Dr. Arlene B. Crandall

Staff developer for NYS Education grant that improves outcomes for students w/ disabilities. Teacher, Sch Psych, Admin Spec Ed, Forever learner

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

Birthright citizenship is more than a law...it is a promise that if you are born here, you belong here.

On the eve of America's 250th birthday, may we always keep this promise: "We The People" means all of us.

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

Michelle Obama on the portrait with Obama.

Q: You are in the foreground. You are not in the background.

Michelle: That's because I married a man who isn't threatened by having a smart challenging partner. And that's another way to be a man. To lead and co-lead at the same time. That's a testament to the way my husband was raised and how he sees the world.

[Ken Burns @KenBurns]

I read the Declaration of Independence aloud to my family every Fourth of July.

Its words were written by imperfect men, but they remain central to understanding who we are and who we hope to become.

[CBS News @CBSNews]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down President Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, reaffirming the more than 100-year-old understanding that nearly all of those born in the United States are citizens.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

MAJOR BREAKING: In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held that states may count mail-in ballots that are postmarked on or before Election Day, even if they arrive afterward.

Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh dissented.

[Jonas Di Andrade @jonasdiandrade]

“Esta é uma Copa desastrosa. Não podemos ficar no país e temos q viajar toda vez q jogamos, sem qualquer recuperação. Agora não podemos ficar em Seattle e temos q voltar para Tijuana. Isso não é justo.” Disse capitão da Seleção do Irã, Mehdi Taremi.

[LPC @landpalestine]

Just one day after Jeff Bezos criticized New York school spending

Zohran Mamdani announced that the city had recovered $9 million in unpaid fines from Amazon delivery trucks

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Thomas Jefferson submits the final draft of his Declaration of Independence to Continental Congress.

[Swearing Sports News @SwearingSport]

An Iranian father uses a handmade cardboard soccer field so that his son with visual impairment can follow Iran's matches through touch.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

The fear-mongering, racism, and bigotry of Trump and MAGA is not working.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Excellent! Climate scientists fired by Trump start their own website to relay trusted climate information! 👏👏👏 https://t.co/dqzHdg6WJd

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

BBC isn’t backing down.

Trump sued them for $10 billion, which means discovery cuts both ways. Now the BBC wants his phone logs, private schedules, daily diaries, and communications from November 2020 through January 20, 2021.

They aren’t just defending the case. They’re asking a simple question: did their documentary damage Trump’s reputation, or did January 6 do that all by itself?

Lawsuits open doors, and discovery is fair game 💥

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani greeted Panama vs. England fans, helped with wristbands, and joined volunteers guiding matchgoers toward NJ Transit before they headed to MetLife Stadium. Have you ever seen any politician like him????

[Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__]

Although iran was eliminated tonight, they played three matches, and in every single one, they fought with heart, pride, and dignity.

They traveled internationally for each match and were treated horribly the whole time. Despite surviving war, sanctions, isolation, and everything stacked against them, Iran kept showing resilience.

They won the world’s heart.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥 D.L. HUGHLEY: “Bill Maher and I used to be friends. It’s harder for me to listen to him now… I’ve never seen him mention the price or look of a presidential library until Obama got one — The way Trump is erasing his legacy it may be the only proof a Black president existed.”

[Billie Jean King @BillieJeanKing]

54 years ago today, the 37 words of Title IX changed history for girls and women in the United States.

The tenets of Title IX were incredibly important then, and continue to be so today.

Title IX represents a vital way to build more inclusive spaces for the next generation.

The work continues.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

She ate lunch alone for 730 days straight. What this 16-year-old built from that pain now protects millions of kids worldwide.

Seventh grade. Natalie Hampton carried her tray through a packed cafeteria and felt it — that specific, suffocating dread of not knowing where to go.

She'd already learned what happened when you approached the wrong table. The silence. The turned backs. The whispered laughter that followed you all the way to the empty table by the wall.

The one everyone could see.

The one that said: nobody wants her.

For two full years — 730 consecutive lunches — that table was hers. Alone.

The bullying went further than whispers. She was shoved into lockers. Four physical attacks in two weeks. She came home with scratches and bruises. When she finally reported it, school administrators sent her to counseling — to find out what she was doing wrong.

The isolation grew so heavy she was hospitalized for anxiety.

Then ninth grade came. A new school. And almost overnight — everything changed. Students welcomed her. She made friends within weeks. She finally knew what safe felt like.

But she couldn't stop thinking about the kids still sitting at the wall table. Right now. Today.

She remembered what she'd needed most during all those lunches. Not a teacher. Not a pamphlet. Just one person saying: "You can sit with us."

So at 16 — with zero coding experience and "a lot of enthusiasm," as she put it — Natalie built exactly that.

She called it Sit With Us.

The idea was simple and genius: students sign up as "ambassadors," keeping their table open. Other kids privately browse available tables on their phones before ever walking into the cafeteria — and show up knowing they're already welcome.

No public rejection. No moment of judgment. Just a guaranteed seat.

Within 7 days of launching: 10,000 downloads.

Then the world found her. NPR. The Washington Post. CBS News. Messages from Morocco, Australia, the Philippines, France — kids who'd been eating alone for years, finally finding a place to belong.

Sit With Us now operates in 30 countries.

"Even if it helps one person," Natalie said quietly, "it was worth building."

She turned 730 lunches of loneliness into a lifeline for millions.

That's not just survival. That's transformation.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello just BURIED Trump’s Freedom 250 concerts under an avalanche of rock legends.

Donald Trump's Great American State Fair — his big musical celebration of America's 250th birthday — features Vanilla Ice, a version of Milli Vanilli whose original member died in 1998, and Bret Michaels of Poison. Artists have been fleeing it since the day it was announced.

Tom Morello just answered with the Foo Fighters, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Joan Baez, Cypress Hill, Killer Mike, Dropkick Murphys, Jack Black, System of a Down's Serj Tankian, Alabama Shakes' Brittany Howard, Run-DMC's Darryl McDaniels, and Soundgarden/Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron.

The contrast could not be more devastating.

Morello's Power to the People Festival will take place on October 3rd at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland — exactly one month before the midterm elections — with any of a dozen acts on the bill capable of selling out the venue by themselves. Springsteen, who just finished his protest-heavy Land of Hope and Dreams Tour under FBI protection due to death threats from Trump supporters, announced the festival from the stage at Nationals Park on the tour's closing night.

The festival will include a "Freedom Village" — an immersive space for civic engagement, grassroots organizing, mutual aid, and social impact initiatives. A portion of ticket proceeds, and 100 percent of VIP ticket sales, go directly to pro-democracy organizations VoteRiders and HeadCount.

Trump's concert was paid for by Boeing, Shell, Toyota, and Royal Caribbean — companies regulated by his own cabinet. Morello's festival is funding voter registration.
Trump's lineup includes an act whose original member died in 1998, a rapper whose last hit was in 1990, and a Celebrity Apprentice winner. Morello's lineup includes living legends who are actively touring, recording, and selling out arenas worldwide.

Young MC fled Trump's concert because nobody told him it was political. C+C Music Factory's frontman stayed while saying on camera that he doesn't "f--- with Trump." Morris Day simply posted, "It's a no from me."

Meanwhile, Springsteen announced his participation in the Power to the People event from a sold-out stadium in Washington DC during his “Land Of Hope & Dreams” tour.

This is what the resistance sounds like. And it sounds a whole lot better than "Ice Ice Baby."

Tickets for the Power to the People Festival go on sale on May 30 at 10AM ET, but you can sign up for pre-sale access on May 29 at 10AM ET via sign-up on the Power to the People website.

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[Albatross @albatross_216]

Omygoooooooodnesss!!!!! WHY have i never seen this before?!? What an awesome idea!!!

Can you imagine as a prerequisite all seniors choose a kindergartners to mentor and teach....... teaching the seniors patience and pride, and the kindergartners have someone to look up to ( not in their family)

And when the seniors graduate, the kindergartners will graduate with them (into first grade)

That would be an AWESOME program!