Laura
@clevergirlteaching.bsky.social
🦖🍎 📚 More Social Studies, picture books, and Nutella, please | traveler | runner | wrangler of middle schoolers and cats
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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It's fine. It's FINE. It was exciting enough just to see all of America cheering for the Blue Jays. Usually you don't even get that from all of Toronto
November 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It's fine. It's FINE. It was exciting enough just to see all of America cheering for the Blue Jays. Usually you don't even get that from all of Toronto
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Dear Canada and Blue Jays: that was one of the best World Series ever. I wish you could have won too.
November 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Dear Canada and Blue Jays: that was one of the best World Series ever. I wish you could have won too.
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October 23, 2025
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Julia Ainsley and Didi Martinez of NBC News reported today that Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s rush to get new recruits onto the street has meant they have pushed into their training program mo...
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October 24, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Stop saying “renovation.”
Better words:
Desecration
Violation
Demolition
Destruction
Retribution
Vanity-wrecking-ball
Better words:
Desecration
Violation
Demolition
Destruction
Retribution
Vanity-wrecking-ball
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Stop saying “renovation.”
Better words:
Desecration
Violation
Demolition
Destruction
Retribution
Vanity-wrecking-ball
Better words:
Desecration
Violation
Demolition
Destruction
Retribution
Vanity-wrecking-ball
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Billy Joel could write a whole-ass song about just this week.
September 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Billy Joel could write a whole-ass song about just this week.
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Happy FIRST Book Birthday to THE OFFRENDA THAT WE BUILT written by @writerjolene.bsky.social and Shaian Gutiérrez with #illustrations by @gabbyzapata.bsky.social. What a year it has been! So many awards and recognitions! @chroniclebooks.bsky.social #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks #booksky #EduSky
August 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Happy FIRST Book Birthday to THE OFFRENDA THAT WE BUILT written by @writerjolene.bsky.social and Shaian Gutiérrez with #illustrations by @gabbyzapata.bsky.social. What a year it has been! So many awards and recognitions! @chroniclebooks.bsky.social #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks #booksky #EduSky
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Reminder that if you have a 4th grader you can get a free National Parks pass for your fam.
July 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Reminder that if you have a 4th grader you can get a free National Parks pass for your fam.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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This is why teaching Social Studies matters as much as ELA, Math, or Science.
This is a really bad time to be a person who understands history well…
Everything may not look exactly the same, but it rhymes.
Everything may not look exactly the same, but it rhymes.
July 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is why teaching Social Studies matters as much as ELA, Math, or Science.
When my 5th graders were learning the word “benefactor” in class, we talked about Mackenzie Scott and Dolly Parton— two admirable people helping others and doing good.
Just a reminder that while her ex nonstop soils himself in public with tasteless displays of wealth and look-at-me, thirsty nonsense, Mackenzie Scott has given away close to $20 billion to 1,600 charities, no strings attached and without any need for recognition.
June 30, 2025 at 6:14 AM
When my 5th graders were learning the word “benefactor” in class, we talked about Mackenzie Scott and Dolly Parton— two admirable people helping others and doing good.
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It’s probably not great to wake up this pissed off. Then I think of how pissed off Justice Jackson must be.
June 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
It’s probably not great to wake up this pissed off. Then I think of how pissed off Justice Jackson must be.
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REP. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social: “THIS IS AN EVIL BILL. It’s going to rip away health care from 15 million Americans, and food assistance from millions — to give tax breaks to the richest, and mega corporations.” #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
June 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
REP. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social: “THIS IS AN EVIL BILL. It’s going to rip away health care from 15 million Americans, and food assistance from millions — to give tax breaks to the richest, and mega corporations.” #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
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If Jeff Bezos can afford to rent Venice for a $50 million wedding, he can afford to pay his fair share in taxes.
June 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
If Jeff Bezos can afford to rent Venice for a $50 million wedding, he can afford to pay his fair share in taxes.
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Zohran Mamdani’s win has inspired over 3400 young people to raise their hands to run for office just since Tuesday. It’s now @runforsomething.net’s biggest candidate recruitment moment since the election.
A new generation of leaders is here.
A new generation of leaders is here.
June 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Zohran Mamdani’s win has inspired over 3400 young people to raise their hands to run for office just since Tuesday. It’s now @runforsomething.net’s biggest candidate recruitment moment since the election.
A new generation of leaders is here.
A new generation of leaders is here.
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Tapper writes this without acknowledging that Milk himself served in the US Navy during the Korean War, or that Milk was assassinated while serving honorably in public office
June 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Tapper writes this without acknowledging that Milk himself served in the US Navy during the Korean War, or that Milk was assassinated while serving honorably in public office
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Marco Rubio needs to be asked whether he believes his grandfather who remained in the U.S. after receiving a deportation order from our govt should have been treated the way the father of 3 Marines was treated by ICE this weekend in California.
ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.
ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.
So video of this 2012 interview is popping up on other sites. Feels super relevant at the moment. Wait for the moment Rubio gets pinned to the wall about his grandfather’s deportation order…
(h/t @reuben_reyñoso)
(h/t @reuben_reyñoso)
June 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Marco Rubio needs to be asked whether he believes his grandfather who remained in the U.S. after receiving a deportation order from our govt should have been treated the way the father of 3 Marines was treated by ICE this weekend in California.
ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.
ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.
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Something I am thinking about right now is that a 3 million dollar program that allows abused women to take their pets with them to domestic violence shelters is about to be cut because “we don’t have the money” but the government is about to spend 1000000000x more than that to bomb people
June 22, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Something I am thinking about right now is that a 3 million dollar program that allows abused women to take their pets with them to domestic violence shelters is about to be cut because “we don’t have the money” but the government is about to spend 1000000000x more than that to bomb people
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I’m sure the Trump Administration will be canceling all grants to the University of Florida because of their failure to combat anti-Semitism. Any day now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...
A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.
www.nytimes.com
June 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I’m sure the Trump Administration will be canceling all grants to the University of Florida because of their failure to combat anti-Semitism. Any day now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...
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Remember that time a leading Democratic lawmaker from Minnesota was politically assassinated and then the news media got bored with the story and moved on after a few days?
Talk about Melissa Hortman.
Talk about the political violence that fascism ignites.
Talk about Melissa Hortman.
Talk about the political violence that fascism ignites.
June 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Remember that time a leading Democratic lawmaker from Minnesota was politically assassinated and then the news media got bored with the story and moved on after a few days?
Talk about Melissa Hortman.
Talk about the political violence that fascism ignites.
Talk about Melissa Hortman.
Talk about the political violence that fascism ignites.
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I did a Sheroes portrait of #MelissaHortman today. May her memory be a blessing
June 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I did a Sheroes portrait of #MelissaHortman today. May her memory be a blessing
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