@manuelrustin.bsky.social
High School Teacher (Ethnic Studies, Gov/Econ). Doctor of Education. Policy advocate. Milken Educator. Out for the same thing the sun is sunnin' for. Creator & Co-host of AOTAshow.com 📍 Tovaangar | Los Angeles
Imagine being a new math teacher serving your own community and the school district you graduated from and now work in gives you a pink slip just two months after your house and your town burned down in the fire. My teacher homies need help. My plea:
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Grief is not linear, phew.
05.03.2025 02:10 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Molly’s dirty Air Forces on the couch was absolutely killing me
20.02.2025 15:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stories like these are important to personalize what Trump/Musk policies are doing. Too bad so few people read the Sacramento Bee and other legacy media these days
16.02.2025 16:17 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A protest sign held by a student in front of a city hall building that reads education not deportation
Students across our district high schools organized a walkout yesterday and converged on city hall to voice their opposition to ICE. Community members showed up along the 3mi walk from our campus to pass out water and snacks to the youth. Beautiful scenes all around.
08.02.2025 16:27 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Jedi younglings looking up at Anakin Skywalker, who is wielding a lightsaber in a threatening manner.
If there’s a room full of Jedi younglings somewhere I think today would be a good day to check in on ‘em
05.02.2025 22:37 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It’s SO much
05.02.2025 20:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Children never deserve this. It breaks my heart.
05.02.2025 20:16 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Recently returned to school. About 200 students & 12 staff lost their homes in the fire.
And students tell me they’re terrified that ICE will take their family.
And students tell me they’re afraid of FAFSA and what Musk will do with their info.
The worst of times for so many of our students.
That’s my union prez in that article! The devastation is all so much…still waiting on specifics about how many students and staff in total are impacted
15.01.2025 17:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
- GoFundMe pages supporting Black families devastated by the Eaton fire: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
- Pasadena Educational Foundation: interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/webl...
This week we talk through the aftermath of the LA fires, through the lens of educators. And we know many people want to help.
Thanks for supporting the community! Here’s a few good ways:
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- GoFundMe pages set up by Altadena families: linktr.ee/eatonfire?ut...
Really inconceivable how many multigenerational, working-class households in my school community suddenly just turned to ashes. Whole residential blocks. Sharing this list of GoFundMe’s for those who wish to contribute what they can directly to the families themselves.
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Bluesky history teachers! Please spread the word to help my colleague. Joe is a dedicated history teacher who I’ve worked with for 17yrs. He regularly hosted department dinners at his house in Altadena, which he himself inherited from his working-class parents. It’s now ashes. #sschat #eduskychat
12.01.2025 17:34 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Bluesky history teachers! Please spread the word to help my colleague. Joe is a dedicated history teacher who I’ve worked with for 17yrs. He regularly hosted department dinners at his house in Altadena, which he himself inherited from his working-class parents. It’s now ashes. #sschat #eduskychat
12.01.2025 17:34 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
This Week: we update you on the LA fires from the perspective of Pasadena and LA educators. Plus, ways you can help ❤️. @manuelrustin.bsky.social and Jeff discuss!
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Really inconceivable how many multigenerational, working-class households in my school community suddenly just turned to ashes. Whole residential blocks. Sharing this list of GoFundMe’s for those who wish to contribute what they can directly to the families themselves.
linktr.ee/eatonfire?ut...
No one is coming to save us. We’ve got to be there for each other.
09.01.2025 04:12 — 👍 8524 🔁 1218 💬 120 📌 56I can’t begin to express how bad these fires are. Friends have evacuated to our house and other friends are packing up what they can to evacuate and we are wondering if we are going to have to evacuate too. It’s such a colossal shitshow.
09.01.2025 03:49 — 👍 13486 🔁 986 💬 453 📌 33Getting pics and videos from dear students and colleagues of their homes burnt to the ground. Multigenerational households turned to dust. It’s not even close to over, and all I can do right now is just sit and watch and send love.
09.01.2025 03:31 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Indeed it is 😔
08.01.2025 18:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m still good. Unknown number of students and colleagues have lost their homes, fire still spreading.
This is *exactly* the neighborhood Octavia grew up in and wrote about in Parable of the Sower. And she tried to warn us.
Gonna be a long night…hang in there! 🙏🏾
08.01.2025 06:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Fire weather in January. The outlying areas of Los Angeles are burning, my school district just shut down, and evacuation orders are expanding. I’m good right now where I live but many of my students are packing and fleeing as I type this. Long night ahead 🙏🏾
08.01.2025 04:10 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0🎂#HappyBirthdayToMe!
🎥 check out this excerpted trailer for my book “Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education” from @haymarketbooks.org—and if folks want to help me celebrate, pre-order a signed copy at: www.elliottbaybook.com/item/UfU8gx4...
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This Week: we're back for 2025 and we've got some good news (gasp!) about politics and education. CA has several new laws on the books and a federal judge in AR overturns a draconian, right wing book ban. @manuelrustin.bsky.social @mrjgarrett.bsky.social discuss!
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What a fantastic match…seems no matter what the standings look like this matchup always brings the unexpected
#LIVMUN
They just need to add AI to this paid subscription service + sports betting combo and I’ll hit my 2025 dystopian parlay
04.01.2025 20:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Happy Independence Day to Haiti! 🇭🇹
The Western Hemisphere owes a huge debt of gratitude to the little island that wrested its independence from its captors.
World powers have tried to make Haiti into an example after it fought for its freedom, but the spirit lives on.
Viv Ayiti!
