@deblongway.bsky.social
Cancer survivor, peace lover, book lover. Believes in humanity (despite Nov. 5).
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Maybe it’s me but I don’t think it should be legal for a network to call itself “news” when it’s nearly 100% propaganda.
1A allows us to lie all we want…but there have to be consequences for institutions that deliberately lie to manipulate the populace.
1A allows us to lie all we want…but there have to be consequences for institutions that deliberately lie to manipulate the populace.
NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Maybe it’s me but I don’t think it should be legal for a network to call itself “news” when it’s nearly 100% propaganda.
1A allows us to lie all we want…but there have to be consequences for institutions that deliberately lie to manipulate the populace.
1A allows us to lie all we want…but there have to be consequences for institutions that deliberately lie to manipulate the populace.
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I don't get Medicaid.
I’m not on food stamps.
I rely on no Social Safety nets.
But I still believe in FULLY funding these programs.
Why?
Because I'm not a cruel ruthless selfish piece of shit.
I’m not on food stamps.
I rely on no Social Safety nets.
But I still believe in FULLY funding these programs.
Why?
Because I'm not a cruel ruthless selfish piece of shit.
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I don't get Medicaid.
I’m not on food stamps.
I rely on no Social Safety nets.
But I still believe in FULLY funding these programs.
Why?
Because I'm not a cruel ruthless selfish piece of shit.
I’m not on food stamps.
I rely on no Social Safety nets.
But I still believe in FULLY funding these programs.
Why?
Because I'm not a cruel ruthless selfish piece of shit.
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One Halloween I dressed up as the GOP's Healthcare plan.
I never made it out of the House.
I never made it out of the House.
November 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
One Halloween I dressed up as the GOP's Healthcare plan.
I never made it out of the House.
I never made it out of the House.
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🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
October 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
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J6: THE REAL DAY OF HATE
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
October 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
J6: THE REAL DAY OF HATE
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
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“You need to model somewhere in the curriculum what it means to read a whole text in the company of an engaged community.”
Yes. Yes. Yes.
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
Yes. Yes. Yes.
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
Are Books Really Disappearing From American Classrooms?
Measuring whether "whole texts" are vanishing in favor of excerpts isn't clear cut.
www.edweek.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
“You need to model somewhere in the curriculum what it means to read a whole text in the company of an engaged community.”
Yes. Yes. Yes.
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
Yes. Yes. Yes.
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
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Empathy radicalized me.
September 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Empathy radicalized me.
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This aired on Dutch TV last night.
"A whole new Disney!"
"A whole new Disney!"
September 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This aired on Dutch TV last night.
"A whole new Disney!"
"A whole new Disney!"
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"What has your story as a writer been as a student?"
We're starting here to begin the upcoming school year for our ongoing reflection document—probably the most important artifact in our classroom.
Every time students write formally, we come back here.
(And by the end, it is incredible!)
We're starting here to begin the upcoming school year for our ongoing reflection document—probably the most important artifact in our classroom.
Every time students write formally, we come back here.
(And by the end, it is incredible!)
July 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"What has your story as a writer been as a student?"
We're starting here to begin the upcoming school year for our ongoing reflection document—probably the most important artifact in our classroom.
Every time students write formally, we come back here.
(And by the end, it is incredible!)
We're starting here to begin the upcoming school year for our ongoing reflection document—probably the most important artifact in our classroom.
Every time students write formally, we come back here.
(And by the end, it is incredible!)
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Once a month I give this anonymous Google Form survey to all my classes + then turn around and share the results with them the following week
Adapted from what @jimmayers.bsky.social does in his room, having this monthly "pulse check" has been a game-changer
(Especially the debrief conversations!)
Adapted from what @jimmayers.bsky.social does in his room, having this monthly "pulse check" has been a game-changer
(Especially the debrief conversations!)
July 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Once a month I give this anonymous Google Form survey to all my classes + then turn around and share the results with them the following week
Adapted from what @jimmayers.bsky.social does in his room, having this monthly "pulse check" has been a game-changer
(Especially the debrief conversations!)
Adapted from what @jimmayers.bsky.social does in his room, having this monthly "pulse check" has been a game-changer
(Especially the debrief conversations!)
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People have taken this so many ways today with their noticings and wonderings! #PoemADayJuly
For me: I am struck by the frequency of end-stops, especially with periods, throughout the poem—as if to signal that it is over even as the speaker reminisces on a last gasp of hope
For me: I am struck by the frequency of end-stops, especially with periods, throughout the poem—as if to signal that it is over even as the speaker reminisces on a last gasp of hope
July 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
People have taken this so many ways today with their noticings and wonderings! #PoemADayJuly
For me: I am struck by the frequency of end-stops, especially with periods, throughout the poem—as if to signal that it is over even as the speaker reminisces on a last gasp of hope
For me: I am struck by the frequency of end-stops, especially with periods, throughout the poem—as if to signal that it is over even as the speaker reminisces on a last gasp of hope
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"but I said, No, I’m tired of being / the one who sums things up."
This is a new one for me, and as such I'm really excited to explore today's #PoemADayJuly: "The Day of Our Divorce Hearing" by Ruth Lepson
What do you notice? 👀
What do you wonder? 🤔
@thevogelman.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com
This is a new one for me, and as such I'm really excited to explore today's #PoemADayJuly: "The Day of Our Divorce Hearing" by Ruth Lepson
What do you notice? 👀
What do you wonder? 🤔
@thevogelman.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"but I said, No, I’m tired of being / the one who sums things up."
This is a new one for me, and as such I'm really excited to explore today's #PoemADayJuly: "The Day of Our Divorce Hearing" by Ruth Lepson
What do you notice? 👀
What do you wonder? 🤔
@thevogelman.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com
This is a new one for me, and as such I'm really excited to explore today's #PoemADayJuly: "The Day of Our Divorce Hearing" by Ruth Lepson
What do you notice? 👀
What do you wonder? 🤔
@thevogelman.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com
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"God sent an angel. One of his least qualified, though."
Quite a stretch of poems for #PoemADayJuly — and today's is no different, with "I’m not a religious person but" by Chen Chen
A poem is a conversation between the text and the reader.
Let's listen.
@thevogelman.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com
Quite a stretch of poems for #PoemADayJuly — and today's is no different, with "I’m not a religious person but" by Chen Chen
A poem is a conversation between the text and the reader.
Let's listen.
@thevogelman.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"God sent an angel. One of his least qualified, though."
Quite a stretch of poems for #PoemADayJuly — and today's is no different, with "I’m not a religious person but" by Chen Chen
A poem is a conversation between the text and the reader.
Let's listen.
@thevogelman.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com
Quite a stretch of poems for #PoemADayJuly — and today's is no different, with "I’m not a religious person but" by Chen Chen
A poem is a conversation between the text and the reader.
Let's listen.
@thevogelman.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com
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🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon & adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🚨🚨🚨
July 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon & adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🚨🚨🚨
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"Don’t put this on God. You had plenty of warnings this might happen, and you chose to ignore them. You chose to leave the people you’re sworn to serve in the most vulnerable circumstances. You chose to risk danger befalling them."
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/do-not-put...
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/do-not-put...
Do Not Put This On God
None of this was God's plan.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
July 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"Don’t put this on God. You had plenty of warnings this might happen, and you chose to ignore them. You chose to leave the people you’re sworn to serve in the most vulnerable circumstances. You chose to risk danger befalling them."
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/do-not-put...
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/do-not-put...
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This is the first time I've engaged deeply with "Let America Be America Again" on my own. It hits hard today. #PoemADayJuly
July 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This is the first time I've engaged deeply with "Let America Be America Again" on my own. It hits hard today. #PoemADayJuly
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So here's my 🧵 of working through this masterpiece of a poem that without question resonated in different ways this time—and made me wish, in some ways, that I had a time machine back to when I brought it into the classroom earlier in my career.
Not to avoid it. To do it better.
Here's why
(📝/1)
Not to avoid it. To do it better.
Here's why
(📝/1)
"Let it be that great strong land of love / Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme" (7-8)
I would guess that most of us have read this poem. Some of us (*raises hand*) have brought it into our classrooms.
"Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes
Let's read it again. #PoemADayJuly
I would guess that most of us have read this poem. Some of us (*raises hand*) have brought it into our classrooms.
"Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes
Let's read it again. #PoemADayJuly
July 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
So here's my 🧵 of working through this masterpiece of a poem that without question resonated in different ways this time—and made me wish, in some ways, that I had a time machine back to when I brought it into the classroom earlier in my career.
Not to avoid it. To do it better.
Here's why
(📝/1)
Not to avoid it. To do it better.
Here's why
(📝/1)
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Every single Republican who just voted to rip health care away from 17 million Americans has government-funded health care.
July 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Every single Republican who just voted to rip health care away from 17 million Americans has government-funded health care.
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If you had told me the bitchiest moment of Pride Month would be this...
June 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
If you had told me the bitchiest moment of Pride Month would be this...
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To hate another human being for their gender identity or sexual orientation is the marker of someone whose humanity is fundamentally broken.
June 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
To hate another human being for their gender identity or sexual orientation is the marker of someone whose humanity is fundamentally broken.
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I saw this on Meta…
FYI - Harvard launched a free online government course on the constitution and how to recognize a dictatorship.
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
FYI - Harvard launched a free online government course on the constitution and how to recognize a dictatorship.
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
Government | Harvard University
Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.
pll.harvard.edu
May 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I saw this on Meta…
FYI - Harvard launched a free online government course on the constitution and how to recognize a dictatorship.
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
FYI - Harvard launched a free online government course on the constitution and how to recognize a dictatorship.
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
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I can’t believe I’m saying this, but something good happened, in Ohio of all places, and I wanted to share…
May 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but something good happened, in Ohio of all places, and I wanted to share…