Old Cranky Teacher
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Old Cranky Teacher
@readwriteteach.bsky.social
Local scold, my superpower is fretting.

Anti crypto; pro library.

Can darn socks.
The oligarchs drool at the thought.

We need to starve them out with our own practices and policies.

They're more afraid of a new New Deal than violent overthrow.

The idea of a truly progressive tax code makes them shit their hundred-dollar knickers.
November 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
P.S. While I deeply appreciate your persistence in the use of the term Defense Department, I still am confused.
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Dear NBC,
I'm in the second graf of this story and I do not understand what is happening. Yes, I've had a cocktail. I can still read better than 80 percent of the US population.
I will read further in hopes of illumination.
Still, this needlessly complex reporting.
November 20, 2025 at 3:24 AM
My retired LEO sister pointed out that the Felon's people have total control of AF1.
This fully explains why no one in the press spoke up and, more importantly, explains why the people in charge of that plane let this tape go public.

It might a "Blink if you need help," moment.
#RECALLTHEFELON
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
If I may, that catbird seat came courtesy of a big beautiful tax code that required the Business Elite to pay their fair share.

We've not seen any sign of that excellent view and its associated taxation since 1980.

Most USAmericans have no concept of this requirement for the luckiest among us.
November 20, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Gen X gave Trump his highest margins.
Boomers gave him most raw votes, but of course mitigated that by giving close to the same number of votes to Harris.

We can start solving shit by not wasting more time on generational warfare. Bottom line is white males across a generational spectrum did bad.
November 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Not a Boomer.
Whatever I am, I am grateful not to have your unfocused loathing in my heart.
I am sorry for your pain.
November 20, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Of course, for bitching.
Thanks.
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
It's beneath most people with any empathy or math skills to go after Boomers, a generation dying more quickly every day. The real villains are those who stayed home.

For more chart-posting fun look up the latest US actuarial tables. Boomers are leaving their mortal coils faster than we can count.
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
...or is it bitchin? Too lazy to look it up.
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 AM
A man calling a woman "piggy" codes far worse than bitch. Bitches can be bitchen and wield real power.
I'd not be surprised to learn that this is one of his family curses for those who cross some arbitrary line set by the authority/patriarch.
November 19, 2025 at 5:04 AM
How about you go after the 90 million voters who sat 2024 out?

1960s-70s anti-war, civil rights, feminist activists have been heroes my whole life. I'm on the cusp between Boomers & X and have fought tooth & nail since my first vote.

Margins matter, my sister, & more Boomers die every day.
November 19, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Forgive me if you've already answer this, I'm still scanning.

Didn't the Patriot Act make all of this Papers Please BS possible everywhere within 100 mile band inside the border or coastline?
October 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Hmm.
Maybe we should pay a little more attention to a virus whose opening salvo turned blood into pudding.
October 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I wish every teacher in the USA would read this JAMA study and the one just released about children: www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
Second Infection Doubles Long COVID Risk in Kids
Post-acute sequelae of virus may become a long-term problem for many children
www.medpagetoday.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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I never stopped wearing a mask.

My mother gets a cold- it turns into bronchitis. She gets Covid or flu- she could get pneumonia.

Damn Covid is still a beast.
October 11, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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According to legend, JFK asked a NASA janitor what his job was, and the janitor proudly proclaimed “I’m helping to send a man to the moon.”

Wherever you work and whatever you do, the principle applies.
October 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Seems like a great time to abolish the Electoral College
October 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Also good on @cbschicago.bsky.social for running the footage of press being tear gassed and protestors including @katmabu.bsky.social being brutalized.

Quick before the "Free Press" era begins.
October 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM