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Vouchers are deeply unpopular with the American public. It takes “rebranding” and #alternativefacts to get voters to approve these measures, and even then, vouchers aren’t effective in terms of student learning.
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Rather than being a tool of positive social change and student empowerment, vouchers are a key factor in increasing school segregation. Vouchers are helping to create a caste system in American education; a system of separate yet unequal schools for our nation’s children.
While vouchers offer the promise of public dollars to help students attend the “private schools of their choice,” they provide more “stick” than “carrot”, and could prove not just unhelpful, but dangerous to those that accept them.
Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 03/27/2022 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2022/03/27/dai…
Productivity dynamics of working from home
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#WorkingFromHome, #ProductivityDynamics, #ResearchResults
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#WorkingFromHome, #ProductivityDynamics, #ResearchResults
Alice E. Marwick on Twitter and ThreadReader
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#AlternativeFacts, #ContentConstruction, #PopulistExpertise, #ParticipatoryCulture
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#AlternativeFacts, #ContentConstruction, #PopulistExpertise, #ParticipatoryCulture
@AurelienBrnrd de @newsweedFR me signale le « dossier de presse » du « comité interministériel de lutte contre les stupéfiants » (et le #cannabis). Vous avez été gâtés la presse ! En fait pas du tout. Ce @gouvernementFR vous prend vraiment pour des gogos. Mais si ça marche… 
Cela dit @MILDECAgouv , je vous trouve très méchant avec @JeanCASTEX . Certes on sait que notre 1er ministre est prêt à aller jusqu’au bout de la honte, mais tout de même @olivierveran, @GDarmanin , vous ne pouviez pas éviter de lui faire signer tant d’âneries sur le #cannabis?
Le #cannabis sauce @JeanCASTEX c’est le nuage de Tchernobyl à l’envers. Ailleurs il ne se passe rien de dramatique, mais dès qu’il arrive en France c’est la panique: il tue, rend malade et finance le terrorisme…
One more quick thought & then I need to log off again:
So much of what we're dealing w/ right now is not simply about #alternativefacts. It's about rhetoric. That's why presenting new or differing facts doesn't move convo forward.
So much of what we're dealing w/ right now is not simply about #alternativefacts. It's about rhetoric. That's why presenting new or differing facts doesn't move convo forward.
It's about the narratives we write--or who we trust to write them for us. It's not simply about data points but how you arrange that data & which facts you choose to highlight as important & pay attention to. It's the *connection* btwn data points & the meaning we assign to them.
It's about where we see patterns & how we interpret those patterns. That's why you *must* pay attention to the underlying assumptions, stated goals, & rhetorical structures.
"@realDonaldTrump's admin(...) is taking on the characteristics of a tottering regime -- with its loyalty tests, destabilizing attacks on the military chain of command, a deepening bunker mentality and increasingly delusional claims of political victory."
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"In response, a visibly confident President-elect Joe Biden is going out of his way to project calm amid the deepening chaos, even as Trump and senior Republicans still refuse to acknowledge the President's defeat in a stunning break with America's democratic traditions."
CBiden is taking calls with leaders of the country's top allies and appearing on camera, which reflects the inevitability of his ascent to power. Meanwhile the President is staying behind closed doors, tweeting in wild block capital letters and unleashing a purge of the
Musulmans, il est urgent++ de soutenir les sites d'info musulmans (@domes_minarets @TrouveTaMosquee @AJIB_fr @MizaneInfo @LeMuslimPost etc. ). Nous faisons 99 % du job, à vous de vous charger du 1 % en diffusant sur les réseaux sociaux nos articles que vous appréciez.
Ces derniers jours, c'est dinguerie sur dinguerie. La quasi-totalité des médias relaient les #alternativefacts du gouvernement. Zéro vérification, ça balance de l'intox. Quasi pas de musulmans à la TV/radio hors native informants. On continue de subir ou on bouge enfin ensemble ?
Ensemble, nous avons la possibilité de faire entendre nos différentes voix, nos sons de cloche. Mais vous n'êtes pas au rendez-vous. Certes, vous lisez nos articles, mais vous ne les partagez pas. Au mieux vous les likez. C'est contreproductif, il faut les RT ou les tweeter.
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The irony of it all. Let me, an Allopathic (your term) correct you.
Cassia angustifolia NOT Cassia angusfifolia
Syzygium aromaticum NOT Fyzygium
Nigella sativa NOT fytiva
Boswellia serrata NOT Bofwellia sarraca
Pistacia lentiscus NOT lendiscus
#alternativefacts #Science
The irony of it all. Let me, an Allopathic (your term) correct you.
Cassia angustifolia NOT Cassia angusfifolia
Syzygium aromaticum NOT Fyzygium
Nigella sativa NOT fytiva
Boswellia serrata NOT Bofwellia sarraca
Pistacia lentiscus NOT lendiscus
#alternativefacts #Science
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But I'm OK with all the typos as long as my blood and mucus is purified through stool. In real medicine, its called Ulcerative Colitis and its pretty bad.
#herbal #mislabelling #Ayurvedic #Ayurveda #HerbalRemedies #livertwitter #medtwitter #India #coronavirus
But I'm OK with all the typos as long as my blood and mucus is purified through stool. In real medicine, its called Ulcerative Colitis and its pretty bad.
#herbal #mislabelling #Ayurvedic #Ayurveda #HerbalRemedies #livertwitter #medtwitter #India #coronavirus
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What we do find are enough heavy metals to defend our borders and plant based anthraquinones and sesquiterpenes enough to damage the #Liver This patient who consumed this and more, is advised to be listed for liver transplantation
#coronil #evidence #pseudoscience #ayush
What we do find are enough heavy metals to defend our borders and plant based anthraquinones and sesquiterpenes enough to damage the #Liver This patient who consumed this and more, is advised to be listed for liver transplantation
#coronil #evidence #pseudoscience #ayush
Like many, I’ve had some extra fee time these days... After rebinging @theofficenbc and #theofficereunion I was inspired.
A thread of Trump’s handling of the #coronavirus (#COVID19) pandemic, as told by Michael Scott. #TheOffice
A thread of Trump’s handling of the #coronavirus (#COVID19) pandemic, as told by Michael Scott. #TheOffice
Way back in 2018, Trump decided it was a good idea to disassemble the #Pandemic Response Team – created by the Obama administration in case there was “an airborne disease that is deadly.” This can’t go wrong! #thiswaspreventable
Trump does nothing to replace this. He plays golf and insults people on Twitter – just the normal things that presidents do right?
That’s BULLSH*T Jared.
🔥Jared is GASLIGHTING: The Strategic National Reserve was created to help STATE and LOCAL PUBLIC health agencies during a crisis. phe.gov/about/sns/Page…
The Strategic National Reserve was created to coordinate multiple State and Local crisis‼️ THIS IS WHY IT WAS CREATED🔥phe.gov/about/sns/Page…
Él es Neil Postman (1931-2003), un filósofo y crítico cultural muy relevante a esta distopía que vivimos. Vale mucho la pena conocerlo en éstos tiempos de #COVID19 #QuedateEnCasa, exceso de información, #FakeNews, y políticos y funcionarios comportándose como memes.
Abro 🧵
Abro 🧵
Postman dedicó buena parte de su tiempo a pensar y a escribir sobre los efectos que tienen los medios de comunicación (libros 📚, radio 📻 , tv 📺, etc.), no sólo en cómo percibimos la realidad individualmente, sino en la realidad y la sociedad que construimos colectivamente.
Una de las ideas más inquietantes de Postman se encuentra en la introducción de ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ (1985), una exposición y un análisis de los muy nocivos efectos de la televisión en la mente, en el discurso público, en la democracia, y en la realidad misma.
There is never a time or place for government intervention into private lives and the curtailing of individual rights and freedoms.
There is no "public good" in abdication of parental responsibility and granting dominion of your child or yourself to the state. 1/
There is no "public good" in abdication of parental responsibility and granting dominion of your child or yourself to the state. 1/
At no time should caring conscientious parents relinquish their children or rights to parent to the state.
Make no mistake the (((Howard)))'s of the world won't stop at just force vaccination. Their true aim is to have children delivered into the waiting arms of the state. 2/
Make no mistake the (((Howard)))'s of the world won't stop at just force vaccination. Their true aim is to have children delivered into the waiting arms of the state. 2/
Purposefully mischaracterizing the bond between parent/child, diminishing and reducing it to a fabricated simplistic postulate of "property" shows these people out as the social facists they are.
Underlying all this is their notion of statism rule: "the state knows better." 3/
Underlying all this is their notion of statism rule: "the state knows better." 3/
#TawanaBrawley? #UnpaidTaxes? Let's look at some evidence:
NYT: "Evidence Points to Deceit by Brawley"
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NYT: "Evidence Points to Deceit by Brawley"
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"Records reviewed by The New York Times show more than $4.5 million in current state and federal tax liens against him and his for-profit businesses."
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"With the tax liability outstanding, Sharpton traveled first class and collected a sizable salary, the kind of practice by nonprofit groups that the United States Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration recently characterized as “abusive,” or “potentially criminal”.
1/ @TheRickWilson is absolutely right that Rs have been successful winning elections.
But like the guy born on 3rd base thinking he hit a homer he left out some pertinent details.
But like the guy born on 3rd base thinking he hit a homer he left out some pertinent details.
2/ Since Nixon Rs has embraced and committed to Pat Buchanan's vision of using wedge issues for electoral gain,
"Such gambits, he added, could "cut the Democratic Party and country in half; my view is that we would have far the larger half."
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"Such gambits, he added, could "cut the Democratic Party and country in half; my view is that we would have far the larger half."
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3/ There is no wound in our national psyche that Rs won't exploit for gain - reproductive rights, God, Guns, Gays, etc.
Thread: Let's talk a little bit about British attitudes to Ireland in light of some recent remarks by British pundits and how it relates to the UK's misreading of WA negotiations.
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The above comments by @alanmendoza of the Henry Jackson Society are illuminating for number of reasons, but in particular they are representative of a particular strain of thought often verbalised within the UK - namely that Ireland SHOULD not matter. 2/
The word "should" is important here. With the WA negotiations complete, it should be obvious that quite clearly, Ireland matters.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe… 3/
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe… 3/
🚨 @CACBasketball @Chasbelliveau77 @IanCundall @realjcorwin @BostonsNate @snagyroc Live #BDraft mock draft happening now.
Pick 1: Sang: I think he goes Manny. I feel like Andy wants to play some pick and roll, get some of those kickout 3s.
Pick 2: @Chasbelliveau77 thanks the lord above that Tenney falls to him, and he snatches him up without hesitation.
1/Confronting Tim Martin in #Wetherspoons:
The clip cuts out, but I pointed out that UK economy has dropped to bottom of G7 & experienced 2.1% impact to GDP as a result of fall in Sterling.
Tim told me that I was wrong - he has his own "#AlternativeFacts" 🙄
#StopBrexit
The clip cuts out, but I pointed out that UK economy has dropped to bottom of G7 & experienced 2.1% impact to GDP as a result of fall in Sterling.
Tim told me that I was wrong - he has his own "#AlternativeFacts" 🙄
#StopBrexit
2/ This is after I showed Tim Martin my #24ReasonstoRemain booklet & asked him "If 95% of this legislation has been passed by our democratically elected UK MEPs - how can you tell people we have lost Sovereignty when it also says in the #Brexit white paper that we never did?"
3/ @Nigel_Farage did exactly the same thing when I confronted him with the same argument about #EU democracy in a pub in Place Lux. He squealed "Elected MEPs have no power - they're just an upper chamber" and ran away. 🙄
29% of immigrants have a college degree, similar to American-born counterparts at 30%.
48% of #immigrants who have entered the U.S. after 2010 have a degree.
#DACA #ImmigrantHeritageMonth
#Immigration
#FamiliesBelongTogether
#Resist @GOP @POTUS @realDonaldTrump
48% of #immigrants who have entered the U.S. after 2010 have a degree.
#DACA #ImmigrantHeritageMonth
#Immigration
#FamiliesBelongTogether
#Resist @GOP @POTUS @realDonaldTrump
#Immigrants make up 5% of the U.S. prison population while representing only 7% of the total U.S. population.
Contrary to @FoxNews @WhiteHouse #AlternativeFacts & #FakeNews, immigrants are NOT more likely to commit a crime than the native-born population.
#Resist @Trump
Contrary to @FoxNews @WhiteHouse #AlternativeFacts & #FakeNews, immigrants are NOT more likely to commit a crime than the native-born population.
#Resist @Trump
#Immigrants participate in the U.S. labor force at a higher (slightly) rate than native-born Americans & earn consistently less than native-born workers. 25M+ immigrants are workforce members.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
#ImmigrantHeritageMonth
#Resist @GOP @POTUS @realDonaldTrump
#FamiliesBelongTogether
#ImmigrantHeritageMonth
#Resist @GOP @POTUS @realDonaldTrump
.@POTUS’s expectations haven’t often met reality during his first 500 days in office. The #GOPTaxScam is a prime example of why his presidency has been #500DaysOfBummer
President Trump has spent 1/5 of his days in office at a golf course. That's probably great for his stroke, but not so great for the American public. #500DaysOfBummer
Who is paying for the wall?
Mexico? 🙅♀️
American taxpayers? 🙅♀️
The U.S. Military? 🙅♀️
#500DaysOfBummer 🤷♀️
Mexico? 🙅♀️
American taxpayers? 🙅♀️
The U.S. Military? 🙅♀️
#500DaysOfBummer 🤷♀️
Yale history prof @TimothyDSnyder outlined 20 lessons from the 20th Century on preventing tyranny from overcoming democracy. His book is a must-read for #TheResistance: amazon.com/Tyranny-Twenty… (Thread)
1/ Do not obey in advance. Do not acquiesce or conform to the new regime, offering to comply before compliance is required by law. Hitler's party consolidated power b/c too many citizens offered anticipatory obedience.
2/ Defend Institutions. Trump has aggressively sought to undermine all independent institution that opposes his admin, including the free press, the judiciary, DOJ, FBI, & #Mueller. Choose an institution you cherish and take its side.
"Fehlverhalten von Fussgängern"? #alternativefacts
Greetings to RZ5237 van driver, who DID NOT stop for me while I was already on the pedestrian crossing. He saw me, waved, looked away and drove on. True story, happened today
Greetings to RZ5237 van driver, who DID NOT stop for me while I was already on the pedestrian crossing. He saw me, waved, looked away and drove on. True story, happened today
Having clean windows is a good thing, but not enough. Adjusting mirrors equally important. It is crucial to always look what is happening *around* the vehicle
In my experience, lots of drivers suffer of "stiff neck": they don't see walking & cycling people coming from their side
In my experience, lots of drivers suffer of "stiff neck": they don't see walking & cycling people coming from their side
It is agreed that you cannot see everything with the mirrors. But a driver always has the option to turn his head!
Based on my personal observation of drivers creating dangerous situations: not turning the head and having a proper look to check road is clear is very common error
Based on my personal observation of drivers creating dangerous situations: not turning the head and having a proper look to check road is clear is very common error
Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the #ParisAgreement is irresponsible, hasty, and short-sighted. #ClimateChangeIsReal
In Hawaii we understand why it’s important to take care of our land, ocean, and air – our way of life depends on it. #ClimateChangeIsReal
Is anyone surprised Scott Pruitt is pushing President Trump to leave the #ParisAgreement? His history of industry over science is clear.
