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[Covie @covie_93]

So trump can go to a knicks game on a Monday but not his son's wedding on a weekend???

[Epstein File Search @epsteinsearchin]

Nancy Mace was one of four Republicans to sign the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.

She says she lost an endorsement specifically because of it.

Four signed. The rest are still collecting those endorsements.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Trump: I sabotaged the bipartisan deal to secure the border because “it made it much better for the opposing side”. (2024)

[CBS News @CBSNews]

At least 12 people were shot on Saturday near a festival in Toledo, Ohio, authorities said. Two of the victims are in critical condition.

Authorities believe there may have been multiple shooters, but there are no suspects in custody as of Saturday night.

"It appears as though there were at least two shooters, I think they were probably shooting at each other," Toledo Deputy Police Chief Joe Heffernan said during a briefing.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Iran’s World Cup squad has been notified they must enter and leave US soil on the same day of their matches played in America, says Tehran’s ambassador to Mexico.

[LilliV @LilliVGirl]

We talk endlessly about the student being removed. We rarely talk about the thirty who stayed and what they lost. They matter too.

[Jen @jenteach13]

You want to fix education?

Fix #4: Let teachers remove disruptive students.

Let me break down Fix #4.
This is the fix that makes people uncomfortable because it sounds like giving up on a child. It is not. It is recognizing that a classroom is not a one-person environment and that what we allow one student to do to thirty others is a choice with consequences for every kid in that room. The student who flips desks, screams at the teacher, refuses every redirection, and makes it impossible for anyone else to focus is not being served by staying. Neither is anyone around him. Keeping him in the room does not help him. It just makes sure everyone loses together.

What does it mean in practice?
It means a teacher has the authority to remove a student who is actively disrupting the learning of everyone else without having to justify it to three administrators, fill out four forms, and wait for a response that may never come. It means the removed student goes somewhere with an adult who can address what is actually happening with him, not to a hallway to sit unsupervised until the period ends. It means the thirty students who were trying to learn get the class back. It means the teacher does not have to choose between managing one student's behavior and teaching everyone else, because right now that choice is made for her every single day, and it never goes in the classroom's favor.

How does this help kids?
Every minute spent managing a student who has refused every available intervention is a minute not spent teaching. Multiply that by a class period. Multiply that by a semester. The kids who came ready to learn, who needed that instruction, who deserved that teacher's full attention, paid for every one of those minutes with their education. We talk endlessly about the student being removed. We rarely talk about the thirty who stayed and what they lost. They matter too. Their time matters too. Their right to learn in a room where learning is possible matters too.

How do we make this happen?
We need discipline policies that give teachers real authority instead of the appearance of authority. We need administrators who back removal decisions instead of sending the student right back to the same room twenty minutes later with no intervention in between. We need alternative settings that are staffed and resourced to actually address what is driving the behavior, because removal without support is not a solution. It is a delay. We need to stop treating every removal as a civil rights violation and start treating the disruption of thirty students' education as one, too. And we need to be honest about what the current system communicates to every student in that room when nothing happens. It tells them that the adults are not in charge. Once they know that, you have lost the room.

The goal is not to discard any child. The goal is to make sure that getting help for one student does not come at the cost of an education for thirty others.
You want to fix education?

#YouWantToFixEducation

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Under the Trump administration, efforts to address deep-rooted inequities for Black students are being cast as discriminatory against white students https://t.co/asZMltaQOX

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

ABC and CBS paid Trump.
NBC gave to his ballroom.
Scott Pelley took a stand and was fired.
CNN is next.

Trump sued me. I fought and won. brought to Democracy Docket is fearlessly independent and always pro-democracy. Help it grow by subscribing now. https://t.co/0StGlWz45f

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Breaking NYT:

Trump just pardoned Stephen E. Buyer, a former Republican representative from Indiana who was convicted of insider trading in 2023. https://t.co/k4fOt4Zi1A

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Republican CEO Carlos Watson stole $36 million from investors.

Trump commuted his sentence, allowing Watson to keep all the funds he stole.

[Epstein File Search @epsteinsearchin]

"Where are those videotapes the FBI confiscated from Epstein's houses?"

Virginia Giuffre wrote that before she died. On Monday, Congress read her words to the man who controls three million unreleased Epstein files.

He offered no answer.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

Everything I’m about to say is a fact:

8 of the last 9 recessions were preceded by an oil price shock.

7 of the last 8 recessions happened under a Republican president.

Today, we have both.

[Kevin W. @Brink_Thinker]

New Jersey school has required every freshman to hike 55 miles on the Appalachian Trail for 53 years straight.

At St. Benedict’s Prep in Newark, this isn’t optional — it’s a mandatory 5-day rite of passage before becoming a sophomore.

Many students have never hiked or camped before. They train together in the spring, then get split into small teams where each kid gets a critical role: navigator, medic, cook, captain, etc. No one knows everything — they must rely on each other.

With minimal adult supervision, they hike rain or shine, facing blisters, sore muscles, and real challenges head-on. As one administrator put it: “The only way we can get through this is if we work together.”

The result? Teens who return more confident, resilient, and bonded — proving that real growth happens when you step away from screens and into the wilderness.

What an incredible tradition! Parents, educators, and anyone raising tough kids — this is gold.

Who else believes we need more experiences like this?

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

The Pentagon has raised its assessment of an Israeli espionage threat against the United States to its highest level, per Al Jazeera

[Covie @covie_93]

Susan Collins is one of the main reasons why a girl born today will have fewer reproductive rights than her grandmother.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 🔥 MAJOR JUST IN: The Albania Story Just Escalated.

The country’s anti-corruption prosecutors have reportedly frozen bank accounts connected to the controversial $1.4 billion Kushner-linked luxury resort project on Sazan Island and the Vjosa-Narta wetlands.

That’s a significant development.

When prosecutors start freezing assets, the story is no longer just about a real estate project.

It’s about whether the approvals, land transfers, and money behind the deal can withstand scrutiny.

And in Albania, that scrutiny is only getting more intense.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Scientists across the country are expressing alarm as the Trump administration dismantles another tool for understanding how the planet is changing.

Starting this month, more than 900 deep-sea ocean sensors will be pulled out of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans off the coast of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, North Carolina, and Greenland.

Researchers say these are critical ocean observation tools.

William Brangham (@WmBrangham) explains.

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

Thomas Massie says the conspiracy theorists were right again about Section 224 of the NDAA, which he says will merge the United States military with the IDF.

Massie says the provision is treasonous and warns that it will force the United States to compromise its own security for Benjamin Netanyahu's demands.

"The difference between a conspiracy theory in Washington has been reduced from six months to six days."

[Acyn @Acyn]

Jeffries: He’s trying to make the Kennedy Center about himself. He has to make the America 250 celebration about himself. He’s got to make the World Cup about himself. He’s got to make the East Wing of the White House about himself. And now he wants to make this historic Knicks championship run about himself as well.

Get lost. Doesn’t this guy have better things to do? Yes, he does. How about trying to turn around the economy that you are destroying in real time?

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Rep Madeleine Dean: “…I said to him, Mr Acting Attorney-General [Todd Blanche], when are you going to prosecute? So far we have one dead guy [#Epstein] and one woman in a Summer Camp [Ghislaine Maxwell]. When are you going to prosecute those who victimized, trafficked, abused, raped girls and women, more than a thousand of them? He blamed the victims. He said they really haven’t come forward with the names…right then I knew the coverup was complete.”😳