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@lesterryan

Raised on Star Wars, Star Trek, Mr. Rogers, Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow, and video games. Oh and I attempt to teach teenagers science.

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Then your dumbass shouldn’t have attacked Iran.

06.03.2026 23:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why doesn’t the Maine Democratic Party kick him off the ballot?

06.03.2026 23:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Looks like the guys in Double Dribble shooting a 3.

That’s an old timey reference right there.

06.03.2026 22:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A lot of people making crude jokes online, but frankly, I don’t think high oil prices are that funny.

06.03.2026 18:42 πŸ‘ 441 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 12

"Thank you for coming. We are We Are God's Shame."

06.03.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The vast majority of children who get gender affirming surgeries are the thousands of cis girls getting medically unnecessary breast implants, with their parents' consent, each year

Meanwhile, single digits of transmasc teenagers (17 year olds, not 12 year olds) get top surgery, again w/ consent

06.03.2026 17:55 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

People need to stop shitting o. The kids and what they can or can’t do.

Old people always complain about β€œkids today”.

How about we try to understand and listen to them instead of judge and complain?

06.03.2026 17:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Teaching at the higher ed level, I'm so grateful to have taught middle schoolers for 15 years. At every level, our students deserve a level of empathy and grace that the world isn't offering.

I can feel some of my students needing to be seen. That alone motivates the hidden curriculum in my work.

06.03.2026 16:52 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

I hope we get the House and Senate back in midterms to the point that we can end this presidency.

High hopes for sure but hope is all I have left and most of that is gone.

06.03.2026 17:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A living wage, free childcare, free health care, fully funded schools, open borders with pathways to citizenship, UBI, and raises in social security.

Paid for by a trillion dollar cut to the DoD and taxing the wealthy like it is 1950 not on their income but on their wealth, property, and loans.

06.03.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was promised that if I went to school and got job that I would have a good life.

Meanwhile the government keeps taking my money, bombing countries, destroying our economy, and passing all of our wealth to 300 billionaires.

We need a woke FDR for the 21st century.

I want what I was promised.

06.03.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Stop counting and everything will be fine.

06.03.2026 17:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

New band name.

06.03.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What if this is fiddling with the reports and things are even worse?

06.03.2026 14:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We always seem to have hundreds of billions for shit like this but never to make a better life for our citizens.

I hate it here.

06.03.2026 13:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They fund it in Gaza. They're doing it to Venezuelan fisherman. They're doing it in Iran. They're doing it in the streets and in concentration camps to immigrants in the US. They've done it to US citizen protestors on the streets in Minnesota.

There are no limits to what they are capable of.

06.03.2026 13:31 πŸ‘ 916 πŸ” 223 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

For now I’ll take him over Johnson because it is better.

And

He should be replaced by someone more progressive and who isn’t taking AIPAC’s money.

06.03.2026 13:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We lived through the Bush era so…

06.03.2026 13:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This guy can fuck all the way off.

06.03.2026 03:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

But one is Muslim and one is white.

That would be the difference.

06.03.2026 02:06 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

President Trump has unilaterally taken our nation to war with Iran.

Just now, I voted YES on a resolution to put an end to this conflict. Unfortunately, the measure failed.

Rather than reining in this president and his out-of-control war, Republicans chose to endorse it.

05.03.2026 22:02 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

In his last term he just made them "acting" secretaries and nobody challenged him.

05.03.2026 19:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m frankly a bit surprised Trump fired Noem. It shows weakness and reminds people that accountability is possible.

05.03.2026 19:01 πŸ‘ 4800 πŸ” 626 πŸ’¬ 411 πŸ“Œ 68

In addition to everything else that sucks about Target, I can't even get toiletries without someone following me around with a key to open 7 different cabinets.

05.03.2026 17:36 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So what about those in the Epstein files? Why are you protecting them?

05.03.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What part of anything that he's done shows he cares at all about public opinion?

Elections are shifting +30 for Dems and he digs his heals in and moves further right.

05.03.2026 14:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Jimmy Carter sold his peanut farm and we are just out here letting Trump buy stocks in mergers he is approving.

05.03.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We all saw the video and heard the break.

05.03.2026 14:02 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One more thought.

I’ve always hated how old people always complain about β€œkids today” it is one of the oldest troupes.

Not sure where I read it, maybe a Guskey book, but it showed the a number of the basic articles complaining about studentss from the 1800s to today.

05.03.2026 02:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think that we do more to identify β€œdisabilities” than we used to.

And

We have destigmatized giving people the support they need to find success.

And

We have taught kids that with proper supports they can be successful.

And

We have taught kids to advocate for themselves instead of be silent.

05.03.2026 02:26 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0