@angeliqueinva
Special Educator. UVA EdD in progress laser-focused on literacy, the instructional hierarchy, and precise teaching. Founding member of The Reading League Virginia. DMB extremist. Formerly known as @angeliqueinva on X. https://theblue.report/
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut
November 16. 1973 Dear Mr. McCarthy: I am writing to you in your capacity as chairman of the Drake School Board. lam among those American writers whose books have been destroyed in the now famous furnace of your school. Certain members of your community have suggested that my work is evil. This is extraordinarily insulting to me. The news from Drake indicates to me that books and writers are very unreal to you people. 1 am writing this letter to let you know how real I am. Iwant you to know, too, that my publisher and 1 have done absolutely nothing to exploit the disgusting news from Drake. We are not clapping each other on the back, crowing about all the books we will sell because of the news. We have declined to go on television, have written no fiery letters to editorial pages, have granted no lengthy interviews. We are angered and sickened and saddened. And no copies of this letter have been sent to anybody else. You now hold the only copy in your hands. It is a strictly private letter from me to the people of Drake, who have done so much to damage my reputation in the eyes of their children and then in the eyes of the world. Do you have the courage and ordinary decency to show this letter to the people, or will it, too, be consigned to the fires of your furnace? gather from what 1 read in the papers and hear on television that you imagine me, and some other writers too, as being sort f ratlike people who enjoy making money from poisoning the minds of young people. I am in fact a large, strong person, fifty-one years old, who did a lot of farm work as a boy, who is good with tools. I have raised six children, three my own and three adopted. They have all turned out well. Two of them are farmers. I am a combat infantry veteran from World War ll, and hold a Purple Heart. 1 have earned whatever own by hard work. I have never been arrested or sued for anything. I am so much trusted with young people and by young people that I have served on the faculties of the Univ…
Wow.
Hello! I see you've decided to conflate a human being being an evil fascist apologist committing crimes and perpetuating fraud with (checks notes) being a woman. Perhaps you would like to not do this.
I too enjoy maps- this is a lovely distraction, thank you.
For Alex Pretti Because his last words were for a woman; because he asked, are you okay, are you okay; because he had learned to say it by standing each night beside the dying; because sometimes he held their hands; because he had lived only as long as the scent of childhood in an album; because he was a son; because he sang once; because of all of it, because of all of it, because of all of it, tell it, tell the story: a breath has left; a country is dying; and a man laid his face on its pavement today as though he were listening to a patient's heart— even then, even at the ending— to do what he was there to do: heal. —Joseph Fasano
for Alex Pretti
I just removed about a half ton of ice from my driveway that was impeding my freedom. Make of that what you will.
Your website crashed. I tried. Spinning and spinning.
Report: In Some Urban Districts, Science of Reading Limits ‘Robust Comprehension’ www.the74million.org/article/repo...
More Murphy, less Schumer.
my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
Thanks for sharing your journey! This could totally be a children’s book. 🛤️
“I just checked—it turns out that Art. II, Sec. 1 of the Constitution of the United States does *not* say ‘The executive Power shall be vested in a bunch of sociopaths who think they can do whatever the f*ck they want and make sh*t up as they go along.’” — George Conway
My Twitter/X account has been hacked, and I can no longer access it. In other words, I'm no longer on Twitter/X and any new messages aren't from me. You can still follow me on BlueSky. Please spread the word here and also on Twitter/X.
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
The Nobel Foundation makes yet another statement:
This right here:
“Not introducing articles of impeachment is a message that Trump hasn't committed impeachable offenses.”
Stop the presidential SEARCH INVESTIGATE the RECTOR and VICE RECTOR REMAIN NEUTRAL on COLLECTIVE BARGAINING FRIDAY DECEMBER 19th, 12-1:30PM UVA HR OFFICE, 2420 OLD IVY RD ED bit.ly/UVA-has-spoken UNION HALL HOLIDAY PARTY TO FOLLOW • aaup. WEAR WARM CLOTHES!
Who’s gonna tell ‘em
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
ABC Mary Bruce deserves a Pulitzer Prize for asking the Saudi Prince this question:
Next season of “UVA BOV” is going to have a whole new cast
I could spend all day looking at this! 🤯
Is the Louvre on Bluesky yet? I have a submission
From @katejbaer.bsky.social's book, And Yet: bit.ly/baerandyet
#poem #books #writing
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