Terrorist kills 8 more people in a Texas mass murder & injures 7 more.

This is the 126th day and 199th mass shooting of 2023. That’s a mass shooting every 15 hours. In total, 14,600 gun violence deaths…so far in 2023.

We don’t have to live like this.💔
https://apnews.com/article/shooting-outlet-mall-allen-texas-a5148bc28d78c69ba0c59967427a2f85

I visited my grandparents’ today to scope out some furniture for the house. We left with no chairs, but I did find some neat old books, including this family Bible from 1840.

Dividing the New and Old Testaments were some contemporaneous family records keeping track of births, marriages, and deaths, as was the custom in those days. #genealogy #Books #Bookstodon #FamilyBibles

From Scientific American: We don't rely on randomized trials for seat belts or parachutes, so why are some people cherry-picking bad data from bad trials to discount the obvious and longstanding benefits of masks?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/masks-work-distorting-science-to-dispute-the-evidence-doesnt/

You already know the answer...

It’s always better to decline to take on additional tasks when you’re overworked over taking them on and doing a bad job.

Come performance review season, you’re judged more harshly for a failed project than for not stepping up when asked. This isn’t the season for failed heroics

Authoritarian control of education is indoctrination, any way you cut the cake. Putting your own unqualified political take on where students and teachers may tread in the pursuit of knowledge is denying their right to obtaining such knowledge. But then again, an undereducated population is the perfect ally of people like Ron DeSantis who want to rule not serve.

Key driver of fascism.

Opinion- Ron DeSantis shows how not to run an education system-
https://wapo.st/3y6A3Fj