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Just a work-at-home dad and husband trying to maintain some contact with the world outside.
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I’m an American teacher, and I’m worried. I’m worried about losing special education and Title I funding, worried about the voucher scam, worried about Christian nationalism in public schools, and I’m tired of being scapegoated. Education isn’t the problem. Education is the solution.

Am I the only one who thinks this still looks like a romance novel cover where Chewy is tenderly holding Luke from behind while showing him how to wield a lightsaber?

RESOLVED: ee cummings, in his 1944 poem 'pity this busy monster, manunkind,' was the first to posit the existence of a multiverse, long before either Marvel or DC Comics. Discuss. allpoetry.com/pity-this-bu...

Our fluff resting instead of annoying.

My daughter woke up and texted me from her dorm to see if I could give an update. I had to tell her the news. I think it broke me.

Whatever happens, try to do the right thing, try to protect people weaker than you, try to stand up to bullies, try to speak truth to power.

One of the biggest and most successful propaganda pushes in American history convinced much of the public that the world's best economic recovery was actually a severe recession.

So the closing arguments from the two campaigns comes down to: “we, as a nation, are better than this.” Vs “No, we aren’t.”

“Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible… to build this fragile thing called democracy.” — Alexandra Petri in the Washington Post

‘New York Times’ To Cease Publication “Being an employee of The New York Times was one of the most shameful, useless things I’ve ever done in my life,” said longtime columnist David Brooks. theonion.com/new-york-tim...

It still amazes me that Farman et al. (“Hey look guys there’s a massive ozone hole!”) was published in May 1985 and the Montreal Protocol was signed in September 1987. If that were today we’d still be arguing with ozone deniers for decades

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I've now seen and/or listened to and/or read about Kamala Harris on Call Her Daddy, The View, 60 Minutes, and Howard Stern, and have come to the conclusion that she is much, much smarter than the people who are currently busy chin-tugging about how it wasn't smart of her to do this.

I saw this when it first aired on network television and it affected me deeply youtu.be/U4dlah65c9A?...

None of this would have happened if Joe Biden hadn't won in 2020.

Emails obtained via public records requests reveal a network of Republican election officials in Georgia are coordinating on strategies to overturn the results of the 2024 elections

I hate this so much. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/o...

JD Vance on CNBC says that if immigration was the path to prosperity, then "America would be the most prosperous country in the world." (Who wants to tell him ... )

I've put it off too long for no reason, but I finally pulled some @scalzi.com out of the To Read pile. Old Man's War and Redshirts finished. Next up Starter Villain.

really not enjoying this whole "you purchased something from us, please tell us how we did" email thing whenever I buy anything nowadays. I just wanted some socks, I'm not gonna do fuckin homework about them