author and lecturer on topics in education, parenting, and human behavior....
(Personal messages more likely to be read if left on http://alfiekohn.org)
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Alfie Kohn is an American author and lecturer in the areas of education, parenting, and human behavior. He is a proponent of progressive education and has offered critiques of many traditional aspects of parenting, managing, and American society more generally, drawing in each case from social science research. .. more
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It's raised over $400k and is still live.
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![[NYT headline]
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5lyrol4fdf5k3p4owzb5vfs5/bafkreictbc2wzxun6yxr6237azwxv2pusphie3dvv6eo5qjwhnwybey2je@jpeg)
They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.
The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
Reposted by Alfie Kohn, Virginia Sapiro
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2. Inflation soars to 86%.
3. Voters are enraged. A pro-democracy opposition candidate, Istanbul's mayor, gains support.
4. Erdogan has the mayor arrested for "corruption & terrorism."
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Reposted by Reece Jones, Ben H. Ansell, Will Jennings , and 33 more Reece Jones, Ben H. Ansell, Will Jennings, Tom Clark, Michael A. Clemens, Steven S. Smith, David Rothschild, Elena Stancanelli, Guy Grossman, Martin Tomko, Fabián Muniesa, Juan Cole, Gernot Wagner, Smith, Rebecca Tushnet, David R. Miller, Aaron Sojourner, W. Andy Knight, Adrian Daub, Scott A. Imberman, Robert B. Reich, Michael D. McDonald, Bob Hudson, James Goodwin, Jason Lyall, Sarah Roberts, Alfie Kohn, Jeremy S. Pal, Brooke Harrington, Blair Fix, Karen O’Leary, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Virginia Sapiro, Clark Gray, David Darmofal
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.
The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Reece Jones, Nina Jankowicz , and 39 more Anne Applebaum, Reece Jones, Nina Jankowicz, Rebecca Solnit, Richard S.J. Tol, Simon L. Lewis, Mark A. Lemley, Stephan Lewandowsky, Brendan Nyhan, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Tom Clark, Steve Peers, Simon Chapman, Michael A. Clemens, David Rothschild, Melissa Johnson, Sebastián Roché, Efrén O. Pérez, Fabián Muniesa, Paul Goldstein, Michelle Everson, Smith, Charles W. Smith, Michael Zimmer, Adrian Daub, Michael D. McDonald, James Goodwin, Jason Lyall, Mark Priestley, David Murakami Wood, Nancy K. Baym, Alfie Kohn, David Bartram, Jeremy S. Pal, Andrew Rudalevige, Klaus Oschema, Julien Théry, Nicole Guenther Discenza, Magda Teter, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Timothy D. McBride
Reposted by Nelson Flores
Reposted by Joseph Schafer, Alfie Kohn, James Connelly
Reposted by Anna O. Law, Adrian Daub, Sarah Roberts , and 3 more Anna O. Law, Adrian Daub, Sarah Roberts, Kate Starbird, Alfie Kohn, Olivier Mannoni
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, Brendan Nyhan, Steve Peers , and 36 more Rebecca Solnit, Brendan Nyhan, Steve Peers, Iain Davidson, Michael A. Clemens, Mark D. White, Rosemary A. Joyce, Melissa Johnson, Bruce D. Baker, Joseph Schafer, Juan Cole, Edgar Morgenroth, Kevin Carey, Trevon D. Logan, Smith, Gerald Friedman, Scott A. Imberman, Karen O’Reilly, Glenn H. Shepard, Michael D. McDonald, Alfie Kohn, Ann Bartow, Cynthia Miller‐Idriss, Stuart White, Nelson Flores, Olivier Jourdan, Prokla Redaktion, Daxton R. Stewart, Olivier Mannoni, Nicole Guenther Discenza, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Farah Mendlesohn, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Dan Hicks, Colin Woodard, Jeannette Sutton, Timothy D. McBride, David Darmofal, Jesse R. Lasky
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand