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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I read 30 books in 2025 📚 My yearly average is usually 2-3. The competitive Aries in me took over (it wasn’t a competition, but it’s always a competition). Now making my way through the Booker Prize shortlist. Overall recommendation: “The Rest of Our Lives” by Ben Markovits ❤️

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

It blows my mind to live in a country big enough to have San Francisco experience its wettest and coldest summer in 50 years while on the other side of the country it’s Satan’s oven.

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

When I was a young actor and featured in a theatre company brochure I just found after two decades. 🎶 I can smile at the old days I was beautiful then 🎶

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Good for her. I saw the exhibition here in SF, and it was wonderful. Sorry, DC. Maybe in 2028. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/a...

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Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Just finished this. My mind will never be the same.

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Just finished this. My mind will never be the same.

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

The NY Times is *not* happy that Mamdani is going to be the next mayor of NYC.

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I’m floored. 91.6% of my students passed the AP exam (107 of them took it). I had a great time teaching the course, and the students were so fun. I guess joy really is a good study tool :)

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Since late March, I’ve read all of these novels. Historically, I’ve read maybe 1 or 2 per year. Please clap. But quietly. I’m reading. 📚

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

The man and the issue of The New Yorker he *will* read.

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Returning to fun sock content. Couldn’t decide between polka dots and stripes, so why not both?

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Can we just acknowledge the delicious irony of Elon Musk going MAGA then losing his liberal customer base, then the EV tax credit being ended in the disastrous GOP economic bill?

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

You are looking at an English muffin that I split *perfectly*. I’ve achieved peak adulthood.

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I’m in an education graduate program. Today, a (loudly) moralistic participant said: “I really want to decolonize the term ‘bless you’ when someone sneezes.” It’s kinda fun to meet someone who fits the cartoonish stereotype of the insufferable liberal whose tires this liberal really wants to slash.

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Tonight it’s Mozart’s ‘Idomeneo’ at San Francisco Opera. And, best of all, so much legroom!

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

After a few sunny days in the upper 60s…summer has returned to San Francisco.

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

The view if you were my program at tonight’s San Francisco Symphony concert…

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

At the Met and took in the wonderful John Singer Sargent exhibition. Museum hack: Get in line for the 10am opening and avoid the crowded galleries.

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I would not have fit in a Frank Lloyd Wright home.

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Got to see Audra in “Gypsy” last night. Then took this pic in front of the theatre in such a way that it looks like my glasses are broken.

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

This Pride month, let’s teach the young gays that there were gay icons Lady Gaga ever released an album.

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I surveyed to my students. The question was: "Is there anything I should know as I prepare to teach this course next year?" My favorite reply: "I couldn't imagine a better teacher. I have tried out of spite when getting a low score on an assignment, test, etc, and I physically wasn’t able to."

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Parents in 2020: “My kid will be devastated not it be in school. How can you close schools?” Parents in 2025: “I’m taking my kid out of school for three weeks and they’re missing final exams. Thanks.”

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I went into this knowing what it was about but wasn’t prepared to experience eyeball moisture in the first 50 pages. But it’s gorgeous of course.

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Thomas Kincade took this to heart far too much.

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Experienced my first lockdown as a public school teacher amazed it took 15 years). Pulling kids into classrooms, the whole deal. Turned out to be a fight, but weapons were involved. Parents: You need to do something. We cannot fix your kids, though many of you seem to want us to.

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Thank you SF Chronicle for dispelling the myth that Trump voters vote for him because of the economy. Too bad the NY Times and Washington Post keep flogging the same tired (and false narrative) that “economic anxiety” motivates people to vote for Trump.

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Some unsolicited advice to a new union, having been on both sides of the bargaining table: If you grieve everything, people stop listening and caring, and you lose in the long run.

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The New York Times has become People Magazine, as this glowing and dewy-eyed profile makes clear.

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Another weekend of ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’. 🎭

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Confessions of an English teacher: I’ve never been a big reader or novels. But I’ve had time to devote to reading and a new literature class to teach next year. So I need to preview books. I’ve read (and enjoyed) all of these novels since late March. Please clap 👏🏼

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

My Irish mother would be so proud that I’m finally a priest.

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I’m tired of reading these stories. The Times has published them endlessly. And always from Trump voters’ point of view.

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Canada has turned back Trumpism in a stinging rebuke of MAGA-style politics. Congrats, Canada! 🇨🇦

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

And at mass today, the voice of God was heard to say: “Thine allergies shall be triggered.”

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

In the middle of binge-reading Toni Morrison, since I get to teach her next year for the first time. Read “Sula” and “Song of Solomon” over the past month (the latter changed my life). Now THE novel…

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Sarah Palin has to be one of the most embarrassing people in a political party made up entirely of embarrassing people.

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The point at which we knew He won the lip-sync.

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Matthew: June Goomba @teachallamerica.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Exactly! Life is too short. Put the book down if you want.

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