Sandy Brumbaum
@sbrumbaum.bsky.social
Literacy educator, life-long learner, book lover, Reading Recovery teacher leader; fascinated by brain science/neuroplasticity. Currently spending my days with 5th graders.
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On this day in 1900, a mob of 300 white people in Limon, Colorado, chained Preston “John” Porter Jr., a 15-year-old Black teen, to a stake and burned him alive.
Nov. 16, 1900 | Preston John Porter Jr., 15, Lynched in Limon, Colorado
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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November 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
On this day in 1900, a mob of 300 white people in Limon, Colorado, chained Preston “John” Porter Jr., a 15-year-old Black teen, to a stake and burned him alive.
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From The New Yorker
November 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
From The New Yorker
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Waiting for airline CEOs, who abused their power to end COVID travel precautions, to wield that same power to end the government shutdown…
November 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Waiting for airline CEOs, who abused their power to end COVID travel precautions, to wield that same power to end the government shutdown…
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Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco/Bay Area - here are some restaurants helping with food if you’re struggling with loss of SNAP benefits.
Please share!
Please share!
November 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco/Bay Area - here are some restaurants helping with food if you’re struggling with loss of SNAP benefits.
Please share!
Please share!
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The President went to the Supreme Court to protect his ability to deny food assistance to citizens.
Sometimes you gotta pause and marvel at the awfulness of all of it.
Sometimes you gotta pause and marvel at the awfulness of all of it.
The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments during the government shutdown.
Trump administration seeks to halt SNAP food aid payments after a court order
The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to block a judge’s order to distribute November’s full SNAP benefits during a U.S. government shutdown. U.S.
bit.ly
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The President went to the Supreme Court to protect his ability to deny food assistance to citizens.
Sometimes you gotta pause and marvel at the awfulness of all of it.
Sometimes you gotta pause and marvel at the awfulness of all of it.
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Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
(Published February)
(Published February)
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
www.propublica.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
(Published February)
(Published February)
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A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:
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My Governor just told TFG to fuck all the way off and I’m dying laughing! 🤣🤣☠️☠️🙌🙌
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
My Governor just told TFG to fuck all the way off and I’m dying laughing! 🤣🤣☠️☠️🙌🙌
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Just reread this to remind myself to “train my eyes, ears, and spirit to what’s good in the world.” open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...
November 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Just reread this to remind myself to “train my eyes, ears, and spirit to what’s good in the world.” open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...
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The Education Of Diane Ravitch www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...
The Education Of Diane Ravitch
Diane Ravitch is one of the biggest turncoats in education policy history, and American education is better for it.
www.forbes.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The Education Of Diane Ravitch www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...
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We have the timidity of countless corporate and university GCs to thank for the fact DEI is treated as though it were illegal.
lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.
October 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
We have the timidity of countless corporate and university GCs to thank for the fact DEI is treated as though it were illegal.
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an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can
NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4
October 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can
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Day 11: The longer you spend thinking about falling asleep, the more difficult it will be to do it. If you find yourself tossing and turning in bed, it’s better to get up and distract yourself for a while rather than stress about how many hours of sleep you’ll manage to get.
#sleep #insomnia #rest
#sleep #insomnia #rest
September 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Jack Ciattarelli, Republican nominee for Governor of New Jersey, apparently doesn’t think it’s worth answering the question of how important Black and Hispanic voters are to his campaign.
October 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Jack Ciattarelli, Republican nominee for Governor of New Jersey, apparently doesn’t think it’s worth answering the question of how important Black and Hispanic voters are to his campaign.
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Pritzker is handing Dems a script & a playbook to pushback on the authoritarianism. STILL, so many Dems are too cowardly (see, Schumer, Jeffries) or incompetent (see, Schumer, Jeffries) to use it.
It's maddening to have to beg these electeds whose salaries we are paying to actually fight for us.
It's maddening to have to beg these electeds whose salaries we are paying to actually fight for us.
September 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Pritzker is handing Dems a script & a playbook to pushback on the authoritarianism. STILL, so many Dems are too cowardly (see, Schumer, Jeffries) or incompetent (see, Schumer, Jeffries) to use it.
It's maddening to have to beg these electeds whose salaries we are paying to actually fight for us.
It's maddening to have to beg these electeds whose salaries we are paying to actually fight for us.
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Worth watching this brief clip.
-Note the reporter who asked about Memphis.
-Note that every other reporter should have picked up the baton and kept asking that same question. Missed opportunity to do their professional, collegial, and civic duty. Please try it next time.
-Note the reporter who asked about Memphis.
-Note that every other reporter should have picked up the baton and kept asking that same question. Missed opportunity to do their professional, collegial, and civic duty. Please try it next time.
“When will we get details on MEMPHIS?”
Trump: “Quiet. You’re really obnoxious.”
“I’m not obnoxious. I’m trying to ask you about your plans for Memphis.”
Trump: “Quiet. You’re really obnoxious.”
“I’m not obnoxious. I’m trying to ask you about your plans for Memphis.”
September 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Worth watching this brief clip.
-Note the reporter who asked about Memphis.
-Note that every other reporter should have picked up the baton and kept asking that same question. Missed opportunity to do their professional, collegial, and civic duty. Please try it next time.
-Note the reporter who asked about Memphis.
-Note that every other reporter should have picked up the baton and kept asking that same question. Missed opportunity to do their professional, collegial, and civic duty. Please try it next time.
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On this day in 1664, the Maryland legislature passed the first colonial law intended to prevent interracial marriage. It would take over 300 years for such “anti-miscegenation” laws to be banned across the U.S.
Sep. 20, 1664 | Maryland Passes Colonies’ First Law Opposing Interracial Marriage
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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September 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
On this day in 1664, the Maryland legislature passed the first colonial law intended to prevent interracial marriage. It would take over 300 years for such “anti-miscegenation” laws to be banned across the U.S.
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My friend and colleague Wesley Morris and I had a very sobering conversation about America since the 1619 Project published and how it feels to be falling back under the veil that W.E.B. Du Bois so mournfully wrote about. I hope you’ll listen to this episode of Cannonball @nytimes.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
My friend and colleague Wesley Morris and I had a very sobering conversation about America since the 1619 Project published and how it feels to be falling back under the veil that W.E.B. Du Bois so mournfully wrote about. I hope you’ll listen to this episode of Cannonball @nytimes.com
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“I am breaking just like Gaza is breaking right now.”
Al Jazeera reporters face hunger in Gaza
Our reporters in Gaza are struggling to find food because of Israel’s blockade on vital aid.
aje.io
July 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“I am breaking just like Gaza is breaking right now.”
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I guess I just want to say that Trump has captured every single institution. You can track variation in, say, court decisions or changing positions on tariffs but even conceding those things accepts that his whims run institutions’ priorities. Not a single one of them really stood.
July 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I guess I just want to say that Trump has captured every single institution. You can track variation in, say, court decisions or changing positions on tariffs but even conceding those things accepts that his whims run institutions’ priorities. Not a single one of them really stood.
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Yes. Saying "well, Harvard is fighting" while Columbia and Penn cave, while UVa and Indiana U. use Trump as cover for kneecapping faculty and student freedoms is evidence that Prof. Cottom is correct, not that the institutions have stood. It's a matter of degree now. And it's only been 6 months.
I guess I just want to say that Trump has captured every single institution. You can track variation in, say, court decisions or changing positions on tariffs but even conceding those things accepts that his whims run institutions’ priorities. Not a single one of them really stood.
July 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Yes. Saying "well, Harvard is fighting" while Columbia and Penn cave, while UVa and Indiana U. use Trump as cover for kneecapping faculty and student freedoms is evidence that Prof. Cottom is correct, not that the institutions have stood. It's a matter of degree now. And it's only been 6 months.
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AI this, AI that, what about how much energy AI actually uses?
“It blows my mind that you can buy a car and know how many miles per gallon it consumes, yet we use all these AI tools every day and we have absolutely no efficiency metrics, emissions factors, nothing." From the experts:
“It blows my mind that you can buy a car and know how many miles per gallon it consumes, yet we use all these AI tools every day and we have absolutely no efficiency metrics, emissions factors, nothing." From the experts:
How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying
A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret.
www.wired.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
AI this, AI that, what about how much energy AI actually uses?
“It blows my mind that you can buy a car and know how many miles per gallon it consumes, yet we use all these AI tools every day and we have absolutely no efficiency metrics, emissions factors, nothing." From the experts:
“It blows my mind that you can buy a car and know how many miles per gallon it consumes, yet we use all these AI tools every day and we have absolutely no efficiency metrics, emissions factors, nothing." From the experts: