One year at Christian High & taught there for one year. They pay teachers so low & manipulate them under the guise of "it's a calling". At-will contract means they fired all the good teachers if they didn't tow the party line & only hired sketchy people. Two are in jail, one awaiting sentencing.

One of my favorite things to do when I lived in Berlin was put in a destination to Google Maps and then see if I could beat the time with a better route. It helped me learn the area, where construction was, where good food and ice cream was and 9 times out of 10, I beat GPS.

I find the story of Hegelochus unreasonably funny. Imagine dying and the only trace of you millennia later is the time you accidentally said you saw a weasel in a tragic play in front of a packed audience, because people mocked you about it for centuries. (Thread for ease)

who else had the spiral bound thomas guides under their car seat because they did not fit in the glove compartment

Yet again she is spot on:

If Other Jobs Were Like US Senator www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Honestly, this is one of the key reasons so many white US evangelicals were drawn to Trump. He speaks like an abusive father & much white US evangelical theology is treating G*d like an abusive father. "I love you so much I had to kill my own son so accept him or I'll torture you for eternity".

The Platner collapse confirms my one immutable rule of politics and running for office: Your first campaign should not be a federal one, especially a high-profile race.

I have checked what the Japanese media are saying and there seem to be competing names for the man. Some are going with ゴミ箱伯爵 (Gomibako Hakushaku - Count Trashcan) whilst others are using the katakana that you have for foreign loan-words and opting for ビンフェイス伯爵 (Binfeisu Hakushaku).

i want white people to hate fascism broadly and Nazism (and it's symbolism) directly more

I think what’s most surreal about watching the Graham Platner debacle … Black people were completely horrified

My mom used to literally not let me stop playing video games just because I was losing. She’d say “what kind of a mother says no reading until you finish your video game?!” But she had a reason: academics came easily to me, so I never learned how to fail at something without immediately giving up.

Begging parents, other teachers, please! I've spent 20 years watching gorgeous children crash & burn because the adults in their life never, ever helped them learn to learn. If something doesn't come easy and a child refuses to do it, help them learn how to push through! That's a vital human skill!

Two great alternatives are: One Big Open Sky by Lesa Cline-Ransome Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park

All of this, but also please remember that Laura Ingalls Wilder was edited by her daughter Rose Wilder Lane, who is regarded as one of the three mothers of libertarianism and Ayn Rand's besties, and the books have been shaped to reflect her ideology.

100% Just had a conversation with a friend this morning about how so many men have just turned off any critical thinking when it comes to context. This man was *trained* to do harm in a clandestine way for money! That was his literal job experience!

If anyone has any leads about a senior dev or related position for an engineer with 10+ years of experience including most languages, excellent soft skills, and willingness to be in-office/relocate for the right position, hmu. I have an amazing candidate for you.

Folks, no one has a RIGHT to higher office. OK? You aren't "canceling" anyone when you decide NOT TO SUPPORT THEIR QUEST FOR MORE POWER. Please let's be SERIOUS. This is not what is meant by "no one is disposable." I'm begging people to focus and use your brains. That man can still make a LIVING.

White men are very bad judges of character. They don’t have to be wary of anyone, so they don’t develop any instincts.

Belgium head coach, Rudi Garcia, on his conversation with Folarin Balogun after the match: "He came to talk to me. I really liked that. It is not his fault. He is not the one to blame. That's what I told him. I really appreciate the intention that he came to see me. I appreciate this player."

Trying to explain to my parents who are new to football that this tournament has been exceptional and exceptionally weird came to the zenith last night. All their what? why? and me going, I don't know this is bizarre 😳

no abuser sustains a career of abuse alone. At every stage, they have people willing to give them second, third, 30th chance while the survivors keep being unable to pay their bills. those are also choices, and you don't get to be automatically loved for them. Who gets all the chances speaks volumes

This is it: Can a man be under the leadership of a woman? Women in the US are the best organizers in the country. If a man cannot learn from a woman and cannot participate in a community without creating strife and drama because he's not in charge, then he has no mandate for power.

"Turns out that guy is a rapist. How can I make this about blaming another woman, one who has talked openly about being a rape victim?" Men if you see guys doing this today, you absolutely need to shut it down

What stands out to me is how much the victim avoids escalation. If you’ve never gotten a restraining order — which some folks seem to think was the best option — you likely don’t realize that is escalating, not de-escalating. De-escalating is a reasonable strategy! People do it all the time.

I hope they recognize that ignoring, excusing, even celebrating the earlier red flags means that they forced multiple women to go through the anguish of telling their rape stories publicly, with their names attached, in the newspaper. It is their fault Racicot and Fifield are experiencing this pain.

Id take it further, I would argue that pain is the goal here. The more I think about it, the more I see the need to jail and institutionalize as a manifestation of the need to punish difference. The impulse to institutionalize disabled people overlaps and is born of the same anxiety/disgust/anger.

After I wrote last week's column, I learnt that a neighbour with severe disabilities, an extremely tough & resourceful woman who lived to the full, died in the heatwave. Everyone here is devastated. I can scarcely express my anger towards a mindset that treats people like her as collateral damage. 🧵

anyway, here’s Wonderwall

I would like to underline for anybody joining soccer fandom this week that 90% of matches are not like this

On rereading the Declaration of Independence this weekend, I noticed that the mentions of the creator put them squarely in nature, as Deists and people trying to find a middle way among a variety of faiths might. The point was the natural rights of people, not a religious statement.

My mom using voice to text to message all her friends watching the game: He's so tall exclamation point exclamation point exclamation point. 😂🤣

We've seen this over and over again. Why don't women negotiate more? Because they're punished when they do. Why don't they network with more people? Because they're punished for it. Women don't need to change the way they act. They're acting rationally based on the way the world reacts to them. +

The thing that is so annoying about this is there is SO MUCH FUCKING STUFF these weirdos could be doing, and you can tell they're not doing anything except posting, and there is SUCH A NEED for fucking stuff to be done.

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

Liberté, égalité, Mbappé

A. People in DC did not know those fascists were planning to march. B. They marched for 15 minutes and then turned tail. C. People in DC would have been out there had they known they would be there. D. Do people know how people in DC (who actually live in the city) roll?

It's hard to convey to someone who didn't experience it how culturally ubiquitous the bicentennial was at the time. Kids had red-white-and-blue SHEETS on their beds. Like many, many, many kids.

Um…happy birthday, girl

What could you create/make by next summer to lessen suffering in some part of your world? Let that question be your guide and hold yourself to making something of whatever size and impact by that time. Hold yourself to the commitment. No one else needs to know but you will.

A grim reminder this 4th of July: The US has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on Earth, making it a leader in mass incarceration. Far too many people are locked up in the “land of the free.”

Today we celebrate the PDFing of "Declaration FINAL v3 USE THIS ONE - SIGNED.docx" (Jefferson's draft was heavily edited by the Committee, then again by Congress, and he was big mad about it.)

important to revisit the words of the Founding Fathers on this day

A gentle reminder that "Mount Rushmore" was carved by a KKK-associated white supremacist as a deliberate defacement of a sacred Lakota site, much as the same chud defaced Stone Mountain in Georgia to create a tribute to the Confederacy and white supremacy www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020... 1/x

California my whole life. Nearly ten years in Europe and it's how I introduced myself. Instant connection for people,they relax and almost always have a story to share.

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The reason why it is essential to read IN BULK when studying history is not simply to amass empirical knowledge—though that is important, too, of course—but because *interpretation* requires thick contextual awareness, and there is NO SHORTCUT for building that up that awareness.

Limit your activity. Do not push through this. I have seen up close and personal how fast heatstroke or dehydration can get you, way faster and harder than you think is possible.

People who are unfamiliar with the UCMJ may not realize that for an active duty major to do this in uniform, the consequence can be court martial and incarceration. All of it is prohibited, but the wearing of the uniform was an intentional choice, and a likely forfeit of both his career and freedom.