Gretchen Sprinkle
@gsprinks.bsky.social
Leftist wet blanket.
Neurodivergent educator.
Shouting into the void.
Neurodivergent educator.
Shouting into the void.
Pinned
Gretchen Sprinkle
@gsprinks.bsky.social
· Dec 11
Colleen Wilcox said teaching is the greatest act of optimism. I appreciate the sentiment, but I do not naturally lean toward optimism.
Hope, however, I am always clinging to. But hope is not bright and shiny, it's a desperate kind of faithfulness. I will keep teaching because I am hopeful.
Hope, however, I am always clinging to. But hope is not bright and shiny, it's a desperate kind of faithfulness. I will keep teaching because I am hopeful.
I need an emergency episode of @fivefourpod.bsky.social where @aywarhiannon.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social and @fleerultra.bsky.social just spend 45 minutes making Donald and Bubba jokes. It could heal my soul.
November 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I need an emergency episode of @fivefourpod.bsky.social where @aywarhiannon.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social and @fleerultra.bsky.social just spend 45 minutes making Donald and Bubba jokes. It could heal my soul.
I wasn't quite due for a Tdap booster and I probably didn't really need an MMR booster. But with RFK Jr at the helm of HHS, I am not taking chances with vaccine access.
May 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I wasn't quite due for a Tdap booster and I probably didn't really need an MMR booster. But with RFK Jr at the helm of HHS, I am not taking chances with vaccine access.
Voting for Pritzker has proven to be the right call again and again.
April 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Voting for Pritzker has proven to be the right call again and again.
Happy Easter! Just a reminder that the Savior was a radical, brown skinned, socialist who was persecuted for his subversion of power structures.
April 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Happy Easter! Just a reminder that the Savior was a radical, brown skinned, socialist who was persecuted for his subversion of power structures.
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“I asked chatGPT to explain…” you mean you did a google that kills puppies
April 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
“I asked chatGPT to explain…” you mean you did a google that kills puppies
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Booker is on track to erase and replace a historical record (from segregationist Storm Thurmond) at a time when we have an administration trying to erase the real history of this country. Lots of things matter. Symbols among them.
April 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Booker is on track to erase and replace a historical record (from segregationist Storm Thurmond) at a time when we have an administration trying to erase the real history of this country. Lots of things matter. Symbols among them.
I voted today for offices that matter. Strong local governments are important when fighting fascism. I'm getting used to being distraught in election outcomes, but I'm still hopeful great local candidates could win today.
April 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I voted today for offices that matter. Strong local governments are important when fighting fascism. I'm getting used to being distraught in election outcomes, but I'm still hopeful great local candidates could win today.
My letter to the editor won't fix anything. But it is one way to keep the volume up on dissent. www.shawlocal.com/daily-chroni...
Letter: Where do you want to live?
Letters to the Editor for the Daily Chronicle: Where do you want to live?
www.shawlocal.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
My letter to the editor won't fix anything. But it is one way to keep the volume up on dissent. www.shawlocal.com/daily-chroni...
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This honestly feels like the Feb 2020, but for fascism instead of COVID
only people paying attention know what is going to hell
only people paying attention know what is going to hell
February 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This honestly feels like the Feb 2020, but for fascism instead of COVID
only people paying attention know what is going to hell
only people paying attention know what is going to hell
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I will vote for the first candidate who tells me they're going to make the biggest government possible. Reacher-sized agencies. Braun Strowman-level social benefits. Government so big it starts belching out National Parks and free healthcare. Chungus State.
February 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I will vote for the first candidate who tells me they're going to make the biggest government possible. Reacher-sized agencies. Braun Strowman-level social benefits. Government so big it starts belching out National Parks and free healthcare. Chungus State.
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"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov
February 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov
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The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
February 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
There are so many options. SO MANY.
fantasizing about a world where an opposition congress responds to trump’s attempts to usurp legislative power by defunding the entire white house staff
February 20, 2025 at 3:24 AM
There are so many options. SO MANY.
General strikes are incredibly powerful, but scary for the individual! Knowing others are committed to a general strike helps assuage that fear. Check out generalstrike.us to voice your commitment. When 11 million or more commit, then the strike will be planned.
generalstrike.us
February 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
General strikes are incredibly powerful, but scary for the individual! Knowing others are committed to a general strike helps assuage that fear. Check out generalstrike.us to voice your commitment. When 11 million or more commit, then the strike will be planned.
I know the empire is crumbling, but I need @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and Sarah Marshall to do a podcast episode on this new Netflix OJ series. #yourewrongabout #yourewrongaboutog #ojsimpson
February 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I know the empire is crumbling, but I need @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and Sarah Marshall to do a podcast episode on this new Netflix OJ series. #yourewrongabout #yourewrongaboutog #ojsimpson
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taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?
Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI
February 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?
One of the most underrated presidents. My elementary age son likes him because I told him he put solar panels on the White House ❤️
February 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
One of the most underrated presidents. My elementary age son likes him because I told him he put solar panels on the White House ❤️
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👇🏻👇🏻
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
👇🏻👇🏻
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mmmwhatever this is I don't like it..!
mmmwhatever this is I don't like it..!
February 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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mmmwhatever this is I don't like it..!
mmmwhatever this is I don't like it..!
I love interacting with service workers, because I get to see the relief on their face when they realize I'm not going to be a problem. They get low-stress part of their day and I get to feel like a nice person. Win-win.
February 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I love interacting with service workers, because I get to see the relief on their face when they realize I'm not going to be a problem. They get low-stress part of their day and I get to feel like a nice person. Win-win.
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Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
For more—and to sign— go to
saynotoethniccleansing.org
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
For more—and to sign— go to
saynotoethniccleansing.org
February 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
For more—and to sign— go to
saynotoethniccleansing.org
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
For more—and to sign— go to
saynotoethniccleansing.org
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Yes, we let a rich idiot nobody elected destroy the entire government, but it was that or make rich people pay taxes so that poor people could go to the doctor
February 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Yes, we let a rich idiot nobody elected destroy the entire government, but it was that or make rich people pay taxes so that poor people could go to the doctor