By framing what should be a reputation and legacy destroying (and likely criminal investigation in inciting) revelation an obstacle to overcome, it allows people who would like to ignore the whole thing do so, not as part of a grotesque moral failure, but as a part of a grand redemptive triumph.

As more people are uninsured, they will turn to county funded behavioral health, public health, or emergency response for care. Sheriff's deputies will see an increase in the number of mental health crisis calls and long transports to Winnebago.

Meanwhile, the top 1% of earners get $1T in tax benefits. This is the real tragedy of HR1 - regular people shoulder deep cuts that take food off tables, strain our public health nurses, and threaten our nursing homes so that the wealthiest people in our country can get showered with benefits.

Her books was a reference for the UC folks, but wasn’t it more…Laura Shanley?

This article, while wild, doesn’t pull back far enough. This was all over crunchy message boards in the early 2000s and I’m sure it goes further back than that. Same thing with anything MAGA. I was in unique online spaces, maybe, but it is wild to me how much this stuff was talked about then.

Yes, and this is the logical conclusion of his theology. It’s the sort of “everyone does it so integrity and ethics don’t matter if you’re on our team“ post-modern BS everyone at Bible college a quarter century ago were hyperventilating about.

Human bodies are wild and frankly really annoying.

That's the things that the US populace hasn't yet grasped.

A medical system that lets you take care of the little things w/o fear of financial oblivion leads to a healthier population AND far lower medical costs in the long-run.

Louder for those in the back. It’s part of your total compensation!

That’s horrifying and a lot to live with as a memory that takes up space in your brain. I hope that you have found more than…that.

And this is how my sister and I ended up joining a local org.

For me it’s less a book, but rather the sheer joy of watching a project I set out on 16 years ago…making my kids into readers who love reading…not just succeed, but made them into who they are today. I love how much all of the reading we did/authors we loved became such a big part of their lives.

There are certain fights that you need to either never pick in the first place or be certain you're willing to see all the way through.

The shutdown was one of them.

My counter here is that it seems you have overly focused on the phonics piece evidenced by your framing of phonics as “drilling to death,” focused on the NAEP, and let that carry your argument. Neurotypical students are also the subject. Reading comprehension…wild!

…did you actually read the report that was linked? Because that’s actually what it gets to towards the end. “Adams thought this diagram made perfect sense. The research clearly shows that readers use all of these cues to understand what they're reading.”