🥱 Sara

UNT alumni. Poet. M. Ed. Trying to make this place better.

[🥱 Sara @smallisonwrites]

✨My poem “Ethics Theory” is out today in @volumepoetry ✨

Super grateful to the editors at Volume for giving this poem a home. Read it here: https://t.co/4Kthgv8HLZ

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Turns out my biggest mistake might have been believing people were inherently good…

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

🕯️

[Texas Tribune @TexasTribune]

A group of 111 OB-GYNs in Texas released a letter to elected state leaders Sunday urging them to change abortion laws they say have prevented them from providing lifesaving care to pregnant women.

https://t.co/ymJJalMwFq

[Regina Rosenfeld @ReginaRosenfeld]

Sean Thomas Dougherty:

(from The Second O of Sorrow)

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I’ve been all over the country in the last month.

And I get asked the same question, over and over again:

“I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?”

Here is my answer:

[Colin Allred @ColinAllredTX]

Early Voting starts TOMORROW, Texas! 🗳️

Voting early is easy and you can vote early from October 21 until November 1. Make sure you have a plan to make to vote by finding your early voting location here: https://t.co/TQhD7kNhH4

[Colin Allred @ColinAllredTX]

The person we elect as our Senator in November will represent us until 2030.

We need someone who will actually do the job. That person is not Ted Cruz.

[🥱 Sara @smallisonwrites]

Once I had a student with a terrible cough. The student asked for a cough drop, but I can’t give one so I sent the student to our campus nurse. The nurse then called the parent to bring some because we cannot give any meds that haven’t been brought by the parent.

Cough drops.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: Your child goes to school and they take your child. It was a he and comes back a she. And they do this. And often without parental consent.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

this kills me

[The Nation @thenation]

“How can I ever get free?” Plath wrote in October 1962. “My writing is my one hope, and that income is so small.” Lynne Feeley reviews @EmilyVanDuyne's "Loving Sylvia Plath." https://t.co/iFxIu1wJAq

[Colin Allred @ColinAllredTX]

We don’t have to be embarrassed by our Senator, we can get a new one. https://t.co/gBOddThdOf

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

We must abolish the death penalty.

[Miss Aja @brat2381]

Are y’all paying attention Texas voters?

[Gabino Iglesias @Gabino_Iglesias]

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

[Ben Wexler @mrbenwexler]

I’m a single issue voter

I want us to continue to be able to vote