Lindsay Cypert Reed

Football wife; Mother of 4 amazing, diverse children; Director of School Counseling for the Arkansas Department of Education; Social Justice Advocate

[Sweatpants & Coffee @SweatpantsCafe]

No one knows ☕️🤷🏻‍♀️

[Lindsay Cypert Reed @LindsayLW77]

@AC360 I can only imagine that Norman Rockwell is rolling over in his grave right now.

[Lindsay Cypert Reed @LindsayLW77]

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[Decision Desk HQ @DecisionDeskHQ]

Decision Desk HQ projects Zohran Mamdani to win the New York City Mayor election.

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[The Secret @thesecret]

If you say, “I’ll believe it when I see it,” then you’ll never see it. Believe, and then you will see it.

[Ramblings @ramblingsloa]

Be like a tree
Stay grounded
Keep growing
And know when to let go.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

If you're the Qatari royal family worth $335 billion, Trump gives you an Air Force facility in Idaho.

If you're the President of Argentina, Trump gives you a $20 billion bailout.

If you're an American whose health care premiums are about to double? Tough luck.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

We’ve moved rather quickly from “God saved Trump” to “Trump is saving God,” which I guess is the foundation of the new MAGA religion?

[Lindsay Cypert Reed @LindsayLW77]

@bennyjohnson Thank you, @bennyjohnson, for not saying, I prayed for Joe Biden, BUT…….That is classy and Christ-like.

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@unknown_patriot This came across my feed. I never had the pleasure of interacting with his page until today. What a beautiful, gifted soul. My condolences for your tremendous loss.

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

A message from a Kindergarten teacher:

After forty years in the classroom, my career ended with one small sentence from a six-year-old:

“My dad says people like you don’t matter anymore.”

No sneer. No malice. Just quiet honesty — the kind that cuts deeper because it’s innocent. He blinked, then added, “You don’t even have a TikTok.”

My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind me.

When I started teaching in the early 1980s, it felt like a promise — a shared belief that what we did mattered. We weren’t rich, but we were valued. Parents brought warm cookies to parent nights. Kids gave you handmade cards with hearts that didn’t quite line up. Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic.

But that world slowly slipped away. The job I once knew has been replaced by exhaustion, red tape, and a kind of loneliness I can’t quite describe.

My evenings used to be filled with construction paper, glitter, and glue sticks. Now they’re spent filling out digital reports to protect myself from angry emails or lawsuits. I’ve been yelled at by parents in front of twenty-five children — one filming me with his phone while I tried to calm another child mid-meltdown.

And the kids… they’ve changed too. Not by choice.

They arrive tired, anxious, overstimulated. Their tiny fingers know how to swipe a screen before they can hold a crayon. Some can’t make eye contact or wait in line. We’re expected to fix all of it — to patch the gaps, heal the trauma, teach the curriculum, and document every move — in six hours a day, with resources that barely fill a drawer.

The little reading corner I once built, full of soft beanbags and paper stars, was replaced by data charts and “learning metrics.” A young principal once told me, “Clara, maybe you’re too nurturing. The district wants measurable results.”

As if kindness were a weakness.

Still, I stayed. Because of the small, holy moments that no spreadsheet could measure —
a whisper of, “You remind me of my grandma.”
a shaky note that read, “I feel safe here.”
a quiet boy finally meeting my eyes and saying, “I read the whole page.”

Those tiny sparks were my reason to keep showing up.

But this last year broke something in me.

The aggression grew sharper. The laughter in the staff room turned to silence. The light went out of so many eyes. I watched brilliant teachers — my friends — vanish under the weight of burnout, their joy replaced by survival.

I felt myself fading too, like chalk on a board that’s been wiped one too many times.

So today, I began my goodbye. I pulled faded art off the walls and tucked thirty years of handmade cards into a single box. In the back of a drawer, I found a letter from a student from 1998:

“Thank you for loving me when I was hard to love.”

I sat on the floor and cried.

No party. No applause. Just a handshake from a young principal who called me “Ma’am” while checking his notifications.

I left my rocking chair behind, and my sticker box too. What I carried with me were the memories — the faces of hundreds of children who once trusted me enough to reach out their hands and learn. That can’t be uploaded. It can’t be measured. It can’t be replaced.

I miss when teachers were partners, not targets. When parents and educators worked side by side, not in opposition. When schools cared more about wonder than numbers.

So if you know a teacher — any teacher — thank them. Not with a mug or a gift card, but with your words. With your respect. With your understanding that behind every test score is a heart that cared enough to try.

Because in a world that often overlooks them, teachers are the ones who never forget our children.

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

So... I'm actually pretty fine with my tax dollars saving the life of someone who's bleeding out on the emergency room floor. I think that's a good idea.

[Irlandarra @aldamu_jo]

MTG introduces amendment to cut $500 MILLION for Israel air defense.

“Israel is a nuclear-armed nation. They can defend themselves. They have universal healthcare and subsidized college. Meanwhile, Americans are $37T in debt.”

[Lindsay Cypert Reed @LindsayLW77]

@Acyn No they say, “We need to keep politics out of this”. It’s unbelievable.

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@cenkuygur My gut tells me it’s the latter. I hope I’m wrong.

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@EvanAKilgore If you listen to what she’s saying it makes sense. What I think is really strange is how no one else is asking any questions.

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@LibertyBabe2025 @LauraLoomer @mtgreenee It blows my mind.

[Lindsay Cypert Reed @LindsayLW77]

Thank you so much for this display of human kindness and decency. We need more of this in our algorithms.

[Phil Vischer @philvischer]

ICE agents were hanging out at local schools to grab parents when they came to pickup their kids. Within an hour our community organized to meet the at-risk kids and get them home safely.

We can secure the border and manage immigration without being cruel.

[Staff Sergeant Johnson @Colonel_Myway]

BREAKING FOX NEWS: Jimmy Kimmel announces that Gavin Newsom @GovPressOffice will be tomorrow nights return to the air guest.

[Lindsay Cypert Reed @LindsayLW77]

Children with autism are not problems that need to be solved or broken things that need to be fixed. Period. #TYLENOL #autism #RFK