Raychl
@raychlsmith.bsky.social
Mom, music teacher educator, music education researcher, she/her
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You've read all about it: Teaching today's students can be incredibly frustrating. But a new survey by The Chronicle finds that working with students can often be faculty members' chief source of joy. chroni.cl/41k91K9
What Keeps Stressed-Out Faculty Members Going? Their Students.
Professors like teaching. It’s all the other stuff that’s burning them out.
chroni.cl
February 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
You've read all about it: Teaching today's students can be incredibly frustrating. But a new survey by The Chronicle finds that working with students can often be faculty members' chief source of joy. chroni.cl/41k91K9
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
Raising an activist.
February 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Raising an activist.
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Anyone who believes the poor are “parasites” violates the clear teaching of Jesus-and a political movement based on such beliefs puts a nation in jeopardy of God’s judgment.
That’s the politics of woe, of the world's wealthiest man, the politics of MAGA.
open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
That’s the politics of woe, of the world's wealthiest man, the politics of MAGA.
open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
Sunday Musings
The Politics of Woe
open.substack.com
February 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Anyone who believes the poor are “parasites” violates the clear teaching of Jesus-and a political movement based on such beliefs puts a nation in jeopardy of God’s judgment.
That’s the politics of woe, of the world's wealthiest man, the politics of MAGA.
open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
That’s the politics of woe, of the world's wealthiest man, the politics of MAGA.
open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
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Now this is a coalition.
The Disciples of Christ don't take a real & public stand like this very often, so I'm happy (but not totally shocked) to see us on the plaintiffs list. #ccdoc
The Disciples of Christ don't take a real & public stand like this very often, so I'm happy (but not totally shocked) to see us on the plaintiffs list. #ccdoc
People of faith suing the Trump administration for violating their religious freedom. Including UCC, PCUSA, TEC, UMC conferences...the list is long...
Read the complaint. Lawyers are heroes.
www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-cont...
Read the complaint. Lawyers are heroes.
www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-cont...
February 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Now this is a coalition.
The Disciples of Christ don't take a real & public stand like this very often, so I'm happy (but not totally shocked) to see us on the plaintiffs list. #ccdoc
The Disciples of Christ don't take a real & public stand like this very often, so I'm happy (but not totally shocked) to see us on the plaintiffs list. #ccdoc
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JD Vance: Just google 'ordo amoris.'
Pope Francis: Forget Google, let me explain it:
www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...
🫳
🎤
Imagine being a fairly recent convert to a faith & then having the leader publicly call you out for pushing bad theology. Ouch.
Pope Francis: Forget Google, let me explain it:
www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...
🫳
🎤
Imagine being a fairly recent convert to a faith & then having the leader publicly call you out for pushing bad theology. Ouch.
Pope decries 'major crisis' of Trump's mass deportation plans, rejects Vance's theology
Pope Francis has written a sweeping letter to the U.S. bishops decrying the "major crisis" triggered by President Donald Trump's mass deportation plans and explicitly rejecting Vice President JD Vance...
www.ncronline.org
February 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
JD Vance: Just google 'ordo amoris.'
Pope Francis: Forget Google, let me explain it:
www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...
🫳
🎤
Imagine being a fairly recent convert to a faith & then having the leader publicly call you out for pushing bad theology. Ouch.
Pope Francis: Forget Google, let me explain it:
www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...
🫳
🎤
Imagine being a fairly recent convert to a faith & then having the leader publicly call you out for pushing bad theology. Ouch.
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When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
February 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
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The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers.
This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.
This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.
February 8, 2025 at 3:02 AM
The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers.
This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.
This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.
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The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.
February 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.
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Happy:
Black history
Black present
Black future
Black love
Black joy
Black health
Black healing
Black people
Black community
Black family
Black kids
Black culture
Black creativity
Black ingenuity
Black legacy
Black innovation
Black liberation
Black resistance
Black existence
...month🖤
Black history
Black present
Black future
Black love
Black joy
Black health
Black healing
Black people
Black community
Black family
Black kids
Black culture
Black creativity
Black ingenuity
Black legacy
Black innovation
Black liberation
Black resistance
Black existence
...month🖤
February 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Happy:
Black history
Black present
Black future
Black love
Black joy
Black health
Black healing
Black people
Black community
Black family
Black kids
Black culture
Black creativity
Black ingenuity
Black legacy
Black innovation
Black liberation
Black resistance
Black existence
...month🖤
Black history
Black present
Black future
Black love
Black joy
Black health
Black healing
Black people
Black community
Black family
Black kids
Black culture
Black creativity
Black ingenuity
Black legacy
Black innovation
Black liberation
Black resistance
Black existence
...month🖤
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This is a constitutional crisis: the President doesn't have the power to cancel funds appropriated by Congress. Also, the math is insane; there is NO way to cut $4B/day by getting rid of "fraud". Cuts of that magnitude will dangerously undermine the core functions of government.
February 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This is a constitutional crisis: the President doesn't have the power to cancel funds appropriated by Congress. Also, the math is insane; there is NO way to cut $4B/day by getting rid of "fraud". Cuts of that magnitude will dangerously undermine the core functions of government.
Hanging with some great high school bands at SoundForge: A Popular Music Collective, sponsored by Catawba College, NCMEA, and the NC Music Office.
February 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Hanging with some great high school bands at SoundForge: A Popular Music Collective, sponsored by Catawba College, NCMEA, and the NC Music Office.
Proud of my Quaker roots.
Quaker groups file suit over the end of policy restricting ICE arrests in houses of worship
The suit appears to be the first from a faith-based organization challenging the change in court.
www.nbcnews.com
January 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Proud of my Quaker roots.
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Getting a library card is punk as fuck and free!
January 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Getting a library card is punk as fuck and free!
So far I am loving bluesky. I’m trying to stay as far away from the metaverse as possible, but it keeps sucking me back in. How do you all deal with the FOMO of being off Facebook and Instagram?
January 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
So far I am loving bluesky. I’m trying to stay as far away from the metaverse as possible, but it keeps sucking me back in. How do you all deal with the FOMO of being off Facebook and Instagram?
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1. Sabotage public institutions.
2. Claim they don’t work efficiently.
3. Eliminate them.
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That’s the playbook.
2. Claim they don’t work efficiently.
3. Eliminate them.
—
That’s the playbook.
January 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
1. Sabotage public institutions.
2. Claim they don’t work efficiently.
3. Eliminate them.
—
That’s the playbook.
2. Claim they don’t work efficiently.
3. Eliminate them.
—
That’s the playbook.
I don’t believe in hell, but if I did, there would be a special place there for people who reported their neighbors on ICE and transgender tip lines.
January 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I don’t believe in hell, but if I did, there would be a special place there for people who reported their neighbors on ICE and transgender tip lines.
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The resistance has already begun, in the courage of the Bishop in DC, in every act of kindness and charity, in all us old lefties rising up to support the poor and marginalized and gravely threatened ( and the ACLU), in our donations, and soon, in our song.
January 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The resistance has already begun, in the courage of the Bishop in DC, in every act of kindness and charity, in all us old lefties rising up to support the poor and marginalized and gravely threatened ( and the ACLU), in our donations, and soon, in our song.
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Remember the days before Zoom when snow days were actually snow days?
January 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Remember the days before Zoom when snow days were actually snow days?
The smile you give when the wind chill is 9 degrees.
January 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The smile you give when the wind chill is 9 degrees.