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If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient Getting my MLIS at the bleakest time for information literacy #GoCubs
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Libertarian-curious š¤ divine rule Billionaires
Itās hard to take billionairesā concerns about population decline seriously when they also do everything they can to avoid paying employees livable wages with decent healthcare
Trump does love to jerk people around just because he can Expect endless fire emojis from the MAGA influencer sphere
Birth rates are lowering *literally everywhere.* The only countries which keep growing in power will be the ones which continue to grow, and without immigration that will not be āthe West.ā
Trump is going to announce that heās staying with Shelly Miscavige for a while
Trump will never, ever voluntarily leave power This will be an escalation against blue states and cities, which will be especially draconian depending on his latest diagnosis
This is where Iām putting my money
Weird how all the worst people like each otherā¦
āPrasadās comments still appeared on anti-vaccine social media accounts, suggesting Prasad was directing his removal demand only at a critic and not anti-vaccine influencers. In the past, Prasad has complained about censorship by social media companies.ā Yeah, cause he is an antivaxxer and a fraud.
So This framing has Pritzker rejecting a *threat* But thatās supposed to be a bad thing Got it
His pronouns are shit/heel
āThe tolerant Left hypocritically wonāt tolerate my ignorance and hateā
This is most likely going to be some bullshit claim of international success and another demand for the Novel Peace Prize, since thatās the only thing that is keeping him aliveā¦ So on that note, howās about we give it to him
Soā¦it *canāt* actually do what it claims to do
The lifetime return to college remains enormous: four years of study adds more than a million dollars to expected earnings. And that yields a funny conclusion that I like to remind my students about: It may not feel like it, but these might be the highest earning years of your career.
Looks like a certain magazine has been taking fiddle lessons...
Top four stories on the Atlantic right now. Tell me again how they have their finger on the pulse of regular Americansā concerns
His career in public service should be the envy of any young person looking to change the world and do so with integrity. Well done, Congressman. Take a bow. And thank you for always showing up to lead the way to a better future. /thread
Congressman Jerry Nadler would more than likely have been reelected to an 18th full term in Congress. He's long had the support and confidence of NYC voters. Instead, he's passing the torch and doing his part to center and strengthen the next generation of Democratic leadership. (thread)
āWhere he fielded questionsā implies coherent answers
Canāt wait for the NYTimes to explain what this one meansā¦
Someone warned the GOP against throwing the baby out with the bath water, and the GOP asked what race the baby was
Trump is going to try to get the Nobel Peace Prize for uniting everyone in hatred against himself, isn't he? www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
Remember when they all said the plan was for Biden to get elected and then die off for Harris to take his place without having to be elected? Just thinking about that for some reason
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I mean Sure? Whatever makes these sad sacks happy I guess, even if thatās awarding themselves āgood for youā awards
In other words he only hired RFK Jr to avoid losing the election, and now doesnāt want to be blamed for hiring a vaccine denier (which RFK Jr has been known for over many years)
He demands that Pfizer and other companies show their vaccine data (which he calls drugs) to the CDC to show them how good they are. What does this tell us? That the outrage against RFK Jr. is having an effect and we need to push even harder to force this wedge.
āLet them fightā on sĢ¶tĢ¶eĢ¶rĢ¶oĢ¶iĢ¶dĢ¶sĢ¶ whatever it is RFK Jr injects himself with
So this is what it looks like when common decency dies because people decided freedom means being an absolute dickhead at all times
Nine former CDC directors basically said RFK Jr is a threat to public health.
How I wish that a proffered take for elected Dems would be for them to listen to their constituents rather than to self-appointed concern trolls
you mean having random bluechecks attack your decades of learned expertise, post some youtube vid as a rebuttal, and threaten to doxx did not make for a modern Bloomsbury Group?
The meritocracy is going swimmingly
but, as these were really the only 2 options, jesus i'm glad every single one of them is messed up rather than being dead - or recovering themselves but living with the guilt of getting a vulnerable relative killed
I don't know if it's a mostly American thing, but the inability of Americans (like Brian Schatz here) to even take a moment to imagine a classroom situation like yours, and tut-tut over how a pandemic was handled, is beyond infuriating
it is underdiscussed how "learning loss" can also be attributed to the fact that millions of people were dying and the kids were fucking terrified all the time - not just that they were on Zoom
But thank God weāre getting rid of science like this kind, relying on those know-it-all experts, telling us what we can and cannot do like theyāre the boss of us! We have our own vibes. We do research based on those vibes. Checkmate libs
And itās not like kids could act as asymptomatic carriers, bringing Covid home to more immunocompromised adults, right? www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...
I wonder if there is a difference between adults going to a bar and children being stuck in a single room for eight hoursā¦ What is it though?
@schatz.bsky.social not realizing that not every school could have open windows and great air circulation. There were some schools with such bad air circulation that teachers were spending their own money to rig up impromptu air filtering systems.
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest Ā· Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Iām gonna teach you guys a really useful phrase: āMy bad, I donāt know what I was thinking. Deleting this.ā
Honestly, he seems angry all the time and obsessed with other peopleās joys, so I kind of love that for him
Yep a good-faith critique of learning loss would lead to proposals for a massive, New Deal-scale investment in public education. The people pushing the narrative are doing precisely the opposite.
Exactly, the entire argument for this narrative is that kids rarely die of COVID. Thatās true, but it wasnāt the justification for the policy. Teachers *do* die of COVID and kids *do* spread COVID. Some studies find school closures were the most effective intervention for preventing cases!
The right is pushing this narrative because itās the only place they can blame liberals ā their actual goal ā and gain purchase among elites. The *actual* mistakes during the pandemic all originate on the right: lax lockdowns, weak mitigations and low vaccine uptake
Trying to figure out if there's a difference between the standards and operating conditions to run a place where adults can go to buy a drink, and a place where every child in the state is taught and supervised for 40 hours a week
This āblue states closed schools too longā narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but itās arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
leave no stone joyless
This is how they beat up on a minority they already despise to distract from guns being the #1 killer of US children. Pls read, comment, subscribe... johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/straight-w...
It's his imagination and we're just lucky to be living in it.
It's all fun and games until you institute something a Black woman proposed...
Matt, 2025 dictates that billionaires are the S-M-R-T-est of everyone and so this is now a New Factā¢ļø, sponsored by Cost Plus Drugs "Cost Plus Drugs...because RFK Jr is trying to kill you"
isn't the point that the drugmakers *have* already proven the success through clinical trials and then public use? being led by purposeful idiots sucks
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
Or, And bear with me, The empty restaurants were the thing that prompted the change in the first placeā¦
This is why I found it so funny the ivys and snob schools rolled over so fast and got double fucked for doing it. These are the same people getting duped putting 50 grand in a shoebox. Rich and priveleged Americans are the easiest people to scam and bully because they've never deal with it before.
Itās up their with their understanding of tolerance To be tolerant, one must accept their intolerance. They, OTOH, do not have to accept anything Itās the āI winā game of humaning
Armed patrols in urban centers are āhurting the people [Trump] needs to be hurting,ā to borrow a comment one of his first-term supporters made to the New York Times.
I dunnoā¦.Melania would 100 go along with it
How did no one on the Wednesday writing staff not know that āGoodyā wasnāt a first name?š
NYTimes called everyone in to try to make this about Bidenās age
Iām just a girl, sitting in front of my Bluesky feed, asking it to love herā¦
Admitting that Trump is mortal?
This is what he thinks it takes to get into heaven, isnāt it?
Good choice Definitely a āthe only winning move is not to playā sitch
Do yourselves a favor and look up John Wood Jr An entire career built on wordy nonsense
Good use of scare quotes tbh
I have two hummingbird feeders, with a bit of distance from each other, but if a second hummingbird dares to approach the other one, the first runs it off immediately Theyāre the neatest creatures, but lord are they giant dickheads
My āthe domestic violence victim was not running *away* from meā t-shirt had people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
lol
that's not how pritzker is making policy. pritzker's trans policies have been based on dialogs with LGBT orgs and working with advocates to figure out what the community needs.
Trump is going to try to get the Nobel Peace Prize for uniting everyone in hatred against himself, isn't he? www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
"Is this Hell?" "No, it's Wisconsin"
The Alpha Male party suffers from terminal Whydidyoumakemehitmyselfosis
like..nothing for the Republicans who voted RFK Jr through...like, say, Dr. Bill Cassidy? no? Only Biden's fault. got it. coolcoolcoolcoolcool
Erick Erickson blaming Biden for RFK Jr is epic cope
"Grandma, looking back, what do you think was your first sign that it was the beginning of The Dumbening?" "Honey, I'd have to trace it back to when people "did their own research" because they refused to understand how science worked and refused to accept the answers"
"I hate that time progresses and tastes change. Long live Cats The Musical!" -Trump
"Under communism, there's dictators! And brutalism! And modernism! And sometimes even POST MODERNISM!! This upsets me, even though I say I am not a Nazi"
"even though Mr. Giuliani was driving drunk, he did help out someone, so let's just call it a wash" -future explanation, probably
sentient ick
not beating those weirdo charges
"Giuliani is not a complete sociopath" story shoehorned into an announcement about his accident awesome
As we hear from GOP members and voters who wring their hands in consternation and plead for mercy, I'm reminded of this article that laid out how Trump supporters made Trump their mirrors And as such, they never listened to what he actually said (and still don't) sunken cost is a helluva thing
āI don't care about you, I just want your voteā -Donald Trump
Trump is a very spoiled rich kid who never had to tax his brain to do anything, and had a prideful father who would rather cover up his sonās shortcomings than make him learn from them Laziness on every conceivable level
Trump is, and always has been, a very weak man who only feels strength through hurting others He believes that using people and then discarding them is a sign of power, just as ignoring laws is an indicator of intellectual complexity abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
They always attack the most marginalized among us to normalize the violence and othering as they move up the socioeconomic food chain, eventually getting to all of us
naĆÆvely believing that this is akin to smack-talking between sports rivalriesļæ¼. But this language is the first step in normalizing fascism. And yes, that may sound alarmist. But thatās because this is alarming.
Last week, Trump started testing out calling himself a dictator, claiming that people want this. Stephen Miller said that the entire Democratic Party is an extremist domestic terror group. And those ignorant of history may say that sounds good and correct,
When a society allows intolerance, we find ourselves in our current predicament, where hate is a policy platform and entire swaths of people are stripped of their human status to make others fear opposing anything themselves ļæ¼ļæ¼ ļæ¼
it means that a person is allowed to apply for admittance before being automatically shut out of consideration based on surface-level characteristics like skin color, gender, and socioeconomic status.
Trumpās entire agenda ethos is that of not tolerating any difference of opinion or viewpoint.ļæ¼ Inclusive does not mean automatic admittance, regardless of repugnant behavior or vileness of views;
"Trump deployed National Guard troops on multiple 29-day ordersāspecifically choosing durations under 30 days to avoid paying full Basic Allowance for Housing Type 1 (BAHā1)." Trump's not beating those 'suckers and losers' charges
Like many on here, I do not believe the administration has anywhere near the capacity to make this *work*. But I do expect it to try.
And Trump said, 'Thank you, sir. May I have another?"
Q: what radicalized you against a strong federal government? MAGA literati: I was held accountable for my decisions and actions by them