*Finally* getting to see Josh and Zoey present. Rethinking Special Education in your World Language Classroom. @nysaflt.bsky.social #nysafam
Michael A. Lauria
@mikelauria.bsky.social
Dog dad, husband, drummer, leather crafter, educator, NYSAFLT 2nd VP, DEI Chair, World Language Teacher & general language nerd. Opinions are my own. he/him
Heading to NY this weekend to speak at the @nysaflt.bsky.social Capital East conference. “Advancing World Language Teaching in our communities.” ➡️ sites.google.com/view/capital...
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
I wonder if they named themselves DOGE because they didn’t want to be called GED.
I can’t believe the Supreme Court said the president was above the law and now the president is acting like he’s above the law.
Don’t worry - the cost of a dozen eggs is up 700% since last year. The price of gas is going back up. And Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum will drive inflation upwards while making cars and homes much more expensive. But hey, at least the plastic straws we never lost are “back” right?!?
Thanks to George Conway for posting Caroline Kennedy's letter so everyone is informed about RFK Jr. Please repost far and wide.
"Was Bishop Mariann Budde right to call for the protection of migrants and LGBTQ kids at the National Prayer Service?" Yes, she's allowed to talk about Christ's teachings at a church service. Next question.
Whew, me too. Sucks I’m not a billionaire genius, but I’d rather not be a N@z¡
BrooklynDad_Defiant!@mmpadellan.bsky.social · 2y agoWHEW! I guess only billionaire geniuses are susceptible to doing that extremely specific move by accident.
If you have to defend whether or not what you did is a Nazi salute, it’s a Nazi salute.
"I should be able to spread racist right wing disinformation online and anybody who says otherwise hates free speech and supports censorship" as right wing propaganda has almost been as successful as their all time classic: "any reporting that criticizes right wing policy has a liberal bias"
Oddly, we'd be obligated under Nato to defend Greenland from our own military
This. In SO many places, it’s literally just “how to be less racist*.” *It’s sad that I can’t even say “not racist” here, but truthfully, so many people need the tiniest of baby steps to unlearn.
The founding director of the International Fact Checking Network, a key Meta partner until yesterday: “The quality of a crowdsourced project hinges on the incentive structures of the underlying crowd. There is very little in Meta’s history to suggest those incentives will be enlightened.”
Alexios Mantzarlis@mantzarlis.com · 2y agoMark Zuckerberg’s hyperpartisan rant against fact-checking was a craven political move, no part of which should be taken at face value. My take on yesterday's news: open.substack.com/pub/fakedup/...
They want you to think Community Notes has all the integrity of Wikipedia, but with none of the governance structures that make Wikipedia what it is. To mangle a reference, if they wanted Wikipedia, they would have invented Wikipedia.
Folks, facts are not biased. Facts are facts. Misinformation is dangerous.