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No matter how thorough Temple’s planning, they didn’t anticipate what I experienced in my classroom this week.

Jerry Falwell Jr. defied expectations when he supported Donald J. Trump in 2016. Now details are emerging about behind-the-scenes maneuvering before the endorsement.

This adds to the fear. And emphasizes how bad our safety net is in the US with people expected to go back to work or handle it on their own.

It all comes down to making sure non-white people don't get something for free.

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If three out of four Americans want to spend their final years at home, why do so many of us end up in institutional care?

Really great thoughts here on long-term processes. "People document the decisions that are made, but they don’t document the thought processes behind them…. So you have to decide what’s the right information to get about how a system operates, and how you capture it—in written form or in a video format or something else."

Big bag of christofacism This part is weird: “Mike Pence is a wonderful gentleman,” she said. “This is probably a very bad analogy, but I’d say he is like the very supportive, submissive wife to Trump. He does the hard work, and the husband gets the glory.”

Wild story I missed when it happened. Absolute Sneakers stuff.

A complete abdication of responsibility from everyone in power

After experiencing a huge surge in demand for food assistance at the onset of the pandemic, the Washington state Department of Agriculture is now stockpiling nonperishable food to help meet the need.

the COVID‑19 debacle has also touched—and implicated—nearly every other facet of American society: its shortsighted leadership, its disregard for expertise, its racial inequities, its social-media culture, and its fealty to a dangerous strain of individualism. That system pairs uneasily with a national temperament that views health as a matter of personal responsibility rather than a collective good. No one should be shocked that a liar who has made almost 20,000 false or misleading claims during his presidency would lie about whether the U.S. had the pandemic under control; that a racist who gave birth to birtherism would do little to stop a virus that was disproportionately killing Black people; that a xenophobe who presided over the creation of new immigrant-detention centers would order meatpacking plants with a substantial immigrant workforce to remain open; that a cruel man devoid of empathy would fail to calm fearful citizens; that a narcissist who cannot stand to be upstaged would refuse to tap the deep well of experts at his disposal; that a scion of nepotism would hand control of a shadow coronavirus task force to his unqualified son-in-law; that an armchair polymath would claim to have a “natural ability” at medicine and display it by wondering out loud about the curative potential of injecting disinfectant; that an egotist incapable of admitting failure would try to distract from his greatest one by blaming China, defunding the WHO, and promoting miracle drugs; or that a president who has been shielded by his party from any shred of accountability would say, when asked about the lack of testing, “I don’t take any responsibility at all.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden accused Elizabeth Warren last year of holding an “angry, unyielding viewpoint...

Wild. Not a story I knew.

We sheltered at home in part so schools could open safely. Then leaders did nothing.

Sadly I don't think they're going to follow the rule of law...

Shouldn't really be surprising

The public — and the media — must interrogate police statements more aggressively, writes Naomi Ishisaka.

Public health is an enterprise with an intrinsic problem: People can’t see sicknesses avoided or deaths averted.

A North Carolina store clerk on urging customers to wear masks amid pandemic

"By challenging the need to perform like everyone else, this generation of disability activists are moving beyond the ADA, moving beyond capitalism and norms of what it means to be a good worker."

As we consider the social and political upheaval of 2020 in America, we're looking back at Odo's work on DS9.

The mounting wreckage should prompt a rethink of the narrative of Trumpian failure.

2020 will decide whether we continue on our unserious trajectory.

Mostly repetitive stuff on how Rodenberry and Berman were bad... but I loved this sassy Sirtis quote: Sirtis, who joined the CBS All Access show for one episode, is likewise impressed. “With Picard we have equality. Old baldy, sorry, sir old baldy, he’s the first on the call sheet, but other than that we’re equal. There are men and women and there’s not a preponderance of one sex over the other.”

There's no way we're going to have in person school. "If the rest of society doesn’t do the right thing, nothing we do in schools will matter," said Chris Reykdal, the state’s schools chief.

Yessss

"Cars make every other form of transportation a little bit terrible."