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PSA for the year @GomezWCSD @Mr__Fabry @SchroederHS

@HillbillyHighl1 @Oldtimers365 I watch it 5 times every year as I teach the Holocaust to my 10th grade kiddos. I think I’m on my 100th watch. Find something new every year

@Oldtimers365 If Schindlers List doesn't get the nut, you'll be needing access to a defibrillator. I could never watch it again, but I feel like everyone should, at least once.

The Trump administration is once again refusing to call the effort by the Ottoman Empire to annihilate Armenians what it was — genocide. This is a tragic retreat from U.S. recognition of the genocide during the prior administration. whitehouse.gov/briefings-stat…

@Minuteman04 @AuntSassyAss I eat a banana every day

@AuntSassyAss Strawberries.

Friday fun 😁 What fruit could you eat everyday?

@Minuteman04 @bamagirl_4_eva All 14!!!

@bamagirl_4_eva 13

How many have you done?

Israelis destroying supplies meant to help the starving people of Gaza.

Today marks the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. As we honor the 1.5 million Armenians murdered by the Ottoman Empire across modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Armenia, we must refuse to let history repeat itself. In 2020, the military forces of Azerbaijan and Turkey attacked the Armenian population in Nagorno-Karabakh. In 2023, Azerbaijan expelled over 100,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, continuing the genocidal campaign that had begun over 100 years prior. On this day of remembrance, we reaffirm the right of the Armenian people — and all people — to freedom, safety, and self-determination.

European Council meeting. For the first time in years there are no Russians in the room. Huge relief.

5 years ago, Democrats introduced a bill to ban gerrymandering in every state nationwide. Every single Republican voted against it.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been formally nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2026. Retweet if you believe Zelenskyy deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

@Minuteman04 @bamagirl_4_eva I don’t even know who any of these people are!!

@bamagirl_4_eva 4E, 2B and I'd be tempted to hurt myself.

What seat are you taking?

@beaglelady54 @ThrillaRilla369 So far 20 years at the same school.

@ThrillaRilla369 Just over 22 years as a veterinary assistant.

What’s the longest amount of time you’ve worked for 1 employer?

@agNavya As a doctoral student in history, I found myself reading that much, if not more. Definitely exhausting

Is it humanly possible to read 200 pages in a single day?

@teachergoals D

Put your response in the comments! ☕️

@FixingEducation But honestly, my dream career would have been a book editor

@FixingEducation I did! I enrolled in nursing school. Quit that! Took me another 25 years to find my teaching path

If you could go back to your first semester of college, knowing everything you now know about teaching, would you choose a different career path? If so, what would you choose instead?

JD Vance is lecturing the Pope on Catholicism and Pierre Poilievre is lecturing Mark Carney on economics and RFK Jr is lecturing scientists about vaccines and Donald Trump is lecturing the world on tariffs and Pete Hegseth is quoting Pulp Fiction and thinking it’s the Bible

This is a video of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein with children.. This is the video that the Department of Justice deleted yesterday.. Now they want to remove it from the internet.. Share this everywhere...

I am the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. My grandmother, Rifka, was married with four children when the Nazis murdered her husband. Alone with children to raise, her young son Avrumi, 12 years old, took her shift working so that she could prepare for Passover with her other children, sister and sister’s children. When shouts of “Yudenrein!” “Jew round up” rang through the streets, Rifka took the children to the empty space below the floor boards to hide. As she was closing the hatch, Avrumi ran into the house. “Come! Come!,” she called frantically. “I can’t,” he said. “The Germans saw me, if I don't come out, they will know there is a hiding place. I just came to say goodbye.” When the Nazis barged in, Rifka listened through the floorboards as her son told them he had run into the house in a random search for food. She would never see him again. Two more of her children as well as her sister, nieces and nephews were killed in subsequent round ups. Her brother had been killed earlier in the war. Rifka was left with one son, Shlomo. 14 years old. They worked and hid in farms, in hay stacks and behind false doors. Exposed in the fields one day, they ran together, chased like animals by the Nazi’s. Shlomo told his mother, “If you don't let go of my hand, we will both die.” He let go. Shlomo went one way, Rifka went the other. The Nazis shot him in the back. With no husband or children to live for, Rifka joined the Partisans in the woods. After the war, she lay sick in bed with no will to live. Shlomo, meanwhile, had survived the gunshot. After the war as he searched for family, he heard a woman singing a familiar song. “Where did you hear that song?” he asked her. She told him a woman who lay dying had been humming it. “Is she still alive? Please, bring me to her.” And so Shlomo was reunited with his mother. In a displaced persons camp in Germany, Rifka married a man named Zalman whom she had met in the partisans. Zalman had lost his wife and three children to the Nazis but had one surviving son, Al. Together, Rifka and Zalman had two more children. Shep, born in the DP camp and Fayge (my mother) born in Bolivia where they moved after being sponsored by cousins. Zalman fell ill and the family moved to NY for treatment. Unfortunately he died when my mother was 2.5 years old. Left alone with children to raise, Rifka bought a farm in NJ. Back then, being a single parent meant your children could be taken from you. She needed a husband fast. A man named Berche, also a survivor, whose wife and two children were murdered, remarried after the war and had a daughter. His second wife, Dubye, died on the boat to America. A widower with a daughter to raise, he needed a wife to keep his daughter from a state run orphanage. Someone introduced Berche to Rifka and they married. I was raised with their memories. Their tears and their fears. There was no Sabbath when my grandfather didn’t cry, no day my grandmother didn’t stare silently into a past I could not accompany her to. Each spoke 4- 5 languages. Each had rebuilt their lives over and over again...But despite their pain, they were full of love. Their pride in their families, their belief in goodness...I cannot imagine the depth of their loss and how much strength it took to simply continue breathing. Believing. Hoping. And loving. I grew up with a family of half, whole and step siblings. A grandfather with whom I shared no blood but with whom I shared a heart. Cousins who drove me nuts but drove hours to see me. Aunts who were crazy and who I was crazy about. Uncles who slobbered me with kisses and showered me with love. I grew up in a family that understood love and loss, the value of sacrifice and the vital importance of loyalty. I love them all for who they are and who they are to me. They are all part of the story and part of who I am. #YomHashoa

@BruceBartlett Or Hitler. I prefer to go with my previous response

Trump says he will make April 20 a national holiday, but won't say who is being celebrated. Any ideas?