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Wishing all the moms out there a wonderful Mother’s Day!
To @MichelleObama, I’m grateful for all the ways you’ve shown up for our daughters and our family over the years. We love you.
Across the nation, schools are celebrating National College Decision Day, a time to honor Memphis-Shelby County Schools seniors as they take the next step toward their future. We’re proud to celebrate their commitment to pursuing postsecondary pathways and expanding their opportunities beyond graduation.
Check out where OUR seniors across the District will be continuing their journey this fall! #GreatnessGrowsHere #ChooseMSCS
Keeping up with ed tech has always been hard, but with AI and everything coming out, it’s probably harder than ever. That’s why I love sharing this resource so much!
Almost 300 tech and instructional coaches shared their "One Best Thing" right now, and here are the results:
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There are so many incredible ideas here that you’ll have plenty to explore, learn from, and use to help you level up and try something new 😀
A huge thank you again to every coach who contributed during National Coach Camp 🙏
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BREAKING: Stunning new polling reveals that Donald Trump’s approval rating on handling the economy is the lowest of any President in American history at this point in their term. Make sure every American sees this.
White MAGA evangelicals have found a new gaslight. Now they want to blame civil rights organizations for manufacturing racism.
As if America was not racist before the NAACP existed. As if white supremacy needed a nonprofit grant to build slave ships. As if the Klan was waiting on a donation from the SPLC before it burned crosses. As if Jim Crow needed a press release. As if lynch mobs needed a fundraising campaign before they burned down Tulsa and Rosewood.
Who funded the transatlantic slave trade?
Who funded American chattel slavery?
Who funded the genocide of Indigenous people?
Who funded the rape and breeding of enslaved Black women?
Who funded lynching?
Who funded segregation?
Who funded redlining?
Who funded convict leasing?
Who funded mass incarceration?
Who funded police brutality?
Who funded the theft of Black land?
Who funded the erasure of Black history?
It was not civil rights organizations. It was America, the government, banks, white churches, corporations, courts, universities, white mobs, white politicians, and white pulpits preaching a slaveholder’s gospel.
Civil rights organizations did not create racism, they documented it, challenged it, exposed it, sued it, organized against it, and forced America to look in the mirror.
And that is what MAGA cannot stand. They don’t hate the so called manufacture of racism, they hate the exposure of racism.
Because if racism is made up, nobody owes repair, nobody owes repentance, nobody owes justice, nobody has to return stolen land, nobody has to pay reparations, and nobody has to dismantle the systems that still reward whiteness and punish Blackness.
This is not a serious argument. It is white grievance propaganda with a church fan in its hand. America was racist before civil rights organizations existed.
America was racist when Black people were property. America was racist when Black people were lynched for voting. America was racist when Black children needed federal troops to enter schools. America is still racist when they try to ban the books that tell the truth.
You do not get to burn the house down for 400 years and then blame the smoke alarm for making noise.
Talbert Swan
My 2nd trip to Memphis is almost over and I’ve again really enjoyed my time here. So I felt the need to say something, especially after what LeBron said today.
This city often gets a very bad rep and I’ve experienced that myself. Players shitting on it, media saying it’s dangerous, people asking me why I’d go here because I wouldn’t be safe, I’ve heard it all. All those people couldn’t be more wrong.
This is a city very different from other “typical American cities”. Memphis has it’s own identity, an identity that makes it special. Memphis is a very warm and welcoming city. From the second my first trip started last year I’ve felt welcomed by the people. In the Fedexforum, on the streets, in the airport, in my hotel. My experiences have been nothing but positive. Not once have I felt unsafe or anything remotely close to it, not in my week long stay last year and also not in my almost 2 week long stay this year.
Now of course every city has its weaknesses and room for improvement. And that’s where I have to give a lot of credit to the mayor and the people who run this city. Even in the year between my trips there has been clear improvement. The streets are cleaner, there’s roadwork being done and downtown is noticeably more lively compared to last year.
Don’t let people who have never been here tell you what and how this city is. Memphis is a unique and beautiful city, Memphis is Memphis. I have truly loved my time here and I can’t wait to keep coming back in the future. But first one more game against Toronto tomorrow.
Harrison: I worked with one of the greatest of all time—Nancy Pelosi—if not the greatest. We would never bring a bill to the floor without knowing whether we had the votes.
Mike Johnson just brings bills to the floor without knowing whether he has the votes, because he doesn’t lead his caucus—they lead him.
He’s just weak.
A speaker who can’t pass bills with his own majority isn’t governing—he’s borrowing power.
The Obama Presidential Center announces teen sports programs that bring change home! Basketball and volleyball experiences with @AftrSchoolMttrs are coming to Home Court for South Side high schoolers aged 14-18! To apply, click here: https://t.co/tni72nB0wo
Well… first it was Kristi Noem, now it’s Pam Bondi… it would be too much like right that Pete be next. I see a theme. He will throw the incompetent women under the bus a lot faster than the incompetent men 🤷🏾♀️.
Let’s just agree that America needs a “do over.” The President nominated these awful people, the Republican controlled Senate confirmed them, and well… too many people thought we should give this much power to the Pu**y grabbing, 6x bankruptcy filing, 34 count convicted felon bestie of Epstein.
WE NEED A DO OVER… but only if America would do better. 😫
.@BarackObama's bracket is set. What do you think of his picks?
Good luck to all of the athletes competing and the young men from @MBK_Alliance getting a peek into careers in sports.
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