I admit that I'm not clear on what the alternative to the "disproportionate violence" is supposed to be. Should the Israeli army allow a few Gazans to make it into the Israeli villages to murder residents, out of "fairness"?
@page_eco
@biggsag
The fact that this occurs in Sweden, provider of generous social welfare benefits for parents, suggests that this isn't fixable by more government policy.
I now understand why people don’t run for office. I was personally attached by a half dozen parents, teachers, and students at the
@District214
board meeting public comment. I am shaking as I type this.
@EITC_Official
Worst line: “you should be the one to decide what changes you want to make to your body.” Result: girls identifying as “non-binary” because they have a perfectly normal dislike of getting periods. And, well, it’s just generally bad to see your body as medically customizable.
@AGHamilton29
My kid's school district,
@District214
, takes the approach that curriculum is exempt from FOIA, so it 100% depends on parents finding out from their kids.
@SeanTrende
Wasn't the point of "flatten the curve" to buy us time to build up capacity in terms of healthcare, equipment, PPE, and the like? What happened to that objective?
@davidfrum
It was a huge mistake for the CDC to have started out with “masks are useless.” It produced skepticism among those inclined towards it anyway that the new mandates are about control and power rather than health.
@bethanyshondark
This sounds like the same old dispute between insurers and providers that takes place repeatedly & generates full-page newspaper ads with each side trying to get the public on their side. (Or like disputes between cable channels and providers: "call Comcast now to keep Big10 TV")
Here is the Jane The Actuary decree on titles: if you are in Germany and have a doctorate, you have grounds for expecting to be referred to by "Dr." in everyday life. In the US, you should expect to be given that title only in the context of academia, e.g., by students or ---
@piersmorgan
@benshapiro
I'm thinking there's no such thing as an "LGBT community." Looks like, there's an LGB community and there's a T community, but their interests are not the same.
.
@JBPritzker
calls pension reform a "fantasy." The true fantasy is his vision that gambling, pot, and his proposed tax hike will fix what ails the state.
@McQuearyKristen
@John_Kass
@CardinalBCupich
@MundeleinSem
@USCCB
FYI: it’s not just about Youth Protection. It’s about justice with respect to past perpetrators, and about violations of vows even with adults.
The funny thing is, I have no strong opinion on what Congress should do about pot, but, whatever they do, it shouldn't be to keep a law on the books that they themselves wish to be unenforced.
On the merits, pot is an issue that should be decided, like alcohol policy, by states. But it's bad governance and a dangerous precedent for the DOJ to instruct prosecutors to ignore the law. Congress should repeal existing law & return the issue to the states.
Update from
@District214
: we now know that the teachers' union gave at least $8,000 to the incumbent slate, and the support personnel union (whose contract was under negotiation) gave at least $3,000. But, sure, there's no conflict of interest! .
I have no strong opinion on what federal law should be re: pot. But one way or the other, Congress should vote, and be on record.
@KevinNR
@seanmdav
@AceofSpadesHQ
Let's be honest: Illinois politicians, as a whole, have not earned the trust they need to implement a graduated income tax that's not just "fair" but also appropriate and reasonable. .
@John_Kass
@JohnMTillman
Folks,
@chicagosmayor
says she wants "to have the conversation about what is driving the pension cost." Guess what? I'm here. I've got more excel tables than you can shake a stick at. Let's talk. .
@John_Kass
So . . . A week ago I filed a FOIA with my local high school district hoping to get some info on disparities in prevalence of boys vs. girls in various classes. To my surprise, they track participation in extracurriculars in the same way. Here's a sample of some of these counts!
@BenBradleyTV
@CTULocal1
It’s not just about hypocrisy but it’s highly unlikely that she’s being truthful when she claims that “multiple” students’ parents reported deaths in less than two weeks. The probability of that happening is exceedingly slim!
@KimStrassel
The funny thing is, if she had said, "it was a house party with dozens and dozens of kids," it would be very believable that people would be saying, "went to all kinds of parties; nothing stands out." But this is a specific and small guest list.
@ConceptualJames
The website says early puberty is before age 8 (girls) or 9 (boys) and has an incidence of 1 in 5,000 to 10,000. Certainly does seem unlikely that these are the parents the company is targeting.
Update: parents who stayed tell me that this attack (of 25 people in total) was organized by a teacher, and the Board President applauded them for it.
@District214
, this is the world's worst civics lesson.
I now understand why people don’t run for office. I was personally attached by a half dozen parents, teachers, and students at the
@District214
board meeting public comment. I am shaking as I type this.
"Ironically, more than 10,000 apartment units in San Francisco reportedly sit vacant. That's another result of the city's . . . ordinances: Landlords are afraid to rent their apartments to strangers. B/c tenants are granted special "rights," it's difficult to evict them."
Twitter may have plenty of issues, but I'm learning to make liberal use of the "mute" feature at the moment. I might be hated, but I don't stress when I don't have to read the haters.
@xxclusionary
“Because the student has previously registered an objection to the content, we can now mandate he speak the required words” wouldn’t fly in any other circumstances.
@michaelbd
As a parent who has been dutifully paying my kid's tuition, this is an insult to everyone who's diligently avoided loans. Where's my $50,000?
"The people of Illinois give voice to their sovereign authority through the Illinois Constitution" - one wonders just how the IL Supreme Court managed to write that part of their pension reform strike-down with a straight face. .
@John_Kass
@McQuearyKristen
So, yes, if Ms. Biden were to present a paper at a scholarly conference, and the news media were to report on this, it would be appropriate in this context to write, "Dr. Biden's research showed that . . . " but it is not appropriate to write, next year, "First Lady Dr. Biden ---
And, yes, this is in reference to the WSJ commentary, though it didn't make its pitch clearly enough. (Plus, I'm really not a fan of handing out a "doctorate" without a dissertation.)
@Suzy4242
@neontaster
The answer is both/and. The overrunning of the Capitol was wrong. The riots were wrong. At the same time, the overrunning of the Capitol can partially be explained by the media and governments' responses to the riots over the summer, and of course by the rioters themselves.
colleagues, or, in the larger media, in the context of your role as a professor or a researcher, if applicable. Outside of these contexts, the usual titles of Mr./Ms./Mrs. are just as appropriate for you as for the rest of us.
Have you read my piece in today's Tribune yet? . I am increasingly irritated that the state reports, day after day, regionwide metrics on new diagnoses, hospitalizations, etc. But there's no information on their progress on contact tracing.
Ugh. I suppose Biden never tried to contort himself into claiming he was "personally opposed" to abortion; Catholic voters were simply told to shut up and stop caring about abortion as an issue.
@mattyglesias
Do you understand that people who identify as pro-life believe that a) that which is growing in the uterus is a human being and as such ought not be killed and b) that to be killed is worse than to be fatherless? This is basic, isn’t it?
Hey, twitter, I'm currently drafting a follow-up article on the Illinois constitution. Should I just cut to the chase and title it "Beating a Dead Horse Into the Ground: More Historical Context on Illinois Pensions Than any Reader is Remotely Likely To Be Interested In"?
@MattWalshBlog
Simpler than that: if every girl demanded to be able to use a private changing room due to the lack of privacy in the locker rooms, they'd have to rethink their policies pretty quickly because of the disruption.
@mattyglesias
Other countries have the Abitur, the Bac, and the A levels (or whatever they’re called these days), which are far more determinative or college attendance than the SAT.
@neontaster
@jonathanchait
Ah, remember the days when it was bad to say "All Lives Matter" because it minimized the concern about the particular topic at hand?
I wasn't planning on yet another rant on Illinois pensions, but the report about Illinois' lack of funding for adult day services/group homes for the intellectually disabled really *&^!ed me off.
@McQuearyKristen
@John_Kass
@HashtagGriswold
Black Panther is the first superhero movie with a black lead that twentysomethings whose moviegoing memory starts with Marvel can remember.
If there's one thing we have all now learned, it's this: when the government announces a "temporary" closure, treat it as indefinitely closed, regardless of the reopening date they specify.
@Andrefor40th
The problem with this op-ed is that it is premised on the idea that "if only we care enough, we will find a way to solve the problem." In fact, "caring" is not sufficient to find the money, balance the budget, avoid burdening future Chicagoans with debt.
@DanProft
@MaryAnnAhernNBC
@chicagosmayor
One suspects she’s using the claim of “elevating minority journalists” when her motive is every bit as much getting (expected) friendlier interviewers.
Folks,
@chicagosmayor
says she wants "to have the conversation about what is driving the pension cost." Guess what? I'm here. I've got more excel tables than you can shake a stick at. Let's talk. .
@StatehouseChick
@AGHamilton29
Incidentally, the site is very popular with tourists, and not as a neo-Nazi destination but as a means of commemorating the Allied defeat of the Nazis.
@KyleHooten2
@pegobry
Don’t know if that’s better or worse than the response I just got: “sorry, but we have no records on achievement disparities whatsoever because we never keep anything.”
@AG_Conservative
You know, it's all well and good that her staffers (now) recognize that providing "economic security" for those "unwilling to work" is something that's not going to fly with the American public. But it's appalling that it ever even made it into a draft.
@ABC
Is it too much to ask for the news networks to call him out when he uses 10 years of taxes for 6 years of benefits (eg, the free childcare), leaving someone else to hike taxes or run deficits later?
I stayed up way too late compiling the D214 Illinois Report Card data, so please read it so that it will have been worthwhile. (Spoiler: scores are down even after a year back in school.) .
After spending all day doomscrolling, I find myself wishing I had asked my dad, while I still could, how he felt about the fall of Saigon as it was happening.
Folks, exactly what percent of the Illinois operating budget can we spend on pensions before we acknowledge it's not sustainable? .
@StatehouseChick
@John_Kass