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30-year history education veteran & amateur chronographer, still checking footnotes and looking for answers. Thoughts are mine alone and do not reflect those of my employer. Sharing ideas and lessons at https://infinitude.maherpages.net/
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Thanks for sharing - introductions to books and ideas is why I came here. Will be passing this on to other teachers.
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And a number of businesses are profiting from it. Businesses whose stocks are found in thousands of 401(k) and state pension funds, etc.
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Interesting to see how the headline associated with that story has changed throughout the day
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Here's a chart to share with them - tinyurl.com/26ul5fyy
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30% of the US population elects 70% of the Senate
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This suggestion needs the promise that they'll get better ratings. Entertainers need the right motivation
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And profiting from it by entertainers rather than confronting as journalists is a hallmark of enabling authoritarian parties
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Which would be the responsible thing for journalists to do. These people are not journalists, they're entertainers.
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Remind them that 70% of the United States Senate is controlled by only 33% of the population. The 90 million people in California, New York and Florida have just as many Senators as the 2 million people in Wyoming, Vermont and Alaska
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"That mean is fyre" as the kids would say
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Has anyone commented that these folks look a lot like the January 6th insurrectionists?
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Word not found in the NYT piece:
-Constitution
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It's all about the clicks
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I saw similar connection between Carl Schurz's Report on the Condition of the South in 1865 and Republican party talking points in 2025
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It's just as important to tell their employers that they'll get more clicks if they report it
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When there's so many jokes about Schumer's "strongly worded" letters, shouldn't someone on his staff tell him to stop saying this in public?
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Exactly. The 1996 GOPAC Memo "Language A Key Mechanism of Control" can help show how this is an information war as well. "kidnapping" is accurate and provokes emotion in most people while "disappearing" elicits vague confusion.
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For the record, it is also unclear whether my "audacious plan" to steal my neighbor's car "will have lasting power" either
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Pitch-perfect channeling of General McAuliffe
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Can't help thinking this reflects white-shoe ignorance of practical street-knowledge. As smart and as skilled as the leadership of these firms are, many of them never had to duke it out with a playground bully
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Be prepared for marching orders of scripts and songs for public schools to celebrate.
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I keep thinking about all the lessons that won't mean anything anymore. The Civil Rights movement, Sullivan Ballou's letter, Emma Goldman's courage, Margaret Chase Smith's conscience..... the list goes on and on. We're all on the Pettus Bridge, Bunker Hill, Seminary Ridge, and Utah Beach
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Not the same, but it rhymes in a way
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Stayed tuned for federal instructions on how to celebrate the 250th in public schools. Marching orders of what to say and what to sing, maybe what flags to fly in front of the buildings also?
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This works easier for older people: but ask someone in their 30s if they think about their teenage years the same now that they did when they were 21. It's tougher but still possible with high school students. Remember how you felt after that recess fight in 4th grade? Do you feel different now?
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This is important enough to put on your front page
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Is it the regime or is it the inability of those opposing the regime to understand the power of language? (like GOP 1996 Memo "Language A Key Mechanism of Control") "Kidnapped" doesn't describe what's happened as well as "disappeared" but everyone understands it and is moved by the word kidnapped