It Was on Your Table Every Morning Growing Up. It’s Dying Before Our Eyes. No One Wants to Face It. The powerhouse of American citrus is suffering a brutal decline. Everyone has a theory about why.

Source: slate.com/business/202...

Florida's orange harvest has crashed by 95% since 2003.

Housing overdevelopment, sand mining, and overuse of pesticides have all contributed, but the main culprit is Citrus Greening.

100% of orange trees in Florida are now infected with this wasting disease deemed "incurable."

How Student Enrollment Declines Are Affecting Education Budgets, Explained in 10 Figures | Bellwether A Bellwether analysis of enrollment declines in K-12 schools across the country and the impact on district and state budgets.

Full report: bellwether.org/publications...

Not to mention the uneven effects of the catastrophic loss of a school on a particular neighborhood or region, compared to other areas getting to keep their schools.

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The process will inevitably be choppy and uneven, however, as the enrollment declines will be defused across many schools, and fixed costs and minimum staffing requirements will make it hard to smoothly reduce costs.

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Since most schools are funded on a per-pupil basis, declines in enrollment will inevitably lead to mass closures of schools.

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It's not often talked about that many kids were pulled out of school during COVID and just...never came back.

While homeschooling and private school enrollments did increase, hundreds of thousands of children are still unaccounted for.

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The map above is for public schools, but the entire education sector, including private, charter, homeschool, and higher ed will be similarly affected.

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Thanks to a massive baby bust in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, exacerbated by Trump immigration crackdowns and the COVID-19 pandemic, US schools will see major declines in enrollment, with some states seeing *double-digit* declines.

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Opinion | You Can’t Game Your Way to a Real Education

Link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...

This entire article about how screens are destroying K-12 education is worth reading, but here are some highlights:

Day 2 of the Sengoku Japan simulation is now complete! Here is a map of Japan as of August 1574:

#SengokuSim

Day 2 of the Sengoku Japan simulation is now complete! Here is a map of Japan as of August 1574:

#SengokuSim

Ma Yuan's studies of the properties of water, southern Song Dynasty China, ca. 1190 - 1225 CE
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This is an incredible bit of work, reflecting a *ton* of work learning, analyzing, discussing, & negotiating the issues. It will improve life for everyone in the state. And it's likely to get effectively zero national attention.

Agencies in talks with Trump, family to resolve $10B lawsuit over tax leaks President Trump and his family are suing federal agencies over leaks of their tax information. Court filings say they’re in talks to find a solution instead of heading to trial.

that beep beep beep sound you hear is the president and his family backing a truck up to the US treasury...

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

114.1 MPH
OVER the batter's eye

Munetaka Murakami's first MLB grand slam was a sight to behold!

I read Doctorow on here more for content than prose, but don't I fucking love the phrase "the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized."

So far, the jizamurai of the Iga Ikki are still holding out!

In the southwest, the Shimazu got bogged down attempting to conquer the Sagara clan in Higo, while the Mori and the Ōtomo faced off with each other across the Inland Sea.

Meanwhile, the Hōjō subjugated the Yūki, the Oda conquered the Saitō and Anegakōji and invaded the domains of the Takeda with help from Hashiba Hideyoshi, and the Date ran amuck in Tōhoku.

The Matsudaira overthrew their Imagawa overlords, the Kitabatake conquered most of Kansai with help from the warrior monks of Enryakuji and Negoroji temples, and the Asakura expanded into Hokuriku, at the expense of the Ikkō Ikki.

Day 1 is in the books! Here is a map of an alternate universe version of Japan as of October 1566:

#SengokuSim

Recently I've started getting numerous queries about articles I never wrote, parts of my book that don't exist, and tweets I never tweeted.

It's amazing how many people will cold contact a complete stranger before they will fact-check their LLM.

"Louisiana GOP races to eliminate an elected office won by an exonerated man"

Recently I've started getting numerous queries about articles I never wrote, parts of my book that don't exist, and tweets I never tweeted.

It's amazing how many people will cold contact a complete stranger before they will fact-check their LLM.

Trump is dismantling the US Forest Service in his biggest smash-and-grab to date, closing ten regional offices and 57 research facilities and handing control of our national forests to pro-logging pols.

Getting ready to run the Sengoku Japan classroom simulation again!

Here is a map of the samurai clans selected by the student teams, as of April 1560:

#SengokuSim

Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

Link: www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

Trump is dismantling the US Forest Service in his biggest smash-and-grab to date, closing ten regional offices and 57 research facilities and handing control of our national forests to pro-logging pols.