Mid School Teacher

I 💖 teaching and my students, but sometimes it all pisses me off.
I watch a lot of TV and swear a lot. I bitch about life, but truly I'm blessed. 💜

[Mid School Teacher @histteachlife]

It's really disgusting watching my admin try to save their jobs by throwing teachers under the bus...

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Texas is banning Kate Cox from getting an abortion—claiming her fetus has rights.

Simultaneously Texas is fighting a lawsuit by a prison guard who was 7 mo pregnant, had pains, was denied a break, & the fetus was still born—arguing a fetus has no rights.

It was Never about life

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

In 1938, Lloyd Gaines filed a lawsuit after being denied admission to the University of Missouri Law School in 1935 because he was black.

The Court ruled in his favor & required Missouri to admit him or set up a black law school.

He disappeared 3 months later never to be found.

—Lloyd Lionel Gaines was born to the Gaines family in northern Mississippi in 1911. One of eleven children, seven of whom survived illness and accident, he moved with his widowed mother and siblings to St. Louis after the premature death of their father. They found a better, although not easy, life for themselves in Missouri. Gaines excelled in his studies graduating as valedictorian in 1931 from Vashon High School. At Lincoln University in Jefferson City, he graduated with honors and was President of the senior class, while participating in many extra-curricular activities and working to pay for his schooling.
Despite his outstanding scholastic record, the University of Missouri School of Law denied Gaines admittance in 1936 solely on the grounds that Missouri's Constitution called for "separate education of the races." By state law, Missouri would have been required to pay for Gaines to attend the Universities in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, but Gaines was determined to fight for the right to attend law school in his own state university. He sought legal assistance from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which had been working systematically to overturn the ignominious precedent of "separate but equal" established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. Together, they challenged the University of Missouri's admissions policies. In 1938, Gaines won his case before the United States Supreme Court in State of Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada, paving the way for a series of cases that would lead to Brown v. Board of Education's outlawing segregation in public education. In March 1939, only three months after his Supreme Court victory, Lloyd Gaines was last seen in Chicago. He disappeared at age 28 with his promise of attending law school in Missouri unfilfilled. Lloyd Gaines was never to be seen or heard from again.

[Jane of the North @JaneotN]

Civil war?

“I’m proposing we test their theory, and once a year we have a head to head showdown. Say, 100 members of the NRA versus, I dunno … two members of the military? Broadcast it on Fox Christmas Day.”

https://t.co/QTVLKWHcQM

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

Young people: The GOP is floating an amendment to raise the voting age from 18 to 25. Vivek Ramaswamy is openly promoting it. They’re scared of your votes and want to silence you. Act appropriately in 2024.

[Buffalo Temple of Music, Sports, and Whatever @SethFromThe716]

Punching Nazis #ShouldBeSociallyAcceptable.

[Nicholas Ferroni @NicholasFerroni]

A reminder that the “teachers should just teach” crowd has no idea what teachers actually do, because, if they did, they would know that schools would not be able to function if teachers just teach.

[Mid School Teacher @histteachlife]

When a shitty relative is dying and you don't care. And only thought is, well at least this isn't going to be long and protracted. Lucky them, so on with my day...

[The Road Jess Travelled @JessPected]

Cannot adequately express how unsympathetic I am to tweets/articles handwringing about the "loneliness" of boys/men because they're not having sex. Girls are preyed upon by men, w/ men advocating for the impregnation of teens, & sexually abused w/ lasting trauma by boys/men. 1/

[madison (top 0.1% on sudoku) @madsmotionless]

me hearing the ufo news

[Martin Walsh @martinwalsh]

Always projection by these vile, racist, bigoted, transphobic, antisemitic, conservatives and right-wing, Nazi arseholes. #NotADragQueen

[Mid School Teacher @histteachlife]

@EmoMrsFrizzle I'm so sorry

[Mid School Teacher @histteachlife]

I started therapy and got on the right medications