DSmith_Tucson @DSmith_Tucson@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com

Teachers at Tucson's BASIS charter school overwhelmingly vote to form union https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/041223_basis_union/teachers-tucsons-basis-charter-school-overwhelmingly-vote-form-union/
Updated: By a 2-1 margin, teachers at Tucson's acclaimed BASIS Tucson North school voted to unionize Wednesday evening, making the Northeast Side charter the first in Arizona to have staff organize.
#Tucson #Arizona

Rex Scott: Schools owe a special duty to trans kids, who are too often taught to despise themselves https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/041323_scott_trans_op/rex-scott-schools-owe-special-duty-trans-kids-who-are-too-often-taught-despise-themselves/
"Every adult owes every child the right to feel protected and cherished. If we do anything less, we are harming these kids. We must show that we have learned from a painful past that 'otherizing' any child is dangerous, shameful and wrong." — Pima County Supervisor Rex Scott
#Tucson #Arizona

ChatGPT is a single-player language game with a computer opponent. ;)

Teachers at Tucson's BASIS charter school overwhelmingly vote to form union https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/041223_basis_union/teachers-tucsons-basis-charter-school-overwhelmingly-vote-form-union/
By a 2-1 margin, teachers at Tucson's acclaimed BASIS Tucson North school voted to unionize Wednesday evening, making the Northeast Side charter the first in Arizona to have staff organize.
#Tucson #Arizona

3) & how long until he/she realizes they're not getting paid...

Via @emptywheel:

I feel like every time #Trump gets a new lawyer, legal journalists should secretly write down their prediction for,
1) how long it'll be until Trump blows off this lawyer's instructions
2) whether this lawyer will be among the ones who gets his phones seized

& to be clear, today's new #lawyer is Todd Blanche. Joe Tacopina might be lucky enough to be sidelined before he gets in too deep.
https://t.co/GcYVSAKmrL

I got much more information out of this than @Popehat’s Rolling Stone piece.

From: @Teri_Kanefield
https://law-and-politics.online/@Teri_Kanefield/110146904130654593

The Savannah Morning News building was one of the last great newspaper temples built in the autumn of the print age. Now the last evidence of the newspaper is being removed.

https://savannahagenda.com/savannah-morning-news-building-now-devoid-of-smn-staff-shuttered-presses-to-be-dismantled/

I’m in Rolling Stone on the indictment

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/alvin-bragg-trump-case-still-mystery-1234709858/

Congratulations to Chicago's Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson! In retrospect, it seems obvious that the candidate endorsed by Common & Wilco would prevail. https://www.brandonforchicago.com/endorsements

So glad to have the great @Popehat writing on the Trump indictment for @RollingStone https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/alvin-bragg-trump-case-still-mystery-1234709858/

Anti-LGBTQ bill barring preferred pronouns in Arizona schools inches closer to a veto https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/040423_school_pronouns/anti-lgbtq-bill-barring-preferred-pronouns-arizona-schools-inches-closer-veto/
An Arizona Senate bill which would require written parental permission if students want to use preferred pronouns or a different name at school goes before the entire House of Representatives before being sent to Gov. Hobbs, who reiterating her promise to veto it on Monday.
#Tucson #Arizona

MLK's final sermon: 'I've Been to the Mountaintop' https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/040423_mlk_mountaintop/mlks-final-sermon-ive-been-mountaintop/
Monday, the nation remembers Martin Luther King Jr. Perhaps the greatest of his speeches, from a man renowned for his uplifting words, was one given extemporaneously on the last night of his life, April 3, 1968: "I've Been to the Mountaintop."
#Tucson #Arizona

Despite recent highs of 80, freeze warning for Tucson on Weds morning https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/040423_freeze_warning/despite-recent-highs-80-freeze-warning-tucson-weds-morning/
Temperatures will drop as low as 30 degrees across much of the Tucson region early Wednesday morning, with a freeze warning in effect from 2-8 a.m. for the metro area and parts of the Tohono O'odham Nation and Pinal County.
#Tucson #Arizona

@mmasnick @ct_bergstrom @intelwire "Legacy" blue checks now have a description which says they might be paid subscribers, or not.

FDA approval of over-the-counter Narcan is an important step in the effort to combat the US opioid crisis https://cobbcountycourier.com/2023/03/fda-approval-of-over-the-counter-narcan-is-an-important-step-in-the-effort-to-combat-the-us-opioid-crisis/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #cobbcounty