Dave Roberts

Instructional Leader. Learning Specialist. M Ed. Passionate about innovation in education, lifelong learning and student agency.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

Raf Epstein has assessed Karl's recent work as, and I quote, 'bullshit'.

And it's the most accurate take so far.

[Paradise Cove Resort @Paradise_Covefj]

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[Matthew Gertz @MattGertz]

Not a joke, this was happening all day yesterday.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Obama: Imagine if I had done any of this. Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. Imagine if I had said to law firms that were representing parties that were upset with policies my administration had initiated, that you will not be allowed into government buildings. We will punish you economically for dissenting from the Affordable Care Act or the Iran deal. We will ferret out students who protest against my policies.

It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me, or a whole bunch of my predecessors.

[Mike Madrid @madrid_mike]

The stock market is SO bad that FOX News took the ticker off of its screen for the first time in their 28 year history. Read that again.

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

For first time ever
(28 years)

Fox News just removed the stock market ticker from their broadcasts.

“Let’s not show them facts”

[Dylan Wiliam @dylanwiliam]

Quantitative evidence of the impact of teacher-student relationships on achievement is thin on the ground, so this paper on the positive benefits of "looping" (teaching the same class for more than one year) by @MatthewAKraft and colleagues is important: https://t.co/WbwvARAIqU

[Dave Roberts @DaveRobertsEdu]

@crippsszn @CollingwoodFC Pardon?

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Sen. @ChrisMurphyCT publishes a timeline of Trump's corruption.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

The American right isn’t conservative any longer.

They’re authoritarian.

They now share more in common with Putin’s Russia and Erdoğan’s Turkey than with any past American President.

Defeating the GOP is no longer a right vs. left paradigm—it’s democracy vs. autocracy.

[The okayest poster there is @ok_post_guy]

WaPo under Trump: "151,000 jobs is solid"

WaPo under Biden: "194,000 jobs is another weak month"

[Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated]

Treason.

[Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86]

This is the main problem with the post-truth online information ecosystem in a nutshell.

A MAGA user claimed last night that Democratic politicians "Blinken, Rice Nuland and Vindman" had a conference call with Zelensky on his flight to Washington and advised him to "stand strong" and be "tough" against Trump, which directly led to the argument with Trump and Vance in the Oval Office.

She cites no source or evidence for her claim and goes on to admit she was merely "speculating".

Three hours later, another MAGA users rehashes that claim, saying "rumour has it" that those four Democrats did this and therefore violated the Logan Act.

Again, no evidence is provided for this claim at all, but the tweet goes viral.

This morning, major MAGA user amuse with 560,000 followers tweets the same claim as a news story, this time saying Obama was also directly involved and Zelensky was told to reject the minerals deal.

Once again, zero source or evidence is provided by amuse, but the tweet racks up 1.7 million views.

Finally this morning, Trump's envoy Richard Grenell shares the same claim, saying it's "very serious", meaning this claim has now reached the president's senior aides.

At no point throughout this entire cycle has any of these users bothered to simply ask: "Is there any source or evidence for this?"

And now, millions of people likely believe this is true. That Zelensky, on the advice of senior Democrats, scuppered the minerals deal and got into an argument with Trumo and Vance.

There's still no source or avidence that this actually happened. But evidence no longer seems to matter in the post-truth online information ecosystem.

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

Make sure you cancel those 107 unused photoshop licenses!

Definitely don't look into the 100 billion of oil industry subsidies. Or the 7 failed pentagon audits.

@DOGE could save more money by just eliminating itself at this point.

[7/11 Truther @DaveMcNamee3000]

Not really. The kid under JFKs desk wasn’t his weird friend’s son

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

yes because… it’s not

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Joe Biden was right about everything and all the media could talk about was his age.

The press failed this nation.

[That Gay Guy Candle Co. 🇺🇸 @gayguycandleco]

I was told I was fearmongering.