Tomorrow I’m doing a Voter Protection Online Hotline Shift Two Phone Bank for N.C. Dems shift There’s still time! I’m ordering pizza and eating ice cream! Let’s fight and win together! mobilize.us/blueunityin202…

Three huge differences between a 50-50 and 51-49 D majority: 1) Having a majority on each Committee versus power sharing/deadlocks requiring discharge petitions; 2) No single D Senator can hijack/block nominations; and 3) Ds can have *two* members absent and still hold votes.

Taking stock on Frog Trouble Times frogtroubletimes.substack.com/p/taking-stock…

worth pointing out that Pearlman's late-life recognition is a testament to independent publishing and attentive editing at places like small journals and Lookout Books x.com/dankois/status…

Quick reminder that the Supreme Court — including Clarence Thomas — unanimously voted to declare that giving lavish gifts to public officials in exchange for access is absolutely fine. politico.com/story/2016/06/…

In my 23 years in education, I have lost nearly 100 students and former students to gun violence. None of them were shot at school. It’s not a school problem, it’s a gun problem. Too many guns and not enough regulation. We don’t need thoughts and prayers, we need legislation.

Yes sir. Congratulations!!! Black Male Math Teacher!!!!

#ThankABlackTeacher day is a great time to reflect on the Black educational capital lost during integration and have conversations about how to rebuild and sustain it in the 21st century. #TeacherAppreciationWeek

My tour details!!! Can’t wait to see everyone then! #twitterstorians

😍 Such a cool project by the amazing Susan Straight. Honored to see Mattaponi Queen next to Edward P. Jones's All Aunt Hagar's Children, a favorite of mine.

🚨🚨BAD BILL ALERT🚨🚨 Late last night, Republican lawmakers in NCGA dropped a new update (PCS) to Senate Bill 90. It's a horror show with lots of 💩, including this doozy: it gives just 5 parents in any school district the ability to fire the school superintendent. 😱 #ncpol

Today is my birthday & I'm excited for my kids' camp share, cousins coming to town, dinner with Ricky Billingsgate & this awesome news! Have been thinking about the American school bus for a long time and am excited to write this book for Beacon Press, which is its perfect home

Today, as NC kids go back to school, kids who normally go by their initials - T.J., J.B., J.J., etc. - will now need a signed form filed with the school. Otherwise, they (and teachers) are in trouble. Thanks to the GOP's new "Parents Bill of Rights" law. Small government! #ncpol

IMO - Classes UNC-Chapel Hill are resuming TOO SOON! Faculty are not trained in trauma counseling. Like their students and families; they are unnerved. Take a beat admins. Mental health “awareness” means nothing w/o assuring that health aware policies drive the next steps. #uncchapelhill

Civics: “watchful, informed, community-minded people can make a difference to even the most threatened &hostile environments. The rewards..may sound modest, but consider their absence&you’ll realize, like water..they’re essential.” Belle Boggs New York Times Opinion nytimes.com/2023/09/03/opi…

I wrote about our pandemic hobby (tadpole rescue) and fighting Moms for Liberty in my #NC county in the The New York Times today: nytimes.com/2023/09/03/opi…

UNC students, protesting NC gun laws following on-campus shooting, chanted “Vote Them Out” in the state House just now. House Speaker Tim Moore (a UNC grad, in a Tar Heels tie today) joked as police escorted the students out that they must have secretly been Duke students #ncpol

So proud of our local Public School Strong group, a project of Down Home North Carolina and HEAL--and proud of my kids for sitting through school board meetings like champs. Thanks to gregory childress for this great article about the burdens & dangers of SB 49: ncnewsline.com/2023/09/13/adv…

Another campus shooting UNC-Chapel Hill and I am locked down with the same students I was with when this happened two weeks ago.

Locked down again @unc. I am locked down and secure. F these guns forever and ever. God bless these students, this staff, these colleagues. I certainly haven’t had any training in the last two weeks. We are keeping us safe. And we are safe right now.