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Elizabeth Lutz
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Retired public school teacher, cat lover, sensible gun policy seeker, election trauma survivor
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I'm attending Indivisible's event, “ICE Out For Good Mystic, CT” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
ICE Out For Good Mystic, CT · Indivisible
Wednesday, January 7th, an American citizen was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This killing is part of a broader pattern of unchecked violence, impunity...
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January 9, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Stonington Visibility Brigade” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Stonington Visibility Brigade · Indivisible
Visibility Brigade Southeast CT Please join us for the Stonington Visibility Brigade to hold signs and wave banners in a high profile location on a bridge in Stonington above I95. on I-95 overpass on ...
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January 4, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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“The losers are America’s children, especially our most vulnerable. Few recent actions taken by red states or the Trump Administration don’t harm children with disabilities, living in rural or low-income areas, born outside the US or from immigrant families” open.substack.com/pub/annelutz...
Accomplishing Project 2025: K-12 Edition
The year has been chaotic but a few themes emerge
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December 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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A few new little updates here.

If there is some good research out there I should add, let me know!
November 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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While the right lose their goddamn minds about a lone wolf doing something horrendous in DC today, let’s not forget that last week in the White House they all gushed over a genocidal, journalist murdering tyrant whose country financed 9/11.
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday, my wallet's ignoring Target, Home Depot, ＆ Amazon. I'm tired of corporations enabling this administration ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, ＆ chase tax breaks. Join me! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 app.sosha.ai/s/F2aObazw
We Ain't Buying It - Target, Home Depot & Amazon
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November 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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October 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Ironic that the guy leaking military secrets is the guy who wants to restrict access to the media to prevent leaking of military secrets
#transparencynot
October 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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🚨BREAKING: 3rd Circuit DENIES Republican Party petition to rehear critical voting rights case involving Pennsylvania’s date requirement for mail-in ballots.

A BIG VICTORY for the DSCC, DCCC, AFT of Pa. and the voters of Pennsylvania. Proud on my ELG team. www.democracydocket.com/cases/pennsy...
🚨 Eakin v. Adams County Board of Elections
Learn more here.
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October 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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October 14, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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October 14, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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The NFL must act NOW to stop ICE from targeting the Super Bowl LX where Bad Bunny will be performing at the halftime show before it’s too late. #SBLX #AppleMusicHalftime sign.moveon.org/petitions/su...
NFL: No ICE at the 2026 Super Bowl!
The @NFL must act NOW to stop Trump's ICE from targeting the Super Bowl LX where Bad Bunny will be performing at the halftime show before it’s too late. #SBLX #AppleMusicHalftime
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October 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
October 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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AOC is right. And it's nice to see a prominent Democratic officeholder explain the duality so directly.

www.arcdigital.media/p/kimmel-and...
Donald Trump is simultaneously more powerful than previous US presidents in frightening ways and a weak leader whose ambitions are stumbling, and it’s important to keep both in mind at once. His outsized power comes from lawbreaking, norm violations, and contempt for US Constitutional democracy, enabled by the Supreme Court majority and Republican-led Congress. His weakness is in his deep and growing unpopularity on every issue—the economy, immigration, free speech, you name it—and limited state capacity. From: https://www.arcdigital.media/p/kimmel-and-comey-highlight-the-trump Trump will likely keep abusing power to try to silence critics, whether Kimmel again or others. But whatever else happens, this time he lost, a core Constitutional principle won, and a lot of Americans saw it. The threat is serious, but he’s weaker than he looks. From: https://www.arcdigital.media/p/kimmel-and-comey-highlight-the-trump
October 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS: A Delaware County-wide Signs of Fascism Visibility Event” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS: A Delaware County-wide Signs of Fascism Visibility Event · No Kings
In America, we don’t put up with FASCISM or would-be kings. PLEASE NOTE: This event IS NOT a typical protest. It will not be at the Courthouse. It is a visibility event. If you would like to attend a...
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September 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
We won't fly Avelo until they stop ICE flights! ¡No volaremos con Avelo!
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September 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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I have read Trump’s “war department” EO.

This is nothing. He changed nothing. He added pretend secondary titles with no power under the law.

He will make the government spend hundreds of millions for vanity labeling purposes.

If you’re in the media and you don’t harp on that, you’re failing.
September 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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On his decision to end $500M worth of research on mRNA vaccines, RFK Jr. said:

“The the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu”.

These vaccines saved 3.2M lives in the U.S.

He is running a disinformation op against Americans.
August 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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I put together a 4-page doc for those wary of the rush to integrate in K-12 schools (though much applies beyond).

Four of the main arguments for teachers using AI tools & introducing kids to AI as early as kindergarten are addressed with rebuttals linked to sources.
Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by many purveyors and boosters.) Even those who envision benefits to schools of this fast-evolving category of tech should approach the well-funded AI-in-education campaign with skepticism and caution. Some of the primary arguments for teachers actively using AI tools and introducing students to AI as early as kindergarten, however, are questionable or fallacious. What follows are four of the most common arguments and rebuttals with links to sources. I have not attempted balance, in part because so much pro-AI messaging is out there and discussion of risks and costs is often minimized in favor of hope or resignation. -ALF Argument: “Schools need to prepare students for the jobs of the future.” ● The skills employers seek haven’t changed much over the decades—and include a lot of “soft skills” like initiative, problem-solving, communication, and critical thinking. ● Early research is showing that using generative AI can degrade these key skills: ○ An MIT study showed adults using chatGPT to help write an essay “had the lowest brain engagement and ‘consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.’” Critically, “ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.” ○ A business school found those who used AI tools often had worse critical thinking skills “mediated by increased cognitive offloading. Younger participants exhibited higher dependence on AI tools and lower critical thinking scores.” ○ Another study revealed those using “ChatGPT engaged less in metacognitive activities...For instance, learners in the AI group frequently looped back to ChatGPT for feedback rather than reflecting independently. This dependency not only undermines critical thinking but also risks long-term skill stagnati… Argument: “AI is a tool, just like a calculator.” ● Calculators don’t provide factually wrong answers, but AI tools have. Last year, Google’s AI search returned, among other falsehoods, that cats have gone to the moon, that Barack Obama is Muslim, and that glue goes on pizza. Even though AI tools have and are expected to improve, children in schools shouldn’t be used as tech firms’ guinea pigs for undertested, unregulated products while AI firms engage elected officials in actively resisting regulation. ● Calculators don’t provide dangerous, even deadly feedback. In one study, a ”chatbot recommended that a user, who said they were recovering from addiction, take a ‘small hit’ of methamphetamine” because, it said, it’s “‘what makes you able to do your job to the best of your ability.’" Users have received threatening messages from chatbots. ● Calculators don’t pose mental health risks because they aren’t potentially addictive or designed to encourage repeated use. They don’t flatter, direct, or manipulate. Chatbots have been designed this way—and this has led to dreadful mental health outcomes for some, including users in a New York Times report. Alleging a chatbot encouraged their teen to die by suicide, parents in Florida filed a lawsuit against its maker. ● Calculators don’t lie. Chatbots, however, have misled users. Writer Amanda Guinzburg shared screenshots of interactions with one that she asked to describe several of her essays. It spewed out invented material, showing the chatbot hadn’t actually accessed and processed the essays. After much prodding, it “admitted” it had only acted as though it had done that requested work, spit out mea culpas—and went on to invent or “lie” again. ● Calculators can’t be used to spread propaganda. AI tools, though, including those meant for schools, should worry us. Law professor Eric Muller’s back-and-forth with SchoolAI’s “Anne Frank” character showed his “helluva time trying to get her to say a bad word about Nazis.” In thi… Argument: “AI won’t replace teachers, but it will save them time and improve their effectiveness.” ● Adding edtech does not necessarily save teachers time. A recent study found that learning management systems sold to schools over the past decade-plus as time-savers aren’t delivering on making teaching easier. Instead, they found this tech (e.g. Google Classroom, Canvas) is often burdensome and contributes to burnout. As one teacher put it, it “just adds layers to tasks.” ● “Extra time” is rarely returned to teachers. AI proponents argue that if teachers use AI tools to grade, prepare lessons, or differentiate materials, they’ll have more time to work with students. But there are always new initiatives, duties, or committee assignments—the unpaid work districts rely on—to suck up that time. In a culture of austerity and with a USDOE that is cutting spending, teachers are likely to be assigned more students. When class sizes grow, students get less attention, and positions can be cut. ● AI can’t replace what teachers do, but that doesn’t mean teachers won’t be replaced. Schools are already doing it: Arizona approved a charter school in which students spend mornings working with AI and the role of teacher is reduced to “guide.” Ed tech expert Neil Selwyn argues those in “industry and policy circles...hostile to the idea of expensively trained expert professional educators who have [tenure], pension rights and union protection... [welcome] AI replacement as a way of undermining the status of the professional teacher.” ● Tech firms have been selling schools on untested products for years. Technophilia has led to students being on screens for hours in school each week even when their phones are banned. Writer Jess Grose explains, “Companies never had to prove that devices or software, broadly speaking, helped students learn before those devices had wormed their way into America’s public schools.” AI products appear to be no different. ● Efficiency is not effectiveness. “… Argument: “Students are already using AI, so we have to teach them ethical use. ● If schools want ethical students, teach ethics. More students are using AI tools to cheat, an age-old problem they make much easier. This won’t be addressed by showing students how to use this minute’s AI, an argument implying students don’t know what plagiarism is (solved by teaching about plagiarism) or understand academic integrity (solved by teaching and enforcing its bounds)—or that teachers create weak assignments or don’t convey purpose. The latter aren’t solved by attempting to redirect students motivated and able to cheat. ● Students can be educated on the ethics of AI without encouraging use of AI tools. They can be taught, as part of media literacy and social media safety programs, about AI’s potential and applications as well as how it can enable predation, perpetuate bias, and spread disinformation. They should be taught about the risks of AI and its various social, economic, and environmental costs. Giving a nod to these issues while integrating AI throughout schools sends a strong message: the schools don’t really care and neither should students. ● Children can’t be expected to use AI responsibly when adults aren’t. Many pushing schools to embrace AI don’t know much about it. One example: Education Secretary Linda McMahon, who said kindergartners should be taught A1 (a steak sauce). The LA Times introduced a biased and likely politically-motivated AI feature. The Chicago Sun-Times published a summer reading list including nonexistent books—yet teachers are told to use the same tools to do similar work. Educators using AI to cut corners can strike students as hypocritical. ● The many costs of AI call into question the possibility of ethical AI use. These include: ○ Energy - AI data centers need huge amounts of water as coolant as well as electricity, pulling these resources from their communities—which tend to be lower-income—straining the grid, and raising household cos…
June 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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For six months, I've said that threats to economic data have been more collateral damage than intentional harm.

No longer.

Firing the head of the BLS is five-alarm intentional harm to the integrity of US economic data and the entire statistical system.
August 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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The 9th district court affirmed what we already knew: you can’t just snatch people up for being brown and working hard. Not in the fields, not in a Home Depot parking lot, and NOT on our watch.

This is a victory for the many, and not by the few. 1/
mayor.lacity.gov Mayor Karen Bass @mayor.lacity.gov · Aug 2
My office just received word that the 9th Circuit ruled in favor of Angelenos. The Temporary Restraining Order to stop unconstitutional and reckless raids has been upheld.

This is a victory for Los Angeles — I will ALWAYS fight for our city. mayor.lacity.gov/news/mayor-b...
Mayor Bass: “This is a Victory for the City of Los Angeles”
En Español한국어9th Circuit Rules in Favor of Angelenos And Against Trump Administration, Maintaining Temporary Restraining Order To Stop Unconstitutional Raids
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August 2, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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If you can, please support Gilberto and his family. A hotel worker and union member, he was kidnapped by ICE.
Emergency Financial support for Unite Here 30 Member Gilberto!
By Partnership for A Better San Diego
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August 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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July 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Begging @neatoday.bsky.social, of which I am a member, not to follow AFT's lead but instead support their membership, workers, the future of unions, and children by not participating in AI's destruction of the planet and threat to democracy.
July 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM