Andrew Varnon

Expect an eclectic range of subjects here. I’m a public school teacher with an MFA in poetry living in the gritty end of the “Happy Valley.” 🎾⚽️🥾🍎🍺🗽✏️

[Andrew Varnon @SachemHead]

I built a lamp for 3 am, for when it’s raining and the year of COVID schooling is almost done. 1/

[The New York Times @nytimes]

A quarter of the U.S.'s roughly 30,000 United Methodist churches — which once dominated the country's religious landscape — have left the denomination, according to the church's news agency. At issue is the question of ordaining and marrying LGBTQ people. https://t.co/FrufN7HjxJ

[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

— Hannah Arendt

[Andrew Varnon @SachemHead]

@SaratogaNHP @Boston1775 Ooh. This sounds like fun!

[Andrew Varnon @SachemHead]

Florida is now the book-banning state.

[PEN America @PENamerica]

🚨 NEW: 24 Bestselling Authors with Billions of Readers Are Banding Together To Fight Book Bans in Florida and Nationwide.

"Unprecedented Mobilization" Includes @TheAmandaGorman @Connellybooks @judyblume @davidbaldacci @jodipicoult: https://t.co/uJh0J8LPlO #BannedBooksWeek

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@MichaelSocolow Because the current Nobel Prize winner is also Norwegian?

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@MrRural It’s depressing. But what do we do about it? We have to build a way forward that is broad-based and inclusive, not based on grievances and revenge fantasies.

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@ServerFairy On Mastodon, I’m @[email protected]

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I feel like I’m hanging on at X out of inertia. Other people are leaving. But I haven’t left yet.

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@mysteriousrook I’ve created an account on Mastodon, but I haven’t really used it.

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@InstantKarma510 Good sleep helps!

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“My anti-phonics perspective took root in 1991, when I wrote my first feature story as an intern for the Greenfield Recorder in Massachusetts.” 🤔 https://t.co/gZ6lBMZnnR

[Andrew Varnon @SachemHead]

Tennis is a Hobbesian struggle for aspiring pros. https://t.co/4WPXOfrhed

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@HartmanAndrew @jacobin @NelsonLichtens1 “…much of the new wealth floated to the top of society, obscuring a period of labor weakness and capital flight. Subsequently, the United States became a good place for the wealthy to house their cash, but not to be a working person.”

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@nowthisnews This reminds me of the documentary “My Architect” about Louis Kahn. Kahn’s buildings could be categorized as Brutalist, but they seemed more thoughtful, complex than the stereotype. https://t.co/VG9PSdNrQx

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@OurShallowState “They’ve shot all the horses.”

[Woody Guthrie Center @WoodyGuthrieCtr]

"It's the shape of the world all around you that causes your blues. And your blues is caused by some things you want and can't have."

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@TrueFactsStated You put out treats?

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@jayrosen_nyu “And if volume is the name of the game, ex-leftist crossover stars who find new levels of celebrity on the right aren’t lost – they are found.”

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@TheCivilWarDoc1 @_NatParkService Cool! Thanks!