In December, I told you about how Trump’s Department of Education is stripping nurses of our professional status and making school more expensive. From now until March 2, we need you to raise your voice and submit a public comment: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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Happy #SuperbOwl 🦉 Sunday to all who celebrate.

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The wildest dream of a Cormorant🫧 #bird #birdart #illustration #digitalart #fish #bitterling #animalart #creature #artist

SAVE Act = Voter Suppression Act

Ranked Choice Voting is EXCELLENT for voters because you never have to go "should I just plug my nose and vote for someone I don't really like because I think they are electable?" You vote for anyone you can stand in rank order. And you don't rank crappy and destructive candidates. 1/2

This is creepy when we recognise contemporary AI is all humans all the way down, just obfuscated behind the screen or dashboard. Based on stolen data, stolen labour, stolen humanity... AI is not currently emancipatory and just serves the privileged and deskills those who think this is automation.

Recent federal cuts to health programs make universal coverage more urgent than ever. The reconciliation bill slashed more than $1 trillion from national health programs and allowed Affordable Care Act subsidies to expire, changes experts say could leave 10 million people uninsured by 2034.

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A small but very deep thing that bothers me about generative AI as a shortcut to practice and work and skill is the basic assumption that it’s impossible to take pleasure in a creative pursuit that you aren’t very good at and I assure you that is not the case

Maine’s Black Future podcast visits stories of historic Black Mainers and the legacies they carved. Then connects this longstanding history to changemakers weaving Maine’s Black future today. Check back each Thursday for a featured episode on a historic Black Mainer. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Which is to say their sales pitch is bullshit. They are not self-driving cars.

Refugees and migration books for children and teens, featuring books by Erika Meza, Na’ima B. Robert, Brian Bilston, Eoin Colfer, Onjali Q. Raúf, Sita Brahmachari, Armin Greder, Michael Rosen, Ele Fountain and Malcolm Duffy. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/genres/refug... #teachertwitter #kidlit

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I live in Maine and found out Virginia Oliver died from Jezebel?

Re: Bookshop org's new partnerships. I knew Spotify was on the shit list, but I didn't know all of this re: Draft2Digital.

Read @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social interview with the bundle's curator @edebell.com and then check out the amazing selection of translated books! lingua.globalvoices.org/2026/02/stor...

BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. (1/2 🧵)

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To be clear, this has always been the goal of this technology. To allow billionaires to obfuscate and confuse us, and we allow it because we can't be arsed to write our own emails or plan our own child's birthday party or figure out what to wear or what to put in a report or assignment

The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older is 70% off at $3.99! I haven't read this one yet but I loved book one! tidd.ly/4rylofN

Every time I assign this in Counseling Diverse Pops students are surprised or even angry that they didn't know this part of history.

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And yet so much of higher education leadership went "where do we sign up?"

I don't think it's hyperbole to say that the only way to ensure a free and just society for our children and grandchildren is to enact policies as soon as possible that tax billionaires out of existence, removes their influence from politics, and breaks up the companies they've consolidated.

If anyone in Bangor, #Maine region wants to join, I'm leading Revelry and Reverie: Playful Revising Strategies for #PictureBook Manuscripts for Maine Publishers & Writers Alliance in May. 📚✨ www.mainewriters.org/calendar/rev...

That was three classrooms in one zoom call with no mics working other than mine. But it's really nice to see students. We used chat for questions, and they ask a lot of good ones. 📚🦑

One more classroom visit for World Read Aloud Day! 📚🦑

The number of children in ICE detention on a given day has skyrocketed, jumping more than sixfold since the start of the second Trump administration. The Marshall Project analyzed data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and found that ICE held around 170 children on an average day under Trump.

Right now, you can get books 1-3 in the Reanimator Mysteries series for $2.99 each on Chirp! 🫀Pushing Daisies x Sleepy Hollow 🫀MM historical paranormal romance 🫀An autistic necromancer 🫀His undead love 🫀And the mysteries that bring them together Grab them here: www.chirpbooks.com/series/the-r...

Always entertained when a kid during World Read Aloud Day somehow hears me say that Taylor Swift illustrated the book. I introduce the book as illustrated by Taylor Barron but after that I just say Taylor and this is enough for them to hear Taylor Swift. 😹📚🦑

Happy World Read Aloud Day! #WRAD isn't just for schools -- people of all ages can enjoy picture books, and reading ANY kind of writing aloud is a vastly different experience than reading silently. Don't be afraid to try out some character voices, too!

Our university --- NEW WEBSITE!!!! Thanks, great. Fine. But I can't find any faculty bios or CVs so I'm having a really hard time tracking down someone to be a local speaker because I can't figure out anyone's area of expertise.

Tomorrow is World Read Aloud Day! www.litworld.org/world-read-a...

hey! it's my face! and not really new info unless you've somehow missed the post I've shared a thousand times about it, but link: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

SEN. @hickenlooper.senate.gov : “Death cards left behind by ICE agents — cards with white supremacist history left in detained immigrants' abandoned cars… Imagine finding your brother's empty car with one of these in the driver's seat. Cruelty for the sake of cruelty." (H/T @lulacorg.bsky.social )

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Imagine is this administration actually followed the law. No matter how tedious and undermining it is of their grifty, exploitative ways.

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