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Dr. Cara Berg Powers

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I post about public education, school integration, cultural theory, media literacy, sex ed, parenting, and random thoughts from my ADHD brain. Proud co-editor of uncoveringpossible.com out now from Vernon Press! CFC166871CD4B 24% off

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The ADHD challenge of having an afternoon Adderall and 2 evening lattes and still getting a latte before driving home from the airport at 1030.

07.03.2026 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Instagram influencers are using some of the award show red carpet photos to comment on the incredibly noticeable trend toward jarring thinness. Comments are riddled with excuses for why each of these women has individually become strikingly more gaunt in the last year like it's not a clear trend.

07.03.2026 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A very nice man swiped me into the airport lounge and the cookies were so good and they have sparkling water to fill your water and apple ginger shots and I felt so awkward the whole time but I did have two lattes and have a cookie to bring home to @blackjew.bsky.social

07.03.2026 00:41 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New CPHE Accrediting Body Is Illegitimate Rather than protecting educational quality, the CPHE appears designed to give partisan political actors a powerful new tool to pressure universities to conform to a narrow ideological agendaβ€”backed by...

The far right's new politicized higher ed accreditor is illegitimate.

"Rather than protecting educational quality, the CPHE appears designed to give partisan political actors a powerful new tool to pressure universities to conform to a narrow ideological agenda"

β€” Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

06.03.2026 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That's some next level gaslighting

06.03.2026 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Same

06.03.2026 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The purple ones are our guest room pillows now. Didn't hold up to my husband's constant quest for the Goldilocks pillow.

06.03.2026 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I am going to become a luddite. Like I am going to start smashing looms with hammers

06.03.2026 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 187    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 1
Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custodyβ€”the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Centerβ€”he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

1/3

tucson.com/news/local/b...

04.03.2026 04:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2403    πŸ” 1527    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 157

Guys, if you find yourself being like "well I hate to say it, but this Nazi has a good point..." Maybe sit with it for a minute before publicly aligning yourself with said Nazi? Journal? Leave it in drafts? You absolutely don't have to hand it to them.

04.03.2026 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why is it so awful and so wonderful??

04.03.2026 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bananas can help and possibly Gatorade. How much stretching are you doing after a workout? It took me a while to get stretching in there for reals. Now I also try to stretch before bed too though that is definitely a work in progress. Do a recovery/stretch day and hydrate like woah.

04.03.2026 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

just hard to overstate how much "everyone should be forced to watch television about how great I am all day long and no other kind of television should exist" is a load-bearing component of both his personality as a human (or thereabouts) and his political ideology, such as it is

04.03.2026 05:20 β€” πŸ‘ 168    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Some 18 or so years ago I was with a group doing a "day on" racial and economic justice training for MLK day at an elite private school and one kid said "my dad works in Dubai and they pretty much just ignore poor people and that's working out ok." He was perplexed by the obvious follow up question.

04.03.2026 04:32 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The ever increasing essentialism is so horrifying.

04.03.2026 04:29 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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01.03.2026 03:22 β€” πŸ‘ 6048    πŸ” 988    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 33
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Today is the special election for the First Middlesex district, including Lowell, Dracut, Dunstable, Pepperell and Tyngsborough.

If you live there, make sure to make a plan to vote for Vanna Howard!

#mapoli

03.03.2026 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

literally your customer base was 90% parents of young children who want a good future for their kids in which they can be free to be themselves, no matter who they are. you told those people to go fuck themselves. they won't be back

03.03.2026 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 8622    πŸ” 1361    πŸ’¬ 189    πŸ“Œ 45

Outfoxed and War Made Easy are both important watches, especially for folks who did not live through the early 2000s

03.03.2026 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

for the youths who werent around for the iraq installment
- dont believe anything the govt says about progress
- no the democrats dont have to say getting rid of the baddie was good and therefore they have to support the war
- the war needs to be ended
- the media is not your ally and they love war

03.03.2026 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1570    πŸ” 441    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 20

That's it, all right there:

03.03.2026 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The last point is critical. The media LOVES war, like you love your kids, your spouse, your parents, but more.

So many of them have dreamed of being war correspondents sending dispatches from the front line. It genuinely confuses them and hurts their feelings when people think it's not a good idea.

03.03.2026 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 601    πŸ” 150    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3

more and more of these in real life

03.03.2026 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When drop off groceries, we don't knock because it just causes stress (could that be ICE?)

At weekend outdoor block parties, we know people are excluded even though volunteers are patrolling with whistles.

Children aren't just staying home from school. They're trapped inside. bit.ly/pauseevictions

03.03.2026 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

03.03.2026 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 6981    πŸ” 3157    πŸ’¬ 71    πŸ“Œ 48
Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: β€œBREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center.
STORY TK”

Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: β€œBREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”

GWβ€˜s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

03.03.2026 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1665    πŸ” 578    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 36

No reaon lot less likely to ratchet up antisemitic conspiracy theories...

03.03.2026 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump does the bidding of strong men authoritarian leaders because he wants them to treat him like he's a strong man authoritarian leader. I promise you don't need antisemitic conspiracy theories to explain Trump's daddy issues war fetish. This was entirely predictable based on all past data.

03.03.2026 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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How Antisemitism Is Linked to Anti-Trans Conspiracy Theories At its core, transphobia is a conspiracy theoryβ€”and so is antisemitism.

I wrote about how antisemitism and transphobia are linked for @rewirenewsgroup.com a while ago
rewirenewsgroup.com/2023/11/01/h...

02.03.2026 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 109    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0