@EvidentlyR
@evidentlyreading.bsky.social
Author of Reading Beyond the Basics (coming in September 2025!), intervention teacher for striving readers, literacy coach, Goyen Foundation Literacy Fellow: Cohort 2. Bird nerd and word nerd. she/her. Views my own.
Rather than pundits urging all Democrats to move the center, how about urging candidates to believe in stuff. Progressives can win. Moderates can win. Just don't cynically triangulate yourself into things you don't believe.
It's official: Katie Wilson is the next mayor of Seattle!
Katie Wilson Is Seattle’s Next Mayor
Somewhere, Bruce Harrell is slamming a table. Katie Wilson is up by 1,976 votes and 0.72 percent of the vote. It’s tight, but we’re outside of recount territory, and it’s mathematica...
www.thestranger.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Rather than pundits urging all Democrats to move the center, how about urging candidates to believe in stuff. Progressives can win. Moderates can win. Just don't cynically triangulate yourself into things you don't believe.
The economy is great, which is why venerable cooking magazine Bon Appétit just re-featuded a recipe for burnt toast soup, and NYTimes Cooking is highlighting recipes that are "cheap and easy."
HASSETT: We're comfortable that inflation has come way down
QUINTANILLA: Even though it's been increasing for 5 straight months?
HASSETT: Well I guess there's ups and downs and seasonals
November 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The economy is great, which is why venerable cooking magazine Bon Appétit just re-featuded a recipe for burnt toast soup, and NYTimes Cooking is highlighting recipes that are "cheap and easy."
There are too many Dem senators who still think rationale incentives apply to the other side. They think "surely, after this election they'll realize how unpopular they are and when they hear from their constituents, they'll want to extend the subsidies." After all time.
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
There are too many Dem senators who still think rationale incentives apply to the other side. They think "surely, after this election they'll realize how unpopular they are and when they hear from their constituents, they'll want to extend the subsidies." After all time.
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Astute observation from @evidentlyreading.bsky.social.
Lucy Calkins made teachers think ELA classrooms for novice readers should mirror the practices of adults, and that would make kids love reading.
open.substack.com/pub/curricul...
Lucy Calkins made teachers think ELA classrooms for novice readers should mirror the practices of adults, and that would make kids love reading.
open.substack.com/pub/curricul...
October 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Astute observation from @evidentlyreading.bsky.social.
Lucy Calkins made teachers think ELA classrooms for novice readers should mirror the practices of adults, and that would make kids love reading.
open.substack.com/pub/curricul...
Lucy Calkins made teachers think ELA classrooms for novice readers should mirror the practices of adults, and that would make kids love reading.
open.substack.com/pub/curricul...
Does Mike Johnson want to tell this guy I saw at the rally that his message is un-American?
October 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Does Mike Johnson want to tell this guy I saw at the rally that his message is un-American?
Don't think trying to paint No Kings as a "Hate America" rally is really working out.
October 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Don't think trying to paint No Kings as a "Hate America" rally is really working out.
Just saw a yoga mom on a corner outside a Safeway with an early No Kings sign and a giant American flag, so I don't know if this line of propaganda is really going to pay off.
Mike Johnson: "Saturday, they're gonna be parading around the National Mall. They call it the No Kings Rally- we call it the Hate America Rally. They're gonna have all the Marxists, antifa people, BLM remnants, the pro-Hamas wing of the Democrat Party, they're gonna be out here screaming & wailing."
October 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Just saw a yoga mom on a corner outside a Safeway with an early No Kings sign and a giant American flag, so I don't know if this line of propaganda is really going to pay off.
I remember when we were told, re: gun control, that it was not worth it to trade liberty for safety.
Pam Bondi repeatedly claims that finding one missing child "makes it all worthwhile" when it comes to military occupations of American cities and adds that "Pritzker should be begging Donald Trump to come in."
October 15, 2025 at 5:05 AM
I remember when we were told, re: gun control, that it was not worth it to trade liberty for safety.
There's a discount on my book, Reading Beyond the Basics! Simple, research-informed routines for supporting older elementary students in making sense of challenging, worthy texts. Also, vomiting vultures!
a.co/d/f7eRAyp
a.co/d/f7eRAyp
October 10, 2025 at 4:51 AM
There's a discount on my book, Reading Beyond the Basics! Simple, research-informed routines for supporting older elementary students in making sense of challenging, worthy texts. Also, vomiting vultures!
a.co/d/f7eRAyp
a.co/d/f7eRAyp
David Ellison says TFP is committed to "amplifying voices from all corners of the spectrum" - the spectrum that runs from reactionary centrism to center right.
(Also, um... spectra don't have corners).
(Also, um... spectra don't have corners).
Never forget how easy it is to dupe these people. You don’t have to run anything resembling a platform for ‘divergent views’ or ‘a range of opinions.’
You just have to *say* you’re doing that and run the same right-wing slop you can find at 50 other outlets.
You just have to *say* you’re doing that and run the same right-wing slop you can find at 50 other outlets.
October 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
David Ellison says TFP is committed to "amplifying voices from all corners of the spectrum" - the spectrum that runs from reactionary centrism to center right.
(Also, um... spectra don't have corners).
(Also, um... spectra don't have corners).
This conversation felt like just another example of the left being held responsible for every random person who objected to Dave Chapelle or any other bigotry, because they didn’t show voters they “liked them.” Meanwhile, the right literally calls anyone on the left “evil” and “demonic.”
This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...
Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines
www.nytimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
This conversation felt like just another example of the left being held responsible for every random person who objected to Dave Chapelle or any other bigotry, because they didn’t show voters they “liked them.” Meanwhile, the right literally calls anyone on the left “evil” and “demonic.”
Mark your calemdars! Coming this week, 9/26!
I had a great time talking with Melissa and Lori about interventions for upper elementary students, and I'm excited for you to hear how evidence-based practices grow readers.
I had a great time talking with Melissa and Lori about interventions for upper elementary students, and I'm excited for you to hear how evidence-based practices grow readers.
September 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Mark your calemdars! Coming this week, 9/26!
I had a great time talking with Melissa and Lori about interventions for upper elementary students, and I'm excited for you to hear how evidence-based practices grow readers.
I had a great time talking with Melissa and Lori about interventions for upper elementary students, and I'm excited for you to hear how evidence-based practices grow readers.
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Truth bomb‼️
This man should be the one speaking on college campuses…
“They’re planning for us to turn on each other and make this culture war a civil war. I am begging you, please, for the love of God, for the love of our neighbors… do not take the bait.”
Watch
This man should be the one speaking on college campuses…
“They’re planning for us to turn on each other and make this culture war a civil war. I am begging you, please, for the love of God, for the love of our neighbors… do not take the bait.”
Watch
September 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Truth bomb‼️
This man should be the one speaking on college campuses…
“They’re planning for us to turn on each other and make this culture war a civil war. I am begging you, please, for the love of God, for the love of our neighbors… do not take the bait.”
Watch
This man should be the one speaking on college campuses…
“They’re planning for us to turn on each other and make this culture war a civil war. I am begging you, please, for the love of God, for the love of our neighbors… do not take the bait.”
Watch
Liberals apparently just throw money at problems instead of caring about values? My values are, "don't let kids go hungry in the richest country on Earth."
This is a common conservative trope: Giving money to poor people isn't enough, we need to focus on "cultural values" like hard work and marriage.
The problem is that red states have been doing that for decades and it doesn't work! Telling people that jobs are good doesn't help if there's no jobs.
The problem is that red states have been doing that for decades and it doesn't work! Telling people that jobs are good doesn't help if there's no jobs.
September 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Liberals apparently just throw money at problems instead of caring about values? My values are, "don't let kids go hungry in the richest country on Earth."
Martha's story has haunted me. May every person saved remember her name.
September 4, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Martha's story has haunted me. May every person saved remember her name.
When we talked about tightening up gun laws a tad, conservatives told me we couldn't trade our liberty for safety. Now, when troops are literally in the streets and brown people are being disappeared, so-called conservatives tell us we MUST trade liberty for safety.
September 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
When we talked about tightening up gun laws a tad, conservatives told me we couldn't trade our liberty for safety. Now, when troops are literally in the streets and brown people are being disappeared, so-called conservatives tell us we MUST trade liberty for safety.
I've traveled solo through the streets of DC, Chicago, NYC, Portland. If MAGA dudes are scared of a place, this little lady has probably been there. And I always wear a watch.
Stephen Miller on DC residents: "For the first time in their lives, they can use the parks, they can walk on the streets. You have people who can walk freely at night without having to worry about being robbed or mugged. They are wearing their watches again."
August 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I've traveled solo through the streets of DC, Chicago, NYC, Portland. If MAGA dudes are scared of a place, this little lady has probably been there. And I always wear a watch.
One thing I appreciate about young candidates like @katmabu.bsky.social and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is that they are bringing people together IRL. Scavenger hunts! Knitting classes! School supply drives! - they aren't just "good at the internet" as pundits seem to think.
August 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM
One thing I appreciate about young candidates like @katmabu.bsky.social and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is that they are bringing people together IRL. Scavenger hunts! Knitting classes! School supply drives! - they aren't just "good at the internet" as pundits seem to think.
So far, one of my favorite King adaptations.
Check out episode 7 of #TheInstitute, today (!) on MGM+
August 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
So far, one of my favorite King adaptations.
Why are they so scared of everything? I've visited DC many times over many years, riding public transportation, and walking all over the city. I have felt safer than in many other cities and towns.
Rick Scott: "DC is not safe. People don’t just walk the streets in DC and feel safe anywhere around DC. I mean, I gotta be careful in what I do. I've got people in my office that are very careful about where they go. So this is great when Donald Trump is doing."
August 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Why are they so scared of everything? I've visited DC many times over many years, riding public transportation, and walking all over the city. I have felt safer than in many other cities and towns.
Taking a moment to address the point she's making: the times the nation's performance "ticked up" as she puts it, we're the times when there was MORE federal involvement in ed (integration & post-National Reading Panel/Reading First).
someone has apparently hacked the audio system used for Linda McMahon's talk lol
August 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Taking a moment to address the point she's making: the times the nation's performance "ticked up" as she puts it, we're the times when there was MORE federal involvement in ed (integration & post-National Reading Panel/Reading First).
In press avails, let’s see journalists asking Trump about what these men experienced. Provide him with details.
Deported under a little-known wartime law, more than 130 Venezuelans were sent from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Now released, several tell NPR they endured beatings, sexual abuse, and near-total isolation.
'Hell on Earth': Venezuelans deported to El Salvador mega-prison tell of brutal abuse
Deported under a little-known wartime law, more than 130 Venezuelans were sent from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Now released, several tell NPR they endured beatings, sexual abuse, and near-total isolation.
n.pr
July 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
In press avails, let’s see journalists asking Trump about what these men experienced. Provide him with details.
PBS is how I learned to read. I went into my small town kindergarten already reading, thanks to Sesame Street. Wrote my first letters without any instruction but Sesame Street.
PBS is how I began watching Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, 3-2-1 Contact, Reading Rainbow, Are You Being Served?, Waiting For God, Keeping Up Appearances, and EastEnders.
PBS is how I began watching Doctor Who and Monty Python and Brideshead Revisited and so many other classics.
July 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM
PBS is how I learned to read. I went into my small town kindergarten already reading, thanks to Sesame Street. Wrote my first letters without any instruction but Sesame Street.
It's not funny, but at least it's boring!
the tonight show with bari weiss
July 18, 2025 at 4:58 AM
It's not funny, but at least it's boring!
Do they think Andor could have been that good without Diego Luna?!?! Or this badass?
a woman in a white coat is saying you disgust me .
Alt: Dedra, from Andor, looks down her nose with contempt, saying you disgust me .
media.tenor.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Do they think Andor could have been that good without Diego Luna?!?! Or this badass?