@thomasleischner.bsky.social
Educator and Organizer | he/they
βAre we against this person or the political movement that produced himβ is the key question.
18.10.2025 22:33 β π 81 π 14 π¬ 4 π 6
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
18.10.2025 18:27 β π 15257 π 4427 π¬ 15 π 2Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.
Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.
This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.
This is a very good point about DHS. They direct harassment campaigns on Twitter using quote-tweets.
17.10.2025 23:11 β π 2775 π 1012 π¬ 29 π 9white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Is that the Silver Shamrock ad? Fuckin turn that shit up!!
17.10.2025 23:16 β π 66 π 23 π¬ 1 π 1
Important: Sen Chris Murphy just sent pointed questions to Kristi Noem about DHS's account of shooting of US citizen by Trump's paramilitary forces in Chicago. The official line is imploding. Murphy wants Noem to explain why DHS misled. More like this, Ds.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2019...
Animaniacs did a scene-for-scene APOCALYPSE NOW parody about stopping Jerry Lewis from making THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED, and I just completely accepted it as an eight year old.
17.10.2025 17:16 β π 485 π 63 π¬ 9 π 2π§΅It has been clear for years that a key difference between past instances of book banning and the present censorship cataclysm is that the banning happening now targets not only books, but librarianship as a profession and libraries as an institution. 1/4
15.10.2025 13:58 β π 513 π 238 π¬ 4 π 7If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
16.10.2025 23:29 β π 15027 π 5331 π¬ 116 π 99"Together, these developments show a powerful tide of racism in American life, lifting up white people at the expense of all others."
16.10.2025 23:34 β π 185 π 59 π¬ 2 π 1
Now in post form
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
we should all go out on October 18 and it's good that so many of us are planning to. but we should all start talking to each other about what we're going to do next, too - what we will withhold together if the abuses continue. we can go on offense, too!
time.com/collections/...
Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...
16.10.2025 11:19 β π 4023 π 1304 π¬ 101 π 40
15.10.2025 21:00 β π 320 π 66 π¬ 1 π 10
Increasingly we need candidates who'd be comfortable cutting a wrestling promo
15.10.2025 19:43 β π 3867 π 597 π¬ 67 π 331.) One of those βkidsβ is a state senator in Vermont. (Theyβre not kids)
2.) kids are bigots is a weird stance
3.) going full boys will be boys about the βI love Hitlerβ chat is quite a choice
4.) What else to expect from a guy who still follows Bronze Age Pervert on X? (Rhetorical question)
I think one of the biggest cleavages in our society that no one talks about is the division between those that think powerful people must be held to a higher standard than non-powerful people and those who think powerful people should be flattered and sucked up to.
15.10.2025 14:33 β π 2028 π 361 π¬ 58 π 28
D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51
14.10.2025 16:16 β π 4053 π 1294 π¬ 236 π 925
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (π§΅)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
13.10.2025 21:28 β π 895 π 214 π¬ 6 π 11When they keep emailing you that the VIP tickets for a band youβve never heard of are going fast
13.10.2025 22:59 β π 513 π 110 π¬ 6 π 2The biggest challenge is convincing people that things could be different and that their actions matter.
13.10.2025 23:14 β π 895 π 234 π¬ 13 π 14the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
13.10.2025 01:01 β π 21499 π 5594 π¬ 575 π 196Itβs pronounced cyclist.
11.10.2025 22:21 β π 21881 π 3669 π¬ 440 π 344I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"
Anyway. Here we are.
spooky
10.10.2025 00:51 β π 174 π 16 π¬ 2 π 2A striking thing about articles Iβve read claiming to βstudy the effectsβ of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most βconclusionsβ are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.
09.10.2025 11:49 β π 1783 π 577 π¬ 27 π 65βOne of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, βLove your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,ββ said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. βEverybody chants that.β βοΈ
08.10.2025 00:24 β π 440 π 108 π¬ 1 π 4
Free College Prep Workshops Coming This Fall - Free Library of Philadelphia
libwww.freelibrary.org/blog/post/5553
