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You can have the best armed forces in the history of the world, but if you are an incompetent criminal without a plan, you can still lose a war, and rather quickly.

Everyone else experiencing epic levels of fury today?

I gotta say the name for this operation was perfect. I am, in fact, experiencing Epic Fury right now. It's almost as fun as enduring my freedom.

Trump should tell them to wear their clothes backwards, just to see what happens.

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I would love to see this.

Can’t wait to see Charlie in Philly!

This man is the same age as me, and looks 25 years older. This man has better healthcare than most of us, and looks like he’s dying. That’s what happens when you sell your soul.

Sadly, my “Democratic” senator is John “This is what you look like when you sell your soul” Fetterman. The only energy he has is for kissing Trump’s ass in public.

Truly an uncomfortable time to be a USAian, because I’m forced to root for failure, even as it hurts me. I WANT Trump voters to feel the full impact of their stupidity. If they don’t, they won’t learn anything.

Gee Joe, maybe you shouldn’t have spent most of your career laying the table for this. Dumbfuck.

someone pay me large amounts of money to be correct way ahead of the people actually being paid large amounts of money to be correct

Energy crisis, fertilizer crisis, food crisis, economic crisis.

This sounds bad.

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American schools weren’t broken until Silicon Valley used a lie to convince them they were—now reading and math scores are plummeting | Fortune Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath warns the U.S.’s $30 billion bet on laptops in schools has made Gen Z less cognitively capable than their parents.

Another cool part about teaching is learning that studies show that kids reading/math scores collapsed with the introduction of the Chromebook (link below), but also that kids need Chromebooks/tech to learn but also it's a distraction.
fortune.com/2026/03/01/a...

The best part about being a teacher is I'm also a curriculum developer, behavioral interventionist, social worker, therapist, surrogate parent (all unpaid extra roles, of course)

The best part of today's professional development is that it's the same thing I've heard at every PD since 2020, which was the same things we heard in training. I'd never heard of "differentiating instruction" five years in a row until today.

Extreme Heat Is Making Life Increasingly Unlivable The number of hours where it’s too hot for everyday activities has doubled since 1950, a new study found.

It's getting too hot to walk the dog or sweep the porch for a growing number of people.

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Dems really need to abandon that norm of not blaming the previous guy. Thankfully, Trump has already broken that norm for them. They have to hammer it EVERY SINGLE TIME. And even then, that's not enough.

It now appears clear that Jeffrey Epstein did NOT off himself, based on staff talk overheard by inmates, independent bank reports that large deposits of money were made to the guard in charge at the time, and 2 suspiciously nonfunctioning cameras.
(Source: Julie Brown, Miami Herald)

I can't say I *hate* my fellow Americans (some of them, sure). I just prefer to spend as much time alone as possible.

Uh-oh, spaghetti-os

Even though it will hurt me and make my life difficult, I'm rooting for $8.00/gallon gas and long lines if that's what it takes to flush these GOP turds down the electoral toilet.

Then there’s farming. The Straight of Hormuz handles a third of the trade for fertilizer. And it’s spring planting season in the northern hemisphere. American farmers are already having trouble because of high input costs, with farm bankruptcies rising. So this situation is not great at all.

@brienmcmullen.bsky.social Saw your Krugman post, and agreed whleheartedly. Consider this re-post an "also, too." This isn't over with Iran.

Idiocracy was a documentary about a future we're now living in.

For me and my profession, it's the pointless professional development. For example, I'm in my second special ed symposium of the day, and it's basically some dude complaining about his job. I mean, who can blame him, the PA Dept of Ed sucks, but man--this is just a gripe session.

Price of gas in Port Richmond up. Price of gas at Eastwick Wawa is up. Trump says this is over, but I don't think so.

Just killed a man's whole family and accidentally installed him as leader of Iran. We created Super Vengeance Boy and are just assuming he'll leave us alone.