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Kat
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Neuro x educator | Reader | Adventurer
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Love when editors make a point so eloquently.
chef’s kiss
April 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Today's Headlines
April 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
And now no one knows where she is… this is so scary.
Six masked agents in street clothes disappearing a Tufts Ph.D. student in broad daylight on the streets of Somerville. There is video footage out there every person should watch.
March 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If we want our children to spend less time on their phones, we should show them how to do that by spending less time on our phones.

If we want them to be thoughtful with their use of technology, we have to be thoughtful with our use of technology.

#edusky
#primaryrocks
#eduskyprimary
#eduskytech
March 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Today, I learned that a clock face is based on an astrolabe, and clockwise is the same direction in which an astrolabe moves. The past is always connected to us.
Astrolabe, 18th century
An 18th century Astrolabe. This is copy made in the late 18th century of a popular astrolabe originally designed in the early 18th century. I found this in a souk in Marrakech. An astrolabe is a hi...
www.flickr.com
March 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
“In no uncertain terms is this an audit,” claims the second auditor. “It’s a heist, stealing a vast amount of government data.”
March 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
March 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I have no words.
That is both messed up and disgraceful! You can’t just delete history!

Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.
March 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Mahmoud Khalil has a green card and was exercising his protected right to free speech. He was arrested for his *opinion* and that should worry everyone.
Columbia Is Betraying Its Students. We Must Change Course.
www.thenation.com
March 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
TIL: Robert Smalls stole a Confederate ship, gave it to the Union Army, and went on to fight the Confederacy as the first Black US Navy Captain.

A model for courage, steadfastness, and grace, as is his wife, this conversation on Criminal is what I needed today.
Episode 142: Robert Smalls (6.19.20)
On May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls took command of a Confederate ship and liberated himself and his family from enslavement. His great-great-grandson, Michael Boulware Moore, tells the story.
thisiscriminal.com
March 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Imagine this: On the evening of March 8, you and your spouse unlock the door to your apartment building. As you step inside, two men—not in uniform—push their way in behind you. They tell you your visa has been revoked and that they are there to deport you.
March 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Yesterday: Set writing goal. Met writing goal.

Today: If I write something on Bluesky, that counts towards my word count, right?

#writing
#nonfiction
March 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"'Green card holders also have the right to free speech,' according to David Cole, a Georgetown Law professor.

'The First Amendment does not distinguish between citizens and non-citizens,' says Cole, who successfully represented Palestinian clients in a lengthy First Amendment case."

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npr.org NPR @npr.org · Mar 12
A New York federal judge is set to hear pivotal questions in the case of Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of large Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia University who now faces deportation after his arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Mahmoud Khalil case goes to court, spotlighting green card holders' rights
A New York federal judge is set to hear pivotal questions in the case of Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of large Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia University who now faces deportation after his arrest by...
www.npr.org
March 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days (or however you like), in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚❤️🌹

Day 16

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#OwlMoon
#BeautifulFiction
#picturebook
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March 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This is what ally-ship looks like. I don't know who the man who stood up to the chairman is, but koodos to you, sir. Well done.
More of this!
March 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I was not there during this day, but I was there many other days. It was not dangerous. It was not violent. The pro-divestment encampment was supportive and peaceful. See the comments on this post for videos from the day he was there. 🍉🕊️
He is lying.

I was on Columbia's campus the day Johnson visited, April 24. The congressional delegation spoke from the steps of the Low Library, hundreds of feet from the pro-divestment encampment. No one could even hear Johnson– only press microphones. He was heckled. That's all.
Q: What crime did Mahmoud Khalil commit to warrant his arrest?

JOHNSON: Let me tell you something. I faced down the angry mob at Columbia at the height of that stuff...if you're on a student visa and you're an aspiring young terrorist who wants to prey upon your Jewish classmates, you're going home
March 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days (or however you like), in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚❤️🌹

Day 15

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#TheLostCityofZ
#Amazon
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March 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
This feels like it should be a bigger deal. Why would we rather pollute than work to keep our waters clean?

slate.com/news-and-pol...
Supreme Court Rules the Clean Water Act Doesn’t Actually Require That Water Be Clean
Amy Coney Barrett was not having it.
slate.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
In case you were wondering, the Office of Chief Scientist does a lot www.nasa.gov/ocs/, which is unsurprising for a scientific organization.
March 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Amen
March 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Trudeau: We’re probably going to keep booing the American anthem. But let me tell Americans, we're not booing you. We're booing a policy that is designed to hurt us. 

But we're Canadian. We're going to fight. And we're going to win.
March 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual.
cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
March 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Curiosity is the engine of discovery! 📚💡
February 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Children deserve their humanity, whether at school or home. They should be encouraged to think about their values and how to voice their opinions peacefully. They are the ones who will have to live with the consequences of our actions.
#tdih 1969, SCOTUS ruled that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate" in Tinker v. Des Moines -- students (age 8-17) suspended b/c they wore armbands to school to protest Vietnam war. 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/co...
Feb. 24, 1969: Tinker v. Des Moines Case Wins Free Speech Rights for Students
The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Tinker v. Des Moines that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”
www.zinnedproject.org
February 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM