Toney Jackson- Seems like everything I see rhymes with me! Classroom Superhero w/Poetry Powers, M.Ed, He/Him *Opinions are my own and not my employers*
New Jersey, USA
Joined August 2013
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Teachers/admins:
Bring students to the table
All the students...all the tables
Whatever the issue is, if it involves them... involve them.
I appreciate @abbydphillip, but “Everybody ” didn’t need to calm down. Everybody except @ScottJenningsKY was composed & respectful. He deserved to be called out individually for his behavior/remarks. Clear point to @adammocklerr.
Wow Scott Jennings blows up at Adam Mockler: “Get your fucking hand out of my face”
Mockler: We all know that Scott Jennings is more than happy to defend a war with a country that starts with letters Ira that we are currently failing that is going to put us trillions and trillions of dollars more in debt. I was only a few years old while you were in the administration defending prior endless wars.
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Time for another Truth Matters Musical Moment. Never Stop Asking delivers another foot tappin’ musical gem.
Let’s learn about Pam Bondi
I’m really likin’ this learnin’ with music. What do you think?
🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNRfr88ca/
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BREAKING: This account, which is dedicated to holding Trump and MAGA accountable for their lies, now has over 147,000 followers! Thank you for being part of this fast-growing online community. Can you retweet and follow to help us get to 150,000 followers?
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
In 2024, crooks stole $60B from Medicare, more than all street robberies combined. (DOJ). Fake clinics billed for surgeries that never happened. One group in FL stole $1.2B. Premiums rose 18%. Rural hospitals closed. 12 people. Ave. sentence: 14 mo.
#HarmScale
@grok tracking
Step 1: LIVE
$60B Medicare fraud > all street theft
14-month sentences #HarmScale data point 1 logged @grok — watching
The @grok app made me these graphs showing how white collar crime dwarfs violent & property crime (by orders of magnitude) & who’s mostly responsible. If we put the same effort into stopping that, we could save trillions. The goal isn’t safety. It’s fear fear of some, not others.
I’ve been having an enlightening conversation w/#Grok. Here are some highlights showing how it presents racist pseudoscience as empirical truth, while excusing racist claims as understandable frustration & documentation of fact. Let me know if y’all want the whole thread.
Welp
Based on top-grossing films 2020-2025 (excluding comic adaptations and Tom Cruise), straight white male heroes lead in hits like Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), Dune films (Timothée Chalamet), Avatar: The Way of Water (Sam Worthington), and Jurassic World Dominion (Chris Pratt). USC and UCLA studies show white males dominate ~70% of speaking roles and leads, with diversity rising but not making them rare.
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The gaslighting from conservative “Christians“ is mind-boggling‼️
20 years! 20th first day as an official classroom teacher. 😊 Hope your years are off to a great start!
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Based on analyses from sources like NPR, Washington Post, Guardian (critiquing PragerU for misinformation on climate and history), and conservative outlets like Vanity Fair, CNN (noting PBS claims lack strong evidence), PragerU shows more documented examples of biased content, such as simplifying slavery or denying climate science. PBS criticisms focus on perceived liberal themes but rarely cite factual errors. Thus, PragerU has clearer evidence of fitting indoctrination.
@grok acting as an impartial party focused on the best educational tools and resources especially for serving children, break down which is better and which more closely fits the term indoctrination, PragerU or PBS.