Katherine Casey Spengler

Scientists are incredible!!!

I love scientists.

Vote Yes on Prop 50, fellow Californians.

Given everything happening right now, this video is so wonderful. I'm not always sure we deserve dogs but we are definitely lucky to have them in our world

Female educator smiles while Dr. Archer signs her book with cover of Just Tell Them on screen.

I’m thrilled to be attending a 5 day Explicit Instruction conference taught by the remarkable Dr. Anita Archer! And like Dr. Archer, I also highly recommend @mrzachg.bsky.social’s book Just Tell Them.

America's the only nation that could produce White Trash Aristocrats.

“Sex dwarf, isn't it nice?
Luring disco dollies to a life of vice
Sex dwarf, isn't it nice?
Luring disco dollies to a life of vice…”

Meiselas: Mar-A-Lago was used as the grounds in cases to sex traffic underage girls. And this isn't me being conspiratorial... it's documented.

Republicans Vote Against Amendment Calling for Release of Epstein Files An amendment demanding that the Trump administration release all files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was shot down by Republicans.

So…Trump says it’s time to “move on” from Epstein. Bondi, Patel, & Bongino say there’s nothing to see here. And now Republicans vote AGAINST calling for the release of the Epstein files. Uh…WHO’S the “deep state?” www.mediaite.com/politics/rep...

House Republicans block Democratic maneuver to force release of Epstein files One Republican on the House Rules Committee crossed over to vote with Democrats.

House Republicans now forced to also pretend that the Epstein files client list both does not exist *and* was created by Hillary and Obama. This will go well with the Q Anon loons. Schrödinger's list.

House GOP blocks Dem maneuver to force release of Epstein files www.axios.com/2025/07/15/t...

Don’t let this be buried.

I had no idea there are over 100 Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in California!

San Diego showed up! There were so many people peacefully protesting together. This is what Democracy looks like! #NoKings

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

I ordered MTSS for Reading Improvement after listening to Dr. Stollar and Dr. Brown discuss their book on the May 25th Triple R Teaching podcast.

Ahem.

I, too, probably had cancer for a long time while it was quietly spreading and I appeared healthy. I found a lump 7 months after a clear mammogram and was diagnosed with stage 3B lobular breast cancer that likely had been growing for a long time.

So this means ICE agents will be fired for wearing their masks, yes?

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...

Zero ships from China are bound for California’s top ports. Officials haven’t seen that since the pandemic | CNN Business On Friday morning, West Coast port officials told CNN about a startling sight: Not a single cargo vessel had left China with goods for the two major West Coast ports in the past 12 hours. That hasn’t ...

Zero ships from China are bound for California’s top ports. Officials haven’t seen that since the pandemic

www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/b...

If you are also worried about tariffs and supply chain shortages, and have the financial means to prepare, here is what I have stocked up on and plan to buy soon, plus what I would get if I had kids, a car or a larger home, based on reporting I've read or done myself in the last several months (🧵):

Thank you! 📌

Please share your advice. I value your advice.

"Like a worm inside an apple, he will core out the entirety of our economic and financial system. He will steal everything for himself and his friends, then leave us with nothing but a pile of rot."

- Hillary Clinton

Finally!

My primary professional organization, which alternates annual meeting locations each year, has moved its 2027 conference out of the U.S. - where it was already booked - saying it will hold no more meetings during the current admin after this year in the U.S. This is unprecedented to my knowledge.

The impact of handwriting and typing practice in children’s letter and word learning: Implications for literacy development Recent research has revealed that the substitution of handwriting practice for typing may hinder the initial steps of reading development. Two hypothe…

🖋️✏️ Handwriting beats typing for learning to read 🧠📚

A new study found that 5-year-olds learned letters and words better through handwriting than typing – with stronger results in writing, naming, and decoding tasks.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#SciComm #Literacy 🧪

If a stranger posts about how happy a silly little pleasure made them and your response is to be an asshole and make fun of them it’s time to re-examine your whole life.

It’s 2025. We no longer shit on other people’s joy if it’s not hurting anyone else. This is loser behavior.

“Exit light
Enter night
Grain of sand
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
We're off to never-never land, yeah…”

“When I wake up early in the morning
Lift my head, I'm still yawning
When I'm in the middle of a dream
Stay in bed, float up stream (float up stream)
Please, don't wake me
No, don't shake me
Leave me where I am
I'm only sleeping…”