@sandygassner.bsky.social
Retired educator, lifelong learner...Pepperdine OMET, TCNJ, NJ Excel, Howell HS Grad, Mom to 4, Gram to 10, wife to John, So long X...Twitter user since 2007...seeking blue skies!
I Look at This Country and I See a Stranger www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...
21.09.2025 12:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#NeverForget 9.11.01 💔 www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
11.09.2025 16:50 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The horror of these killer tornados and flash floods killing Americans should redouble our efforts to slow climate change and increase the National Weather Service enhanced warning systems. Instead this Administration is heading us in the opposite direction.
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A video about the Declaration of Independence. I'm proud of this one.
04.07.2025 03:34 — 👍 2782 🔁 1078 💬 126 📌 128Bernie Sanders thoughts are correct...We all need to be aware of what is really going on!
11.06.2025 15:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#LinManuelMiranda and the cast of #Hamilton remind us we are a nation of immigrants! Poignant words from then President and First Lady, #BarackObama #MichelleObama It's worth another watch today! youtu.be/Fb4GlOabb1M?...
11.06.2025 15:39 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The people and places we love and care about are worth protecting. Big polluters will try to enrich themselves by destroying our only home, but we refuse to let them take what's most precious to us.
Let Earth Day be a reminder that we have a future to win.
Thank you @booker.senate.gov for standing up for what is right! You made this lifelong NJ resident proud!!! Let’s all make our voices heard!
02.04.2025 01:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#DayofGiving Support the college of your choice or click the link below to show your love for NJ’s best, TCNJ or as we all knew it, Trenton State College.
dayofgiving.tcnj.edu/pages/home-2...
Planting this spring with the pollinators in mind. 🐝
26.03.2025 22:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“The ecosystem of research and the creation of new knowledge in universities has been so powerful for American prosperity, American freedom, American ingenuity. To have that disrupted by government overreach is a disaster for this country.” —Wesleyan University President Michael Roth on
@msnbc.com
If you care about fighting book bans, this toolkit from @uabookbans.bsky.social is a great place to start. It's full of tips, talking points, and lots more helpful stuff: buff.ly/TD2ppGI #UniteAgainstBookBans @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
12.03.2025 17:22 — 👍 26 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0How is it that Congress rebukes #AlGreen for his actions Tuesday night but does nothing to condemn #47 for calling the female senator from MA “Pocahontas?” Why is he allowed to bully a Senator? His actions are the opposite of everything we try to model for our children in schools and at home.
06.03.2025 17:19 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
#StandWithUkraine
28.02.2025 22:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Please pray for the people of #Ukraine I have never felt so disheartened by the actions of our government…earlier this week and then today. We have abandoned our allies.
28.02.2025 22:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Premise of the Trump regime & Supreme Court: Any diverse environment "is one in which white men have been discriminated against" b/c they "are by definition the most competent possible candidates." Read @adamserwer's brilliant analysis of the civil rights counterrevolution now underway: is.gd/w1D9BT
22.02.2025 14:33 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Ezra Klein explains “Non Player Characters” …our current Republican congress.
youtu.be/lckYPwQj_NM
I did an event in IN a few weeks ago where I said that on 1/6/21 Mike Pence saved the country (for now) by being one of very very few who stood by his principles under maximum threat.
19.02.2025 18:41 — 👍 26055 🔁 3252 💬 652 📌 139Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
At what cost DOGE? Among receipts on the DOGE wall was funding for a #DOE project that's now been scrapped. There are real-world consequences! Thirteen school districts in 11 states will not receive more than $13 million to support over 1,070 youth w/ disabilities participating in the program." 😢
20.02.2025 01:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Unite Against Book Bans logo above the text: Raise your voice. Join the movement. UniteAgainstBookBans.org.
If you believe that:
1) Reading is critical to our democracy.
2) Books help us understand complex issues.
3) Parents shouldn’t make decisions for other parents’ children.
4) Youth deserve to see themselves in books.
Join the campaign to #UniteAgainstBookBans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/
Winston Churchill was right: "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried.”
Too many Americans have fought and died defending democracy. We must stand with our European allies against the authoritarianism of Putin and Trump.
Hundreds of artists signed a letter sent to the National Endowment for the Arts asking it to reverse policy changes made as a result of recent executive orders issued by President Trump.
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NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.
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Shame on you #Apple and #Google maps and the complicit Republican members of Congress…It’s the Gulf of Mexico…can one man rename whatever he wants?…are we still the United States of America? Feels like we are becoming less and less united every day!
14.02.2025 15:55 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Share this book with your children, your students…the youngest generation needs to be reminded what a true leader sounds like…a most beautiful book in its words and illustrations…request if from your local library today! #mlk #trueleader #humanrights #beaking
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