@rachelpopma.bsky.social
Editor, writer, family historian. Knows a thing or two about a thing or two.
Kids are 11 and 16 and we have a hard time even letting them walk 2 blocks to McDonalds b/c they have to cross 10th and red lights are apparently optional. 16yo has started driving and that’s a whole other level of anxiety about other drivers!
August 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Kids are 11 and 16 and we have a hard time even letting them walk 2 blocks to McDonalds b/c they have to cross 10th and red lights are apparently optional. 16yo has started driving and that’s a whole other level of anxiety about other drivers!
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Nothing like trying to figure out where your kid will go to middle school when the state legislature's just trying to make the whole district disappear. FUN TIMES.
April 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Nothing like trying to figure out where your kid will go to middle school when the state legislature's just trying to make the whole district disappear. FUN TIMES.
Peak Hoosier.
March 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Peak Hoosier.
My 11 year old suggested giant trampoline park. 😆
March 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
My 11 year old suggested giant trampoline park. 😆
Cool let’s give them more taxpayer money
Former CEO of Tindley charter schools admits to defrauding network of nearly $1 million
https://www.chalkbeat.org/indiana/2025/02/26/tindley-ceo-brian-metcalf-pleads-guilty-fraud-indianapolis-charter-school/
https://www.chalkbeat.org/indiana/2025/02/26/tindley-ceo-brian-metcalf-pleads-guilty-fraud-indianapolis-charter-school/
Former charter network leader pleads guilty to defrauding schools
Brian Metcalf admitted to helping submit fraudulent invoices. In return, he received payments towards his personal loans, a mortgage provider, and a casino, according to the plea agreement in a federal case against him.
www.chalkbeat.org
February 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Cool let’s give them more taxpayer money
Years ago there was some thought about putting the archives building there. Not sure what scuttled that idea.
February 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Years ago there was some thought about putting the archives building there. Not sure what scuttled that idea.
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The Mind Trust Exploits Black & Brown Students in Indy Education Fight
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The Mind Trust Exploits Black & Brown Students in Indy Education Fight
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'The Mind Trust' exploits Black & Brown students in Indianapolis Education Fight. - Black Indy Live
IPS is under attack! Wildstyle Paschall exposes the truth about SB518 and Indy’s charter school crisis.
www.blackindylive.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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The Mind Trust Exploits Black & Brown Students in Indy Education Fight
www.blackindylive.com/the-mind-tru...
The Mind Trust Exploits Black & Brown Students in Indy Education Fight
www.blackindylive.com/the-mind-tru...
Just posting Article 8 of the Indiana constitution about how the legislature has a duty to provide for a system of common schools, "equally open to all." Not just those who make stats look good, or who don't need additional support, or who only speak English, or who are only US citizens, or or or...
February 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Just posting Article 8 of the Indiana constitution about how the legislature has a duty to provide for a system of common schools, "equally open to all." Not just those who make stats look good, or who don't need additional support, or who only speak English, or who are only US citizens, or or or...
I've seen via FB that it was Allen, Barth, Ali Brown, Delaney, Gibson, Graves, Lewis, Mascari, Nielsen, Vop, Perkins, Roberts, and Robinson.
February 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I've seen via FB that it was Allen, Barth, Ali Brown, Delaney, Gibson, Graves, Lewis, Mascari, Nielsen, Vop, Perkins, Roberts, and Robinson.
Speaking as one of @jesseforindy.bsky.social’s constituents, it’s been refreshing to have a rep that actually gives a damn about me and my neighborhood. I’m angry about this but unsurprised.
Forgive the lack of alt text. I'll amend this later. Writing from the floor of the Council.
February 4, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Speaking as one of @jesseforindy.bsky.social’s constituents, it’s been refreshing to have a rep that actually gives a damn about me and my neighborhood. I’m angry about this but unsurprised.
Not posting much yet, but I’m around!
February 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Not posting much yet, but I’m around!
It’s a bad time to need a new roof. 😕
February 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
It’s a bad time to need a new roof. 😕
Exactly! And people don’t always think about who is paying for it. I’d like to think they’d be astonished if they knew how much $ was in our local school board race.
January 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Exactly! And people don’t always think about who is paying for it. I’d like to think they’d be astonished if they knew how much $ was in our local school board race.
On a more positive note, I'm co-teaching a course on family history writing at GRIP Genealogy Institute in Pittsburgh this July! Join me, #genealogy friends! grip.ngsgenealogy.org
GRIP Genealogy Institute
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January 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
On a more positive note, I'm co-teaching a course on family history writing at GRIP Genealogy Institute in Pittsburgh this July! Join me, #genealogy friends! grip.ngsgenealogy.org
And then one commissioner talked about the education “market” & another about choice for all, & all I could think about was the relentless arrival of glossy full color mailers from their campaigns. We’ll see who they really answer to, but we all know where the $ is.
January 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
And then one commissioner talked about the education “market” & another about choice for all, & all I could think about was the relentless arrival of glossy full color mailers from their campaigns. We’ll see who they really answer to, but we all know where the $ is.
And it’s not even February. I have only so much outrage to go around.
January 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
And it’s not even February. I have only so much outrage to go around.
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Indianapolis Public Schools board takes stand against bills that threaten district’s survival, asks for public support
https://www.chalkbeat.org/indiana/2025/01/31/indianapolis-public-schools-board-opposes-legislation-encourages-support/
https://www.chalkbeat.org/indiana/2025/01/31/indianapolis-public-schools-board-opposes-legislation-encourages-support/
IPS school board asks for a voice in legislature
“There simply is no scenario where the district looks in a decade the way it does today,” the board said in a statement on Thursday.
www.chalkbeat.org
January 31, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Indianapolis Public Schools board takes stand against bills that threaten district’s survival, asks for public support
https://www.chalkbeat.org/indiana/2025/01/31/indianapolis-public-schools-board-opposes-legislation-encourages-support/
https://www.chalkbeat.org/indiana/2025/01/31/indianapolis-public-schools-board-opposes-legislation-encourages-support/
Apparently the board meeting last night lasted for four hours. I am simultaneously incensed and exhausted.
January 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Apparently the board meeting last night lasted for four hours. I am simultaneously incensed and exhausted.
Another day, yet another strongly worded message to the school board. Too bad it feels useless.
January 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Another day, yet another strongly worded message to the school board. Too bad it feels useless.
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NEW on Commomnplace: Olivia Scott shares the history of slavery and emancipation at the Colonel John Ashley House. Read more to learn about the house's inhabitants and the history of slavery in the northern colonies. #VastEarlyAmerica #Commonplace
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Glimpses of Their Lives: Slavery and Emancipation at the Colonel John Ashley House - Commonplace
These individual biographies seek to foreground the experiences of all the individuals held in bondage by the Ashley family.
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January 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
NEW on Commomnplace: Olivia Scott shares the history of slavery and emancipation at the Colonel John Ashley House. Read more to learn about the house's inhabitants and the history of slavery in the northern colonies. #VastEarlyAmerica #Commonplace
commonplace.online/article/glim...
commonplace.online/article/glim...
A reminder not to overlook informants! Research revealed my 2x-great-grandpa's siblings also came to the US from Sweden, but I'd never heard about them here. Charles (Carl) died in Utah, unmarried. The informant on his death cert? One of his nieces in Chicago, my grandma's aunt. #genealogy
January 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
A reminder not to overlook informants! Research revealed my 2x-great-grandpa's siblings also came to the US from Sweden, but I'd never heard about them here. Charles (Carl) died in Utah, unmarried. The informant on his death cert? One of his nieces in Chicago, my grandma's aunt. #genealogy
My great-grandfather got arrested for speeding in Urbana, IL...at 35 mph! (Daily Illini, 25 Sept 1921) #genealogy
January 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
My great-grandfather got arrested for speeding in Urbana, IL...at 35 mph! (Daily Illini, 25 Sept 1921) #genealogy
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IPS parents aren't waiting for anyone else to organize tho
1st meeting is February 2nd
1st meeting is February 2nd
January 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
IPS parents aren't waiting for anyone else to organize tho
1st meeting is February 2nd
1st meeting is February 2nd