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Jon Becker

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Education professor. School Law. Ed tech. Pickleball doer.


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Too soon

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Canada, wyd?

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Why am I a #Yankees fan? Sigh.

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I am going to root for Canada tonight in their Copa America match tonight since I may need to move there next year.

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This ABC interview ain't it.

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Quantitative literacy means, among other things, that just saying Covid cases are up X% without offering a baseline is unhelpful.

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Nil - Nil

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I remain incapable of watching France play soccer without singing a Hanson song. #Mmbop

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Happy Germany

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I see you, Frances Tiafoe.

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#PairedTexts

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This is the real birthday to celebrate today.

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Did you ever read this Grantland piece?

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I have very hazy memories of it. I feel fairly confident that Ken "The Animal" Bannister was there.

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(... I don’t think "I can't work that hard..." is a great message from the POTUS, tbh...)

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Wow. I was at the game in 1988.

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Same, Joe, same.

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Have they been listening to The Humpty Dance? "My nose is big, uh-uh I'm not ashamed. Big like a pickle, I'm still gettin' paid..."

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(I kept a few of the jalapeño seeds, just to feel something.)

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Can I interest you in some homemade mango salsa?

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Not voting is pretty dumb; writing a shitty piece of rhetoric in support of that decision in the NYT is dumber.

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too soon?

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I guess we should celebrate our freedom and independence from the tyranny of a king this one last time...

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And he's a pitcher on my fantasy team. Damn you!

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Hey @bencollins.bsky.social , please confirm that this is not The Onion.

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Read the room, supply chain.

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Have you stepped outside recently?

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All of these judges don't want to allow the Bostock case where SCOTUS held that the "because of sex" language includes gender identity for Title VII purposes to also apply to Title IX. That SCOTUS decision was written by noted liberal judge... John Roberts.

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We are having all of 3 guests over tomorrow and I am preparing a FEAST (because I am bored).

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I just bought a 2.5 lb flank steak 😬

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Guh. I am, though, staring at my grill and considering possibilities...

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You went to the library to read? How quaint.

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I just downloaded Chain Gang All-Stars. Read it yet?

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The drum beat is pretty loud. He seems to not hear it, though. (Unless, as you suggest, this is what he has to say even if he knows he is stepping away. But, that feels unlikely to me).

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How about this?

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I sort of decided to take the rest of the week off from work, but now i find myself wondering what to do and just doomscrolling. I need a hobby.

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🤔

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Looks like all The Atlantic writers are lining up on Team Joe Must Go. Even Adam Serwer. Hmm...

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I know; I gave them some names ;)

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OK, who wants to be my Dean?
provost.vcu.edu/about/search...

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Fuck it, I'm being Reviewer #2 today.

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Thank you!

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I am having trouble access this, even through my university library. Is anyone able to share a pdf of this article? TIA.
marketbrief.edweek.org/sales-market...

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the key for me is the involvement of the military. Serving as the Commander-in-Chief is a "core responsibility" so gets absolute immunity, according to the Roberts standard.

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I would like to go on the record with this: *I am 100% Team Biden. *In the (maybe increasingly likely?) scenario that Kamala Harris is the nominee, I will be 100% Team Harris.

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I think the "POTUS orders the military to assassinate his political rival" example is probably too absurd for some. Try "POTUS orders the military to round up anyone who immigrated to this country in the last X years..." Ask your conservative friends/family if they're OK with that.

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yes; it gives the buyer/reader a sense of both the content and tone of the book.

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one of my faves bookshop.org/p/books/cutt...

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I guess I remain surprised that John Roberts wrote the presidential immunity decision that he wrote. ACB gave him a semi-reasonable, semi-respectable path, but he chose to go with the boys.

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School Leadership 2.0 is an online community for K-12 school leaders. It has been around for... decades? And it's built on Ning, which I thought went out of business... decades ago? schoolleadership20.com

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