Allison Mitchell

Mum. Teacher. Director. Actor. Half Canadian. Wholly Buffalo. UNION!

[Allison Mitchell @mitchellACEM]

Happy to report kids are still watching this. When I left my old school, on my last day, my 10th graders did this to me. It was…remarkable.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

This is love.

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

Happy #PrideMonth from Sesame Street! Join us in celebrating and uplifting the LGBTQIA+ members of our community. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[Val @VK_HM]

Well, he has tenure

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

The final ep of Moonlighting aired OTD in 1989, and went full meta. Bruce Willis & Cybill Shepherd race to save their own characters, David & Maddy, from cancellation, because when the show ends they'll literally cease to exist. It even admits why Moonlighting ultimately failed

[Royal Canadian Navy @RoyalCanNavy]

For over 2,000 days in WWII, Canadians defended the North Atlantic. 🌊🇨🇦 More than 4,600 sailors, merchant mariners, and aviators lost their lives protecting vital supply routes.

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

On May 2, 1986, Expo 86 opened.
The second World's Fair to be held in Canada, it showcased Vancouver to the world and its success helped lead to the 2010 Winter Olympics.
This is the story of Expo 86!

📸 Vancouver Public Library

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[Jeremy R. Hansen @Astro_Jeremy]

Lors d’Artemis II, j’ai eu l’honneur d’avoir avec moi les réflexions de Sa Majesté le roi Charles III sur la science, la responsabilité et le sens du sacré, qui ont trouvé écho chez tout l’équipage. @RoyalFamily

[Jeremy R. Hansen @Astro_Jeremy]

I was honoured to carry the words of His Majesty King Charles III on Artemis II. His reflections on science, responsibility, and what we hold sacred stayed close, all the way around the Moon and back to Earth. @RoyalFamily

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

LBJ signs Voting Rights Act, US Capitol Rotunda, 1965.

[Allison Mitchell @mitchellACEM]

He’s right. Books are magic. ❤️

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

Carl Sagan on books:

"What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years."

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

Last night my wife and I tried to come up with all the ways in which ‘ough’ can be pronounced.

1. rough (uff)
2. through (oo)
3. thought (aw)
4. plough (ow)
5. cough (off)
6. though (oh)
7. thorough (uh)
8. hiccough (up)
9. lough (och)

Non-stop excitement in our house, clearly.

[Nicki 🫧🪷 @nickimoraa]

So you’re telling me that the Moon’s many craters are from billions of years protecting Earth by pulling space rocks into her orbit. The moon who is depicted as a woman in countless cultures and timelines? You’re saying her craters and stretch marks are evidence of care? Has someone informed the poets about this?

[Allison Mitchell @mitchellACEM]

All of this. All. Of. THIS!

[Definitely Not Al Gore 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇵🇸 @AlDefinitely]

It was the best of times.

It was the worst of times.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

I knew I heard something

[riley⸆⸉💫 @lightsgowild]

"Integrity and Carroll Crater, loud and clear"❤️‍🩹

They named a crater after Reid's wife. I'm sobbing. Jeremy said, "it's a bright spot on the moon"

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

Bruce Springsteen closed his concert in Minneapolis by paying tribute to Renée Good and encouraging fans to heed John Lewis's famous call to "get into good trouble."

"These are the hard times, but we'll make it through. We're the Americans. But I think — I know — for me, the hardest part about all of this is feeling the distance between your neighbors, your fellow citizens, and that distance… well, it can darken your soul. Now we have a leader who says he wishes nothing but ill upon the people he disagrees with, and who disagree with him. I don't feel that way. America, from the beginning, was born out of disagreement. It was built on disagreement. We can argue about what course we thought the country should take while recognizing our common humanity, our dignity and, yes, our unity...

"I go back to thinking about Renée Good's last words before she died, to the man who she was protesting against, the man who would take her life. She said, 'That's fine, dude, I’m not mad at you. I'm not mad.' God bless her.

"So tonight, when you go home, hold your loved ones close. And tomorrow, do as Renée did, find a way to take aggressive, peaceful action to defend our country’s ideals. And as the great civil rights leader John Lewis said, 'Go out and get into some good trouble. Say something. Do something. Help! Sing something!' If you're feeling helpless, hopeless, betrayed, frustrated, angry … I know I've been. That's why The E Street Band is here tonight. This is a tour that was not planned. We’re here tonight because we need to feel your hope, and your strength. And we want to bring some hope and some strength for you. I hope we did that. All I can say is God bless Alex Pretti, God bless Renée Good, God bless you, and God bless America."

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