sam

HS English Teacher📚

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

My father once told me the secret to a happy marriage.

“Stay out of the kitchen. Let her handle the holidays.”

I was 19. He was in his recliner.

My mother was cooking for 14 people.

She’d been up since 5 AM.

He’d been up since the football pregame.

I didn’t think anything of it.

That’s just how it was.

Fast forward 20 years.

I’m in the recliner.

My wife is in the kitchen.

She’s been up since 5 AM.

I’ve been up since the pregame.

My daughter walks by and I see her watching.

Not the TV.

Her mother.

Then me.

Then her mother again.

That’s when it hit me:

She’s taking notes.

My father taught me that holidays were for men to rest and women to work.

He didn’t say it.

He showed it.

Every Thanksgiving.
Every Christmas.
Every Easter.

The recliner passed from him to me like an inheritance I never asked for.

This morning I woke up at 4 AM.

Not for content.

For the turkey.

My wife found me in the kitchen at 6.

She didn’t say anything.

She just stood there.

Then she cried.

Your kids are taking notes.

Not on what you say.

On where you sit.

The recliner is an inheritance.

Be the generation that stands up.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

One of the honors of serving as President is having the "Presidential Challenge Coin" — a memento that I have handed out as President and in the years since to the folks I meet who have served our country or their communities. I was grateful to be able to greet veterans who served in Korea and Vietnam as they arrived in DC this weekend, and give them a personal token of my gratitude.

[Lauren Rinaldi 🧚‍♀️ @LRinaldiArt]

Oh no I really hope Bill Clinton isn’t in the Epstein files, I’ll have to get rid of my Bill Clinton hat and my Bill Clinton sneakers and my Bill Clinton cologne and my Bill Clinton watch and take down my Bill Clinton flag and I’ll have to delete my Bill Clinton nft trading cards

[𐌕 🍂 @fwtimini]

Nobody grew up with intentions of being a cleaner, cashier, security guard, taxi driver, car cleaner, or store general worker. We all had big dreams, but life happened. Respect people’s jobs.

[Senator John Hickenlooper @SenatorHick]

In the wealthiest country in the world, we are fighting about whether or not 16 MILLION people deserve to have health care.

It’s mind boggling.

[Dan Osborn @osbornforne]

There is nothing that pisses me off more than seeing an elderly person, far beyond retirement age, hunched over and working a cash register at a corporate chain store to pay their bills. This shouldn’t be normal in this country.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

I would like a Trump voter to explain to me why Trump receiving a luxury 747 from Qatar is a good idea

[trash jones @jzux]

“use AI or you’ll get left behind” oh no that’s ok you guys go on ahead i’ll be back here with my reading comprehension and critical thinking skills

[Emily 🍎🌟 @EDUwithEmily]

Sometimes teaching feels like you’re putting on a performance for an audience who doesn’t want to be there. 😬

[dushmanoevsky @chonkychihuahua]

someone at work said that a generation of kids growing up not reading books is a generation of kids not learning how to imagine what it's like to put themselves in someone else's shoes and understand how/why they feel what they do (empathy)

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

Everyone is sharing the clip where this goes off the rails, but if you watch the actual full sit down you’ll see it all turned sour at this moment. Which should have not have been controversial. Zelensky is allowed to make his case to the public. That’s why he’s here!

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

To be clear: this entire thing went off the rails because Zelensky made the catastrophically offensive move of pointing out the reality that Putin broke a ceasefire in 2015 and that when Vance talks about diplomacy, he can’t explain how Putin is a trustworthy partner.

Zelensky simply spoke the truth, which Vance deemed totally unacceptable and offensive because he was trying to “litigate” the issue in front of the press.

And then it unraveled from there. Just wild.

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

You can’t script this…

Me: Who is the biggest disinformation spreader on X?

Grok: Elon Musk

https://t.co/gdMr55C0uQ

[sam @sresendiz_]

!!!! If y’all didn’t realize this while watching… I have no words.. so so so goodddd

[Dr. Wendy Osefo @WendyOsefo]

So much symbolism in that #HalfTimeShow from the colors (red, white, and blue) to reflect America, to having all black men as dancers for specific songs, to the use of “Game Over” at the end. Most diabolical and thought out performance 👏🏾👏🏾#SuperBowl

[sam @sresendiz_]

Y’all ever heard of diversity being at fault for a plane crash?? God, what world am I living in😂

[Tyler Todt @tyromper]

My daughter (4th grade) says to me,

"But dad, out of 60 kids I'm one of only 3 in my grade WITHOUT a phone!"

Me: "I'm glad to know there's 2 other sets of great, intentional parents besides your mom & I!!"

My daughter: uhhhh dad......

HOLD THE LINE PARENTS.

Kids don't need access to EVERYTHING in the world so young.

Loving your kids isn't GIVING THEM EVERYTHING THEY WANT.

Loving your kids is teaching them:
•DISCIPLINE.
•DELAYING GRATIFICATION.
•SETTING HEALTHY BOUNDARIES.

It is absurd so many CHILDREN have phones.

Most adults can't use them responsibly.

You're setting your child up for failure handing them unrestricted access to everything so young.

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

I asked her why she thinks the situation has gotten so dire and she had several theories. Covid school closures. Online classes. Parents who aren’t invested in their children. The ubiquity of phones in schools, which makes it difficult for developing brains to focus.

[James A. Furey @JamesAFurey]

Student: “Why am I failing?

Me, thinking back to the times I told them to take notes, and to be quiet, and to retake the quiz they failed, and to study, and to turn in their assignment, and to work in class, and to do the reading only for them to do none of that: “You really can’t figure it out?”