@lvstodance23.bsky.social
Retired Middle School Teacher and Reading Specialist, parent and Nana. Forever advocate for equitable opportunities for all children. Ran for VA Senate SD2.
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Donald Trump said “quiet piggy” to a female reporter because she dared to ask about the Epstein files, and as bad as that is, the fact that none of her colleagues defended her, is even worse.
November 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Donald Trump said “quiet piggy” to a female reporter because she dared to ask about the Epstein files, and as bad as that is, the fact that none of her colleagues defended her, is even worse.
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Using A.I. to vet library materials flags many titles that are not accurate and matches titles against "challenged" books or reviews which could include anything. This practice is problematic. Districts should not be using A.I. to vet materials, since A.I. does not include the context or full text.
In some cases, the impact has been immediate:
New Braunfels ISD used Bookmarked to help identify 450+ library books that could violate SB 13, from The Handmaid’s Tale to Madame Bovary to Game of Thrones.
The district shut its library for two weeks to start reviewing them. 4/
New Braunfels ISD used Bookmarked to help identify 450+ library books that could violate SB 13, from The Handmaid’s Tale to Madame Bovary to Game of Thrones.
The district shut its library for two weeks to start reviewing them. 4/
November 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Using A.I. to vet library materials flags many titles that are not accurate and matches titles against "challenged" books or reviews which could include anything. This practice is problematic. Districts should not be using A.I. to vet materials, since A.I. does not include the context or full text.
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How can it be considered that so many kindergartners are already behind before they even start their academic journey? Could the expectations be wrong? #EduSky nancyebailey.com/2024/12/07/h...
How Assessment and Data are Used to Stigmatize Children as Failing - Nancy Bailey's Education Website
School districts continue to purchase high-cost commercialized tests that depersonalize teaching, stigmatize children and schools as failing, and build public distrust. Assessment should inform educat...
nancyebailey.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
How can it be considered that so many kindergartners are already behind before they even start their academic journey? Could the expectations be wrong? #EduSky nancyebailey.com/2024/12/07/h...
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The way our constitutional republic works is that the supreme court is supposed to strike down actions by the executive when they perform an act that is exclusively granted to congress in the constitution. Whether it is a "signature policy" is irrelevant. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Bessent on tariffs: "This is one of President Trump's signature policies, and traditionally the Supreme Court does not interfere with a president's signature policy."
November 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The way our constitutional republic works is that the supreme court is supposed to strike down actions by the executive when they perform an act that is exclusively granted to congress in the constitution. Whether it is a "signature policy" is irrelevant. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Wow, who knew the Dems were so powerful?? 🙄
November 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Wow, who knew the Dems were so powerful?? 🙄
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Realizing that the massive funding boost for secret police is going to be undercut by the inherent corruption and graft in this administration is a weird feeling
NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
Kristi Noem-Tied Firm Secretly Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Campaign
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Realizing that the massive funding boost for secret police is going to be undercut by the inherent corruption and graft in this administration is a weird feeling
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We absolutely won't raise income tax. Unless we do. But we now won't. Can you U turn on a rumour. Apparently so.
November 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
We absolutely won't raise income tax. Unless we do. But we now won't. Can you U turn on a rumour. Apparently so.
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Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Jeffries: "The notion that the No Kings rallies are anything but a patriotic act consistent w.the 1A right to express yourself & petition the govt for change in policy continues to reveal that Republicans are clueless as it relates to the Constitution, or they continue to lie for political reasons."
October 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Jeffries: "The notion that the No Kings rallies are anything but a patriotic act consistent w.the 1A right to express yourself & petition the govt for change in policy continues to reveal that Republicans are clueless as it relates to the Constitution, or they continue to lie for political reasons."
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Elderly white hippies are Americans too and they have every right to be out there protesting if they want to and it doesn't matter if they live in DC or not. We have freedom of travel in this country and we can protest anywhere. Who doesn't Miller hate? Perhaps he even hates himself.
August 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Elderly white hippies are Americans too and they have every right to be out there protesting if they want to and it doesn't matter if they live in DC or not. We have freedom of travel in this country and we can protest anywhere. Who doesn't Miller hate? Perhaps he even hates himself.
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Reporter: What’s going on with those posts on X that are clearly trolling the president?
Newsom: I hope it’s a wake up call for the president. I’m just following his example. If you have issues with what I’m putting out, you sure as hell should have concerns with what he’s putting out
Newsom: I hope it’s a wake up call for the president. I’m just following his example. If you have issues with what I’m putting out, you sure as hell should have concerns with what he’s putting out
August 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Reporter: What’s going on with those posts on X that are clearly trolling the president?
Newsom: I hope it’s a wake up call for the president. I’m just following his example. If you have issues with what I’m putting out, you sure as hell should have concerns with what he’s putting out
Newsom: I hope it’s a wake up call for the president. I’m just following his example. If you have issues with what I’m putting out, you sure as hell should have concerns with what he’s putting out
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Priorities matter. Focus on the kids, not the test scores.
August 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Priorities matter. Focus on the kids, not the test scores.
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New in PN: The slide toward "competitive authoritarianism"
"Orbán subverted Hungary’s democracy with gerrymandering and by creating a nationwide right-wing media network. He put loyalists in the public prosecutor’s office, ensuring the judicial system would go after his enemies. Sound familiar?"
"Orbán subverted Hungary’s democracy with gerrymandering and by creating a nationwide right-wing media network. He put loyalists in the public prosecutor’s office, ensuring the judicial system would go after his enemies. Sound familiar?"
"Competitive authoritarianism" and America's slide toward it
You can still vote. It just might not mean much.
www.publicnotice.co
August 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
New in PN: The slide toward "competitive authoritarianism"
"Orbán subverted Hungary’s democracy with gerrymandering and by creating a nationwide right-wing media network. He put loyalists in the public prosecutor’s office, ensuring the judicial system would go after his enemies. Sound familiar?"
"Orbán subverted Hungary’s democracy with gerrymandering and by creating a nationwide right-wing media network. He put loyalists in the public prosecutor’s office, ensuring the judicial system would go after his enemies. Sound familiar?"
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Our military has NOT been in cities around the world "fighting crime." Saying so is a stretch so far that it's essentially meaningless.
August 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Our military has NOT been in cities around the world "fighting crime." Saying so is a stretch so far that it's essentially meaningless.
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The moment he named his platform “Truth Social” we were headed this way.
August 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The moment he named his platform “Truth Social” we were headed this way.
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Look at all the ways the #BrokenPost tiptoes around calling fascism fascism. Mussolini said fascism is the merger of government and industry. Il Dumbo is "CEO of America," taking a "personal approach to running the economy," which "departs from traditional conservatism," a "risky role."
August 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Look at all the ways the #BrokenPost tiptoes around calling fascism fascism. Mussolini said fascism is the merger of government and industry. Il Dumbo is "CEO of America," taking a "personal approach to running the economy," which "departs from traditional conservatism," a "risky role."
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My God.
This hit so hard.
Because you know what they're going to choose.
And it makes you feel like, as a species, we may be irredeemable. So many of us find just doing the basic decent thing an utter impossibility.
This hit so hard.
Because you know what they're going to choose.
And it makes you feel like, as a species, we may be irredeemable. So many of us find just doing the basic decent thing an utter impossibility.
July 31, 2025 at 1:42 AM
My God.
This hit so hard.
Because you know what they're going to choose.
And it makes you feel like, as a species, we may be irredeemable. So many of us find just doing the basic decent thing an utter impossibility.
This hit so hard.
Because you know what they're going to choose.
And it makes you feel like, as a species, we may be irredeemable. So many of us find just doing the basic decent thing an utter impossibility.
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One of nearly 50 documented instances of immigration agents breaking vehicle windows ProPublica identified from sm, local news accounts, lawsuits & interviews since Trump took office 6 months ago. Using the same methods, we found just 8 in the previous DECADE projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
projects.propublica.org
July 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM
One of nearly 50 documented instances of immigration agents breaking vehicle windows ProPublica identified from sm, local news accounts, lawsuits & interviews since Trump took office 6 months ago. Using the same methods, we found just 8 in the previous DECADE projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
The folks who lie about the efficiency of renewable energy must be some of the most gullible in the country. Legislators who make stupid comments about the sun going down, and the sun unreliability are lying.
He might as well be defending the horse and buggy. Solar is already cost-competitive and rapid progress is being made on electricity storage www.scientificamerican.com/article/wind...
July 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The folks who lie about the efficiency of renewable energy must be some of the most gullible in the country. Legislators who make stupid comments about the sun going down, and the sun unreliability are lying.
Op-Ed: FEMA Policy Rollbacks Leave Local Communities Vulnerable
open.substack.com/pub/shenvall...
open.substack.com/pub/shenvall...
Op-Ed: FEMA Policy Rollbacks Leave Local Communities Vulnerable
"We can do better. We must do better."
open.substack.com
July 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Op-Ed: FEMA Policy Rollbacks Leave Local Communities Vulnerable
open.substack.com/pub/shenvall...
open.substack.com/pub/shenvall...
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(🚨) The first-ever pop song about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is now on all major streaming platforms.
Be warned: It is explicit, it goes extremely hard, and it is a banger.
You can listen to it for free below.
Let's make this go viral.
Be warned: It is explicit, it goes extremely hard, and it is a banger.
You can listen to it for free below.
Let's make this go viral.
The Ballad of Jeff and Donny
YouTube video by Hounds - Topic
www.youtube.com
July 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
(🚨) The first-ever pop song about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is now on all major streaming platforms.
Be warned: It is explicit, it goes extremely hard, and it is a banger.
You can listen to it for free below.
Let's make this go viral.
Be warned: It is explicit, it goes extremely hard, and it is a banger.
You can listen to it for free below.
Let's make this go viral.
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I really think Noem’s plans to “liberate” California from its democratically elected government with military force should not have gotten lost in the news cycle but that appears to be exactly what is happening
June 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I really think Noem’s plans to “liberate” California from its democratically elected government with military force should not have gotten lost in the news cycle but that appears to be exactly what is happening
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Early voting for the 2025 #Virginia general election begins 14 weeks from today: Friday, September 19.
Early voting for the primaries ends tomorrow: Saturday, June 14. Primary day itself is June 17.
Reminder: anywhere you live in Virginia has Democratic primaries for LG and AG. Go vote! #valeg
Early voting for the primaries ends tomorrow: Saturday, June 14. Primary day itself is June 17.
Reminder: anywhere you live in Virginia has Democratic primaries for LG and AG. Go vote! #valeg
June 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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FIRST ON MSNBC: "I introduced myself and said I had a question. Look, they said I wasn't wearing my pin — my polo says 'United States Senate.'"
Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., speaks about forcible removal from Department of Homeland Security press conference.
Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., speaks about forcible removal from Department of Homeland Security press conference.
June 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
FIRST ON MSNBC: "I introduced myself and said I had a question. Look, they said I wasn't wearing my pin — my polo says 'United States Senate.'"
Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., speaks about forcible removal from Department of Homeland Security press conference.
Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., speaks about forcible removal from Department of Homeland Security press conference.