Natasha Lewis

All-Star Comics #22,1944, ask students to discuss - “Using textual and visual evidence, what do you notice?” When they are done, ask them to look again at the text if no one noticed that “under God” is missing Tie this in to the Cold War: why the pledge was changed in 1954. Comics = artifacts.

What am I worried about?
-Safety of 30k US troops in the Middle East
-cybersecurity (since CISA was recently gutted) & homeland security (as HLS focused on immigration)
-Economic strength (oil prices and tariffs)
-Allied assistance (we’ll need that now)
-Domestic intell (leadership at FBI/DNI)

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

And so the United States goes to war with Iran without so much as a by your leave to the American people.

No statement, other than on social media; no notice to Congress; no serious deliberation.

This is the stuff of autocrats. Disgraceful.

Very cool!!

I’d argue that rigorous and academically challenging work builds a strong classroom rapport.

We do hard shit together 💛

Sometimes, before they thrive, THEY FIGHT.

I spend so much time convincing students that thinking is worthwhile and important. And that what they have to say is worthwhile and important.

Once they do it though?! Magical. Unstoppable. Undefeated.

San Diego showing up ✊

I’m proud to have been part of that drop! 💪🏻

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This 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Btw, that means in the last 24 hours we've had:

-Cory Booker going for a record in holding the floor
-Ruben Gallego putting a hold on VA nominees over cuts to veterans care
-Adam Schiff putting a hold on Ed Martin's nomination for DC US attorney over... a lot

That's a genuinely good start.

It is not lost on me that this responsibility should not have fallen on a Black person. Black people shouldn’t keep having to put their bodies on the line to defend and protect this country. Seeing that no one else did, I’m grateful to Sen Booker for stepping up

If a Black man erasing a racist white man from the record books while defending human rights and fighting the segregationist regime trying to take over this country doesn’t inspire you, I’m not sure what will. A different future is possible. Thank you for giving us that hope, @Cory Booker ❤️

Nightly votive in the porch garden.

"Now is the time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow." — W. E. B. Du Bois
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I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important:

Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

The Usher halftime show came and went...
Rih announced a pregnancy during hers and it lasted one business day...

We on Day 5 of heated discussion abt Kendrick's halftime show.

5.
Whole.
Days.
And.
Counting.

...but I'm supposed to believe it was trash.

Oooh this is really nifty!!!

Kendrick Lamar's Superbowl performance is why funding arts and humanities matters. We have Kendrick because his teacher introduced him to poetry and writing.

The most aggravating thing in all this (to me) is the sheer number of you, who believe Black people got high-paying jobs on account of their skin color and not their qualifications. That standards were lowered for us, when the truth is the bars are 10 times higher for us.

Yes!! So many places close so early!

Tweet from Pete Buttigieg

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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

"If you choose not to decide,
You still have made a choice."
-RUSH, "Freewill"

You know what makes me the most sad?

During the Civil War, we praised the Underground Railroad.

During World War II, we praised The Resistance and the Partisans who hid Jews.

Now a large chunk of America wants to turn in those who hide oppressed people.

We’re going backwards.

AOC spot on , this is what leadership looks like.

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last.

Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.