@loraadriannovak.bsky.social
Retired Westlake High School English teacher (CA). Current adjunct instructor at Villanova University (PA). Happily married to a wonderful woman. 👯🌈 Proud Democrat. 🗳️💙 Migrated here from Twitter. Also on Instagram & Threads 🧵. 🚫DMs🚫
Attention holiday shoppers! Here's a convenient feminist guide to the businesses we're boycotting this year. Pledge to shop at these alternatives instead. share.weareultraviolet.org/s/xcFIfgqp
If money is power, women wield a lot of it as consumers.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Attention holiday shoppers! Here's a convenient feminist guide to the businesses we're boycotting this year. Pledge to shop at these alternatives instead. share.weareultraviolet.org/s/xcFIfgqp
Yesterday’s 💎: Damsgiving with nine students who studied abroad with us in Amsterdam last summer. 1) informal chatting 2) group photo with MB and Lynne, MB’s colleague 3) group photo with me and MB 4) me delivering Ava’s birthday 🎂 cake to her
November 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Yesterday’s 💎: Damsgiving with nine students who studied abroad with us in Amsterdam last summer. 1) informal chatting 2) group photo with MB and Lynne, MB’s colleague 3) group photo with me and MB 4) me delivering Ava’s birthday 🎂 cake to her
I just signed a petition launched by the gender justice nonprofit UltraViolet demanding that SiriusXM drop Megyn Kelly. Kelly's comments minimizing Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of teen girls are reckless and irresponsible. Pedophile apologists should not have a national platform. app.sosha.ai/s/cVznNM4r
Tell SiriusXM: Drop Megyn Kelly
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November 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I just signed a petition launched by the gender justice nonprofit UltraViolet demanding that SiriusXM drop Megyn Kelly. Kelly's comments minimizing Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of teen girls are reckless and irresponsible. Pedophile apologists should not have a national platform. app.sosha.ai/s/cVznNM4r
💎 of the day: voting 🗳️ to save our courts in PA! We also met our mayor. 😃💙
November 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
💎 of the day: voting 🗳️ to save our courts in PA! We also met our mayor. 😃💙
In the midst of escalating ICE raids across our country, Apple & Google just bent the knee to US AG Pam Bondi by removing apps that let users track ICE sightings from their app stores. Their reasoning? Safety for the agents. What about our safety? app.sosha.ai/s/72ax8Ntu
Sign now to demand that these apps be re-platformed immediately
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October 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
In the midst of escalating ICE raids across our country, Apple & Google just bent the knee to US AG Pam Bondi by removing apps that let users track ICE sightings from their app stores. Their reasoning? Safety for the agents. What about our safety? app.sosha.ai/s/72ax8Ntu
One of the biggest achievements of the feminist movement has been gaining equal access to higher education. Donald Trump is trying to roll back that progress. Demand universities reject Trump's anti-academic compact. Women and people of color belong in higher education.
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SIGN: Protect equal access to higher education
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October 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
One of the biggest achievements of the feminist movement has been gaining equal access to higher education. Donald Trump is trying to roll back that progress. Demand universities reject Trump's anti-academic compact. Women and people of color belong in higher education.
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Most ICE agents wear masks and refuse to identify themselves. Now, sexual predators are impersonating them and preying on women. Congress must pass the No Secret Police Act to force ICE agents to remove masks and identify themselves.
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ICE impersonators are sexually assaulting women
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September 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Most ICE agents wear masks and refuse to identify themselves. Now, sexual predators are impersonating them and preying on women. Congress must pass the No Secret Police Act to force ICE agents to remove masks and identify themselves.
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If we want to make the dream of a multi-racial, gender-diverse democracy a reality, then we need to fight back all attempts to dismantle our country's free press. Take action to demand ABC stop enabling authoritarian censorship and reinstate Jimmy Kimmel now. app.sosha.ai/s/vhYMemoW
ABC: Reinstate Jimmy Kimmel
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September 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If we want to make the dream of a multi-racial, gender-diverse democracy a reality, then we need to fight back all attempts to dismantle our country's free press. Take action to demand ABC stop enabling authoritarian censorship and reinstate Jimmy Kimmel now. app.sosha.ai/s/vhYMemoW
RFK Jr's commitment to spreading medical disinformation and sowing distrust against scientific facts makes him unfit to set health policy in our country. His lies are endangering the health of women and pregnant people. Demand RFK Jr. resign now. share.weareultraviolet.org/s/LJHUOOfO
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September 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
RFK Jr's commitment to spreading medical disinformation and sowing distrust against scientific facts makes him unfit to set health policy in our country. His lies are endangering the health of women and pregnant people. Demand RFK Jr. resign now. share.weareultraviolet.org/s/LJHUOOfO
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/jo...
Reinstate Dr. Shannon Joslin and Support LGBTQ+ Park Staff and Visitors!
On their own free time, SJ and six others climbed El Capitan in Yosemite and took part in a tradition of hanging a flag at the top.
They never thought the display of acceptance and love would r...
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August 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/jo...
It's important to recognize that a large portion of what English teachers are able to teach at the secondary level is tied to funding for books, which is not always there. For public schools, teachers have to teach from books that the school board has approved and that the district has purchased.
“Teachers know that diversifying the text that they put in front of students leads to the development of a lot of different literacy skills,” said Rex Ovalle, chair of NCTE’s Secondary Section. Read more from @edweek.org [paywalled]: www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
#DiverseBooks #NCTE
#DiverseBooks #NCTE
Shakespeare, Other Classics Still Dominate High School English
Despite efforts to diversify curricula, teachers still regularly assign many of the same classic works, a new survey finds.
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August 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM
It's important to recognize that a large portion of what English teachers are able to teach at the secondary level is tied to funding for books, which is not always there. For public schools, teachers have to teach from books that the school board has approved and that the district has purchased.
💎 of the day: visiting the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. 👨🎨 🎨 🖼️
June 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
💎 of the day: visiting the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. 👨🎨 🎨 🖼️
In Brussels, I staged my one-woman protest on #NoKingsDay.
June 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
In Brussels, I staged my one-woman protest on #NoKingsDay.
Watching the news on the L.A. situation, exasperated by the Trump administration. This is from Amsterdam.
June 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Watching the news on the L.A. situation, exasperated by the Trump administration. This is from Amsterdam.
Agreed!
May 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Agreed!
Tell your Republican Senator(s) You Don’t Want To Pay The Price For Their Billionaire Tax Breaks act.indivisible.org/petition/no-...
Tell your Republican Senator(s) You Don’t Want To Pay The Price For Their Billionaire Tax Breaks
Republicans in Congress are trying to ram through the Trump Tax Scam, a bill that makes extreme cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and other essential programs to pay for tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy. Under ...
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May 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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And Senator John Fetterman voted for her confirmation.
Everything that was largely avoided like the plague for decades, because it was immoral and unethical…but barely legal…maybe…is now exploited to the fullest.
It was just a matter of who would dare go ahead and do it.
It was just a matter of who would dare go ahead and do it.
May 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
And Senator John Fetterman voted for her confirmation.
This👇🏻
We should be ashamed of ourselves for not appreciating him breaking the law. ✈️ 💰 🙏
May 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
This👇🏻
Kudos to these two writers ✍️ who wrote letters to the editor of the Thousand Oaks Acorn with this headline: School district (CVUSD) needs to address sexual issue.
May 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Kudos to these two writers ✍️ who wrote letters to the editor of the Thousand Oaks Acorn with this headline: School district (CVUSD) needs to address sexual issue.
What will the Offal Office cut next? It’s easy and free to sign the petition.
May 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
What will the Offal Office cut next? It’s easy and free to sign the petition.
If you see this, please share widely. It’s time to clean up the corruption and protect the young female victims and the teachers who’ve tried to help them.
Students and parents are speaking out over the alleged mishandling of sexual assault and harassment involving students at Westlake High School in Thousand Oaks. The Conejo Valley Unified School Dis…
Westlake High students, parents allege mishandling of sexual assault, harassment cases by school officials
Students and parents are speaking out over the alleged mishandling of sexual assault and harassment involving students at Westlake High School in Thousand Oaks. The Conejo Valley Unified School Dis…
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April 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
If you see this, please share widely. It’s time to clean up the corruption and protect the young female victims and the teachers who’ve tried to help them.