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Tina M. Ellsworth

@drtinaellsworth.bsky.social

Kansas City Native | NCSS President Elect. | Assistant Professor of Education. | Ph.D. in Social Studies Education. #RockChalk

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The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.
Toni Morrison

The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing. Toni Morrison

KBJ referenced this Toni Morrison quote in reference to a @drtinaellsworth.bsky.social question about a Harvard classmate prominently displaying a Confederate flag near her apartment. #ncss2025 #sschat

06.12.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.

30.11.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 8641    πŸ” 2503    πŸ’¬ 309    πŸ“Œ 83
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Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

15.10.2025 00:46 β€” πŸ‘ 32341    πŸ” 9889    πŸ’¬ 895    πŸ“Œ 485
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African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global influence β€” and is just plain inaccurate.

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global influence β€” and is just plain inaccurate.

22.08.2025 01:56 β€” πŸ‘ 558    πŸ” 84    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 19

Wait…what?!?!

21.08.2025 03:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Our annual Summer Leadership Institute is next week in my home town of Kansas City! I’m excited to welcome you to the nation’s best kept secret. πŸ™‚

βœ… Inspiring Speakers
βœ… Powerful Networking
βœ… Incredible Historic Sites

We hope to see you there!

08.07.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You can tell that the One Big Beautiful Bill* is truly beautiful because they’re holding the hearing after midnight

* Yes, that’s actually the name

20.05.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2321    πŸ” 489    πŸ’¬ 76    πŸ“Œ 9

I say this almost every day of my life.

04.05.2025 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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CNN Poll: Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades | CNN Politics Donald Trump won back the Oval Office and took charge of the government amid the strongest poll numbers of his political career, but as the 100-day mark of his presidency approaches, Americans’ views ...

"CNN Poll: Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades"

www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/p...

28.04.2025 03:14 β€” πŸ‘ 6019    πŸ” 1189    πŸ’¬ 373    πŸ“Œ 74
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HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan

25.04.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 32094    πŸ” 7964    πŸ’¬ 608    πŸ“Œ 500
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I feel this in my soul.

25.04.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looking for ways to save money on registration to NCSS? Help review proposals and get 15% off registration. Today is the last day to sign up! Message me.

23.04.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"To educate is to take a risk and to hold out to the present a hope that can shatter the determinism and fatalism that the selfishness of the strong, the conformism of the weak and the ideology of the utopians would convince us is the only way forward."--Pope Francis (2020)

21.04.2025 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Addams Family was a delightful show. These middle schoolers are wildly talented. :)

21.04.2025 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How DOGE may have improperly used Social Security data to push voter fraud narratives A DOGE staffer working in the Social Security Administration has been pushing questionable claims about noncitizens voting β€” apparently using data that court records suggest DOGE shouldn't have.

How are the DOGERs using Your Data??
How DOGE used Social Security data to push dubious fraud claims

www.npr.org/2025/04/11/n...

13.04.2025 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.

Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?

11.04.2025 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 52071    πŸ” 14711    πŸ’¬ 1604    πŸ“Œ 690
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Correct.

08.04.2025 02:58 β€” πŸ‘ 14603    πŸ” 4263    πŸ’¬ 248    πŸ“Œ 164

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

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We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.

08.04.2025 05:14 β€” πŸ‘ 42131    πŸ” 11273    πŸ’¬ 1154    πŸ“Œ 572

Reckless cruelty isn’t strength.

Capitulation isn’t courage.

Cultish allegiance isn’t patriotism.

We used to know the difference.

08.04.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 13087    πŸ” 3190    πŸ’¬ 216    πŸ“Œ 90

West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streetsβ€”nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.

05.04.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 60329    πŸ” 11719    πŸ’¬ 1163    πŸ“Œ 804

senate floor right now...

senator cory booker

www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

31.03.2025 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 13443    πŸ” 2345    πŸ’¬ 572    πŸ“Œ 201
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Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

31.03.2025 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 51247    πŸ” 10563    πŸ’¬ 10885    πŸ“Œ 3230
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Time to speak up

31.03.2025 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 34816    πŸ” 5155    πŸ’¬ 2786    πŸ“Œ 688

I just sent Cory Booker money. I will send money to anyone who fights, and I will not send money to anyone who cowers in fear. That has to be the situation, for all of us.

01.04.2025 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 19370    πŸ” 2789    πŸ’¬ 415    πŸ“Œ 177

Senator Booker is holding the senate floor until he cannot. Go to his TT or IG for live coverage.

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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores Truth and Sanity to American History RESTORING TRUTH IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order restoring truth and sanity to American history by

So much wrong with this latest executive order, but especially promotes white supremacy by including the racist belief that race is biological and obsesses about "western civilization," "classical architecture," and a concealed restoration of Confederate monuments. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

28.03.2025 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Good morning, beloved.

There is strength in joy.

Sometimes we need to build that strength by practicing joy.

Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

27.03.2025 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year

24.03.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 12322    πŸ” 4312    πŸ’¬ 376    πŸ“Œ 290

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