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· Mar 7
FWISD Teachers Speak Out Against Abbott's Voucher Bill and What We Know About School Closures
Podcast Episode · 817 Podcast - Fort Worth's Monday Morning Show · 03/03/2025 · 1h
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Y'all, I was on the 817 Podcast to talk about Texas school vouchers. They are disastrous policy! Give a listen -
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I am wrinkle patches years old
December 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I am wrinkle patches years old
Y’all. Proximity doesn’t breed anything but proximity.
It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).
December 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Y’all. Proximity doesn’t breed anything but proximity.
Perception is so funny. When I am by myself there are people that swear I am the whitest white and couldn’t possibly be Latinx or Spanish speaking. Standing next to any family members it’s constant a)assumptions I speak Spanish (I do!) and b)”what are you/y’all”
December 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Perception is so funny. When I am by myself there are people that swear I am the whitest white and couldn’t possibly be Latinx or Spanish speaking. Standing next to any family members it’s constant a)assumptions I speak Spanish (I do!) and b)”what are you/y’all”
I labeled one of my sister’s presents as “from Krampus” and she did not find it funny
In Salzburg, Austria, Christmas involves both St. Nick and Krampus, a mythological punisher with roots stretching back to late antiquity and many fans in the present-day Central Alps.
It's Christmastime — and if you live in the Alps, watch out! Krampus is coming
In Salzburg, Austria, Christmas involves both St. Nick and Krampus, a mythological punisher with roots stretching back to late antiquity and many fans in the present-day Central Alps.
n.pr
December 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I labeled one of my sister’s presents as “from Krampus” and she did not find it funny
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‘It’s the wildest place I have walked’: new national park will join up Chile’s 2,800km wildlife corridor
‘It’s the wildest place I have walked’: new national park will join up Chile’s 2,800km wildlife corridor
Government poised to officially protect 200,000 hectares of remote Patagonian coastline and forest
Chile’s government is poised to create the country’s 47th national park, protecting nearly 200,000 hectares (500,000 acres) of pristine wilderness and completing a wildlife corridor stretching 1,700 miles (2,800km) to the southernmost tip of the Americas.
The Cape Froward national park is a wild expanse of wind-torn coastline and forested valleys that harbours unrivalled biodiversity and has played host to millennia of human history. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
‘It’s the wildest place I have walked’: new national park will join up Chile’s 2,800km wildlife corridor
Si me ven, si me ven
December 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Si me ven, si me ven
I didn’t know Ahab was in perimenopause but it makes sense
forced from his hammock by exhausting and intolerably vivid dreams of the night
December 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I didn’t know Ahab was in perimenopause but it makes sense
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The British Museum has launched a long-term loans program that sent 80 Greek and Egyptian antiquities to India in “a rebranding exercise that preserves colonial power structures while pretending to dismantle them,” writes Emiline Smith.
British Museum Launches Farcical “Decolonizing” Loan Program
Long-term loans to former colonies are not restitution. They do not acknowledge historical wrongdoing, nor do they restore agency to source communities.
hyperallergic.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The British Museum has launched a long-term loans program that sent 80 Greek and Egyptian antiquities to India in “a rebranding exercise that preserves colonial power structures while pretending to dismantle them,” writes Emiline Smith.
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Bénédicte Savoy is Europe’s leading advocate for the repatriation of cultural heritage. Now, in the wake of a shocking heist, she’s bringing her ideas to the Louvre. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/l1aYfQ
The Burgled Louvre’s Stolen-Art Expert
Bénédicte Savoy is Europe’s leading advocate for the repatriation of cultural heritage. Now, in the wake of a shocking heist, she’s bringing her ideas to the Louvre.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
December 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Bénédicte Savoy is Europe’s leading advocate for the repatriation of cultural heritage. Now, in the wake of a shocking heist, she’s bringing her ideas to the Louvre. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/l1aYfQ
I just bought a super trad wife coded apron so now I guess I have to learn to cook
December 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I just bought a super trad wife coded apron so now I guess I have to learn to cook
About to text everyone my grievances
OMG Is today festivus? It is !!!
December 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
About to text everyone my grievances
I think this is the year I start a small business
December 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I think this is the year I start a small business
Best money I spent all year? I ordered a POUND of bluebonnet seeds. Keep ‘em in my car. I’ve spent December sprinkling them around town whenever the spirit moves and come March, I’m going to get a little spark of happiness every time I see a random bluebonnet patch.
December 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Best money I spent all year? I ordered a POUND of bluebonnet seeds. Keep ‘em in my car. I’ve spent December sprinkling them around town whenever the spirit moves and come March, I’m going to get a little spark of happiness every time I see a random bluebonnet patch.
Sigh. I made my classroom no-AI and it’s impossible to do it without moving back to paper and pencil, so I’m back to the bad old days of having stacks and piles of paper everywhere and I hate that.
December 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Sigh. I made my classroom no-AI and it’s impossible to do it without moving back to paper and pencil, so I’m back to the bad old days of having stacks and piles of paper everywhere and I hate that.
Welp, I’ve lived many years of middle schoolers the day before a break and now I’ve experienced high schoolers before a break and: no comparison. Not even close. I don’t even want to know what the elementary school teachers lived through
December 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Welp, I’ve lived many years of middle schoolers the day before a break and now I’ve experienced high schoolers before a break and: no comparison. Not even close. I don’t even want to know what the elementary school teachers lived through
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How is this legal?
December 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
How is this legal?
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⚖️ La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos declaró al Estado mexicano como responsable de la violación, tortura y muerte de Ernestina Ascencio Rosario, perpetradas por elementos de la SEDENA en 2007 en Zongolica, Veracruz.
Corte IDH declara a México responsable por violación, tortura y muerte de Ernestina Ascencio a manos del Ejército
www.animalpolitico.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
⚖️ La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos declaró al Estado mexicano como responsable de la violación, tortura y muerte de Ernestina Ascencio Rosario, perpetradas por elementos de la SEDENA en 2007 en Zongolica, Veracruz.
I will give any one of y’all a dollar to grade all the end of semester late work and all of the semester finals
December 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I will give any one of y’all a dollar to grade all the end of semester late work and all of the semester finals
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"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman at Brown, had a condition as a child that required brain surgery. The experience created an unshakable ambition to become a brain surgeon, his sister said.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
Brown shooting victim was pursuing dream of becoming brain surgeon
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, was one of two people killed at Brown University on Saturday.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."
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The Geminids meteor shower appears every December, but it will peak this year on Saturday, the 13th. n.pr/44WMNiI
Skywatchers rejoice: The Geminids meteor shower peaks tonight
The Geminids meteor shower appears every December, but it will peak this year on Saturday, the 13th.
n.pr
December 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The Geminids meteor shower appears every December, but it will peak this year on Saturday, the 13th. n.pr/44WMNiI
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This is SO important.
BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from immigration detention after a federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.
Judge orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be immediately released from immigration detention
A federal judge in Maryland has ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from immigration detention while his legal challenge against his deportation moves forward. U.S.
bit.ly
December 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This is SO important.
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he swam so fast and furious
December 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
he swam so fast and furious
If you’re going to loot another country’s cultural patrimony, the least you can do is keep the rain off
Up to 400 documents in the Louvre have been damaged by a water leak in the Egyptian antiquities department, the the deputy administrator of the museum said on Sunday.
Leak Highlights Poor State of Louvre Infrastructure
Up to 400 documents have been damaged by the leak, according to Francis Steinbock, the deputy administrator of the museum. But no works of art were affected.
nyti.ms
December 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
If you’re going to loot another country’s cultural patrimony, the least you can do is keep the rain off
Can confirm. I’m just a random public school teacher who shows up occasionally for public comment, but I live in a city of a million where fewer than 10% of people vote.
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Can confirm. I’m just a random public school teacher who shows up occasionally for public comment, but I live in a city of a million where fewer than 10% of people vote.
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Let us first see peace
December 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Let us first see peace