Michael L. Umphrey (@umphrey) profile picture

Writer and photographer. Nonfiction: The Power of Community-Centered Teaching: https://teapaw.org/t.co/rTzo1bdwx3 Books of poetry: The Lit Window and The Breaking Edge

Northern Rockies
Joined January 2009
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When critics complained Texas’ Bluebonnet curriculum is “Bible infused” I responded, “Yeah. So is English.”
I taught literature for 20 years. I am personally not religious but I taught biblical allusions every year. How else can students understand Frankenstein, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake and virtually the whole Western canon?
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This has been weighing on my heart for 24 hours since I first heard the news. My heart is broken for Cindy Crawford and her family as they mourn the loss of their precious son, Presley, whose death is familiar for too many American families. I have met so many mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers who have lost a loved one to illicit drugs— no other way to put it, they are a weapon of mass destruction. These deaths are not just a statistics—each life lost was wrapped in dreams, hopes, and families who miss them every day. The fentanyl crisis continues to devastate communities across the country. We must end this scourge before it destroys a generation. Rest in eternal peace, Presley🙏🏼
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Everyone who took the shot should hear this. I have been hearing this a lot recently in my circles
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Doesn’t get cooler than a @nytimes profile! Especially for a Manhattan liberal elitist 😉 Was so great to sit down with @grynbaum and love how he captured the energy of the Five and what I’m all about! nytimes.com/2024/10/26/busin…
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You’ve got to be kidding me
Kamala Harris handled that Fox News interview with confidence and skill. Now try to imagine Donald Trump handling tough, antagonistic questions.
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Here's the truth as I know it. 1. The virus was created in a lab 2. It was given some 'features' such as four gp120 HIV inserts and several amyloid sequences that help to make it exceptionally toxic to cells, to the immune system, and to the circulatory system. This was a massive crime. 3. The Covid gene experimental 'treatments' ALL included the entire toxic spike protein. For some reason. 4. ALL western countries pursued the same sets of illogical and health-counterproductive strategies despite having ZERO science or evidence on their side for the shots, masks, mandates, or which businesses should stay open and which should close. 5. "6 feet apart" was completely pulled out of someone's ass. 6. NO major health authorities collected the most basic of data that would allow anyone to determine anything of importance about the shots. All we need is basic information so we can temporally connect the shots to outcomes. This would include onset of cancer, heart conditions, still-births, deaths, etc. 7. Nearly EVERY hospital implemented sadistic regimes of isolating loved ones from their dying family members who were, incidentally, being murdered by those same hospitals with ventilators and Remdesivir. 8. While all of that was going on, the media was busy running interference for every facet of that evil program. 9. Meanwhile Social Media was busy implementing the very latest of cognitive warfare techniques to silence anybody and everybody who thought maybe any or all of the above was utter bollocks. This included shutting down vaccine injury groups who were being cruelly ignored and gaslit. 10. None of this was accidental. It was all pre-planned and intentional. Plan accordingly. It gets darker before it get better.
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In case you haven't noticed, the gloves are off. 2024 is the year when we stop allowing nihilistic, hateful and intolerant people divide us. All of us here in the West are extraordinarily lucky to be here. We all have the one form of privilege that truly matters: first world privilege. For us to thrive as a country and a civilization, we need to stop obsessing about our differences and focus on what we have in common. Stop listening to the race baiters on TV. Diversity is not our "greatest strength". Unity is. Black, white and brown, we need to work together to make our country stronger, richer and more confident in the world. And I am going to respectfully and politely destroy all the people who want to talk down our country, smear my fellow citizens as "ists" and "phobes" and make us hate each other. Their time is over. This is our time.
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2 remakes of Snow White coming out in 2024 (Disney vs Daily Wire) Spot the difference…
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All 7 lectures on René Girard's Mimetic Theory are live. Thank you all for the tremendous support and interest! Here's where to find all the lectures/transcripts/podcasts 👇
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“In the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, treacherous…”
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David Attenborough signed off #WildIsles with a challenge: can we be the first generation to leave the natural world in a better, not poorer state? This is why #rewilding is key, seeking to return wildness and abundance to the natural world, rather than just saving fragments.
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An endanger golden monkey couple hugging. Heartbreaking to watch the emotions they can express. Nature is amazing. Protect it. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #nature #rewilding #GreenNewDeal
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Absolutely adorable!
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For Röpke, "Reason, combined with respect for freedom and each individual’s dignity, was indispensable for the liberal constitutionalism and rule of law that inhibited the type of arbitrary power that the Nazis would take to new levels." lawliberty.org/when-a-classi…
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Here is the problem w/ what happened in Maricopa County on Election Day. This is Anthem, north of Phoenix at about 1:15 pm. Ruby red district of about 30K people. Only one polling location. Ballot tabulators not working in the morning. 2 hr wait to vote midday and still at 6 pm.
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Replying to @tunkuv
One of the things I most admired about Mitt Romney's tenure as governor in Massachusetts was that he did not allow his name to be plastered on highway and other government signs. Two governors later, that much of his legacy remains intact!
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We've hired a differentiating instruction consultant who is going to teach the staff how to differentiate their instruction by reading from a PowerPoint and not differentiating their presentation.
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When your team is about to do a simple tech migration
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Replying to @umphrey
Only the most ignorant and gullable believed that’s what Chavez was actually doing.
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