"The facts involving Trump are crystal clear, and as news people, we cannot pretend otherwise, as unpopular as that might be with a segment of our readers. There aren’t two sides to facts. People who say the earth is flat don’t get space on our platforms. If that offends them, so be it."

~ Chris Quinn, editor of Cleveland's Plain Dealer

#Trump #BigLie #disinformation #democracy #media

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03/our-trump-reporting-upsets-some-readers-but-there-arent-two-sides-to-facts-letter-from-the-editor.html

END THE WOLF HUNTS

It's illegal to hunt and kill a #wolf in #Yellowstone National Park.

But it isn't illegal to lure a wolf across the park's invisible, man-made boundary with bait, or by playing recordings of howling #wolves.

Two years ago, one in five of Yellowstone's wolves were killed when they unknowingly strayed into the wrong part of #Montana. It was the worst #hunting season on record for them.

1/3

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/03/04/yellowstone-wolves-hunting/

Huddle up.

We gotta get word out to teachers that Skype a Scientist is a FREE program that matches their classrooms with scientists.

During recruitment season we try to make sure we hit every US State. We're in 40 so far!

Here's where we DON'T have classrooms yet this fall:
AL
AR
ME
MT
NH
NM
ND
SD
UT
WY

Spread the word!
https://www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

#SciTeach #SciEd #Education #EdTech

Stop scrolling for a second. Give me your full attention.

Are your shoulders tense? Take a breath and let them drop.

Is your jaw clenched? Release it and take a breath

You see where I'm going with this.

Unclench, breathe, get up, and move around.

Carry on 😉

if you (like me) missed the whole alabama thing, here's an explainer with links

"The video also gives us all a sense of catharsis. We’ve seen so many viral videos of Black people getting beaten up or killed. Here’s one where things went the way they would if we were writing the script."

https://thegrio.com/2023/08/07/why-the-montgomery-riverfront-uprising-is-making-black-people-so-damn-happy/

Can't see too much of the window but hopefully this still counts for #FensterFreitag

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon

You may have heard that Houston schools plan to convert libraries to disciplinary centers and fire the librarians.

What you may not have heard is that the State of Texas took over the Houston school district and installed its own superintendent.

That's the guy who is closing libraries. This is not something local residents want, and the superintendent is not locally accountable,

#txpol #texas #houston #library #libraries