Glass block with lights inside and “Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that” quote etched on the outside.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.”
We certainly need some light now.
Spring!
Crazy for You (1985)
Madonna
A bottle of A1 sauce and a poster that says Everyone is Welcome Here with four hands reaching upward.
Ready for some A1 teaching!
I just finished reading the upcoming Ann Braden novel Into the Rapids. Amazing! She really understand kids and her books have a great message.
We Need Diverse Books will celebrate the first We Need Diverse Books Day on April 3; senators call on acting director of IMLS to continue funding programs as directed by Congress; Suzanne Collins talks philosophy and Sunrise on the Reaping; and more. www.slj.com/story/Inaugu...
I made a new poster for my classroom in solidarity with the Idaho teacher who was told to remove hers. #SavePublicEducation
#EveryoneIsWelcomeHere
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." ~Thomas Jefferson
"A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy." ~James Madison
You can't keep a fired fed down! GREAT new initiative launched in part by former #USAID Science Fellows! Check them out and take the survey!
fedscienceimpacts.org
I’m writing postcards in preparation for #IdesofTrump and I hope you will, too!
"town hall night in america" -- every congressional district, once a month, all on the same night:
oldgoats.substack.com/p/lets-creat...
This is such a wonderful story- and its dedication page makes my heart sing! ❤️
Just a reminder that we’ve been king-free since 1776.
youtu.be/3R1tZ6l876Q?...
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
A crowd of people standing in the snow carrying protest signs.
Northern Michigan supports Ukraine! We had a great crowd for such a cold day.
I used the Dept. of Ed portal to report their own discrimination against trans women athletes. You can too! enddei.ed.gov/thankyou
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
1/ “There was no legitimate reason for the Friday Night Massacre in the military. It was the slaughter of our integrity, our values, and our security.” joycevance.substack.com/p/friday-nig...
Did you know that Girl Scouts supports all girls, including trans and non-binary scouts? Order some cookies today! www.girlscouts.org/en/cookies.h...
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
A list of things Democrats did including reintroducing the Office of Gun Violence Prevention Act and filing a lawsuit against the DOGE.
Keep going, Dems! #SaveOurDemocracy
Remembering Dr. King today.
One of my favorite collections @petoskeymuseum.bsky.social is the deJaffa family letters from Princess Ena. #Victorians #HistoryObjects
We had a great night at the museum full of music and stories!
