@THMcGuire

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Progressive living in a rural community. My neighbors are a mystery to me.

Honestly… I thought that the Christian Rapture was a religious concept going back to the very beginning of the religion.

Nope. John Nelson Darby created it in the 1800s, after he had a fall and a knocked his nogging real hard.

Look him up. It’s a hoot.

Not every strange feeling is a problem to fix. Sometimes it’s just your brain stretching its legs and walking around the room a bit. #gooderliving
You don’t actually need to understand everything you’re doing. Most of your life already runs on "seems about right" and surprisingly, that’s been enough so far. #gooderliving

Featured story: "I returned to #Texas—not because I expected to fit in, but because it is home. And through a circuitous career path, I found myself a librarian sitting at the circulation desk of a high school library in Abilene." https://www.texasobserver.org/abilene-isd-librarian-book-ban/

#education #schools #politics #USpol #censorship #FreeSpeech #news

How a High School Librarian in Abilene Fought Back Against Moms for Liberty 

I entered this profession just as the storm clouds of the current book-banning push were starting to gather; now I’m in the middle of it.

The Texas Observer

To put it more succinctly: the way my job is structured "teaching" is thought of as something I do in a classroom with students. Maybe "teaching" is also grading papers and writing comments about how students are doing.

But teaching is also developing materials, deciding what to teach, how to teach it. Research, testing lesson ideas, refining them, tailoring the lessons to particular groups of students, or individual students.

Saturday, Peeps.

Saturday!

You don’t need to sign up for anything.

Just Google-find a meeting point, and show up!

The internal fuel of mass protest.

The proof that you’re not alone.

The proof that the majority is AGAINST this regime.

The energy boost to resistance of all kinds.

Go!
treat yourself like you would a best friend
On the new "What Works" podcast, Zuri tells Ellen Clegg and me how the The Banner, a nonprofit startup, is reviving local news in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. #journalism https://whatworks.news/2026/03/23/zuri-berry-tells-us-how-the-banner-a-nonprofit-startup-is-reviving-local-news-in-dcs-maryland-suburbs/
Zuri Berry tells us how The Banner, a nonprofit startup, is reviving local news in DC’s Maryland suburbs

On the latest “What Works” podcast, Ellen and Dan talk with Zuri Berry, the executive editor of The Banner in Montgomery County, Maryland. He’s also a Boston Globe colleague of El…

What Works

There is
A swarm
Of bees
In my chest
That I call
Anger,
And if I open
My mouth
They’ll come
Out in droves
And blacken
The sky.

#poetry