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I have a hard time, imagining a teacher who isn’t awful saying anything remotely like this to a student.

But as someone who taught for a decade, I don’t have any problem imagining that they would WANT to

"A MORAL DILEMMA" A former Tennessee DCS worker tells us she spent 50+ nights in Bradley and McMinn offices with children.

She says children slept on camping mattresses, and rooms in Bradley County had mice. She sometimes took children to First United Methodist Church in Cleveland before sunrise to take showers, so they could get the hygiene they needed.

“I felt ashamed for the first time in my career to be working for the department,” she said. “I felt like I was participating in helping to harm children instead of help children, and it was weighing very heavily on my conscience.”

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⚔️ An infographic of the seven times the city of Rome was sacked. Across more than 1,900 years (390 BCE–1527 CE), the sacks of Rome reveal not a single moment of collapse, but a recurring pattern of vulnerability shaped by shifting political systems, military power, and imperial overstretch.

From the Republican era through the Western and Eastern Roman Empires and into the early modern period, Rome’s fortunes rose and fell with the structures meant to protect it.

Early sacks occurred when Rome was still a dominant Mediterranean power; later ones reflected fragmentation, civil war, demographic decline, and the gradual loss of strategic relevance.

In each case, the sack was less a cause than a symptom of deeper systemic strain, whether internal political instability, economic contraction, or the erosion of centralized authority.

Over time, the meaning of a sack changed. In the Republican and early imperial periods, Rome recovered rapidly, reaffirming its dominance. By the 5th century CE, however, repeated crises during the decline of the Western Roman Empire (traditionally ending in 476) accelerated long-term depopulation and administrative collapse, even as the Eastern Roman Empire briefly restored the city under Justinian (reigned 527–565).

In the medieval and early modern world, Rome endured as a symbolic and religious center rather than an imperial capital, making later sacks, such as that of 1527, deeply traumatic despite the city’s reduced political power. Taken together, the sacks of Rome underscore a central historical insight: the city did not fall once, but repeatedly adapted, declined, and transformed, with each crisis reflecting a new balance of power in the Mediterranean world.

✏️ Infographic created by Simeon Netchev.

https://edition.timesfreepress.com/article/282333981348658?fbclid=IwY2xjawP1czhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFCOEdSQTREYmVGNENuajVqc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHlrF2E0a5SsjZQlMSg5pKpV4ciE8hxHjYgpT5DwRClvbDmY86J1sZ66ICaUE_aem_3JyBEEKYlclR9YXRlhL90w

An article from Chattanooga Times Free Press

Kennedy Cen­ter is more than a build­ing | Chattanooga Times Free Press With the recent announce­ment to close the Trump Kennedy Cen­ter for two years for renov­a­tions, much is in limbo. Not only would this clos­ure affect its per­form­ances, but also other sig­ni­fic­ant pro­grams that will affect Chat­tanooga. It has...

When we stop judging how people speak, we start hearing who they are. Every variety of language holds culture, memory, and beauty, and none deserves to be dismissed.

Pidgin, accents, slang, and patois carry stories of identity, resistance, and survival. None of them are “wrong,” “broken,” or “improper.” They’re living proof that people shape language, not the other way around. Decolonizing language starts with valuing every voice.

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A Texas A&M professor was barred from teaching Plato. A student secretly recorded another professor discussing gender identity and complained to the university president.

Both incidents reflect a growing threat: Students acting as informants policing classrooms for political incorrectness.
https://theconversation.com/theres-an-intensifying-kind-of-threat-to-academic-freedom-watchful-students-serving-as-informants-273182