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Blue in the US, Red/Orange in Canada, hunkering down, preparing to help, and seizing my joy. 🌈 Community member, she/her. I block crypto shillers and MAGAts.
He probably had a stroke.
July 9, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Can't he simply appoint someone to fill the seat? That's the reason McConnell's people aren't coming clean about his health. They don't want a Democrat replacing him with an appointed person. It would be hard to hide his actual death, but it wouldn't surprise me to learn he's in hospice care.
July 9, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Dude should come to Canada and try Mary Brown's.
June 27, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Good plan, but please keep Chick-fil-A.
June 27, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Yes. Right wing ideology requires denial of objective reality.
February 7, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Not pro bono - paid by the ACLU, with costs factored into settlements.
October 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Rights are only as good as the people enforcing them.
October 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
As the saying goes, regulations are written in blood. The anti-regulation Republican agenda just made more ink.
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
@etfoeducators.bsky.social We need to start making this a contract issue. Three-way splits should either be banned, or come with a significant salary top up, or some combination of the two - limited numbers of them are allowed but the teacher gets paid more or must have an EA.
October 12, 2025 at 10:58 AM
For the teacher, a split grade class is about 1.5x the work of a straight grade class, but that fluctuates based on the actual kids in front of you. I have kids this year ranging from learning alphabet and numbers to ten, right up to fluently reading early chapter books.
October 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
So, yes, my small group reading lessons involve kids from both grades 1&2 based on needs, not grade. But I still have to divide them up by grade for those content-area subjects, and I still have to be aware of the differences in expectations for grade two's because I have to report on them.
October 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Everything he said about meeting the needs of diverse learners is true, but here's the catch: the Ontario curriculum requires that specific topics be covered in specific grades regardless of the students' academic level. That means triple the social studies, science, and health expectations.
October 12, 2025 at 10:51 AM
We're way past the point where impeachment can be accomplished, if it ever could. He's got a Gestapo now.
October 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The doctors who perform the riskiest surgeries and take on the most complex patients are going to have the most negative outcomes too, not because they're bad at their jobs but because their patients were in really bad shape to begin with.
September 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
You don't get good performance out of people whose pay is tied to performance. What you get is risk avoidance, where the worker refuses to take on tasks where they aren't certain of success. In medicine and teaching, those tasks are people with problems that require specialists.
September 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Maybe the Nazis should stop doing fascist things like having masked officers kidnapping people off the street?
September 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Your mistake is in thinking it has to be legal for them to do it. Legality only matters if it can be enforced.
September 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM