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@jggillespie.bsky.social

Researcher of education, advocate, art-lover, knitter, sports-lover, still with her

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3K is about the *total* number of people killed under Pinochet over his entire dictatorship, for reference

(many many more were tortured or forced into exile)

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Wardrobe sketch of Keanu and Alex.

Wardrobe sketch of Keanu and Alex.

Only three days left to get this original piece of Waiting For Godot art by the brilliant production designer, Soutra Gilmour. All proceeds benefit Gaza relief.

www.jumblebee.co.uk/stagedesigne...

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I'm generally not impressed by Chicago Tribune editorials, but this is a good one.

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the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their outreaching comprehensiveness of sweep

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We’re giving $40 billion to Argentina.

This is $5 billion MORE that the entire USAID budget that DOGE cut.

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Kyiv

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In video provided exclusively to MSNBC's The Weekend: Primetime, immigration agents are seen attempting to pull a man out a window of a Chicago home. Agents also jumped a fence into the locked backyard and manhandled people doing work. Hear from the homeowner tonight on The Weekend: Primetime.

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Ah, locals mention the federal court order here, which also requires agents to wear some identification.

Also, quite an image in here: masked, fully-geared-out DHS agents getting screamed at in a residential neighborhood by some dude who is barefoot and in pajama pants.

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If you have video or were present at Harding and Roscoe earlier today, message me here or at my Tribune email gpratt @ Chicagotribune dot com

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Your gentle reminder that Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on June 14 and hardly anyone bothered to talk about it .

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Federal immigration agents deploy tear gas in Chicago’s Irving Park and Avondale neighborhoods Federal immigration agents again deployed tear gas on Chicago streets Saturday morning, despite mounting scrutiny from a federal judge over their use of the chemical weapons.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c... - terrorism.

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We can have a debate about what we need to put up with in order to win. It’s complicated. But she is going to put every one of his problematic, Reddit posts and images of a Nazi tattoo all over Maine media.

I do not believe that is a recipe for electoral success on the left.

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Who Are the Federal Forces Behind Trump’s Mass Deportations and Crime Crackdown? (Gift Article) As President Trump deploys ICE, Border Patrol, the National Guard and other forces to U.S. cities, here’s how to tell them apart β€” and what their powers are.

How to Make Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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But why First Ladies? Why not former Presidents?

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This has got to be Congress’s priority right nowβ€”stop this illegal behavior!

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Every postdoc should get at least one paid vacation day a month to look at the bleak academic job boards and just cry it out

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Photo of a longhaired tortie cat lying on a sunny sidewalk with grass lawn on either side. It has a round little dark object in front of it, a toy maybe.

Photo of a longhaired tortie cat lying on a sunny sidewalk with grass lawn on either side. It has a round little dark object in front of it, a toy maybe.

Photo from my collection, writing on the back says β€œGeneral Nuisance. Summer 1954”.

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D'Angelo, The Vanguard - The Charade (Live on SNL)
YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO D'Angelo, The Vanguard - The Charade (Live on SNL)

This is one of those songs that sends me floating into the ether with a fist in the air. πŸ’”

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Dang

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I really love how in England they have modified No Kings to No Tyrants out of local sensibilities whilst in Ireland they are all like NO KINGS, do I stutter.

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Nice shirt!

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This is critical. Rep Adam Smith ties bombings to troops in cities.

"How far are we away from Trump deciding to use the US military to do a kinetic strike on people within the US because he sees them as a threat, by whatever definition he wants to throw out there?"

newrepublic.com/article/2019...

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Cops led us into the street as the new β€œprotest zone” and then beat us repeatedly.

Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested.

Stay safe out there.

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Scream β€œClimate hot!”

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β€œAAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief β€œ[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to β€˜win’ before delivering a rallying cr...

"REMEMBER: WE NOT BREAK NEWS. WE POUND NEWS LIKE BONGOS UNTIL NEWS BREAK ITSELF."

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So have I seen a bird with clipped wing making affrighted broken circles in the air, vainly striving to escape the piratical hawks.

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I would love to see you explore more about teachers’ thoughts on the purpose of public schools and how to know when they succeed. Are there any public school districts that do this? Can it be done within the current funding and state accountability models? 3/3

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I have been disappointed throughout my 40 years in public education that no one thinks teachers have any expertise. They are not asked how to know when students have learned, what students should learn, or what schools should be. 2/3

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@haveyouheard.bsky.social
I love the show and just listened to an episode I missed (204, Collision Course). At the end you all were talking communities holding schools accountable and community control of schools, but you never mentioned teachers. 1/3

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