iacob ☭🍻

they/them. organizer, polytheist, teacher, union rep. @dsasomd, @marxistunitydsa, @Neatoday, @maryland_sra

[iacob ☭🍻 @iacob42]

It's remarkable how having a parent with emotional regulation issues prepared me to work with students who have emotional regulation issues since I'm hyper aware of slight changes in demeanor and adept at de-escalation.

[iacob ☭🍻 @iacob42]

Three of my ninth grade classes each have 32 kids in them - with a total of ten IEPs, five 504s, and three MLs (new term for ELs) between them. First day with students is tomorrow Idk how the hell I'm gonna do it.

In a decade of teaching I've never had classes like this

[iacob ☭🍻 @iacob42]

Hot take but Northern Virginia should not be on here, whereas Southern Maryland should be.

[aspen🌹🏴 @Aspen1921]

#organizethesouth

[iacob ☭🍻 @iacob42]

@HippieHypatia Teaching 🤝 organizing

[iacob ☭🍻 @iacob42]

Construction site laborer, toll booth operator, daycare substitute, line cook, substitute teacher, line cook again, brick oven pizza cook, Lowe's sales associate, English teacher.

[𒀭 aliyah @becomingidea]

waitress, cook, pastry cook, unlicensed preschool teacher at a daycare, cook, sous chef, exec chef, unemployed welfare mom, car detailer, barista, car mechanic, “contractor” at an NGO

[冷凍芭蕉 @TPatbat]

Y’all get what this is, right? Just by touching you with these gloves, cops can literally force your body to involuntarily spasm in a way that looks enough like “resisting arrest” on a bodycam video to justify beating your brains out & shooting you dead consequence-free

[🍻 Sid, Inheritor of the West @wellstonism]

It is alarming to see how adopting principled abolitionist positions are being chalked up to some sort of “early woke” mass psychosis rather than decades of study and resistance on the part of Black communities. Our ancestors will not be written off that way, and neither will I.

[Marxist Unity Group @MarxistUnityDSA]

The whitewashing & betrayal of abolition is devastating to our movement. It's opportunism that serves only to coopt, confuse, & demoralize us. We must build a party where anyone who claims to represent us is accountable to our program, including fighting the racist police state.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Communism is the greatest threat to our country.

[𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚜༒ @1Up_Dreams]

I just smoked 20 blunts, not because I enjoyed it, but to get the marijuana off the streets , to protect our children and our families

[iacob ☭🍻 @iacob42]

@valencia__oh Fuck I gotta join GW now

[iacob ☭🍻 @iacob42]

And it's made worse by the fact that a few acknowledge this exploitation for the sole purpose of pushing hustle grindset entrepreneurialism. Like "wouldn't *you* like to be wearing the boot? Wouldn't that be libertaratory? Subscribe to my podcast"

[iacob ☭🍻 @iacob42]

Unrelated to his point but it's annoying that there are people who can analyze that the working class is exploited under capitalism but whose solution is that everyone should just become petit bourgeois. Many of whom (probably not this guy idk) claim to be leftists, even.

[King Roy @RoyIsThaTruth]

Alcohol is legal because it causes the working class to self destruct. Cannabis is illegal because it causes the working class to say things like, “Maybe we could buy a piece of land together & grow our own food?”

[iacob ☭🍻 @iacob42]

You just literally cannot imagine broader horizons than neoliberal individualism. Or, more charitably, the mid 19th century idea of solving wage slavery by universalizing private property.

[iacob ☭🍻 @iacob42]

@becomingidea @CliffConnolly Is it funnier if I genuinely had not thought of that or if I pretend that I had

[iacob ☭🍻 @iacob42]

It's been years and she won't forgive me for saying I'd try the the Fermented Icelandic Piss Shark. I don't think I'd like it, you know, but fuck it. I'll only live once on a planet with Fermented Icelandic Piss Shark, you know?

[iacob ☭🍻 @iacob42]

I'm a very adventurous eater and a former cook, but my partner is one of those people who will only eat a few select foods. So watching Anthony Bourdain together is just her going "would you eat that?" and me going "I'd absolutely eat that" and then her being grossed out by me.

[iacob ☭🍻 @iacob42]

@hecubian_devil If you want white east coasters to get lit during karaoke you've got to sing "Wagon Wheel." "Mr Jones" if they really know ball.