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@jk_rowling What's more baffling is so many people have convinced themselves that pretending some men are women serves some larger good in the world. They see themselves as the good guys.

Weekly reminder: there are reportedly 47 male inmates currently housed in California women’s prisons. Women inmates have reported pregnancies, assaults, and sexual violence inside facilities that are supposed to protect them. Call it what it is: state sanctioned abuse. This is happening right now 😡just in case people forgot.

Today was the last full day of attendance for the twelve seniors in my AP Physics class. Eleven of those twelve students have committed to engineering majors and were accepted into engineering programs across the country. One is headed to Cornell, several to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, one to Dartmouth, one to NIU, one to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and several to smaller schools. Most received scholarships and will be paying little to no tuition. The one student who chose a different path is passionate about sociology, though she absolutely has the ability to succeed in engineering if she ever wanted to pursue it. What makes this especially meaningful to me is that I don't teach at a magnet or charter school. I teach at a regular neighborhood CPS school. Most of these students are minorities, and some will be the first in their families to attend college. I'm incredibly proud of them and of the many teachers, parents, mentors, and coaches who helped them get to this point. Results like these are what keep me going, despite the challenges of teaching in an environment that has become increasingly political. They also remind me why I remain optimistic about the future and about the work still being done in classrooms every day.

@FellFister13 @nick_lindquist If you build for squirrels first, everything else will fall into place.

@nick_lindquist I love it. Try to save a spot for the squirrels.

Central Park is great, but it takes up a lot of space and isn’t utilized to its full potential. That’s why I worked with McKinsey on a plan to make it a state of the art data center, complemented by rooftop parking and nuclear power. We can still build beautiful things.

@AuthorGFAllen @jkentt1 Ann Rule. There may be a few I haven't read yet, but she does a wonderful job with true crime.

@jkentt1 Any recommendations?

Have you ever finished a book and thought, “Okay, I’m reading everything this person writes”?

@Milkmeray My hotdog sauce is horseradish

i just found out my American friend doesn't know what hotdog sauce is. It literally has an american flag on the bottle of hotdog sauces wdym they don't have it and never heard of it? Germany just made that shit up!???😭😭 HUHHH

This real-time 1948 article from The Economist completely destroys the modern “Nakba” narrative that was invented decades later as political propaganda. Straight from British eyewitnesses in Haifa, October 2, 1948: “Jewish authorities urged all Arabs to remain in Haifa and guaranteed them protection and security ... However, of the 62,000 Arabs who formerly lived in Haifa, not more than 5,000 or 6,000 remained. The most potent factor was the announcements made over the air by the Arab Higher Executive, urging the Arabs to quit ... those who remained and accepted Jewish protection would be regarded as renegades.” They didn’t flee because of “Zionist ethnic cleansing.” They fled because Arab leaders ordered them to get out of the way so their armies could “drive the Jews into the sea.” Then they lost the war they started — and spent the next 77 years rewriting history to blame the Jews. The “Nakba” you were taught? Pure revisionist fiction.

Perhaps Bill Maher’s best monologue yet. It clearly made his LA audience uncomfortable.

@Caw1977 @FiredUpCoug Yes. And if you're just going by the note from school, schools get things wrong sometimes. Make sure he really skipped first. Talking to him should be first step in any case.

Talk privately to you son as a young man. Why did he miss class? Give him time and space to give a truthful answer. And no matter what, as long as no one died and no one is pregnant, it’s not that bad if he’s usually a good kid. So discipline appropriately or even give him a pass. One never knows how loyalty is born.

We found out that our teenage son skipped school today. It's the end of the school year, tests are done, and I don't think he really missed anything, but I don't like that he didn't tell us. My fellow parents on X, what would you do about this?

@LDHITE22 @MikeBales @Madhopper687377 Yes, and when I tried the self-clean oven technique, I broke my brand new self-clean oven. I will not try that one again over a $6 pan.

@MikeBales @Madhopper687377 Replace it!! Do NOT waste your time attempting to clean that monstrosity. Cough up the few bucks and get a new one.

I don’t care what your politics are, what color your skin is, or who you voted for — every family has one thing in common: this pan.

@m76164707 @SteveSkojec Safetyism. Nice coinage.

@SteveSkojec Safetyism is, ironically, going to be the death of us all.

Got an email from art teacher today about my 13 yo son blowing bubbles in India ink with a pipette. "Nowhere in my instructions said to do that," she said. She then went on to say she knows he's "capable of making good, safe choices." He's a 13yo boy. He acted like one. FFS.

@KristanHawkins Good analogy

Saying miscarriage treatment is the same as an abortion is like saying cremating someone is the same of burning someone alive. Stop the lies.

@anglipalian @owenbroadcast We loved these

average library experience: hey, looking for a book about a bear for my daughter, she’s 2. “we have narcan”. uh no just need a book about a bear. “we have a book about depression”. anything with a bear. “stinky toilet monster?” any bear. “uhh well heres bears first depression”

You missed the fact that school officials deceived this young girl and her parents, promising them that boys and girls would sleep on separate floors. It wasn’t until this 11-year-old girl was on the trip—far from home—that she discovered her expected bedmate was a boy. She was then forced to stand up against school authorities and defend her own privacy in the moment, late at night. They initially treated her as if her concerns were not legitimate, moving her to a different bed in the room. This backfired when the other roommates wanted the boy to move beds too. So this little girl had to muster the courage to voice her concerns a second time. The school finally relented and moved her to another room, but told her to lie about the reason why. Any reasonable person can see how outrageous this is. No child should have to defend her own privacy against a school policy that puts her in jeopardy. And no school district should make it a policy to deceive parents. Furthermore: not all kids have the ability or opportunity to stand up for themselves. Another family in our lawsuit has a son whose sleeping arrangements and showers were supervised by a female (identifying as non-binary) at a week-long school camp. Several of the boys were so uncomfortable that they skipped showers and changed their clothes inside their sleeping bags. This is inexcusable. It is adults’ responsibility to stand up for children—not children’s responsibility to stand up for themselves. This could easily be avoided with a commonsense policy that allows parents to stay informed and opt their children out of mixed-sex sleeping arrangements ahead of time—protecting the privacy of ALL children involved. But despite our requests, the school district repeatedly refused to do this. So yes, we sued. In fact, let me put every district in America on notice right now: if you treat students and parents this way, prepare for a lawsuit.

@DustyJohnson Dusty, whoever is running your campaign seems to want you to lose.

Higher Taxes? Larry Rhoden and Jon Hansen think YOU can afford it! They teamed up to pass new sales taxes that can add up to 10 PERCENT—the highest tax rate in South Dakota history. 🤯

@OrevaZSN My squirrel pals get up at 9 a.m., but it's true they aren't lazy.

YouTubers be like “wake up at 4am and run, that’s alpha!” No, it’s not. Look at apex predators; they’re all lazy. Bears hibernate, lions sleep all day. You know who wakes up at 4am and runs? Squirrels.

It's worse than you think. The IDF has trained dogs to pilot aircraft. Fully 25% of the sorties against Iran and Hezbollah have been carried out by Belgian Malinois.

“We can’t accept that the Palestinians did what they recorded themselves doing on Oct 7, but we must blindly accept unsubstantiated accusations against Israel that only dullards would believe.” This is the position of a substantial portion of this country.

@MrsGoresDiary My dad wanted us to live in a houseboat on the Sacramento River once. I think Mom talked him out of it. Would have been great except when I thought of the river rats.

My dad has always wanted to travel from Louisville to Oklahoma in a houseboat on the rivers and, man, I wish we could. I’m kind of needed here, and it’s not a thing people do these days anyway, but if I could live two lives at one time, and if adventures could be chosen, I would do that with my dad. Since I can’t, I enjoy picturing it sometimes like a story.

Brett Kavanaugh, a man in his 50s, had been valedictorian of his high school, at Yale College and a star student at Yale Law, had clerked for the Supreme Court, had a top career as an appellate lawyer and federal judge and a pristine reputation, and then a random woman from the town he grew up in claimed he had groped her at a party 35 years earlier when they were in high school. Kavanaugh didn’t try to argue that the incident was consensual. He didn’t claim he remembered things differently than she did. He immediately stated that he had never even met the accuser. Denying ever meeting the accuser is a much stronger claim than merely denying assaulting her, and much easier to refute. After Kavanaugh made this denial, Christine Blasey-Ford no longer had to prove he had sexually assaulted her to scuttle his nomination, she only had to prove that the two of them had attended a party together at which such an assault might have occurred. She was unable to do so. She did not know whose house the alleged assault occurred at. None of the people she claimed attended the party corroborated any aspect of her account. Leland Keyser, a friend of Blasey-Ford’s, who the accuser claimed was at the alleged party, said she recalled no such event and had never met Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh produced a detailed calendar he had kept during the summer Blasey-Ford alleged she was assaulted, which included his whereabouts of every weekend night and listing who he was with. Kavanaugh argued that he could alibi himself and provide witnesses for any night Blasey-Ford claimed she might have been at a party with him. Blasey-Ford responded that she did not know the date of her assault and was not entirely certain it even occurred that year. Instead of being seen as persuasive, Kavanaugh’s calendar was mocked in both mainstream and social media because the reason he kept it was for a drinking contest he was having with his friends. Nearly a decade later, there is still not a single shred of proof or a single witness who will corroborate the claim that Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey-Ford were ever in the same room before she testified at his confirmation hearing. Nonetheless, people like Nick Kristof still claim Kavanaugh was “credibly accused” of sexually assaulting this woman.