Liane Yvkoff
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automotive writer that talks a lot about the privatization of public education. can find me at @liane .bsky.social but neither here nor there, really.
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I will admit this about twitter -- it's way better than working
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@shoeshine
It’s way worse: “He was one of the officers who tragically failed Lauren,” said Jill McCluskey. “He gave her his personal cell phone and talked with her frequently but did nothing to help her.”
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I want this for kids in every state
After Tim Walz signed the law guaranteeing breakfast and lunch for every kid in Minnesota, he went and served food in the cafeteria.
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This push for homeschooling by the far right—under the guise of “schools choice and parental rights—makes so much more sense after watching the Duggar documentary “shiny happy people” on prime.
In his 2005 book, the Joshua Generation, Michael Farris explained that the goal of the homeschooling movement was to raise children who will "engage wholeheartedly in the battle to take the land."
He became the ADF's president in 2017. 10/
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This guy has been a one man army taking down single purpose hate accounts that troll Meghan Markle for YouTube ad dollars.
🔥Breaking: YouTube has terminated Yankee Wally's YouTube channel! This concludes a five-month tutorial on FAFO.
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@maemalade1
@bfishbfish
They were probably waiting for their Uber or trying to decide where to eat. There were more people at that corner after Pride parade. Those cops were looking for a fight.
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The most effective thing you can do today to prevent more mass shootings is to support
@AmyMcGrathKY
for senate
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@minja_bio
@waltermasterson
I think he is saying that yoga pants are for the exclusive pleasure of a husband, and if you’re not married there is no excuse to wear them. He said nothing about booty shorts though.
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If we can pay moms $50k a year to homeschool 7 kids (true story), we can afford to pay teachers with 30 kids in a class more.
🔥 OPINION: “We need a new state legislature that prioritizes public education for all students.”
Arizona’s teacher pay gap is the second worst in the nation, contributing to the teacher retention crisis — and leaving 6,000 classrooms without a certified teacher.
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If you think your school district is safe, you are wrong. Republicans are coming for you football teams, science clubs, and language programs
Arizona is sending taxpayer money to religious schools — and billionaires see it as a model for the US
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A school board member denied
@PeoriaUnified11
students a free programming program while acknowledging the district’s shortage of CS teachers because MSFT mentions DEI in their program. They must hate your kids, Peoria residents. No other explanation.
Peoria USD Board Clerk
@ThePeoriaMom
says the quiet part out loud and rejects a FREE computer science program for underprivileged kids because she has "reservations" about diversity, equity, inclusion and addressing racial injustice.
#Arizona
#SchoolBoard
#TooExtremeForAZ
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@GovernorHobbs
Now that the water rights are on the right track, I’m so happy that she’s bringing attention to this disaster. It’s just a shame that she has to spend the first half of her term fixing
@DougDucey
’s money grabs.
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When your kids’ football team or language program gets cut so Notre Dame families can take their third vacation for the year, this is the guy to blame 👇 👇 👇
I broke the left's stranglehold on education by passing universal school choice. In Congress, I'll never back down from the fight for more school choice.
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The mask is off—destroying public schools was always the goal.
After Peoria USD voted down a transphobic bathroom policy, board member, and homeschool mom, Rebecca Hill encouraged parents to pull their kids from PUSD.
"God is not blessing this district"
Maybe she should resign then?
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I’ve never met her, but I love this woman. Huge respect. She was one of the first women to roll up her sleeves and do the hard work of gathering all these signatures. Now we have to do our part and talk to our neighbors about voting to keep
#abortion
legal in
#Arizona
in Nov.
Celebrating this today. Happy “Day After Making AZ History” to all who celebrate!
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@sandibachom
Or….he had a “senior” moment and forgot where he stashed them. So really he is telling on himself that he’s looking for his three passports
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@WillManidis
I think if you sell more than a certain number of cars in a year or month you have to officially register as a dealer.
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@AustraliaKatie
@MalcolmNance
Hi. You must be new here. Beer is in the fridge, whiskey over the microwave. You’ll need it.
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Conservatives go on and on about safety and grooming in public schools but the second common sense fingerprinting requirements are floated for private, religious, and home schools all of a sudden there’s silence. What are they afraid of us finding?
This week, I reintroduced legislation requiring educators who have contact with minors at schools accepting ESA voucher money have a valid fingerprint clearance card.
Last year, a similar bill of mine never received a hearing because the majority party refused to do so.
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Amazing podcast about the disastrous ESA vouchers in Arizona and what’s at stake for Texas public school parents.
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This video answers a lot of math about how universal vouchers are robbing Arizona’s public schools to pay for private schools
Today, we’re answering the $1 Billion question: Do ESA vouchers really defund AZ public schools?
🍿Watch this video to find out!
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@proftheatre
@infocollector
@MissusLakey
@RonFilipkowski
I am not easily amused and the part where Bolton told that blowhard that he should go before he is embarrassed even more made me laugh.
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@BoldUlysses
@EWErickson
There are hybrid and plug-in hybrid minivans. I fill up my Pacifica Hybrid only once a month.
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@azedschools
@RealTomHorne
@Riley_Gaines_
@icons_women
How did the official Arizona Deptartment of Education Twitter account become a Tom Horne fan club? Seems like an abuse of resources and a sad job for some intern to have.
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I wonder what they will say about elected officials blocking constituents from reading their public posts.
✅FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE✅
New Interim Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight, Accountability, and Big Tech Will Examine Government Censorship and Conduct of State Executive Officials.
State Representative
@realAlexKolodin
, who was asked by House Speaker
@RepBenToma
to chair the
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This weekend
@ClaraJeffery
has been working twitter to crowdfund supplies for teachers and schools in high poverty areas around the country. Integrated amazon pay makes it dangerously easy to help out kids learn to read and stay warm this winter
Thanks to a 2x match, we only have $595 to go. Imagine if you were a teenager who had to go to school in dirty, stinky clothes. You probably wouldn't.
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@GabsClark5
@FoxF14185
@HazelAppleyard_
What does this have anything to do with “trans stuff?” I would love to know from your perspective what about “trans stuff” needs a firm hand?
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@what_sara_said
@hoylem
@JulieGunnigle
I believe you. I asked my obgyn if she would terminate my pregnancy if (more than likely when) tests returned chromosomal abnormalities and she proudly said no, I should go to planned parenthood.
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@ChangeTheSyst14
@eturleye
If you did a relationship chart they’d be backed by the same two dozen people Leonard Leo and David Koch funnel money to
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I just spent an hour listening to SUSD’s CFO account for the district’s spending to the school board which questioned all sorts of line items and the info is available to the public with photos: Taxpayers need to be able to do the same with private and home school vouchers.
"Approved expenses last year included more than $800,000 dollars for horseback riding, trips to zoos in eight states, and about three thousand transactions at indoor trampoline parks, according to state data analyzed by ABC15."
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@peltzmadeline
@5DollarFeminist
This is too upsetting to finish watching. My father would agree with everything this tool said, but he was racist, sexist, classist and a bad parent (redundant, I know). I had to work to undo his influence. Still working on it.
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The number of ads I get for private schools, homeschool curriculum, and tutors is nauseating since ducey forced universal ESA vouchers in Arizona. The for-profit education industry knows a good grift when they see one and many AZ parents are easy targets, I guess.
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@joss_berry
No, you are clearly mistaken. Please listen to this man who has never had a pregnancy or abortion explain to you that it is indeed the worst thing to happen to you AND society at large
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@TheRealThelmaJ1
I’m less surprised that it’s parked in front of a Mint dispensary than I am that it doesn’t have a trump bumper sticker.
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I could get behind an Indian-spiced cheesesteak
Franchise in Scottsdale.
"The Amazing Story of How Philly Cheesesteaks Became Huge in Lahore, Pakistan"
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@brahmresnik
@RealTomHorne
@maryjpitzl
@ronaldjhansen
Unbelievable. That money could have gone to all students in her district. Paid for shade structures, after school programs, free lunch, enrichment. Instead she wants to destroy public schools in her district to help her private school buddies.
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at the
@scottsdaleusd
school board meeting and it's more crowded than usual because of a complaint lodged by a substitute alleging that mirrors installed in a middle school classroom to bring in more light are actually used to look up girls skirts.
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It’s going to take years to undue the damage to public schools and their students inflicted by
@RealTomHorne
and
@DougDucey
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😡 Supt. of *PUBLIC* Instruction Tom Horne has added private schools to ADE’s Report Card portal in another blatant attempt to add private schools under the scope of the AZ Dept of Ed
This is the privatization of public schools, happening right before our eyes
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@chardalarna
@isaiah_bb
The “my mom said…” defense. I haven’t heard that since elementary school
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No legal expert here, but I wouldn’t do this is I were on probation, and I certainly wouldn’t take video of me damaging private property
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@TheAlanvargas
@ATuteur
My response: hey you in the babouska skirt—what’s your status? You in the high water pants—you fresh off the boat or what?
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So this is why I spend half my time on Instagram muting dumb “model” reels until all I see are cat videos
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@TaylorinAZ5
@grantbotma
@dutchgirl62
This is not about special needs—this is about universal vouchers allowing non-need students discounts at exclusive and discriminatory private schools and unmonitored microschools and homeschools that may teach “old earth” science or that earth is only 6k years old.
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Are socks the worst gift ever? Not for some kids. Buried amidst the landslide of CES press releases that is my inbox is a
@donorschoose
update from a teacher sharing photos of students smiling because they will have socks without holes to wear
@ClaraJeffery
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@davidasinclair
Saying “collab w NASA” feels gimmicky. Why don’t you explain what it is and how it works. Otherwise it kind of sounds like dr. Oz
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@shoupshouts
@ShawnHils
Hey, it could work. I know for a fact that people LOVE being blamed for their health issues and told to eat more vegetables. It’s science.
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$119 to find out if you could be spreading a pandemic-causing virus. These things should be free.
Quest Diagnostics is now offering consumers the ability to get their own COVID-19 antibody test without a doctor's order. You can order it online; the test costs $119. (h/t
@supersat
) There are some caveats, which you can read about here:
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It’s different when it’s driven by the child because they’re self directed learners rather than by authoritarian parents as a way to control their children
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@joss_berry
When I tell people to check out Saint Pasta they think I’m sending them to the Old Spaghetti factory
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She complains about the private school’s vaccine mandate, the (free?) on-site testing if you refused and the unvaccinated being excluded from overnight trip. Missing is her concern that her 15-yo son with “some preexisting medical conditions” might actually get sick.
Opinion: Public or private, no school should have as heavy-handed of a vaccine and testing mandate as Brophy College Preparatory does.
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Googling “Tim gurner wife” to see what kind of woman won herself this lucky prize
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Am I reading this right? Ducey is offering $7k to families that want to attend private school if the public school mandates masks OR has to quarantine.
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@MikeRTexas
@MeriGomezTXDem
@DonnaHowardTX
That’s literally the point. Many abortions are for fetal anomalies incompatible with life and these laws make people deliver babies that are stillborn or die in front of them, in their arms with complications for the mother. This is cruel and unnecessary.
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@RedDuckTheRed
@ArizonansForAZ
@Garrett_Archer
@maricopacounty
Swap intimidate with harass and it’s still pathetic
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No, crypto is not at the top of
#az01
voters’ minds,
@AndreiCherny
. It’s telling that you’re already lobbying for your donors even before you get the job. Maybe wait and see if voters even want you on the ticket in November.
“Crypto is at the top of voters minds in swing states” according to an urgent letter to the Democratic Party, written by tech billionaires and signed by the New York Congress members they bought and paid for:
@RitchieTorres
and
@danielsgoldman
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We have to fundraise for gardens in public school but this ONE homeschool kid gets a $500 terrarium paid for by the state.
💸 A $500+ gecko terrarium??? ESA vouchers siphon dollars from public schools for pricey extras — while AZ public school students go without needed learning resources.
ESA vouchers create a two-tiered system open for grift.
#VoucherGrift
Learn more:
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@RiceyCoops
Doing it for personal reasons is different than a coordinated campaign against public education as a method to break down community and a way to use a large source of taxpayer funds for personal gain.
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I don’t know why I am doing this but I am at the
@ScottsdaleUSD
Town Hall. It’s already half full with the super chill Recall them All crowd.
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This has become a joke of an account and abuse of public resources as it now only talks about Horne. Granted, he’s about 800 years old, so there’s lots of ground to cover.
Superintendent Horne is kicking off the 2023 Teachers' Institute and Leading Change Conference by thanking educators for their commitment to raising academic outcomes.
#EducationForAll
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Many parents plan to use their ESA balance to pay for their kid’s college.
New: Following up on my reporting from 2020, public records show $175 million are sitting in ESA accounts in Arizona with one account as high as $210,000 going unspent across several years. This is as the state faces a billion dollar deficit.
🔗Link in bio
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@boelder
@WestTxStringer
Beware of anyone saying they want “to fund students, not systems.”
Because that’s next unless you fire Abbott
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This is what happens when you hit “select all” when configuring your defender
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WTF is going on in Turkey? I thought the YPG was on our side?
Murdered, stripped naked, her breasts cut off, mutilated with knives. Look what Turkish troops did!
@realDonaldTrump
@brett_mcgurk
@coalition
is Turkey really the ally you want?????
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@DougDucey
I’ve always wondered which donor paid Ducey the most to destroy public education in Arizona. Was it the Catholic church? Goldwater institute? Heritage? My money is on the Heritage Foundation.
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@stasusanna
@Raquel_MiamiBch
@AaronParnas
And she is lying when she says they are released…you can tell she knows she is lying because she speeds up to the next false talking point
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@Garrett_Archer
@NicoleSGrigg
@mcsoaz
@abc15
They’re going to have to get off that tailgate and reveal their license plate at some point
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2/ It's important to note that the district is under attack from the state and local level, from private and public institutions. The complaint was lodged by a conservative group well-known in the city for trying to cause trouble and lobbying to punish teachers.
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@boston7905
@LaneyHawes
@KellerISD
@BudKennedy
@fwstliz
@PENamerica
@Mike_Hixenbaugh
@stevanzetti
@momsforsj
@karensgonewild_
@EveryLibrary
@UABookBans
Why can’t white people clean up their own messes?
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@DBarkhuff
@MalcolmNance
@jonstewart
Can you give a few examples of dems not separating the war from the war veteran? Because I firmly feel like dems overwhelmingly supported this and any bill addressing veterans health. I think you may be confusing real democrats with your stereotypes.
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Pro tip: do not use your real photo on your burner/alt account, especially if you plan on harassing BLM protestors during business hours when you’re working for the Maricopa County Attorney’s office.
Wait a tick. . . Is this TOM VAN DORN?!? Of the FIRST RESPONDER Van Dorns?!? Trolling little old me, and a literal-thousand other folks, but with only 31 personal followers since he started tweeting in 2008, including his bestie,
@AllisterAdel
?!? Oh my, I’m so flattered!
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What if vouchers and charter schools was always about real estate?
When I started teaching at Alvarez High School in PPSD in 2014, I heard story after story about Feinstein High School, its strong school community, and the excellent project-based learning Feinstein students were engaged in.
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This isn't even the first time an accelerator pedal snapped off a Tesla Model S
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Ducey claimed the toppled shipping container wall was the work of drug cartels. Like they couldn’t walk around them.
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@JosephJaafari
@STeVesNewsToday
It’s really sad to see a writer like Laurie doing this kind of stuff to hang on to relevance. I mean, I really want to believe this is crafted and not just sloppiness, but I don’t know what’s worse.
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