Avelino Maestas
@avelino.bsky.social
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Welder, blogger, baker, gardener, gamer, bookbinder, photographer. He/him.
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Anecdotally, it does seem like quite a few kids think the phone bans are a good thing, too:
I'm a high school teacher, and my school just banned cellphones in the classroom. Even the students are happy about it.
This was how teachers and students alike were relieved that phones were banned and are now out of the classroom. The only pushback they got were some moans from seniors.
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Seems most educators are in favor of banning smartphones in school:
"A 2024 National Education Association (NEA) poll found that 90 percent of teachers support prohibiting student cellphone use during instructional hours. Seventy-five percent favor extending restrictions to the entire school day."
Take Cellphones Out of the Classroom, Educators Say | NEA
Across the country, a ‘teacher-led movement’ is demanding new cellphone policies to curb the constant distractions and disruptions to learning.
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Man, I’m 46 and sometimes getting out of my chair at work too fast will do me in.
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RFK Jr on his way to help Rudy Giuliani
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Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents.
It’s unconscionable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit
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Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents.
It’s unconscionable.
In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit
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15 years ago today I took an incredibly on-the-nose photo
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Judge Sooknanan continues her monologue: And so, absent action and intervention by the court, all of those children would have been returned to Guatemala, potentially to extremely dangerous situations.
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Trump plan to redevelop Gaza into a series of luxury resorts is slated to contain up to six “AI powered smart cities”, according to the “prospectus” reviewed by the Post. The plan assumes the “voluntary” departure of all now living in Gaza. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population
President Donald Trump and international partners are discussing plans to build a “Riviera of the Middle East” on the rubble of Gaza. One would establish U.S. control and pay Palestinians to leave.
