Tim Barrus Blog
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No Boundaries
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Some people and their shit and their stuff and their kids and their plastic kiddie pool and their old trucks ain’t going nowhere but is being eaten by the rust brambles, are fucking everywhere because they have no boundaries whatsoever.
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Death In School
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JUST ANOTHER DAY OF MY SMASHING TELEVISIONS
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Tim Barrus New York Times
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Instability can kill. So inconvenient. I mentor boys at-risk. They are easily suicidal. Jumping into the abyss is with a shrug.
Way before COVID. All the usual suspects. School failure, HIV, every other STD, suicide attempts times ten, sex work, addiction, sex addiction, rage management, homelessness, grand theft auto, shoplifting,…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
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Trump happened.
This American enigma has devastated and wiped out an incomprehensible number of American lives. And then, there are lives standing at edges of the abyss.
So much of America is holding its cumulative breath waiting to see if their government is able to respond to their collective need…
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The Straws That Break the Camel’s Back
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Tim Barrus, the New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/health/coronavirus-tuberculosis-aids-malaria.html#commentsContainer&permid=108456967:108456967
Theoretically, someone could have multiple diseases. And public health, as we know it, is the answer.
Malaria. Covid. TB. HIV.
Are you kidding me.
I have been visiting other public health systems versus just the one I am intimately acquainted with where I…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
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The classroom was a nightmare on a good day.
Reinvent it. I did.
I was one of them. Once. Mainly, we still throw them away.
That trajectory toward success.
Kids I teach don’t so much as consider college a remote possibility. Our goal at the end of the day is…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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Trump Hates Tik Tok
As someone who works with kids, I see them vigorously laughing.
The ones I work with go the beating heart of the matter.
They shut down Trump’s rally in Oklahoma. This is what is called collective power. This is why the government is going after Tik…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
In the past, it was the crazy people who lived in armed fortresses at the tops of mountains in Idaho. They wanted revolution. We could patronize. “That’s nice but you’re a lunatic.”
Survival is not a status quo Americans want to question. Blindness is easier. But how will we survive…
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They Know Who You Are
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Absolutely no one in the media wants to talk about the involvement of the DEA in infiltrating protest groups. Especially the New York Times. I know it’s uncivil to write about being banned from a publication, being banned will get you being banned, but being banned gets you a lopsided…