Husband, dad, history fella, CLE & Boro fan, stage 4 cancer pt, Lord of Sealand. Author of “Toledo’s War,” publishing May ‘23 w/ UT Press. Semper P. WW8MLL
@DanCrenshawTX
You are a United States Congressman. And you just cut a video pretending to go to war against other Americans. Knock it off, do the hard work of governing, and we'll all respect it a lot more than this.
This is Joe. I died yesterday. Thank you all so much for your friendship & laughs over the years. I still love you. Please hug your families today & look for obit info here soon. Thanks 2
@bigwagz8
for taking care of this 4 me.
Five years ago, we pranked Miss Michigan into unwittingly being the “I”. It remains one of the greatest days of my life.
@Reflog_18
#BeatTTUN
@OhioStateFB
My grandpa had a Gump-like ability to show up at some moments in history. One was in 1958 when he wanted to see the launching of a new ship, EDMUND FITZGERALD. Here are a few of his pictures from that, the ship's first, on the anniversary of her last.
#EdmundFitzgerald
Folks, I have tumors in both lungs, radiation fibrosis all over the top of my left lung, and asthma. I just went for a 3-mile walk in a cloth mask on a hot humid morning. You can do this!
#InThisTogetherOhio
This is what I'm sending home with my ContempHistory students tomorrow for COVID Break. I encourage all of you to do the same. We've living through history, & historians & your descendants will thank you for doing this.
Who’s the hippest cat getting brain MRI at the cancer center today?
This one.
Who forgot his normal glasses in the car and also feels kinda like a tool?
Also this one.
@ThanksCancer
@Reflog_18
My son thought I was kidding about stopping the car and making him walk home if he ever said he was a Ravens fan. OF COURSE he then said “I’m a Ravens fan!” I stopped the car, made him get out, drove off a bit before I let him back in, after recanting his apostasy.
He was 7.
@JerryFalwellJr
@realDonaldTrump
Wow, so you’ve cheated on your wife a bunch, had kids by 3 women, bragged about sexual assault, walked in on half-naked kids, mocked the disabled, failed at generosity, lied about nearly everything, settled with DoJ for racism, and belittled anyone who’s different? Good for you!
Folks, I got some cancer in m'brains. Working this week with amazing docs
@ClevelandClinic
to form a plan. Not looking forward to HIGH POWERED BEAMS OF ENERGY RADIATING THRU M'BRAINS, but who would? Appreciate all your +thoughts & prayers, amigos.
This is my 7th Christmas since diagnosis. I had no reason to believe I’d see this many more, and each one is more special than the last. God bless you all!!!
CNN's Elle Reeve: "It seems like you think there’s some high-level, coordinated effort to make more children trans and gay.
Moms for Liberty: "Yep."
Reeve: Who's doing that?
MFL: Teachers unions, Biden, money.
Reeve: "Why would they want more children to be gay and trans?"
It was a long day at the Clinic. More tumors in that bald head than expected. Gamma team was phenomenal. I’m good & sore, & not looking forward to another month of roid moods but so grateful to be here - in every sense of here!!! Thanks for all your positive vibes & prayers.
Most unlikely e-mails I could receive:
1. Ohio
#HTOY
.
.
72. Non-roster invitee from the
@Indians
73. MENSA initiation
74. Guaranteed life insurance
.
Seriously, THANK YOU,
@Gilder_Lehrman
!! I am humbled; truly unworthy of this. I’ll try to live up to it!
@JustinTX_20
I have stage IV cancer. I think Trumpism is the greatest internal threat to democracy in American history, and I don’t wish cancer on *him* or his base. C’mon, man.
Our finest hour. We stood with Miss Michigan for a picture, & when my friend Mike counted to three, we threw up the OH_O and made her the I. She was sooooo pissed and we laughed soooo hard.
I stopped a dispute between two kids in the hall without saying a word or lifting a finger, just using the power of my posture & a disapproving look, and my friends, I feel the lightning of Old Man Power coursing through my veins. ⚡️ ⚡️⚡️
Today is my 7th cancerversary. When I was diagnosed, I’d have been pretty happy if you’d told me I’d get 3 quality years. Seven was too much to believe. Not trying to be greedy, Lord, but 7 more sounds awful fine to me!!!
My kids, for at least the 10th straight year, helped me clean out my classroom and got lunch as a reward. This year, they had to do EVERYTHING due to my condition. I’m the luckiest dad in the world.
@MattWalshBlog
As a cancer patient, I just want to thank Matt, and those I know who follow him. You've made it a lot easier to figure out who to cut out of my life.
All you want in life if for your kids to do better than you. Last night,
@s0meguynamedjoe
got to march at the Big House with the
@BGSUFMB10
. I’m just thrilled he’s getting experiences like this doing what he loves.
#AyZiggy
@theresagavarone
@Rob_McColley
Your timing and motive on this couldn't be more transparent, and it's disgusting. Even if a person is anti-abortion, I would hope they'd see through this ridiculous veneer to see how you're actively subverting democracy.
When the
@Browns
win, we have victory Monday in my class and everyone gets an XC point. I always announce with a siren. Stuck in hospital another night but Victory Monday is not stopped by such trivial things as almost dying!
@MeghanMcCain
I’m in the midst of St 4 renal cell. Your dad was an inspiration to me. Keep fighting this fight in the open. Sunlight’s the best disinfectant.
Two years ago today,
@EllieB_v
and I met
@JoeBiden
. It was well before he decided to run for President. We loved, & still love, his passion for fighting cancer. This election wasn’t just a tactical vote against a threat to our democracy, but an enthusiastic vote for a good person
This bothers me deeply. My goal has always been for students to choose to love this country, after critically thinking about its course. But that’s not enough for people like him, who view my job as indoctrination - and thus betray everything the country ought to stand for.
@ThanksCancer
My absolute favorite when i was diagnosed with stage iv was “Oh, you’ll do well! We had a friend with that and he had seven good months!”
That was almost 12 years ago. But 2011 me never would have believed I’d be here. And that well-wish knocked me on my butt.
I met
#MichaelStanley
at an American Cancer Society event about 3 summers ago. He fought the fight not just for himself, but for others, and I am so grateful for how he used his Cleveland Legend status to make the world a better place. Hard die the heroes.
I see people’s “Top Accomplishments of 2021” and I’m jealous. I only had one: Staying alive. Due to my health, it required being right nearly 100% of the time. It is f***ing exhausting. It is without pleasures many of you get to enjoy without thinking twice.
In 2020, I found out my continued survival of cancer was quite inconvenient for a number of folk I went to church with. This thread is one way of understanding their perspective.
THE DIE-ERS
Some years ago, when the White Christian President was still the President of the United States, he caught Covid, and he said a perfect thing.
@theresagavarone
Hilarious you’re pretending that the YES side isn’t getting out of state money. But that’s exactly the dishonesty I’ve come to expect from your party.
I had a tumor chopped out of my lip today, and let me tell YOU, the human body knows when it’s the last hour before the next pain pill. My gosh!!!! Thankful for modern medicine because this would be rough without it!
Teaching in East Toledo has been 1 of the greatest gifts of my life. Being honored by the ETFC tonight, in this community, just humbling. I’ll try to earn it every day.
It was such an honor for this
@BGSU
Falcon to talk about Toledo's War this afternoon
@UToledo
. Thanks so much to everyone who came out to hear the stories of a handful of UT alumni who exemplified what it means to be a Toledoan, and a Rocket - then, and now.
Y'ALL.
I am grading in my "Toledo Tomorrow" projects that my Toledo history course did. They had to imagine the city they want in 30 years. And the kids are all right. I want their visions to come true. The kids are better than we are.
A cordial letter from the headmistress of a Welsh primary school asking the cdr of a US engineering bn to ask his men to stop leaving condoms (“Some unused, some not”) around her schoolyard, as the pupils were using them as balloons.
@CityofCleveland
@CLEpolice
You issued this at 7:55?! I am one of the most pro-police people you will ever meet, but this is absolutely absurd, shameful, and I think I kinda get why people don't respect orders now.
Tore through
@MichaelMann
&
@MegGardiner1
‘s “Heat 2” the past three nights. I forgot how much I cared about these characters from the time I met them - at a Tampa cineplex over Xmas break 1995. Well worth your time.
Commitments for COVID 19:
1. Make one retail purchase each day at a local shop
2. Keep getting my local coffee every day
3. Tell one story about a local shop I love
4. 1 meal each week from/at local restaurant
And I promise you, if I could afford to do more, I would.
I just did the math - had 86% attendance among my classes today. I have absolutely nothing to complain about. Very, very happy with kids getting online and getting the work in.
@IBrokenBricksI
@Sifill_LDF
For a group of folks who claim to hate intersectionality, their ideology seems to value the intersection of a very specific form of masculinity with literally everything else!