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Elizabeth Barnett

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Commuting through Texas on I-10, pretending I'm a trucker, teaching English, making little notes on index cards, writing Egads! about queer picture books in the seventies and eighties. Book of poems,The Law at Night, coming in '27 from U of Nebraska Press.

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Why don’t they order the same shoes in the correct size?

11.03.2026 17:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Lessons become slide shows, assignments feel like busy work and a real connection is rare."

11.03.2026 15:18 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

crucial coverage from The Guardian that features our collaborative, movement-building website
against-a-i.com

10.03.2026 16:17 πŸ‘ 183 πŸ” 73 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

He looks like ai trying to make Matthew Rhys.

10.03.2026 12:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

These poor kids. This family did nothing wrong except believe in the United States.

08.03.2026 20:54 πŸ‘ 998 πŸ” 307 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 3

Every hour, the Trump administration changes its justification for war with Iran. And they have no plan for how to end it.

Trump started a new illegal war with no end in sight.

08.03.2026 12:28 πŸ‘ 317 πŸ” 80 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 2

There’s a streak of misogyny running through Murphy’s work.

06.03.2026 14:58 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Cover of Cheryl Mendelson’s Home Comforts

Cover of Cheryl Mendelson’s Home Comforts

Child’s large handwriting inside cover of the book, β€œWarning boring do not read”

Child’s large handwriting inside cover of the book, β€œWarning boring do not read”

During peak Covid, I tried to teach my fourth grader homemaking.

06.03.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

on spring break with my feelings

04.03.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œCompiling” is also integral training for life as a teacher and syllabus-builder.

There is no shortcut to doing hard things; you just have to do them, and then keep doing them until you get better at doing them.

04.03.2026 13:22 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"What we can do is find and join collective efforts dedicated to meeting the moment. We can find support and camaraderie in these efforts. We are very fortunate that there are so many dedicated to doing what is good and right."

04.03.2026 12:46 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Imprisoning children. Raping children. Killing children. It boils down to this, which nothing can justify.

28.02.2026 16:43 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Bill Hader as Stefan with a side part and floral sleeves. In front of a map.

Bill Hader as Stefan with a side part and floral sleeves. In front of a map.

The hottest new club is Einstein, a haunted bagel emporium that has everything, especially the stuff that got Aaron Swartz arrested

23.02.2026 21:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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Deci invited us not only to recognize the potential harm done by rewards and other forms of control but also to see that people flourish when three basic - and universal - needs are met: for autonomy (self-determination), belongingness (connection to others), and competence.

21.02.2026 12:22 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Looks like a ship’s hold

20.02.2026 14:11 πŸ‘ 377 πŸ” 138 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 4

Pardoning drug lords but deporting sick little kids straight from the hospital really sums the whole thing up doesn’t it

18.02.2026 14:11 πŸ‘ 2188 πŸ” 725 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 3

Nothing that can help regular people is possible. Everything that can hurt regular people is easy to do. This is basically how most politicians act right now.

17.02.2026 00:37 πŸ‘ 1668 πŸ” 436 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 0

AI does not enhance β€œefficiency.” AI is a permission structure for a totalizing regime of austerity and labor immiseration.

16.02.2026 14:20 πŸ‘ 589 πŸ” 207 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 12

Yes, one theory β€” the one endorsed here by the Dallas Morning News β€” has been tested repeatedly for 25 years, having never succeeded, failing each time. Unsurprisingly, the conservative DMN suggests Democrats try it one more time.

The other theory β€” the Jasmine Crockett one β€” has never been tried.

15.02.2026 21:15 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Time to speak up’: In Columbia Heights, school leaders stepped in to protect families as ICE surged As federal immigration agents descended on Columbia Heights families, the school superintendent expected to stay silent. Then federal agents came for 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, and s...

Seven children from this MN school district have been detained by ICE. 2 of them are still in ICE custody in TX. The district has lost track of how many parents have been taken. At just one elementary 26 parents have been detained by ICE

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

13.02.2026 13:48 πŸ‘ 282 πŸ” 163 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 11

Maybe you have
that common nightmare
of falling in your bathroom
and being found
naked. Fear no more.

14.02.2026 04:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.

Imagine if even a fraction of what this administration plans to spend on cages went toward housing people.

13.02.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 1535 πŸ” 553 πŸ’¬ 63 πŸ“Œ 65
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Resources for Teachers β€” Emily Wilson

On Feb 27th, 7pm ET, I'll do a public webinar Q and A, designed primarily for high school students and their teachers who may be using my translations of the Odyssey or Iliad in class. You can register here: www.emilyrcwilson.com/resources-fo...

06.02.2026 13:11 πŸ‘ 69 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

When I picked up Liam from Dilley to go home, he was scared. He was taken away from his home, family, school, and was imprisoned. Liam is home now, but so many children remain. ICE must be disbanded and Dilley must close. #FreeOurChildren.

10.02.2026 23:14 πŸ‘ 308 πŸ” 102 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 5

We have to abolish every single part of this apparatus and change whatever needs to be changed so it can never, ever be rebuilt

10.02.2026 22:37 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

tonight 🌈

07.02.2026 14:36 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fascinated to learn from Biele's "Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker" that in the forties NYer determined pay by assigning poets a letter grade that was multiplied by the average width of their poems! Bishop was, to them, a B+/A- poet with 1.0 column lines or a C+ poet with 1 1/3 column lines.

05.02.2026 00:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, they were

04.02.2026 22:38 πŸ‘ 454 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Cutting the what-makes-life-okay-sometimes sections

04.02.2026 14:07 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Love’s Austere and Lonely Offices - Northwestern University Press An astounding collection of photographs from a renowned poetCreated during the tumultuous years of 2020 and 2021, Love’s Austere and Lonely Offices: Street...

A poet who really looks, showing us what we couldn't see but was always there.

04.02.2026 12:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0