So, this 10th grade class is raising money for travel expenses to visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C. They need $2,000 and they’re about halfway there. I donated. Holocaust education has never been more important. Can y’all donate, too?
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So a Chinese "spy balloon" is following the path above a number of our ICBM silos.
Meanwhile, Rupert Murdoch's SkyNews in Taiwan is pushing a story ad nauseum that China is going to invade Taiwan and the US is going to go to war against China to defend Taiwan.
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Hey , how come we didn't hear you complaining about early release when Mike Hubbard served only 28 months of a 4-year sentence? #alpolitics
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My stepmother is a retired teacher in Florida. She called me today to say she’s reaching out to other retired Black teachers to get them to start showing up at school board meetings to “match THOSE voices.”People are organizing themselves around this madness.
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The people bringing back masculinity are taking the day to crap themselves over a balloon.
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All I’ve learned from the FL menstrualgate is that most Americans don’t know what HIPAA is.
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Andrew Tate tweeting like he’s Dostoyevsky in his jail cell has sent me.
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The people of Alabama will happily tolerate ridiculously gerrymandered maps in order to win elections. Those same people would take up arms if we gerrymandered the state football region map this way.
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This is a vitally important read. The Alabama prison crisis isn't a "bigger" or "worse" issue than many other things that are broken about America, but it's certainly up there.
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Christopher Shannon Fulmer died at Elmore prison this week. I wrote about his mother's plea to Alabama's parole board, that if they kept her son in prison he would not survive. She was right. He was 45 years old, incarcerated for his entire adult life.
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A Chinese spy balloon over Montana doesn’t sound nearly as dangerous as the orange spy buffoon in Mar-a-Lago.
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And there it is. The National Review using the term "nappy-headed," not just to describe a Black person, but a child.
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I am not giving oxygen to the rightwing media frenzy against the #1619hulu docuseries because I know they use the #1619Project for clicks, but I am so aghast and offended that the National Review would print this about this child just to make digs at this work.
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Everyone is so up in arms about abortion/trans athletes that they're overlooking the ACTUAL reason for this: so parents pull their daughters out of sports entirely and the schools can quit funding girls' sports. Also, to eradicate women's sports scholarships.
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there is no such thing as an "abortion at birth." there is no such thing as an "abortion at birth." there is no such thing as an "abortion at birth." there is no such thing as an "abortion at birth." there is no such thing as an "abortion at birth." there is no such thing as an
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This is what happens when I asked if Black people can come to his little church. And so far, eleven people have liked it.
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Perhaps to visit, not to join.
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This should go down in History on how to cave into racism, how to submit to fascist, racist governors, and overall chickenshits.
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Since last fall, we’ve been piloting #APAfricanAmericanStudies in 60 schools across the U.S. Thank you to the brilliant scholars & teachers who developed this rich & inspiring course. We're proud to celebrate the official course framework today. #CelebrateAPAfricanAmericanStudies
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If Mike Rogers can wear his toupee for vanity - Jamie Raskin can wear his head scarf for chemo.
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Texas' gun death rate is 67% higher than California's.
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California Has More Than 100 Gun Laws. Why Don’t They Stop More Mass Shootings? nytimes.com/2023/01/29/us/
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THIS. You absolutely suck if you go looking for this stuff, and you deserve every virus the file sharing sites have to offer.
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i’ve said it before with regards to leaking female content creators’ nudes and i’ll say it again with regards to this deepfake pornography stuff— the reason you’re looking is because the lack of consent turns you on. you like it because these women did not consent. that’s it.
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Didn't the 9/11 terrorists come here by plane?
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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR): "Is there gonna be another 9/11 in this country because of our open borders?"
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No, Jesus was not "defining marriage" in Matthew 19. He was responding to a question about divorce.
It is Evangelicals who are trying to define marriage (one man/one woman) using Matthew 19, dragging Jesus into an argument that he simply wasn't having! Context matters.
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Holy crap...
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Here’s an example of how race is a social construct. #Science #genetics #medicine #biracial
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So unless you admit that widows and single dads are terribly selfish and problematic for not racing out and finding someone to help raise their kids, then admit that it's not because kids are growing up in single-mother homes... it's because you hate women who got to choose.
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Also, men who parent alone--whether widowed or because she walked out on them--are also celebrated. So, it's clearly not that only having one parent is going to create stunted, asocial, terrible kids. I cannot help but wonder why he's "so brave!" but single moms are evil.
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In fact, we typically celebrate widows who raise their children on their own, especially ones who say, "I could never bring another man into my house. I'm still grieving, and no one could replace their father."
So, which is it?
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Anyone else noticed that the constant criticism/blame surrounding single mothers and the downfall of society never once blames widows? That it's always women who chose to raise their children alone that are responsible for all the evil in the world (chose in some way, that is)?
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Weird how the people crying foul over top surgery for trans men cite “if they change their minds, they’ll never get to breastfeed!!!” as the cause for alarm, yet… twitter.com/callie_mt/stat
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I'm having that argument with my cousin IRT. She wants a list of what she has accomplished in the two years. I'll start: She has cast twenty-six tie-breaking votes in the Senate.
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Usually, when I raise hell about police officer conduct, I get swarmed by the Back, the blue crowd with their pushback. I think I saw one or two comments, tops, in the last couple of days... Don't be obvious with it, guys; it's not the blue; you back, it's the “White,” isn't it?
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Boooooyyyy, when the cops are Black, they start digging up all the dirt on every person connected.
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Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis fired from a previous job in Atlanta after botched sex crimes investigation trib.al/VpAm6XP
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We should remove police from traffic enforcement. The routine traffic stop is not the only problem but it is a real and big one justifying a large amount of unnecessary citizen police contact which obviously has deadly consequences all too often.
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She should have just complied.
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Tucker on Tyree Nichols: “The very same people who are weeping on television about police brutality applauded when one of Nancy Pelosi’s officers murdered an unarmed woman called Ashli Babbitt.”
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Ben Crump is proposing “Tyre’s Law,” which requires cops to intervene when they see crimes being committed — even by other cops
That’s where we are:
We’re asking law enforcement officers to enforce laws that protect us from law enforcement officers who don’t want to protect us
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PSA: your calls for calm in Memphis should be aimed at the police
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Now that the Paul Pelosi surveillance footage & 911 call have been made public, it's time homophobic bigots like Elon Musk, Tucker Carlon, & the like to issue a public apology for spreading the "lover's quarrel" conspiracy theory
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How utterly on-brand for not just Alabama, but Hoover specifically.
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Hoover, Alabama schools cancel Black History Month author visit after parent complaint al.com/educationlab/2
"Hey, I think this child is being abused, we should do something," I would have been screamed at. The "my parents used to spank me and I turned out fine" crowd would have called for my head.
We love social media activism, especially if we never have to do anything.
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A 6yr old boy in my town was just beaten to death by his father. Three years ago, the boy's then-18mo old brother was shaken/beaten to death by mom and her boyfriend.
Now, the whole town is changing their profile pics and "wearing orange for [name]!" But if I had said, (cont)
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Well color me shocked... This is why I'm ditching my alma mater until the coach is gone. Luckily, it's Auburn, so we'll be paying him not to coach in three years.
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Former Liberty University football player Jerome Jackson will be in a Lynchburg court today on stalking charges that were filed during the 2022 season. He missed no playing time under Coach Hugh Freeze.
Neither @LibertyU or @AuburnU will talk about it.
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FWIW, THIS is sometimes the response from too many educators when fellow educators attempt to discuss the issues we face as teachers. This helps no one, not even the person who thought it was okay to say it in the first place.
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She’s intentionally misunderstanding you. She’s likely a parent of an irritating kid that disregards half the support their teacher provides regularly. She’s trolling.
Education conferences, you shouldn’t host a conference in Florida until DeSantis approves the AP Black History course to be offered in the state. #education #teachers #iste #fetc
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