Unofficially Tracie Cantu

It’s been said that everyone should work a service job for a year after high school, and I think that’s true but I think it should be a five-year plan including…

- living in another country for a year
- caring for the elderly for a year
- teaching for a year
- surviving as an artist for a year

Black people have been asking this question for a very long time.

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We don't have the talent! Our nation has let its education system be defunded a little bit more each budget cycle for the past 40 years.

Damn it! Now that song will be stuck in my head for days! And let me tell you people at the grocery store really cast some side eye when ya sing that one up and down the aisles.

Imagine being a political party and not immediately getting on every outlet possible to scream about how the opposition party just got a show with 1.6 million viewers canceled because a president with a 30% approval rating didn't like it.

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair with his hands in the air Alt: Obama is sitting in a chair, gesturing with his hands outwards with palms upraised, a giving shrug, and a head turn that conveys WTH?!?

Well, that was a new one - I wrote overdue and spell check changed it to ovaries. That would have been a really F'd up business email.

Hey if the witches were thinking about maybe gathering in the wood at all, now would be a good time 🤞

No. F#ck heroic. Don't romanticize this. We allow our kids to be killed because our country values the 2nd amendment more than a life itself.

Don’t outsource confusion.

Before you outsource, name the constraint: Capacity/skill/churn/speed/compliance/ETC.

Act strategically, not reactively. Learn more from @thetraciecantu.bsky.social on Modern Learning on the Air.

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#learninganddevelopment #outsourcing

Fiction: Rivers of London Series by Ben Aaronovitch
Non-fiction: "Whose Middle Ages? Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past." and "A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Spy Who Helped Win World War II"

Americans spend less time reading for fun and more time on screens: Study Fewer Americans are opening a book for fun each day, with reading for pleasure in the U.S. down 40% over the past 20 years, a new study published Wednesday found.

In response to this, name the last book that you read that you would recommend.

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So the freshman has debilitating social anxiety, to the point she had to do all of 8th grade online last year.

We thought things had gotten better with medication and some therapy.

Day 2 of high school in a new state just showed us how deluded us parents were.

In the original box too!

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally:

The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark...

Anyways, AIDS is going to be gone soon, this is a generic with FDA full approval.

Public media is under threat. Millions depend on the NPR Network every day. Silencing journalism is one way to silence truth and erode the power of the people.

Today, President Trump signed a bill into law that will eliminate $1.1B of federal funding for public media. This devastating act tipped the threat against journalism in America into a crisis.

Millions depend on the NPR Network. Now, we’re counting on you.

Donate here: n.pr/458sOhq

Both of my kiddos are now in high school, and I keep telling them to try any of the hands on career classes they are interested in. Culinary? Sure! Cosmetology? Yep. Mortuary Science? Hell yeah. Automotive? Damn right.

All are pretty AI proof, and worst case scenario they learn more skills.

One of the delights of the Internet these past few days is following @erininthemorning.com as she shares her and her wife Zoey's honeymoon adventures in France.
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300,000 Black women have left the labor force in 3 months. It’s not a coincidence. For decades, the public sector has been a lifeline for Black women shut out of economic opportunity. It’s no surprise that Trump's federal downsizing targeted them first, explains gender economist Kat...

“This isn’t a coincidence. It’s the result of federal policy choices — most immediately, sweeping job cuts across public-sector agencies where Black women have long held the strongest foothold in middle-class employment.”

One reason I can't get exorcised about the defunding of PBS is because it would take 4 rich Liberals 6 months to raise enough to cover the funding cut. They should do that. Yes I subscribe already but Liberal elites should fucking make themselves useful.

There is nothing more punk rock in the world than empathy and kindness.

You will never convince me otherwise.

Subject: Media inquiry — Hot dogs Hi Marjorie, Last night Congressman Gill posted on X "Civilized people in America don't eat like this. If you refuse to adopt Western customs, go back to the Third World," in reference to New York Democratic Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani eating with his hands. I have a couple of questions about this post: Is the Congressman saying that Americans cannot use their hands to consume food or else they'll be perceived as outsiders? Does Rep. Gill eat a hot dog using a fork and knife? How about a hamburger? Ribs? Corn? Pizza? Is Mamdani's use of his hands considered not "civilized" specifically because of the type of food he's eating and the food/his family's country of origin?  If you could explicitly spell out what Rep. Gill is saying here, that would be helpful. Thank you,

I just sent this to Rep. Brandon Gill's communications director:

screenshot of a Facebook post by Corey Robin, which says: "By the way, did you all notice how Zohran made affordability a central issue of his campaign without selling out trans kids or shitting on immigrants? Might be some lessons there. Just a thought."

he's right and he's right to say it

It’s weird that the only time a Democratic consultant enters my feed, it’s because they’re mad that a Democrat got voters excited and won an election.

Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

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Notion or Confluence? Or would something like BaseCamp do the same?

100 fucking percent this!

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”

They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

Not interested in any small talk other than “would you like some chips and salsa while you wait?”