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Chris Thinnes, Ed.D.
@christhinnes.bsky.social
(Just moving)

Veteran educator, administrator, facilitator, consultant, and writer. Senior DEI Consultant, Blink Strategic Consulting. EduColor board. Progressive Education Network board. EdLeader21 vet. LMU Ed.D., Education Leadership for Social Justice.
"Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the four-year plan, and Chancellor Hitler's Monumental building program--and one of them even raised the question of whether there is any humor left in Germany today..."

New York Times (Feb. 4, 1939)
September 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"But unless the Progressive Education movement wishes to change its name to the Contemplative Education movement, the Goodwill Education movement, or the Hopeful Education movement, it should go further..."

- George Counts, 1932

talkcurriculum.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
August 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
August 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Happy Birthday, James Baldwin! 🙌🏻
August 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
August 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Thank you Jules! Thank you Annie! 🥰😢🥰
August 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"Trump has no Congressional approval to attack Iran. No U.N. resolution. No imminent threat. This strike is a violation of Article I of the U.S. Constitution, which grants war powers to Congress, not the executive. Yet here we are..."

Qasim Rashid, Esq: open.substack.com/pub/qasimras...
June 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"Are DEI and pluralism mutually exclusive or mutually interdependent...?"

Important think piece from Ali Michael, PhD: open.substack.com/pub/alimicha...
May 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"JAV, JGG, & WGH are each entitled to... a permanent injunction prohibiting Respondents from employing the Proclamation and the AEA against them. The certified class warrants similar protection..."

Judge Fernando Rodriguez, Jr., on EO re: Alien Enemies Act: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
May 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The Equity Exchange—July 13-18 in St. Louis

"Join us at the 2025 Equity Exchange Summer Institute for a transformative, in-person experience tailored to educators and leaders committed to advancing equity in schools."

A few spots remain for you to join us!

www.theequityexchange.org/2025-institute
April 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
stubborn ounces :: bonaro w. overstreet

h/t Rosetta Lee: poetrying.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/s...
April 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
ICYMI, Wilkinson's ruling in Garcia et al. v Noem et al.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Related RLP resources here:
revolutionarylove.org/learn/#resou...
April 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"We have identified ten core practices of revolutionary love, backed by research and infused with ancestral wisdom..."

Learn Revolutionary Love - The Revolutionary Love Project

revolutionarylove.org/learn/
April 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
An immigration judge sided today w/the govt filing asserting State's authority to deport Khalil for his beliefs & protest actions.

Pending appeal, do consider the impact on Mahmoud Khalil & family AND the precedent(s) for other cases seeded here:
April 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
🌟 Advance Equity. Amplify Impact. 🌟

"Join us at the 2025 Equity Exchange Summer Institute for a transformative, in-person experience tailored to educators and leaders committed to advancing equity in schools..."

July 13–18 in St. Louis: www.theequityexchange.org/2025-institute
April 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
March 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Make Orwell Fiction Again
March 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"Trump wants education to become indoctrination, and the Democratic Party isn’t fighting back. But we can..."

@jessehagopian.bsky.social in Truthout:

truthout.org/articles/tru...
February 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"The Department intends to take appropriate measures to assess compliance... beginning no later than 14 days from today’s date..."

Here's Friday's "Dear Colleague" letter on "DEI."

That this got pushed out on OCR letterhead is mindblowing.

PDF: www.ed.gov/media/docume...
February 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Wouldn't these be fun figures to explore & interpret in, say, a math class on stats or percentages?

(TY Andrew P for compiling!)
February 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
WE LOVE YOU, DYLAN! :)

- MOMDAD
February 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
February 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind..." Rom 12.2
February 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
January 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM