@kimwfisher.bsky.social
Inclusion and accessibility advocate. Researching digital participation in social, civic, and political spaces. Teacher educator. First Gen
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
22.11.2025 13:43 — 👍 405 🔁 200 💬 10 📌 38Tear gassing a one-year-old U.S. citizen.
Dragging a U.S. citizen on her way to work out of her car.
Throwing tear gas at a children’s Halloween parade.
It’s time to have a serious conversation about defunding ICE.
Old man holding up a 6-7 sign. A Christmas tree is in the background.
A couple sits at a fancy dinner table looking at their tickets that say “Red 6-7”.
Yesterday, I had Voyage of the Damned on in the background while grading my students’ final projects.
While watching I heard them yell “Red 6 7!” I noticed 6 7 is the ticket number to go to Earth! Is Doctor Who the origin of the 6 7 meme?
What internet meme would the Doctor create? #fluidlinks
Michiganders are sharing their health insurance premiums increases with me… not 10% or 20%, but in one example - $200/month to $2900/month.
Republicans have tried to kill the ACA more than 70 times since 2010, and have never once had a plan for anything better.
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
And ED makes it official. Numerous programs are getting shipped out to four different agencies.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Wow -the highest praise! This student truly captured many of the reasons your work is so great and why we love it (obv, I was never an AP Lang student but you get my point. 🤣). Also, kudos to the awesome teacher who assigned this meaningful assignment which included contacting the author!
18.11.2025 19:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Charlotte-Mecklebburg Schools, according to reports, saw 15% of its students absent today amid Border Patrol operations in Charlotte. If that percentage of 15% happens Tuesday in Wake County due to the Border Patrol coming to Raleigh, 24.000 students could be absent from school. #nced #ncpol #wcpss
18.11.2025 00:59 — 👍 528 🔁 243 💬 8 📌 33DAILY MEMO: More Than 30 People Taken in At Least 30 Raids During Saturday Through Monday Rains
18.11.2025 06:34 — 👍 533 🔁 292 💬 19 📌 24No, that's not "big fact".
Fewer items in their meal this year, at lesser sizes and quality, for roughly the same price.
That's shrinkflation.
this is how you do investigative journalism
15.11.2025 09:09 — 👍 204 🔁 73 💬 2 📌 2
You know us. For years, you watched and listened to our coverage of the Chicago area. As journalists, we did our best to bring you accurate, objective information about the people, events and issues that mattered. We hope we gained your trust. So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong. The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done and what they may do in other cities. We are retired, but our colleagues who are still on the job have shown you a brutal and illegal campaign against fellow Chicagoans, mainly Latinos: violent abductions, gutting families, using tear gas around children, roughing up witnesses, ramming cars and even taking a day care teacher from her school.
"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong."
Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
Getting annoyed listening to charter school activists lie again and again that charter schools are public schools.
They are not.
They are publicly funded private schools that siphon money away from public schools and produce no better results.
IMPORTANT
There’s a large caravan of Border Patrol & ICE vehicles headed south out of Chicago in to Indiana. If anyone happens to see such a caravan respond here. Suspicion is they’re headed to terrorize North Carolina (Dem governor, their hands won’t get cold, won’t have to learn to drive in snow)
training data is literally the most important ‘ingredient’ that can reveal so much about model behaviour
but again, opening up your training data is like putting your dirty laundry out and can bring an entire company down
Happy to report that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against the federal “compact” all of us in higher ed have been offered, encouraging our administrators to keep opposing it. #MADC www.senate.illinois.edu/2025-2026/20...
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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake
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A 2020 study found that Amazon—which shares owner Jeff Bezos with The Washington Post—is one of the largest employers of people on SNAP.
03.11.2025 12:23 — 👍 2837 🔁 1187 💬 67 📌 63
Outrage Erupts as Trump Sends ICE to Polling Locations
With millions geared up to vote in a key off-year election, including a hotly watched redistricting measure in CA, Trump has ignited fierce backlash by deploying federal election monitors—sparking accusations of “blatant voter intimidation."
Financial Consequences of Being Denied Benefit Access Tatiana Homonoff, Min S. Lee & Katherine Meckel Share X LinkedIn Facebook Bluesky Threads Email Link Working Paper 34434 DOI 10.3386/w34434 Issue Date October 2025 We examine the causal impact of being denied benefit access on the financial well-being of marginally-excluded households. Using experimental and quasi-random variation in the flexibility of mandatory intake interviews and a unique linkage between administrative Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and credit report data, we find that households screened out of SNAP due to administrative barriers suffer tangible downstream economic consequences. Specifically, we find that process-related denials increase debt and delinquencies, and decrease credit scores. These results highlight the economic importance of implementation design and its role in strengthening (or undermining) the financial protection provided by social insurance programs.
For struggling Americans, SNAP (food stamp program) reduces debt and delinquencies and increases credit scores.
www.nber.org/papers/w34434
#EconSky
A blonde was always the final form for his character arc. No one — and I mean no one — should be surprised.
Yes, I am sub…skeeting???
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"a male correspondent was initially included on the layoff list but was removed after he appealed directly to the new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, leading to another female correspondent being added to the list at the last minute."
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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01.11.2025 00:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0There’s literally so many videos and pics of disappearings FROM TODAY!!! You know HALLOWEEN!
This is totally lazy. Do better. In fact, do something Dems. Here.
I’ve done your work for you. Jerks. bsky.app/profile/pete...
Here's a short video of an Edison Park man confronting border patrol. You can hear others in the background. #chicago
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