Alfie Kohn

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

mock-up of NYT front page for November 11, 1938 with famous photo of gutted Berlin synagogue and headline that reads "Conservatives' Use of Unorthodox Political Tactics Raises Concerns Among Some Observers"

This is how I imagine today's NY Times would have covered Kristillnacht

[Louis XIV 1655]

More to the point: "So you're saying that anything Trump orders is legal just because *he* ordered it?"

mock-up of NYT front page for November 11, 1938 with famous photo of gutted Berlin synagogue and headline that reads "Conservatives' Use of Unorthodox Political Tactics Raises Concerns Among Some Observers"

This is how I imagine today's NY Times would have covered Kristillnacht

Right after insisting all of the president's orders to the military are lawful, she notes that the president is going to continue to order the military to assassinate innocent fishermen in international waters.

Afterthought: How many other authors have at some point been tempted to write a follow-up book with that title?

And how many others *should* have written such a book?

Cover of book by Terry Martin Hekker, which is entitled "Disregard First Book"

Gleaned from an unusually entertaining obit:

1979: Mrs. Terry Martin Hekker publishes an antifeminist book: "Ever Since Adam & Eve: The Satisfactions of Housewifery & Motherhood in the Age of Do-Your-Own-Thing."

1996: Her husband leaves her for a younger woman.

2009: She publishes a second book:

yes, but they're *magic* soybeans

Exactly. Next they'll probably get a woman to play the lead in a biopic of the novelist George Eliot

ICYMI: The Fundamental Attribution Error says we overstate the impact of indiv characteristics (talent, effort, beliefs) & minimize how social context shapes what we do & who we are. So what does that mean for education? Listen to "It's Not About You," the latest episode of Kohn's Zone: is.gd/JiaK2w

Ah, I see where the confusion lies. Mamdani is "antisemitic" in the other usage of the word - viz., "critical of Israel's policy of bombing hospitals and schools"

Credibility restored.

This may be more developmental than political. To reach middle age is to realize that Kafka was a realist.

YouTube video by bondclips Goldfinger - Welcome to Miami beach...!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kjp...

I don't want to say he's a control freak, but he appeared on a subreddit for a session called "Ask Me One of These Two Things."

Lego figure resembling Trump, with "Lego" logo altered to say "PEDO"

Just a reminder, “Epstein” is the name of the sex trafficker.

The president is called “Epstein’s monster.”

Even Northern freakin' Ireland is moving away from religious indoctrination in public schools, finally acknowledging that democracy requires a wall between church and state - while in the U.S., the MAGA GOP blithely tries to drag us backward: tinyurl.com/2jfdwh9j

"Ask your doctor if Zohranos might be right for you"

White House spokesperson K. Leavitt: "They're encouraging service members not to follow lawful orders!" Reporter: "They're talking about illegal orders." Leavitt: "Every order the president gives is lawful." Commenter: "This is how authoritarianism gets laundered: declare every command legal by default, then attack anyone who questions it."

tl;dr
With Miller, Vought, and the other henchmen, it's ideological.
With Trump, it's psychiatric.

Re triumphant proclamations that Trump's approval numbers are now in the high 30s:
1) So almost 2 of every 5 Americans are STILL cheering him on? Horrifying.
2) As Jason Stanley notes, his "regime has decided it has enough of the levers of power that they don’t need to have public support anymore."

AI Toys Advisory - Fairplay

I was happy to add my name to this campaign by the group Fairplay (formerly Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood) that offers parents five reasons to stay away from AI toys: fairplayforkids.org/pf/aitoyadvi....
Feel free to spread it around.

Damon focused on the panel discussion with Serious People (including Secretary of State George Shultz) that followed the movie. "They all said we were building nuclear bombs so they wouldn't be used. That is so stupid!"

Freudian slip. Trump and his sycophants believe that any orders he issues are lawful just because he issues them.

Seems like the best we can hope for at this point is to get the regime's victims exonerated and released, one at a time. Holding the regime's agents accountable appears to be too much to hope for, at least for now. *sigh*

"I got picked on in school
I never felt that cool
There's a hole in my soul that just rages.
All the ladies turned me down
I felt like a clown
Will you look at me now
I'm puttin' folks in cages
At ICE...
There's a signin' bonus of 50 grand
They're in need of you needin' to feel like a man
Join ICE"

Interesting that the ad doesn't specify what constitutes an illegal order or draw any connection to examples of the Trump regime's present (or possible future) conduct.

As a young freelance writer, I sampled reactions to the program among Cambridge, MA residents, including a 13-year-old named Matt Damon.