high school teacher, aging soccer player, scribbler of words, chronic overthinker, rarely gets haircuts, he/him

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Joined December 2013
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I have just won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Let it bring hope Let it be a tale
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Submissions close April 5th! Send us your stuff!
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You've got till' Sunday❤️ #WritingCommunity
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Your literary journey starts here. Share your creations with Fahmidan Journal today. Submit here: buff.ly/3OYTRme
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The conversation about A.I. begins and ends with the Spongebob episode where King Neptune mass produces hundreds of disgusting Krabby Patties through magic and Spongebob handmakes one delicious Krabby Patty with love
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Now open for submissions for this anthology. Submit at terrapinbooks.com/what-the-h…
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📢Calling all poets📢 Only two weeks left to send in your love poems!
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Real recognize real grandad, and right now you looking kinda unfamiliar! 😂
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Toni Morrison said, “I do write towards something...The possibility of moving from data to information to knowledge to wisdom is the track of everything I have ever written.” This is also a good approach to teaching.
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With JD Vance looking like the Republican pick for vice president, a reminder that there's a great collection of activist and scholarly perspectives on him—Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy. A bunch of us worked on it at (no surprise) a university press.
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A dating app but it's just one picture of someone's bookshelves, one of their usual grocery haul, one of their pets, and one their thermostat
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🧵🧵There is a faction of people in Minneapolis whose limited imagination leads them to believe that the only path to safer communities is police funding & larger salaries for the police. But there are so many other options for the city of Minneapolis to actively pursue safety 1/
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“The first words I write aren’t necessarily the ones I want or will use, but those first words open doors. How else can the muse enter?” Toni Cade Bambara
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“This hurricane is a direct result of the climate crisis that Grenada, the Caribbean, and other Small Island Developing States are on the front line of.” Ecocide
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Tomorrow is the 1st. On the 1st, we’re open for Longies. Longies can be 2000- 7500 words. Gates open 9am ET. Gates close when we hit submission cap. We like it.
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There is something beautiful about having long term friends that have witnessed multiple versions of you and loved you unconditionally through each version
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Join a political home. Memorize phone numbers and streets in your towns. Learn how to fight, grow food, fish, fix wounds. create networks of skilled people to take care of each other. build intentional communities. We are on our own
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Theyhe SC Dept. of Education canceled AP African American Studies, @thegrio spoke with teachers, school administrators & superintendents to find out why SC essentially canceled the ONLY accredited HS course in Black History. THey all had the same answer. A thread.
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happy friday
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