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Charter schools aren't about choice
They're about money
They're about money
January 2, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Charter schools aren't about choice
They're about money
They're about money
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One of our most-read stories of 2025: This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.
(Published March 2025 with @texastribune.org)
(Published March 2025 with @texastribune.org)
This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.
On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the c...
www.propublica.org
January 2, 2026 at 7:31 PM
One of our most-read stories of 2025: This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.
(Published March 2025 with @texastribune.org)
(Published March 2025 with @texastribune.org)
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Tiny charter, titanic superintendent salary #econsky
One of our most-read stories of 2025: This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.
(Published March 2025 with @texastribune.org)
(Published March 2025 with @texastribune.org)
This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.
On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the c...
www.propublica.org
January 2, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Tiny charter, titanic superintendent salary #econsky
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Asking gen AI to explain itself is like asking your toaster if your food is cooked through
January 2, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Asking gen AI to explain itself is like asking your toaster if your food is cooked through
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This just in: calculator has apologized for saying BOOBS
“Upside down calculator says ‘BOOBS’”
January 2, 2026 at 8:10 PM
This just in: calculator has apologized for saying BOOBS
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Which ...was the warning this time last year.
I don't think most people is sufficiently appreciated that the consensus "racism is bad" took an extraordinary effort not only to kick off but to maintain. And we should all be extremely scared of this now, because if it happens this fast to any group, it could happen that fast to your group.
Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment
January 2, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Which ...was the warning this time last year.
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not big on new years resolutions but I'm gonna try to read more books this year
I used to read a ton and between work and family stuff it's been a lot harder for me to find the time in recent years
and every time I sit down with a book it's such a nice, comforting thing and I miss it
I used to read a ton and between work and family stuff it's been a lot harder for me to find the time in recent years
and every time I sit down with a book it's such a nice, comforting thing and I miss it
January 2, 2026 at 8:33 PM
not big on new years resolutions but I'm gonna try to read more books this year
I used to read a ton and between work and family stuff it's been a lot harder for me to find the time in recent years
and every time I sit down with a book it's such a nice, comforting thing and I miss it
I used to read a ton and between work and family stuff it's been a lot harder for me to find the time in recent years
and every time I sit down with a book it's such a nice, comforting thing and I miss it
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Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York
January 2, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York
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I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
How Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping point
Nonconsensual deepfakes on X are nothing new, but now it's built into the platform.
spitfirenews.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:47 PM
I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
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When I've talked to deepfake victims, both public figures and everyday people, I've heard horror stories about police laughing them out the door, girls getting expelled for reporting their classmates, and lawyers advising them that suing would just make it worse. This is abuse culture in action.
January 2, 2026 at 7:55 PM
When I've talked to deepfake victims, both public figures and everyday people, I've heard horror stories about police laughing them out the door, girls getting expelled for reporting their classmates, and lawyers advising them that suing would just make it worse. This is abuse culture in action.
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Definitely will be taking pictures to mock and NOT help push their vehicles out of the snow.
That's the least Minnesotan thing I've ever said.
That's the least Minnesotan thing I've ever said.
December 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Definitely will be taking pictures to mock and NOT help push their vehicles out of the snow.
That's the least Minnesotan thing I've ever said.
That's the least Minnesotan thing I've ever said.
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I just laughed for a pretty long time imagining out-of-state ICE agents trying to get around tomorrow.
December 28, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I just laughed for a pretty long time imagining out-of-state ICE agents trying to get around tomorrow.
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Because assholes won't wear seatbelts a lot of newer cars are equipped with laminate windows that makes it difficult to break the glass. The goal is to reduce the risk of people being ejected from vehicles in a crash.
But it also traps you in a vehicle if the doors can't open.
But it also traps you in a vehicle if the doors can't open.
January 2, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Because assholes won't wear seatbelts a lot of newer cars are equipped with laminate windows that makes it difficult to break the glass. The goal is to reduce the risk of people being ejected from vehicles in a crash.
But it also traps you in a vehicle if the doors can't open.
But it also traps you in a vehicle if the doors can't open.
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I just saw a video talking about the Tesla door safety problem and the number of comments that are like, "well you should read the manual" are...shocking.
No, cars should be intuitively safe. Passengers are not reading the manual. Are you doing a safety briefing every time you give someone a ride?
No, cars should be intuitively safe. Passengers are not reading the manual. Are you doing a safety briefing every time you give someone a ride?
January 2, 2026 at 6:26 PM
I just saw a video talking about the Tesla door safety problem and the number of comments that are like, "well you should read the manual" are...shocking.
No, cars should be intuitively safe. Passengers are not reading the manual. Are you doing a safety briefing every time you give someone a ride?
No, cars should be intuitively safe. Passengers are not reading the manual. Are you doing a safety briefing every time you give someone a ride?
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As near as I can tell, this man was briefly “on the faculty” of a small college devoted to business education but he has big ideas for revamping the entire university system.
This article advocates for the “Faculty Merit Act” that would — get this — require all faculty applicants to submit their *SAT* scores. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Holy shirts that’s hilarious.
January 2, 2026 at 4:56 PM
As near as I can tell, this man was briefly “on the faculty” of a small college devoted to business education but he has big ideas for revamping the entire university system.
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A Ukrainian military leader on Putin’s hit-list conned the Kremlin out of $500,000 by faking his own death to collect the bounty.
Putin Humiliated After Ukrainian Commander Fakes Death to Claim Bounty
A military leader considered to be a “personal enemy” of Putin claimed $500,000 from the Kremlin.
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January 2, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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Whether simply seen as insufficient or demonic, evangelical Christians are trained to reject expertise in favor of the world as understood anywhere from 100 to 200 to 2000 years ago.
January 2, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Whether simply seen as insufficient or demonic, evangelical Christians are trained to reject expertise in favor of the world as understood anywhere from 100 to 200 to 2000 years ago.
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This is a great thread.
To insert something here though…
This is why evangelical Christianity has proven such a powerful indicator—whether a tool of or causal factor—of support for fascism.
Evangelical Christians are already taught that expertise of the physical world is incorrect.
To insert something here though…
This is why evangelical Christianity has proven such a powerful indicator—whether a tool of or causal factor—of support for fascism.
Evangelical Christians are already taught that expertise of the physical world is incorrect.
And one of the ways that you create separate ecosystems, that you fracture a population, that you make people who live next door to each other exist in completely separate worlds, is by destroying the idea of *expertise.*
January 2, 2026 at 5:51 PM
This is a great thread.
To insert something here though…
This is why evangelical Christianity has proven such a powerful indicator—whether a tool of or causal factor—of support for fascism.
Evangelical Christians are already taught that expertise of the physical world is incorrect.
To insert something here though…
This is why evangelical Christianity has proven such a powerful indicator—whether a tool of or causal factor—of support for fascism.
Evangelical Christians are already taught that expertise of the physical world is incorrect.
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This means the adults in their lives didn’t teach them this, correct?
It's 2026.
Things many American school kids probably don't know how to do:
* Dial a rotary telephone
* Tell time from an analog clock
* Read or write cursive
* Decipher Roman numerals
* Navigate with a paper map or use a compass
* Balance a checkbook
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Things many American school kids probably don't know how to do:
* Dial a rotary telephone
* Tell time from an analog clock
* Read or write cursive
* Decipher Roman numerals
* Navigate with a paper map or use a compass
* Balance a checkbook
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January 2, 2026 at 5:52 PM
This means the adults in their lives didn’t teach them this, correct?
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I don’t carry “immigration documents” with me at all times. Americans have not had to produce “their papers” for police without cause. Is this the new standard, given Kavanaugh stops? reason.com/2025/12/31/d...
DHS says REAL ID, which DHS certifies, is too unreliable to confirm U.S. citizenship
It's the punch line to a bad joke that started 20 years ago when Congress passed the REAL ID Act.
reason.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:21 PM
I don’t carry “immigration documents” with me at all times. Americans have not had to produce “their papers” for police without cause. Is this the new standard, given Kavanaugh stops? reason.com/2025/12/31/d...
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When asked why they jangled, the keys continued to jingle at our reporter for another 10 hours
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X reut.rs/498SoUk
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X
Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this.
reut.rs
January 2, 2026 at 5:52 PM
When asked why they jangled, the keys continued to jingle at our reporter for another 10 hours
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We actually have a web page dedicated to explaining what does and does not fall under CPSC jurisdiction. Learn something about government today!
www.cpsc.gov/Regulations-...
www.cpsc.gov/Regulations-...
Products Under the Jurisdiction of Other Federal Agencies and Federal Links
www.cpsc.gov
January 2, 2026 at 5:53 PM
We actually have a web page dedicated to explaining what does and does not fall under CPSC jurisdiction. Learn something about government today!
www.cpsc.gov/Regulations-...
www.cpsc.gov/Regulations-...
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If you're in the city and you want to organize around NYC public libraries, our next meeting is 1/11 & will be virtual: nycplan.org
NYC Public Library Action Network
Send our letter to all the mayoral candidates demanding increased funding for our public libraries! Fill out this Google Form and we’ll follow up with a how-to guide on meeting with your City Council…
nycplan.org
January 2, 2026 at 5:53 PM
If you're in the city and you want to organize around NYC public libraries, our next meeting is 1/11 & will be virtual: nycplan.org