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Also people surfing the title bore here in Cook Inlet by Anchorage, Alaska!
…And, if it turns out a teacher is unable to resolve to uphold the broad agreement made with the community, then the district has a right to remove the teacher as their representative. Making sure that is not abused by the community and district is why teachers unions are vital.
Public schools have standards that list what the schools are aspiring to provide to the students who attend. These are agreed to by districts and represent an agreement with their community. A teacher varying wildly from those standards should be asked to explain themselves to their administrators.
I never quite understood the absolute fury about a vaccine that made the chances of dying so much lower, because it didn’t eliminate all of the illness. People being so infuriated that they did not get the “one and done” solution they are so certain they are entitled to have.
I’ve seen them claim it was improved hygiene and public utilities, instead of vaccines, that reduced death rates. As though following the public health science for those things, but rejecting it for vaccines, is somehow legitimate.
The actual study mentioned was observing differences in memory based on use of hormones and different emotion processing techniques in a group if fewer than 200 women. That’s what they built from to get to some sort of potential broad political impact.
Age cohorts are part of analyzing population statistics. Getting upset at the reported trends across different age groups is useless. Dismissing trends because there are individuals who fall outside the averages is absurd.
I applaud the effort. I am not willing to go down the rabbit hole myself today. However, what if one queries as “how much job growth under each party’s administrations since… 1965? 1985? 2000?”
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Well, goodness: if they became acceptable among adults, that would be one less dress code violation for harassing and shaming teen girls in high school! Couldn’t have that!
Oh, and that cell phones are like an actual addiction for teens, and then imposing cell phone policies that demand entire populations go “cold turkey” without other addiction coping supports.
And at the state level: reducing class sizes being the best way to boost student performance, but costing so much.
I’m so sorry
And we are frustrated that research was not considered worthwhile until the 2020’s!
Human fecal contamination is a public health concern in natural areas. And if you’re one of the 63 million Americans who went hiking last year, chances are you’ve found yourself needing to go — with no toilet in sight. (via @us.theconversation.com) https://to.pbs.org/41z38sh
Teenagers with period pain more likely to have chronic adult pain, study says
The personal denials are exactly the same as “not all men…” responses regarding misogyny discussions, or “not all whites” regarding racism. Look at the data, discuss the trends, and don’t take age cohorts having been named as generations as a personal attack on any individual.
All the folks arguing this can’t be true because some boomers are struggling financially while some young people are well off… sit down! By now, anyone old enough to be getting personally offended here should understand the difference between analyzing demographics and personal anecdotes. 1/2
In order to analyze economic realities for everyone, it is reasonable to consider demographics, including age cohorts. Ignoring data analysis so we don’t hurt people’s feelings about worrying if they feel blamed won’t help actually know what is happening on the scale that drive policies.
If you truly believe that id should be required AND should not be a barrier to voting, then advocate for spending the resources to overcome all of the well-documented barriers to having id. If you are unwilling to acknowledge and address those barriers, then you are advocating against voter rights.
The DOJ is telling the court that all unaccompanied children Trump is sending to Guatemala have parents or guardians in that country who have requested their children be returned to them. The plaintiffs are saying that's not at all true. You can read the back and forth here:
Also: if we just believed the women, we wouldn’t be waiting for some files to validate their testimonies
From @clintsmithiii.bsky.social's book, Above Ground: bookshop.org/a/862/9780316543033 #poem #books #writing
Ah… I miss the days of clever answer machine messages: You have reached an imaginary number. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try your call again. Happy Holidays! Today’s topic: naughty or nice? Who decides? Many of you have requested a shorter message.
I am certain that the article is addressing mass shootings as distinct from other shootings. I am also certain there are abundant analyses addressing other shooting categories and remedies.
US government orders 46 states to destroy trans education materials https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756652401&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
If you’re in favor of shutting down museum exhibitions or banning books because they make you feel bad, that’s a pretty good tip that you deserve to feel bad.
In order to analyze economic realities for everyone, it is reasonable to consider demographics, including age cohorts. Ignoring data analysis so we don’t hurt people’s feelings about worrying if they feel blamed won’t help actually know what is happening on the scale that drive policies.
Many argue Gen X did not have reasonable chances to do better either.
The observation that an age cohort is statistically unlikely to have good chances at doing better than their parents ahead of cohort began with Gen X. That is not any divisive blame, just reading the data. Media has been ignoring Gen X since the millennial became old enough to gather data about.
How about being able to own a home and have a retirement?
And THIS is why we need diversity (of all types) in research
August 30, 2025
It's awful that this doesn't get more media coverage, that so little is being done to get justice for these indigenous women and their loved ones. Thanks @hollyguise.bsky.social for posting this article. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
These packs were dogs that were not afraid of people, but also were not friendly towards strangers after their owners had been gone for weeks. It was dangerous.
Another aspect not addressed by the article: dogs abandoned and running loose packed up and became aggressive. We *did* evacuate our pets. Upon return, with all the fences damaged, we had to take dog walks regularly rather than just letting her out back. Had a few scary encounters with packs.
🙃 #GavinNewsom #EpsteinFiles
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
But in someplaces, they are they only pharmacy open outside 9-5. Losing that would be hard on such communities
I remember pulling my principal aside the day we were shutting down “just for 3 weeks”. I warned that my public health friends say we likely won’t reopen in person for the rest of the school year.” She was stunned, then quickly pivoted to make time for a “routine pre-vacation locker clean out”!
Provided the elections are fair and free
Drones?
Such drones could drop paint bombs too, right?
I am amazed by those that could compartmentalize it. I am a teacher, and my husband works in public health and emergency response. We were both so stressed all the time. And then our son was working retail, when he returned to work. It is still felt in so much of our worlds.
I would say it was February of 2020 when it was really obvious it was going to go global. While, the first reports were out of China in December, it wasn’t a given in the following January that it really was going to spread globally. Also, the world was focused on how Australia was on fire.
I was on the MS gulf coast. I will never forget. I am forever grateful for the friends who took us in on the spur of the moment for what turned out to be a couple weeks. The long recovery on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, ‘ground zero’ for Hurricane Katrina www.npr.org/2025/08/29/n...
Not to detract from your point, I read that the Italian mapmaker’s name was Amerigo, rather than “Amerika”
The fact that I have a couple high school faculty colleagues in their 80’s terrifies me!
And… if someone is swinging a stuck around hitting people, the fact that we don’t blame the stick is irrelevant to the fact that we take the stick away from the person.
And you can lose that license for reckless behavior
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Mass shootings happen in places other than schools. By your logic, we should see fewer in places with more guns among the general populace. So show us that data, and I’ll pay attention. But so far, I have no evidence higher rates of gun ownership is correlated with higher rates of safety.
In contrast to what has been in the news:
Some of them are likely teachers missing first days of school with students.
Too many fail to realize that “we are all entitled to our opinions” does NOT mean “all opinions are entitled to respect.”
One problem with being somewhere with any early start date for school (Aug 14), is that I’m already staring at a pile of grading while adverts hyping “ the final days of summer and back to school fill the media. 😟
Well, anything that fails to center WASP comfort is too much for that crowd
*is not Damn autocorrect!
It is not my video. I just live in Alaska and can assure you that today there us not snow in Fairbanks. There is lots of snow there in the winter, as well as beautiful auroras. Just not in late August.
And why is Cuban even willing to put in print that it could occur to him to predicate elections occurring on Trump feeling adequately complimented?
No. There is not snow in Fairbanks right now
This is not current. There used to be not snow in Fairbanks right now.
For the Western genre: “Blazing Saddles” and “Cat Ballou”.
Try some Gavin Newsom like humor too: Thank the blue states paying to send troops to boost tourism that has been down due to Trump policy. Emphasize they are leaving home & going to safer cities, better tourist destinations, great food. Lean in on job opportunities too maybe, to steal guardsmen
Also, many have spent the last week being baffled about the idea some Russians might feel a claim to Alaska.
I’m an American who has just come expecting that many who live on “the mainland” do not realize that Alaska and Hawaii are not actually similarly sized islands off the California coast (which is how they interpret the insets on maps).
Ok folks, maybe one if these cities can take a different approach: ridicule sending these troops on “duty” to cities with historically low crime, tourist spots, and great food. Maybe frame it as a thank you to blue states for supplementing tourism that’s down due to Trump policies?
“Why race holds such subversive power, and why it divides us, is never broached, of course, because that context and history (genocide, pillage, slavery, segregation, mass incarceration) might, if accurately recounted, be “divisive.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Moving the younger child into their dorm room to start college today. Whoa!
My mother used to occasionally announce “Let’s blow this popsicle stand!”
. THIS ! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
'Arguments about populations being replaced, denunciations of asylum seekers as “invaders”, the insistence that migrants are unassimilable, accusations of mass criminality and depravity, are all wearily familiar.'
Taught by whom? I distinctly recall lessons in school about witch trials being examples of greed, corruption, and control of women through lies and fear.
Anchorage Police Department is not interested in the lies about “rioting protests”:
The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize. “What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”
In 1933, US ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd gave a speech in Berlin that ended, “It would be no sin if leaders learned enough of history to realize that no system which [gives] control of society to privilege seekers has ever ended in any other way than collapse.” The applause was thunderous.
And… being a teacher running into your principal at the grocery towards the end of summer is very similar
Another sign that summer’s end is in view. Along with school starting this week.
Until courts decide to grant “real family” the right to challenge such documents. That won’t be a big leap after overturning past supreme court rulings.
And I think “Seward’s Folly” makes a great name for a pub! You can look up how that connects to Alaska’s history and Russia. Seward's Folly Bar & Grill share.google/u4MvYITqR7Yc...
“The names of numerous Alaskan communities derive from Russian roots (Unalaska, Kasilof, Ninilchik, Nikiski, Seldovia, Baranof Island, and Russian Mission, of course), the names of some natural resources (Mt. Redoubt, for one), and even some Alaskan surnames have Russian lineages.”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodo...
As I posted elsewhere in this thread: www.alaska.gov/Kids/learn/r...
Not accurate. Russia came and exploited, but also had plenty of settlement with locals. Also sent out a number of religious leaders who established written languages for the indigenous residents and then schools using their native languages. We can still see that in a lot of Cyrillic alphabet.
For all of those claiming there is no Russian history in Alaska, here’s the state of Alaska’s page about it: www.alaska.gov/Kids/learn/r...
They certainly had an influence on the people and resources of Alaska! Those were just small potatoes from European perspective. But it was everything for the people living here at the time.
I live in Anchorage and do indeed see a great deal of Russian historical influence all over the place.
Moderation in all things, but don’t overdo it! 😉
Heads up: I had to be very specific about which blood test I was requesting from my doctor, and she had to make some phone calls to the lab to find out if it was available.
Me too! But I didn’t get a blood test until I was in my 50s. And it came up negative! When I talked to an allergist, the best they could come up with is that given long enough without exposure to red meat it’s possible I no longer have the allergy. But I haven’t been willing to test it yet.
Speak Friend and enter!
And we’ll waste the money on court cases! 🙄
Guess why they get so upset at schools teaching such inconvenient truths.
It’s always amazing that white men embrace this idea instead of being terrified of it. I mean a lot of terrible things have been done by white men in the past, so generalizing against that group seems consistent with their approach.