When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.

Black greyhound with a graying muzzle is relaxing in a gray dog bed. She is looking at the camera, just her face and crossed front paws visible.

A black greyhound with a graying muzzle is in a down, or Sphinx position, on a pink tile floor (at the vet’s office). She is looking at the camera, and a teal leash is draped across her back and out of frame to the left.

A black greyhound with a graying muzzle is in a down, or Sphinx position, on golden blanket with white geometric design. The dog and blanket are on top of a teal and cream striped rug. The dog is looking out a window that is beyond the left of the frame.

A black greyhound with a graying muzzle is in a gray dog bed with a cream insert. She is in a flagpole roach position (on her back with one of her front legs extended into the air), and she is mostly covered by a golden blanket with a white chevron pattern.

Today is Piper’s 7th Gotcha Day. I’m so grateful for both of our dogs who bring light and joy to our lives, especially in troubling times. #SkyHounds #Greyhounds

Make sure to check out #TeachLivingPoets. The website has lots of great resources. teachlivingpoets.com

Jason Reynolds creates a must watch poem inspired by Gordon Parks’s photograph YouTube video by National Gallery of Art

Jason Reynolds. There are tons of clips of him reading from his various novels. This is a particularly powerful stand alone poem he wrote about a photograph, and he shares his thoughts about it at the end. youtu.be/QJ6giKjQyL8?...

We Real Cool YouTube video by Poetry Foundation

Love this visual version of We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks. (Contemporary poet Eve Ewing was part of creating it.) youtu.be/0USvSvhue70?...

Elizabeth Acevedo performs "Rat Ode" YouTube video by America - The Jesuit Review

Elizabeth Acevedo - Rat Ode. She starts by explaining what inspired the poem, then she reads it. Students who like her voice may then be interested in her novels in verse. youtu.be/2-c3y3pYZ1g?...

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Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

Husband: basking shark because when their mouths are open, it looks like a piece of modern art or architecture
Me: leopard shark because of the markings
Apparently it’s all about looks with us 😂

Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover

thank you for the outpouring of support!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

A black greyhound with a white chest and graying face is sitting in a salmon colored dog bed with a gray and white blanket under part of her body. Her front paws are crossed, and she is looking at the camera.

A black greyhound with a white chest and graying face is roached in a salmon colored dog bed with a gray and white blanket under the back half of her body. Only her nose and mouth are visible above the edge of the bed. She looks like she is smiling.

A brindle greyhound is in a roached position in a salmon colored dog bed. She is mostly covered by a gray and white blanket. Only her front paws and head are uncovered, and her front paws are crossed.

A closeup photo of a brindle greyhound in a roached position in a salmon colored dog bed. She is mostly covered by a gray and white blanket. Only her front paws and head are uncovered, and her front paws are crossed. She is looking at the camera.

We didn’t get new costumes for the dogs this year due to me dealing with a re-aggravated back injury, but I have managed to take a couple of new photos of them that I enjoy. Here are Piper and June, to make you smile. #SkyHounds #Greyhounds

Bummer. Just talked with my teacher candidates a little over a month ago about how it seemed Teen Vogue was still going strong.

Good Place: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

Me: “In what way?”
TC: “Like, us as teachers?”
Me: “Well, there is a lot that is broken about the education system in this country, but there is currently a teacher shortage. You will be in high demand, and I hope you’ll be okay.”
This is 2025.

I started class today by acknowledging the government shutdown and how earlier this week the governor defied voters and opted the state into the federal school voucher program. A teacher candidate looked at me and said, “Are we going to be okay?” #EduSky #AcademicSky

A brindle greyhound with a white face is lying on a teal, gold, and cream striped area rug in front of a bank of windows. She is looking at the camera.

A black greyhound with a graying face has her head resting on a teal dog bed pillow. Her eyes are closed, and one of her ears is alert (pointed).

A black greyhound is sitting in a gray dog bed. She is looking out the window to the right of the frame. A brindle greyhound is sitting on the area rug next to her. She is looking at the camera. They are in the mid ground. There is a gray couch with pink pillows in the background. There is light toned flooring in the foreground and a newel post to the left in the foreground.

A black greyhound is sitting in a gray dog bed. A brindle greyhound is sitting on the area rug next to her. They are both looking at the camera. There is a walnut coffee table and gray couch with pink pillows in the background.

Piper and June relaxing before we went to the art fair today. They got a lot of attention and pets there, and the humans answered a lot of questions, which is typical in the day of the life of a #greyhound owner. #SkyHounds

Stephanie Anne Shelton (queer literacies) @sashelton.bsky.social and Stephanie Toliver (Black girl literacies) @srtoliver.bsky.social are the two who come to mind immediately.

SO FUN to watch Venus play (and win) doubles! 🤩🎾 #USOpen

Happy to see how well Taylor Townsend played singles in this tournament. Wish she could have kept going, but I hope she takes this momentum into future matches! #TennisSky #USOpen

Super bummed about Ben Shelton. 🎾#USOpen #TennisSky

💯🙄 I’ve been wildly unimpressed with this person doing the interviews. While watching one of the Alcaraz post-match interviews, I commented how I would like to be the one conducting the interviews and could almost guarantee I would do a better job.

THANK YOU. I thought that’s what I heard! Came here to confirm.

Needed this laugh.

We always say her white and silver highlights make her look distinguished. ☺️

A closeup of a brindle greyhound with a mostly white face. She has her head on a gray blanket and is lying on a coral dog bed.

Hello from one brindle June to another!

Hello, good boy! Look at all that hair! Get in all the snuggles you can. 🥹

Thank you! I’m biased, but I agree with both statements. 😂 They are so quirky, and we definitely refer to Piper as spicy sometimes.

A black greyhound with white whiskers peppered throughout her face and chest is sitting in the Sphinx position. She is to the right of the frame on a gray and teal striped rug. A staircase is in the background on the left of the frame.

A closeup of a black greyhound with a graying muzzle, head resting on crossed paws on top of a teal dog bed pillow. The greyhound is looking past the camera.

A mid-range photo of a black greyhound with a graying muzzle, sitting up with one paw on top of a teal dog bed pillow. The greyhound is looking to the right of the camera.

A closeup of a black greyhound with a graying muzzle, head resting on top of a teal dog bed pillow. The greyhound is looking at the camera, seemingly annoyed about her snooze being interrupted.

Pausing work and reading about the fresh horrors of today to take and post some Piper photos. Just love her expressive little face. #Greyhound #SkyHounds

I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible

People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.

They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.

Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.

Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.