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“Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time.” So opens “A Talk to Teachers,” which James Baldwin delivered to a group of educators in October, 1963.
James Baldwin’s Lesson for Teachers in a Time of Turmoil
Rigorous lessons are not mutually exclusive from culturally and politically relevant ones.
www.newyorker.com
August 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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clancyny.bsky.social
NYT: The Border Is Invading America

By Jean Guerrero

"The U.S.-Mexico border is no longer just a line on a map; it is a roaming force drifting through our cities and ravaging schools, courthouses and workplaces. It has become unmoored from geography." @jeanguerre.bsky.social Gift link!
Opinion | The Border Is Invading America
www.nytimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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nanjala.bsky.social
The MNBA could never. #wnba
voxindie.bsky.social E 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @voxindie.bsky.social · Sep 1
Angela Davis honored at tonight’s Valkyries game. I 💜 San Francisco. #WNBA #GoldenState
Angela Davis honored
September 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
maywaltz.bsky.social
Left a perfectly good party at 10pm last night because I had to run in the morning. Is this how it happens? Am I a runner now?
April 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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triciamatthew.bsky.social
Lucille Clifton

evergreen, each new year 🩵❄️
January 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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ynpierce.bsky.social
Of course they are coming for the Blacksonian. We knew this would happen, but we also know there are some things you can't destroy.
Poem from Lucille Clifton which reads: "they ask me to remember, but they want me to remember their memories, and I keep on remembering mine."
March 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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ecmclaughlin.bsky.social
Someone beloved brought this poem back to me today, decades after I first read it, and then said “let it fail again today.”

And so I am sharing with you.
won't you celebrate with me Lucille Clifton, 1936 - 2010 won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.
April 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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sprawlhater.bsky.social
Lucille Clifton talking about the bus (and much more)
whose side are you on? the side of the busstop woman trying to drag her bag up the front steps before the doors clang shut i am on her side i give her exact change and him the old man hanging by one strap his work hand folded shut as the bus doors i am on his side when he needs to leave i ring the bell i am on their side riding the late bus into the same someplace i am on the dark side always the side of my daughters the side of my tired sons
April 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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ryancagle.com
"If the hungry do not come to faith, the guilt falls on those who denied them bread."

—Bonhoeffer
April 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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cbthesurvivor.bsky.social
Too much news. Need more olds
April 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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xkcd.com
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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amobstwriter.bsky.social
Death did not arrive with black cloaks, scythes or skeletal pointing; no, it landed on the sill with a flutter and a #chirp.
"Come, beloved," it said, its eyes sparkling. "Your feathers are beautiful. Shake out your wings and soar with me in the heavens. This has always been your destiny."

#whistpr
April 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Many of us went completely insane.

Ben Mirov @sixthfinch.bsky.social
Ben Mirov | ABRACADABRA First, he pulled a rabbit out of his hat. Then he began to weep. He wept so profusely and with such sincerity that some of us felt uncomfortable and left. One woman offered her handkerchief, which he politely refused and continued to cry into his white gloved hands. Soon a little music began to emanate, and we realized this was the show we had come to see. A young girl appeared from out of nowhere. We humbly thank you for your patronage, she said. Please tip your waiter and drive home safe, and that was all. The red velvet curtain closed, and we sat together in the dim light of a few smoldering candles. Slowly, one by one, we returned to our lives, which were no longer sacred, but something like tar. None of us remembered who we had been, nor could we recognize what we’d become. Not even the wind seemed to remember its name and blew through the world like an anonymous ghost. Many of us went completely insane. A few people decided to start new lives. One woman became an exceptional baker. A man named Louis built a boat from his dreams. I decided to return to my life which I love more than anything, even fresh snow. Outside in the wan moonlight, I took a breath of cool night air and prepared myself to reappear.
April 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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clintsmithiii.bsky.social
Arsenal really beat Madrid home and away and truly were the better team. Can’t believe it. Incredible work from the boys. Huge credit to Arteta. I don’t think all our fans appreciate how solid he has made us.
April 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
maywaltz.bsky.social
Not the toaster attempting to give up on me in the middle of a tariff war.
April 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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handle.invalid
Kuwa president sio rais
April 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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nanjala.bsky.social
One of the simplest and purest pleasures of all: standing around talking for two hours after the first time you said good night.
April 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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mayacpopa.bsky.social
“To what purpose, April, do you return again?”
April 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
maywaltz.bsky.social
Wueh. Ni kama nimebant. 🫠🙃. Ebu I collect myself.
March 31, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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frovo.bsky.social
WAITER: anything for dessert

ME: i’ll have pie

WAITER: sorry we ran out of pie

ME: (knows math) that is literally impossible
March 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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jcsalterego.bsky.social
julius caesar's chariot with a bumper sticker reading IDES RATHER BE AT THE COLOSSEUM
March 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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gatimo.bsky.social
German Spy Film - The Lives of Others
(Das Leben der Anderen)

What a film!! Excellent
March 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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rahallclifford.bsky.social
Really tired of making lemonade, surely life has other ingredients
March 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM