MirandaPitcher
@mirandapitcher.bsky.social
Auntie, hat lover, always looking for the work worth doing.
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“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
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what are they telling us WHEN we take the time to ask this question? These concerns emerged in the student-interest-centered social media course I built this semester.
My opinion only, and it may not be popular: How can we effectively respond to AI in education if we don't know how kids and teens are flowing between/among digital, analog, and hybrid literacy contexts beyond statistics, self-reports, and speculation?
November 15, 2025 at 12:42 AM
what are they telling us WHEN we take the time to ask this question? These concerns emerged in the student-interest-centered social media course I built this semester.
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This makes me homicidal
“With immigration agents under intense pressure to deport thousands of people each day, Ms. Lopez was pushed through the system swiftly and was deported within four days of the factory raid.
As a result, Jorge is now cared for by two siblings who are barely adults themselves.”
As a result, Jorge is now cared for by two siblings who are barely adults themselves.”
She Was Deported in Error. Her Child Was Left Behind.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
This makes me homicidal
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yeahhhhhhhhhhhh so about working for Salesforce
“Salesforce job ads say: ‘When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life.’
This is cultishly absurd. Limitless how? Mind reading? Teleportation? Avoiding being laid off?
Well, no: They laid off 5,000 people this year. So the only limitless is limitlessly disposable.
This is cultishly absurd. Limitless how? Mind reading? Teleportation? Avoiding being laid off?
Well, no: They laid off 5,000 people this year. So the only limitless is limitlessly disposable.
November 15, 2025 at 12:45 AM
yeahhhhhhhhhhhh so about working for Salesforce
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Colleagues in #literacies: I'm having a difficult time finding single student case studies of middle or high school students published over the past five years that are not specifically about AI and/or ChatGPT.
Is anyone doing this kind of work anymore? See, for instance, Castanheira et. al, 2000.
Is anyone doing this kind of work anymore? See, for instance, Castanheira et. al, 2000.
November 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Colleagues in #literacies: I'm having a difficult time finding single student case studies of middle or high school students published over the past five years that are not specifically about AI and/or ChatGPT.
Is anyone doing this kind of work anymore? See, for instance, Castanheira et. al, 2000.
Is anyone doing this kind of work anymore? See, for instance, Castanheira et. al, 2000.
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leaving out a Bible and a copy of Dante's Divine Comedy on the table for the reporter to notice is like the scene in Dodgeball when Ben Stiller pretends to be reading the dictionary and goes "oh, you caught me"
November 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
leaving out a Bible and a copy of Dante's Divine Comedy on the table for the reporter to notice is like the scene in Dodgeball when Ben Stiller pretends to be reading the dictionary and goes "oh, you caught me"
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This is a 19-paragraph article to which 7 journalists contributed; it contains not a single hint that there is any impropriety in the President of the United States directing the Justice Department to investigate his political adversaries.
November 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This is a 19-paragraph article to which 7 journalists contributed; it contains not a single hint that there is any impropriety in the President of the United States directing the Justice Department to investigate his political adversaries.
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We don't have enough people doing what they can but I am so grateful to those who are. Thank you.
Actually taking the time to make the call, send the letter, show up to the meeting, write the check, go to the protests, do actual mutual aid. Thank you.
Actually taking the time to make the call, send the letter, show up to the meeting, write the check, go to the protests, do actual mutual aid. Thank you.
November 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
We don't have enough people doing what they can but I am so grateful to those who are. Thank you.
Actually taking the time to make the call, send the letter, show up to the meeting, write the check, go to the protests, do actual mutual aid. Thank you.
Actually taking the time to make the call, send the letter, show up to the meeting, write the check, go to the protests, do actual mutual aid. Thank you.
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It’s good that moderation of violent rhetoric is viewpoint-neutral. It’s good that moderation doesn’t treat you differently based on blue check or celebrity status.
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It’s good that moderation of violent rhetoric is viewpoint-neutral. It’s good that moderation doesn’t treat you differently based on blue check or celebrity status.
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Whatever Trump is desperately covering up about Epstein, it’s clearly so bad that he thinks it could destroy him
November 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Whatever Trump is desperately covering up about Epstein, it’s clearly so bad that he thinks it could destroy him
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I'm choosing to view everything Leo does as if it were specifically calculated to fuck with J.D. Vance.
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Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lunch With 4 Trans Women in "Unprecedented" Meeting
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
November 15, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I'm choosing to view everything Leo does as if it were specifically calculated to fuck with J.D. Vance.
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My mom’s working on her Ph.D, and her dissertation is on Super Heroes as modern mythology. If you could take a few minutes to answer questions about your experiences with super hero media, it would help her a lot!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Linda Mae Superhero Questionnaire
Linda Mae is writing her thesis about superhero archetypes as modern mythology, and she would like your help! Please fill out the questionnaire below to assist with her research.
docs.google.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
My mom’s working on her Ph.D, and her dissertation is on Super Heroes as modern mythology. If you could take a few minutes to answer questions about your experiences with super hero media, it would help her a lot!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The party of billionaires and corporations. If you ain’t one of those, you ain’t getting any help from this administration.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The party of billionaires and corporations. If you ain’t one of those, you ain’t getting any help from this administration.
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The US Transportation Department is abandoning an effort started by the Biden administration to require airlines to provide meals, hotels and cash payouts to passengers affected by significant flight disruptions.
Trump Administration Ditches Plan to Compensate Stranded Flyers
The US Transportation Department is abandoning an effort started by the Biden administration to require airlines to provide meals, hotels and cash payouts to passengers affected by significant flight disruptions.
bloom.bg
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The US Transportation Department is abandoning an effort started by the Biden administration to require airlines to provide meals, hotels and cash payouts to passengers affected by significant flight disruptions.
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These are not groups to whom Ryan turns to for consultation or advice, nor are they sources of pressure or support within the situation.
To me, this reflects how distant
boards and presidents are from on campus constituencies even amidst moments of significant campus crisis.
To me, this reflects how distant
boards and presidents are from on campus constituencies even amidst moments of significant campus crisis.
November 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
These are not groups to whom Ryan turns to for consultation or advice, nor are they sources of pressure or support within the situation.
To me, this reflects how distant
boards and presidents are from on campus constituencies even amidst moments of significant campus crisis.
To me, this reflects how distant
boards and presidents are from on campus constituencies even amidst moments of significant campus crisis.
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The point of the Ryan letter is to detail his interactions with the board and the DOJ, but I nevertheless find it pretty telling how within the letter there is little to no mention (depends on the interpretation of “our community”) of faculty, students, or anyone on campus below the rank of dean.
Jim Ryan wrote a letter to UVA detailing his "resignation" and I'm gonna get some fresh tea before I read it because I feel pretty certain I'm gonna be filled with righteous anger by the end
I'll do a thread but here's the full letter provided by the chronicle
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
I'll do a thread but here's the full letter provided by the chronicle
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Jim Ryan letter
www.documentcloud.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
The point of the Ryan letter is to detail his interactions with the board and the DOJ, but I nevertheless find it pretty telling how within the letter there is little to no mention (depends on the interpretation of “our community”) of faculty, students, or anyone on campus below the rank of dean.
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Schools with the additional purpose of being a community resource could go a long way. If kids could stay after school, have a snack, and get practice reading and writing with teachers and peer tutors, that would change all sorts of things.
November 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Schools with the additional purpose of being a community resource could go a long way. If kids could stay after school, have a snack, and get practice reading and writing with teachers and peer tutors, that would change all sorts of things.
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my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia
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Great book for understanding how transgression of norms was a sign of power and dominance is Soul by Soul by Johnson. It is great and in one part looks at how white enslavers flaunted their sexual abuse of enslaved Black women as a challenged that proved their power.
It isn’t that so many of the world’s most powerful men happen to be sexual sadists. It is that at a certain level of power, what obscenity is left but to violate the most vulnerable? Wealth shifts the baseline of morality until what is possible is acceptable. With enough money, anything is possible.
November 15, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Great book for understanding how transgression of norms was a sign of power and dominance is Soul by Soul by Johnson. It is great and in one part looks at how white enslavers flaunted their sexual abuse of enslaved Black women as a challenged that proved their power.
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Meg & I collaborated on the Philly Native Plant Project that distributed 10,000 native seed packets in Philly. The proceeds from this calendar will fund the 2026 installment! We hope to distribute even more in '26.
Learn about animals, how to help them AND fund a project that supports biodiversity.
Learn about animals, how to help them AND fund a project that supports biodiversity.
September 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Meg & I collaborated on the Philly Native Plant Project that distributed 10,000 native seed packets in Philly. The proceeds from this calendar will fund the 2026 installment! We hope to distribute even more in '26.
Learn about animals, how to help them AND fund a project that supports biodiversity.
Learn about animals, how to help them AND fund a project that supports biodiversity.
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🚨 Cool educational item alert 🚨
We teamed up with Philly Nature Illustrator, Meg Lemieur @megstampede.bsky.social to create a 12 month wall calendar all about animals!
The calendar includes lessons we can learn from animals & how we can help them.
Pre-order here!
www.etsy.com/listing/4366...
We teamed up with Philly Nature Illustrator, Meg Lemieur @megstampede.bsky.social to create a 12 month wall calendar all about animals!
The calendar includes lessons we can learn from animals & how we can help them.
Pre-order here!
www.etsy.com/listing/4366...
September 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🚨 Cool educational item alert 🚨
We teamed up with Philly Nature Illustrator, Meg Lemieur @megstampede.bsky.social to create a 12 month wall calendar all about animals!
The calendar includes lessons we can learn from animals & how we can help them.
Pre-order here!
www.etsy.com/listing/4366...
We teamed up with Philly Nature Illustrator, Meg Lemieur @megstampede.bsky.social to create a 12 month wall calendar all about animals!
The calendar includes lessons we can learn from animals & how we can help them.
Pre-order here!
www.etsy.com/listing/4366...
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I got my 2026 calendar in the mail today, it's beautiful and you should get one too! Or get two, one for you and one for you know who. Thanks @sarahmackattack.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/sara...
🚨 Cool educational item alert 🚨
We teamed up with Philly Nature Illustrator, Meg Lemieur @megstampede.bsky.social to create a 12 month wall calendar all about animals!
The calendar includes lessons we can learn from animals & how we can help them.
Pre-order here!
www.etsy.com/listing/4366...
We teamed up with Philly Nature Illustrator, Meg Lemieur @megstampede.bsky.social to create a 12 month wall calendar all about animals!
The calendar includes lessons we can learn from animals & how we can help them.
Pre-order here!
www.etsy.com/listing/4366...
November 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I got my 2026 calendar in the mail today, it's beautiful and you should get one too! Or get two, one for you and one for you know who. Thanks @sarahmackattack.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/sara...
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Memphis is experiencing gestapo-style raids 24/7 now. Our local media is failing us and the national media is ignoring this black/blue/incredibly poor city in a red state. I guess we just aren’t as sexy as LA or Portland.
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Memphis is experiencing gestapo-style raids 24/7 now. Our local media is failing us and the national media is ignoring this black/blue/incredibly poor city in a red state. I guess we just aren’t as sexy as LA or Portland.
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Not a critique of Tom at all, but how quickly we’ve acculturated ourselves to a world where the president publicly orders an investigation, and his AG salutes in plain sight. The corpse of the post-Watergate era is well and truly rotted through.
Instead of just releasing the Epstein files, Trump ordered the DOJ to investigate Democrats and AG Pam Bondi is complying.
Are they setting up a pretext to block the release by arguing the files are now part of an active investigation? I’m not saying that would work, but he’s desperate to block.
Are they setting up a pretext to block the release by arguing the files are now part of an active investigation? I’m not saying that would work, but he’s desperate to block.
November 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Not a critique of Tom at all, but how quickly we’ve acculturated ourselves to a world where the president publicly orders an investigation, and his AG salutes in plain sight. The corpse of the post-Watergate era is well and truly rotted through.
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Fed. judge holds that the Trump administration engaged in coercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First and Tenth Amendments in its pretextual attacks on the University of California system.
PI granted.
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PI granted.
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November 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Fed. judge holds that the Trump administration engaged in coercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First and Tenth Amendments in its pretextual attacks on the University of California system.
PI granted.
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PI granted.
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