I don’t care about Taylor cosplaying as an English teacher. It’s the best job in the world! What I do care about is the silence of multi-millionaires & billionaires as actual teachers consider how to pay for groceries while praying we’re not gunned down at work or arrested for teaching books.

if i were dr. frankenstein i’d definitely put body building on my resume.

They’re depoliticizing women’s subjugation. Every “day in the life” video of a 20-year-old laying out her husband’s socks, and every magazine spread of a stay-at-home mom with five kids in matching beige outfits, take women’s subservience and make it…cutesy. jessica.substack.com/p/princess-t...

I’m so excited to sit in a room full of adults and be talked at for days, absorbing content will be neither differentiated nor will the delivery be best practice, in hopes that it’ll inspire and prepare me to be the teacher my students need and deserve 🙃

July wrap up! We’ll see if I can finish any books with back to school season upon us. #booksky

I maintain that while high school is meant in part to help prepare kids for the world in general, we are not doing job training. It's my job to get kids to think critically, not teach some janky-ass computer program that requires no skillset.

Got caught crying (sobbing) in the club by my youngest while listening to Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez today 😅 Damn that was good

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🎉Announcing the 2025 Inkubator Writing Conference 🎉 #CleInk25 is one of the largest free writing conferences in the country and this year we have made it bigger and better than ever! Events September 5-14. Registration opens August 1. inkubator.litcleveland.org

You know where lonely kids used to find solace and comfort in order to learn about themselves and the world? Books. AI “friendships” are yet another symptom of an absence of books in our schools. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/m...

until everyone got hooked on chat gpt and the like i don’t think i understood what my teachers meant when they said ‘when you cheat, you’re only cheating yourself’

He better not say one word in that movie.

I teach @lenakt.bsky.social’s “Running Orders” and it’s important to contextualize the poem: it wasn’t written in 2023; it was published in 2017, so the experience is deeply rooted in a LONG history of displacement and violence. It’s not new; students MUST know this. #PoemADayJuly

Poems about ongoing, current, unimaginable pain like this are hard to talk about. What a stunning poem, running down the page in anger and grief, not fear. The word choices at the ends of lines work to convey the situation—“closed,” “worthless,” “sentence,” “narrow,” “house,” “place,” “nowhere.”

So today’s poem is absolutely devastating, huh? #poemadayJuly www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/143255...

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Child of Omelas? That’s thinking too small. What if like eight billion people suffered so a few dozen guys could live lives so insane they convinced themselves it’s more likely they’re inside a computer simulation

each year on this day i find company in this poem “No Explosions” by Naomi Shihab Nye To enjoy fireworks you would have to have lived a different kind of life

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

As an educator, I have some notes 🧵

Jonathan Haidt claiming that the SAT's move to short passages is because of a screen-addled generation rather than a decades-long systemic disinvestment from robust literacy instruction in favor of "skills" by the College Board is the most self-serving thing I've seen in a minute.

It's possible that Grammarly has lost it's damn freaking mind. #writing #writingcommunity #booksky

This World Book Day, let’s read like it matters. In a world where book bans are rising, rights are being debated, and history is being rewritten in real time - reading is resistance. Drop your must-reads for this moment in the comments - let’s build a resistance reading list together. #booksky📚💙

Cory Booker will break the record for longest Senate floor speech at 7:19 PM EDT. Fewer than 2 hours from now. The record is held by Strom Thurmond, who was arguing for segregation. GO CORY, GO!

Finished this bookmark for a co-workers retirement gift. (Don't worry, I also got her wine. 😉) 🪡🧵 #embroidery #needlework #needlepoint #booktok #bookmark #flowers #handmade

This will hurt kids. This will hurt farmers. How do you explain to a hungry child or a family farmer that their president would rather give tax breaks to the billionaires than to support all Americans? www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Just finished The God of the Woods by Liz Moore and holy shit that book was so good #booksky

me: hey dad: [typing for 8 minutes] 👍

Reading wrap up for February! #booksky trying to average a book a week, so I’m proud of myself for finishing 6 during the shortest month of the year 🥳

Going to be thinking about these lines from Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson for a while: “The three of them sit there silently for a moment, thinking of small, but profound inheritances. Of how untold stories shaped people’s lives when they are withheld, and when they are revealed.” #booksky

Just gave 4 stars to The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon #booksky💙📚 app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/49a2...

The American people did not vote for chaotic and reckless attacks on our children and public schools. Join us on March 4 as we stand up for our schools by creating an event in your community! Learn more: www.mobilize.us/aft/c/march-...

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

Trying desperately to read this but my children are being Extremely Annoying.

With Handmaids Tale people focus on the shock of the mass rapes in the book and the show. But how the regime came to be in power in that book keeps me awake at night because it is playing out in very intricate detail in our real lives right now.

Saturday date with the besties! Coffee and checking out the new Indie Bookstore in Lakewood, Flame and Fable! Best way to spend the morning! 📚💙 #booksky @sincerelykayladawn.bsky.social @tiffswishflick.bsky.social @buffpuff7.bsky.social @megsmousetales.bsky.social @impalpable.bsky.social

Working through a backlog of some book of the month pics, and I finished Maame by Jessica George today! 3.5 ⭐️ #booksky 🩵📚

What people don’t realize is that you don’t HAVE to watch that thing, you can just read.

Finally finished Julia: A Novel by Sandra Newman. I loved this feminist retelling of 1984 from Julia’s perspective. Especially this line towards the end of the book.

Here’s what we did today

A federal court just blocked Elon Musk from interfering with the federal government’s payments system. There is power in fighting back. We won’t let up until this block is permanent.