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Universally Acknowledged Truths for High School Teachers

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Fri, 08/09/2023 - 22:00

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a teacher in possession of one hundred essays to grade must be in want of a new season of Bridgerton to binge.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a student you gave a pencil to yesterday in possession of a perfectly functional pencil case must be in want of a pencil.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a teacher in possession of a chic new haircut must be in want of a student earnestly asking, “Why do you look so tired today?”

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a boys’ bathroom in possession of freshly painted walls must be in want of a hastily drawn penis.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a group of teachers in possession of decades of classroom experience must be in want of a mandatory three-hour professional development seminar run by an educational consultant who completed ten months of Teach for America in 1998.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that an educational YouTube video on the historical context of Things Fall Apart must be in want of an advertisement for adult diapers.

‘They Treat Us Worse Than Animals’: Working Without Water at Amazon

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Fri, 08/09/2023 - 21:44

On Thursday 24 August, at around three in the morning, a water pipe burst in Bristol. For workers at the Amazon BRS1 warehouse, it meant no access to water and toilet facilities. In most industries, a disrupted water supply would lead to an operational standstill. But for Amazon, it was business as usual. Despite workers’ […]

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Grassley’s hint

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Fri, 08/09/2023 - 09:30
One of the minor mysteries about the January 6th coup plot is what Grassley was talking about when he said that. Considering that the next day Trump unleashed a slavering mob on the Capitol during the proceedings and the secret service attempted to get him to leave the building (which he resisted, unlike the rest of the leadership) it’s interesting to say the least. There was also the comment by Pence adviser Keith Kellogg that they were afraid that they’d take Pence away to Alaska if he left the building, which is indicative of an awareness that there was a plan afoot to make is so that Pence would not be able to fulfill his duties that day. Grassley clarified that remark saying that he meant he would preside over the expected Senate debate about voting against the certification and that actually sounds reasonable when you see his full comment. But what do we make of this interesting nugget from yesterday’s John Eastman disbarment hearing in California: John Eastman, testifying at his own disbarment trial, sidestepped a question Wednesday about whether he and others in former President Donald Trump’s orbit discussed the possibility that Sen.

What’s the charge?

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Fri, 08/09/2023 - 08:00
A Biden impeachment is imminent. It appears they are settling on bribery: After nearly a year of investigation, House Republicans have decided to try to make bribery the downfall of President Joe Biden as they prepare to open an impeachment inquiry, according to interviews with top House conservatives and four senior aides. Key Republicans tell The Messenger they are honing in on what they say is a “pay-to-play” bribery scheme involving first son Hunter Biden’s business dealings when he worked for a Ukrainian energy company and his father served as vice president. “This is not, ‘Oh my God, you were in Washington, D.C., on January 6 so we’re going to send every frigging power of law enforcement after you or your family.’ This is literally: ‘There was money flowing to the son of the vice president turned president,’” Rep.

The Man Who Owns The World

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Fri, 08/09/2023 - 06:30
Elon Musk may have a nose for buying profitable businesses but in every other respect he is a flaming moron. How in the hell is it possible that someone such as he could have so much influence over world events? Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon Musk.” As Ukrainian submarine drones strapped with explosives approached the Russian fleet, they “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly,” Isaacson writes. Musk’s decision, which left Ukrainian officials begging him to turn the satellites back on, was driven by an acute fear that Russia would respond to a Ukrainian attack on Crimea with nuclear weapons, a fear driven home by Musk’s conversations with senior Russian officials, according to Isaacson, whose new book is set to be released by Simon & Schuster on September 12.

No more poetry on ships!

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Fri, 08/09/2023 - 05:00
It makes a man woke and you know what that means. Excuse me? “It seemed as though mother earth had opened and was vomiting shot and shell in a sheet of fire and brimstone,” Francis Scott Key wrote later. But when darkness arrived, Key saw only red erupting in the night sky. Given the scale of the attack, he was certain the British would win. The hours passed slowly, but in the clearing smoke of “the dawn’s early light” on September 14, he saw the American flag—not the British Union Jack—flying over the fort, announcing an American victory. Key put his thoughts on paper while still on board the ship, setting his words to the tune of a popular English song. His brother-in-law, commander of a militia at Fort McHenry, read Key’s work and had it distributed under the name “Defence of Fort M’Henry.” The Baltimore Patriot newspaper soon printed it, and within weeks, Key’s poem, now called “The Star-Spangled Banner,” appeared in print across the country, immortalizing his words—and forever naming the flag it celebrated. Does Tommy Tuberville have some kind of brain damage?

Australia’s multicultural framework can no longer be separate from geopolitics

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Fri, 08/09/2023 - 04:57
A new multicultural framework needs to recognise that the well-being of Australia’s multicultural communities is closely related to, and inevitably affected by, geopolitics, and by Australia’s foreign policy towards migrants’ countries of origin. It is no longer viable to conceptualise foreign policy and multicultural affairs as two separate entities. The Australian government is currently conducting Continue reading »

AUKUS: transformations and losses

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Fri, 08/09/2023 - 04:56
In matters of defence and national security strategy Australia has entered a period of great transformations. The AUKUS submarine project is the proximate cause: a vanity project born of fantasies so dense that, strategically speaking, it has created gravitational waves of a magnitude that warps everything it encounters. More precisely, it warps in ways that Continue reading »