Karla
@kzac.bsky.social
teacher in Chicago
trying to do critical work
abolitionist
but also not here to post about serious stuff all the time
trying to do critical work
abolitionist
but also not here to post about serious stuff all the time
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The institutions did not hold.
July 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The institutions did not hold.
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I guess I just want to say that Trump has captured every single institution. You can track variation in, say, court decisions or changing positions on tariffs but even conceding those things accepts that his whims run institutions’ priorities. Not a single one of them really stood.
July 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I guess I just want to say that Trump has captured every single institution. You can track variation in, say, court decisions or changing positions on tariffs but even conceding those things accepts that his whims run institutions’ priorities. Not a single one of them really stood.
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July 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I'm sharing my teacher wishlist here. New school, new grade level (8th!!!). Wish we didn't have to do this but most of y'all know how classrooms come to us.
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
Check out my list on Amazon
www.amazon.com
July 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I'm sharing my teacher wishlist here. New school, new grade level (8th!!!). Wish we didn't have to do this but most of y'all know how classrooms come to us.
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
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It's Teacher Appreciation Week. Here's how to appreciate teachers: trust them to choose books and curricular materials using an established, professional process.
Who Should Decide What Students Read?
Meet the pretenders who want to be the deciders
nobody-wants-this.ghost.io
May 8, 2025 at 11:53 AM
It's Teacher Appreciation Week. Here's how to appreciate teachers: trust them to choose books and curricular materials using an established, professional process.
I don't think I ever ask my students what they want to be when they grow up. It's still all around us though bc many of them talk about it.
April 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I don't think I ever ask my students what they want to be when they grow up. It's still all around us though bc many of them talk about it.
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I promised myself I wouldn’t become the old person who asks kids stuff like this. 😂😂 it takes A Lot of work not to do it. Like a spirit comes over you that says, “and so do you have a little friend at school?!” You must resist.
April 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I promised myself I wouldn’t become the old person who asks kids stuff like this. 😂😂 it takes A Lot of work not to do it. Like a spirit comes over you that says, “and so do you have a little friend at school?!” You must resist.
*SCREAMS INTO THE VOID*
Looks like Rahm is definitely running. Website is live RahmForSenate.com
As expected, Dick Durbin retiring. chicago.suntimes.com/politics/sen...
April 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
*SCREAMS INTO THE VOID*
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It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.
March 31, 2025 at 9:25 PM
It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.
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This is scary as shit. The part about Indiana University erasing his existence entirely from their system is particularly chilling.
www.wired.com/story/cybers...
www.wired.com/story/cybers...
Cybersecurity Professor Mysteriously Disappears as FBI Raids His Homes
Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school's website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids.
www.wired.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This is scary as shit. The part about Indiana University erasing his existence entirely from their system is particularly chilling.
www.wired.com/story/cybers...
www.wired.com/story/cybers...
we had a self-directed teacher work day today. which means we didn't have to sit in meetings, we could actually do work. it's the first one we've had since august. which says a lot about our profession.
March 31, 2025 at 11:14 PM
we had a self-directed teacher work day today. which means we didn't have to sit in meetings, we could actually do work. it's the first one we've had since august. which says a lot about our profession.
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Uncle Munk weekend advice: Slow down. The most important thing to get done this weekend is taking care of you. Spend a few extra minutes on you. Call your friend you've been meaning to call. Sit outside in the sun. Go to that coffee shop you keep passing by. Life ain't what you do it's what you feel
March 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Uncle Munk weekend advice: Slow down. The most important thing to get done this weekend is taking care of you. Spend a few extra minutes on you. Call your friend you've been meaning to call. Sit outside in the sun. Go to that coffee shop you keep passing by. Life ain't what you do it's what you feel
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Shout out to my editor who let me cook.
Best AI hype allegory to date via @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
“every time someone asks me, “What about A.I.?” with the breathless anticipation of a boy who thinks this is the summer he finally gets to touch a boob”
“every time someone asks me, “What about A.I.?” with the breathless anticipation of a boy who thinks this is the summer he finally gets to touch a boob”
Opinion | Actually, A.I. Is Pretty Mid
A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Shout out to my editor who let me cook.
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Students are being harassed on/near campus by ICE (Fuck ICE) and faculty are like “let’s host a panel on the implications of ICE aggressions on students and then let’s publish a paper.” PROTECT YOUR STUDENTS. DEMAND ADMIN PROTECTS THEM. #resist #academicsky
March 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Students are being harassed on/near campus by ICE (Fuck ICE) and faculty are like “let’s host a panel on the implications of ICE aggressions on students and then let’s publish a paper.” PROTECT YOUR STUDENTS. DEMAND ADMIN PROTECTS THEM. #resist #academicsky
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There is literally no ethical use of genAI.
🔥 It's built on theft.
🔥 It consumes vast environmental resources.
🔥 It consumes vast financial resources to support it.
No company currently touting their "ethical" genAI has attempted to address all three. Once they do then MAYBE a discussion begins.
🔥 It's built on theft.
🔥 It consumes vast environmental resources.
🔥 It consumes vast financial resources to support it.
No company currently touting their "ethical" genAI has attempted to address all three. Once they do then MAYBE a discussion begins.
March 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
There is literally no ethical use of genAI.
🔥 It's built on theft.
🔥 It consumes vast environmental resources.
🔥 It consumes vast financial resources to support it.
No company currently touting their "ethical" genAI has attempted to address all three. Once they do then MAYBE a discussion begins.
🔥 It's built on theft.
🔥 It consumes vast environmental resources.
🔥 It consumes vast financial resources to support it.
No company currently touting their "ethical" genAI has attempted to address all three. Once they do then MAYBE a discussion begins.
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Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop
theonion.com/gang-in...
theonion.com/gang-in...
March 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop
theonion.com/gang-in...
theonion.com/gang-in...
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"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says Chris Hayes on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.
‘Flatly authoritarian’: New video shows masked agents arresting Tufts student
YouTube video by MSNBC
youtu.be
March 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says Chris Hayes on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.
@marcusluther.bsky.social hi! I read your new blog post and I’m reporting that I like that format!!
March 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
@marcusluther.bsky.social hi! I read your new blog post and I’m reporting that I like that format!!
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MAN Case put his foot in this shit. and having MJB & Foxy made this unforgettable
If you not tryna bop with me to this at the function, don’t DM me open.spotify.com/track/4xrBjU...
Touch Me Tease Me
Case, Foxy Brown, Mary J. Blige · Case · Song · 1996
open.spotify.com
March 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
MAN Case put his foot in this shit. and having MJB & Foxy made this unforgettable
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since she was 8 months old
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
March 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
since she was 8 months old
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
I'm ONLY eating square cut pizza.
March 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I'm ONLY eating square cut pizza.
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The fact that even after these losses they are still the richest people in the world reveals that they would also survive paying higher taxes
NEW: Five of the billionaires who attended Donald Trump's inauguration have lost a combined $210 billion in wealth since then, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index
Billionaires at Trump’s Swearing-In Have Since Lost $210 Billion
As Donald Trump took the oath of office on Jan. 20, he was flanked by some of the world’s wealthiest people. The billionaires present that day — including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg — h...
www.bloomberg.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The fact that even after these losses they are still the richest people in the world reveals that they would also survive paying higher taxes
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Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.
March 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.
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Let's be really really clear. The Trump admin chose a Palestinian activist as the target of its first lawless political detention precisely BECAUSE they believe that will split the opposition.
If you shrug at the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, or worse, cheer it on, you're following Trump's script.
If you shrug at the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, or worse, cheer it on, you're following Trump's script.
March 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Let's be really really clear. The Trump admin chose a Palestinian activist as the target of its first lawless political detention precisely BECAUSE they believe that will split the opposition.
If you shrug at the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, or worse, cheer it on, you're following Trump's script.
If you shrug at the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, or worse, cheer it on, you're following Trump's script.