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Mike Stein

@bluedotredspot.bsky.social

HS English and ESL teacher. Passionate Vandy Men’s Basketball fan. Staunch #antiracist. Foodie. Nashville hot chicken connoisseur. Kidney cancer survivor. He/him

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Hey! Thank you for looking me up on here!

15.01.2025 00:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Everything stated in this post is a provable fact.

You are entitled to your own opinion.

You are not entitled to your own facts.

Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.

04.01.2025 00:03 — 👍 95117    🔁 23714    💬 2026    📌 1037
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Democrats need to change their approach to Trump's second term, top Kamala Harris pollster says One of the first public airings of Democrats' strategy suggests they should try something new this time around with the president-elect.

Molly’s right 👇

13.12.2024 22:51 — 👍 233    🔁 42    💬 40    📌 6

imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio

13.12.2024 22:15 — 👍 52754    🔁 10796    💬 1032    📌 387

On an AA flight that landed at JFK waiting for a gate. Two littles were crying because of their ear pain on landing. After a couple minutes the flight attendant started singing *Twinkle Twinkle little star’, the entire plane joined in, the kids stopped crying, and this is the world I wanna live in.

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This ~ 💯%

29.11.2024 11:21 — 👍 44136    🔁 9788    💬 1075    📌 477

Vouchers are one prong – direct Christianizing and MAGAfying of public schools is the other. It can sound like hyperbole – but it is not.

This piece by @amandamarcotte.bsky.social explains. (I’m avoiding posting the orange man’s face #NoTrumpThumbnails.)

www.salon.com/2024/11/26/o...

26.11.2024 21:14 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
27.11.2024 13:37 — 👍 10    🔁 9    💬 4    📌 0

The same people who don't believe the sea is rising have no problem believing Moses parted it and Jesus could walk on it.

28.11.2024 07:08 — 👍 4394    🔁 771    💬 127    📌 32
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May be giving this a try later today! 😀

www.sky-follower-bridge.dev/get-started....

27.11.2024 13:09 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Google’s “Read Along” Tool Works Well When Its Connected To Google Classroom I’ve previously posted very positively about Google’s Read Along tool, which offers hundreds of read aloud books, questions that students can answer about them, and the ability to asses…

Google’s “Read Along” Tool Works Well When Its Connected To Google Classroom larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2024/11/23/g...

23.11.2024 10:01 — 👍 17    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

Over 200 educators working with ELL/ELT/EAL/Tesol students are on this feed. Let me know if you want to be added bsky.app/profile/did:...

23.11.2024 13:17 — 👍 24    🔁 8    💬 12    📌 1
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Donald Trump Has NOT Won a Majority of the Votes Cast for President Donald Trump’s popular vote total has fallen below 50 percent, and his margin over Kamala Harris has narrowed considerably as all the votes are counted.

This is a VERY important story. Don’t let early headlines write history. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

20.11.2024 17:07 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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I've twice mentioned here that reading Robin Hobb has helped me get through this month. Someone asked me why and I outlined all the things I appreciate about the Assassin Trilogy as an author, editor, English PhD, MFA-holder, poet, retired prof who taught lit.... I could've just posted this excerpt:

20.11.2024 00:51 — 👍 1750    🔁 199    💬 128    📌 24
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Trump’s education pick once incorrectly claimed to have education degree Linda McMahon incorrectly said in a 2009 state board of education questionnaire that she had a bachelor’s degree in education, according to news reports.

“Linda McMahon…..incorrectly claimed in 2009 that she had a bachelor’s degree in education on a questionnaire for a Connecticut Board of Education position”———- Trump’s education pick once incorrectly claimed to have education degree” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Quite so.

17.11.2024 18:02 — 👍 25114    🔁 4585    💬 704    📌 210

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.

16.11.2024 23:38 — 👍 29343    🔁 5380    💬 886    📌 369
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The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky

16.11.2024 18:30 — 👍 56780    🔁 8542    💬 3008    📌 1090

bahahhaha

13.11.2024 19:16 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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