My writing process is unusual. I aim to create a text that is identical in every respect to Cervantes's Don Quixote, while also being an original production of my own pen
'We pronounce their names one by one'
Cardinal Zuppi read out the names of every child who has died in the Gaza conflict during a prayer vigil on the Eve of the Assumption
The list was 469 pages long and took SEVEN HOURS to read
It included the Israeli children killed on October 7th and the 12,211 Palestinian children killed since
“They ask us all to commit ourselves to finding or pursuing the path to peace with greater intelligence and passion, starting with a ceasefire and offering the conditions for doing so, from the release of hostages to not taking an entire people hostage.”
(Nb: Obviously some teachers are just plain awful/not interested in improving, and accountability for bad teaching matters. That’s not what I’m talking about… tbh to teach AND pick up a second job, you really have to love your first one, bc it’s a lot of work. I’m sympathetic.
This is not a gotcha! These facts are related!! Teachers (in many cases) are not taught well how to teach, not given good tools to teach, and then compensated poorly for their teaching. This leaves little time for the kind of professional improvement (i.e. research…
…learning from actual evidence, or in the case of secondary ed, deep-diving into content) that would *actually* increase test scores and student ability. Man, I love my job and I really try my best, but do you know how much better I could be if I didn’t have to waitress too?
Omg does this mean at metlife tucker is going to play an entire thursday set and THEN become mcr’s authoritarian drummer boy for THEIR entire set… we are so blessed this year…
I’m so out of touch I automatically thought “tucker” was trending in the US bc of the tucker rule cameo in the long live the black parade seattle show which I was SO psyched to see and it was like for 45 beautiful seconds I forgot tucker carlson was a public figure
An pastor filmed as ICE agents arrested two of his church members. He told the agents that the Iranian couple was fleeing religious persecution. They're asylum-seekers, he said. "It doesn't matter," one of the agents replied. My latest for @CTmagazine https://t.co/mUDctHgvdY
Show this video to Zohran. A Cuban seeing Costco for the first time gets emotional witnessing the sheer abundance. People who’ve actually lived under socialism are often the most moved by what markets can create. Capitalism is a miracle, actually.