Civics Teacher (retired), Writer of fantasy and sci-fi, Photographer, ADHD (Before it was cool) & MDD survivor. Resistance isn’t futile.
The wilds of Ohio.
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Folks putting their faith in the midterm elections don’t seem to understand how quickly things are happening.
Fascism is here and it’s not leaving because of an election.
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I’ve been a social studies teacher in the U.S. for 33 years. If someone claims the American Civil War was NOT about slavery but WAS about states right, then this is how you respond.
“States rights to do what?”
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This guy thinks 8 bags of topsoil is a "big load."
He also thinks this is a real truck because it can handle this... I can put that in my son's Honda Fit bro and have room left over for the clue you are missing.
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I’ve been a high school teacher for almost 34 years.
So far, my wife, also a teacher and I have managed to survive the rising epidemic of school shootings.
Every loud noise from the hall makes me wonder if my lucks run out. When there’s a crash in the building the kids start eyeing the exits I run through my plan. I wonder if I’ll be brave enough to shelter them from bullets like far too many other teachers have done in the past.
I have 250 teaching days left till retirement. Will I make out? Will my wife?
#ItsTheGuns
#GunControl
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Gentlemen, stop talking about the bear…
The lived experience of women proves you wrong.
The statistics prove you wrong.
Your own memories of nights out with the boys prove you wrong.
Listen to what women are saying, it’s not that difficult.
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The United States is about to see what forty years of undermining the public education system leads to.
Teachers are leaving in droves, and there are very few coming out of colleges to replace them.
When you ignore problems and the experts who try to fix them, they get worse.
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You’re literally arresting people who are trying to do it “the right way” you vacuous clown.
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Men using easily obtainable guns are executing children in public and conservatives are freaking out about Bud Light and Drag brunch.
They ignore the actual problem so they can focus on the ones they make up.
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The Wife and I fly a small but loud pride flag in rural and very red Ohio. I'm starting to see black American flags pop up on houses within half a mile of us. I'm not taking the pride flag down.
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In ancient Egypt there were pharaohs who erased their predecessors from existence by having all evidence of them removed. Faces of statues, carvings on walls, paintings, books, all gone.
I propose that we remove as much evidence of Trumps existence as possible when he’s gone
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Having Trump as President is like having diarrhea for two years. It’s exhausting and there’s shit everywhere.
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JD Vance walked his whole detail over to MVP Harris’s plane so he could stage THIS picture of him walking from Air Force Two.
He’s using her plane as a prop to make him look important but it just makes him look impotent.
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I solemnly pledge that I will not stand idly by while others are harassed in my presence.
I will speak up, stand up, defend and protect to the best of my ability all who are targeted by hate. I recognize that change starts with me and I pledge to be that change.
(Your turn)
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How much did I have to shell out for the Commander in Cheese to fly to France and not attend any of the ceremonies he went there to attend? Can we drop the pretense that he’s doing anything other than meeting with his Russian handler?
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My niece just got accepted to #UPenn Vet school! Just had to share some actual good news.
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A reminder that Elmo is not an engineer, has never designed or built a bridge, hasn’t invented anything and uses his apartheid wealth to buy up other peoples work and pass it off as his own.
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How is it that the entire media has been up Biden’s ass for the past 10 days about his fitness and age even though he’s made 18 public appearances ON TOP of running the Executive Branch of the United States Government.
BUT
The same media has been silent over the fact that Trump hasn’t had a single public appearance outside of his staged rallies?
Then there’s the fact that Melania is MIA —- crickets
The Media wants Trump and chaos because chaos is news.
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It’s the worst rebranding since New Coke. They will teach about it in business schools for decades.
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There are litterally Trump flags and signs all over my neighborhood. Sometimes I hate Ohio.
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Just wanna put this out there so I’m on the record.
I love Canadians.
They are unfailingly loyal friends, have the courage if lions and the kindness of love.
They have stood beside us for over two hundred years and I love them for that.
Just wanted you to know Canada.
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I'm voting the Dem ticket in Nov 2024 because I want to vote again in 2026 and 2028.
You'll do the same if you want to keep voting.
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Watching white men cry for being treated like everyone else is my favorite new spectator sport.
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How the hell have people fallen for Trumps complete and utter bullshit for 50 years?
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I’m not fighting with people on the Left over who should be leading. We have a leader. She led us as Speaker and then as Minoroty Leader. We need leaders who already know their craft, not those who need to learn it. There will be room for them, now we need Nancy. #ForThePeople
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I’m a teacher and every time I hear a loud noise in the hall I wonder if my time is up. My wife is also a teacher. I worry about her every day. Why is this our reality? Why do my students have to live this way? FUCK the @NRA
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I hope @JoeBiden’s Presidency is boring AF...
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I denounce white supremacy and all it stands for. I reject the very concept of race. I pledge to support my brothers and sisters of color regardless of sexual identity or religious affiliation. I stand with diversity over dogma, hope over hate, and reason over religious extremes.
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Remember when MAGA lost their shit over a fake child sex ring in the nonexistent basement of a pizza place?
Fucking crickets now.
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Dear #CovingtonCatholic parents,
You own this. You raised these boys to believe the kind of behavior they happily displayed in the nations capital is acceptable.
Now you reinforce that by rushing to their defense with cover stories and conspiracy theories.
Reap what you sow.
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To all the people skipping over this tweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just stop what you are doing and watch the dame video...
You're welcome.
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I’m a teacher and this is fact. Many kids depend not only on school lunch, but breakfast as well. This would devastate underprivileged communities and make our job as teachers that much more difficult. Many of us already keep snacks on hand for students who are hungry.
For many children, school lunch is the only meal they eat all day. Trump’s budget would cut $1.7 billion from child nutrition and eliminate food assistance for millions—literally taking food out of kids’ mouths.
This is not humane. This budget isn’t humane. He is not humane.
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This is the best takedown of the modern news medias complete failure to rise to the challenge of Trump that I’ve ever heard. @Lawrence is brilliant.
Aaron Rupar
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Oh Jesus, here we go... what the fuck are they gonna wear if their Levis have turned on them?
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Men: why don’t more women come forward after being sexually assaulted?
Also Men: We are going to destroy you career, kill your family, kill you, kill your dog, and burn your house down because you tried to report that you were sexually assaulted.
WTF do you expect?!?
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Take a look at McConnells face after the briefing. He’s terrified. He knows just how bad it is and how bad it’s going to get.
McConnell after classified briefing on Russia probe: I support Mueller's investigation hill.cm/OXv63kx
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The next time you hear RFK jr. blather about being a Democrat and challenging Biden, remember this picture.
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Is there anyone associated with Trump that's not a total piece of shit? I mean one single person? Just one?
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Ok raise your hand if you are NOT a bot!!! I just want to get a show of hands so I know how many places to set for dinner tomorrow. At the rate they are dumping accounts I might be able to fit y’all around the kitchen table.
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You say hateful shit like this because you suck. It’s that simple. You are a trash human. You’ve made no impact, changed no lives for the better. You are a waste of skin.
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There needs to be a spreading hands emoji for posts like this. This is so well said.
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Dear @FoxNews,
You are an entertainment channel. You don’t have a news license. Please stop parading your worthless propaganda as news because you have tens of millions brainwashed into thinking that you are actually telling them factual info when it’s nothing more than shit.
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People in my neighborhood are competing to see who can be the most Trumpy Trumper. The only thing that’s missing is a fucking Trump inflatable. There are flags and signs everywhere... I live in red hell.
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This is what America looks like.
Folks may try and pretend otherwise, but we are stronger for the diversity and tolerance of this generation.
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We are about to see something we have not seen in an age in this nation. The women are waking, and they will find that they are far stronger than men know. The old ways are melting away and taking with then the last dregs of male privilege.
The age of women is at hand.
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38 years ago this month you saw me sitting and watching you dance, so you plopped down on my bench and said “Hi.”
36 years ago you sat across from me in a fancy restaurant with the ring in its box on the table between us and said “How about what?”
34 years ago today you stood holding my hands and said “I do.”
A million words later and I feel like we are just getting started. I love you now more than I ever have. I think this next chapter is going to be the best yet.
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Ladies, please feel free to flip tables and burn this fucking place down. I will happily hand you the matches. Fill the streets, be angry, the time for restraint is behind us. This election means everything. I’m sick to death of old white guys and their manufactured outrage.
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Well, rat trap Barbie can just fuck right off.
Kellyanne Conway pushes back against criticism, says she saw "no overcrowding" at migrant facility she visited hill.cm/S62XsqE
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Getting to my classroom by 6:30 am to be ready for the day that starts at 7:15 am is nuts. Why do we do this to high school students? All of the research says they aren’t even awake and ready to learn until 9:00 am.
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We have been hearing from Trump for three years.
On Tuesday Trump is gonna hear from us.
All of us.
Let’s make it loud.
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I look forward to the day when we never have to think about Trump again. #FridayFeeling
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Jesus on Toast, It’s Mother’s Day you loon. Can’t you think about anyone but yourself for 5 minutes?
Narrator: “He can’t.”
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28 years ago today my amazing wife looked deep into my eyes and through a big old grin said “I do!” I love her more and more every day. Here’s to 28 more @renee_coley!
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Normalize having a drawer like this in your classroom. I’ve had this one for about four or five years now. Wish I had done this years ago. I can’t tell you how many kids have hit my room on the run to the rest room and been so happy to see it stocked. #teachertwitter
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What’s crazy about this is that I’ve NEVER hugged a woman that was not my wife (or a romantic interest from pre-wife) like this… ever.
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God, there are Trump signs and flags all over my neighborhood! AHHHHH!!! Save me from red state hell.
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Every once in a while I have a student who has never seen snow. When we have our first snowfall I always let them go outside to do this. The class does not go, just them. Some things need to be special and this is one of those things.
A first snowfall for Eritrean children new to Canada. #NewcomersWelcome #WelcomeToCanada #RefugeesWelcome #privatesponsorship #BVOR
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I really detest Mitch McConnell in the same way I hate people who abuse children. It’s visceral. He’s done real damage to the nation I love.
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Dear followers,
I apologize for my recent use of profanity and my combative and hostile language...
Oh, who am I kidding... I don’t give a fuck, do u?
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Is my Ohio drivers license good enough for the grocery store or do I need my passport?
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I solemnly pledge that I will not stand idly by while others are harassed in my presence.
I will speak up, stand up, defend and protect to the best of my ability all who are targeted by hate. I recognize that change starts with me and I pledge to be that change.
(Your turn)
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There comes a point when the shit Trump is doing becomes irreversible. I think we’ve crossed it. The damage done to the nation will take a generation to repair.
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You literally sabotaged the best chance we have had in a generation to fix it, then blamed the Democrats. You’re a pathetic excuse for a leader.
REMINDER: President Biden traveled over 1,700 miles for a photo op at the border in a weak attempt to convince Americans he’s trying to address the catastrophe he created.
He could have done more to secure the border with the simple stroke of a pen.
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By “under age girls” you mean children… It’s the literal definition of pedophilia.
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99 days of Trump and his wall, 99 days of Trump! Take him down, slap him around, 98 days of Trump and his wall!
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Today’s fuckery count:
1. Bombs sent to lots of people Trump hates
2. Dow drops 600 points
3. Mass shooting
4. Big story about how Russia and China listen to Trumps phone calls.
What did I miss?
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