Margaret Thornton

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

It’s so rich to hear that Bluesky is bubble, etc. when the other place looks like this.

Big if around here, I’m afraid.

I’d be interested to know if there is any empirical evidence for this claim because speaking from personal experience, the thing that (mostly) kept me from staying was a lack of jobs.

Too much too quickly! This isn’t even helpful for the plants.

I really needed this reminder today. Thank you!

A political project that believes that your enemies also deserve living wages, food, healthcare, clean air and water, leisure time, etc is always going to be an uphill battle.

I kind of forgot those were a thing, and it's not been a great transition back to them!

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

This story has something for everybody: school privatization, class aspirations and telegraphing, the feminization of educational work, the rewiring of childhood, public transit and the lack thereof, and, of course, our American way of racism.

Bless their hearts.

This one seems among the least ominous to me!

I think about that and also the 30-40 feral pigs…too often.

Yeah, that all makes sense. I guess I was thinking about the disease itself or even public health measure. Thanks for explaining!

Can you say more about people being enraged about COVID because wouldn’t that have been a 2020 issue? I’m genuinely curious!

RIP Google Reader

#homesicknesscontent

A picture of a book called Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs by Benjamin Herold

Picked up some light reading ahead of our family’s impending move to the ‘burbs.

Education, in all of its forms, is such a radical act these days, and it's radical because it holds to the belief that the human mind is an incredible thing.

Please, Zohran, do not threaten me with a good time.

It’s interesting and important that the Epstein stuff is gaining traction, but it is also interesting and terrifying that no news at all is the third most populate choice!

Inside the whites-only settlement in Arkansas: The group building a 'fortress for the white race' Inside the whites-only settlement in Arkansas: The group building a 'fortress for the white race'

I do not think this is a dying movement, and we assume it is at our peril. news.sky.com/story/inside...

I feel like I am taking crazy pills.

If people want to analyze the 2024 election to figure out what we can do better next time or even how we might hurt the GOP now, I think that’s great. If people want to bash a Black-Asian woman who stepped up when her country needed her to prove they are the smartest, I think that’s gross.

Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis

Between Musk & the Trump administration, Media Matters has been squeezed to the brink. In settlement discussions, lawyers for X demanded the organization hand over all its cash and shut down — all because MM reported ads appeared on X next to antisemitic content. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...

Yes.

By ratting on Jesse Ventura's unionization efforts, Hulk Hogan denied all of his coworkers, and generations of performers who came after him, insurance and a retirement fund, and in that, shares in responsibility for the early deaths of several other wrestlers.

Reminder: The students at Columbia protesting against the War in Gaza, Israel's war crimes in Gaza, US support for Israel in Gaza, and for the rights of the Palestinian people were actually on the right side of the issue. Seems to be getting lost in all these stories.

"The “crisis” doesn’t seem to be that boys are doing particularly poorly of late. It seems to be that girls are finally being rewarded in the form of college attainment and more equal pay for their efforts." 🔔🔔🔔

What is the saying? When you’ve only known privilege then equality feels like oppression?