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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3d

I think this is right:
"We've slid into some form of authoritarianism," says Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard. "It is relatively mild compared to some others. It is certainly reversible, but we are no longer living in a liberal democracy."
www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

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Chris Connolly @edtechris.bsky.social · 3d

It doesn’t say much about political journalism in Ireland that no-one in the MSM appeared to appreciate the seriousness of what happened. He admitted on air to a criminal offence and likely underpaid taxes, and none of them picked up on it.

Chris Connolly @edtechris.bsky.social · 3d

I think it is safe to say that Fianna Fáil’s presidential candidate Jim Gavin saw his campaign go up in flames this afternoon. #Áras25

Chris Connolly @edtechris.bsky.social · 3d

More accurate to say that since Fianna Fáil won in 1973 FG didn’t want to contest an election they would certainly lose in 1974 due to sympathy for Childers or in 1976 due to the FG-led government’s role in Ó Dálaigh’s resignation, and Paddy Hillary was unopposed in 83 because the country was broke.

Chris Connolly @edtechris.bsky.social · 3d

And he’s gone.

There hasn’t been a presidential election with only two candidates since 1973. #Áras25

Screenshot announcing Jim Gavin’s withdrawal from the presidential race

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

I just learned that it’s possible to be racist against AI and I have not been this excited since I learned it was expected in the Ivy League to be bigoted against the Irish

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

An astronaut, looking at the Earth: “Wait, it’s all social care obligations?”
Behind them, another astronaut, drawing a gun to shoot them in the back: “Always has been.”

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Chris Connolly @edtechris.bsky.social · 3d

Jim Gavin on live television:
A) Admitted he’d been a rogue landlord & committed a criminal offence by not registering his property as required;
B) Implied a high likelihood that he claimed tax reliefs to which he was not entitled;
C) Suggested he had made off with €3k of his tenants’ money. #Áras25

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Chris Connolly @edtechris.bsky.social · 3d

I think it is safe to say that Fianna Fáil’s presidential candidate Jim Gavin saw his campaign go up in flames this afternoon. #Áras25

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

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Chris Connolly @edtechris.bsky.social · 4d

I’m old enough to remember when it was allegedly antisemitic to call the Government of Israel “fascist”.

Meanwhile, the Government of Israel is proudly hosting British neo-fascist agitators.

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Chris Connolly @edtechris.bsky.social · 4d

A sentence for the ages from @daisychristo.bsky.social

“If online content is so addictive that it can lead to adults having less sex, it’s probably fair to speculate that it will lead to kids studying less algebra.”

open.substack.com/pub/daisychr...

Why education can never be fun

Proven with maths

open.substack.com

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5d

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.

“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector

The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5d

They took these US citizens naked and put them in zip ties and threw them in a van.

KatherineHawkins @krhawkins.bsky.social · 5d

“Four children who are U.S. citizens were taken into custody amid the operation at the apartment complex on Tuesday until they could be placed in the care of guardians or the state, the DHS spokesperson said.”
people.com/ice-agents-o...

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls

Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

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Chris Connolly @edtechris.bsky.social · 6d

I want to say that I can’t believe the news out of Manchester, but it is sadly an all too familiar reality for our Jewish friends and neighbours.

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Chris Connolly @edtechris.bsky.social · 8d

You mean Morgan McSweeney hired people to look into the journalists who were writing a book about him.

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Chris Connolly @edtechris.bsky.social · 8d

That’s a mlm.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8d

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 8d

its hard to look at that speech in front of the generals as anything other than his pitch to the military to start shooting the media and democrats

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Chris Connolly @edtechris.bsky.social · 8d

Dear @linkedin.com,

I am not by any measure or stretch of the imagination “on a roll”.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Chris Connolly @edtechris.bsky.social · 12d

It is counter-intuitive to many, but the purpose of weighing the pig is to fatten it.

Adam Boxer @adamboxereducation.bsky.social · 12d

NEW EPISODE

We asked @profbeckyallen.bsky.social what are the three most important things for teachers and leaders to know about assessment.

Number 1? That it's all about learning.

Tune in and share!

open.spotify.com/episode/3Nzb...

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Chris Connolly @edtechris.bsky.social · 12d

Say so-called experts.

Chris Connolly @edtechris.bsky.social · 12d

Colour me skeptical that employers who don’t bother with current right to work checks will suddenly feel motivated to ask for “Brit cards”.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13d

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence

NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

www.whitehouse.gov

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Chris Connolly @edtechris.bsky.social · 15d

They are called homosexuals, David.

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