John Roberts' wife is not the only Supreme Court spouse to shake down people with business before the court to give bribes. Ginni Thomas has a "consulting firm" (AKA a PO Box for checks) to funnel money to Clarence. #Corruption

The author scam emails are continuing to evolve.

Over the weekend I received one impersonating an employee of a local NPR station. They'd gotten many details right, including the station name and a program they ran... but the employee name was slightly misspelled.

Anyway, be careful y'all.

It's the manifestation of the misogynistic views that mothers are the only parents responsible for raising their children and that mothers whose entire identities and lives are not subsumed by the care of their children are bad people damaging the fabric of society.

Parents send kids to summer camp? Mommy hates having to take care of her own kids.

Parents can't make it to every school activity, be room parents, or don't respond to teacher emails until the evening instead of 5 minutes after it's sent? Mommy hates having to take care of her own kids.

Parents let kids use a tablet? Mommy hates having to take care of her own kids.

Parents let kids play on the playground without actively being on the playground with them? Mommy hates having to take care of her own kids.

I am so fucking sick of people arguing mothers, specifically, hate their kids if they do anything but spend every possible moment hovering over their child.

Parents send children to daycare? Mommy hates having to take care of her own kids.

Trump Threatens Iran—Again—Amid Claim He Wants Iran To Think He’s ‘Unstable’ ByZachary Folk, Forbes Staff. I cover breaking news. Published Apr 19, 2026, 11:01am EDT, Updated Apr 19, 2026, 04:58pm EDT TOPLINE: President Donald Trump returned to threatening Iran’s power plants and bridges in a Truth Social post Sunday morning on the eve of what he called new peace talks and following a report that suggested Trump’s wild social media warnings are part of a negotiating tactic. (Update: Trump said the U.S. attacked and took over an Iranian cargo ship.)

You've got to be fucking kidding me.

Yes, there are, and in Texas, the state has banned public universities from using language and/or creating institutional supports for those groups of students who have not only *felt* uncomfortable in campus communities but who, for decades, were actually not allowed to be students there at all.

Based on pretty much every study over the last 10 years that show parents are spending more, not less, time with their kids than generations prior, why do so many people keep arguing that the problem with kids these days is that parents don't care about their kids and aren't willing to do the work?

There are 3 things that set me off right now: AI hype, complaints about public ed/kids that blame teachers/parents for the problems, and the US press treating Trump like he's just a regular degular president.

Right? My 8th grader spends 7+ hours a day on a chromebook between class and homework, but they type 30 wpm because they're peck letters out like a t-rex. Like reading, they expect kids to learn to type by exposure, not developing the skill.

Kids can't learn what their brains aren't ready to learn, though, and can't build on what they were never successfully taught.

And kids who don't have parents with both the willingness and ability to help them keep bridging these gaps, year over year, from kindergarten to 12th grade, flail.

Education is supposed to work by introducing kids to concepts and teaching them skills when it is developmentally appropriate, and building on that knowledge and skills year over year.

Today, public ed standards are built on the idea that "rigor" means forcing standards down to lower grade levels.

...they never learned what the box method is or had to use a visual array to explain the commutative property of multiplication so can't understand their 3rd grader's homework, but will be frustrated 3 years later when their 6th grader counts out 7*7 on their fingers!

...that purport to deliver the miracle of keeping kids up with the equally ridiculous state standards that are driven more by politics than by an understanding of how kids learn, and for things even as basic as elementary math homework, parents are going to be lost themselves, because...

It takes a tremendous amount of parent effort to fill in the gaps of all the things that aren't taught at school or are taught before they're developmentally appropriate, and to constantly keep your kids caught up on the ridiculous pace of the curriculum schools purchase from private companies...

...would have still just been learning to read, were introduced to algebra concepts at the age they should have still been learning multiplication, and did the vast majority of this work from 1st grade to 8th grade on an app on a chromebook instead of on paper.

So if you've got a 14-year-old who struggles to find the solution to an algebra word question involving multiplication and write it on paper with a proper grip, it's because they were taught to read before they had the ability to, expected to understand math word problems when 30 years ago kids...

"High school math students don't know basic multiplication."

Kids don't memorize multiplication tables in 3rd grade anymore. They learn strategies for solving multiplication questions, focus on not getting tricked by multiplication word problems, and are introduced to algebra concepts instead.

Certain cognitive milestones are required to be able to read. Most children develop this ability between the ages of 6 and 7, which is 1st grade.

If you are no longer teaching how to read when most kids develop the ability to read, instead expecting kids just to read, when do they learn the skill?

"Middle school students can't read."

Kindergarten used to be for ABCs and basic phonics/letter sounds and blending. 1st grade was where reading was taught. Now, the ABCs are a few weeks at the beginning of kindergarten, and kids are largely expected to be reading by the end of kindergarten.

"High school students can't hold a pencil properly."

This skill was taught with focus in K and 1st grade, then reinforced through daily use throughout school. Now it's taught briefly in kindergarten, when the skill is expected to be mastered, and they do assignments online from 1st grade on.

I think one of the major reason kids in upper grades are struggling to demonstrate the knowledge and skills we expect them to demonstrate is because teaching soft skills learned at lower grades have been replaced with developmentally inappropriate hard skills previously taught at higher grades.

Is this how he's trying to get away from nearly getting fired from his job because he parties too much?

This is classic TFA. Good teaching and teacher training is never enough. You've got to ding public education for its supposed culture of lack of accountability and prop up private businesses making money off accountability methods, to demonstrate why outside private interests MUST be involved.

The reason this "education coach" immediately raised my suspicions is because she downplayed evidenced-based teaching methods (i.e. phonics over whole language), arguing testing and harsher standards create the culture necessary for improved student performance.

The entire goal of TFA is to undermine teachers and teachers unions as credible experts on improving public ed, and instead tout the expertise and pedigree of TFA alums outside the public ed system who push for policy that redirects public dollars out of public schools into private businesses.

While teachers have long called for improved wages and working conditions (retaining experienced teachers), smaller class sizes, more support, and less standardized testing to improve public ed, TFA calls for more standardized tests and a steady churn of new grad teachers "innovating" classrooms.

TFA is a grift heavily funded by billionaire "philanthropists" that has helped accelerate the myth that the teacher workforce is bad at teaching and the deprofessionalization of teaching by parachuting untrained college grads and claiming they are as good as or better than the trained workforce.

These "advocates" work for private businesses who make their money by selling curriculum/tools/services to public schools, charters that siphon public dollars away from the public school system, or think tanks that call for more testing and more "innovation" (i.e. private involvement) in public ed.