This afternoon my journalism students were busy interviewing each other for their online bios when my phone buzzed. I glanced down and saw the alert: "Trump supporters have stormed the US Capitol. Congress is on lockdown."
I felt my stomach lurch and fall: deja vu from nearly 20 years ago, the September morning when I was substitute teaching in a journalism class and the art teacher raced in to insist I turn on the TV: a second plane had just hit the World Trade Center.
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Today when I read the alert, I interrupted my students' chattering interviews to tell them of the breaking news. "Pay attention," I said. "This is News."
Our small rural school is 1100 miles from the Capitol. None of us felt an imminent threat today (nor had we on 9/11). But then, and I assume now, we will eventually feel the reverberations of today.
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My husband and I are watching the House and Senate speeches and voting tonight.
At least one news commentator is calling continued attempts to derail the election results a "fool's errand."
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Today, for the first time in months, I had to scroll past reports about what happened (and is still happening) in DC today...then the stories about the Georgia election results...before I, at last, landed on a Coronovirus story. I'd like to think this is progress! But it's not. It just means that despite out-of-control COVID-19, we have even more impactful and urgent stories.
This is not good news.
Enough.
Be well.
Write.
Allison
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