Rando Calrissian
@whitesquirrl11.bsky.social
Illinois State grad; History Educator, MAEL
Vast cognitive catalog of baseball minutiae and local food options. PANDAS parent in the burbs of Chicago.
Vast cognitive catalog of baseball minutiae and local food options. PANDAS parent in the burbs of Chicago.
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Skills over content was always a false promise. Without domain knowledge, all the skills in the world don’t help students.
Ed Tech generative AI hucksters are just doubling down on that failed model. After they’re done, students won’t have the skills or knowledge they need.
Ed Tech generative AI hucksters are just doubling down on that failed model. After they’re done, students won’t have the skills or knowledge they need.
July 9, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Skills over content was always a false promise. Without domain knowledge, all the skills in the world don’t help students.
Ed Tech generative AI hucksters are just doubling down on that failed model. After they’re done, students won’t have the skills or knowledge they need.
Ed Tech generative AI hucksters are just doubling down on that failed model. After they’re done, students won’t have the skills or knowledge they need.
Conservative purview of government intervention:
“Don’t call us. We’ll call you.”
“When we call you, you better immediately respond.”
“If you don’t immediately respond, we’ll be devastated.”
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“Vote red! Get government out of our lives!”
“Don’t call us. We’ll call you.”
“When we call you, you better immediately respond.”
“If you don’t immediately respond, we’ll be devastated.”
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…
“Vote red! Get government out of our lives!”
July 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Conservative purview of government intervention:
“Don’t call us. We’ll call you.”
“When we call you, you better immediately respond.”
“If you don’t immediately respond, we’ll be devastated.”
…
…
…
…
“Vote red! Get government out of our lives!”
“Don’t call us. We’ll call you.”
“When we call you, you better immediately respond.”
“If you don’t immediately respond, we’ll be devastated.”
…
…
…
…
“Vote red! Get government out of our lives!”
I am SHOCKED Governor Abbott didn’t have razorblades lining the floodwaters.
July 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I am SHOCKED Governor Abbott didn’t have razorblades lining the floodwaters.
4th of July parade. No irony detected.
July 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
4th of July parade. No irony detected.
“Desperately wants to lead that walk, but can’t play a flute or lead.”
Also the unhinged response to my original post is a good snapshot of why this site hasn’t taken off: it’s a small group of hyper-online, unhappy people screeching into the void. It doesn’t surprise me this place can’t build a viable user base. Some of yall really need to log off & go for a walk. 😌
June 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
“Desperately wants to lead that walk, but can’t play a flute or lead.”
I trust that DJT knows more than me about:
1) hookers
2) tanning sprays
3) grifting
That’s it.
1) hookers
2) tanning sprays
3) grifting
That’s it.
Tammy Bruce: "Well, a conclusive comment for me would be coming from the President of the United States. I have great admiration for you, Andrea Mitchell, but I think he might know more than you do at this point -- more than I, more any one of us here."
June 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I trust that DJT knows more than me about:
1) hookers
2) tanning sprays
3) grifting
That’s it.
1) hookers
2) tanning sprays
3) grifting
That’s it.
Political disgrace in Illinois is as assured as expressway construction.
kwame kilpatrick told us "you done set me up for a comeback" during his resignation (in disgrace) speech
I don’t get the NY fascination w Cuomo. As an Illinoisan if I was compelled to back a Chicago mayor race run by Blago, please institutionalize me.
June 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Political disgrace in Illinois is as assured as expressway construction.
As someone in the academic trenches so to speak, I think we’ve all been eyewitnesses to the delegitimization of social sciences over the last few decades. Particularly history and civics. The results are apparent.
High school seniors in Mississippi will no longer have to pass a U.S. history test to graduate after the State Board of Education voted to eliminate it this fall.
Mary Werner, the lone dissenting vote, warned that it will hurt students.
The biology, algebra and English assessments will remain.
Mary Werner, the lone dissenting vote, warned that it will hurt students.
The biology, algebra and English assessments will remain.
Mississippi Students No Longer Need U.S. History Test to Graduate
The Mississippi State Board of Education voted on June 19 to eliminate the U.S. History end-of-course assessment as a requirement for graduation.
www.mississippifreepress.org
June 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
As someone in the academic trenches so to speak, I think we’ve all been eyewitnesses to the delegitimization of social sciences over the last few decades. Particularly history and civics. The results are apparent.
It’s a barleywine kind of evening.
June 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
It’s a barleywine kind of evening.
Daily reminder on this particular day, Juneteenth, that our government and the white Christian patriarchy has a sordid history of invoking some mythical divine inequity. The Mudsill Theory:
June 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Daily reminder on this particular day, Juneteenth, that our government and the white Christian patriarchy has a sordid history of invoking some mythical divine inequity. The Mudsill Theory:
The message of the No Kings protest reverberates through this video. This is absolute insanity. We, who demand constitutionality, are ALL Brad Lander.
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
June 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The message of the No Kings protest reverberates through this video. This is absolute insanity. We, who demand constitutionality, are ALL Brad Lander.
Ad hominem context: Kash Patel is a fucking conspiratorial, bootlicking lunatic. I’d trust a cartoon coyote with ACME strapped to its back if I was a roadrunner more than this clown
Context note: DOJ doesn’t turn over evidence to Congress if they have a viable investigation in the works.
June 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Ad hominem context: Kash Patel is a fucking conspiratorial, bootlicking lunatic. I’d trust a cartoon coyote with ACME strapped to its back if I was a roadrunner more than this clown
This is probably not even on the top 100 deeply disturbing things this POTUS has done or overseen in the last five months. And it is definitely deeply disturbing.
Deeply disturbing coming from a POTUS
Trump Says He Has No Plans to Call Walz After Shootings in Minnesota
“I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out, I’m not calling him,” the president told reporters.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...
Trump Says He Has No Plans to Call Walz After Shootings in Minnesota
“I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out, I’m not calling him,” the president told reporters.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...
Trump Says He Has No Plans to Call Walz After Shootings in Minnesota
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This is probably not even on the top 100 deeply disturbing things this POTUS has done or overseen in the last five months. And it is definitely deeply disturbing.
Just watched 10 minutes of NBA finals highlights. Tyrese must have been edited out. I need to see the outtakes
June 17, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Just watched 10 minutes of NBA finals highlights. Tyrese must have been edited out. I need to see the outtakes
This was the trickle down economics of military parades.
This was the APUSH of military parades.
This was the Coke Zero of military parades.
June 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This was the trickle down economics of military parades.
There’s something disarmingly straightforward about children’s protest posters…
June 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
There’s something disarmingly straightforward about children’s protest posters…
So…what was predicted would happen from the beginning. Got it.
Workers are "terrified" as immigration agents sweep farms, the president of United Farm Workers says, adding that Americans should think about the "human loss" as well as "crops rotting" in the fields.
Americans will feel impact of immigration enforcement on farms, union president warns
Workers are "terrified" as immigration agents sweep farms, the president of United Farm Workers says, adding that Americans should think about the "human loss" as well as "crops rotting" in the fields
n.pr
June 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
So…what was predicted would happen from the beginning. Got it.
To those astonished by the arrest of those who assisted the U.S. in military matters, global precedent has been set before. Jews served Germany in WWI only to be detained and murdered during the Holocaust
WATCH: “I WAS AN INTERPRETER IN AFGHANISTAN FOR 3 YEARS.”
ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal.
Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military.
ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal.
Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military.
June 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
To those astonished by the arrest of those who assisted the U.S. in military matters, global precedent has been set before. Jews served Germany in WWI only to be detained and murdered during the Holocaust
Is it too late to ask Westboro Baptist to say I told you so?
June 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Is it too late to ask Westboro Baptist to say I told you so?
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Assaulting a senator is an assault on democracy.
NO KINGS.
NO KINGS.
Today they have crossed a deep red line.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
June 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Assaulting a senator is an assault on democracy.
NO KINGS.
NO KINGS.
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THIS
The brutal handcuffing of Senator Padilla is an affront to democracy. I’m joining House Democrats to march to Senator Thune’s office and to demand that he protect his Colleagues from this out-of-control authoritarian onslaught.
June 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
THIS
If there is justice in this world, there will be Nurembergesque trials for all these MAGA sycophants in due time.
June 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
If there is justice in this world, there will be Nurembergesque trials for all these MAGA sycophants in due time.
The way I compartmentalize my compassion is this:
If you’ve been behind the eight ball for whatever reason because of something you can’t change, I’m in your camp.
If you willfully and knowingly made choices and are now reaping the consequences of it, dealer’s choice pal, and I’m the dealer.
If you’ve been behind the eight ball for whatever reason because of something you can’t change, I’m in your camp.
If you willfully and knowingly made choices and are now reaping the consequences of it, dealer’s choice pal, and I’m the dealer.
June 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The way I compartmentalize my compassion is this:
If you’ve been behind the eight ball for whatever reason because of something you can’t change, I’m in your camp.
If you willfully and knowingly made choices and are now reaping the consequences of it, dealer’s choice pal, and I’m the dealer.
If you’ve been behind the eight ball for whatever reason because of something you can’t change, I’m in your camp.
If you willfully and knowingly made choices and are now reaping the consequences of it, dealer’s choice pal, and I’m the dealer.
The word “optics” is already overused. I’ve seen it more yesterday and today than any hyperbole can do justice to.
June 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The word “optics” is already overused. I’ve seen it more yesterday and today than any hyperbole can do justice to.