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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 2h

This sounds like elite college admissions in a post affirmative-action world, too.

I helped with an admissions essay for a student who was trafficked as a young child. They already had straight A’s, activities, top test scores, but had to pour out their trauma to get a better shot at getting in.

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 4h

Milwaukee isn’t playing it

www.wisn.com/article/milw...

Milwaukee Mitchell airport not playing DHS video blaming democrats for government shutdown

Milwaukee Mitchell Airport is not playing a video from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the government shutdown

www.wisn.com

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 5h

I’m 50 now and definitely, the older I got the more I grew into it.

Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 14h

Even assuming for argument sake that No Kings/50501/etc. has no tangible political success and won't, things are pretty miserable and being in a group of like-minded people is a good antidote to misery. Shouldn't that count for something?

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 15h

I'm coming back from a conference in the Dells--I might hit up Baraboo or Madison depending on timing. (I likely won't be back in time for Milwaukee.)

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 16h

Ooh and mine!

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 17h

I could probably name about half of the counties in Wisconsin (again, my job) and maybe 10 in Illinois (mostly from traffic reports from the 1980s)

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 17h

I did not grow up in Wisconsin but I know it has 72 counties because it comes up a lot in my job. (All together now: 1,850 municipalities + 72 counties = 1,922 election officials.)

I did grow up in Illinois but I have no idea how many counties it has because why would I need that information?

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 17h

"What about their ancestors' recipes and letters?" Putting aside the fact that at this point most of these things are perfectly legible on computers or illegible to any reader on old recipe cards, my ancestors' writings are in Yiddish and if I want to read them, I have to learn or pay someone.

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 17h

"How can they read the founding documents of our country?" The same way I do--in books and online. You can see the originals at the National Archives but they're faded, and the script used is illegible to most modern readers.

Photo of the U.S. constitution, in its original script, with the preamble fairly readable and the text of Article I, not so much.

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 18h

ah yes, back to when kids had to memorize the names of 72 counties in (alphabetical? west to east then north to south?) order, school focused on what truly mattered

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 18h

1952

Editor, Press and Enterprise: Let's return to the good old days when children were really taught to read, to write, to spell, taught arithmetic and grammar. Back to the days when pupils could name the boundaries of their states, when they could name every county in their own state in order. That is, some of the bright ones of good memory could do such.
--Riverside Daily Press, 21 Jun 1952

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 21h

They are getting the "oh they're young dumb kids, it's locker room talk" treatment, but they are actual whole adults in leadership positions

And also, yes, some young dumb kids say pretty horrible things, and it's the adults' job to nip that in the bud so they're not thinking those things at 25

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 21h

Did you know that membership in Young Republicans goes up to 40? These aren't high school sophomores looking to shock.

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 1d

In the last few years, I have been the adultiest adult in the room (in the state, really) at times at my job, and it's very jarring

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 1d

I have always been 40 years old, to the point that a camp counselor once took me aside and tried to figure out why I was how I was. She thought it had to be some sort of trauma response, but I had a pretty model childhood. It was just constitutional.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 1d

3. How old is your inner child?

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 1d

The quoted image does not have alt text but it is a cover of the book "Life, Law & Liberty: A Memoir" by Justice Anthony Kennedy

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 1d

This is the weirdest throw pillow ever

Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 1d

In the mail, AMK’s new book.
www.amazon.com/Life-Law-Ear...

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 1d

In Milwaukee, it's Miller Park (some even say County Stadium even though that was torn down 25 years ago)

My child who is 15 and born a year after the name change and never lived in Illinois calls that big building in Chicago the Sears Tower

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 1d

It was Captain Underpants for my kid, too

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 1d

Who was hot boxing in the elevator at work today? Jeez.

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 2d

Ahhh yes I know that song

It's on the album, "Can You Believe They Went To Brunch Right After The Rally"

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 2d

What on earth is “true organizing?”

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 2d

Yes!

Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 2d

This skeet is brought to you by the mom of a kid who didn't really read until second grade and then took off with Captain Underpants

I later learned he could actually read OK but didn't want to deal with the boring "leveled readers" so he just...didn't

He is 15 and still somewhat ungovernable

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 2d

Fart jokes get some kids reading, so give them fart jokes

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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