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Head of History and Politics dept in English High School Advocate for Democracy and the Rule of Law& equality of opportunity Enjoys proper debate with curious and open minded people. Love animals, history, Columbo and Attenborough 🦧🦍🐆🦒🐘🦥🦦🦚🦎🦑
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New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

I think one thing we can all agree with as we stand on the precipice of unmitigated foreign policy disaster thanks to Putin/Trump/Vance: #Historyteaching is essential. Good history teaching can/must never be replaced, downgraded or sidelined. It is just as crucial as maths, science and english.

Zelensky was absolutely amazing in this exchange and when Trump was rambling about playing cards. He is beyond calm in the face of lunacy.

I wonder if Trump knows how far the consensus weighs against him right now. Aside from the vocal Russian bots on Twitter, MAGA most brain dead and GOP sycophants, no one supports him. Then again, this is assuming he cares...Moscow still loves him.

But....how can so many people approve of his foreign policy?! Cowtowing to Russia and blaming a sovereign nation for its invasion and many documented war crimes committed against it?

This is hope. This is the future. And this is why we fight—for this young man, for our children, for all that’s yet to come!

This is fascism.

This is your mission. We take our power back now at the local and state level. Stop waiting for a national hero. It’s you. Get to work.

Words which are most grossly abused and misused by the incoming administration and I'd be grateful never to hear again. 1. lawfare (meaning attempts to uphold the Rule of Law and stop corruption and abuse of power) 2. Witch hunt (meaning admission of guilt but refusal to accept responsibility)

Alevel history Tudor rebellions OCR All English rebellions against Mary I and Elizabeth I. Includes all key debates. www.tes.com/teaching-res...

OCR Alevel Rebellion and Disorder against the Tudors. All rebellions against Henry VIII and Edward VI including Pilgrimage of Grace and Western depth studies www.tes.com/teaching-res...

Tudor Rebellions lessons OCR Alevel. Intro to the course, all Rebellions against Henry VII and analysis and evaluation with a focus on the themes. www.tes.com/teaching-res...

Seems like a sensible idea from my MP, @joshbabarinde.bsky.social, who experienced domestic abuse as a child.

How long til the cats destroy them?! 🤔 😅 she's already plotting a coup.

‘Trump wants a universal tariff of up to 20% on all goods coming into the US, including from Britain. For a trading nation such as the UK, that spells calamity. Labour MPs, perhaps the odd minister, can begin to make the case that’s becoming increasingly obvious to millions of Britons’. #RejoinEU

Had to share this on the back of watching Wicked on Monday night. The talented and beautiful Amanda Gorman's analysis of how Oz is a perfect metaphor for our "post truth society" and the growing political divide. youtu.be/BPOVo3_pyos?...

I wrote about the handful of Trump cabinet appointees that keep me up at night www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

Cool.

I wonder how many millions of Wicked fans watch the movie/musical completely ignorant of the message regarding propaganda being used by the rich and powerful to make an "enemy" of the other? How many of them are part of the problem? 🧵

Sundays are for lazin' around and letting the floof hang out.

Thank all that is holy for Bluesky 🦋

Nominating Sebastian Gorka to be the National Director for Counterterrorism is a grievous insult to both the American Jewish and Muslim communities and further imperils our democracy. Another obscene addition to the incoming Trump administration.

Tudor rebellions big fat revision quiz for rebellions up to and including RONE drive.google.com/drive/u/2/mo...

Politics UK component 1 topic check lists and key words drive.google.com/drive/u/2/mo...

How are other teachers of #USPolitics coping right now? I'm finding keeping up with current affairs just too bleak for words.

History teachers new to Alevel or GCSE or just looking to freshen up their resources here are all of mine. All politics case studies updated to 2024. Russia, Tudor rebellions, GDR, medicine, saxons, cold war and germany #historyteacher #alevelpolitics #alevelhistory www.tes.com/teaching-res...

I am a feminist. I believe passionately in equality of opportunity and that women should be safe from threats, intimidation and discrimination. I am not in the slightest concerned about trans women because life experiences have shown me a minority of cis men with dangerous views are the threat.

Republicans want to tell you what books you can read, what bathroom you can use, what words you can say, what history you can learn, what you can or can’t do with your own body and what gender you are… but tell me more about how the Dems are “coming for your freedoms”. Idiots.

Should we really be getting too excited by the exit of one likely sex offender from the Exec branch when there are several others still loitering? Hardly surprising from a world cheering on rapist Mike Tyson at boxing but hey at least he was punished.

It’s really something to watch the Party whose supporters poop on the floor in the Capitol and wipe their feces on the wall tell us which bathrooms to use.

Starting a phony transgender bathroom debate and hiding behind the guise of “protecting women” to distract from your attempts to push through the confirmations of alleged rapists, sex traffickers, and fraudsters at the highest levels of government is peak Republican Party.