Jessica Kamphaus
@jessicak.bsky.social
Passionate educator + lifelong learner
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the film adaptation is pretty good!
If you’re into books written by people instead of assembled by AI slop, I just finished this one, which is about a Black guy who quits the CIA to train Black freedom fighters in Chicago, and I can’t stop thinking about it.
February 8, 2026 at 3:21 PM
the film adaptation is pretty good!
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so, so good. run it as a political ad.
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM
so, so good. run it as a political ad.
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Food banks were already struggling to keep with demand. Then, Trump slashed $1 billion from crucial USDA programs supporting them.
Now, thanks to his shutdown, food assistance for millions of Americans is about to try up.
The perfect storm of cruelty.
Now, thanks to his shutdown, food assistance for millions of Americans is about to try up.
The perfect storm of cruelty.
Food banks were ‘operating on fumes’ even before SNAP chaos • Stateline
Even before the federal government shutdown posed an unparalleled challenge for food banks, nonprofits across the countr
stateline.org
November 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Food banks were already struggling to keep with demand. Then, Trump slashed $1 billion from crucial USDA programs supporting them.
Now, thanks to his shutdown, food assistance for millions of Americans is about to try up.
The perfect storm of cruelty.
Now, thanks to his shutdown, food assistance for millions of Americans is about to try up.
The perfect storm of cruelty.
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“You starve your public schools to feed your private schools and charter schools,” said one superintendent about Oklahoma's efforts to grow charter schools. “Our foundation was set up for a free and appropriate education for all kids. All kids!”
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
Oklahoma Is Ground Zero in Trump’s “America First” Education Push
Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...
www.propublica.org
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
“You starve your public schools to feed your private schools and charter schools,” said one superintendent about Oklahoma's efforts to grow charter schools. “Our foundation was set up for a free and appropriate education for all kids. All kids!”
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
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The GOP's education playbook.
Step 1: Make public schooling as shitty and stressful as possible for kids and parents and teachers.
Step 2: Sell private schooling as the antidote to the stress and shittiness.
Step 3: Funnel public education money into private hands.
Step 1: Make public schooling as shitty and stressful as possible for kids and parents and teachers.
Step 2: Sell private schooling as the antidote to the stress and shittiness.
Step 3: Funnel public education money into private hands.
September 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The GOP's education playbook.
Step 1: Make public schooling as shitty and stressful as possible for kids and parents and teachers.
Step 2: Sell private schooling as the antidote to the stress and shittiness.
Step 3: Funnel public education money into private hands.
Step 1: Make public schooling as shitty and stressful as possible for kids and parents and teachers.
Step 2: Sell private schooling as the antidote to the stress and shittiness.
Step 3: Funnel public education money into private hands.
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“The less people are paid, the more anxious employers are to squeeze every bead of sweat out of their labour, monitoring each second with an indignity that no worker further up the chain would tolerate” Polly Toynbee, in the introduction to “Nickel and Dimed” by Barbara Ehrenreich.
July 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“The less people are paid, the more anxious employers are to squeeze every bead of sweat out of their labour, monitoring each second with an indignity that no worker further up the chain would tolerate” Polly Toynbee, in the introduction to “Nickel and Dimed” by Barbara Ehrenreich.
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Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?
June 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?
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As a classroom teacher it's frustrating that my intellectuality and my perspective are systematically overlooked while my labor, my pedagogy & my time are never enough
I feel this is even more true because I teach elementary.
I feel this is even more true because I teach elementary.
I wanna see more classroom teachers delivering keynotes, facilitating workshops, and given space and larger platforms to talk about what’s working/not working with students in this moment.
Too many educator conferences, not nearly enough current teacher voices and experiences.
Too many educator conferences, not nearly enough current teacher voices and experiences.
May 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
As a classroom teacher it's frustrating that my intellectuality and my perspective are systematically overlooked while my labor, my pedagogy & my time are never enough
I feel this is even more true because I teach elementary.
I feel this is even more true because I teach elementary.
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“This is taxpayer-funded, state-sponsored religious indoctrination. You’ve just got to call it what it is.”
The Supreme Court is about to let religion ruin public education
Two recent cases suggest that the era of secular schools is coming to an end.
www.motherjones.com
May 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
“This is taxpayer-funded, state-sponsored religious indoctrination. You’ve just got to call it what it is.”
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Very interesting resource collecting stories of people who have been arrested and detained by ICE, or even disappeared to El Salvador, since Trump took office. theimmigrationhub.shorthandstories.com/disappeared-...
Disappeared In America
A mother and her three children were seized by ICE in a pre-dawn raid near Trump’s border czar Tom Homan’s home, despite following the legal process. After ten days in a Texas detention center and a w...
theimmigrationhub.shorthandstories.com
April 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Very interesting resource collecting stories of people who have been arrested and detained by ICE, or even disappeared to El Salvador, since Trump took office. theimmigrationhub.shorthandstories.com/disappeared-...
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Elementary school principals going where university presidents fear to tread...
April 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Elementary school principals going where university presidents fear to tread...
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Education Department isn't being dismantled, it's being repurposed to destabilize public education so they can privatize much of it. This letter is serving that harm of diversion of public funds to private schools.
Other harms of this project think: dysfunction, depletion, & discrimination.
Other harms of this project think: dysfunction, depletion, & discrimination.
The Trump Education Department is authorizing states to use federal Title I money “to support education choice initiatives.”
www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
Department of Education Encourages States to Expand Education Choice by Leveraging Flexibilities in Title I Funds
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education sent a letter to all chief state school officers informing them of existing flexibility in federal formula funds under t...
www.ed.gov
April 1, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Education Department isn't being dismantled, it's being repurposed to destabilize public education so they can privatize much of it. This letter is serving that harm of diversion of public funds to private schools.
Other harms of this project think: dysfunction, depletion, & discrimination.
Other harms of this project think: dysfunction, depletion, & discrimination.
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When you unintentionally highlight how efficient the U.S. Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid office is
March 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
When you unintentionally highlight how efficient the U.S. Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid office is
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i.e., we don't educate democratically. We deny students & teachers a voice, adequate resources, and diverse, participatory experiences that would cultivate democratic values & dispositions. Elites are stratified above, isolated from poor & minorities, can't relate, evaluate life, risks differently
Why are the educated elites failing us?
Because they have been educated with democracy instead of educated through democracy.
Because they have been educated with democracy instead of educated through democracy.
Checking the college & university courageous leadership scoreboard
Georgetown Law: 1
Columbia, UVA, UPenn: -1000
Georgetown Law: 1
Columbia, UVA, UPenn: -1000
March 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
i.e., we don't educate democratically. We deny students & teachers a voice, adequate resources, and diverse, participatory experiences that would cultivate democratic values & dispositions. Elites are stratified above, isolated from poor & minorities, can't relate, evaluate life, risks differently
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If, for example, Trump says nobody is allowed to dance, on penalty of death, he has no legal power to make that declaration and no power to enforce it, but if everyone stops dancing it's as good as if he did. Reporting as though Trump has these powers helps give him those powers.
Shocking But Not Surprising Strikes Again (and Again)
The Caprices of the Oligarchs
Shocking but not surprising is a phrase I've often reverted to in the past eight years, for things that are both hideous and predictable, maybe transgressive against the...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
If, for example, Trump says nobody is allowed to dance, on penalty of death, he has no legal power to make that declaration and no power to enforce it, but if everyone stops dancing it's as good as if he did. Reporting as though Trump has these powers helps give him those powers.
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It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation.
I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!
I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!
February 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation.
I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!
I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!
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Facts are Facts.
The U.S. Dept of Ed does not and legally cannot “control schools.”
States already do that.
Shutting the U.S. Dept of Ed means ripping $$$ from your local schools. Lowering opportunity for students. Oh, and maybe raising your local taxes.
Fight myths with facts.
The U.S. Dept of Ed does not and legally cannot “control schools.”
States already do that.
Shutting the U.S. Dept of Ed means ripping $$$ from your local schools. Lowering opportunity for students. Oh, and maybe raising your local taxes.
Fight myths with facts.
February 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Facts are Facts.
The U.S. Dept of Ed does not and legally cannot “control schools.”
States already do that.
Shutting the U.S. Dept of Ed means ripping $$$ from your local schools. Lowering opportunity for students. Oh, and maybe raising your local taxes.
Fight myths with facts.
The U.S. Dept of Ed does not and legally cannot “control schools.”
States already do that.
Shutting the U.S. Dept of Ed means ripping $$$ from your local schools. Lowering opportunity for students. Oh, and maybe raising your local taxes.
Fight myths with facts.
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Greg Abbott calls his voucher scam “school choice.”
But we already have school choice—neighborhood schools, charters, magnets, academies & more.
Vouchers don’t give us choice. Vouchers give our tax dollars to unaccountable private schools that can discriminate against our kids.
But we already have school choice—neighborhood schools, charters, magnets, academies & more.
Vouchers don’t give us choice. Vouchers give our tax dollars to unaccountable private schools that can discriminate against our kids.
February 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Greg Abbott calls his voucher scam “school choice.”
But we already have school choice—neighborhood schools, charters, magnets, academies & more.
Vouchers don’t give us choice. Vouchers give our tax dollars to unaccountable private schools that can discriminate against our kids.
But we already have school choice—neighborhood schools, charters, magnets, academies & more.
Vouchers don’t give us choice. Vouchers give our tax dollars to unaccountable private schools that can discriminate against our kids.
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“Despite all appearances, the narcissistic robber baron elite is in the process of making Trump and the US government their puppets, and not the other way around.”
— #AJOpinion by Donald Earl Collins ⤵️
— #AJOpinion by Donald Earl Collins ⤵️
Why the billionaire class is kissing Trump’s proverbial ring
The billionaire set and the massive corporations they represent are not showing deference to the president.
aje.io
February 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
“Despite all appearances, the narcissistic robber baron elite is in the process of making Trump and the US government their puppets, and not the other way around.”
— #AJOpinion by Donald Earl Collins ⤵️
— #AJOpinion by Donald Earl Collins ⤵️