Mr. Brighter Side

Parent, singer, songwriter, middle school teacher, architect of dreams, and purveyor of ideas.

Basically a fancy way of saying I'm a teacher.

[Mr. Brighter Side @DailyCrazyKid]

@ClydeHaberman So, what isn't being talked about is how long it takes for one's body to begin producing antibodies need to confer immune protection.

With the 2-step vaccines, it can range from 6-10 weeks from the date of the first shot.

Any immunology folks wanna take it from here?

[Mr. Brighter Side @DailyCrazyKid]

@PhillyD
1st- I hope your recovery is going well!
2nd- I'm not sure how to request a story, but this one has worldwide implications & the church didn't do much to prevent this from happening. These are just the allegations from CA. There are so many to count.

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Exclusive: Five women in California have sued a network of organizations associated with the International Churches of Christ and two of its leaders, claiming they are victims of childhood sexual abuse and a financial pyramid scheme perpetrated by a “cult” https://t.co/s2CTNp90Zn

[Phillip Atiba Goff @DrPhilGoff]

To be clear, a guilty verdict only means that THIS murder was not legal.

It does not keep us safe from the next one.

[Michael B. Tager has left the Nazi Bar @IamRageSparkle]

@birdpoems I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Dear baby girl Ma’Khia:

Right now, someone is excusing your death for their own reasons.

No excuses.

I believe that you being shot and killed by police is reflective of an ideology and persistent inhumanity that this nation refuses to address.

I mourn you and I’m sorry.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

The front page of The New York Times for April 21, 2021.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Can I ask some questions pertaining to our humanity?

Ok, good. Thank you.

The footage of what happened with Ma’Khia didn’t/won’t prevent me from asking how she could still be with us...Why isn’t every human asking this humane question?

[NPR @NPR]

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Pramila Jayapal are introducing legislation that would make higher education free for most Americans by imposing new taxes on many Wall Street transactions.
https://t.co/fEINoKtDhz

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Darnella Frazier, then 17, filmed Derek Chauvin as he knelt on George Floyd's neck. The footage drove much of the public’s understanding of his death, which was different from the Minneapolis Police Department’s initial account of what happened. https://t.co/aPLgzMxOoc

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

“Clean up your mess, Kevin. Sit this one out.”

I love Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Eight years ago when I was in Congress and @BarackObama was President, I would have reflexively railed against him for saying this. Now I agree with him. And thank him for saying it. Because now I understand it. Barack Obama has always gotten it. He hasn’t changed. I have.

[Jaime Harrison @harrisonjaime]

I don’t know why folks try to come for @staceyabrams when they know damn well that they aren’t ready.

In terms of her intellect, experience, & knowledge of voting rights ... Cruz, Cotton, Kennedy and Graham aren’t qualified to carry her books let alone debate what is in them.

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

I remember that show “what would you do?” did an experiment once where they had 2 groups of kids—one Black & one white—perform the same behavior of vandalizing a car. Ppl either ignored the white kids or simply told them to stop. But they called police on the Black kids...

[Arlen Parsa @arlenparsa]

Remember that Derrick Chauvin was accused of using excessive force at least *17 TIMES* prior to murdering George Floyd.

His entire police department had dozens of opportunities to make the public more safe by firing him. This is not a story about “one bad apple” or even a few.

[Dr. Marcus H. Johnson @marcushjohnson]

I don’t really wanna hear anything about riots or Maxine Waters when 3 months ago Republicans tried to OVERTHROW THE US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

[Chris Vanderveen (yep…me) @chrisvanderveen]

Reminder to all journalists...

This is how Minneapolis initially reported the death of #GeorgeFloyd