corissar.bsky.social
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Don’t worry. Since they have no problem ignoring the Constitution they can just insist local citizens house them. 😒
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He specifically does NOT want to use political capital. He says individuals who think it is important for universities to not cave to political pressure should support those schools in their efforts to resist government intervention, and that opposition party politicians should stay out of it.
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Oh okay, I understand!
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If he appoints a special prosecutor who finds specific members of the Trump administration ordered the actions, doesn’t the DOJ still have to prosecute them? And if the DOJ refuses to prosecute them, what happens?
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This! I know lots of people that would participate in a well-organized, peaceful resistance. Do we do a national workers strike? A coordinated, multi-day buy-nothing movement? Daily marches…somewhere? What do we do? If it isn’t coordinated it won’t be effective.
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In late Jan we sold the stuff that has to be sold in the next 3 years (options stuff & what we need for college tuition), but held on to the long-term investments. I don’t think of it as “panic” but we expected the market to drop significantly.
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I don’t know who most of those people are, so I would choose and aisle seat, closer to the front is better.
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But it sounds like the mom should be the one prosecuted, not the doctor.
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Tbf, she could have been planning the gender reveal party as soon as she knew she was pregnant, long before she knew the gender. Many people do.
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Yes, but also the people I know who voted for Trump whole-heartedly agree and cheer this type of rhetoric. They are saying the same things.
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This morning’s email was really interesting!
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Agree the diner safari is ridiculous, but also I’m seeing a lot of glee on my (MA) town’s FB groups from Trump supporters. They are touting the actions he is taking as “solving America’s problems” and “treating the libs & criminals like they deserve.” No concern for where it is headed. It is jarring
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If I remember it correctly, it is part of a series of “thrilling” Alaska murder-mystery-romances.
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I have read that book!
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Can you explain how that would work? Max fed student loans are $27,500. Are you saying people are so desperate to pay off that amount that they would choose military service over scrimping to pay it themselves? Or are you suggesting the gov would require military service to give the loans?
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There are a few things that I think would make the masses turn against the current admin. Cutting Social Security or instituting a draft fall into that category I think.
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Trump in office 10 days—egg prices have skyrocketed, stock market has dropped, we have the worst commercial airline crash in 10 years.
Of course that has little to do with what he’s done, but he would have no problem blaming the admin if it was anyone other than him. I think he should be worried!
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I’m was trying to remember who her outfit reminded me of! Thank you!
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Expecting a refund for travel expenses isn’t reasonable. But since it was the Trump inauguration committee’s sole decision to move inside, it seems like they could possibly give some sop to supporters who traveled there to see it. Something commemorative? A meet and greet with a lackey?
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The inauguration has been moved inside, so “regular” people who got tickets won’t be able to see it live. Some paid lots of money to travel to DC expecting to see the inauguration & are upset that they’ll only get to see it on a screen from a distant location, which they could have done from home.
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Salaries have gone way up in the past 20 years. The effective mid-career engineers I know do get paid like doctors. But not everyone can do the work, and many who can do it make even more $ on Wall St or in management. The pool to pull from domestically is limited and not big enough.
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I’m sure there are bad practitioners, just like any field. None of the harmful practices you’ve described have been the experience of my son or of the other kids with ASD I know best.
But my son did have very minimal skill development. It was positive because he had focused attention & play.
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This just blows my mind. My son’s therapists were very good at balancing expectations with responding to my son’s wants & needs. He had lots of choices & days he wasn’t in a mind frame to work, they just played or whatever he needed, to build trust & model pos behaviors.
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This attitude minimizes the experiences of the profoundly autistic. I have 1 ASD kid who can self advocate & 1 with profound ASD. What they need & how they grow is worlds apart. I find “autistic voices” have little understanding of the experiences of those like my younger son.
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I agree and this was our experience with ABA over the 6 years my son participated with 4 different BCBAs and 6 different techs. In that time I asked for 1 of each to be replaced because they didn’t mesh with my kid.
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This is was not our experience at all. Maybe we were just lucky? But the majority of other parents I know described similar experiences to ours.
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I’m in MA where the regulation is decent. I don’t think it takes a PhD but it does take a good BABC, a good tech, & a child with the right temperament/skills to respond. Anecdotally, about 70% of people I know saw some benefit; 20% saw little to none; and about 10% it was damaging.
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And also know a couple of kids for whom it was a bad fit and their parents stopped after that became clear. I don’t think many schools’s attitude of “ABA or nothing” is appropriate, but to make a blanket statement that it is abuse is foolish.
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Maybe the kids who are most helped by ABA are the kids who don’t “say” anything. I have a profoundly autistic son for whom it was positive. Although he didn’t gain many skills through his therapy he loved his sessions. I have many friends with kids who had positive experiences & did learn skills.
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You can’t accurately say that most autistics oppose ABA. Certainly there those who do. People who have the particular skills & personality to self advocate *might* be more likely to oppose it. There are many more autistics with significantly different needs than those who can self advocate.
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ABA can be done a lot of different ways, and for some people the right type of ABA can be positively life-changing. My son with profound autism did not particularly respond to ABA, but his providers were amazing and his time with them was a very positive experience for him.
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This doesn’t seem very smart
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In MA, at least, pretty much every college event I’ve been to in the past 3 years starts with one.
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It’s where an org, before they give a presentation or start a program, makes a statement about how the land that it is taking place on is sacred to a native community. They might give details about the community and sometimes offer a recognition of injustice. The statements feel very performative.
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Garfield is extremely popular with my older teens. I don’t fully understand it, but I think it has something to do with a website called “square root of minus Garfield.” My kids are constantly making Garfield jokes & eager to find new Garfield merchandise and lore.
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Interesting! When I read your post, I thought, “I was eating pigs in a blanket in the Midwest US much earlier,” but I see that your pigs in a blanket are different than mine! Ours were a hotdog wrapped in kind of bread/pastry dough. I liked them a lot, but adding bacon to almost anything is a win.