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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Researcher of education, advocate, art-lover, knitter, sports-lover, still with her
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)
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...
I'm generally not impressed by Chicago Tribune editorials, but this is a good one.
28.10.2025 17:59 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their outreaching comprehensiveness of sweep
Weβre giving $40 billion to Argentina.
This is $5 billion MORE that the entire USAID budget that DOGE cut.
Kyiv
26.10.2025 21:12 β π 237 π 109 π¬ 12 π 5In 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.
25.10.2025 19:37 β π 953 π 497 π¬ 46 π 69Ah, 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.
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
25.10.2025 17:03 β π 131 π 78 π¬ 2 π 0Your gentle reminder that Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on June 14 and hardly anyone bothered to talk about it .
25.10.2025 12:29 β π 7633 π 2588 π¬ 118 π 55www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c... - terrorism.
25.10.2025 17:29 β π 113 π 40 π¬ 1 π 0We can have a debate about what we need to put up with in order to win. Itβs 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.
How to Make Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
24.10.2025 13:54 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0But why First Ladies? Why not former Presidents?
22.10.2025 22:28 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0This has got to be Congressβs priority right nowβstop this illegal behavior!
22.10.2025 22:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Every postdoc should get at least one paid vacation day a month to look at the bleak academic job boards and just cry it out
21.10.2025 18:22 β π 145 π 13 π¬ 10 π 1Photo 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 βGeneral Nuisance. Summer 1954β.
21.10.2025 16:00 β π 2208 π 216 π¬ 55 π 13This is one of those songs that sends me floating into the ether with a fist in the air. π
19.10.2025 15:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Dang
18.10.2025 17:27 β π 252 π 47 π¬ 6 π 0I 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.
18.10.2025 12:14 β π 1861 π 352 π¬ 50 π 14Nice shirt!
17.10.2025 22:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This 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...
Cops led us into the street as the new βprotest zoneβ 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.
Scream βClimate hot!β
16.10.2025 13:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"REMEMBER: WE NOT BREAK NEWS. WE POUND NEWS LIKE BONGOS UNTIL NEWS BREAK ITSELF."
16.10.2025 12:31 β π 232 π 54 π¬ 3 π 11So have I seen a bird with clipped wing making affrighted broken circles in the air, vainly striving to escape the piratical hawks.
I would love to see you explore more about teachersβ 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
14.10.2025 17:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I 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
14.10.2025 17:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@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