Jon Baymon

Public School Teacher, 2018-19 Teach Plus fellow @teachplusIL #bluejayprideD93

[ANSWER Coalition @answercoalition]

🚨🇵🇸BREAKING: New Yorkers march through Manhattan to condemn the Khan Yunis massacre and demand an end to the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Gaza!

[ANSWER Coalition @answercoalition]

🇵🇸JULY 24: The people charge Benjamin Netanyahu with genocide!

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is being welcomed by Congress. We won't let a war criminal walk the streets of DC!

🇵🇸ALL OUT TO DC!
🗓️Wed. 7/24
🕚11AM
🔴WEAR RED – we are the red line!
🔗https://t.co/dtZlQSK6Co

[Party for Socialism and Liberation @pslnational]

🧵In “celebration” of Joe Biden’s 81st birthday today, here are 5 of the greatest crimes he’s committed over the course of his political career.

[Adémọ́lá. @OgbeniDemola]

Sudan is at war today because of its minerals, a genocide is going on in Congo at the moment because of its minerals, Libya is a war zone today because of its minerals. The west creates war in Africa to exploit minerals.

[✮ راينر براون @dondawastaken]

Congo is silently enduring a genocide, where millions suffer and are enslaved for the Western world's gain from its natural resources. Your voice matters – speak up for Congo

[Halal Nation @HalalNation_]

We stand with Palestine 🇵🇸

[Black in the Empire @blackintheempir]

The problem with Palestine/Israel is the Palestinians won't leave the land that was taken from them

No matter how superior the Israelis feel they are, and no matter how many Palestinians they kill, beat, jail, steal from, and make live under apartheid they keep fighting back

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

I spoke to a member of one of the most well known Palestinian families (and the most hated by Israel), the brilliant Alana Hadid about Israel’s horrific ethnic cleansing of Palestine https://t.co/sb7LKaVze9

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

I just spoke to Great March of Return organizer Ahmed Artema. Israel bombed his home & killed 5 in his family including his 10 year old son. He is in the hospital with 2nd degree burns. He urged Americans to continue to protest. We must stay in the streets until Palestine is free

[Mike Prysner @MikePrysner]

This morning blocking traffic into the factory for genocide-profiteer @Boeing in Portland #ShutItDown4Palestine

[#StopCopCity @ChuckModi1]

“SHUT IT DOWN! SHUT IT DOWN!”

NOW: Union station in DC. Another daily #FreePalestine protest.

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

The media won’t tell you Gaza is a warehouse of millions of ethnically cleansed Palestinian refugees that live trapped under brutal Israeli blockade. Here’s the forbidden historical context from #GazaFightsForFreedom:

[Eric Santos @SantosEdTech]

I was fortunate enough to be asked to keynote the @EdRedNews annual kick-off luncheon. Spoke for an hour on Artificial Intelligence in Education to school leaders and legislators. Thank you @BridgetPeach for the invitation!

[Jay Wamsted @JayWamsted]

Since we’re talking about the dangers of stuffing college level work on high school students?

I’m here to say that we’ve now jammed too much high school work down into the middle school

Most of them aren’t ready. All it does is turn them off from school at a sensitive time

[Joshua Smith from Break The Cycle @JoshuaAtLarge]

22 years ago, today, I was a 17 year old homeless youth, sleeping on the garage floor of a friend's house. My friend woke me up to show me the north tower of the world trade center engulfed in flames. I asked him what movie it was, and he assured me it was real life. At 6 am western time, I watched the second plane hit the south tower. I would sit there and watch the coverage for most of the day. I felt sick watching the towers fall and knowing how many Americans were losing their lives.

This event would set into motion a change inside me that led me to join the military several months later. I could not fathom the attack on my countrymen and knew I had to go and protect my friends and family from the evil terrorists who had planned and executed this attack.

Within 4 months of entering boot camp, I was on an aircraft carrier soon headed on a year-long cruise to decomission the USS Constellation. Secretly, I was relieved to know that we were not headed into a war and excited to do a year-long world cruise that would let me see the world.

We first pulled into Hong Kong. Only my second time out of the US and the first time not in Mexico. I was enamored by the culture change, even if only able to enjoy it for 6 days. Next, we went to Singapore. It was a fine city.

Following our departure from Singapore, we were told we would be doing a routine patrol of the Persian Gulf. We transited the straight of Hormuz. A truly butt clenching time, as you are told about the amount of scud misses pointed at your floating city. It was the first time I realized there were people in the world who did not want the American military state around them.

Upon our entrance into the Gulf, for a "routine" patrol, George Bush decided that Iraq had enough time to get rid of perceived weapons of mass destruction, and he declared war on Iraq. Unilaterally and without congressional approval.

My battle group was just around 700 miles from Baghdad, and we picked up the call, dropping millions of tons of ordinance on Baghdad. It was the first time in my life when I thought about the cost of war. Prior to dropping hell from the sky, our pilots would drop huge drums of leaflets that had cartoon characters and writing on them telling people to leave their homes. A warning that I hope the American people never get.

Following the leaflet drops, our 100 aircraft would spend the next two days leaving the deck full of ordinance and coming back entirely empty. All day and night.

All I could think about was the people of Baghdad. There are families, children, and family pets. People had goals and dreams. They woke up every morning and put on work boots just like I do now, and we were leveling their city. I thought about what I would do if that happened where I grew up. How I would feel.

THEY DIDN'T EVEN DO 9/11, and we were fighting a war against them. The US government had used a national tragedy to get full-scale support for a war in a country that had absolutely nothing to do with it.

22 years later, we have had a 21 year war that we couldn't win that netted us nothing as a nation, and a decimation of much of Iraq over claims of weapons of mass destruction that never existed.

All of this, because of an attack that was a direct result of blowback from our disastrous foreign policy to begin with.

Thankfully, I found the good Dr. Ron Paul in 2007 to help guide my belief that wars of aggression will never be prosperous and just for the American people, and he would set in to motion the next 2 decades of my life as a vocal antiwar activist.

In 2023, it's long past time to stop with the constant warfare. The US people are sick of it. The countries around the world that have been affected by our foreign policy are sick of it.

The best way to remember the victims of 9/11 and the 100s of thousands lost in the ensuing wars is to stop fighting them. Bring our troops home. Let them heal and be with their families. Let the world heal.

#September11

[NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact]

'No tennis on a dead planet!' — Coco Gauff is speaking out after Extinction Rebellion activists interrupted her Sept 7 match at the U.S. Open

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

See the young man in this picture? He was 18 years old when it was taken at the train station in Mobile, Alabama, in 1952.

There is $1.50 in his pocket. In that bag by his foot are two changes of clothes. (And if his mama was anything like most other mamas in the South, probably some sandwiches and other snacks.)

He was on his way to Indiana to take a job. He was going to play baseball for the Indy Clowns of the Negro Leagues. Apparently, he was pretty good at it. A couple of years later, he was signed by the Milwaukee Brewers. He played for the Brewers for 2 seasons, then moved across town to the Braves, and later followed them to Atlanta. Eventually, he was the last Negro League player to be on a major league roster.
He still hangs around the baseball world. At the moment, he's the senior vice president of the Atlanta Braves. Even though the team has changed stadiums (twice) since then, his retired number, 44, still hangs on the outfield wall of the old Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium near where he belted a homer to break Babe Ruth's all-time record which he held for 33 years).

[Laurie Garrett @Laurie_Garrett]

This @Patagonia ad is freaking brilliant. Read down, then back up.

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

shutting down 'homeless encampments' doesn't work because, perplexingly, THE PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN LIVING THERE STILL EXIST AND STILL NEED HOMES. we address homelessness by giving people homes.

[Polly Tickal @BubblesToBurst]

If only we’d listened to Mike Gravel in 2008 when he famously called out Joe Biden, Obama and Hillary as warmongers while they laughed derisively. That warmongering trio have now all played a part in leading us to a nuclear WW3.