Corey Smith

[Corey Smith @mcoreysmith]

@BecauseBitcoin Geez this guy loves to hear himself talk

[Corey Smith @mcoreysmith]

@BecauseBitcoin What a pain in the fucking ass if your a speaker on the panel and David levenson is up there speaking, you'll never have a chance to speak..

[Flightradar24 @flightradar24]

7L4881 from Chicago to Houston squawking 7700 and diverting to Austin.
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[Corey Smith @mcoreysmith]

@JeffNadu Lmfao

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

A message from a Kindergarten teacher:

After forty years in the classroom, my career ended with one small sentence from a six-year-old:

“My dad says people like you don’t matter anymore.”

No sneer. No malice. Just quiet honesty — the kind that cuts deeper because it’s innocent. He blinked, then added, “You don’t even have a TikTok.”

My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind me.

When I started teaching in the early 1980s, it felt like a promise — a shared belief that what we did mattered. We weren’t rich, but we were valued. Parents brought warm cookies to parent nights. Kids gave you handmade cards with hearts that didn’t quite line up. Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic.

But that world slowly slipped away. The job I once knew has been replaced by exhaustion, red tape, and a kind of loneliness I can’t quite describe.

My evenings used to be filled with construction paper, glitter, and glue sticks. Now they’re spent filling out digital reports to protect myself from angry emails or lawsuits. I’ve been yelled at by parents in front of twenty-five children — one filming me with his phone while I tried to calm another child mid-meltdown.

And the kids… they’ve changed too. Not by choice.

They arrive tired, anxious, overstimulated. Their tiny fingers know how to swipe a screen before they can hold a crayon. Some can’t make eye contact or wait in line. We’re expected to fix all of it — to patch the gaps, heal the trauma, teach the curriculum, and document every move — in six hours a day, with resources that barely fill a drawer.

The little reading corner I once built, full of soft beanbags and paper stars, was replaced by data charts and “learning metrics.” A young principal once told me, “Clara, maybe you’re too nurturing. The district wants measurable results.”

As if kindness were a weakness.

Still, I stayed. Because of the small, holy moments that no spreadsheet could measure —
a whisper of, “You remind me of my grandma.”
a shaky note that read, “I feel safe here.”
a quiet boy finally meeting my eyes and saying, “I read the whole page.”

Those tiny sparks were my reason to keep showing up.

But this last year broke something in me.

The aggression grew sharper. The laughter in the staff room turned to silence. The light went out of so many eyes. I watched brilliant teachers — my friends — vanish under the weight of burnout, their joy replaced by survival.

I felt myself fading too, like chalk on a board that’s been wiped one too many times.

So today, I began my goodbye. I pulled faded art off the walls and tucked thirty years of handmade cards into a single box. In the back of a drawer, I found a letter from a student from 1998:

“Thank you for loving me when I was hard to love.”

I sat on the floor and cried.

No party. No applause. Just a handshake from a young principal who called me “Ma’am” while checking his notifications.

I left my rocking chair behind, and my sticker box too. What I carried with me were the memories — the faces of hundreds of children who once trusted me enough to reach out their hands and learn. That can’t be uploaded. It can’t be measured. It can’t be replaced.

I miss when teachers were partners, not targets. When parents and educators worked side by side, not in opposition. When schools cared more about wonder than numbers.

So if you know a teacher — any teacher — thank them. Not with a mug or a gift card, but with your words. With your respect. With your understanding that behind every test score is a heart that cared enough to try.

Because in a world that often overlooks them, teachers are the ones who never forget our children.

[Corey Smith @mcoreysmith]

@vulturetrades Dumbass move..

[Corey Smith @mcoreysmith]

@EspaciodeLlaves @BonkDaCarnivore This guy is such a fucking joke

[Corey Smith @mcoreysmith]

@I_Am_The_ICT What a stupid f****** question

[Corey Smith @mcoreysmith]

@couragee__ Fire...

[Corey Smith @mcoreysmith]

@WCSOFL Prayers going out to WCSO and deputy's family... Tragic

[Corey Smith @mcoreysmith]

@dannystrades Lol... Bro get fucked, you've already proven to us what kind of man you are, next stop is to delete that x account.

[Corey Smith @mcoreysmith]

@StockMKTNewz Appreciate you Evan always informative

[Corey Smith @mcoreysmith]

@I_Am_The_ICT This from the fucktard that said it was never going to 100k..delete the account bro.

[Corey Smith @mcoreysmith]

@Emmonspired I've enjoyed following you but the last few weeks on your time line have been a fucking train wreck... Either man up and start from the bottom like we all have done or just delete Twitter but all this constant complaining about being down and out/out of time is just ridiculous

[Corey Smith @mcoreysmith]

@rhensing This might be the dumbest shit I've seen on x in the last month lol..400 lbs of feed will go on the back of any civic much less a full size truck...complete dumbass

[Corey Smith @mcoreysmith]

@rhensing Your a complete fucking idiot to think that you can't haul 400 lbs of anything in any other truck besides a ct...where did you come up with that?

[Corey Smith @mcoreysmith]

@tradingchik You are such a fucking bitch and I absolutely love it... Thanks for calling out these sorry fuckers... This dude especially....completely and utterly full of shit this one

[Corey Smith @mcoreysmith]

@ExclusiveDUI @elonmusk Exactly

[Corey Smith @mcoreysmith]

@LoveHerMo God Bless you bro... Dont know you but keep the faith.. You'd be surprised...

[Corey Smith @mcoreysmith]

@BAMinvestor @SECGov Bro shut the fuck up with all that amc conspiracy theory bullshit... Amc going to 0 thanks to your sorry ass ceo... I don't even know why your still holding