Jenn Borgioli Binis
@jennbinis.bsky.social
Freelance editor, researcher, and/or fact-checker for education and academic authors. Writing a book about teachers. This is my personal/professional account. Luddite. Newsletter: https://dissertate.jennbbinis.com/. r/Askhistorians moderator.
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FWIW, Florida’s new “History of Communism” curriculum is very similar to how the fascist-adjacent right wingers of the 1950s and 60s talked about the place of communism in America. bsky.app/profile/seth...
If the current draft of the Florida State educational standards pertaining to the new History of Communism course are adopted, then students will learn how it's a Commie trick to use the term "McCarthyism" as an insult to impugn the integrity of wholesome anti-communists like today's McCarthyites!
November 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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I swooned!!
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I swooned!!
Love this piece from @mattbarnum.bsky.social and I know reporters don't write headlines but I wonder who the "we" is in the headline.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/we-re-stil...
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/we-re-stil...
We’re still fighting about pandemic-era school closures — but do they still matter?
We’ve got answers to that and other questions from a new tranche of state testing data.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Love this piece from @mattbarnum.bsky.social and I know reporters don't write headlines but I wonder who the "we" is in the headline.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/we-re-stil...
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/we-re-stil...
Peloton and F1 are doing a crossover and that is wild but also, apparently, they're doing a scenic ride around the Las Vegas track and that's pretty cool.
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Peloton and F1 are doing a crossover and that is wild but also, apparently, they're doing a scenic ride around the Las Vegas track and that's pretty cool.
It was such a fun conversation!!
Our first podcast episode with @askhistorians.bsky.social is live! Learn more about our new book here: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
It was such a fun conversation!!
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
This is a fantastic post from Dr. Dorn with helpful guidance on how to think about claims regarding teachers' repertoire of practice.
I took a section of a paper draft on a different subject and wrote a blog that may be helpful in thinking about this. Note: it's not helpful in addressing anecdatal claims.
shermandorn.com?p=9750
shermandorn.com?p=9750
Repertoire
On one of the social media platforms I visit, there was a set of threads recently on the science of reading and three-cuing, a now-disdained prompt for early readers having difficulty with a word. …
shermandorn.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This is a fantastic post from Dr. Dorn with helpful guidance on how to think about claims regarding teachers' repertoire of practice.
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KIDS ARE PEOPLE
One more thing. When I wrote about this study showing one-third of Americans don't drive, people were messaging me saying this cannot be true for LA.
In LA County *23 percent* of the population is under 16. Kids are people! We must plan for their movement, just like all nondrivers. Hope that helps!
In LA County *23 percent* of the population is under 16. Kids are people! We must plan for their movement, just like all nondrivers. Hope that helps!
Highly recommend diving into NRDC's study on car access, which @keawilson.bsky.social wrote about here: usa.streetsblog.org/2025/10/02/report-16-million-have-no-car-access-at-all
Where Nadir was killed, 14% of LA households are car-free. But the infrastructure does not match that reality
Where Nadir was killed, 14% of LA households are car-free. But the infrastructure does not match that reality
November 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
KIDS ARE PEOPLE
If you subscribe to Audrey Watters' newsletter, check your email. She just shared her latest talk on AI and it is incredible. Just incredible and I am so, so angry right now.
November 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
If you subscribe to Audrey Watters' newsletter, check your email. She just shared her latest talk on AI and it is incredible. Just incredible and I am so, so angry right now.
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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This is big news: Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal group, has helped to seed a test case in Colorado over whether public schools can provide Christian education
www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...
www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...
Christian law firm sought Colorado test case for religious public schools, emails suggest
Alliance Defending Freedom approached a Colorado lawyer about starting a school in Colorado to spark a legal test of publicly funded religious education, according to an email authored by the lawyer.
www.chalkbeat.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This is big news: Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal group, has helped to seed a test case in Colorado over whether public schools can provide Christian education
www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...
www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...
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TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
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Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
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November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
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And I'm happy to do a discourse! I think my chat settings mean anyone can send a message!
Be forewarned, people of Bluesky. Jenn is not going to let you get by with passing takes on reading and the Reading Wars.
The last time it made the rounds on BlueSky, I mostly watched it go by because I didn't want to get sucked into bad Twitter-esque habits. This time, though, I'm going to rudely putting myself in mentions and dusting off the old, "Hello! Are you open to a conversation about this skeet?"
November 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
And I'm happy to do a discourse! I think my chat settings mean anyone can send a message!
One of the more compelling things about each time the Reading Wars discourse comes around again are the good, fair-minded liberals and progressives who support book banning and passing laws about what teachers can/can't teach.
November 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
One of the more compelling things about each time the Reading Wars discourse comes around again are the good, fair-minded liberals and progressives who support book banning and passing laws about what teachers can/can't teach.
Betcha "industriousness" was there, too.
Going through my father’s things I found my grandmother’s report card, circa April 1916. She got a poor mark in “deportment,” which is what they called “Social emotional growth” then. Her parents were probably mad — at the mark, not at the concept of deportment, because they weren’t morons.
Tech brains broken part 1000000000 (this lady is a partner at Andreessen apparently)
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Betcha "industriousness" was there, too.
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My Health Care Horror Story
Provide info, vent!
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November 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
How much did your insurance premiums increase this year? Please add your story to the incredibly unscientific survey.
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A not small number of WNYers wrote in ACAB because the Dems didn't put up anyone for Sheriff. Here's hoping that changes next time.
this needs to known far and wide
A Republican sheriff in a swing county that Trump won by 0.1% signed a contract to help ICE, then lost last week by 11.
New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...
New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A not small number of WNYers wrote in ACAB because the Dems didn't put up anyone for Sheriff. Here's hoping that changes next time.
Seeing an uptick in people in education writing "transgendered" when describing children or policy. As a friendly reminder, "transgender" is an adjective, not a verb. (I suspect it's happening because "disabled child(ren)" is not uncommon and people are mirroring that usage.)
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Seeing an uptick in people in education writing "transgendered" when describing children or policy. As a friendly reminder, "transgender" is an adjective, not a verb. (I suspect it's happening because "disabled child(ren)" is not uncommon and people are mirroring that usage.)
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A study of a large Florida school district found that the effects of immigration enforcement on students’ academic performance was concentrated in high-poverty schools. The test score declines also occurred for U.S. citizen students.
ICE arrests could hurt student test scores, study says — and not just for immigrants
A study of a large Florida school district found that the effects of immigration enforcement on students’ academic performance was concentrated in high-poverty schools. The test score declines also occurred for U.S. citizen students.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:25 AM
A study of a large Florida school district found that the effects of immigration enforcement on students’ academic performance was concentrated in high-poverty schools. The test score declines also occurred for U.S. citizen students.
These posts are 16 minutes apart. They're right next to each other on Eric's timeline
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.)
Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.),
Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),
Jon Ossoff (Ga.),
Gary Peters (Mich.) Dick Durbin (Ill.)
the Democrats who are are considered by R's as possible “yes” votes for the deal.
Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.),
Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),
Jon Ossoff (Ga.),
Gary Peters (Mich.) Dick Durbin (Ill.)
the Democrats who are are considered by R's as possible “yes” votes for the deal.
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.)
Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.),
Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),
Jon Ossoff (Ga.),
Gary Peters (Mich.) Dick Durbin (Ill.)
the Democrats who are are considered by R's as possible “yes” votes for the deal.
Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.),
Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),
Jon Ossoff (Ga.),
Gary Peters (Mich.) Dick Durbin (Ill.)
the Democrats who are are considered by R's as possible “yes” votes for the deal.
Today's #F1 race was one of the best I think I've ever seen. To quote one of the announcers, "I need to sit down." (One of the babies made it to the podium!!!)
a young man with curly hair is wearing a black shirt that says amg on it
ALT: a young man with curly hair is wearing a black shirt that says amg on it
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November 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Today's #F1 race was one of the best I think I've ever seen. To quote one of the announcers, "I need to sit down." (One of the babies made it to the podium!!!)
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
Spending the first Saturday since June without any campaign obligations in style.
November 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Spending the first Saturday since June without any campaign obligations in style.
every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
November 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM