Salvador Dalí would have loved today's blue category! Connections Puzzle #965 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦

Beautiful message and art by www.storypeople.com/sotd

ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital apnews.com/article/immi...

how anyone on the east coast could live through this weather and not believe in climate change is beyond me

Your friendly reminder that chatgpt is not google and does not in fact know anything

Art is resistance. Keep making it! ✨

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

GO PLAY TETRIS. Then get back out there. 🩷

Dolly Parton turns 80: Here are nine times she proudly came out swinging for LGBTQ+ rights https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/01/19/dolly-parton-birthday-lgbt-ally-dollywood-marriage-equality-trans/?utm_content=1768948800&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Anywho, the main truth I know is that there's ALWAYS something that can be done. Always. You just have to find the things you can do.

We do not get out of fascism by saving ourselves and turning our backs on others. We get out through solidarity with everyone—especially the most vulnerable.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

Two things can be true: A dictator no longer ruling Venezuela is good. And the leader of a representative democracy initiating unconstitutional military action to claim some oil and start a regime change war no one wanted without the legally required congressional approval, like a dictator, is bad.

Is a chive a vegetable though?

HERPETOFAUNA?!?!!!! Herpetofauna, NYTimes??!?!?!

I forgot to post a #Caturday post this week! So Cinderpelt gave me the stink-eye and asked me to remind you all to do your best to pronounce students' names correctly. She says if you can say Tchaikovsky, you can learn to say Leticia & Soogia & Ali!

Best metaphor I've heard is that using AI is like bringing a forklift to lift the weights at the gym. The point is to build YOUR muscles, not to make the weights go up and down.

Hey @nytgames.bsky.social, a changeling isn't a shapeshifter!

My 2025 Halloween costume:

Love it when I immediately spot the red herring in Connections! #NYTGames #Connections

Why teaching lexical chunks is more efficient than teaching single words.

Free Resources From All “My” Books larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/10/12/f...

Language Revitalization Boosts Indigenous Health

Madly in love with today's Spelling Bee pangram 🩷

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Every trans person who transitions later in life is a gift to the community. Your example tells those still waiting: it’s not too late and you are not alone.

I did not agree with #CharlieKirk, and I believe his death occurred not for his opinions, but because guns are too common in the US. No human life is so cheap as to deserve this treatment. I hope we learn that while people kill people, a gun grants responsibility most humans do not deserve.

Education Department ends some aid aimed at minority college students wapo.st/4phalaL

"Adults connected students to important services, including counseling and mentoring programs; having an adult simply listen to young people’s stories helped them feel less alone or embarrassed about their circumstances, and more willing to seek assistance." www.the74million.org/article/for-...

Blue was very purple today!!!! Also very vile imho #nytconnections

What in the world is a cantab??

Green was kind of purpling today!! Connections Puzzle #803 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟨🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/four-more-... "Despite...federal threats, these VA school districts are doing what some of the nation's most prestigious univ.s & hospitals have refused to: standing up 4 the transgender individuals in their care." THANK YOU Loudoun, Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, & PWC!!

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Three Accessible Ways To Search For & Find My “Best” Lists larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/07/23/t...

I’m honored and thrilled to be a keynote speaker at the Rooted in Resistance Conference in Atlanta Feb 27-March 1, 2026! Dr. Bettina Love is putting a powerful gathering together that you need to be a part of! Get your tickets at rootedinresistance.org #EduSky

This is a long shot, and I already searched on Twitter and it looks like he completely deleted his account there. There was a guy, pretty sure he was an educator, that would do tweets on the weekends about his first cup of coffee in the morning, we'd have a little banter going about the old Folger+

There's a picture opposite me Of my primitive ancestry Who stood on rocky shores and kept the beaches shipwreck-free! Though I admire that a lot I'd be fired if that was my job After killing Jason off and countless screaming argonauts!

Fredrik Backman’s new book “My Friends” is my second summer read and it’s a gut-punch and I am immediately undone. Lots of loss lately. Lots of heaviness. Teenagers really are the best kind of human.

"If writing itself is devalued because so many people start using AI to generate it, what does that do to our work as English teachers?" From our conversation yesterday: the tidal wave analogy that continues to haunt me 🌊🌊🌊🫣 (Also: sort of fun to picture @thevogelman.bsky.social the 🏄‍♂️!)

Mark your calendar 🗓️ #MillysJourneyBooks, a series of 4 bilingual books, based on my personal experiences, will be available soon! First 2 books will be available Tuesday, July 1st, 2025!! ✳️ For early released copies, visit the author’s website — www.InspiringELLs.com