Scott Bailey

educator, chef, vanlife

[Alvin @Alvin1492840]

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[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

Australian billionaire Georgina Hope Rinehart wants to give free land to 'israelis' to manufacture autonomous drones and other military equipment.

Save yourselves NOW, Australians.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

this should be reposted repeatedly!

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

You see this kind of thing in struggling lower-income Southern households, and it tells a very specific story.
When life hasn't delivered much.... no wealth, no power, no real social standing.... some folks discover that white supremacy is basically a free membership card to a club that makes them feel superior without requiring any actual achievement.
It's the world's laziest status symbol.
The starter kit is always the same:
*A Confederate flag honoring a war their ancestors lost badly 160 years ago.
*A gun they'll never actually need.
*A Bible they've never actually read.
*And Fox News running 24/7 telling them they're REAL Americans.... unlike those fancy elitist Democrats who are secretly importing an army of replacement voters to steal their....
Their what exactly? Their Dollar General? Their 1987 Camaro on cinder blocks in the yard?
FOX found the formula, and they never let go of it: Take a man who has nothing, tell him the reason he has nothing is because those people are taking it.... and suddenly he's not a struggling nobody.
He's a soldier in a cultural war. He matters. He's relevant. He becomes a MAGA Warrior!
And THAT.... ladies and gentlemen.... is precisely how a twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, 34-time felon, bankrupt New York con man who golfs at his own resorts became the hero of the working man.
You genuinely cannot make this stuff up.
And I write this so that hopefully they will recognize what they have done and what they are doing and snap out of it.....
I was born and raised in Appalachia ... These very people could be my relatives ..... but ... I .... got common sense from my granny ----- "question everything". VIA~Lee Murphy

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The hardest thing to explain to someone inside the imperial consensus is the concept of structural violence.

They understand individual violence.

One person harms another person.

There is a perpetrator and a victim and a clear causal chain.

What they cannot see, what the entire educational and media apparatus has been carefully designed to prevent them from seeing, is the violence that happens when a system is arranged so that certain people predictably die, predictably suffer, predictably lose, not because any individual decided to harm them specifically but because the overall arrangement of power requires their subordination.

The people of the Global South do not die of poverty because individual Americans wish them dead.

They die because the international economic architecture, the terms of trade, the debt structures, the conditions attached to IMF loans, the intellectual property regimes that prevent technology transfer, the agricultural subsidies that undercut developing world farmers, is arranged, in aggregate, in a way that concentrates wealth in already wealthy countries and extracts it from already poor ones.

And that architecture was designed.

It was negotiated.

It was implemented by specific people in specific rooms making specific decisions about who would benefit and who would not.

This is violence.

It does not look like violence because no one is pulling a trigger.

But the deaths it produces are just as dead.

And when you try to explain this to someone whose entire identity rests on the belief that what they have they earned, and what others lack they failed to achieve, you are not making a political argument.

You are dismantling the story that makes their life make sense.

They will not thank you for it.

They will defend against it with everything they have.

Because the alternative, accepting that their comfort is downstream of other people's dispossession, is not a policy position.

It is an identity catastrophe.

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Here she goes again — kicking our most vulnerable to maintain the grievance and rage that appeals to her base. She’s back to Aboriginal people this week.
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Let’s fact-check the “$30 billion Aboriginal industry racket” claim, because it’s one of the most persistently dishonest figures in Australian political debate.
Of that $30 billion, 81% is mainstream expenditure — hospitals, schooling, welfare — available to all Australians. The Productivity Commission confirmed only $5.6 billion is Indigenous-specific funding. Not $30 billion. $5.6 billion.
And that $5.6 billion in targeted funding exists for exactly the same reason the government funds free bowel cancer screening for Australians over 45, free breast cancer screening for women over 50, and prostate cancer campaigns for men. Because when a specific group dies at catastrophically higher rates from preventable causes, you direct resources accordingly. That is not a racket. That is what taxes are for. It is the entire basis of preventive health policy in this country.
We don’t argue about those campaigns. Nobody calls BreastScreen a racket. Nobody demands prostate cancer funding be scrapped on the grounds that women don’t get it.
Apparently we only argue about it when it’s the colour of the prostate being examined. Or the colour of the breasts being screened.
The data on why Indigenous health funding exists is not subtle.
68% of deaths among Indigenous Australians are preventable. That is 2.3 times the rate of preventable deaths among non-Indigenous Australians. Indigenous Australians die from rheumatic heart disease at 20 times the rate of other Australians. In the Northern Territory, over 50 times. Indigenous children aged 5 to 15 are 55 times more likely to die from it than other Australian children. This is a disease effectively eliminated in the rest of Australia decades ago. It still kills children here. It is entirely preventable.
So here is the only question that matters: why are we having a public argument about the money being spent to prevent children dying, instead of the fact that children are dying?
There is only one answer. It is the colour of the children.
And even with that targeted spend, the funding still falls short of what need-based modelling requires. NACCHO and Equity Economics put the current annual health funding shortfall at $4.4 billion. The argument that this is too much money is being made while the actual problem is that it is not enough — and has never been enough.
Here is the deeper problem with calling it “Aboriginal money.” That label makes the spending visible and politically vulnerable in a way that mainstream funding never is. It gives politicians licence to frame an entire cultural identity as fraudulent — not a program, not a contractor, not a bureaucracy, but the people themselves. And it gives successive governments the cover to keep underfunding, because cutting “Aboriginal money” is easier to justify politically than cutting hospitals.
The racket framing does not follow the money. It follows the people.

[Scott Bailey @ScottBailey74]

@RomanMackinnon6 This is a parody account with a large following who know his schtick and play along for fun.

[Scott Bailey @ScottBailey74]

@xskinn It was Voltron for me.

[Scott Bailey @ScottBailey74]

@BenjaminMillar I’ve heard the same ridiculous argument made for the gig economy. ‘It’s not a real job, just a side hustle and therefore doesn’t deserve fair wages’. Whatever the job, workers deserve fair compensation.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK was released 43 years ago today. One of Hollywood’s most popular films and most acclaimed sequels, the making of story is as huge as you’d expect.

A THREAD

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[Scott Bailey @ScottBailey74]

@abcsport Agreed! Kennedy’s commentary was insightful and I found her tone personable and conversational and a pleasure to listen to.

[Marina Amaral @marinamaral2]

I present to you: the Abernathy kids, two boys from Oklahoma who, without adult supervision, took several cross-country trips in the US.

In 1910... /1

[Scott Bailey @ScottBailey74]

@bushman_25 @taity69 @CliffordPark_ @RadioTABAus @stevejoseph69 @michaelmaxworth Last two weeks I haven’t been able to find Taity’s tips either. Only found them this morning as a reply to your message so thank you for that.

[Scott Bailey @ScottBailey74]

@Anthonywodillon @GarrieIrons @Briggs You don’t think it’s a bit dismissive/insensitive? Imagine this “commonly used expression” being used to describe the Bali bombing victims, for example. There would be justified outrage.

[Scott Bailey @ScottBailey74]

@crikey_news @Sydney_Uni @madonnamking What a disappointing article. The author promotes a blend of ‘reefer madness’ and ‘just say no’ drug policies of ages past without acknowledging that it is the policy of prohibition that creates black markets, as prohibition always does. Vaping is #harmreduction

[Scott Bailey @ScottBailey74]

@HandNF @EGomez231 @AOC @nysci @QCHnyc Building a sand castle with a Pre K child involves concepts of gravity, measurement, volume, weight, buoyancy and motion. Children are natural scientists, the educator’s role in the early years is to promote a positive attitude towards science learning.

[Scott Bailey @ScottBailey74]

@HandNF @EGomez231 @AOC @nysci @QCHnyc I have created STEM experiences for 2-3 year olds with a bucket of water and some household items. What sinks and what floats? Children learn about trial and error experimentation, cause and effect, making observations, comparing, reasoning and hypothesising.

[Scott Bailey @ScottBailey74]

@HandNF @EGomez231 @AOC @nysci @QCHnyc https://t.co/BkPlmkmXvg
This paper summarises some of the findings of research into the benefits if Pre K education.