this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

so many academics are adjuncts and not paid to research at all, the only job is to teach

under the court’s reading of the VRA and the 15th amendment, it is basically constitutionally suspect for a state to have a district that elects a black person to congress. you have to prove it isn’t an illegal majority-minority district.

When I moved to London 5 years ago, I did not think that I would ever wonder if it was safe to move through the city just because of the color of my skin. Today, this is the case. Yet again. Far-right agitators and thugs are roaming the streets. Empowered and emboldened by the rhetoric and politics

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i started a newsletter for weekly thoughts about what's going on in the world, particularly with respect to the extreme right-wing:

sadly in my heart I believe strongly in praxis: if work isn't being used, if it isn't being read, then I don't know how to make it

even decades after their imprisonment by the regime many who were tortured by the military dictatorships of Latin America blamed the left, the people the dictators said they were fighting, for the torture the right committed

Trump is 100% backing Paxton, Texas's AG, who is forcing a children's hospital to open an official "detransition clinic," which we should instead call a "suicide promotion ward"

chalk and talk, physical readers, in class assessments are the only options now and i know that for many educators they aren't really options

Kill Canvas. Now. www.chronicle.com/article/kill...

one of the core myths of fascism is that "the people" are simultaneously unfairly oppressed and destined for greatness, whereas their oppressors (globalists, Jewish people, feminists, etc) are simultaneously weak losers who are unjustly powerful

i love higher ed, i truly do. for all its flaws. but the current course of higher ed is a death sentence to all the parts of it that matter.

it's a finite resource we really need to make other things (fertilizer, plastics), so we ideally shouldn't be exploding it to make truck go

this is what good political art is for

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tracking to the "center" on ICE means more surveillance, tearing trans people as terrorists, and building concentration camps where people literally crawl through shit to be able to eat

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writing is very hard

Check out today's episode of Fifteen Minutes of Fascism Episode 303: It Is Happening Now.

"chalk and talk" is our only hope read these things, listen to lecture, talk in discussion, do the assignments: that's it

the kind of headline you dream of

the group in question is the Society of St. Pius X, which has been on the border of a schism since the 60s, when the Church did away with the Latin Mass, had priests face the congregation, etc they come up a lot in my research on fascist Catholics in S. America in the 70s (1/?)

some death drive shit

NEW: More than half the U.S. is in drought. But few places are dealing with the kind of crisis facing Corpus Christi, Tex., which could see water demand outstrip supply w/in a year. One official told me: "This is actually the canary in the coal mine. 🎁: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

this is a civilizational level failure, truly embarrassing

"WE CANNOT MAKE THEM FAST ENOUGH"

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folks i study the people this is for and i don't know who this is for

On this day in 1985, the city of Philadelphia went to war against its own citizens. I wrote about it for @teenvogue.com back in 2020: www.teenvogue.com/story/histor...

Yorkshire Post Reform suspends Sheffield councillor after Nazi swastika flag and Hitler posts emerge 2 hours ago www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politic...

LLMs are not persons and are therefore unable to be ethical on their own people and the systems we make can be ethical or unethical

this is the kind of stuff that sounds like conspiracy theory but isn't - because conspiracies need to be hidden, this is all publicly available information that is nevertheless unknown and supressed

bluesky is probably going to be like one of those small leftist journals they used to publish back in the early 20th century - not world shaking, but it connected some folks and spread some information

Meanwhile, in the Philippines, a Senator is hiding in the chambers to avoid being arrested by the police for crimes against humanity, shots have been fired

i asked the kids at school why they drink energy drinks instead of coffee and this was their answer

distrust in the electoral system is a bad sign in a democracy

If you're a parent or educator caught in this world, check out my book on how to talk to kids who are also trapped here:

writing students letters of recommendation is a new and terrifying level of knowing how the sausage gets made

there's been a war in one of the world's most important breadbaskets (Ukraine) for years now there is another war blocking fuel and fertilizer, which are vital for food production this will get worse before it gets better

said it before, say it again - there is no work like the work you get done when your students are taking an exam

cuts will continue until morale improves

it's because they're afraid of Trump

would a gas tax cut really help ordinary americans? no. but can dems score easy wins by doing things that make people feel like they're being helped? also no. but they can they expand the base by relentlessly focusing on affordability instead of trump's lawlessness? signs still point to no

major war in Europe ongoing regional war in Middle East beginning right-wing rising in power all over the world planet burning, concentration camps building, schools closing

both the Dem leadership and the GOP are complicit in this, for every minute it goes on

in class, paper assignments only for the foreseeable future, at all levels of education

my problem is that for my whole life i've been a poster's poster trying to make it in a social media world well that and the collapse of the environment, economy, academia, etc, but the posting thing is also a problem for me