Rachel Ernst
@rachelernst.myatproto.social
Teacher and librarian
Tea lover
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Tea lover
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November 12, 2025 at 8:48 AM
This reply was my favorite
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Yes there's a lot of denial, but I've seen it: when it snaps, it snaps hard.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Yes there's a lot of denial, but I've seen it: when it snaps, it snaps hard.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
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It drives me crazy that people act like phonics will fix everything. Phonics in English is a joke. I've spent the last 20 years trying to teach kids from all language backgrounds to read in English. There needs to be a robust use of strategies to help *all* readers. Here's a great example:
November 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It drives me crazy that people act like phonics will fix everything. Phonics in English is a joke. I've spent the last 20 years trying to teach kids from all language backgrounds to read in English. There needs to be a robust use of strategies to help *all* readers. Here's a great example:
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In the US, law enforcement isn't just legally allowed to lie to you, they're ENCOURAGED to. OTOH, your lawyer is legally prohibited from lying to you and can lose her license for it.
Which of those professions, though, do you reflexively associate more with lying?
You're not immune to copaganda.
Which of those professions, though, do you reflexively associate more with lying?
You're not immune to copaganda.
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
In the US, law enforcement isn't just legally allowed to lie to you, they're ENCOURAGED to. OTOH, your lawyer is legally prohibited from lying to you and can lose her license for it.
Which of those professions, though, do you reflexively associate more with lying?
You're not immune to copaganda.
Which of those professions, though, do you reflexively associate more with lying?
You're not immune to copaganda.
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Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.
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This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
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In a significantly weirder case, "Sleeping Lady with Black Vase" is a 1928 oil painting by Róbert Berény. It was lost in WWII, and considered looted by the Nazis and likely destroyed afterwards in the chaos... until someone recognized it as set dressing in the movie "Stuart Little."
Yes, really.
Yes, really.
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
In a significantly weirder case, "Sleeping Lady with Black Vase" is a 1928 oil painting by Róbert Berény. It was lost in WWII, and considered looted by the Nazis and likely destroyed afterwards in the chaos... until someone recognized it as set dressing in the movie "Stuart Little."
Yes, really.
Yes, really.
"What's the point of standards?"
This feels so much like when you have politicians trying to force education reforms based on trendy podcasts and it's obvious they literally have no concept of the profession or any of the reasons standards and policies existed in the first place.
This feels so much like when you have politicians trying to force education reforms based on trendy podcasts and it's obvious they literally have no concept of the profession or any of the reasons standards and policies existed in the first place.
“Standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She asks ‘What’s the point of standards?’
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"What's the point of standards?"
This feels so much like when you have politicians trying to force education reforms based on trendy podcasts and it's obvious they literally have no concept of the profession or any of the reasons standards and policies existed in the first place.
This feels so much like when you have politicians trying to force education reforms based on trendy podcasts and it's obvious they literally have no concept of the profession or any of the reasons standards and policies existed in the first place.
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Climate disinformation is on the rise because of COP30. Please be weary of any/all climate information you see online right now — especially around climate solutions. Bad actors are working overtime to make it look these solutions are worthless.
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Climate disinformation is on the rise because of COP30. Please be weary of any/all climate information you see online right now — especially around climate solutions. Bad actors are working overtime to make it look these solutions are worthless.
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that’s what I’ve been saaaayying maaan
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
that’s what I’ve been saaaayying maaan
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Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
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Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
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I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
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Protect your blood pressure
Don’t fall for the rage bait
Always apply some critical thought when you see posts like that
Christmas is alive and well
No one is taking it away from you
Go out and enjoy yourself. See family and friends. Take part in the festivities🎄🎄🎄
15/15
Don’t fall for the rage bait
Always apply some critical thought when you see posts like that
Christmas is alive and well
No one is taking it away from you
Go out and enjoy yourself. See family and friends. Take part in the festivities🎄🎄🎄
15/15
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Protect your blood pressure
Don’t fall for the rage bait
Always apply some critical thought when you see posts like that
Christmas is alive and well
No one is taking it away from you
Go out and enjoy yourself. See family and friends. Take part in the festivities🎄🎄🎄
15/15
Don’t fall for the rage bait
Always apply some critical thought when you see posts like that
Christmas is alive and well
No one is taking it away from you
Go out and enjoy yourself. See family and friends. Take part in the festivities🎄🎄🎄
15/15
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It’s chilling how similar this is to the dynamic of a violent and abusive man and his family.
‘Stay out of sight, and he won’t find you and beat you black and blue.’
‘Just be quiet, don’t draw his attention’
‘Stay out of sight, and he won’t find you and beat you black and blue.’
‘Just be quiet, don’t draw his attention’
“A Nigerian official was told by a U.S. counterpart that, with Thanksgiving coming up, Nigeria should go quiet and wait for the president’s attention to shift, a Nigerian official said.”
Ladies and Gentlemen, the commander in chief of the U.S. military.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the commander in chief of the U.S. military.
November 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
It’s chilling how similar this is to the dynamic of a violent and abusive man and his family.
‘Stay out of sight, and he won’t find you and beat you black and blue.’
‘Just be quiet, don’t draw his attention’
‘Stay out of sight, and he won’t find you and beat you black and blue.’
‘Just be quiet, don’t draw his attention’
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I tell my clients this often, “the things your parents SWEAR will kill them (your tattoos, partners, queerness, unconventional job, whatever)? To this day, I don’t know any parent who has had the follow through to ACTUALLY die”
Start upsetting them TODAY.
Start upsetting them TODAY.
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I tell my clients this often, “the things your parents SWEAR will kill them (your tattoos, partners, queerness, unconventional job, whatever)? To this day, I don’t know any parent who has had the follow through to ACTUALLY die”
Start upsetting them TODAY.
Start upsetting them TODAY.
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Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
There have been multiple Christian journalists documenting this and shouting about this for decades. Often they are women.
But secular US culture discounts women's testimony flat out anyway.
Where's national outrage? We *just* had a NYT headline yesterday blaming women for ruining work.
But secular US culture discounts women's testimony flat out anyway.
Where's national outrage? We *just* had a NYT headline yesterday blaming women for ruining work.
The world's largest Pentecostal denomination has been covering up the sexual abuse of children for at least 50 years.
Where is the national outrage?
Where is the national outrage?
November 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
There have been multiple Christian journalists documenting this and shouting about this for decades. Often they are women.
But secular US culture discounts women's testimony flat out anyway.
Where's national outrage? We *just* had a NYT headline yesterday blaming women for ruining work.
But secular US culture discounts women's testimony flat out anyway.
Where's national outrage? We *just* had a NYT headline yesterday blaming women for ruining work.
Just saying "mossy" in a drawn out way will activate just about any San Diegan like a sleeper agent. They've been playing the same jingle for 40 years.
youtu.be/i6frHvPCVlM?...
youtu.be/i6frHvPCVlM?...
November 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Just saying "mossy" in a drawn out way will activate just about any San Diegan like a sleeper agent. They've been playing the same jingle for 40 years.
youtu.be/i6frHvPCVlM?...
youtu.be/i6frHvPCVlM?...
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When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
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apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe
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What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
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Watson was deeply influential to me as a genomicist, but not how you may assume
From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person
Don't idolize bad people
From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person
Don't idolize bad people
BREAKING: James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix whose work reshaped medicine, forensics and genetics, dies at 97.
James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97
Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died. He was 97.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Watson was deeply influential to me as a genomicist, but not how you may assume
From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person
Don't idolize bad people
From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person
Don't idolize bad people
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Y’all have to kill that inner “oh I’ll show you” whenever you see a Black person talking, it’s only going to lead to ruin.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Y’all have to kill that inner “oh I’ll show you” whenever you see a Black person talking, it’s only going to lead to ruin.
Once upon a time, I had "comfortable" money & one of the greatest joys was affording a room I could just open up to anyone. I had people live with me to escape a slumlord, when job searching, uni students on spring break. Having money to be a physical safe space is a high I'm still chasing.
A friend and I talk a lot about how the beauty of money (small m) is that it allows you to buy your way out of problems. Car broke down? You can afford to fix it.
But it seems with very rich people, the inability for money to "fix" a situation - like mortality - to their liking is THE problem.
But it seems with very rich people, the inability for money to "fix" a situation - like mortality - to their liking is THE problem.
November 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Once upon a time, I had "comfortable" money & one of the greatest joys was affording a room I could just open up to anyone. I had people live with me to escape a slumlord, when job searching, uni students on spring break. Having money to be a physical safe space is a high I'm still chasing.