U.S. Department of Education $1 million in grant funding available for Native American Language projects. blog.ed.gov/2022/06/fundin…

Aiden McCarthy, 2, lost BOTH of his parents (Irina, 35 and Kevin, 37) during the mass shooting in Highland Park. Both. of. his. parents. He was found under his Dad’s body. Under. his. Dad’s. body. Aiden deserved more from us. He deserved for us to protect his parents.

US institutions “have entered new sister university agreements w/Chinese universities, established ‘new’ centres closely modelled on defunct Confucius Institutes & even continued to receive funding from the same Chinese government agencies that funded the Confucius Institutes”👇🏼

As a result of over a decade of poor policy leading to a teacher workforce crisis, now…a teacher in Indiana requires… ✅no degree ✅no teaching exams ✅no teacher prep program training ✅no license Think about that.

Right now, Americans waste an average of 13 hours and $240 on filing taxes. It should be free, fast, and easy—not a money-making bonanza for giant tax prep corporations. Let’s pass my bill and get it done: dataforprogress.org/blog/2022/7/13…

HKU's Dr Siddharth Sridhar, YKY, Hung and Lung: • Covid-19 is here to stay • most reasonable course of action is to achieve hybrid immunity ASAP • prioritize opening with the rest of the world as the mainland continues its zero covid-19 policy asiaglobalonline.hku.hk/beyond-hong-ko…

Austronesian Forum-Cultivation Program of Young Talent for International Affairs to take place from July 22-27, 2022, w/ TW INDIG from 8 groups & Austronesian youths from 🇺🇸🇵🇭🇲🇭🇳🇿🇧🇿 🇵🇬🇹🇻🇦🇺 🇳🇷🇸🇧, as a way to improve TW diplomatically. Pics from the pre-training program on 9 July

New job. I’ve resigned as Presidential Spox to run for Hualien Governor. Hualien is Taiwan’s largest admin region. Its long Eastern coast is strategic to the country’s security. President Tsai insisted I take on this difficult challenge and I am inspired by her to go forward.

Just weeks away from the start of school, 3700+ Indiana education job openings still exist. Never doubt the impact of this crisis on Indiana’s future. 15+ yrs of really bad PK-12+ policy ➡️ consequences. Time for leadership change. Kids First. Always.

Indiana Republican leaders truly, truly just want to control women. …And when they realize they can’t, they ignore experts and pass really, really bad policy. Believe me…

It is striking how many daily headlines are talking about events that were exacerbated by climate change. Here is just a short rundown from today as an example of the many many ways climate change is affecting us HERE and NOW. Please add any I missed. (Thread)

If you were not vaccinated but infected in the 5th wave, you antibody might not recognise new omicron subvariants (e.g. BA.5) well. Results are in our preprint: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Interesting report from James Chater on the gap between Taiwan’s plans to internationalise, and the actual fact of doing it

The name of the migrant who was turned away and then at long last found help in a distant land is MISTER NAZARETH?

"It was never my objective to knock Columbia down the rankings. A better outcome would be if the rankings themselves are knocked down and people just stop reading them, stop taking them as seriously as they have.” theguardian.com/us-news/2022/s…

😞 Sad news from southeast Taiwan

Human-caused climate change is affecting hurricanes in many ways including causing them to intensify faster, be stronger overall, and dump a lot more rain. Here, I explain how we see all three of these in play with #HurricaneIan msnbc.com/alex-wagner-to…

Massive #landslide yesterday caused by torrential #rains on Taiwan’s Highway 7 stranding dozens of cars. No casualties #Taiwan #weather #RainAlert