Rob Heise

@Riley_Gaines_ You're remarkablely stupid.

My husband moved to America from England for college 6 years ago. We got married over 2.5 years ago. He STILL doesn't have a green card because he won't get the vaccine. They don't force illegal immigrants to get the jab, just the legal ones.

@kayyybearxo Hiking.

my therapist is making me get a hobby starting this week lol. any suggestions??

@Aella_Girl Fascinating. The ratios are quite similar.

What's your gender? || If you could only have one but not the other, would you rather love or be loved?

@Tjeerd001 Ashtrays everywhere. I'm guessing 1966.

What year is this?

@Ford_Nick However long you cook it, it should rest the same amount to time.

How long do you let your steak rest?

@DeBella_79 @CTULocal1 Define "capacity." That's a HUGE part of the mythology. Research shows that smaller class sizes are one of the most effective ways to ensure kids' learning environment is optimal. And it's study after study after study - all saying the same thing.

@ChicagoRob @CTULocal1 If a school is less than half capacity then it should be closed and children transferred to help reign in the bloated CPS budget. The students learning should be priority. If the public schools can’t educate students at 30k per student. Then it’s time to privatize.

“I am sure the usual anti-union suspects will decry the Chicago Teachers Union’s initiative to have libraries and a librarian in every Chicago public school. There is a mountain of scholarly inquiry and evidence to show how important school librarians are and how much value they add to the education of students of all ages. In Chicago in particular, the provision of adequate libraries and school librarians is an obvious matter of social justice. Not supplying them is letting down already disadvantaged children and robbing society of the value of educated, literate, empowered products of public education.” - Michael Gorman, past president, American Library Association, River North chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the…

@Sargon_of_Akkad @KyleKulinski Did you read the subtitle of the headline?

@KyleKulinski Bro, come on.

Kamala DIDN'T MENTION: - race - gender - trans people - pronouns - latinx - cancel culture - political correctness and she DID MENTION: - patriotism - freedom - owning a gun - representing all Americans - cracking down on the border Anybody who tells you she was 'too woke' is just fucking lying to you and caving in to bullshit far-right framing.

@CynicalPublius @KyleKulinski It's ridiculous that you think something as passive as pronouns in a bio is even a little bit important.

@KyleKulinski She literally had pronouns in her official X account.

@miravus @Marcusgibson @jasonhickel @Mangomania111 That's true. And those regulatory structures worked - until they were destroyed. Reagan destroyed the taxes that funded regulation & oversight, and Clinton followed up by destroying the foundations of regulatory agencies. The results: oligarchy; a return to the gilded age.

@ChicagoRob @Marcusgibson @jasonhickel @Mangomania111 It's also an extremely controversial claim that no meaningful regulatory structures have ever been put in place. Many would argue that post-war labour in the UK did this, FDR did this, the modern Scandinavian countries do this, etc.

The problem with liberalism is that it rests on a fundamental contradiction that cannot be resolved. It will always fail, it will always collapse, and this explains everything about our current moment. Liberals try to hold two commitments at once: on the one hand, they are firmly committed to capitalism; on the other, they express support for principles like human rights, democracy, equality, freedom of speech, environment and the rule of law.  This duality is the core of liberalism. But there's a problem. Capital accumulation requires cheapening labour and nature. This eventually comes into direct conflict with principles like rights and equality. And whenever this conflict appears, the liberal ruling class sides with capital, abandons their lofty principles, and throws workers and nature under the bus.  Every. Single. Time. This results in flagrant displays of hypocrisy. They run on nice-sounding platforms but end up either betraying their promises or actively working against their stated values. They'll slash public services, bail out banks, imprison journalists, beat up students, expand fracking, coup democratically elected leaders in the global South, bomb liberation movements, fund a genocide - they'll even trash international law itself - anything that's needed to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation. At most, they may try to negotiate mediocre compromises, a few social policies here and there - some abortion rights, a tiny increase in the minimum wage - but nothing that might pose any serious threat to capital accumulation. Thus the soul-crushing slowness of liberal incrementalism.  Ultimately they are unwilling to take any of the obvious steps that would actually resolve our urgent social and ecological crises. This is why nobody trusts liberal politicians.  This is why they come across as so fantastically insincere, and even sneering.  This is why they feel so spineless and *empty*. The center cannot hold.  Liberalism will always collapse, inevitably handing power to fascists, and this is not acceptable.  There is only one way to overcome this deadly impasse, and that is to mobilize a socialist alternative. A political movement that can unite the working-classes, overcome capitalism, deliver real economic democracy, and enable us to achieve rapid progress toward social and ecological goals.

@DeBella_79 @CTULocal1 "Underutilized schools" is a myth. It was deeply destructive to neighorhoods - suggesting that certain areas don't deserve good schools. It's shortsighted, too. The neighborhood that has fewer children today won't always be that way, and you can't just undo school closings.

@ChicagoRob @CTULocal1 CTU is part of the failed system, as well as CPS. There are alot of things the CPS implemented that were CTU demands previously. Close underutilized schools, cut costs then use the freed up budget for libraries and supplies. The system needs to stop grifting the taxpayers.

@DeBella_79 @CTULocal1 If you think teachers can brainwash a kid, you're both giving teachers too much credit and students not nearly enough credit. If you're afraid of students engaging with complex ideas, what is the point of ideas to begin with? The brainwashing is denying that other ideas exist.

@DeBella_79 @CTULocal1 There are, of course, those of us (I stopped teaching in 2020) that are willing to engage in conversations about morality & justice, but we do it Socratically - through questions; not answers. I never told a kid what to think; I often asked kids to engage with ideas, though.

@VivekGRamaswamy Such a stupid comment. The Founders weren't "small government;" they weren't "big government," either. They were "let's design a government from scratch." Their first attempt failed, and the Constitution followed. The Founders created a strong, adaptable central government.

Took a band of small government revolutionaries to start this country. It’ll take a band of small government revolutionaries to save it.

@DeBella_79 @CTULocal1 The idea that CPS and CTU have the same goals is a fundamental misunderstanding. CTU is trying to change the system that you're upset about.

@DeBella_79 @CTULocal1 I've never met a teacher that is afraid of accountability. Illinois Policy Institute's version of accountability demands that teachers are accountable for a system that doesn't work. Their system is the problem.