Teaching is performance. Art.

Joined October 2008
I owe my Trump-supporting friends an apology.  I’ve been critical of the Trump presidency these last four years, and am still exhausted from the experience. But to be fair, President Trump wasn’t that bad, other than
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R.I.P boiled water. You will be mist.
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A few observations about advocating for common sense gun policy as a term limited state senator of eight years and a gun owner in Nebraska. A thread 🧵
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It takes a monster to kill children. But to watch monsters kill children again and again and do nothing isn’t just insanity—it’s inhumanity.
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A direct message I received from an Iowa teacher in a small city during the Govs speech this evening:
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Whoa. Powerful piece by Detroit artist Jonathan Harris, entitled “Critical Race Theory.”
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HOW MANY SHOTS WILL WE NEED TO GET?
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2.9 million Americans die annually, so some die after vaccination. Today’s MI papers offer a full-page sad story of a teen who got vaccine & died. Such stories amplify vaccine fears, thanks to the availability heuristic overwhelming risk data….though if one reads far enough the
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.@JKCorden and an array of Broadway friends bid farewell to President Trump, Les Mis style.
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If you listened to Kim Reynolds' Condition of the State address tonight, you would have no idea that we're still in the middle of a pandemic and cases are rising again. You'd think that was over and done!
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From a northwest Iowa newspaper: 2 instances of graffiti in 2 different counties just days after the US Capitol riots. CIVIL WAR and BIDEN VOTERS R TRASH spraypainted on the ground. esthervillenews.net/news/loc…
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(All conciliatory Trump statements are subject to aggressive backtracking, we'll see what Trump says out loud, etc. But this is over.)
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A central argument from the Trump campaign was that Biden would let mobs roam free without condemnation.
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If a Morehouse man becomes a U.S. Senator, while a Howard alumna is the Vice-President, and both were aided by a Spelman woman, I NEVER NEVER NEVER want to hear any more talk about HBCU's not preparing you for the "real world".
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In any other conceivable moment in US history, this tape would result in the leadership of both parties demanding the immediate resignation of the President of the United States. cnn.com/videos/politics/2021…
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Today in Iowa, six electors will meet at 10:30 a.m. inside the state capitol to cast their votes for president and vice president. Gov. Kim Reynolds and Sec. of State Paul Pate will be there as well. #iaelection #ElectoralCollege
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Iowa is number 3 on this list at 31%
Nate Silver
@NateSilver53815 Nov 2020
Use with caution, but some quick-and-dirty estimates of the share of each state's population ever infected with COVID. These assume—per various expert studies/estimates—that about 1 in 11 infections were detected in March through mid-May but that's improved to about 1 in 3 now.
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Another bad 24 hours for #COVID19 in Iowa. @weareiowa5news has the latest numbers (Nov. 13 at 9 a.m. to Nov. 14 at 9 a.m.) -10,311 tested -4,430 individuals positive -42.96% positivity rate -5,691 negative tests -25 deaths -100 LTC outbreaks -1279 hospitalized
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.@jlsalinas7 said in a meeting with Johnson County area leaders and health professionals that UIHC is getting calls from hospital leaders hundreds of miles away, asking if they have bed space. The entire Midwest is experiencing shortages due to #COVID19. bit.ly/2UrSalm
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