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Ellen Van

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She/her Teacher, reader, vegetable eater

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"These attacks are causing much suffering for Iranian people, and it’s destroying the space in which Iranians were struggling for social justice and civil liberties” - Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, once imprisoned on death row in Iran. www.democracynow.org/2026/3/2/ira...

02.03.2026 15:39 👍 319 🔁 117 💬 7 📌 7

I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.

24.06.2025 23:47 👍 1503 🔁 426 💬 17 📌 16

the war is not "aimless." It is corrupt, unjust and immoral.

28.02.2026 16:58 👍 1145 🔁 246 💬 15 📌 0

The U.S. government keeps telling us there’s no money for schools.

While funding the murder of elementary school girls in Iran.

28.02.2026 12:26 👍 345 🔁 135 💬 6 📌 2

Enough can’t be said about how “machine-learning” simply reiterates the anti-blackness of tech bros and their ilk. And that includes the violence of disregard: “oh, we didn’t anticipate that as a possible problem.” That’s racist too.

24.02.2026 23:13 👍 449 🔁 105 💬 8 📌 5
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Today, in honour of WEB DuBois's birthday in 1868, the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social features the hand-drawn infographics DuBois made with his students to depict the conditions of African-American life in 1900.

Arts-based pedagogy all those years ago!
buff.ly/3kdWqRD

23.02.2026 13:53 👍 177 🔁 76 💬 2 📌 7

I've written some pretty angry letters, looks like one more. So tired of this AI bullshit.

23.02.2026 14:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men."

W. E. B. Du Bois (born on this day) ❤️🖤💚

23.02.2026 13:47 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

If we want to actually do something about the cartels, we can start by ending the War on Drugs. We already ran this experiment with the mob during Prohibition. Turns out banning things just made organized crime richer. A regulated drug market is safer for everyone.

22.02.2026 22:13 👍 32 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
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Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people… |... Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people ca...

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

19.02.2026 18:19 👍 11775 🔁 1537 💬 123 📌 129
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This is such common sense.

22.02.2026 17:11 👍 35 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 0

Yes, this is exactly what I recommend when people ask me how to learn more about XYZ topic.

22.02.2026 13:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I fucking love this.

22.02.2026 13:28 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Every state should pass emergency public health legislation that would make concentration camps impossible.

22.02.2026 03:24 👍 154 🔁 68 💬 1 📌 5

Reducing human value to what we can be trained to do is straight up technofascism. Every fascism has its suhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans.

21.02.2026 20:30 👍 2150 🔁 713 💬 51 📌 10
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Exclusive: Cuban security forces exit Venezuela as US pressure mounts Cuban security advisers and doctors have been leaving Venezuela as Interim President Delcy Rodriguez's government faces intense pressure from Washington to unwind Latin America’s most consequential le...

Trump destroys Venezuela’s healthcare:
“Cuban security advisers and doctors have been leaving Venezuela as Interim President Delcy Rodriguez's govt faces intense pressure from Washington to unwind Latin America’s most consequential leftist alliance, according to 11 sources familiar with the matter.”

21.02.2026 19:58 👍 44 🔁 29 💬 3 📌 1

One of us

21.02.2026 18:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reminding myself, & you, that if we see something horrible we want to repost to make it known, quoting the post & linking a way for people to usefully counter the horrible thing is both good practice & good mental hygiene, even if we have to pause a minute & search for the useful action

21.02.2026 14:48 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1

I keep seeing the original reposted, so hope more people can see this discussion. Current events are bad enough without more misinformation.

21.02.2026 18:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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One way to stop a prison? Return the land to Indigenous stewards The Appalachian Rekindling Project purchased land in Kentucky originally slated for the development of a federal prison

People in Appalachia have been doing the work.
prismreports.org/2025/02/20/k...

13.02.2026 17:30 👍 107 🔁 46 💬 0 📌 0

There is a longstanding tension between the US and Canada that most USians don't know anything about. I don't think it took much for many Canadians to say that was the line in the sand for them.

18.02.2026 12:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

anyone who still says the new york times is a left-wing (or even liberal) newspaper is either willfully delusional or deliberately lying

17.02.2026 16:06 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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The same day DHS announced the surge would end in Minnesota, ICE activity increased in small towns The less densely populated areas outside the Twin Cities make it harder for protesters and observers to organize.

There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.

17.02.2026 16:26 👍 4339 🔁 2318 💬 63 📌 64

Sorry to the athletes and whatever, but here is more evidence of how fucked up the IOC is

17.02.2026 14:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I desperately miss everyone standing 6 feet away from me

13.12.2024 21:18 👍 799 🔁 176 💬 31 📌 9

Disabled people are part of the future.
We must and should imagine and dream of futures where disabled people don't just exist but are everywhere, as we should be.
This need to fix/cure all disability is a eugenicist dreaming, and we should want better for ourselves.

12.02.2026 22:02 👍 657 🔁 221 💬 19 📌 5

I feel like I am always late to these things, but seriously what the hell

12.02.2026 13:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Boy sounds like a great time to fire tens of thousands of Haitians with TPS working in the healthcare sector, I’m sure that’s going to go well!

12.02.2026 13:19 👍 702 🔁 210 💬 12 📌 5

In discussions with JUNIORS IN HIGH SCHOOL yesterday about the big ideas underlying the Gilded Age, multiple kids brought up "ai" as an example of unregulated capitalism that is harming individuals and communities. It was a reasonable discussion. 🤷‍♀️

12.02.2026 12:21 👍 83 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 0