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How long is this going to go on? Is anyone going to stop the madness?

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Today, we honor the bravery and sacrifice of those who, 60 years ago, marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, risking everything for the right to vote and the promise of true freedom. Their courage paved the way, and it’s on us to keep pushing forward.

submitted 85 days ago • 143 comments

After his brain was totally rotted by disease and paranoia, Henry VIII made imagining the death of the monarch high treason. Food for thought.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

I was on the other site and someone said we don’t need NOAA, we survived tornadoes just fine for hundreds of years without it. So everyone better hope Uncle Jim’s knee stump tingles in time to make it to the storm cellar. MAGA, amirite?

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Hypothetically speaking, if Biden had used an EO to appoint Mark Cuban as the head of an Office of Government Integrity to investigate all subsidies awarded to corporations, the republicans would have been totally cool with that, right?

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe this is a question for Heather Cox Richardson- has any president ever begun his presidency with rage and retribution? Is there anything in history that approaches this level of chaos?

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

It literally doesn’t matter what else he does, as long as he hates the people they hate.

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

I do this constantly. If you get a DM from me it is DEFINITELY me and if I ever ask for your credit card info it’s for a GOOD REASON.

submitted 127 days ago • 1 comment

One of the first things I learned in my career as a choral director is that no matter how strong a program appears, no matter how well established a system looks, it only takes one bad year for it to be gone. We’re all learning that now.

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

Most days I’m happy I left my cultist religious upbringing behind. But sometimes I miss the belief that there is a being out there ensuring that the adversity we are facing will ultimately serve a greater purpose.

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

School choice in Texas: the party that believes in small government and personal responsibility wants to subsidize private education and home schooling for people who are already using it, at the expense of the public education system they destroyed, because billionaires want it.

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

My shameful habit I’m trying to break: I have a ridiculously capacious tote bag full of stuff I might need that I carry every day. The following is an actual list of stuff that the bag includes:

submitted 139 days ago • 1 comment

I think what was most inspiring about President Carter was that he did so much of his most important work once his political career ended and his influence was gone, at least in the US. He used that freedom to really make a difference in the world.

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

Jimmy Carter was the first President I can recall being aware of and probably the only President in my lifetime who, upon death, will be remembered as a fundamentally decent person

submitted 153 days ago • 53 comments

Who was in charge of font spacing for this episode of MR. ED?

submitted 153 days ago • 1590 comments

If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life

submitted 170 days ago • 223 comments

The only one of Stephen King’s books that I’ve never reread is The Cell. I’m rereading it now and it’s hitting way too hard.

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

Growing old as a teacher is horrifying. I keep having to google words to make sure they’re actual words I remember and not buzzy middle school slang. Today’s word: Spatchcock

submitted 188 days ago • 0 comments

Me at 4:15 in the afternoon right now

submitted 190 days ago • 37 comments

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if all you accomplish this weekend is reading a riveting novel cover-to-cover whilst drinking multiple kettles of tea and consuming a scandalous amount of croissants, then you will have accomplished more than enough.

submitted 190 days ago • 755 comments

We did a would-you-rather writing exercise about food in class today and I learned so much about my kids- they love to write if you let them write about something they have feelings about. And I’m a choir teacher.

submitted 191 days ago • 0 comments

Which are worse- the ones who voted for him because they bought all of the lies/were ignorant of the truth, the ones who knew the truth and wanted it anyway, or the ones who let the perfect be the enemy of the good and didn’t vote or voted third party?

submitted 194 days ago • 1 comment