Amy O'Neal

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Your daily updates remind me that effective resistance can be small and steady steps that add up.

On heavy repeat this whole summer!!

This thread 100%

and too many of us are wedded to a theater of love that makes us feel good but does not compel us towards goodness

Flyer with red background and blue figures waving flags. Text of flyer states "Wear red Tuesday" and "Protect our Kids day of action March 4 join our nationwide movement to demand that lawmakers fully funded public education and protect our schools" sponsored by National Education Association and Washington Education Association, featuring the organizations' logos. #protectourkids

Please participate on a day of visibility and write your state and federal representatives to demand funding for public education!

August 31 😳 The kids tried to get me to repeat this for Halloween but I drove directly to the donation center after school to never see that shirt again! 🤣🤣🤣

If it helps, I almost had to retire from teaching at 48 after I was foolish enough to walk in to a middle school dressed like this, thinking the entire 8th grade wasn't gonna roast me for looking like Dora.

Poetry Prompts for Detained Children Write about the untouchable. Something out of arm’s reach, like freedom...

“Write about the untouchable. Something out of arm’s reach, like freedom, the stars, or you.”

There is no rush. This is a message for the long haul!

There are so many layers to this performance. Suffice to say, The Resistance has leveled up.

Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation. The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything

My latest.

As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.

I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.

Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.

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OK, then, Greg T, who gangs up with other "reds" to belittle students at the school board meeting.

Image of Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan's magnificence and her quote, "I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution," at the House Judiciary Committee Impeachment inquiry of President Nixon July 25, 1974.

Happy Black History Month to an immediately relevant lesson from Rep. Jordan.

Gray, cloudy sky and plowed, snowy road with tire tracks through some deeper drifts of snow.

Braving the wind to get a few steps in and to check the main road. It's a good day to make some cookies while calling my representatives!

I suggest those that think this is Nazi shit really truly educate themselves. There would have been no Nazi Germany takeover without the blue print of Jim Crow. Period. So cut it out and keep it in house cause that’s where the starting point is. HERE.

A Christmas tree with multicolored lights and assorted ornaments, casting light on the darkened wall behind it.

My first post here after a few months of listening and learning. Just took my tree down, but leaving it here to be a light in these darkening days.

Raw milk is one of those ideas that can really only take hold when people haven't seen a cow. if you see a cow from let's say ten feet or less you immediately understand the problem that pasteurization is solving

A validating thread

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seems newsworthy, can’t wait to hear about it showing up in paragraph 47 of another piece about how biden is old

I’ve been thinking about our understandable despair a lot lately. Let’s reframe:

My outrage at systemic violence and calamity is an extension of my love and joy. But I *live* rooted in love and joy.

This joyful life is the best apocalypse I’ve ever had. And that’s why I will always fight for it.

The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it right.
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