Amanda Edwards

HS English teacher. Reader. healthy mind & body. Vegetarian. Traveler. Beach lover. Intersectional Feminist. BLM, Foodie. Music lover. social justice

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

The results are in

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

A crowd gathers outside the Myers family home, trying to scare away the first black family in Levittown, Pa. August 16, 1957.

[Gramps @GrandpaHarris65]

The first journalist who responds to Trump saying, "You're a terrible reporter," with "You're a terrible president" has my vote for the Pulitzer Prize.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest survivor of The Tulsa Race Massacre passed away. Let’s honor her memory by remembering her story

[the Virgo that Leon can't even explain @hbfromkc_]

yes. she knew the 6-3 vote would fuck us, so she sent it back down to the lower courts to decide.

AND she's the one who revealed that the contingency SNAP funds are gone. $5 billion has vanished due to the Executive Branch.

they stole from the poor and she told us.

[Daniel Harder 🇺🇦 @DanielHarder82]

@SenFettermanPA Here they are, folks, remember them— primary them, end their careers:

[Amanda Edwards @A_B_Edwards]

@SenFettermanPA @SenMcCormickPA Country over party? Thats a weak excuse for your vote. How are those same people now going to be able to afford their health insurance in a few months? Didn’t the recent blue wave elections mean anything to you? This constituent has been very disappointed in you

[Lydia Kauppi @lydiakauppi]

This is the Appalachian church leader who offered immediately to help the woman on TikTok that was calling churches asking for baby formula. Heritage Hope Church of God has since received over $75,000 to their food pantry. The congregation says he’s been crying all week 😭

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

OMG the Cincinnati Children’s hospital Pastor speaks after being detained for 73 days by ICE and he is a legal U.S citizen & they knew it when they took him & they’ve known it for all 73 days! He said the there are a lot of people in there that are U.S citizens & no crimes ever!

[Dave Hale - Concerned Republican @CountryFirstRep]

These men are heroes.

Fuck you, Donald Trump. You've given NOTHING to this country.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: Congressman Ralph Norman (R-SC) files to abolish paychecks for members of Congress during a government shutdown.

"No backpay either."

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

Banned words. Banned books. Banned thoughts. Enough is enough. #ArrestThePresident

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

The toothpaste ain’t goin’ back in the tube

[Eileen aka Alien 👽 McLaughlin 🇺🇸🇺🇦 🟦 @EileenM60933733]

I think it’s in very poor taste to be showing off the gold plating in the oval office after you have cut healthcare and support programs for low income families.

[𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 @Matt_Pinner]

I wish younger people could experience Christmas in the '70s '80s and '90s. The department stores, the amazing decorations, the downtown shopping... It was really magical.

[Dissident Teacher @educatedandfree]

So, I'm teaching Fahrenheit 451 to 7th graders right now.

No screens. They read every night and are required to write 1 note per page assigned. I teach them right off they should look for "what happened" (plot development), or "something we learn about a character" or, if they spy one, a literary element like a simile, allusion or symbol.

We start class with a homework check (I walk by, check in to see if they have notes -- I'm not super picky about whether or not they have exactly one note per page, it's really just a trick to help them focus attention to the text while they read and help remind them of what they read when they get into class) and while I'm checking in on them and complimenting their work and asking questions about their day so far, they are highlighting three things from the reading that they want to discuss during class. THEY guide the discussion. As a group, they will hone in on the most important parts of the reading, which gives me an opportunity to offer nuance to what Bradbury is trying to accomplish.

I run socratic dialogues in class and they are shaking their hands to get my attention because they want to talk about Clarisse and what's-wrong-with-Mildred and that's-not-true-about-Ben-Franklin! and who-was-master-ridley? so badly.

I save "right there" questions for the shyest kids who I cold call. I have already seen the payoff in their confidence increasing and their willingness to ask clarifying questions and bring up things they notice.

They are all doing their homework. They talk about Fahrenheit in the halls. They argue about whether Clarisse is alive or dead (we're on page 45). A young man who I thought was going to be a quiet one brought up something brilliant yesterday -- he said that Montag is realizing that everything is upside down and backward in his world and it's destabilizing.

These kids are 12.

Give them great books and teach them to ask questions.

American greatness is real.

[Tom Joseph @TomJChicago]

After watching Kash Patel‘s testimony, it would be hard for a reasonable person to not conclude Trump is guilty of Epstein related sexual assault and trafficking crimes… and we are witnessing the biggest, most flagrant cover-up in US history to protect him.

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Kennedy: Who did Epstein traffic these young women to?

Kash Patel : There is no credible information that he trafficked to other individuals.

So Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison for trafficking young girls to no one?

[Ms. Lauryn Hill @MsLaurynHill]

Salute to my beloved son Zion Marley— grass-roots and self-funded, pushing his music out there!! Beautiful song!! 🤩☺️😤❤️‍🔥👏🏾💫