Humanities teachers everywhere, tbh
Matt Dinan@second_sailing
The last paragraph is something like a Hippocratic oath for humanities professors
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Mackey Luffman
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Mackey Luffman
@MackeyLuffman
In no particular order: teacher, spouse, father, historian, still puzzling over Omega's Kiwi accent in Bad Batch.
Nashville, TN Beigetreten Nisan 2014
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On September 29, 1864 US forces attacked the defenses of Richmond, VA during the Battle of New Market Heights. Two Divisions, comprised mostly of Black soldiers, played a crucial role in the fight - 14 of whom received the Medal of Honor for their actions. 🧵
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The Economist just published a deeply-researched story about car bloat, and it's very, very damning:
"For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles."
Well worth your time: economist.com/interactive/un…
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@USNTigerGolf I believe that the traditional phrase is “I’ll dance with the one what brung me.”
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Representing the girls today are Victor ‘26 and Lucia ‘27; for the boys, it’s Nick ‘25, Jake ‘25, Jordan ‘26, and Omeed ‘26. They’re all at the range just now, finding their dance partner for the day - as the old saying goes, you dance with who brung you.
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Please don't operate heavy vocabulary without proper certifications.
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Okay this is awkward but @yashwinacanter would you please DM me recs for things to do in London.
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Hey everyone (and hey @mattson_rainer in case you missed this) my new single is now streaming everywhere. Enjoy and share and follow me on spotify etc. open.spotify.com/track/5s4z6Mtp…
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I haven't read the book in question, but I think presenting, "Japan should have just built 16 more carriers" as a serious argument, by either Goldman or VDH, should just immediately discredit the speaker from being taken seriously on modern conflict. 1/
David P. Goldman@davidpgoldman
Everyone who opines about "hard power in the Pacific" should study Victor Davis Hanson's "The Second World Wars." Everyone--Hitler, the Japanese, the Brits and the US--built battleships at the expense of carriers. Hanson says Japan would have won the Pacific War if it had built another 16 carriers instead of battleships, and Hitler would have ruled the North Atlantic if he did the same. Battleships were sitting ducks for cheap torpedo planes then, and carriers are sitting ducks for cheap Chinese missiles today. The fact that our admirals and their camp-followers want to build more of the same sitting ducks shouldn't surprise anyone--that's what militaries have done from time immemorial. Trump is right, and the pundits are wrong: Concentrate on missile defense. @VDHanson
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From the MIT Living Wage Calculator (left) and ALICE Survival Budget stats (right). $20/hour isn’t even a living wage for a single person with 0 children.
Words mean things. Whoever decided to call this a living wage is lying.
Cassandra Stephenson@CStephenson731
@freddieoconnell Highlights: - $30M for the Barnes Fund - MNPS ESSER bridge funding; $18M for textbooks - 3.5% cost of living adjustments for Metro employees (incl. teachers), plus merit increases & market-based salary adjustments - $20/hr living wage for Metro employees
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Campus Cancel Culture Freakouts Obscure the Power of University Boards | Teen Vogue
The type of article @TheAtlantic would write if it had any grownups working there. teenvogue.com/story/campus-c…
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Reposting even though I haven’t read it. Please remind me @haberflav @annastern18 !
Adam Grant@AdamMGrant
Banning smartphones in schools is good for learning and well-being. New study of 400+ middle schools in Norway: after smartphone bans, girls had fewer mental health issues & better grades. Boys and girls were less likely to be bullied. Smartphones belong at home or in lockers.
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If vouchers were as popular as their lobbyists say they are, these Trojan horses and shady backroom deals wouldn’t be necessary.
Phil Williams@PhilNvestigates
🚨VOUCHER ALERT🚨 A lot of eyeballs in Tennessee legislature are on HB390/SB191 - which could become a vehicle for school vouchers, skipping Finance Committee. The budget bill, on the House floor at 4 pm, has funding for vouchers. A GOP leader assured me recently that the bill would NOT be used for vouchers, but things can change. Next step will be watching House Calendar and Rules, which meets sometime today. HB390 needs a vote there to move to the House floor. wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/…
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Another year, another YIG conference. Sgt. York statue for scale. Note that the state chose to remember him as a doughboy rather than the founder of a rural school 🤔
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