I’m officially running to be the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee.
These are not normal times—and this cannot be a business-as-usual moment.
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It's hard to think of an action more damaging to American greatness, or insulting to American freedom, than cutting off cancer research to punish a university for failing to align politically with the current government.
We launched one of the biggest operations deep into Russia. Dozens of successful strikes. Some targets were 4,000 kilometers away.
But tell me, did you see a single image of a bombed apartment?
A Russian mother screaming in the dust?
A Russian child buried in bricks?
No. Because we don’t hit civilians.
We fight to live, not to destroy.
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Sometimes I fantasize about disappearing.
Not dying.
Just logging off.
Getting a job no one cares about.
Growing tomatoes.
Writing poems in the margins of a notebook no one reads.
Not as a failure.
But as a kind of freedom.
Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil.
It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men
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MAGA’s new motto: punish the poor, protect the powerful.
Trump and his crew are pushing work requirements for food, housing, and healthcare—while handing out tab breaks to billionaires.
If they really cared about “fraud”, they’d start with their own damn tax returns.
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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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HUGE FLIP: Democrat John Ewing Jr. just turned Omaha blue—defeating the longest-serving GOP mayor in the country and becoming the city’s first Black mayor in history.
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As an adoptee I've had to learn that one's worth is not a currency to be bartered for belonging.
You are not on Earth to be everybody’s savior, secretary, sounding board, therapist, mama, mule, or messiah.
You are not a bottomless well of “strength” for people to sip from when they’re thirsty and then walk away when they’re full. Your worth is not in your labor, your silence, your forgiveness, your caretaking, your ability to bend without breaking, or your capacity to carry what no one …
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We finished reading and annotating Eraser Tattoo today. I haven’t had this much fun discussing a short story with students in a long time!
At the end of the story, my students were desperate to find out what happens to Dante and Shay. Do they do a long distance relationship? Break up and never see each other again? Our annotations and class discussion had students thinking they broke up for good.
So, why not ask the author?
Today, a few students wrote to Jason Reynolds to share their love of Eraser Tattoo and get some answers!
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It was hard taking toddlers on long-drives without screens, but now they’ve been across the country and back (60 hours)—reading, talking, imagining whole worlds out the window
By giving kids screens, we take away an opportunity for them to learn self-control, focus, how to entertain themselves
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Believing that children in Gaza deserve food to eat is not the same as being pro-Hamas/pro-terror.
Condemning antisemitic attacks does not mean you hate all Palestinians.
This polarized, either/or, black and white thinking is going to be the end of us.
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