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Playlist of watched movies, television shows, online videos, and other visual-based events
👓 Trump spends 100th day at golf club as president | CNN
President Donald Trump reached a presidential milestone at his Palm Beach County, Florida, golf club on Saturday: One hundred days in office at a golf club that bears his name.
👓 Trump was angry and ‘unglued’ when he started a trade war, officials say | NBC News
Frustration on several fronts aided the president's tariff decision
A bit of a click-bait headline, but the general coverage of the lack of planning around this is astoundingly inept. Stories like this shouldn’t exist in the opening days of an administration much less a year in. His one primary campaign platform was that he was such a great leader and it seems to be his worst possible attribute.
👓 ‘I Live Paycheck to Paycheck’: A West Virginia Teacher Explains Why She’s on Strike | New York Times
We spoke to Katie Endicott, a high school English teacher, about why teachers are not returning to the classroom, despite a deal that offered them a 5 percent raise.
This is just painful to hear. We really need to double teachers’ salaries and create some competition in the market to improve schools. We really can’t afford any more uneducated people in this country.
👓 IMF warns Trump tariff would hurt US | BBC
Others could follow Washington's example to justify tough trade restrictions, it says.
📖 Read Murilla Gorilla, Jungle Detective by Jennifer Lloyd
Murilla Gorilla, the jungle detective, is woken up by a new case: Ms. Chimpanzee’s muffins were stolen. But who did it? It’s up to Murilla to find out... as long as she can find her badge first! Murilla may seem like a hopeless detective—disorganized, messy and always thinking about her next snack—but out of her mess come some pretty good ideas, and some pretty funny moments too.
Simple but entertaining. Great illustrations with a lovely pallette. I’d read others in the series.
It’s a pseudo chapter book with incredibly short chapters for kids on the border of moving from short story books to chapter books.
Rating: 3 of 5 stars
It’s a pseudo chapter book with incredibly short chapters for kids on the border of moving from short story books to chapter books.
Rating: 3 of 5 stars
👓 The Academy Awards Scandal That First Got PwC Its Job Counting Oscars Votes | Time
Years before PricewaterhouseCoopers caused a scandal for mixing up Oscars envelopes, another controversy got the firm that gig.
👓 Hope Hicks to Leave Post as White House Communications Director | New York Times
Ms. Hicks, who had been considering a departure for several months, did not indicate what her next job would be, but she said that she plans to leave the White House in the next few weeks.
Clickbait headline: No more Hope in the White House
Great article here with some reasonable background and history.
👓 Hope Hicks to resign as White House communications director | Axios
"I will miss having her by my side," said Trump
👓 US housing department to spend $165,000 on own furniture as it faces $6.8bn budget cut | The Guardian
Spending is in addition to $31,000 dining set for Ben Carson’s office, even asproposed budget cuts would affect poor and homeless Americans
How are there not better checks on this kind of waste before they even happen?
👓 Teacher Fired Gun in Classroom, Barricaded Himself: Police | Time
Police in Georgia say officers have responded to reports of shots fired at a Dalton high school and a teacher is now in custody
Saddened to hear about this school shooting incident at the neighboring high school just 23 miles from Calhoun High School, which I attended in Georgia. I remember driving to Dalton High School to take my S.A.T.s and frequently attend football and soccer games.
It’s potentially proof that arming teachers isn’t the great idea many thought it might have been just a week ago.
This now makes three school shootings in communities that I’ve either been directly touched by or been in close proximity to following two others: a shooting at Johns Hopkins in April 1996 involving a friend who was staying in my apartment at the time and the Heath High School Shooting in Paducah, KY in 1997 in the town where I’d lived briefly in 1996.
This has long since ceased to be a political issue and is a pressing public health issue that needs to be addressed on multiple levels.
📺 So Much for So Little (1949) | YouTube
So Much for So Little is a 1949 American short documentary film directed by Chuck Jones. It won an Academy Award in 1950 for Documentary Short Subject, tying with A Chance to Live. The cartoon states that, annually, 118,481 babies out of 2 million will die before reaching their first birthday. Thus, the cartoon shows John E. Jones, a baby that may add to this statistic if not given proper healthcare. The cartoon proceeds to show most of John's life, including his school years, marriage, later life (as a father), and his golden years, providing other helpful health information along the way. Before the cartoon ends, however, it returns to John as a baby, reminding the audience that John needs proper healthcare to survive. The cartoon then states that if every American paid just three cents a week, sufficient healthcare could be provided for John and babies everywhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ESmHv2h50s
There’s an awful lot of smoking in this PSA for public health! Welcome to 1949!
👓 Three ways we can improve Drupal’s evaluator experience | Dries Buytaert
It’s time to improve Drupal's download process and end-user documentation. I believe we can improve Drupal's evaluator experience with these three steps.
📺 ポンキッキーズ メロディ「いっぽんでもニンジン」 | YouTube
うた：なぎらけんいち 1975年。この年がどんな1年だったかをチェックできるよ！
https://youtu.be/NcLGQa6U2Vs
A bizarre looking number counting video. Reminiscent of 1970’s Sesame Street cartoons or some quirky Russian (80’s?) cartoons I’ve seen.
🎧 The Daily: So Many Red Flags | The New York Times
Many calls to law enforcement had expressed concerns about Nikolas Cruz, the suspect in the Florida school shooting, yet nothing was done. How is that possible?