ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

An FTC judge has ruled that TurboTax should stop advertising the product as free since they end up requiring about two thirds of tax filers to pay.

They can only advertise it as free too all customers, a majority of tax payers or the restrictions are clearly stated.

This particular scam has gone on for too long. Of course, the real scam is the government not just telling you how much you owe since they know what you make instead of making you do your own taxes.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/09/08/ftc-judge-turbotax-maker-intuit-deceived-users-with-free-tax-offers.html

But I think about the fearmongering and moral panic about "unqualified teachers" that was going on at the same time.

This Michelle Rhee cover is always the pinnacle for me

Anyway, I would love a history of teacher resistance to accountability and how their voices were drowned out by the moral panic.

Hello - just a very quick #Introduction (or reintroduction) as I figure out how to move instances. I gave up the bird last November in one of the migrations and haven't looked back since. I genuinely prefer this calmer, more nuanced, more enjoyable type of social media. I am a Secondary school English teacher in the UK. Keen to connect with #Education people, #Teachers #EduTooter and the like, but I also love #Food #Wine #Cheese #TaylorSwift and #WhiteTailedEagles

“White supremacists, and in particular neo-Nazis, are not acting in isolation, and they like to put on a show.”

Mass shootings as #PerformanceArt. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/jacksonville-killer-wanted-everyone-know-his-message-hate/675155/

Sorry to break it to you but if you are still on #twitter, you are part of the problem.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/25/trump-twitter-mugshot-truth-social

@shayz0rz @sidereal @mcmullin @StillIRise1963

I see a real value in wearing a masks anytime you enter a store with many people.

I have not had a cold or had to take pills for any ailments other than what I take for my chronic pain my mask is staying on.

Next, they came for the media, but it was okay since there were no journalists there.

Things I realized during the pandemic:

3. Millions of people would rather kill millions of other people rather than be inconvenienced in the slightest.

#Pandemic #DeepThoughts

Back in the saddle again! Tomorrow is the first day of school: https://crouchingpython.com/back-in-the-saddle-again/

@edutooters

A straight woman was murdered for defending LGBTQ+ rights. But that’s not the whole story. The last time lethal force was used against a straight person for supporting LGBTQ+ rights, did you know that EVERY SINGLE NEWS OUTLET IN LOS ANGELES COVERED IT UP? No exceptions. Every. Single. One.

It. Was. Not. A. Dispute.

It. Was. A. Murder.

A. Terrorist. Attack.

A. Hate. Crime.

“AR Gov Sanders suggests course on Black history spreads ‘hate’ against U.S.”

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: Some white people were enslavers. Other white people were abolitionists. If you think teaching that accurate history “spreads hate”—then you’ll have to first explain why you associate more with enslavers than with abolitionists?🤔
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/sarah-huckabee-sanders-ap-african-american-history-hate-comments-rcna100657

California friends, this is what I've been using to get information about the hurricane, please share whatever it looking at ♥️:

maps and forecasts, rainfall and storm path:
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_ep4+shtml/235200.shtml?3-daynl

meteorologist discussion:
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDEP4+shtml/192043.shtml?

satellite images:
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/floater_band.php?stormid=EP092023&band=GEOCOLOR&length=12&dim=undefined

#CaWx #HurricaneHilary

I want an investigation into JARED KUSHNER.

JOB POSTING: Associate Director for Educational Technology at Dartmouth College

https://www.higheredjobs.com/admin/details.cfm?JobCode=178498646

Trae Crowder is an absolute GEM!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRgTPyTFPMM

The increased partisanship of climate politics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/07/intractability-republican-climate-politics/

Is there an org specifically helping our trapped friends to get out of states that threaten their very existence? My friends in TX and FL cannot afford to leave, and I'm sure many of you know people in the same predicament.

The New Yorker is delivering it straight.