Chris Findlay

Chris Findlay

@cdeswanf.bsky.social

EngLit at Hampshire College, mag ed in DC, history at Duke, then book ed in NYC and DC. Currently Resident Historian at National Education Association. Woke as an entitled white boy is able to be. I’m here for your writing, so show me what you got.

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Besides being racist and false, this suggests science is only carried out by a few geniuses who claim prizes, whereas in reality science relies on smart and diligent people committed to collaboration and discovery without special recognition.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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It’s Friday… And damn it, let’s dance! This is a Jack & Jill competition where they are matched randomly. The song is random. The dance is entirely improvised…

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Fairy Glen most famously refers to the surreal, miniature landscape of conical green hills and rock formations near Uig on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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"At a loss for words on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Then I watched nearly 200 @FordhamNYC students, many born years later, climb 2,200 stadium steps in honor of the ascent FDNY firefighters undertook that day. They showed up. They remembered. I have hope for this generation"

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New Gallup polling finds that 71% of Americans approve of labor unions and 56 million Americans would join a union tomrorow if they could. We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power. If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.

epi.orgUnions are extremely popular: 56 million workers would join a union if they couldNew Gallup polling finds that 71% of people in the U.S. approve of unions, continuing the highest period of favorability in over 60 years. This coincides with the greatest number of workers represente...

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Replying to @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social

My kingdom for a Democrat to finally just say it: gosh, the party whose leaders keep turning out to be pedophiles and rapists sure is obsessed with doing pre-bathroom and -sports strip search genital inspections on children, what's that about?

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Q: Mr Paxton, did you commit voter fraud? KEN PAXTON: *walks away* (This is at least the third time just this week he's literally run away from questions of this sort)

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My takeaway from that speech is that we are headed down the road of Trump trying to outright rig elections. It probably won't work, but he's going for it.

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John Sebastian Guerrero was killed in his car, by ICE in Biddeford, Maine. He was 26 years old, a husband working 2 jobs. His 3 yr old daughter reportedly was in the back seat of the car. He was here legally and had a social security number. We wont forget

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This supercut of Republicans crying about the price of gas under Biden vs now is a must see. These people will say anything and believe in nothing.

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My favourite Samuel Beckett fact: Beckett used to drive André René Roussimoff aka Andre the Giant, who played Fezzick in The Princess Bride, to school, and they talked about cricket on the way.

Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social

So, happy 120th anniversary of Samuel Beckett’s birth to all who celebrate

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'What Lies Ahead' was covered during the 2020 lockdown by Paolo Fresu "During COVID, I received a request from Paolo Fresu to put out a version of this song. I asked if Paolo would want to do the solo. "

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"I became very fascinated with the idea of the brain computer interface and what consequences that might bring to the world. And this is one of the reasons The Brain Show came up, so that people will have a chance to see some of the realisation of these ideas."

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I am deeply saddened by the passing of Reverend Jesse Jackson. Today, I celebrate the life of a giant who was a pillar of justice for labor, education, and communities across this nation. May we carry forward the hope that he kept alive and remember that justice is a collective responsibility.

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Always a great sign for how things are going in your country when 21-year-olds are like “hey, I innovated a system to play bagpipes in tear gas”

L.A. TACO@lataco.bsky.social

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says. The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp... By Julianne Le

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Replying to @matthew.flux.community

Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community

Someone has gone through and actually run the numbers on molestation crimes against children. The politicians who commit these crimes are overwhelmingly Republican. 67% of politicians convicted between February 10, 2023 and May 23, 2024 nationwide were Republicans. www.whoismakingnews.com

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Born 1 Feb 1942, Terry Jones. Starting his career as a comedy writer, he later soared to fame as part of the Monty Python comedy team. He played Mr Creosote in the final Python movie. An avid historian, he wrote several books & presented TV documentaries on the topic. #TerryJones #MontyPython

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You’d have to finish this @tennesseannews article trashing our public schools to find it’s by privatization/charters lobbyist Chelsea Crawford of Tennessee CAN — who was TN Department of Ed chief of staff for 4 years Foxes running the hen house. And our schools are their target.

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Poet and pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes was born #otd on February 1, 1902. In 1961, he attended a lunch for the first President of Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor. Senghor, a poet himself, was an admirer of Hughes' work and translated his poetry into French. #BlackHistoryMonth