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Nabs is right, charter schools are quasi-public, quasi-private schools. They're funded through public schools dollars, but they're unrestricted by all the obligations real public schools have (ex. teachers' union contracts, a legal obligation to teach kids). So for example, they can cut labor costs that real public schools can't, and they can kick out all the poor-performing students to goose their numbers. They can be an outlet for high achieving students in truly struggling districts, but it's basically to the detriment of everyone else in the system.
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UnevenEdge Update: Forum Restructuring & Future Plans
Raptorpat replied to Raptorpat's topic in UEMB.com Community Discussion
I'm testing plugging the main community clubs right into the forum list for convenience. Can you screencap what it looks like when you click on it, for science? -
Using the outdoors seems nice when I'm stuck indoors, but my old-lady-palace was so overgrown that once I'm out there working in futility on reclaiming it I just kinda give up after a while. Protip: don't plant an aesthetically pleasing plant if it also happens to be an incredibly invasive vine with roots and shoots that span the entire property, because once you let it go it's already too late.
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In targeted races, yeah. But I don't believe the Dems were running any adds against her in her race. There'd be no point because there are like ten Democrats in Wyoming and half changed their registration to prop her up in her race.
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I meant a kamikaze run in the general, not in the primary. But given her policies don't differ from her colleagues, I'd venture that that's because primary voters value tone and tribalism over actual policy.
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That's all she needs to do though.
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She's going to run a kamikaze campaign if he runs again to sink him.
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I like the smell of coffee but I can't get past the taste
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I think the way litigation played out, like with NY being thrown out and it the FL/OH abominations allowed to proceed, it might be a mathematical impossibility for the GOP to not win the House this cycle.
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The media we're all sharing have an inherent bias yes, but I'm not sure that actual state-run propoganda (where it's literally illegal to counter the government line and all the opposition press have been shut down or forced underground) is the best counterbalance. The few stories in that first feed are all just summaries of articles articulating the state narrative, there's no analysis attached.
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The sleeper races to watch are the state legislature majorities in AZ and PA, and whether the Republican candidates at the top of the ticket are so toxic that statehouse chambers flip.
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I don't remember it specifying, so I assume the equivalent of $3m US.
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I saw in one of the articles somewhere that the fatwah is accompanied by an approximately $3m bounty, so there's that.
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https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-trump-raid-documents-could-reveal-intel-sources-us-payroll-1733230
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You know what really triggers my OCD?
Raptorpat replied to PhilosipherStoned's topic in General Discussion
See, part of the structural change was to divorce current events discussions generally with the inherent angry and bitter vibe of the old format. And aside from a few needless nonsubstantive call-outs here and there, I think the more "vanilla" format is working a whole lot better for that content so far. Instead of quarantining all the news topics and discussions and upset people, this format allows CE topics to flourish a little more and it allows people to not have to switch to a quarantine folder just because they want to post a one-off angry thread. So to the extent that there's no designated "angry folder" anymore and people are now free to be angry wherever appropriate, Noise is at the bottom as the catchall, and GD is at the bottom of the bottom because it's the catchall of the catchall. There's possibly room for tweaks if it makes it for a more pleasant experience, but I think in this case scrambling the old egg with a touch of vanilla has led to a cleaner and more interesting result (someone should try that in real life and tell us how gross it is). -
jack is superman, it's all coming full circle
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Nothing like getting new tires and realignment
Raptorpat replied to Insipid's topic in General Discussion
I might not be too far behind you. The last time I was getting routine service done they tried to talk me into a realignment after I had already been sitting in the waiting room for two hours longer than they projected, and now I apparently have three slow leaks. -
are you peeing in the wrong side again
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I don't know the specifics, but DOJ's request to the court was a "limited unsealing". Sealing a warrant is generally done for the benefit of the defendant, I'm not sure what the rules are on the defendant's side, or what the rules/exceptions are for confidential informants etc. Given they were already going through the proper course to unseal it, I'm not sure it that's some kind of additional violation in its own right. I know that former presidents are normally entitled to continue receiving briefings, you may be right that he is being excluded from that tradition but I don't know off the top of my head.
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He's under investigation for enough to put a young person away for life (I gotta go back and find where all the penalties were listed, but one of them was 10 years per document). Can't say whether he'll be tried or convicted, or not just pardoned by the next Republican. Or that the truthsocial people don't start the civil war that one guy in Cincinnati thought he was starting. But every person listed on the unredacted version he sent to Breitbart now needs security for the rest of their lives.