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"Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion." - Ben Franklin on Emmers' German ancestors

Me in 2016, trying to explain to anyone who would listen the generational damage that will be done by the Supreme Court if he was elected (and being told I was overreacting by quite a few)

Really something to read Alito's passage on the positive contributions Haitians have made here and to scold those denigrating their character as he smooths the way for them to be sent back into deadly conditions

Timeline cleanse. A view from someone's window, somewhere in the world. www.window-swap.com/Window

Mbappe is only 27 (!!!)

The Gross Ole Pedophiles once again block attempts to ban child marriage. This time Ohio with one Republican declaring he knows 13yos who are more responsible than adults. Funny how that claim is never used to extend voting rights to kids, just the ability for men to rape them.

Happy 10th Anniversary to those that celebrate! #Letemknow

We can have "college and career readiness" and we can have diversity, equity, and inclusion, but we can't have CCR without DEI. There's not an academic, professional, or vocational field where these values aren't fundamental.

Oh no, Ismael Kone 💔

My hometown resistance group and my badass friend Susan HAVE ENTERED THE CHAT. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“Ramaswamy wants to fill Ohio with data centers, and he is not subtle about it… What his stump speech leaves out is that he is personally invested across nearly every tier of the industry he is promising to expand — and that the agencies which subsidize, site and regulate it would all report to him”

The entire Iranian soccer team looks like Gucci models

I started taking pictures of my classes my very first year (99-00!!), and now here I am in 2026 and this book is all full of memories. Need a new book for these next few years! New teachers: do this. You won’t regret it. ❤️

Words can’t really express how profound of a loss this is: Lindsey was a bright light to her students, her family, and her colleagues. Just a beautiful soul. Rest easy, friend ❤️https://everloved.com/life-of/lindsey-charron/obituary/

the ruling regime knows they are losing in ohio, so this is how they are lashing out. you can learn more about what happened and why it matters at handsoffohio.org

THAT IS A FINISH BABY

BUILD FLO BALOGUN A STATUE

GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

These boys lookin GOOD so far LET’S GOOOOO ⚽️

Hydration break is a real buzzkill

I'm not sure that an unattractive World Cup player exists

Morning coffee thoughts: -I feel like the only Spurs fan on Bluesky -however, I'm happy for NYers--NOT the celebrities they keep showing over and over and over again (ENOUGH), the ones who are all outside at the watch parties. Those are my people. High fives to them. -Still a die-hard Cavs girl tho

Just emailed myself this article and put PERIOD 5!!! in the subject line-already thinking of ways I can use these Colored Convention documents in my APUSH class. And HOW have I lived in Cleveland most of my life and have never read the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments at the Colored Convention in CLE?

What could the U.S. do with the nearly $70 billion Senate Republicans just voted to give to ICE and Border Patrol (in addition to the $140 billion from last year): www.warnock.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

#sschat #iteachsocialstudies #history #APUSH

Created a new end-of-year APUSH Project based on "The Small and the Mighty" by Sharon McMahon. I wasn't sure if the kids were going to hate me/roll their eyes/hate every second. What happened was the COMPLETE opposite. Here's the rundown. 1/

Do NOT take your foot off the gas, Ohio.

"The American ppl broke something when they gave Trump a second chance in office...there is no going back to the Union as it was. If Dem(s) hope to lead the nation to any kind of recovery, much less renewal, they must understand & internalize this fact of the matter." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

27 years of being part of high school graduations, but this one hits different. Oh, my heart. He's off to do great things 💚

Today was a difficult day with some difficult news but man, watching my kids building and creating things about inspiring figures in US History got me through it. High school kids are the best

The option for "would rather gouge my eyeballs out with a spoon" doesn't seem to be available 🤡

Why did Google change these icons during the last two weeks of school--my brain keeps short-circuiting as it is

Putting the finishing touches on my final project for APUSH and it involves reading a physical book (parts, I had to divide a bit), writing on actual paper, and creating something to reflect it with their actual hands. Not sure how they're gonna feel about it, but I'm actually super excited.

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

1/ Are you looking for ways to mark 250 years of America in your classroom? Our partners at @cfreducation.bsky.social are offering a new suite of resources to help educators teach about key moments in foreign policy.

Teaching critical thinking skills is an act of resistance.

Being a high school history teacher in 2026 is constantly asking am I doing enough, did I do enough, what else can I be doing, how can make sure these kids understand our history, is my tiny drop in this bucket of change even a drop worth adding, did I do enough, can I do more, did I do enough

Medgar Evers James Chaney Michael Schwerner Andrew Goodman James Reeb Viola Liuzzo Martin Luther King And all the unnamed martyrs buried in southern lakes, rivers, and forests...

Learning is a difficult and slow process. There are no shortcuts. And it is this process (reading, thinking, engaging) that makes analysis itself possible - to suggest that the heavy lifting can be outsourced in this way fundamentally misunderstands, and indeed undermines, the purpose of education.

Jarrett Allen for president

Me watching the Cavs rn

Columbus/ Cleveland/ Cincinnati

In my state (OH) Reconstruction is taught at the *end of 8th grade. The last week before the 13 & 14 year olds take off for summer, you know, when they're all REALLY focused. That's it. That's the last time any kid that grows up in OH studies Reconstruction. *(unless a kid opts to take APUSH)

I am every day more convinced that if you're a high school history teacher and you don't spend a disproportionate amount of time teaching Reconstruction, you are not doing your job.

"The clock is being deliberately, legally, and incrementally turned backward. The question for the rest of us is not whether we see it. We do. The question is what we are prepared to do about it." Well-said, Kevin. So what are we prepared to do?

Remember in 2016 when quite a few of us warned of the Supreme Court? And people told us we were overreacting? These rulings (Dobbs, the VRA today) are generational. Harm for decades. Man, it's hard to be a history teacher with empathy who is paying attention right now.

I encourage you to read the 1901 final Congressional speech of George Henry White, who would be the last Black man in Congress for 30 yrs.This “is perhaps the Negroes’ temporary farewell to the American Congress; but…phoenix-like he will rise up some day and come again… blackpast.org/african-amer...

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.