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“What use would a carpenter have for biology?” asked Krill, questioning the need for learning for learning’s sake in a locale where many of the available jobs don’t require a college degree.

“What use would someone on the McDonald’s career track have for Algebra 1?” Krill asked. The big, implicit but unanswered question of who decides who’s on “the McDonald’s track,” let alone why we would even have one, is largely what prompted a Twitter backlash after Krill’s comments were covered in The Inquirer.”

A viral moment from Pennsylvania's court battle over school funding about kids on ‘the McDonald’s track’ holds a buried truth on the anniver

#intelectualcuriosity #theroleofgovernment #informedcitizenry #education

“It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.”

- Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/15/defund-the-police-military-spending-militarization-black-lives-matter/

Democrats used to have a clearer agenda for cracking down on an out-of-control military. It’s time to bring that back.

1/3 of all GoFundMe campaigns are for medical bills. From its inception through Jan. 2019 GoFundMehad raised $650 million for those campaigns.

Meanwhile, we have three Zumwalt class destroyer warships (with purchase prices that could have paid for those GoFundMe campaigns 18-36 times over depending on how you count) which are dormant because the Navy can’t settle on which guns to equip them with because the ammunition considered is too expensive to fire (LRLAP at $800k per round, Excalibur at $113k per round, or railgun rounds at $25k each) and isn’t sure any will work since the three ships were delivered and commissioned in a substantially incomplete state.

#gunsorbutter #invisiblehandfail #theroleofgovernment

Apparently it is uncontrolled and likely unauthorized; it is also fluff not pollen.

In any case it is mesmerizing.

“The controlled burning of pollen made by the Fire Brigade of Castilla y León County at the park of Cidacos, in Calahorra, La Rioja, Spain h

Big ISPs want more money for slower broadband as FCC plans new fund.

In other news, AT&T et. al. feel 640k of RAM ought to be enough for anybody and that no one really needs a computer in their home. 🤪

#digitaldivide #ruralbroadband

A remarkable woman with no time for Jim or Jane Crow.

If your job can be taken by a hypothetical unskilled, non-English-speaking illegal immigrant or outsourced worker, I’m going to give you some bad advice.

I’m going to give you the same bad advice you gave millennials: stop whining, you’re not entitled to anything and nobody owes you a job.

I’m going to give you the same bad advice you gave minimum wage workers: stop being lazy. Get a skill. work harder and you’ll move up.

I’m going to give you the same bad advice you gave sexual assault victims: you should have made better choices and this wouldn’t have happened to you.

And when you find that this advice is not helpful or even true, then instead of attacking your fellow worker, the one who’s willing to work for less than a legal wage to feed his family, maybe you should go after the structures of power that allow and incentivize your employer’s choice to relocate your job.

- 21stgoddamncentury

...anyone incapable of recognizing these obvious truths should not hold public trust.

Chris Ladd

#governanceishard #why think?

"Columbia University researchers estimated that every dollar invested in national service programs results in a $3.95 return to society in higher earnings, increased output, and other community-wide benefits (PDF). And for every $10 in federal expenditures AmeriCorps raises $15 from private grants. AmeriCorps alone, not counting Senior Programs, channeled 1 million American volunteers and 1.4 billion hours of their service to more than 1100 community organizations and faith-based groups."

#sound investment advice

We are this.

#reality check #uncomfortable tr

#eatalltheskittles

Caring is the spark, learning - the tinder and kindling. But without action, there is no fire.

#theroleofgovernment #thegovernmentisus

Democracy has taken very hard hits in the first days of the Trump interregnum, as Donald Trump and the mandarins of his “alternative-fact” administration have spun fantasies about “voter fraud” that clearly does not exist; obsessed about the dubious legitimacy of a president who lost the pop...

You should choose your representatives, not the other way around.

#voting rights

"So now we have in power a man who represents the very worst of the plutocrats — one who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. I shudder to think where this nightmare will end. Even if you voted for Donald Trump for a reason that truly is from your heart, I cannot believe you voted for this."

#not normal

"But even if you were to set aside such profound character flaws and gaps in experience, the idea that a purely political advisor should be at the table while the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the director of national intelligence are not shows a profound lack of understanding of what the NSC has been — or what it should be."

#lookslikeaduck #walkslikeaduck #probablynotaduck #bad decision jeans

"The reasons for Trump’s ban on refugees could not be more feeble, and could not be more petty. It serves no actual security purpose. You have a better chance of getting killed by a train, or by your own clothes catching on fire, than by an immigrant terrorist attack. The odds of a refugee killing you in a terrorist strike are about 1 in 3.6 billion. That's about four hundred times less likely than being hit by lightning twice. If you look back at significant terrorist attacks in the US like San Bernardino or the Pulse nightclub shooting or 9/11, exactly none of them would have been prevented by this policy."

#weak tea #follow the money #emoluments clause #undertheguiseofgovernance

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