For many English schools we are at the brink of a new term, a new school year, so it's time to repost this, in the sincere hope that this year can be different. Please, schools, don't send children home (or to isolation) for wearing "wrong" clothes. johncosgrove55.wordpress.com/2023/09/02/a...

A Uniform Approach

Like cakes on birthdays, fairy lights at Christmas and Halloween’s Trick or Treat, traditions have attached themselves to back to school week in the UK. First is the “uniform photo” with children i…

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@mapquest.com isn't part of MAGA. Use a map that knows the names of the Great Lakes, No More Google Maps!

You do have to wonder about Trump's history grades - were they in the 10% range, or much lower.

David Corn@davidcorn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Great Red Scare of Mesopotamia was really something.

Why the US fails and Norway thrives in Football. In the US youth sports are run for parents and for profits. In Norway it's about fun and athleticism. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

No league tables, no trophies: how Norway made sport fun for kids – and built a football team that beat Brazil

The country’s model prioritises joy while offering youngsters choice – and Erling Haaland’s World Cup exploits show that it works

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They have torn down the White House all on their own; the British didn’t need to burn it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

America is destroying itself. It’s no surprise | Stephen Marche

Scholars will someday wonder how the richest country in history chose to throw it all away. But the crisis has been there since the beginning

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In last week's show I talked about the grief of feeling like you're excluded from the communities that you are a part of and how that especially feels for neurodivergent and disabled individuals. #inclusive #liberation #neurodivergent #podcast https://feathermanesoul.com/blog/27343/

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Wild Spirit Storytelling

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Don’t tell me Fox News didn’t know this, they’re just there to disinform their viewers….

Public ownership truly works for intelligent capitalists. I've lived in Holland Michigan where government owned power and water have made it a magnet for global industrial corporations. Dependable and predictable service and costs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Burnham ally to unveil ambitious plan to reverse decades of privatisation

Exclusive: Productive State policy paper envisages state regaining control of basics to make life affordable, in fleshing out of Manchesterism

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Because football doesn't have quarters @fifamedia.bsky.social I turn off the games at your first ad break and don't return until after the second, thus missing every ad you've sold.

Thanks @keurigdrpepper.bsky.social for sending me coupons expired 350 days ago. Nice touch

Trump's Surrender at Versailles echoes both the French capitulation in 1870 (with massive reparations) and the 1919 Treaty (with massive reparations). Republicans are now the "Surrender Monkeys." It just cost us all a few Trillion and a whole bunch of lives.

Hilarious. Gianni Infantino has made me uninterested in the World Cup for the first time @fifamedia.bsky.social

Tariq Panja@tariqpanja.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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If there are quarters and long commercial breaks - it's not the #WorldCup it's U-10 American soccer at best. FIFA needs to be replaced

The Trump administration is spending billions of taxpayer dollars to send reckless federal agents into our communities to violate our rights, while cutting necessary programs that our communities need. Tell Congress to act and pass legislation that will hold federal agents accountable.

Keep Our Communities Safe: Hold Federal Agents Accountable

No one should be above the law, including federal agents. Congress must pass legislation giving victims the right to sue when federal agents violate their constitutional rights.

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I guess we have to ask Keir Starmer... has Palestine Action ever intentionally run someone over with a truck? As in - who exactly counts as a terrorist? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Man hit by van in Birmingham after residents take down union flags put up by anti-migrant group

Police investigate incident on Thursday after witness claims seeing Raise the Colours logo on side of vehicle

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“Technology” is, as Heidegger* suggested, “the art of manipulating the world.” And humans, for their entire history, have been inventing and improving tools that give more people more power to manipulate the world to their and society’s advantage." medium.com/age-of-aware...

The Dirty [Baker’s] Dozen: Thirteen School Technologies Most Destructive to Learning.

The “no screens,” “no phones,” and “just pencils and books” narratives are incredibly dangerous to children for a number of reasons. The…

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Allowing adolescents to be adolescents — to be developing humans — is the way to solve your concerns about personal mobile devices and social media. medium.com/age-of-aware...

If you want to fight teen “phone addiction,” the answer is freedom, not bans.

Allowing adolescents to be adolescents — to be developing humans — is the way to solve your concerns about personal mobile devices and…

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Why do rich people, and far too many educators, believe that teenagers are stupid and incompetent? medium.com/age-of-aware...

“Everything Our Kids Can’t Do”

Disrespecting your students and dismissing their abilities and capabilities is as common as it is destructive.

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Thank a #Republican voter today. They are encouraging mass transit and EVs

I'm tired of educators - and parents (and Fortune magazine) - slandering teenagers irasocol.medium.com/everything-o...

“Everything Our Kids Can’t Do”

Disrespecting your students and dismissing their abilities and capabilities is as common as it is destructive.

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The "no tech in schools" crowd doesn't want schools to be better for kids, if they did they'd tackle the really terrible bits of school technology... medium.com/age-of-aware...

The Dirty [Baker’s] Dozen: Thirteen School Technologies Most Destructive to Learning.

The “no screens,” “no phones,” and “just pencils and books” narratives are incredibly dangerous to children for a number of reasons. The…

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Isn't it time for Steve Cohen, @mets.com Citibank and the money behind Manchester Citi and NYCFC to pay to rebuild the Willets Point Subway Station into something state-of-the-art (with free buses to LGA)? Don't they all have enough money?

If you accept metal detectors in your local schools, you have no right to complain about #TSA ever. You put your kids through it every day, so, yeah, you think it’s all good.

@guardtheleaf.bsky.social just a note on your red/blue US maps. Not sure what data they use, but I live/have lived in two blue cities that those maps label red based on surrounding counties. Waynesboro Virginia for example, made the NYTimes last fall for dramatically flipping blue.

Trump appears on Fox @nflbluesky.bsky.social broadcast so I immediately switch to the Canadian Premier League championship game (which is awesome in deep Ottawa snow). If you were advertising to me during Lions/Commander. Sorry, I'm not there.

Huge congrats to @pammoran1.bsky.social & @irasocol.bsky.social for assembling a team of nearly two dozen educators and school leaders to document their path toward transformative school change in 'Real Learning, Real Accomplishment: Schools that Work for Kids.' We're honored to do our part. 😁

Exactly: THe stories on what didn't get done bc Noem required her personal signature (in additional to call centers, the rescue teams) aren't stating clearly that one reason Noem is doing this is bc she's $1B over budget bc she has blown it all on kidnapping grannies.

Laura Kowalski Linden@samoart.bsky.social · last yr.

Further context: If you’ve never dealt with FEMA after a disaster I can tell you they answer within 30 seconds. No hold times. Real live wonderful people who help while you cry and can’t even figure out what questions to ask. They walk you through it all. Every call. NOEM STOLE THAT $ FOR ICE

British government @teamlabouruk.bsky.social yields to terrorist threats across Northern Ireland. Starmer is too busy prosecuting musicians. He's still the guy who enabled the #spycops scandal m.independent.ie/irish-news/s... @kneecapceol.bsky.social

Stormont minister criticises bonfire at asbestos site as Kneecap effigies and Irish language signs destroyed

Environment Minister Andrew Muir has said he is disappointed that an Eleventh night bonfire was lit in south Belfast despite warnings over asbestos on the site.

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