"True literature can thrive only in places where literature is created not by obedient and reliable bureaucrats but by madmen, recluses, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics." Yevgeny Zamyatin #censorship

Amazing, I had an Amazon shipment that says its coming, then its delayed, the its shipped. now its delayed again? What the devil is going on? Amazon Help

I have been ordering quite a bit from Amazon but this time the worst service ever. I have had an item shipped 3 times, delayed 3 times and reshipped twice. Maybe it's time to call it quits!

Leadership is regarded as a "panacea" for all that ails in education. It's not. Well-meaning leaders are making things worse. Every problem is not a solution that can be resolved by engaging in the magical practice of "educational leadership." #LeadershipMatters or not

There are never "seven simple steps" to anything, and any time you hear a leadership guru say such things, RUN. Really, the complexity of our problems in education be reduced to such nonsense! #education #LeadershipDevelopment

Here’s a partial list of the damage the Republican “Education Party” has done to education in North Carolina since taking over in 2010. It’s 100% laughably absurd they’re even testing this talking point. #nced #ncpol

Ask Dan Bishop who won the 2020 presidential election. NC does NOT need a Big Lie-spreading Donald Trump coup co-conspirator serving as its attorney general. #ncpol

Here's your regular reminder that 2024 gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson encouraged public harassment of NC educators by publishing unsubstantiated complaints about specific teachers that identified them by name and worksite. #nced #ncpol progressive.org/public-schools…

We've reached a critical turning point in education...there are now more consultants and experts who think they know how teaching should be done than teachers! #education

Reading Illich's "Deschooling Society"

When our politicians can't answer a simple question about the primary cause of the Civil War correctly and without obfuscation, we need to get new politicians and leaders. #ignoranceabounds

NATO is the most successful military alliance in history. It’s essential to deterring war & defending American security. No sane American President would encourage Putin to attack our NATO allies. No honorable American leaders would excuse or endorse this. semafor.com/article/02/11/…

"...we are becoming servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us." John Kenneth Galbraith. Look around the servants of the smartphone abound. Their eyes locked to screens.

Bishop is so opposed to lawlessness that he voted against a bipartisan investigation of a coup attempt at our Capitol that occurred while he was inside trying to overturn an election for Donald Trump. #ncpol

"Thinking has become dangerous in the United States and the symptoms are everywhere." Henry Giroux

"When thinking itself become dangerous, society loses its tability to question itself and paves the way for authoritarian regimes of power." Henry Grioux, Thinking in Dangerous Times

"Consider the herd grazing before you. These animals do not know what yesterday and today are but a leap about, eat, digest and leap again..." Friedrich Nietzsche

"Those who lack imagination accept the present arrangement of things as unalterable." Scott Russell Sanders

MAGA MicheleMorrow is a former registered nurse who is running for NC superintendent of K-12 schools. During the COVID 19 pandemic she publicly urged people to take a fake cure Fox News and Trump were hawking. Turns out nearly 17,000 people died after taking it. #ncpol #nced

There is good news. On the other side of the ballot for state superintendent we have Dem Mo Green for NC. Mo has extensive leadership experience in education including serving 7 years as superintendent of a large NC district. He also doesn't call for executions. #ncpol #nced