Jonathanderwolf

#bidenharris2020 #bidenharris2024 Academic. Teacher of German and English. Homosexual Husband.
Staunch Anti-Fascist

[𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧★ @olivvrszn]

I hate when people at work ask you what books you are reading for professional development. I am reading books to counteract the effects of being professionally developed. I am reading books that bring me back to being human.

[sophia @charliyuri]

we in the nuclear seasons!

[Martin Pilgrim @MartinPilgrim1]

"You'd all be speaking German if it wasn't for me."- German teacher with low self esteem.

[Anthony Bowens @Bowens_Official]

Smile through the pain. Pride never dies ✌🏽

[Кобзар 🇨🇦🇺🇦☦️ @CanadianKobzar]

russia used Epstein to control trump and destabilize the US.

russia pushed brexit to destabilize Britain.

russia finances and supports the far right to destabilize the EU, the US and Canada.

Trump is not the cause, he is a symptom. Russia is the cause of the worlds chaos.

Want normalcy, peace and stability - destroy Russia.

[blue @bluewmist]

you know what’s more freeing than killing yourself? running away to a small town and getting a job as a waitress. buying a cheap car and sticking a bed in the back and driving southwest. adopting a cat. learning a new instrument. moving apartments. visiting a friend in another city. chopping all your hair off.

you can kill your current life without dying. you can kill this version of you and make a new one.

maybe i’m just a bipolar sucker for rebirth but sometimes that thought is all that keeps me alive

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Republicans want to decide what books you can read, what history your kids can learn, which medicines you’re allowed to take, what surgeries you can have, what gender you’re permitted to be, what sports you can play, which bathroom you can use, who you can love, and who you can marry.
They want to tell you how many dolls and pencils your kids can have and how much food they can eat.
They want to own your library, your classroom, your hospital bed, your bedroom, your remote control, your kitchen table and your front door.
They want the right to break into your home, disappear your neighbor, take your children, beat you, execute you in the street, and then tell you—despite the evidence of your own eyes and ears—that what you saw is not what you have seen.
They want you afraid: afraid to record, to document, to criticize, to stand up, to speak out, to organize, to protest, to protect, to utter words they don’t like. They want to own the page, the pill, the joke, the chant, the kiss, the very pronoun in your mouth and the weapon on your waist. They want to decide where you can go, what you can say, and which of your rights they can take away.
They want the power to take your life and then lie about it.
They want to play judge, jury, and executioner and they want you to shut up about it or you’ll be next.

This is tyranny failing miserably to masquerade as order.

But sure—tell me how it’s the liberals who are “coming for your freedoms”, won’t you.

[Vincinnatus @Vincinnatus]

Something is stirring.

Rejection of tribal divisions.
Resistance to being used.
Returning to that which binds.

The uniquely American rebel spirit has broken monarchs, mountebanks, and mad men before.

It burns still.
And from that fire, hope.

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

BREAKING: a gofundme has been set up for the family of Alex Pretti, the 37 year old American executed by ICE.

Please share far and wide.
https://t.co/NB68Ig0hLg

[Dr SHRADDHEY KATIYAR @Wegiveyouhealt1]

After a certain age, your parents slowly become your children.
They ask simple questions, repeat stories, and depend on your patience the way you once depended on theirs. Very few understand this role reversal. What looks like innocence or inconvenience is really time coming full circle. Don’t correct them harshly. Don’t rush them. Care for them the way they once protected you. This is not a burden. It is repayment, quietly wrapped as love.

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

From a pamphlet from the U.S. govt to Army personnel in 1945 about fascism:

“[Fascists] make their own rules and change them when they choose…. They maintain themselves in power by use of force combined with propaganda based on primitive ideas of ‘blood’ and ‘race,’ by skillful manipulation of fear and hate, and by false promise of security. The propaganda glorifies war and insists it is smart and ‘realistic’ to be pitiless and violent.”

Yes, the U.S. govt is fascist.

Courtesy of Heather Cox-Richardson.

[Dr. Neighborhood Publicist @nhoodpublicist]

I’m convinced he about to die much sooner than they thought he would and the problem with that is, his cult only likes him. None of the other people they’ve tried putting in front of them are sticking so they need to accelerate everything

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

"For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:"

-Declaration of Independence, 1776

[Mr. Spock 🖖 (Commentary) @SpockResists]

ethical, thoughtful, and humane.
If you feel it deeply, it’s not because you are weak.
It’s because you are still aligned. Authoritarianism feeds on fear, fixation, and exhaustion.
Care, clarity, and limits are also forms of resistance.
You are not responsible for fixing

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

Fehlinger, chairman of the Austria Committee for NATO Enlargement, to US:

"If you take it, we will take every single [US] base from Aviano to Ramstein, from Romania to all the other military bases, will be confiscated and you will lost it."

"If you go extreme, we go extreme"

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

https://t.co/Aowhb6CeUB

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Many students are sold a lie that learning should feel pleasurable, and when that's not their experience, the cognitive dissonance eats them alive.

It's like someone signs up for strength & conditioning at a gym and the trainer tells them that they should feel pleasure doing pushups, sprints, deadlifts, etc. Or like a nutritionist saying "you should enjoy the taste of broccoli." Completely alienating.

What a good trainer will say is "Yes, it feels taxing, and that's okay, that's normal. Our goal here is not pleasure, it's satisfaction -- making progress, doing things you weren't able to do before, feeling good about what you've accomplished, transforming yourself in ways that are beneficial for your future. You're here to work, so let's do work."

People respect that, and there's a kind of comfort in knowing that we're all here to do serious work. Whether it's the gym or the classroom, that's what people need to hear.

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

https://t.co/F66dPQasXD

[𝓝𝓲𝓴𝓴𝓲 𝓑𝓪𝓻𝓷𝓮𝓼 @NikkiBarnes]

Best explanation I’ve heard about US interests in Venezuela today.

P.S. She recorded this over 2 weeks ago.