There's that 22 yo domestic terrorist kid too 😬
MA. Completely bewildered by our new world. Single parent, back to school at 40 & halfway through my bachelor's with a 4.0. Thank you so much for voting against my rights, my children's rights, & social safety nets we and many others rely on. /s FDT 🖕🏻
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There's that 22 yo domestic terrorist kid too 😬
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Rep. Stansbury's words were the most impactful I have heard yet regarding the victim testimony today. I don't doubt the sincerity of some others, but don't tell me you can't feel her anger and determination to achieve justice through your phone screen. She will fight.
We do "dinner fact of the day" so yesterday I had the kids look up things about Labor Day and this was one of the things we talked about. It's fascinating! Haymarket was May 1 -4th and then the Pullman Strike, May 11, 1894. www.democracyatwork.info/labordayhist...
Trump could’ve intercepted the boat, seized the drugs and imprisoned everyone Instead he approved this Venezuela strike and killed all persons aboard The extrajudicial killing of 11 men and potentially provoking a war with President Maduro is an odd way to campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize
As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.
So our military just bombed a boat in international waters and extrajudicially killed suspected drug traffickers without so much as a conversation, let alone a trial? Then posted it on social media? And we’re all supposed to just trust their account?
BREAKING: 5th circuit panel rejects Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to expel Venezuelan nationals, saying there has been no "invasion" or "predatory incursion." Majority Southwich (George W. Bush) Ramirez (Biden) Dissent Oldham (Trump) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
My 12 yr old reading over my shoulder: "pfft electricity is kinetic energy dipshit" Me:
I know this sounds crazy, but shouldn’t the Secretary of Energy know something about energy?
Instead it was this. Like I have cptsd, have had panic attacks as have many of us here on this thread I'm sure. I get it. But she did this. She couldn't even have a staffer write some fluffy "I did struggle today w my own experience but I'm reminded we aren't alone. Believe women". Nope.
Just changing the messaging. "As someone who has experienced SA, the victims testifying today remind us how incredibly important it is to listen and elevate the voices of the ones who have experienced it, and not the perpetrators'." "I admire their strength in speaking about violence against women"
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
absolutely lost it at JD "JUST DANCE" VANCE 💀☠️
I'm gonna have to agree with you!
Today, Trump said that he will direct federal law enforcement intervention to “crack down on crime and violence" in Chicago and Baltimore. Join us in urging Congress to STOP this takeover and put an immediate end to DC's armed occupation!
Having to rewatch the recorded lecture because I got distracted by the professor's cat in the background and missed a significant portion 😆 🐈⬛🐈
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Oh no Did my mother send it? 🤦🏻♀️ (Seriously- ENRAGING)
I say we keep brutally gaslighting him that he's dead. Like the Sixth Sense where we all know it but him! 😆
Be best! 😆
Maybe the briefing saying this violated the posse comitatus act in LA is *after* the press conference? 🤔🤦🏻♀️😡
SPOTTED: Mobile billboards driving around D.C. demanding federal agents take their masks off — because public servants should face the public. Go follow @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social!
This is not okay. And I refuse to believe he played dead over this.
Trump is such a malicious bastard. He fired immigration judges, leaving immigrants stuck in limbo, at constant risk of being kidnapped by ICE thugs. Now the Pentagon has authorized up to 600 military lawyers who have no experience with immigration law to serve as judges. This can't end well.
Trump just authorized up to 600 military lawyers to serve as immigration judges - effectively doubling the bench overnight. Courts are supposed to be independent, not staffed by the Pentagon. This is how you turn immigration into a battlefield instead of due process.
i hope you’ll take time to read this well-reported, emotional story. gift link: wapo.st/3HWkA3o
I process and communicate better with writing than I do verbally. So I don't so much take things literally as much as I take time to process something said to me over several days sometimes to really get what they were implying. This drives me crazy bc it's usually due to them not being clear.
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Armand's is a wild take 😆 "I feel like I fit in better with these right-winger extremists than I do with what I claim is my own party" 🤔
And I'd really love to just scream "WELL WE COULD START WITH NOT YANKING USAID OUT OF COUNTRIES WHERE THEY WERE DISTRIBUTING FORMULA, OR WE COULD MAYBE JUST TRY TO NOT PURPOSELY MAKE PEOPLE BLEED OUT IN TEXAS AND GEORGIA, BUT WHAT DO I KNOW!" Seemed a bit much for day one.
My answer here- I'm sure I left some things out, but it's meant to just be 3 to 4 informal sentences in an intro discussion board, so I can't really be like, "in a perfect world, people wouldn't have to be afraid to give birth because their home and hospitals are being bombed" by the IDF or Russia
Our intro assignment in #PublicHealth (Maternal-Child Health in the Developing World) class starting today asks, "in your opinion, what would optimal maternal & child health look like?" It's low-hanging fruit, but with public health under threat I'd like to discuss it. What would you say? 🧪
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Those who embrace a naive view of American Exceptionalism love to tout how special the United States is compared to every other nation in the history of the world. That is, until it comes to American slavery. In that case, the US is no better or worse than every other nation where slavery existed. 🗃️
Columbia University Suspended Me for My Pro-Palestinian Activism "I’ve been punished for two different divestment movements – I know first-hand the 'Palestine exception' is real." Read Jessie Lee Rubin's full piece for Zeteo: zeteo.com/p/columbia-u...
YES miserable mother fucker
Watch him say "I've actually been dead for years. Uno reverse!"
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Did you know “Let’s Move!” was actually short for “Let’s move to ban mRNA vaccines and eliminate Medicaid?”
McCankles 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The pink boots 🤣
"He might be dead" isn't even that wild of a theory. a wild theory would be "what if he had a stroke which fried the parts of his brain that make him a stupid evil piece of shit and now he has to figure out how to navigate his existence with a conscience and the knowledge of everything he's done"
“Frayed collar workers in gold plated times.” 30 years ago I issued a stark warning about the health of America’s working class. Watch and tell me what you think. https://youtu.be/8rW1kkAV-gw?feature=shared
tv show idea: parks and rec, except it’s a local health department. optionally, everyone can be a vampire. time to get in the fight hollywood
Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Hmm Maybe I'll restart my membership. I pay for Paramount for my grandmother (she's 91 and likes the 1923 show) and I hate that it's Paramount but I can't cancel it on her 😭 I had stopped Netflix bc it got expensive but maybe there's some value there ;)
The second - he's already a nasty pig. Except he won't know the phrase "the global south" and instead will say it's a far away land full of oil and drugs and go on his tangent from there
Wait this isn't a joke?!? 🫠
Ha 🤣
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Hey, medical professionals: gonna need you to back way the hell off on judging disabled folks’ distrust of you. Many if not most of us have been subjected to humiliation, invalidation, or literal pain by members of your profession. Maybe practice some active listening or a self craniorectomy.
I choked laughing at the idea of this government being "radically transparent". The MOST transparent administration *ever*!! 🤣
“Prasad’s 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.” Yeah, cause he is an antivaxxer and a fraud.
OH COME ONNNNNNNNNN this is so unbelievably cruel.
Elmo catches Julia Louis Dreyfus cursing and without skipping a beat hilariously calls her out: “She said a bad word!! Five dollars!” 😆😂 He should have charged her more, she’s an heiress to a fortune.
Okay this one is ✨FASCINATING✨. A history of health practices and political policy centered around quack medicine in the era of licensure debate: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BWQnBx/
and *forced reading* is NOT the same as comprehension. It's just not.
I'm like- JUST STOP. Stop it. Everyone pretend we're in an after-school special where we listen to each other and stop being assholes to each other and our surroundings. ...but money! 😭 (there's my mini spiral. hugs)
Sorry to be the bringer of this news. It seems sometimes like it could be so simple, like, one of the links points out how much deforestation contributes to the changing South American rainforest conditions and of course that affects the sea surface temps and the feedback loop is never-ending. And
How do SSTs and their feedback loops affect rainforest conditions, and vice versa? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
More on upwelling: oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations...
The loss of planetary albedo via these cloud decks and glaciers is a major weakness in our fight against global warming. Albedo is a measure of the percentage of sunlight that a surface reflects away- the amount of sunlight snow reflects is the common example for this.
Something VERY interesting to me is how these patterns of upwelling feedback contribute to things like the "formation of stratus cloud decks above cool SSTs that block solar radiation" (Ramesh, Boos 2025). We *WANT* to reflect that radiation back away from the planet. Badly.
a pattern today will play a role in the patterns tomorrow and next month and in the future here and around the world (FASCINATING you guys! I'm not an expert here, clearly, I have just taken a couple courses and am nerding out). I'd love to hear from people who are studying this and their thoughts.
Those east-west patterns contribute to the creation of Nina/Nino and to conditions like whether the Arctic is warmer this winter, whether the southwest is dryer, will New England have Snowmageddon or will our tulips bloom in February? But of course no weather pattern happens to just one place:
What does this annual pattern of upwelling even do in our oceans? The waters are nutrient-rich, support diverse ecosystems, forming some of the world’s most lucrative fisheries; affects tropical climate w strong east-west sea surface temperatures (SSTs). journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
With faster warming temps in the western Pacific vs the eastern, the background tropical circulation could become more La Niña-like. But w pattern changes trending in rising global temps, meaning we see east warming faster than the west, then the circulation becomes more El Niño-like (NOAA).
"Scientists suggest that a significant reduction in wind patterns was the cause of this unprecedented event, revealing how climate disruption can quickly alter fundamental oceanic processes that have sustained coastal fishing communities for thousands of years." (study linked)
"Upwelling is a process that allows cold, nutrient-rich waters from the depths of the ocean to rise to the surface. This dynamic supports highly productive fisheries and helps protect coral reefs from thermal stress." This movement allows Panama's Pacific beaches to stay cooler in the summer season.
um well that doesn't sound good 🧪🥴
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
Link for video above, I had to trim a few seconds off. Her husband WORKED AT DHS!!!!! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BWMfy3/
Governor Healy issued a blanket pardon on state misdemeanor marijuana charges in 2024. Jemmy was denied access to her daily medications resulting in two trips to the ER within the 10 days they held her. When she was released they hadn't charged her with anything and left her in the pouring rain. 😑
She's 42. They "detained" her for 10 days over a marijuana misdemeanor from COLLEGE. It's decriminalized in MA. I can go to at least 6 stores I can think of w/in 15 min of my home to get fruit punch flavored pot gummies but she can get kidnapped & disappeared youtu.be/LwuNeZsixdc?...
RIGHT like it was like he was launched
What the ACTUAL FUCK
This is extremely good advice. Scientists and allies, take note. If you have questions on how to organize, or how to join a group that is organizing, please reply to this thread and we'll all help. 🧪
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Finland is always a fascinating example of embracing a less-rigid approach to earlier benchmarks with obvious success in their education system. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
The point here, specifically, is children have a wide variance of abilities and benchmarks are great but not all children meet them at the same time, for countless reasons. Report cards and progress reports reflect this in their use of assessments like "progressing" or "gaining skills in this area".
My understanding is a militant "just read" approach doesn't address underlying comprehension issues or other language issues- which often is broadly assumed to go ignored in homeschooling stereotypes. This parent *may* be addressing those needs, we don't know. What evidence would change your mind?
Sometimes people appreciate a more pedestrian approach 🥰 It interests me how, with a lot of evidence available in education and literacy, whether it's a scholarly article, anecdotal or not, you still say this doesn't change x,y,z for you.
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Hyperlexia is often associated w/ autistic children, but being autistic is not a requirement for diagnosis. Obviously this doesn't apply to every child, but again, the point is, an average is based on a collective range of differing abilities. It's a fascinating issue- hyperlexics struggle later on.
This parent does not mention any specific learning disabilities, but fwiw, some early readers are experiencing learning and developmental difficulties that are masked by what appears to be their "incredible" natural reading ability at an early age. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
This can look like many different learning opportunities, but here being read aloud to and listening to audio books would be the ideal example; both are recognized as valuable learning experiences regardless of the setting. www.aft.org/ae/spring200...
Reading comprehension depends heavily on oral language development. Considering the idea of how children (and adults) have different learning styles and those are sometimes harder to meet in a large classroom, the child in reference learning at home *may* be developing language skills in other ways:
Do all infants learn to walk at exactly the same age, learn to speak at exactly the same age? No- there are variations of normalcy, ranges of when children reach milestones. "Simple" books of a few pages each is not always what people think of as a chapter book. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
🧵Labor Day is a chance to remember all unions have done for America. "The first labor union in the United States was the the Federal Society of Journeymen Cordwainers (leather workers and cobblers), founded in 1794." The union crumbled in 1806, when owners won a lawsuit charging workers with..1/
OMG 😆😭 We're learning about the history of Labor Day and why worker's rights matter so much (my kids love me, I swear 🙃🤣) But seriously we do Dinner Facts of the Day and today everyone is looking up info about Labor Day and they're encouraged to find really good stories. bsky.app/profile/kati...
I'm still betting on something like a Bell's Palsy. Much less emergent than a stroke, appears like a stroke to people at first glance (a facial droop and paralysis both create a slurred-like speech pattern, imagine having a very loose cheek). ✨What matters is it would be a huge blow to his ego.✨
I wondered if he might just have something like Bell's Palsy (or even just a fall and a bruise on his face). Common enough in his age group and enough to cause alarm in a large portion of people- they would assume a stroke- and especially damaging to his ego and he wouldn't allow for that.
But she said "this was the first election in all my time voting for every election I have ever left the box for the president blank". If I had to guess she obviously didn't like Trump and fell for the bs about Harris being "unqualified".
and my dad's mom, the gram I live with who is older, doesn't quite follow the conversation as well when we get into a discussion about my mother and how it relates to broader political issues. It's like it's "too big" of a world for her when we get into that. And I wasn't up for opening that lid lol
No- because I didn't press it (I was caught off-guard) and it was in the middle of a more broad and complicated conversation with both grandmothers about my mother and her problematic behavior lately and her even more problematic boyfriend. She's been on a roll lately with conspiracies and things-
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
I'm so sorry too. I could never do that to my children.