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Side Hustles of My High School Students or Second Jobs of My Teacher Friends?

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/side-hustles-of-my-high-school-students-or-…
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Mon, 17/07/2023 - 22:00

1. PSAT tutor

2. ACT proctor

3. Buying and selling GameStop index funds while I’m trying to collect the fucking homework

4. Youth soccer camp coach

5. Piano lessons and biweekly plasma donations

6. Wedding photographer

7. Wedding violinist

8. Lifeguard

9. Cadillac car salesboy

10. Running a literacy enrichment program for underserved youth

11. Running a multilevel marketing cannabis empire over Facebook and LinkedIn

12. Waiting tables

13. Instagram influencer for athleisure wear

14. Teaching ten- to twenty-minute online ESL courses to Korean adults (who may confess to opening a second savings account to hide money from their spouses before hitting on you from many time zones away) back-to-back-to-back for six consecutive goddamn hours

15. Scooping water ice at Rita’s, which pays a better hourly rate than the above

16. Summer curriculum alignment for your own school admin, who still pay you less than the Rita’s down the street

Austerity Ruined Europe, and Now It’s Back – Project Syndicate op-ed

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/07/17/austerity-ruined-europe-and-now-its-b…
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Mon, 17/07/2023 - 20:50

The United States is experiencing an investment boom, owing to industrial policies that grant enormous subsidies – including to European firms – for investing in America, largely in green tech. Europe, meanwhile, is responding with a return to the austerity policies that caused it to fall behind the US in the first place. ATHENS – […]

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Starmer must confront the reality – more spending will be required but taxes will probably also have to be higher

https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=60987
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Mon, 17/07/2023 - 18:16
The question is when is a Labour Party a Labour Party? The answer is: When it is a Labour Party! Which means when it defends workers’ interests against capital and when it defends families against pernicious neoliberal cuts or constraints on welfare. Which means, in turn, that the British Labour Party is a Labour Party…

Thinking about Thinking

https://www.monbiot.com/2023/07/17/thinking-about-thinking/
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Mon, 17/07/2023 - 15:05
How can education rise to the massive challenges young people will face? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th July 2023 “From one day to the next, our profession was wiped out. We woke up and discovered our skills were redundant.” This is what two successful graphic designers told me about the impact of […]

Trump the suck-up

https://digbysblog.net/2023/07/16/trump-the-suck-up/
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Mon, 17/07/2023 - 10:00
Can he be any more obvious? Is there even one of his supporters who cringes when he transparently sucks up like this? Former President Trump praised the judge overseeing his classified documents case as his legal team seeks a postponement of his trial in Florida. Trump’s motion for a continuance of the trial, filed last Monday, awaits a decision by Judge Aileen Cannon, an appointee of the former president who presided over his initial challenge to the FBI search of his Florida home.   Asked on “Sunday Morning Futures” on Fox News whether he believes the judge will grant the motion, Trump said he did not know. “I know it’s a very highly respected judge. A very smart judge, and a very strong judge,” Trump said. When host Maria Bartiromo noted that Trump appointed the judge in the case, Trump said, “I did, and I’m very proud to have appointed her.” “But she’s very smart and very strong, and loves our country,” Trump said.

NATO Summit 2024.

http://aussiemagpie.blogspot.com/2023/07/nato-summit-2024.html
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Mon, 17/07/2023 - 09:23

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A high-ranking official in the Albanese Government, speaking under the condition of anonymity, confirmed to Magpie News that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was invited to the NATO Summit to take place in Gallipoli, Turkey.

Ukrainian President Vasily Petrovych Goloborodko has repeatedly asked for additional military assistance. It is understood that Albanese plans to donate one of the new AUKUS nuclear-powered submarines.

GOP Governor’s leave the grown-up table

https://digbysblog.net/2023/07/16/gop-governors-leave-the-grown-up-table/
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Mon, 17/07/2023 - 08:00
They no longer have any need or desire to be statesmen And, as with everything else, it’s a long, slow evolution that’s been accelerated at warp speed by the presence of Donald Trump in American politics: There are 26 Republican governors. Three of them showed up here this week at the annual summer meeting of the National Governors Association. And of those three, one left after the first night, and another had little choice but to attend — his chairship of the group began at the conclusion of this year’s gathering. Striding the Hard Rock Cafe casino stage like a megachurch pastor, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox used his maiden speech as NGA chair to implore his fellow governors to make the organization a model of robust yet civil debate. “If we’re ever going to find our better angels again, it has to start with us setting the example of how to disagree better,” Cox said. But it’s hard to do much disagreeing, or have a conversation at all, when nobody is listening: Fewer than a half-dozen governors were still in attendance for his remarks Friday, the session’s closing day, and they were all Democrats.

Hunting the Military Extremist

https://tomdispatch.com/hunting-the-military-extremist/
Created
Mon, 17/07/2023 - 07:34

In April, when Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman with a top-secret clearance, was arrested for posting a trove of classified documents about the Russia-Ukraine war online, the question most often asked was: How did such a young, inexperienced, low-level technician have access to such sensitive material? What I wanted to know was: How did he ever get accepted into the Air Force in the first place? Teixeira seems to have leaked that secret information for online bragging rights rather than ideological reasons, so his transgression probably wouldn’t have fallen under the military’s newly reinforced regulations on extremist activities. After he was indicted, however, perturbing details about his behavior emerged, including his online searches for violent extremist events,... Read more

What did he do to deserve this?

https://digbysblog.net/2023/07/16/what-did-he-do-to-deserve-this/
Created
Mon, 17/07/2023 - 06:30
Asa Hutchinson is lustily booed before the Turning Point crowd He’s a hard right establishment Republican. And it’s just not good enough. Why? During the event, Carlson asked the former governor about his veto of the first-in-the-nation gender-affirming care ban for minors.  Hutchinson said at the time of his veto that he believes the law went too far and was an example of government overreach.  On Friday, the former governor said that he believes only two genders exist and he would not personally support a member of his family changing genders, but he does not think the government should be involved in the decision.  “There should not be any confusion on your gender. But if there is confusion, then parents ought to be the ones that guide the children,” he said.

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: The failures of the Global Economic System

https://johnmenadue.com/prof-jeffrey-sachs-the-failures-of-the-global-economic-…
Created
Mon, 17/07/2023 - 04:57
“Of all of these four objectives that I call sustainable development. 1. Material Sufficiency; 2. Social Justice; 3. Environmental sustainability; and 4. Peace; we’re off track on all of them” – Prof. Jeffrey Sachs. “Nothing about the international economy guarantees the end of poverty or social justice. There’s nothing in the global economic system that Continue reading »