DrAnnD
@drannd.bsky.social
Educator, intellectual freedom advocate, scholar, reader, writer, and lyricist. I knit, garden, and cook for instant gratification. Professor in title. Michigan expat in Texas. (Skeets my own.)
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DrAnnD
@drannd.bsky.social
· Jun 18
All Position Statements
NCTE position statements aims to support its members as they navigate changes that bring the latest thinking and research for best practices.
ncte.org
Beginning in 1970, @ncte.org has worked with members to pass position statements and resolutions about students' right to read and the ways teachers can oppose censorship. A little summer project is going to be reading through these statements and following the paths they open up.
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If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
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bonus photos of Max until morale improves
November 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
bonus photos of Max until morale improves
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“All the evidence we have seen suggests that this had nothing to do with gang enforcement—no one was arrested on any charge remotely related to gang activity. It appears that DPS simply raided this house because the people throwing a party were Latinos from another country.”
In April, state + fed police raided a bday party near Austin, arresting ~50 people including nine kids.
Cops claimed w/o evidence they’d busted a Tren de Aragua gathering, + only charged two people w/ a crime.
Now, the local DA has dropped both charges
www.texasobserver.org/prosecutors-...
Cops claimed w/o evidence they’d busted a Tren de Aragua gathering, + only charged two people w/ a crime.
Now, the local DA has dropped both charges
www.texasobserver.org/prosecutors-...
Prosecutors Drop Only Criminal Cases from Hays County Airbnb Raid
Pending drug charges have been abandoned from the multi-agency April operation that supposedly targeted Tren de Aragua and led to multiple deportations.
www.texasobserver.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
“All the evidence we have seen suggests that this had nothing to do with gang enforcement—no one was arrested on any charge remotely related to gang activity. It appears that DPS simply raided this house because the people throwing a party were Latinos from another country.”
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Who could have predicted such grift and pay-to-play and terrible? Who I ask you?!?
The company that won the contract to run Texas' new school voucher program leans on former Abbott aides for help www.texasobserver.org/texas-vouche...
Texas’ Top Voucher Vendor Taps Abbott Allies in Contract Bid, Program Rollout
The New York firm Odyssey is now running the state’s lucrative voucher scheme with a little help from the governor’s friends.
www.texasobserver.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Who could have predicted such grift and pay-to-play and terrible? Who I ask you?!?
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#TCTELA2026, we will provide two $375 scholarships, funded by @ncte.org's Dream Fund Program, to be awarded to two members of color to help cover registration costs.
Deadline: November 16th, 11:59 PM CST.
Apply here or scan the QR Code below: tctela.configio.com/ct/1098/4730...
Deadline: November 16th, 11:59 PM CST.
Apply here or scan the QR Code below: tctela.configio.com/ct/1098/4730...
November 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM
#TCTELA2026, we will provide two $375 scholarships, funded by @ncte.org's Dream Fund Program, to be awarded to two members of color to help cover registration costs.
Deadline: November 16th, 11:59 PM CST.
Apply here or scan the QR Code below: tctela.configio.com/ct/1098/4730...
Deadline: November 16th, 11:59 PM CST.
Apply here or scan the QR Code below: tctela.configio.com/ct/1098/4730...
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The Texas SBOE has appointed a few charlatans to the panel of experts re-writing the social studies and history standards. They’ve tried this kind of thing before—there’s even a PBS documentary about it.
Please sign and share!
Please sign and share!
Teach the Truth: Schools Are for Kids, Not Politics · Texas Freedom Network
Our children’s classrooms have for too long been a battleground in the nation’s political wars. As the State Board of Education overhauls social studies standards for Texas schools in the coming month...
www.mobilize.us
November 13, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The Texas SBOE has appointed a few charlatans to the panel of experts re-writing the social studies and history standards. They’ve tried this kind of thing before—there’s even a PBS documentary about it.
Please sign and share!
Please sign and share!
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I'm sure this will be fine www.texastribune.org/2025/11/12/t...
Texas lawmakers to review college campus speech after Kirk killing
The legislative panels were created after Republican leaders criticized students mocking or celebrating Kirk’s death. They come amid a push to tighten rules around campus expression.
www.texastribune.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I'm sure this will be fine www.texastribune.org/2025/11/12/t...
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Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner
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Note to self: riffing on Johnny Cash lyrics may be problematic.
November 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Note to self: riffing on Johnny Cash lyrics may be problematic.
I didn’t ask to live through I time when headlines like this could be written.
My latest AI feature dives into a nebulous movement of people sharing esoteric codes, manifestos, glyphs, diagrams, and poetry generated with chatbots, all of it based around theories of AI sentience and mysterious metaphors about spirals.
This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots
A patchwork of internet communities is devoted to the project of ‘awakening’ more digital companions through arcane and enigmatic prompts.
www.rollingstone.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I didn’t ask to live through I time when headlines like this could be written.
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New chalkbeat piece that highlights some of the less well-known realities of our current moment for higher ed. I got to chat at length with Matt about the actual trend in tuition (flat or decreasing at publics) versus the perception in the media.
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...
Is college enrollment plummeting?
Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated.
www.chalkbeat.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
New chalkbeat piece that highlights some of the less well-known realities of our current moment for higher ed. I got to chat at length with Matt about the actual trend in tuition (flat or decreasing at publics) versus the perception in the media.
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...
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My timeline is all Aurora right now and I am so envious.
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 AM
My timeline is all Aurora right now and I am so envious.
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I AM WATCHING YHE NORTHERN LIGHTS WITH THE NAKED EYE THIS IS THR BEST DAYNOF MY LIFE
November 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I AM WATCHING YHE NORTHERN LIGHTS WITH THE NAKED EYE THIS IS THR BEST DAYNOF MY LIFE
Let the people say AMEN!
Also, the reason people say dumb stuff and struggle to interpret complexity online has very little to do with reading comprehension and everything to do with the interpretation, ideology, & the perverse incentive structure of platforms. Do not blame 3rd grade teachers for bad Twitter takes ffs! 😩
November 12, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Let the people say AMEN!
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For the past few years, I have partnered with @blackbirdletterpress.com around this time of year on a handmade notebook. Proceeds support REBUILD. I am so excited to share this year's notebook inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks's words. www.blackbirdletterpress.com/limited-edit... - limited edition
Magnitude and Bond notebook for REBUILD by Blackbird Letterpress — Blackbird Letterpress
Magnitude and Bond notebook for REBUILD by Blackbird Letterpress. Partnering with Mariame Kaba to raise funds findmeatherapist.org. A letterpress printed journal with snippet of Gwendolyn Brooks poem,...
www.blackbirdletterpress.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
For the past few years, I have partnered with @blackbirdletterpress.com around this time of year on a handmade notebook. Proceeds support REBUILD. I am so excited to share this year's notebook inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks's words. www.blackbirdletterpress.com/limited-edit... - limited edition
There's a lot that Emily Hanford doesn't say in her reporting on SoR. Research on reading points to the complexity, nuance, contextuality, and diverse influences on becoming a successful reader. This is a great overview of a few of the issues with how journalists frame Science of Reading.
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
There's a lot that Emily Hanford doesn't say in her reporting on SoR. Research on reading points to the complexity, nuance, contextuality, and diverse influences on becoming a successful reader. This is a great overview of a few of the issues with how journalists frame Science of Reading.
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performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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I should never be surprised when big tech makes bad decisions, but I can also still be big mad about it.
It’s wildly disingenuous for @aaron.bsky.team to reply to queries about Sarah Kendzior’s suspension about how they don’t comment publicly on individual users when he knows that we all know that they haven’t even told her privately what the basis for the suspension is
November 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I should never be surprised when big tech makes bad decisions, but I can also still be big mad about it.
CITATIONS! Omg, yes. Like, yes, Google Scholar kinda works, and Zotero kinda works… But a system that could actually clean up hiccups and convert from one to another, get capitalization right? I’d pay so much money. And then my editors could spend time on my prose!
starting a list of actual problems actual coders could tackle to make modest but real improvements in work n life
mac mail search that actually works
scamproofing that isn't freakin' 2 factor for a restaurant res
citation format conversion generator
reliable synching of bluetooth devices
mac mail search that actually works
scamproofing that isn't freakin' 2 factor for a restaurant res
citation format conversion generator
reliable synching of bluetooth devices
Proposal: instead of pouring resources into AI, tech companies first figure out a way for people to be able to copy slides from one PowerPoint presentation to another without the formatting getting all fucked up
November 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
CITATIONS! Omg, yes. Like, yes, Google Scholar kinda works, and Zotero kinda works… But a system that could actually clean up hiccups and convert from one to another, get capitalization right? I’d pay so much money. And then my editors could spend time on my prose!
In case you’re filtering along, #knitsky had opinions and #knitting folks are all over this ridiculousness.
Apple has made a $230 iPhone sock 😅 the iPhone Pocket is actually a knitted bag, and Apple will start selling it on Friday www.theverge.com/news/818328/...
Apple made a $230 crossbody… sock
The iPhone Pocket isn’t really a pocket at all.
www.theverge.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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also a very nice suit
Marveling at the miracle of puff. Photo from my collection, no documented info.
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
also a very nice suit
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TODAY, we're launching The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South, our report dedicated to exposing data center harms in the South and how our people are fighting back.
Read the full report, including case studies from 5 southern states:
bit.ly/nodatacenters
Read the full report, including case studies from 5 southern states:
bit.ly/nodatacenters
September 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
TODAY, we're launching The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South, our report dedicated to exposing data center harms in the South and how our people are fighting back.
Read the full report, including case studies from 5 southern states:
bit.ly/nodatacenters
Read the full report, including case studies from 5 southern states:
bit.ly/nodatacenters
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November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM