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Damon Rainie
@mrrainie.bsky.social
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Middle school educator—grades 5-8—public school principal in southeastern MA, previously English Language Arts teacher
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Please dissect, @dieworkwear.bsky.social , please!
donald trump walking down a hallway with a leather portfolio tucked in one of his tiny, delicate hands. His jacket is snugly buttoned, set to burst; both pant legs are riding up significantly; and his well-polished shoes appear to have substantial heels.
October 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Key word missing from this headline:
“Push for Military Coverage of I.V.F. Faces REPUBLICAN Challenge in Congress”

Why does “paper of record” continually tag Democrats when they’re terrible or ineffective, but shield GOP from same naming & shaming?
Accusations of liberal bias prompt self-censoring?
New York Times headline, reading “Push for Military Coverage of I.V.F. Faces Challenge in Congress”
October 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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2024 in books! I finished 24 books this year
I’m just a kid with an IEP by Jordan Toma; Capitalism: a ghost story by Ahrundati Roy; Searching for stars on an island in Maine by Alan Lightman; We are not free by Traci Chee; Body happy kids by Molly Forbes; Bigger than Bernie: how we get to democratic socialism by Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht; They Called Us Enemy by George Takei; A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara; The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff; The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake; Black Lives Matter at School edited by Denisha Jones and Jesse Hagopian; Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban; School Culture Rewired by Steve Gruenert and Todd Whitaker; Grace Notes by Brian Doyle; Discipline with dignity by Richard L. Curwin, Allen N. Mendler, and Brian D. Mendler; The Candidate by Samuel Popkin; Honest to God by John Hamilton; How Teachers Can Turn Data Into Action by Daniel Venables; Wobblies & Zapatistas by Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic; Atomic Habits by James Clear; Thinking Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman; I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole: an Elias Canetti reader edited by Joshua Cohen; The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin; Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
January 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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November 30, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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For once, @nytimes.com made an editorial decision I approve of: indicating sloganeering in GOP use of term “Choice” to mask schemes to underfund public schools. It’s about time MSM stops accepting the Right’s manipulations “in good faith” & amplifying propaganda. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/u...
From the New York Times, “How Linda McMahon Might Approach the Dept. of Education” by Sharon Otterman on 11/20/2024: “As Secretary of Education, Linda will fight tirelessly to expand ‘Choice’ to every State in America, and empower parents to make the best Education decisions for their families,” Mr. Trump said.”
November 21, 2024 at 12:58 AM
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Reposting felicitous Peanuts humor from @greaseweezer.bsky.social via @drspedinnv.bsky.social, with alt text
Linus and Lucy sitting in classroom desks. Linus turns around to Lucy and says, “No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.”
November 14, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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Hijinks…?
November 12, 2024 at 1:01 AM
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More from @mskellymhayes.bsky.social: “Lashing out at people who disappoint us can also deliver a small dose of satisfaction... We live in a society that wrongly conflates justice with satisfaction, so our efforts to punish the people we disagree with may even feel like the pursuit of justice.”
Puff the Magic Hater (MsKellyMHayes): “Our dependence on social media, which has intensified in harmful ways during the pandemic, has only worsened these divides. While these platforms hold some utility for our movements, we were never meant to live the bulk of our political lives in these realms. Social media has damaged our ability to communicate across difference, rewarding acrimony, sanctimony, and excommunication. Modeling politics has too often replaced the work of doing politics. At some point, many people of conscience lost the ability to engage in principled disagreement—if they ever bothered to learn. For many, persuasion isn’t even an option anymore. Quite often, political discourse is about categorizing people, dividing us into the morally correct and the morally irredeemable, with no middle ground and no plan to change the math. It’s as though many people believe they can simply disqualify the majority of humanity from political life, thereby saving the world. As an organizer, I find this disconcerting, to say the least.”
November 10, 2024 at 6:06 PM
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How does one find common ground with a fellow citizen who chose to vote hate? Meg Indurti on twitter, pushing me to look at compromises I accepted. Honestly, I convinced myself Harris would act differently re:Gaza than she was campaigning. Was I deluding myself? If so, maybe I’m not alone…
Meg Indurti: “if you are someone who was able to overlook the genocide and cast a vote for kamala harris, then you already understand how a conservative was able to overlook Trump's extremism to vote for him.”
November 10, 2024 at 4:35 PM