Don Gates

Don Gates

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Social Studies educator, local government. environmentalist. 3rd places are vital, it not the place we work and its not our home,

We need more of this - speaking truth to the power and taking responsibility.

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03:22 PM - Apr 18, 2024 (Edited)

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Melinda Antonia

Happy new month.⚡️💕

08:23 AM - Apr 01, 2024

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Christopher Bouzy

Here is my updated map after poring over Super Tuesday election data. Trump will lose North Carolina, and although Florida didn't vote on Tuesday, I now see red flags for Trump that will make Florida a toss-up. My map will likely change again before Nov, but I am confident the polls are way off.

10:13 AM - Mar 07, 2024

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More than 600 teachers resign as Texas takes over Houston's schools

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Library cuts and teachers quitting: Texas’s takeover of Houston schools | Texas | The Guardian

Staff call for the state-appointed superintendent to be removed amid an implementation of a rigid curriculum as over 600 teachers resign

04:17 PM - Mar 05, 2024

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09:45 AM - Feb 22, 2024

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A good read on the role of newspapers and journalists.

https://open.substack.com/...

06:45 AM - Feb 21, 2024

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Eric Deggans “ asked about race on reality shows at the TV critics press tour. It didn't go well”

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Here are the big takeaways from the TV Critics Association press tour : NPR

What's ahead for the TV industry in 2024? Original series are down 14% but it still feels like too much TV. Executives and streaming services are feeling the squeeze post strikes. Race issues persist.

05:28 PM - Feb 20, 2024

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Yes , we do need to pay teachers more, but it should reflect cost of living. $100,000 in NYC is different from smaller towns , cities. Teachers salaries need be competive with other professions.

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Opinion | Why not pay teachers $100,000 a year? - The Washington Post

What matters most for student learning? Top-quality educators. If we want those, we need to pay them like true professionals.

07:27 AM - Feb 20, 2024

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“ The basic idea was to bring people of diverse backgrounds onto the land, to live together and build communities out of mutual respect ”

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New research shows widespread Black land ownership in the Adirondacks in the 1850s | NCPR News

Paul Smith's professor Curt Stager has plotted the Blank land ownership in the Adirondacks during the 1850s Timbuctoo settlement.

09:47 AM - Feb 19, 2024

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Truck with Confederate flag sparks Carnival controversy in Saranac Lake | NCPR News

A truck with a Confederate flag on its hood has sparked controversy in Saranac Lake about what should and shouldn't be allowed in the Carnival parade.

12:21 PM - Feb 15, 2024

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Vibrant ‘blue dragons’ appear on beach, Texas photos show. Just avoid their ‘fingers’

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Vibrant ‘blue dragons’ appear on beach, Texas photos show. Just avoid their ‘fingers’

The colorful, toxin-devouring creatures are rarely seen, experts say.

06:35 PM - Feb 13, 2024

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Kimberley Johnson

@KimberleyJohnson

. @cbouzy announced it on PODS, so I'll chime in...

I'll be hosting Spoutible's first Town Hall with Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @repjasmine .

I'm honored to be chosen for this wonderful opportunity and I hope you can make it.

Thursday, February 15, at 7 pm Eastern.

Plan on a good time!

10:29 AM - Feb 06, 2024 (Edited)

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Am interesting interview with Heather Cox Richardson - interesting to hear her view on Biden (how it changed) current take on Trump and the upcoming election, some good history connections as well.
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‎On with Kara Swisher: Hope for American Democracy, According to Heather Cox Richardson on Apple Podcasts

Donald Trump is an American figure decades in the making. That’s the argument historian and professor Heather Cox Richardson makes in her latest book: “Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America.” Richardson lays out her case, discusses her change of heart on Biden (whom she’s interviewed tw..

05:14 PM - Jan 22, 2024

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Highly recommend - this : new podcast, 'If All Else Fails' about far-right extremism in Upstate New York.
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06:45 PM - Jan 20, 2024 (Edited)

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I heard Minsitry of the Future was a good #book / novel about #climate change. But as a novel the first few chapters were compelling but then it felt like a science / economics textbook and hard to finish. Or was it just me? Did others enjoy it?

06:46 AM - Jan 17, 2024

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Yup
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12:14 PM - Jan 06, 2024

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A good overview of the current #immigrationsystem , interview with Dexter Filkens (New Yorker)

https://podcasts.apple.com...

podcasts.apple.com

‎The Political Scene | The New Yorker: Dexter Filkins Reports on the Border Crisis on Apple Podcasts

The last major overhaul of the immigration system was in 1986. Changing conditions and a political impasse have created a state of chaos that the Biden Administration can no longer deny.

08:14 AM - Jan 02, 2024

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Want to learn about how Twitter began , its growth, the Trump problem and Elon? - listen to an informative 4 episode Podcast from the Land of the Giants on Twitter. It’s helped me to undertand its history.

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podcasts.apple.com

‎Land of the Giants: What We All Got Wrong About Twitter on Apple Podcasts

Twitter began life as an accident. In the beginning, even its founders weren’t sure what it was: the internet’s town square, a real-time information source, or the next Facebook, maybe? Twitter's power has always been misunderstood -- by its leaders, by its users, and lately, by the world's richest…

08:39 AM - Dec 29, 2023

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It’s not only hat she got the $1,000 tip, it’s what she did with it - she shared it with her co-workers

Customers leave waitress $1,000 tip at CNY diner: ‘Santa, everything’s going to be OK’ (video)

04:07 PM - Dec 24, 2023

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Hide your children, hide your wives. A radical force is sweeping the nation, threatening to destroy everything that God-fearing Americans hold dear. That threat, according to Fox News?

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08:08 PM - Dec 19, 2023 (Edited)

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One in five young Americans think the Holocaust is a myth
https://www.economist.com/...
from TheEconomist

economist.com

One in five young Americans think the Holocaust is a myth

Our new poll makes alarming reading | United States

01:26 PM - Dec 10, 2023

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“Countries that have already adopted such policies have seen positive results; reductions in bullying in Spain and improved academic performance in Norway and Belgium.” And yet one of the biggest opponents are parents.

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Opinion | Schools should ban smartphones. Parents should help. - The Washington Post

The evidence that smartphones harm young people is impossible to ignore. Why are parents helping to keep them in schools?

07:52 AM - Nov 26, 2023

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Ahh Doonesbury ! My daily go to comic ! What is yours ? #comics
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Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 12, 2023 - GoComics

View the comic strip for Doonesbury by cartoonist Garry Trudeau created November 12, 2023 available on GoComics.com

10:05 AM - Nov 12, 2023

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Not sure how these people live with themselves. Did they use gas stoves knowing the dangers?

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How gas utilities used tobacco tactics to sell more gas stoves : NPR

Gas stoves emit potentially harmful pollutants, but utilities and their trade group avoided regulation with tactics perfected by the tobacco industry to cast doubt on science showing health problems.

06:48 AM - Oct 17, 2023

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YUP ! “Professional sports leagues in North America are essentially socialist structures for billionaires, with various forms of revenue sharing, spending caps or taxes, and the milking of public funds so that no team can be mismanaged into bankruptcy.”
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11:48 AM - Sep 01, 2023 (Edited)

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Woke/Saying NO to polls

The same in African cultures, the elderly are revered.

Strictly John D. Bleeds H-Town Blue @FilipinXTexan

In Asian culture, the elderly are valued and respected. To put them in a home is the equivalent of tossing something in the trash.
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Cynthia Williams

This week I volunteered to be a Wikipedia editor. My goal is to update all white racist leaders with data and information on their Wikipedia pages to document all the anti-Black activism with which they're involved.

It's time to fight these bastards with more than tweets, Xs, and spouts.

Picture of Wikipedia main page.

05:42 AM - Aug 11, 2023 (Edited)

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“ This week marks the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. A back-to-school party held in the Bronx, in New York City, on August 11th 1973 is widely recognised as the birth of the genre”

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09:37 AM - Aug 10, 2023 (Edited)

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South Cackalacky Scholar

@SoCackalackyScholar

In response to Cynthia Williams.

Taking the lowest performing kids from the highest-risk backgrounds and turning them around is not easy. I’m sure there’s a lot more to the story.

07:54 AM - Jul 31, 2023

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“a record heat wave that is serving as a reminder of how climate change is rapidly affecting human life” . The GOP presidential field, climate change is .. shrugged off.

https://thehill.com/policy...

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09:55 AM - Jul 19, 2023 (Edited)

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