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@espn for the love of anything! PLEASE teach play by play and color analyst learn how to say Appalachian State. Even better, just say AppState. Mispronounced names are a constant insult. @appstatesports
Administrators, take care of the ones who take care of the students. It creates a dynamic positive school culture. Remember the teachers working environment is the students learning environment.
Dear Ma & Pa MAGA,
While you’re out there stomping your feet & pounding your chest about Trump’s slew of indictments being “Election Interference blah blah” let’s have a look at the facts, shall we:
Cyrus Vance (NY DA at the time) began issuing subpoenas in the hush money payment case in August of 2019.
Fani Willis launched her investigation into Trump in 2021.
The United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack opened their investigation in July of 2021.
Letitia James filed her fraud charges into the Trump Org in September of 2022.
The National Archives first asked Donald Trump to return the classified documents he took in May of 2021.
He only returned some, not all. So, in March of 2022, the FBI opened and investigation. That August, they searched Mar-a-Lago.
Donald Trump announced his candidacy on November, 15, 2022.
So, it seems a lot less like he’s being indicted in the middle of his campaign, and a lot more like he is campaigning in the middle of his indictments.
And I know that facts are about as useful to you as a dictionary and a cousin-less dating pool, but that doesn’t make them any less true.
Just had folks come to my door wanting to evangelize. I politely declined and offered a cold water to take along.
We hear a lot about lgbtq ppl trying to indoctrinate everyone else. But I’ve never - not even once - had an lgbtq person come to my door to talk me into being lgbtq.
Mike Flynn perfectly recapitulates the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” a vile antisemitic hoax created by the Tsars at the turn of the 20th century, which has been remixed & repurposed throughout history, including to help generate the Third Reich.
The “Elders” were a fictional cabal of Jewish elites who were supposedly executing a takeover of the world which would ultimately end in the genocide of “goyim” aka white Christians. Much like Pizzagate and QAnon, the fiction of the “Protocols” also included blood-drinking, Satanism, & pedophilia.
The “WEF” which Flynn continuously uses as a target has a prominent member named Yuval Noah Harari who is a Jewish non-fiction writer that Flynn and his colleagues ritually, deceptively clip to ridicule and scapegoat as “evil.”
When Flynn says there is “a globalist elite takeover of the United States” and “we are in a battle against them” he’s plagiarizing both the Russians and the Nazis—two of his and Steve Bannon’s biggest influences.
#ArrestMikeFlynn
WHY ARE TEACHERS LEAVING THE PROFESSION?
•Inadequate preparation for new teachers
•Lack of support
•Class sizes
•They are worked to the bone
•Low salaries
•Little to no recognition
•Their time isn’t respected
•Better opportunities elsewhere
MUST DO BETTER! #Edu
A billionaire, a middle-class worker, and an immigrant are seated at a table on which are 100 cookies. The billionaire takes 99, then whispers to the working person, "Look out! That immigrant is going to steal your cookie."
I am 55 years old.
America is the only country I've ever known.
And I love my country.
When I was in school, I learned about the horrors of slavery. Sure, it was a limited education, but I totally got the gist of it.
We learned how people were taken from Africa, and how many DIED during the journey here, forced to labor in hot fields while being whipped, raped, deprived of education, and murdered.
In fact, when I was young, there was a mini-series on TV called Roots that depicted the brutality of slavery in horrifyingly explicit detail.
And then I did my OWN research, reading more books and watching more documentaries and movies.
But somehow, I was able to maintain my love of America. Despite all of the cruelty and brutality I had learned about, I was somehow able to figure out that the people alive in America today had NOTHING TO DO with slavery 200 years ago.
Somehow, I can still say the Pledge of Allegiance and sing the Star Spangled Banner, no problem.
But dishonest fascists like Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Ron DeSantis want to deprive American children of the knowledge of slavery, and African American studies because they say it's "propaganda leftist agenda" designed to teach kids to “hate America.”
That's a preposterous lie.
There are PLENTY of evils and horrors America is responsible for, and if you don't teach kids what happened in the past they may be DOOMED to repeat those horrors in the future.
Today's kids are being asked to treat as normal these "shooter drills" where the possibility of being shot with bullets that make them unrecognizable is a very real possibility, but we think they can't handle learning the truth about what happened 200 years ago?
If you ask me, those of us who learned the truth about America, and STILL love our country, are even more patriotic than those who are trying to whitewash it and hide the truth from kids.
Don't minimize it.
Don't rationalize it, with bullshit like "oh, it wasn't all bad because some people learned skills."
RESPECT THESE KIDS.
TELL THEM THE TRUTH.
@MoRocca Hey Mo! Loved your Charleston, SC performance. You are a fantastic storyteller. Also, I apologize… I am the audience member who defined poisonous/venomous. :/
“Whenever I’m about to do something, I think ‘Would an idiot do that?’ and if they would, I do not do that thing.” – Dwight Schrute
And what is the best way to spot an idiot? Look for the person who is cruel.
@AppstateBkstr Good try. Colors rip off Patagonia. Words rip off Alabama. No sir, I don’t like it. Replace “Roll Neers” with “Go Apps.” Done. Fixed it.