not pathologizing to acknowledge that’s a lot to hold emotionally AND cognitively. (2/8)
February 7, 2026 at 10:40 PM
1a. I’ve spent my career working with students from urban schools. The Ss I’ve worked with come to school having experienced trauma, housing instability, food insecurity, racism, and community violence — it’s not pathologizing to acknowledge that’s a lot to hold emotionally AND cognitively. (2/8)
I listen to these podcasts because I really do find learning sciences research interesting… but, while I think this is super vivid framing, I have two arguments against thinking of teaching and learning in this way… (🧵 1/8)
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February 7, 2026 at 10:40 PM
I listen to these podcasts because I really do find learning sciences research interesting… but, while I think this is super vivid framing, I have two arguments against thinking of teaching and learning in this way… (🧵 1/8)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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‼️At the 2026 Winter Olympics, the International Olympic Committee has ruled that an image of Toussaint Louverture—the former slave who led a revolution that created the world’s first Black republic in Haiti in 1804—violated Olympic rules barring political symbolism. What? apnews.com/article/hait...
Haiti's Winter Olympics team shines a positive light even as IOC removes patriot from uniforms
Haiti is making a statement at the Milan Cortina Winter Games with two athletes proudly representing the nation.
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February 6, 2026 at 2:27 PM
‼️At the 2026 Winter Olympics, the International Olympic Committee has ruled that an image of Toussaint Louverture—the former slave who led a revolution that created the world’s first Black republic in Haiti in 1804—violated Olympic rules barring political symbolism. What? apnews.com/article/hait...
I don’t talk about sports much here, but…
The Golden State Warriors have been my distraction from reality for ... life … and for the first time I have completely checked out.
And if ever one needed distractions…
I’m in a strange state of mourning. This is a sad way to say goodbye to a dynasty.
The Golden State Warriors have been my distraction from reality for ... life … and for the first time I have completely checked out.
And if ever one needed distractions…
I’m in a strange state of mourning. This is a sad way to say goodbye to a dynasty.
February 6, 2026 at 6:40 PM
I don’t talk about sports much here, but…
The Golden State Warriors have been my distraction from reality for ... life … and for the first time I have completely checked out.
And if ever one needed distractions…
I’m in a strange state of mourning. This is a sad way to say goodbye to a dynasty.
The Golden State Warriors have been my distraction from reality for ... life … and for the first time I have completely checked out.
And if ever one needed distractions…
I’m in a strange state of mourning. This is a sad way to say goodbye to a dynasty.
For the next time someone says “there’s no room for politics in sports” to an athlete / journalist …
www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
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Carry a gun at a Utah Jazz game? GOP lawmaker aims to let conceal permit holders pack.
A Utah Republican wants to force the Delta Center and other venues to allow concealed carry permit holders to pack a gun at games — despite leagues' rules.
www.sltrib.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:38 AM
For the next time someone says “there’s no room for politics in sports” to an athlete / journalist …
www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
These are exactly the type of questions we should ask in response to people who push such clearly ideological educational agendas.
Overall, who do the policies serve? And who might be left out?
Overall, who do the policies serve? And who might be left out?
Listened to this ep and had similar thoughts — great thread.
I always wonder, *who* gets to pivot from carrying out prescribed steps to having “complexity” and their own ideas? And *when* does that get to happen? And why is it not *everyone*, in real moments, beginning in childhood?
I always wonder, *who* gets to pivot from carrying out prescribed steps to having “complexity” and their own ideas? And *when* does that get to happen? And why is it not *everyone*, in real moments, beginning in childhood?
February 4, 2026 at 1:25 AM
These are exactly the type of questions we should ask in response to people who push such clearly ideological educational agendas.
Overall, who do the policies serve? And who might be left out?
Overall, who do the policies serve? And who might be left out?
I’d be a lot more open to a lot more of these discussions if I believed the people engaging in them had the best interests of historically marginalized groups of students in mind instead of dogmatically pushing theories.
February 3, 2026 at 3:00 AM
I’d be a lot more open to a lot more of these discussions if I believed the people engaging in them had the best interests of historically marginalized groups of students in mind instead of dogmatically pushing theories.