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Wayde G
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Educator/Coach/Learner.
Social Studies/History/Civics/Inquiry/Student Agency/Belonging.
Chicagoan.
Baseball Bison Birds Bikes.
This.
PACZKI DAY IS ONE WEEK AWAY. NOT A DRILL. HAVE A PLAN.
February 10, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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You really can live without Amazon. You really can.
February 7, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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During the week after Pretti was killed by DHS, Fox News made at least 75 claims blaming Pretti for his own death or contradicting video evidence.
Study: Fox News smeared Alex Pretti dozens of times following his killing by federal agents
On January 24, Customs and Border Protection agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old Minnesota intensive care nurse, during immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis. In the week tha...
www.mediamatters.org
February 6, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963.

The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
mississippitoday.org
February 5, 2026 at 3:20 PM
@sorenspicknall.bsky.social Do not sleep on: Atomic Books. And the American Visionary Arts Musem, a fantastic collection of folk/outsider art. www.avam.org
American Visionary Art Museum
Welcome to the nation's museum for self-taught, intuitive artistry.
www.avam.org
February 5, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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It turns out that democracy doesn’t die in darkness at all—it succumbs to repeated group muggings at the hands of the monied power elite.
https://bit.ly/3ZPQUKt
Jeff Bezos’s Destruction of “The Washington Post” Is a Disgraceful Plutocratic Crime
It turns out that democracy doesn’t die in darkness at all—it succumbs to repeated group muggings at the hands of the moneyed power elite.
bit.ly
February 4, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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With WaPo locked into a death spiral, CBS effectively an arm of state news, and public media facing massive budget cuts, it's more important than ever to follow and support independent media.
February 4, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Watching as we speak. Didn’t realize it was multi-part… that brought me joy! (Raised on Blazing Saddles and History of the World, Pt. 1)
February 4, 2026 at 3:56 AM
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Incredible interview by @wbez.org’s @adrianacardmag.bsky.social with Marimar Martinez — who was shot, charged, vindicated in Trump’s deportation blitz in Chicago
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Marimar Martinez, shot by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Good, Pretti deaths: ‘I am their voice’
In a wide-ranging interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Martinez discusses her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fi...
chicago.suntimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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Once again, a massive gap between the official story — and what the facts are
January 31, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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1/ NEW: @propublica.org has obtained a search warrant that the FBI is executing for records related to the contested 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., which has not yet been widely shared. It’s an extraordinary document.

Link: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
1-28-26 Fulton Warrant
www.documentcloud.org
January 28, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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Swalwell: "The masks has to come off. These guys, the don't just wear these masks for their own anonymity. They wear it for moral cover. They hide their identities from us and their humanity from themselves. So their masks have to come off. Period."
January 26, 2026 at 8:55 PM
January 26, 2026 at 3:14 AM
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Hey Chicago cyclists: we got an ask for squeezable water bottles for eye wash in the Twin Cities and I bet those plastic ones you seem to accumulate at races would be perfect. DM me for a drop-off address (Albany Park) or possible shipping details if you have a large quantity
January 26, 2026 at 3:08 AM
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Endless guides to how to talk AT your students instead of talking TO them and WITH THEM. When you do the latter, they'll buy into what you're asking them to do, even if it's not what they would choose.

Because you care about them. So they care about what happens in class. The rest is just dialogue.
January 25, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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The Minnesota Star Tribune and its reporters have been doing indispensable work on ICE and Minneapolis.

Old-fashioned, high-quality and deeply committed local reporting
January 25, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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A federal judge has order federal officials to preserve the evidence related to the Saturday shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents.
Latest: Federal judge orders federal authorities to preserve evidence in Alex Pretti shooting
Defendants include the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Border Patrol and their leadership, as well as U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.
bit.ly
January 25, 2026 at 2:38 PM
This echoes something wise I hear in 12-step spaces: “Act your way into Right Thinking; don’t think your way into Right Acting.”
January 25, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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🧐👇🧵
Almost 256 years ago, when British soldiers were occupying a city that was restless in their presence but still firmly part of the empire, a confrontation ended in the shooting death of five people, with 6 more wounded. This offset image of the Boston Massacre is so evocative. 1/
January 25, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Duck, Duck would have to play SNL before that
January 25, 2026 at 5:18 AM
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More on the Bovinos’ American story — and other aspects of his life — in this profile we published last month chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts caus...
chicago.suntimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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It was that law that a Calabrian guy named Michele Bovino worked around to bring over his son — the grandfather of Border Patrol honcho Gregory Bovino.

Here’s our research into the Bovino family tree
January 24, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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And at the exact same time they throttled a huge wave of southern and eastern European immigration (Jews, Poles, Italians, Greeks etc), inspired by eugenics
Just a reminder that Border Patrol was created in 1924 when the Klan was at the height of its political influence.
January 24, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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A thread with a twist ending

(Maybe rank hypocrisy is no longer a twist)
And at the exact same time they throttled a huge wave of southern and eastern European immigration (Jews, Poles, Italians, Greeks etc), inspired by eugenics
Just a reminder that Border Patrol was created in 1924 when the Klan was at the height of its political influence.
January 24, 2026 at 6:08 PM