Ellen Hokanson
@ellenhokanson.bsky.social
She/her.
Writing a #HistoricalNovel for #MiddleGrade + about cross-cultural friendship and misunderstanding in 1824 London.
Alt text:
A white woman on a seashore.
A 1950s photo of a mom reading a book (unseen) to 4, 2, and 6-year-old kids.
Writing a #HistoricalNovel for #MiddleGrade + about cross-cultural friendship and misunderstanding in 1824 London.
Alt text:
A white woman on a seashore.
A 1950s photo of a mom reading a book (unseen) to 4, 2, and 6-year-old kids.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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Meanwhile in Russia: Dimitri Simes said that Trump never even read the "peace plan" he wanted Zelensky to sign. Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee Andrey Kartapolov said Europeans will have to kneel before Russia if it wins in Ukraine.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRVc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRVc...
Andrey Kartapolov says Europeans will have to kneel before Russia if it wins in Ukraine
YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Meanwhile in Russia: Dimitri Simes said that Trump never even read the "peace plan" he wanted Zelensky to sign. Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee Andrey Kartapolov said Europeans will have to kneel before Russia if it wins in Ukraine.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRVc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRVc...
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It’s interesting to me that the president thinks the highest insult to women is to call us ugly
As if pretty is the highest compliment
He knows no women who prioritize intelligence, strength, humor, creativity, kindness, persistence, ferocity, leadership, etc
As if pretty is the highest compliment
He knows no women who prioritize intelligence, strength, humor, creativity, kindness, persistence, ferocity, leadership, etc
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
It’s interesting to me that the president thinks the highest insult to women is to call us ugly
As if pretty is the highest compliment
He knows no women who prioritize intelligence, strength, humor, creativity, kindness, persistence, ferocity, leadership, etc
As if pretty is the highest compliment
He knows no women who prioritize intelligence, strength, humor, creativity, kindness, persistence, ferocity, leadership, etc
I co-sign this thread because I was a teenage anti war activist in 1968. I door-knocked for progressive presidential candidate Gene McCarthy everywhere from backwoods Pennsylvania to urban Indianapolis. Black Dems supported Civil Rights hero Bobby Kennedy. Solid Dems, Sen. Hubert Humphrey. Our
What progressives use to make sure GOP continue to be elected is something called the Perfectionist Fallacy.
criticalthinkingacademy.net/index.php/bl...
criticalthinkingacademy.net/index.php/bl...
The Perfectionist Fallacy
Critical Thinking Academy provides training in Critical thinking to Business, educational institutes, Students and business executives
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November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I co-sign this thread because I was a teenage anti war activist in 1968. I door-knocked for progressive presidential candidate Gene McCarthy everywhere from backwoods Pennsylvania to urban Indianapolis. Black Dems supported Civil Rights hero Bobby Kennedy. Solid Dems, Sen. Hubert Humphrey. Our
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Concise & neat, timelines invite a skim for an overview, inspire activities, and share a path through time of a life or event- showing building, progression, and connection. Check out this post from @tinacho.bsky.social and @grogblog.bsky.social
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#edusky @kl4gm.bsky.social
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#edusky @kl4gm.bsky.social
What's In a Timeline: AKA What Goes In and What Stays Out? by Tina Cho
I'm in a picture book group called Kidlit for Growing Minds . Our mission statement says: We are children's book authors and illustrators w...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Concise & neat, timelines invite a skim for an overview, inspire activities, and share a path through time of a life or event- showing building, progression, and connection. Check out this post from @tinacho.bsky.social and @grogblog.bsky.social
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#edusky @kl4gm.bsky.social
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#edusky @kl4gm.bsky.social
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They all got exposed as frauds on Twitter so they had to move here.
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
They all got exposed as frauds on Twitter so they had to move here.
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AABB has joined Read Freely Alabama, EveryLibrary, PEN America and other organizations in expressing alarm at a new ban on youth access to trans books by the Alabama Public Library Service. Read the full statement
Statement on Discriminatory APLS Code Change
Supporting the Right to Read in All Alabama Libraries
www.readfreelyalabama.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
AABB has joined Read Freely Alabama, EveryLibrary, PEN America and other organizations in expressing alarm at a new ban on youth access to trans books by the Alabama Public Library Service. Read the full statement
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This thread and article is really quite something.
"Notably absent were any academic researchers or clinicians." 👀
"Notably absent were any academic researchers or clinicians." 👀
About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This thread and article is really quite something.
"Notably absent were any academic researchers or clinicians." 👀
"Notably absent were any academic researchers or clinicians." 👀
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About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
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Block grants = less money.
And fewer requirements mean less adherence required in relation to federal laws, which protect students’ rights.
And fewer requirements mean less adherence required in relation to federal laws, which protect students’ rights.
Linda McMahon: "The states will have less requirements because more money will go in block grants to the states ... I have called for a hard reset of education because we have failed our students."
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Block grants = less money.
And fewer requirements mean less adherence required in relation to federal laws, which protect students’ rights.
And fewer requirements mean less adherence required in relation to federal laws, which protect students’ rights.
So many valuable comments in the discussion of a ridiculous NYT article. Here’s an educator. Already reposted a historian’s comment.
(you need to sit still for tests and test prep, and meds can help with that) but blaming Autism on standardized testing is really nuts.
I wish more people would talk about how testing has undermined education, but they should do it by talking to people who have to spend hours a day in the classroom
I wish more people would talk about how testing has undermined education, but they should do it by talking to people who have to spend hours a day in the classroom
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
So many valuable comments in the discussion of a ridiculous NYT article. Here’s an educator. Already reposted a historian’s comment.
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In addition to everything else, this article punches real history in the gut.
The article: "freedom awaited after the final bell rang, with hours after school to play without the direction of adults."
Actual history:
The article: "freedom awaited after the final bell rang, with hours after school to play without the direction of adults."
Actual history:
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
In addition to everything else, this article punches real history in the gut.
The article: "freedom awaited after the final bell rang, with hours after school to play without the direction of adults."
Actual history:
The article: "freedom awaited after the final bell rang, with hours after school to play without the direction of adults."
Actual history:
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Feels like I'm seeing a lot of new to Bluesky artists lately so just a lovingly and humbly offered PSA:
There is a pretty hardcore group of users here who won't repost or engage with images that don't include at least some basic alt text. Alt text = more engagement opportunities
There is a pretty hardcore group of users here who won't repost or engage with images that don't include at least some basic alt text. Alt text = more engagement opportunities
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Feels like I'm seeing a lot of new to Bluesky artists lately so just a lovingly and humbly offered PSA:
There is a pretty hardcore group of users here who won't repost or engage with images that don't include at least some basic alt text. Alt text = more engagement opportunities
There is a pretty hardcore group of users here who won't repost or engage with images that don't include at least some basic alt text. Alt text = more engagement opportunities
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
What on earth is Gmail doing here?
Slapping a Phishing warning on the daily news analysis columns of historian Heather Cox Richardson!
Don’t click those links to primary sources she always provides!
Someone’s reporting, targeting her loud mouth.
Slapping a Phishing warning on the daily news analysis columns of historian Heather Cox Richardson!
Don’t click those links to primary sources she always provides!
Someone’s reporting, targeting her loud mouth.
November 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
What on earth is Gmail doing here?
Slapping a Phishing warning on the daily news analysis columns of historian Heather Cox Richardson!
Don’t click those links to primary sources she always provides!
Someone’s reporting, targeting her loud mouth.
Slapping a Phishing warning on the daily news analysis columns of historian Heather Cox Richardson!
Don’t click those links to primary sources she always provides!
Someone’s reporting, targeting her loud mouth.
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Some incredibly revealing reporting from @kathrynpost.bsky.social: From vaccines to gender: How Christian 'momfluencers' are reshaping the American right —> religionnews.com/2025/11/21/f...
From vaccines to gender: How Christian 'momfluencers' are reshaping the American right
(RNS) — 'Nothing is politically more powerful than an angry mother,' conservative wellness influencer Alex Clark told RNS.
religionnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Some incredibly revealing reporting from @kathrynpost.bsky.social: From vaccines to gender: How Christian 'momfluencers' are reshaping the American right —> religionnews.com/2025/11/21/f...
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🧵 1/18 — INTRO
What the Deputy Attorney General said on national television tonight is far outside DOJ norms and an example of an authoritarian administration weaponizing justice to target its opponents. Here is a breakdown in a thread.
www.foxnews.com/media/deputy...
What the Deputy Attorney General said on national television tonight is far outside DOJ norms and an example of an authoritarian administration weaponizing justice to target its opponents. Here is a breakdown in a thread.
www.foxnews.com/media/deputy...
Deputy AG blasts Democrats' 'abhorrent' video urging troops to 'refuse illegal orders'
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche called a new video from Democratic lawmakers “abhorrent," accusing them of pushing troops and intelligence officials to defy direct orders.
www.foxnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🧵 1/18 — INTRO
What the Deputy Attorney General said on national television tonight is far outside DOJ norms and an example of an authoritarian administration weaponizing justice to target its opponents. Here is a breakdown in a thread.
www.foxnews.com/media/deputy...
What the Deputy Attorney General said on national television tonight is far outside DOJ norms and an example of an authoritarian administration weaponizing justice to target its opponents. Here is a breakdown in a thread.
www.foxnews.com/media/deputy...
@scbwirockymtn.bsky.social
If you’re at #ncte this year, here’s a roundup of censorship-related sessions.
bsky.app/profile/dran...
If you’re at #ncte this year, here’s a roundup of censorship-related sessions.
bsky.app/profile/dran...
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
@scbwirockymtn.bsky.social
If you’re at #ncte this year, here’s a roundup of censorship-related sessions.
bsky.app/profile/dran...
If you’re at #ncte this year, here’s a roundup of censorship-related sessions.
bsky.app/profile/dran...
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I made a chart.
Censorship related sessions - NCTE Convention 2025
Thursday 11:30-12:45 Intellectual Freedom Dreams Deferred: Banned in the "Blue(ish) States" Room 203 2:30 English/ELA Department Chairs Facing Tough Topics Together Room 402 Friday 9:30a-11a The...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I made a chart.
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Are you at NCTE? Don't worry Dr. Ann made you a great chart.
November 21, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Are you at NCTE? Don't worry Dr. Ann made you a great chart.
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Caucasian stopped being a thing when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was literally from the Caucuses, was declared to be nonwhite in the wake of the Boston bombings.
November 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Caucasian stopped being a thing when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was literally from the Caucuses, was declared to be nonwhite in the wake of the Boston bombings.
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The President of the United States is calling for the murder of American citizens.
This is what White America chose.
This is what White America chose.
November 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The President of the United States is calling for the murder of American citizens.
This is what White America chose.
This is what White America chose.
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One of the people arrested on September 27 at Broadview was a 70-yo Air Force veteran who was hospitalized with his injuries from ICE assault. First charged w/felony, then misdemeanor.
He was going to call Greg Bovino at trial.
It just got dismissed.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71489...
He was going to call Greg Bovino at trial.
It just got dismissed.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71489...
United States v. Briggs, 1:25-cr-00610 - CourtListener.com
Docket for United States v. Briggs, 1:25-cr-00610 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
One of the people arrested on September 27 at Broadview was a 70-yo Air Force veteran who was hospitalized with his injuries from ICE assault. First charged w/felony, then misdemeanor.
He was going to call Greg Bovino at trial.
It just got dismissed.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71489...
He was going to call Greg Bovino at trial.
It just got dismissed.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71489...
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF