modernthaddeus.bsky.social
Still as confused as ever, but about more important things.
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Having been bombarded with ads paid for by Mike Bloomberg and Bill Ackman, all I can say is, if Bloomberg doesn't mind cementing his legacy as a gutter racist by joining a MAGA billionaire in promoting barely dogwhistle Islamaphobic ads against Mamdani. . . . stop and frisk was on brand after all.
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Reminder.
COVID has an infectiousness rate of R3.3, meaning each patient is likely to infect 3.3 others.
Measles is R18.
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Beat me to it. Lots more experience than Cuomo at getting stuff done for NYC (as opposed to stealing money from it).
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Here are the folks who support the sex predator:
Floyd Abrams
Graydon Carter
Jeff Gural
Harold Holzer
All over 75, all willing to stick the next generations with the corrupt, disgraced billionaire-supported scumbag.
I guess they don't mind $60million of taxpayer funds for his legal defense. . .
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FWIW, Traister links to this Mara Gay piece, which she describes as a "good rebuke."
Worth reading for its indictment of the legacy Dems.
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It was fucking Biden who gave Harris shit assignments for three years so that she wouldn't overshadow him with her youth and vigor, and then refused to step aside until late in the campaign, and even then continued to undermine her.
To blame the progressive left for Harris' defeat is absurd.
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Anyone who claims the Civil War was unnecessary thinks the wrong side won.
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And let's not forget when Trump had the US Marshals assassinate an antifa activisit. Also in Portland
www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/u...
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He's not going to be in the next (and final) debate, which is a serious bummer.
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đź‘Ť
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If substituting "genocide" with "war of extermination" is good enough for the mainstream American Jewish community (which includes much of my family) to oppose further aid to Israel, I'm ok with it.
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Did they count these two incidents?
Cuz I know they were a little confused at first.
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Still waiting for you to offer evidence that he called for Israel to cease to exist.
He definitely talks about apartheid and genocide and wants those to end. Do you disagree?
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Who said Israel should be destroyed?
Not, as far as has been reported, this assassin.
Assuming this manifesto is in fact his, I defy you to find an anti-Semitic word or phrase in it. Unless any criticism of Israel is Anti-Semitic, and if that’s your position, agree to disagree.
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And to be clear, he’s an assassin and likely setting back the cause he’s fighting for. His actions are atrocious. But so far, contra your and Leah Greenberg’s claims, there is no evidence that they are anti-Semitic.
And not that it matters, but I’m Jewish.
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Again, I didn’t see that in any reports. You keep putting anti-Semitic statements into the assassin’s mouth and then think your proven he’s an anti-Semite.
He may be, but so far there’s no evidence of it. He’s anti Israel for its oppression of Palestinians for sure.
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Did the assassin say that?
I didn’t see that in any of the reports.
I did see that he said “free Palestine” and “I did it for Gaza,” but nothing about wiping Israel off the map.
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"something" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
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The notion of Gazans being "grateful" to Biden is an absurdity. Sure, he's better than Trump, but so what? You were arguing that Biden's foreign policy was net positive.
My point is that he aided and abetted a genocide and his greatest legacy in terms of fopo will be that.
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While Biden certainly faced constraints, he was also a gung ho supporter of aid to Israel. He could have followed the Leahy law to cut off military aid, but he didn't. He urged passage again and again of additional military aid.
He's been a lifelong friend of AIPAC.
www.aipac.org/resources/pr...
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Agreed!
Did you read the whole thread?
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4/ (left off the 3/ on the last)
but everyone in that class knows the right answer. And that is. . . boring.
It's the argument that makes it interesting, because it requires higher order thinking, which is the concept left out of each of the articles linked in the thread.
Except Petrzela's.
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But only if you're debating a fairly obvious racist. Some examples from recent memory:
"Did Native American boarding schools benefit or harm the students"
"Was the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII justified?"
Yes, these are questions about which people might disagree. . .
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Working with many new teachers, I see the most frequent mistake: trying to teach progressive politics in a lesson, rather than teaching kids to think about the controversy and develop their own ideas.
Often this takes the form of a question that is seemingly debatable. . . .
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This is an excellent and important thread - all US History teachers should read the report and responses.
My particular take (since noone asked) is that Natalie Petrzela has it right - students need to be engaged, and the route to that is provocative questions without a "right answer."
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Utterly perverse, contorted logic.
The US, in your telling, has no influence over Israel. That's absurd.
All those silly Palestinians in Gaza and protestors here who just don't understand how this works - they should be grateful for the 2,000 lb bombs delivered by the US for saving their lives!
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I'm with you on the domestic front, but. . . foreign policy? Really?
Except that aiding and abetting genocide thing, right?
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No one should celebrate.
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Did I miss your trip down to Louisiana to highlight the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil (who is a lot closer to being your constituent than Kilmar)?
Have I heard you say really anything about Khalil, other than slandering him as unAmerican and anti-Semitic?
Um, no. No, I haven't.
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The original sin of US health insurance was making it contingent on having a job (which goes back to WWII wage controls, resulting in employers offering insurance as a way to entice workers).
Now we think of it as a benefit, not a right. You want healthcare? Get a job!
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Why not Chotiner instead of Remnick? That would have ben much more fun.
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It’s the reverse of the great replacement.
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Just want to point out that first Canada, then Australia, and now the Vatican have all moved to the left because of Trump.
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Beat me to it.
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and providing feedback on student work.
That they do not understand that the end game of AI developers is to replace most of them is most upsetting.
fin
www.cnbc.com/2025/03/26/b...
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So, not great. Worse, in my opinion, is the enthusiasm on the part of the central department of education for the use of AI by teachers to design lesson plans.
Many teachers, it seems, are only too happy to abdicate to a bot the functions that make them professionals - writing lesson plans
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Speaking as a public school parent and educator, I can tell you that within my anecdotal sphere, many kids are using AI to do homework. I can also tell you that my colleagues and I have all noted a decline in the ability of high school students to write even short assignments.
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"A jury, which appeared to be all white. . . in Memphis, a majority-Black city"
Can someone explain to me how you manage to get a jury of 12 white folks when the jury pool is majority-Black?
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In case anyone wants the list of Dems who voted with the Republicans, it can be found here:
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You do understand there is a difference - in terms of dangerousness - between e-bikes and cars? If you read the article, you'd see that the NYPD actually comes down harder on riders than drivers.
And I have no idea what to make of your second point. What does that have to do with this discussion?
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Forcing them to show up in court for traffic tix (and no one has argued they shouldn't be ticketed at all) simply cuts into their earnings (making them more desperate) and provide an easy target for ICE.
There is no question that Adams is happy to turn people over to ICE, btw.
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"Immigrants" tend to be more law abidiing than citizens, as we know. Those delivering food are under extraordinary time pressures to make as many deliveries as possible in order to get paid something well below a living wage.
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Many e-bike delivery riders are undocumented. Turning these infractions into actual crimes makes them far more vulnerable to ICE persecution and deportation.
Mayor Adams and his NYPD know this.
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If you have AI write it for you, no need to worry about citations. It will provide them, whether they exist or not.
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and you referred to his "vile" and "unAmerican" statements, without citing any (because indeed, Mr. Khalil is an eloquent, thoughtful advocate who has explicitly condemned anti-Semitism, arguing that Palestinian liberation depends on defeating it).
Is that your version of defending free speech?
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When you were asked about Mahmoud Khalil's abduction and unlawful detention in a dank hole in Louisiana - based exclusively on his pro-Palestinian activism, you replied that while he does have rights, he slandered him by claiming he occupied buildings (false)
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