Dad | CEO & Attorney | @mcps Sub Teacher | Terp | Montgomery County-made beer is the best | By authority: Scott Goldberg, County Council; Phil Zipin, Treasurer
Silver Spring, MD
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If schools get closed because of rain, why hasn’t @MCPS made the call to close tomorrow when there’s already snow on the ground and it’ll keep falling all night?
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A person I was speaking with about housing, who owned their sizable home purchased decades before, said: "Teachers don't need to be able to live in Silver Spring."
This is why housing affordability is so important. I will go to my grave remembering hearing that sentence.
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Looks like 40% of men have inadequacies that are vicariously resolved through Trump's behaviour and the other 9% want to pay less taxes = 49%
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The job of a teacher, even a substitute, is to make students feel welcome & cared for in school. That includes helping them understand who they are.
Criticizing having to read a whole 7 slides isn’t the flex you think it is.
Gotta go, I’m subbing for a 3rd grade class today.
1/2 To be a Sub. Teacher in @mcps you’re quizzed on ur understanding of gender ideology. There are 7 slides on it compared to 1 on religious tolerance and acceptance. .0001% of kids in a 160k district potentially identify as TQIA. Easily 50% identify as religious.
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Yesterday, I praised @mcps when they decided to announce a delayed opening the night before, giving parents time to make work-childcare arrangements.
I take that praise back now that school was cancelled at 7:45 this morning.
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Am I doing this right?
Today is @DanCoxEsq's birthday so to celebrate I sent @iamwesmoore a contribution.
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Were you misquoted?:
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Toured an Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) in downtown Silver Spring. A surprisingly spacious 2-level, 2 bathroom, 500-square foot home. We fit 26 people inside.
ADUs are an effective, low impact solution to both aging in place needs and the housing shortage.
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Re: Ballot Harvesting
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Life isn’t fair and sometimes you get dealt a really bad hand but things can always be worse.
Never forget that look of optimism in Sgt. Kepp’s eyes.
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Just enjoying a nice Friday afternoon and the phone starts going crazy.
Turns out standing up for @mcps teaching teachers about understanding gender identity is somehow controversial.
So @7NewsDC put my tweet in a real live news article.
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In doing his job to keep us safe, Sgt. Patrick Kepp lost both of his legs.
This kid was arrested in May for going 136mph on 270.
The system failed Sgt. Kepp, all of us, and this 19yo from now spending the better part of his life in prison.
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When my life partner and I talk to our kids tonight, it'll be about celebrating differences. Tomorrow when they go to school some of their classmates will be wearing masks and some of them won't and whatever people choose is perfectly OK.
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Disappointing that this is happening in our @MontgomeryCoMD home would be an understatement.
Holy Chow is a delicious restaurant located in the Kemp Mill shopping center in Silver Spring. When you eat there, tip well.
Hate has no place here. Hate has no place anywhere.
Employees at Holy Chow in Maryland stand their ground against anti-maskers calling them Nazis and yelling about slavery and the Holocaust all because they were asked to wear masks.
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On average, people forget about any given crisis in 3 weeks. DO. NOT. FORGET. THESE. NUMBERS.
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You're not particularly intelligent if you read all 6 pages of the cover sheet and memo and came to this conclusion
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OH HELL NO @MSNBC !!!!!
@ratemyskyperoom, give them 0/10 immediately.
It’s Silver Spring. We don’t need multiple springs to be better than everyone... just 1 spring.
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The kiddos seeing and hugging mom for the first time after she finished her 10 days of isolation. An unforgettable #BoxingDay
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There’s only 1 way to investigate this properly: someone who isn’t part of or paid by @mcps has to have carte blanche to track down anything and everything in this case.
The @MCSAONEWS or @OAGMaryland is where we should start.
Several elected officials are calling for transparency and accountability from MCPS following at least 18 sexual harassment allegations revealed by a Post investigation. moco360.media/2023/08/14/off…
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When terrible things happen, there are hundreds of people on duty or willing to jump out of bed to put themselves in harm’s way to help others.
Be grateful for them.
Thanks to all the @USCG, fire & rescue, police, EMTs and everyone else heading into danger.
Key Bridge Major Collapse - Rescue attempts underway for those that were on the bridge when a cargo ship struck the main support.
Note - Video is disturbing
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Rallying for #VisionZero. @jamie_raskin sharing a story of how his son Tommy didn’t get a driver’s license so he’d never hurt someone with a car.
Yes, some of us are tearing up.
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If you’re anti-Twitter, let me tell you a new platform. People go in a room to communicate. They can choose who to interact with or not. Food and drinks are obtainable. It’s called a bar and it’s amazing. I subscribe to @The4CornersPub.
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For democracy to thrive, many people need to run for office. It's not easy subjecting yourself to judgement from strangers.
To my fellow Marylanders who continue the great American experiment of democracy: I salute you.
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If you take care of democracy, democracy will take care of you.
Grateful to all those in New Jersey, Ohio, Virginia, Rockville, Gaithersburg and everywhere else who voted and participated in today’s elections.
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Speaking as an attorney, please, please, never post video evidence of you breaking the law along with a written admission of guilt. #LawTwitter
That's me driving the white Crown Vic on Blagden Ave at Allison St NW. DC has fined me $200. Should I pay or contest it?
Community note
According to the DC DMV, this vehicle (Maryland license plate PG0484) was fined $100 by a stop sign camera at Blagden & Allison on 9/29/2023—not $200.
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There are 0 zip codes in @MontgomeryCoMD that have averaged more than 3 positive #COVID19 cases per day in the last 2 weeks.
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It’s tough putting 2 kids on buses every morning knowing that we’re sending them to schools not being operated to their full potential.
We need to get our act together.
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If Jamie’s in a suit that sort of fits and spends greater than 2.6 seconds on his hair, that’s the best you’re getting… and these are just some of the many reasons why we love him.
To @RepRaskin: When ur on national tv, @FaceTheNation on @#Christmas morning, u gotta have ur tie tied right!
A friend.
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So many people are sharing delicious holiday recipes today so figured I’d share mine:
Call Red Maple on Colesville Road at (301) 593-5899 and tell them what you want to eat. Then give them the amount of money they ask for and they will give you food.
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Locked in the basement with bronchitis.
Watching the ENTIRE hearing about @MCPS failure to address Beidleman sexual harassment complaints.
To say "eye opening" would be an understatement.
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Your boss just mocked the victim of a sexual assault. I don't how "monster" is defined but @realDonaldTrump falls squarely within it.
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Come for the dad jokes, stay for the commentary on Maryland criminal procedure. If you think a crime has been committed against you, you can go to a District Court building and write a statement of the facts. A judicial officer called a District Court Commissioner will decide
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The road we’re on is Sligo Creek Parkway. The person in red is my life partner, Dara. The kid on the bike is our son Reid. And, the white thing jogging across the street is the Easter Bunny.
Cc: @CaseyAndersonPB @MontgomeryParks
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Legal defense fund is live:
gofund.me/355104e0
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Do you support any of these things?
🔥@TakomaTorch
📖The First Amendment
⚾️@ericsaul22
🤪Satire
Then please contribute to Eric’s legal defense / domestic violence fund.
gofund.me/355104e0
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True story:
Dara and I were born in the same hospital 2 months apart in New Jersey.
It took 18 years and 200+ miles before we met at the @UofMaryland.
20 years, 2 kids, and 1 pug later, #HappyValentinesDay
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Post a picture of your dog that doesn’t involve shooting them and throwing them in a gravel pit.
Gus was the best. Now I can look down and see him for the rest of my life.
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The virtual academy 📚 for @mcps is an important modernization for students who:
- support their family as wage earners
- are parenting
- have a serious illness
- an online will result in a better educational outcome
Let’s make the new world better than the old one
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Yes, the Hogan # is bigger than the Alsobrooks/Trone # by a little bit.
Why is this good for @mddems?
Everyone has known Hogan as Gov for 8 years. Not many know Alsobrooks/Trone. They’ll overtake him during the course of a campaign when voters are paying attention.
🚨New Goucher College/Baltimore Banner Senate Poll
Primary
Trone - 42%
Alsobrooks - 33%
Undecided - 24%
MOE +/- 4.9%
General Election
Hogan - 43%; Trone 42%
Hogan - 44%; Alsobrooks 40%
Undecided - 10% for both matchups
MOE +/- 3.5%
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Welp… that’s one way to get a high turnout
.@SpeakerAJones announces she will support a referendum on the 2022 ballot to legalize recreational marijuana. 1/2 #mdpolitics
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Breakfast tastes better when it comes with a legislative update from @JheanelleW, @LCharkoudian, @DavidMoon2014, and @Willcsmithjr at @elgolforest!
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We lost our dad yesterday. What we should all be missing is that people dressed like this for real AND proudly hung pics showing it off in their homes for 35+ years:
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Increasing housing supply is progressive and popular... and is now the official policy of the state of Maryland.
#BuildMooreHousingAllDayLong
cc: @jacobrday
@GovWesMoore
This includes:
✅ The Housing Expansion and Affordability Act: To help tackle the housing shortage by incentivizing strategic development and cutting red tape.
ALT Governor Wes Moore shakes hands with Department of Housing and Community Development Secretary Jake Day
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Goldberg will be fine. Imagine you're a kid and the teachers you know and love are getting attacked by the local chapter of a group that the @splcenter has designated a "hate and extremist group."
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From the bottom of my heart thank you all for being part of our campaign for the County Council.
To say I’m the luckiest person the in world would be an understatement.
Swing by The 4 Corners Pub in Silver Spring so we can thank you with food and drink.
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Today is #Purim. With antisemitism becoming more and more overt, let’s recount the story: a guy in power has a personal grudge against a guy who happens to be Jewish. The guy in power tries to kill a bunch of Jewish people. He fails. Chag Purim sameach!
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Job and wage growth gets people into the middle class.
Writing laws wrong can have dire consequences.
On the @MoCoCouncilMD there is only 1 attorney and 0 members who have started a business.
You get both with Goldberg.
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It’s going to be one of those days: in addition to equating biblical history of Jews to modern crime, DO NOT INCLUDE HITLER QUOTES IN MARKETING MATERIAL!!!
This is peak anti-Jew behavior.
Please speak out against this.
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@ericsaul22 is once again free to use his Google machine to write stupid stuff on the interwebs
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It's entirely possible that Mike Pence is, in fact, wearing a Mike Pence mask. I saw Mission Impossible... it could be legit.
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Night 1: latkes, dreidels, menorahs, and children disappointed getting clothing as presents.
Hanukkah Sameach!
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Every Thanksgiving growing up, Aunt Judi made us say what we were thankful for before we could eat. This year, I’m thankful for the sheer luck of being born into a place I can raise my children nowhere near a war zone. Thinking of all the people who aren’t as fortunate.
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Let's get the puns out of the way now:
- Not guilty, bc there was no abdomens rea
- If the stinger doesn't fit, you must acquit
- The facts of the case are simple, no need to drone on and on...
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We must always remain vigilant because at any given moment it’s possible to be in the middle of a pandamic.
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Tonight, Jews across the world will celebrate Passover. It’s the story of the exodus from bondage in Egypt. Brisket is involved; most carbs are not.
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Everyone was taking pictures of us so here’s what it looks like to run for office at the forum in Leisure World:
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Dara and I celebrate 2 wedding anniversaries: 1 when we were married in the US and 1 in Mexico. Celebrating the American wedding @ a Mex restaurant and then Mex wedding @ an American restaurant on election night. @MiRanchoTexMex
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Marylanders get @iamwesmoore, @arunamiller, @BrookeELierman, @RepAnthonyBrown, and weed. To put it bluntly, this is fantastic.
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Scott, has the getting the @washingtonpost endorsement changed things?
Yes, it made me do the only thing I know: work harder
Awesome to celebrate #PrideMonth @SilverSpringCtr and @RockvilleTownSq! Knocked a few doors too :)
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… but not until the government interferes with people’s reproductive rights, for the billionth time
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Temperature: hot
Momentum: steamrolling
Join these 31 elected officials in supporting Scott Goldberg for County Council At-Large.
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Never give up on your dreams kids. @JoeBiden first ran for president 32 years ago. He’ll end the 2020 election winning more votes for president than any other candidate in the history of the United States.
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Architectural hobbyist and professional comedy writer @ericsaul22, proprietor of @TakomaTorch is donating a kidney today. Please send him and donee Elliot Kaye positive thoughts, but also snide remarks for "checkered" taste in hospital gowns.
#PrayToRoscoe
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Aaaaaaaand the cats have arrived!
Thanks to @PetConnectRescu, Peaches and Dragon Fruit couldn’t be more excited to move into the furever home.
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Trainy McTrain Station. Let’s get this done. @unsuckdcmetro
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Can traffic stops be conducted in a more equitable manner and policies exist to reduce interaction with police? Absolutely.
Do traffic stops get guns off the streets too? Yes.
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It’s safe to say that the last 2 weeks of school at @MCPS could have gone better.
This has been a perfect example of why we need a full time Board of Education @mcboe in @MontgomeryCoMD
At 9AM today, Mo Co Delegation will be hearing from @MontCoExec & @albornoz_gabe. In particular, I’m very concerned about the strategy MCPS has been deploying and would like clarification & accountability. Tune in: piped.video/channel/UCbZz9T0…
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There are 8 preteen girls in the living room having what may or may not be a yelling contest.
Please pray. A lot.
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One day, the personnel shenanigans with @MCPS will come to an end.
When that day comes, I hope that we as a community can pay attention and participate in a positive way with laser focus on the educational outcomes for our students.
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If you liked @jamie_raskin as an impeachment manager... you’ll love him as Speaker
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Little known fact: @jamie_raskin is one of the funniest people in politics
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DADDY LOVES YOU!!! is the perfect sentence to yell as your kids get on a bus full of their peers to ensure you have free weekends.
Follow me for more adulting advice.
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