Paul Thomas
@plthomasEdD
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P. L. Thomas, Professor, Furman University. Teacher/Writer/Poet. Twitter is not my classroom. Tweets represent me only and no organization
Spartanburg, SC
Joined February 2011
There is no reading crisis in the U.S. Here’s what’s really happening.
washingtonpost.com
Politicians and journalists are misinterpreting the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
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🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Email from then NYT Journalist Landon Thomas tipping Epstein off about follow up investigation by Journalist and former NYPD detective John Connolly
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It would be helpful if more people understood the relationship between continental philosophy and critical theory. Fortunately there’s a podcast for that.
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American Campus Podcast · Episode
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A creator on TikTok made this really incisive video about how most churches follow the ideology of Paul, who never knew Jesus and had bigoted views, instead of following the views of Jesus himself
My main takeaway from the Bible was that Jesus hung around w whores, scammers and the maladjusted and outcast because they were far more decent people than the so called righteous
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Epstein Files Live Updates: G.O.P. Lawmakers Release Thousands of Files
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Messages in which Jeffrey Epstein discussed President Trump were among 20,000 documents posted online. President Trump called the release a distraction engineered by Democrats.
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Epstein in 2016 to billionaire Tom Barrack : “Send photos of you and child — make me smile.” The House Oversight email drop is stomach-turning. They all knew. And they still let him walk free. Note: In March, Trump nominated the same Barrack to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to
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This email from 2011 between Epstein and Maxwell is the smoking gun. There is no reason they would be making things up about Trump spending hours with an Epstein victim years before Trump ran for office.
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And it's not just the MIA story on Fox. Notice the very different way the NYT and WSJ treat the story - both in terms of placement and the headlines they crafted to frame the story.
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Some people don't understand why Americans see the world in such starkly different ways. Often times, their medium of choice presents the world through radically different lenses. 3 major news sites' home pages 3 hours after Epstein emails released:
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Some spend their entire lives defending themselves against punishment and shame, seeing it lurking everywhere. So, they erroneously conflate blame and responsibility, terrified of the latter because of what the former entails.
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Some fear being held responsible because they fear being blamed and shamed. But responsibility, unlike blame or shame, is fair, just, compassionate, and unifying.
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“You were the only person I was afraid of during the campaign,” Bannon told Epstein. Epstein replied, “As well you should have been.”
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4 Under more questioning, “Jane” who was 14 when Epstein introduced her to Trump, said she was recruited into his teen pageant. “In the mid-1990s” you participated in a beauty pageant, correct?" Messenger asked. "Embarrassingly enough,” Jane replied. "Yes." "And it was
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3 Transcript of “Jane” on day three of Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial: "He [Epstein] took you to Mar-a-Lago when you were 14, you claim?" asked Lara Menninger, acting for the defence. "Yes," Jane said. "He [Epstein] took you in a dark green car and you met Donald Trump there,
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@RutlandReport It’s bizarre for a novelist to brag about not doing research and then publish a novel that lacks basic credibility.
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A new email exchange from 2015, released by House Dems, shows journalist and author Michael Wolff advising Jeffrey Epstein about Trump and the press. https://t.co/aJo3VyKeJr
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Too bad we can’t have a special election for the seat that’s been stolen for two election cycles and reduce this majority to 2!
What’s happening in Utah? Let’s break it down. The Utah Supreme Court unanimously backed Judge Dianna Gibson’s earlier decisions in a landmark 5–0 ruling on July 11, 2024 in League of Women Voters of Utah v. Utah State Legislature. That unanimous decision: - Reversed the
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The actual emails are more startling than the NY Times gloss.
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ultimate = last in a series penultimate = second-to-last in a series antepenultimate = third-to-last in a series preantepenultimate = fourth-to-last in a series propreantepenultimate = fifth-to-last in a series
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RT @AaronParnas: BREAKING: Ghislaine Maxwell lied in her interview with Todd Blanche. She said she never saw Trump at Epstein's house.…
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