now that women have ruined the workplace we should just get rid of it

‘Just bonkers’: Students walk out to protest TDSB decision to halt admissions to special needs school

I don't have the reach here that I had in The Other Place, but the TDSB is moving towards shutting down Heydon Park, the board's only school for girls (inclusive of Trans and non-binary) with special education needs. This place saves lives. Please sign the petition. chng.it/w4HqSDpHK6

There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"

What we are NOT GONNA DO is hold up Autistic people who "work and pay taxes" as the "good" kind of Autistic people, to dunk on RFK. Non-verbal? Hell yeah. Need assistance in daily life? Here for you. Never produce economic value for our corrupt capitalist system? Jealous of you, actually.

@rilokileyofficial.bsky.social I'm just an elder millennial begging you to add a Toronto date. I'm pretty sure that this would cure me of this malaise.

If the look is lit you MUST acquit

Do not talk to me until I've had my coffee, gone for a run, found the path to living without harm, and passed away peacefully in the sunshine of my garden.

no the fuck we are NOT making “LGBQ+” a thing and if I see any of you motherfuckers using that acronym it’s on sight Marsha P. Johnson did not smash in the windshield of a police car for this

None of us are free until all of us are free. If trans people aren’t safe, neither am I. I know who these people are because they are who they have always been.

People in Gaza are still collecting the skulls and decomposed remains of their children from beneath the rubble, while some fantasize about building a resort on their mass graves, and others gloat over a minority that refused to vote for the party that enabled a genocide.

Repeat after me. The NYT are now, and have always been, kapos. They are fascist collaborators. They're vichy bootlickers. They have never once been a champion of liberal democracy, but rather a perpetual enabler and justifier of violent authoritarianism.

Can’t wait for this event. This BHM, support Black brilliance and come see this incredible talk. harbourfrontcentre.com/event/our-bo... #blackhistorymonth #blackexcellence #bhmtoronto

So this morning's episode of the Daily is about AI and China... not the past 72 hours of Musk pillaging federal agencies with his merry band of external hard drives??? @nytimes.com , what gives?

Depressed about fascism coming to America? This one pot cassoulet will make you feel like you’re living in Vichy France.

UM WHAT??

4 for 200. Believe them when they tell you whose lives matter more.

Just for the record, my position is "Free Palestine" not "Say They'll Stop Bombing Palestine For A Bit But Continue To Regardless Because Nobody Will Face Accountability For The Genocide"

On Monday morning survivors of St. Anne's Residential School will host a press conference rally outside Ontario Superior Court (University and Queen) in Toronto. They are asking for allies and witnesses to join them. 9 AM. There is no reconciliation without justice for St. Annes survivors.

whole thing is just a nonstop summary of getting owned

Now this, this is looting. Ain’t nobody gonna be arrested for it either.

Hey Education research folks: @paulthomas.bsky.social @covingtonedu.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com etc I need some academic journals about the "impossibility" of a perfect grade in non-STEAM courses, and what impacts that has on student motivation/achievement. Any ideas?

Some of those that work forces.

There are lots of disheartening things happening, but seeing Starbucks and Amazon employees organizing and fighting so hard for fair treatment is really inspiring!!!

Chrystia Freeland being a ride-or-die atlanticist neoconservative, consistently using the power of her offices to advance US geopolitical interests at the expense of both Ukraine and Canada, and STILL getting torched by Donald Trump is the biggest self-own in recent Canadian history. Incredible.

How can we possibly think about AI as a labor-saving tool for educators and pretend students can't/won't use it the same way? If AI will be used to grade their work, why shouldn't students use AI to write it? What will we do with all the time we saved?

I’ve reported on homelessness for years and met many, many people who have found themselves in awful situations Every single one of them had more decency and integrity than this privileged plutocrat

Why doesn't this exact pizza exist in Toronto?

BREAKING: Amnesty International says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in new report:

Northern Gaza is being ethnically cleansed. This is Beit Lahia today after evacuation orders from the IDF.

I can define my thinking about education into periods before and after I read Carla Shalaby's Troublemakers.

We expected to have to dedicate considerable resources to identifying the Israeli soldiers in photos and videos featured in our investigation into war crimes in Gaza. Instead we found soldiers often posted material in their own names on publicly accessible platforms.

How taxing the rich can help to fix the #housingcrisis — Canada’s real estate sector is collecting billions in profit while incentivizing landlords to evict tenants and keep driving up rents. NEW column from @ericashiner.bsky.social: ricochet.media/justice/hous... #TaxTheRich #cdnpoli #Canada

This needs to be said, loud, and often.

tell drake. i want him to know it was me. i played that shit 837283 times

Israel is intensifying its attacks. They believe they have full impunity. Let's not prove them right. Take 2 minutes today: 1) email your representatives to voice the need for a ceasefire 2) donate $10 to someone, anyone, in Gaza. @mommunism.bsky.social has a whole feed of people who need help.

If you feel like there is a vice tightening around your heart & throat as you read the descriptions of yesterday's massacre you are not alone.

What we do in those moments is so meaningful. We can't always stop what's started, but we can mitigate, or manage, the trajectory or scope of the event. That's a form of care.

Still thinking about the ways teachers care for their students. So much of what folks call "classroom management" depends on us paying attention to our students, knowing when someone isn't feeling well, when there's a conflict occurring, when someone is dysregulated, or about to be, and stepping in

I really, really need you to read the poem that won the CBC Poetry Prize today (it also happens to be written by a colleague, a brilliant educator). www.cbc.ca/books/litera...

I know the warrants will not lead to arrests, but if this brings us even a step closer to a just peace for Palestinians...

www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor... This is utterly devastating.

It takes an exile from Putin’s Russia, writing about the theories of an exile from Orban’s Hungary, to cut through the noise about Trump’s America, from which we have nowhere left to run. Gift link to M. Gessen in NYT: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...

Sometimes good prevails.

“Caused a ruckus” absolutely sent me 🤣🤣

November 11th should be an indignant anti-war protest instead of a day of hyper-nationalistic pro military hagiography.