Jennifer Lake
@lakeginger.bsky.social
Literacy nerd, travel lover, lifelong learner, instructional leader, supporter of democracy and human rights
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Jennifer Lake
@lakeginger.bsky.social
· Nov 14
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House Republicans want to “Make Elections Great Again Act”. It’s election reform bill that will disenfranchise millions of voters.
February 5, 2026 at 5:48 PM
House Republicans want to “Make Elections Great Again Act”. It’s election reform bill that will disenfranchise millions of voters.
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Every American needs to watch this:
February 5, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Every American needs to watch this:
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Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left.
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
February 6, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left.
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
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Operation Metro Surge is hurting small business and doing long-term damage to Minnesota’s economy.
It’s time for this campaign of retribution to end.
www.kare11.com/article/news...
It’s time for this campaign of retribution to end.
www.kare11.com/article/news...
New data shows Minneapolis economy reeling since ICE's Operation Metro Surge began
The director of community planning and economic development estimates the city is losing $10 to $20 million every week.
www.kare11.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Operation Metro Surge is hurting small business and doing long-term damage to Minnesota’s economy.
It’s time for this campaign of retribution to end.
www.kare11.com/article/news...
It’s time for this campaign of retribution to end.
www.kare11.com/article/news...
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"How do you get someone to realize that they’re in a dual state when its darker half has not yet touched their life personally?"
If all else fails, try the “grandkid test”: 50 years from now, will our grandkids be proud of how - or even if - we stood up for justice?
If all else fails, try the “grandkid test”: 50 years from now, will our grandkids be proud of how - or even if - we stood up for justice?
Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do?
All Americans live in a “dual state.” Here’s what that means — and how to help others see it.
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February 5, 2026 at 9:16 PM
"How do you get someone to realize that they’re in a dual state when its darker half has not yet touched their life personally?"
If all else fails, try the “grandkid test”: 50 years from now, will our grandkids be proud of how - or even if - we stood up for justice?
If all else fails, try the “grandkid test”: 50 years from now, will our grandkids be proud of how - or even if - we stood up for justice?
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I’m outraged. Our kids are living in terror under this unjust federal occupation. No child should endure the cruelty being inflicted at the hands of the Trump regime.
What the Crackdown Has Done to Minneapolis Children
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:13 PM
I’m outraged. Our kids are living in terror under this unjust federal occupation. No child should endure the cruelty being inflicted at the hands of the Trump regime.
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Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠
A Secret Oil Cartel Might Have Killed Our Clean-Energy Future
In a landmark antitrust case, Michigan alleges oil companies colluded to “capture and kill” clean-energy and electric-vehicle efforts.
www.levernews.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠
Looking forward to reading this!
**New** chapter on “Literacy” just published in the Open Encyclopaedia of Cognitive Science. The whole series is super, accessible chapters and no paywalls, a great resource for teaching. oecs.mit.edu/pub/epclh9no...
Literacy
oecs.mit.edu
February 5, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Looking forward to reading this!
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Four Practical Guidelines for Effective Implementation of the Science of Reading
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Research Wednesday - February 4, 2026
Email from Creative Leadership Solutions Recommendations from Dr. Reeves and Colleagues Here’s the latest from Creative Leadership Solutions. We partner with K–12 schools and districts to deliver ta
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February 4, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Four Practical Guidelines for Effective Implementation of the Science of Reading
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It is terrifying that measles is spreading among children held in US concentration camps.
This is not a policy debate — it is an immediate threat to children’s lives.
Measles can cause encephalitis (brain swelling), brain damage, and respiratory failure in children.
It is terrifying that measles is spreading among children held in US concentration camps.
This is not a policy debate — it is an immediate threat to children’s lives.
Measles can cause encephalitis (brain swelling), brain damage, and respiratory failure in children.
Calls to shut down Texas ICE facility for children grow amid measles outbreak
At least two cases confirmed at detention center for children and their parents in Texas
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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It is terrifying that measles is spreading among children held in US concentration camps.
This is not a policy debate — it is an immediate threat to children’s lives.
Measles can cause encephalitis (brain swelling), brain damage, and respiratory failure in children.
It is terrifying that measles is spreading among children held in US concentration camps.
This is not a policy debate — it is an immediate threat to children’s lives.
Measles can cause encephalitis (brain swelling), brain damage, and respiratory failure in children.
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‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
![…
25. This Cibola jail was horrible. It was cramped. I was chained up again.
The officers mocked
me and called me their enemy. They laughed at me. I was kept at the jail for what felt like around three hours. I wasn't given an explanation for why I was there.
26. Security
guards then put me on a bus. I think it was around January 27.
No one said
anything about where I was going. I was handcuffed. It felt like the middle of the night. It was freezing cold in the bus because the driver had the AC on. We had no jackets. The bus eventually took me back to El Paso in the carly morning of Tuesday, January 27th.
27. I was put in a cold cell where I had to sleep on the bare cement floor. Around 10 in the morning my cellmate asked to speak to an ICE officer. Three officers came into the cell so I had a chance to speak to them too. One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." She told me that if I fought my case, I would spend two to three more months here in El Paso. She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota. If I hadn't managed to talk to my attorney who told me a while back that I was ordered released. I might have given up at this point and signed the self-deportation forms because the conditions were so unbearable.
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30. When I was taken back to the detention center from the airport, after missing the flight, I overheard an ICE officer saying in English, "the judge in Minnesota wants this one back." I was put in a cold jail cell again until early next morning (January 28). But again no one had told me directly that a judge had ordered my release
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32. When I arrived in Minneapolis, I was handed off to ICE
… I had to sign lots of papers saying that I wasn't going to be a part of any "groups." I didn't know what they meant by "groups." They never told me why I was detained](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5cn3kbi4g5blrtahon34xbu4/bafkreiccqxmfncofjqinoveiqscwale2ox5xpiqt46veqjdh3jmimkrxhq@jpeg)
February 5, 2026 at 6:04 AM
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
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WATCH | Trump’s 10 most inappropriate moments from the National Prayer Breakfast
More here: www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/trum...
More here: www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/trum...
February 5, 2026 at 6:17 PM
WATCH | Trump’s 10 most inappropriate moments from the National Prayer Breakfast
More here: www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/trum...
More here: www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/trum...
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Appreciate this reporting by @wired.com.
“High-risk units” were never meant to police civilians, yet here we are.
This is also how a “shoot first ask questions later” mentality is normalized.
The administration is trying to use “safety” as a synonym for complete and utter recklessness.
“High-risk units” were never meant to police civilians, yet here we are.
This is also how a “shoot first ask questions later” mentality is normalized.
The administration is trying to use “safety” as a synonym for complete and utter recklessness.
The Paramilitary ICE and CBP Units at the Center of Minnesota's Killings
Two agents involved in the shooting deaths of US citizens in Minneapolis are reportedly part of highly militarized DHS units whose extreme tactics are generally reserved for war zones.
www.wired.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Appreciate this reporting by @wired.com.
“High-risk units” were never meant to police civilians, yet here we are.
This is also how a “shoot first ask questions later” mentality is normalized.
The administration is trying to use “safety” as a synonym for complete and utter recklessness.
“High-risk units” were never meant to police civilians, yet here we are.
This is also how a “shoot first ask questions later” mentality is normalized.
The administration is trying to use “safety” as a synonym for complete and utter recklessness.
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Statistics for Christian Nationalists to Ponder
NUMBER OF TIMES YOUR HERO DONALD TRUMP IS MENTIONED IN THE EPSTEIN FILES:
Over 38,000 times.
NUMBER OF TIMES JESUS IS MENTIONED IN THE US CONSITUTION:
Never. Not even once.
NUMBER OF TIMES YOUR HERO DONALD TRUMP IS MENTIONED IN THE EPSTEIN FILES:
Over 38,000 times.
NUMBER OF TIMES JESUS IS MENTIONED IN THE US CONSITUTION:
Never. Not even once.
February 4, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Statistics for Christian Nationalists to Ponder
NUMBER OF TIMES YOUR HERO DONALD TRUMP IS MENTIONED IN THE EPSTEIN FILES:
Over 38,000 times.
NUMBER OF TIMES JESUS IS MENTIONED IN THE US CONSITUTION:
Never. Not even once.
NUMBER OF TIMES YOUR HERO DONALD TRUMP IS MENTIONED IN THE EPSTEIN FILES:
Over 38,000 times.
NUMBER OF TIMES JESUS IS MENTIONED IN THE US CONSITUTION:
Never. Not even once.
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Understatement of the century
February 5, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Understatement of the century
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Minnesota ICE Enforcement: Tracking Alleged Constitutional Violations in Court
A searchable bank of plaintiffs’ sworn statements of what happened to them.
www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...
#RacialProfiling #ICE
A searchable bank of plaintiffs’ sworn statements of what happened to them.
www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...
#RacialProfiling #ICE
Minnesota ICE Enforcement: Alleged Constitutional Violations
The ACLU and partners sued over alleged racial profiling and unlawful arrests in Minnesota. Read sworn declarations and case details.
www.justsecurity.org
February 5, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Minnesota ICE Enforcement: Tracking Alleged Constitutional Violations in Court
A searchable bank of plaintiffs’ sworn statements of what happened to them.
www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...
#RacialProfiling #ICE
A searchable bank of plaintiffs’ sworn statements of what happened to them.
www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...
#RacialProfiling #ICE
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There is zero reason for a billionaire to own an adversarial news outlet in a kleptocracy. And so billionaires are gutting the media companies they own, reorienting them to better align with the regime, and spending money on bribes rather than journalists
www.404media.co/the-washingt...
www.404media.co/the-washingt...
The Washington Post Is No Longer Useful to Jeff Bezos
In a kleptocracy, there is no reason for a billionaire to own an adversarial news outlet.
www.404media.co
February 5, 2026 at 3:14 PM
There is zero reason for a billionaire to own an adversarial news outlet in a kleptocracy. And so billionaires are gutting the media companies they own, reorienting them to better align with the regime, and spending money on bribes rather than journalists
www.404media.co/the-washingt...
www.404media.co/the-washingt...
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that stage of society when school children share the bond of having endured the camps together
The two children who returned to MN today say they saw one of their Valley View schoolmates at a detention center in TX. This is a child whose family was last in contact with the school on January 9. No one has known where they were until now.
February 5, 2026 at 2:12 AM
that stage of society when school children share the bond of having endured the camps together
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The National Center for Civil and Human Rights Offers Great Lesson Materials For Free larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/02/05/t...
The National Center for Civil and Human Rights Offers Great Lesson Materials For Free
The recently reopened National Center for Civil and Human Rights has an “education portal” which offers tons of excellent lesson plans and learning materials. You can read more a…
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org
February 5, 2026 at 12:36 PM
The National Center for Civil and Human Rights Offers Great Lesson Materials For Free larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/02/05/t...