Rob Levine

Because if we elect Dems like the current Dem leadership, or Amy Klobuchar, basically nothing will change.

Dude won't even step up to save the most important hospital in the state, yet he's going to go around the country campaigning. How about doing your job here?

UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE.

In their remarks, neither Pete Hegseth nor Dan Caine this morning addressed the girls school that was bombed.

They did not get A SINGLE QUESTION about it from people they called on in the room loaded with right-wing hacks.

Candace Owens tells US soldiers to resign today as Trump has 'betrayed America' Conservative commentator Candace Owens encouraged her followers on social media to resign from serving in the U.S. military amid the war in Iran, bringing to light deep in-party fighting within the co...

MAGA collapse as Candace Owens tells US soldiers to resign today as Trump has 'betrayed America'

The AI Education Grift By Thomas Ultican 3/9/2026 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a billionaire driven con job. In the early 20th century, eugenicists claimed they could improve the human condition by measuring general i…

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It's reasonable for parent to trust teachers who spend time with their kids more than machine-scored standardized test results. But grades don't represent authentic assessment by those teachers, so "grades vs. tests" is a false dichotomy. *Both* are inadequate and misleading: is.gd/omZlKh

Parents trust report cards more than test scores — with consequences for kids A study of 2,000 parents finds that they’re more inclined to step in with extra help when grades, but not test scores, are slipping

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This conservative take ("Parents trust grades > stand. test scores; that's bad because grades are inflated") is based on a study by economists that reduces learning & assessment to "signal weighting in human capital investment": is.gd/p5hN52. It's problematic for multiple reasons.

Grade 8 NAEP: A More Valid Reading Story (Although Still Incomplete) On NAEP Grade 8 Scores: "a better indicator of the cumulative effects of a system on student learning than 4th grade assessments." Bruce Baker, February 11, 2026

UPDATED

Grade 8 NAEP: A More Valid Reading Story (Although Still Incomplete)
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Minnesota State’s new software system costs $50 million more than initially approved The new software system is key for everything from faculty payroll to how students sign up for classes.

There's no way that this system couldn't have written its own software using local talent for less than the $300 MILLION already paid and unpaid MILLIONS every year just to use it! Complete boondoggle

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Early Iran strikes cost $5.6 billion in munitions, Pentagon estimates The figure, accounting for the war’s first two days, is likely to intensify concerns in Congress that U.S. forces are churning through a scarce supply of advanced weaponry.

The Pentagon calculated it was spending $1 billion a day on Trump and Netanyahu’s war. The truth? It was $3 billion…and that’s just for munitions.

Plus they’ve alarmed everyone by burning through scarce munitions in a matter of days.

Judge Eric Tostrud (Trump apptee) issues remarkable ruling in MN. Finds “compelling & troubling” evidence that DHS had policy of illegally stopping people based solely on race or ethnicity & of arresting without probable cause. But denies relief ...
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GOP Rep. Andy Ogles sparks backlash after saying Muslims 'don't belong' in America The Tennessee congressman previously pushed for deporting New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the city's first Muslim mayor.

THIS is the Republican Party. @startribune.com & @mprnews.org won't tell you that misogyny & racism DRIVE the Republican Party because one Republican billionaire family owns both and runs them as Republican protection rackets www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

There’s never enough money for schools or healthcare or veterans.

But there’s always enough money to bomb people on the other side of the world.

We can support the democracy movement in Iran without bombing innocent schoolchildren and sending our American troops off to die.

The finance world is only too happy to believe Republican lies when it suits them - that doesn't mean believing them won't come back to bite them in the ass

Also kind of insulting to act like the extent of the lawlessness was the three shootings, and gee it's too bad, but no cops were present for that, so oh well.

MPD's "duty to intervene" is meaningless when his police force worked through the last few months without a single intervention. He should just acknowledge there was no amount of lawlessness federal agents could've done that would have triggered an intervention.

As @adamjschwarz.bsky.social points out in the next post, Trump is joking about committing war crimes.

Is it just me or are these people truly psychotic?

Sycophant Speaker just asked for "a round of applause" for a Trump property

1, 2, or 3?
1) Reform: Fixing the machine while it’s running (e.g., passing a new law).
2) Resistance: Jamming the gears to stop a specific action (e.g., a strike or a protest against a specific policy).
3) Revolution: Building a new machine entirely.

New: A Houston woman is suing Tesla in Harris County, alleging that her Cybertruck, while using Tesla's "Full Self-Driving mode" tried to drive the car off of a bridge. Here is the dashcam footage provided by her lawyers: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Republicans have really stuck it to farmers. Will they react politically or are they all extreme Authoritarians?

And this doesn't include how much they spend on "nonprofits" that just happen to advance their political agenda

I know several ship captains with Master Unlimited licenses who have piloted the largest vessels on the oceans and they are—to the man—the most risk-adverse people on Earth. They are responsible for dozens of lives and hundreds of millions in assets. 0% chance any sail through Hormuz for a while.

Liberal pundits/influencers like this are thisclose to getting it - but they still can't let themselves take the next step.

They still can't let themselves understand how turning hope & change into more of the same was a key moment of demoralization that catalyzed the subsequent disaster.

I can't compete with this.

Someone line up 175 pairs of children’s shoes outside the WH please.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: George Hruby - After the Flood: Reading Instruction Post SoR. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: George Hruby - After the Flood: Reading Instruction Post SoR. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

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Dr. George Hruby will put recent Science of Reading reforms in the context of several other reform movements that have occurred over the last century.

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The guy who voices Master Chief from the video game "Halo," who was featured in a White House meme video showing missiles blowing people up in Iran, calls it "disgusting and juvenile war porn" wapo.st/3NhffGm

Why the US is facing strategic defeat Drone, Missiles, THAAD

Above my pay grade to check the math but this argues (with data) that even under US attack Iranian drone production can keep SoH closed for months causing inflation, food shortages and global recession. US is facing catastrophic strategic defeat policytensor.substack.com/p/why-the-us...