Proud of my colleagues and union siblings for showing up at yesterday’s walkout. Teachers are heroes, worth more than zeroes 💙💙💙
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deepa bhandaru
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Heading to Cap Hill to meet our colleagues from across the Seattle Colleges District 💙🙌🏽
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Walkout is on at North Seattle College! Educators stewarding knowledge, nurturing our community. #ThrivingWage #PrioritizeInstruction
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Sunday prep this week means getting my Canvas shells walkout-ready. I'm walking out on Tuesday because community college teachers' labor is valuable! #ThrivingWage
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I got tenure yesterday and celebrated it by reading a statement with two other newly tenured instructors at the Seattle Colleges about why our district and board of trustees need to PAY FACULTY a living wage. Tenure is meaningless without solidarity #UnionStrong
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SO PROUD of the working-class, interfaith coalition that passed this ordinance in my town!! And when the Hindu patriarchy opposed it like the fascists they are, the coalition pushed even harder. Jai Bhim ✊🏽
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Seattle City Council races shaping up to be a prime opportunity for some elite capture hijinx from Harrell & Co.
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Rob Saka wants to represent district 1! And it looks like he's waiting for D1 to tell him exactly what to do, because so far, it's all vibes. Few, if any, new policies and no ideas for how to fund the aforementioned vibes.
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Leftist heroes are great for the movement and so are the everyday fighters who are less hung up on labels and purity tests— e.g. who’s a socialist and who isn’t— and focused on the struggle to dismantle capitalism and advance working class power, wherever it might pop up. (2/2)
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Bought a cinnamon babka for the holidays and despite what Seinfeld says, it is NOT the lesser babka.
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The mistake is believing management/administration has a conscience. No, it has a bottom line. Here's to 2023 being the year workers stop looking to management/administration for "leadership" and focus on building our own power and democratic institutions. (2/2)
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DEI is neoliberal doublespeak, a way for corporate management and university administration to avoid responsibility for constructing/perpetuating social inequality. Companies thrive on white supremacy culture bc it maximizes shareholder profits and pads executive salaries. (1/2)
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Rhetorics of desert and deprivation are so pernicious in US culture. They individualize power and feed opposition to affirmative action, reparations for slavery, and other critical forms of redistribution.
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An important lesson I failed to impart to students, namely white students, this quarter: not every grievance is an injustice.
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The writing on these walls screams GTFO and yet we stay because we have nowhere better to go. Monopoly wins.
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If George Constanza were in his 30s today, he’d be an in incel Jordan Peterson stan.
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The DOJ better make him pay this back. Taxpayers need a stimulus from Trump Inc.
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This week 2 Dalit girls were raped and murdered in N India. Last month a Muslim woman who was gang raped saw her rapists walk free. Today Modi tells Putin to stop his aggression against Ukraine but remains silent about the routine violence against Dalit and Muslim women at home.
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The right-wing assault on public education has gutted our schools and forced teachers to do the impossible. I’m proud of Seattle teachers for saying enough! Students deserve smaller classes and teachers deserve our support.
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Across the district, we are delivering a message: The Seattle School Board must agree to a contract that provides our students with the schools they deserve. RT if you agree! #SEAStrong
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Hope this signals more openness by the Biden Administration to granting asylum to Eritreans fleeing the Isaias regime.
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Diplomats usually push for negotiation and engagement. But, in dealing with totalitarian nations, confrontation, not compromise, is the right approach, argues Steve Walker, former chief of mission at the US embassy in Eritrea:
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So upsetting to read about these attacks on US protesters critical of the BJP. Modi’s regime and Hindutva ideology are propped up by the support of Hindus in the diaspora.
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After being way too online today, I stopped by my plot in the community garden and found a beet poking its head out of the soil. I pulled it, cooked it, and as I eat it now I’m reminded that the earth doesn’t give a shit about our squabbles. If we treat it right, it will feed us.
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Every time I think they’ve declared a ceasefire, some alpha sets off another round. What a miserable holiday.
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Ohio strikes again. #JaylandWalker was unarmed and running away when 8 Akron police officers murdered him with 60 bullets 😢
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I grew up in Ohio and was sexually assaulted by a stranger in a school locker room when I was 12. It was a nightmare but nothing compared to what young girls are being forced to experience now 💔
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Even in states where abortion is legal, women’s lives and liberty feel as contingent as Violet’s did in that scene, decided by the generosity or disdain of the men around us.
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Thinking about the scene in S2 of Bridgerton when the doctors turn to Anthony as the newly appointed patriarch of the family to ask whose life they should save, his mother’s or her baby’s. Anthony despairs, then looks at his mother, ultimately conceding, “Whatever she chooses.”
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A young woman in my life texted me from a state where abortion is now a crime: What can we do? My friends are stockpiling morning after pills in case one of us is sexually assaulted.
This is what teenage girls across America are thinking about 😢
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