CleverOleg

We take away privileges. They’ve never responded well to timeouts. Honestly I’ve been pretty bad about this, I will warn them they are about to lose a privilege but I end up cutting too much slack and I’m not as consistent as I should be.

We limit it to only when me and my wife need it. For example, when we need to get some chores done or when my wife needs to nap in the afternoon (I think she had Long Covid issues). Or when I need to leave for work but the kids are up and my wife is still sleeping (again, the Long Covid maybe). That sounds restrictive but it ends up being what feels like a lot to me.

I’ve settled into a place of caring more about what the kids are watching versus how much time. PBS Kids or other “quality” shows, I feel like it actually helps them learn. But I am also incredibly fortunate that my kids only care about TV and couldn’t be less interested in phones or tablets.

When sleeping clicks for your kids, it’s a great feeling. Here’s hoping your kid gets into a really good groove over the next couple months.

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This is the issue with Freeland in Canada. She has as Nazi war criminal grandfather, but she talks about how much she looks up to him and said he helped form her political understanding.

Supreme Court backs parents seeking to opt their kids out of LGBTQ books in elementary schools

The Supreme Court on Friday bolstered religious rights as it ruled in favor of parents who objected to LGBTQ-themed books that a Maryland county approved for use in elementary school classrooms.

In a 6-3 vote, the court backed the parents' claim that the Montgomery County Board of Education's decision not to allow an opt-out for their children violated their religious rights under the Constitution's First Amendment, which protects religious expression.

"The board's introduction of the 'LGBTQ+ inclusive' storybooks, along with its decision to withhold opt-outs, places an unconstitutional burden on the parents' rights to the free exercise of their religion," Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the court.

The Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative majority that is often receptive to religious claims. The liberal justices dissented.

So this means my kid doesn't have to get flunked in history class when they teach "sTaLiN sTaRvEd tHe uKrAinIAns!!!" in class, right?

I assume this mean evangelical nuts like my parents will be allowed to pull their kids out of class when the topic of evolution or geology comes up, god bless America.

While that attack is quantitatively different (bigger), it really isn’t qualitatively different from the hundreds of successful operations the Resistance has had since Oct 7th. They are fighting and winning all over Gaza, and they have been this whole time. It’s the one aspect that the western media obscures the most about this. People can be forgiven I think for not realizing how much of a fight the Palestinians are putting up there. It strikes me as very similar to many other anti-colonial struggles, where there’s success in the armed struggle while the unarmed civilians suffer incredible amounts of violence. The colonizers can’t beat the resistance fighters so they take it out on the population, hoping their extreme brutality will lead the fighters to break and lose their will to fight.

Following these events on the ground is the best way to maintain revolutionary optimism IMO. For that I recommend Jon Elmer’s “Resistence Report” on during Electronic Intifada’s weekly livestream. They’re on a break right now but they will be back in a week or two.

lol I imagine if he is indeed hiding his power levels it’s not like you can just say that on this little website, I get it. So I will take this your admission that he is without actually saying it ;)

But - to play devils advocate here - how does he know this? I can see how having this knowledge can lead him to the conclusion that, given how sensitive the equipment is, it’s likely they were made inoperable. But without seeing things firsthand, Grossi’s very definitive statements seem odd to me.

Edit: I suppose these statements could be made if Grossi knows for a fact that the facility itself is much more shallow than the numbers discussed, or if there is much less reinforcement. But still, the context clues indicate he is pointing out that it doesn’t take much to make these thing inoperable, but “destroyed” to me implies to be rendered completely and totally beyond repair.

I’m looking for a good “pep talk” video about all the successes socialism has had in the past. Something like a Parenti speech. Any suggestions?

Yeah at worst, Zohran is average on the conventionally attractive scale.

I honestly think it’s a great outcome if the US and Israel convince themselves the nuclear program has been seriously debilitated; it makes getting the nuke that much easier.