Prof in the Franks School of Education at Trine University. Retired Public School Superintendent and History Teacher. Opinions herein are mine, not yours, nor theirs. Fan of #plaidurday, Detroit sports, #COYS, and Purdue, the #CradleOfSuperintendents
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This year more than ever, it's important to remember what Labor Day is about. Today, society in general acknowledges that "workers have some rights." Those words were painted in the blood of Union organizers and protesters. (1/4) Studs Terkel, being magnificent: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoED...
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Well stated.
Boiler Up!
If itās working, then what the hell are they praying for?
I think there are at least 3 easily made impeachment cases with multiple instances under each heading 1. Impoundment 2. Illegal Firings 3. Violating court orders There are also immigration abuses, but the most meaningful of those probably tuck in under 3.
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
We should all aspire to be Samwise Gamgee.
To hell with "de mortuis nil nisi bonum." All I can think about is how many children have been harmed by this guy's cruel parenting advice, steeped in religious zealotry. As Christopher Hitchens remarked when Jerry Falwell died, "If he'd been given an enema, he could have been buried in a matchbox."
THIS. Exactly this.
If this reporting is correct---2.5 million Israelis protesting--that represents more than a quarter (25%) of the population of the country. In protest. Incredible. Israel is the size of New Jersey, both in land mass and population.
Kelsey Mitchell today: ā»ļø 38 PTS ā»ļø 5 3-PT ā»ļø 6 AST ā»ļø 2 STL
Holy cow! Thanks to the amazing @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social for mentioning my reporting on the Ghislaine Maxwell sex offender waiver and āout custodyā status allowing her to have work assignments outside the minimum security facility.
Release the Epstein Files.
This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.
Mt. Rundle from Banff Margaret Shelton 1945
Subway sandwich guy has been released on his own recognizance. His attorney argued the felony charge was excessive, and the judge agreed. Oh, and heās a USAF veteran. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."
Pritzker: "It's cheating. Donald Trump is a cheater. He cheats on his wives. He cheats at golf. And now he's trying to cheat the American people out of their votes."
Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DCā¦ he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office.
Back to school todayā¦
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1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely. Here's why.
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Same
@dynarski.bsky.social I knew you would be a good follow.
The food at home games absolutely on fire!
Ledes can be hard to write, so itās nice to have a spouse who suggests an angle that is easy to make reality. Read my first day of school coverage (and spouse-inspired lede) in @journalgazette.net www.journalgazette.net/local/studen...
VANCE: As an ice breaker, let's all name our favorite amendment to the Constitution. Pam? BONDI: Uh ... the First, I guess? BLANCHE: Can't represent the Big Guy without the Fifth! PATEL: #2 on the list, but #1 in my heart. All about the guns, son! VANCE: So ... no fans of the 25th huh
My painting SMALL SAILBOAT
We seem to be going through some serious Richard II shit right nowā¦
Reading The Eagle and The Hart by Helen Castor. This paragraph struck me.
The Dersh: definitely someone with nothing to hide
At last! Get this to RFK Jr! STAT
This is August Sheila Schaetzle c. 2024
High Country Nicholas Bott 2013
Not funny, but true: All tyrants eventually fall. But after that happens, the people and institutions that bowed down to them will never regain their reputations.
Catching Waterlilies Henry Sandham 1889
The best $3 youāll ever spend.
The Tangled Garden J.E.H. MacDonald 1916
āThe decision shocked some Starlink employees and effectively reshaped the front line of the fighting, enabling Musk to take āthe outcome of a war into his own hands,ā another one of the three people saidā www.reuters.com/investigatio...
If you look at the Epstein story through the lens of his victims and their life stories you get a story about every powerful institution in public life failing on any measure of accountability but repeatedly being outmatched by the courage of teenagers, sex workers, and runaways
Agree, and important to recognize that a big reason why Julie Brown pursued the story was because several of Epstein's victims were suing the US government over the plea deal. They never gave up trying to hold Acosta accountable.
Farewell to Chuck Mangione. ā¤ļø
North Shore Village George Pepper 1930
BREAKING: the obvious
I would like to rename the Kennedy Center the Release The Epstein Files Center You Fucker Whoās with me?
Release the Epstein files
Files canāt be blackmailed. Files canāt be extorted. Files canāt be pardoned. Files canāt be bribed. Nothing can substitute for the release of all of the Epstein files.
The new Lord Huron might fit the bill
In that case, fuck him too. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Fascinating survey data on the missing Biden voters by Lake Research. The voters who sat out in '24 weren't looking for a centrist or turned off by trans rights. They want a genuine economic populist agenda: take on corporate greed, lower costs, and make the wealthy pay their fair share.
EPSTEIN-Trump is playing games. Heās seeking disclosure of grand jury material but that requires court approval which the law is VERY hard to satisfy. But the government TODAY can disclose all the other investigative material on its own without court approval. Why isnāt it doing that?
Iām looking forward to Stephen Colbert sharpening his knife over this year to show the capitulating Paramount what free speech is all about.
part 2/2
A U.S. surgeon trying to have a āpeer to peerā consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it. (1/2)
If JD Vance were a true Catholic instead of defending Trump he would simply assign him to be President of another country
Guys, he wrote about their ābeautiful secretsā to Epstein. Sick ass predator. He canāt defend the words he has to pretend the letter is fake because itās that SICK. What man would defend this behavior? BETAs
Stephen Colbert is a profoundly good and deeply talented man with a great staff and an excellent show. They all deserve better.
The issue isnāt Trumpās involvement with Epstein. The issue is his criminal rape of underage girls. And if you think it didnāt happen, feel free to join a political movement that elected him president.
Turned off the All-star game. The Fox coverage is too awful. @mlb.com
For the record, I urged caution in believing the legitimacy of the assassination attempt. A year later, the truth still remains in question.
"We donāt make enough money to put up with this." Last year, US K-12 schools opened short 55,000 teachers. Between book bans and political attacks on schools and educators, it's looking like this year's shortages will be even more dire, especially in red states. newrepublic.com/article/1967...
We recently paid people to unfollow the most divisive accounts on X. After a month, they felt 23% less animosity towards other political groups Their experience was so positive that half declined to refollow those hostile accounts after the study and they felt less animosity 11 months later.
the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before? That led to the discovery of these headline ā from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators. My how times change ...
"Democrats don't want the Epstein files released because it would compromise Bill Clinton." Yeah, no, I don't care who's in the files. If Bill Clinton is implicated, I want him held accountable. I'm not part of a cult. I don't give a shit if they're a Democrat.
The USās industrial use of copper āis widespread and itās difficult to replace with other materials .. the greatest impact could fall on the US. Thatās certainly suggested by the widening gap between the prices in London and New York.ā @johnauthers.bsky.social
E.g. i.e. fuck you!
ā.. traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter ..ā @niemanreports.org #Hellsite niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...
NEW: Bishop Rojas of San Bernardino has dispensed his Diocese from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass due to ongoing ICE raids.
A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors to an island once owned by Epstein, the notorious sex offender. Our investigation from 2024:
Patrick O'Brian's Stephen Maturin is an unbelievable character, in the most literal sense. Yet he compels us to suspend our disbelief, and he sticks in our mind long after we're finished with the series. A post from my dad: evanmwilson.substack.com/p/really #navalhistory
Folds: If weāve been told our whole lives that we canāt spend money on the arts because theyāre not importantāthen why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did? It is extremely important. Itās the bedrock of self-expression.
Going for a Dip Linus Woods ~ Dakota, Ojibwe n.d.
Taxes are not burdens, they are investments.
I told my kids about the time the anthem singer at the Vegas CFL game sang O Canada to the tune of O Christmas tree, and now my kids are running around singing it like that. Happy Canada Day!
Village on the St. Lawrence Nora Collyer 1937
Summer Sky A.J. Casson 1955
Growing up I loved listening to Ernie Harwell. Canāt believe how lucky I am to listen to Jason Benetti now. Great baseball announcers enhance our lives so much. @tigers.bsky.social
Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaignāI mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."
āIn many respects, democratic socialism was and is close to Catholic social doctrine and has, in any case, made a remarkable contribution to the formation of a social consciousness.ā --- Pope Benedict XVI
Barbra Streisand pours herself a cocktail, chuckling to herself.
NEW YORK! MAKE SURE TO RANK ROGER!
Gorgeous!
The Saskatchewan Roughriders have revealed a new full-colour version of their Indigenous logo ahead of Saturdayās kisiskĆ¢ciwan game š§” Every colour tells a story and itās worth seeing. Details + full breakdown of the logo and meaning: š news.sportslogos.net/2025/06/23/c... #Riders #CFL
Gimme Kenny, Shaq, Earnie, and Chuck any day
Schism
West Coast Trail Sundown Nicholas Bott 2019
Untitled - Big Mountains Margaret Shelton 1943
Courtship Roy Henry Vickers ~ Haida, Heiltsuk, Tsimshian 2020
