My big takeaway: while our institutions (including and especially our institutions of higher education) have been cowardly in this moment, individual scholars are continuing to study the ways in which media and AI and culture shape Democratic health. There is important work continuing at every level

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“I should only pay taxes for things I use” is a fun precept to adopt after you’ve stopped using services that were funded by the full tax base — you would have needed to pay much much more when your kids were in school if seniors hadn’t been pitching in with property taxes back then!

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Boomers spent their peak earning years demanding lower income taxes now spending retirement years demanding no property taxes — that puts a very large burden on the income-earning generation squeezed between their kids and declining parents.

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I’m sorry to have to be the bad guy here but we need to recognize that we live in a compressed air thrusters world now. If you’re not finding ways to teach the critical use of compressed air thrusters in your classroom, you’re setting your students up to fail when you could be setting them up to fly

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elon will look untouchable right up until he doesn't anymore and western governments should accelerate that day as quickly as possible

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