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The award-winning cast of The West Wing reunited to endorse VP Kamala Harris for President in a new ad created in partnership with the Lincoln Project. Martin Sheen Bradley Whitford @AllisonBJanney @DuleHill @JoshMalina @NellyMoloney @MaryCMcCormack @Richard_Schiff

For Assistant Athletic Trainer Justin Rogers, the path to understanding his identity as a gay man working in sports took time.  Now, with the #SeaKraken, Rogers is living authentically with a team that knows his sexuality → bit.ly/RogersLetter23

My favorite coverage of the Montgomery Riverfront brawl…

Schools really looked at the school-to-prison pipeline and said why have a pipeline let's just turn this place into a prison

Someone make a "How It Would Have Ended" series, where creators drink and explain how their canceled series would have ended, and we get to watch actors play out the roles in someone's backyard or whatever

Inflation is down to 2.97% but prices are still higher than they should be. As we've screamed all along—the leading driver of high prices was not inflation, but corporate price gouging. And corporations fund politicians to prevent accountability. That is the problem we face.

Why don't extroverts ever have to step out of their comfort zone?

@heymrsbond We *technically* have a library…haven’t bought new resources in 5+ years and have tossed over half of what we did have. It also has no card catalog (not online or on cards) so there’s no way to find anything. And. There is not one certified librarian in the entire district.

A new Virginia law will focus on highlighting the historic places featured in the Green Book, a yearly guidebook for African American travelers published during 20th-century Jim Crow. Read more via @myVPM: vpm.org/news/2023-07-2…

Important to note that today's memorial is for Emmett Till and Mamie Till Mobley who said, upon viewing her son: "I didn't want that body...that couldn't be mine.But I stared at his feet and I could identify his ankles.I said, those are my ankles.Those are my knees...and then 1/

Emmett Till would have been 82 years old today. Anthony Fauci is 82 years old. Bernie Sanders turns 82 next month. Joe Biden will be 82 next year. It wasn’t that long ago that Emmett Till was killed. Some of our history is closer than we think.

CNN posts “obituary” for Twitter: “Twitter, the text-based social media platform that played an outsized role on society by serving as a digital town square, was killed by its unhinged owner Elon Musk on Sunday. It was 17 years old.   A zombie Twitter, known only as X, reluctantly endures. A warped and disfigured platform, X marches on like a White Walker, an ugly shell of its former self under the command of a loathsome leader.   Whereas Twitter was once a fountain of authoritative information, X is a platform where trolls can pay a small fee to have their ugly content boosted ahead of reputable sources.   X is a platform where identity verification no longer exists and impersonation is only a paid subscription away.”

If teachers feel like they have to stay late and come in on the weekend in order to be ready for an open house or the first day of school, you need to rethink your Pre-Planning Schedule. Don't burn people out before the school year begins.

Y’all wanna hear the TRUE story of Nikki Haley? A thread

Tonight, a mom joined the grieving parents FB group I belong to. Her son was killed 22 mass shootings ago. He was killed in a mass shooting last week.

The Writers Guild of America Strike: Actual sign spotted on the picket line...

The Battle of Yorktown

The yearbook staff is still working! Next week (April 17-21) we will host sprINgSANITY Yearbook staffers have coupon codes for discounts on book and ad purchases. Don’t miss out on this book! Order by April 21! yearbookforever.com

‘Stranger Things’ Animated Series Ordered at Netflix variety.com/2023/tv/news/s…