Chag sameach. Here’s a little reading that grew up with, in the Haggadah a family friend wrote. I thought this was a “standard” reading for Passover. Turns out it was pulled by that family friend as she compiled, from the original letter itself in a trunk or drawer somewhere.

April fools only works when reality isn't this stupid.

Welcome to the neighborhood, Ayat. “Every child deserves to live.”

Everything is terrible but this is time-travel magic that will have me smiling all day. Our pasts are always present.

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

Not any more! Now out of detention, not soon enough but finally!!

Everyone in higher ed either has, or should have, learned a lot from Black Studies over the past few decades. Crucial read on the embattled state of the field and how little institutions, and too often colleagues, are doing to protect it. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

And I want them to reach out individually to everyone they impersonated. The whole take-it-down thing also hides who was harmed.

Made hanging my head out the window and risking severe electrocution, not with AI

Spot on, from @bakerdphd.bsky.social. Higher ed did NOT defend academic freedom in the McCarthy era, and most faculty were silent or indifferent. And now?

Zoom meeting with a prospective student. Who lives in Peru. Where there are strikes by taxi drivers because gas prices have climbed so high so fast that they cannot earn enough to live. The zone of damage from this heedless, feckless war is _everywhere_.

On the other hand, her English teacher is doing #marchmadness poetry-style - every class starts with 10 minutes of reading and debate about two poems, kid argue which is better. I love slow and careful reading, but this is great for a quick, fun exposure. And we get to hear about poems at dinner♥️

My kid just came home from a class (writing class, no less) with a teacher-created assignment TOTALLY and OBVIOUSLY written by AI. She is taking this class to strengthen her own writing. It is hard to characterize all the layers of disappointment and disenchantment on her face. Don’t do this.

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A marginal figure drags an omitted portion of text into place in this copy of Thomas Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes (Arundel MS 38).

I turned my research to NYC and its rich history starting about 14 years ago. From archive to local classrooms, the work just keeps growing! www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/202...

It’s tiring that we are increasingly stuck organizing our intellectual lives around arguing for the value of having an intellectual life

Join us for this incredible learning experience, NYC public school teachers! 2 week summer institute, honorarium & CTLEs, and an ongoing community of critical practitioners for educational justice. Apply by April 3. tinyurl.com/HEALSI2026

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Happy Monday! There is a riot of orchids in my office.

One useful way to understand this: if you ask the police to do your discipline and conflict resolution for you, you have nothing to go on when the police case falters. #copsoffcampus

A judge just tossed out Columbia University's disciplinary actions against 22 students over the 2024 Hamilton Hall occupation, finding the school relied on sealed arrest records and held individuals responsible for group actions, violating its own rules. iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/Documen...

Great. Even better if their company wasn’t built on other people’s knowledge and creativity.

Will be here holding this pup for the foreseeable future.

The Guardian has identified the Columbia student abducted by DHS as Ellie Aghayeva. She posted the IG story below: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Here’s the Columbia press release on DHS’s invasion of a dorm at dawn today. Notably, it’s signed by the university president. president.columbia.edu/news/importa...

I'm hearing that there's a protest planned for noon at the Broadway gates of the Columbia campus. Will update if I get more. (Nothing in Columbia's student newspaper on this story yet, but they're presumably working on a piece. Will update with that when I see it as well.)

Columbia says DHS entered a dorm at dawn today under false pretenses, detaining a student in violation of the law and university policy.

They are here on campus now, again. 💔💔💔

Last week, my mother took me and my kids to see the school where, 60 years ago, she was among the first wave of Black students to integrate a previously all-White school. We wanted to remind my kids that Black history is not just famous people in textbooks, it is often the people right next to you.

It is both true that Israel‘s behavior has created fertile ground for antisemitism to grow and also no antisemitism is justified ever so if you’re not Jewish and starting to have some thoughts about “the Jews“ that’s on you. You’re responsible for not being an antisemitic twit.

Excellent advice about the many powers of resistance right now - especially for white people who have lived to this point thinking *we* would be safe. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ki...

“You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)

On the military blacklist for education benefits: 1/N American University Boston College Boston University Brown University Camegie Mellon University Case Wester Reserve University Columbia University College of William and Mary Cornell University Duke University Emory University

A great piece from @alibreland.bsky.social on Epstein's race science obsession—one he shares with much of the contemporary right wing elite www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

ICE pursued school buses, intruded on campuses, and abducted students in MN and beyond. “Our classrooms are sacred spaces… This government is defiling them.” Read this new story by Lily Seltz on Trump’s ICE abducting kids. #AbolishICE #children

Nothing to celebrate in this story reminding us of how many kids ICE has abducted. But I am proud that my daughter is using her voice to make us pay attention.

At Barnard College, dozens of faculty_circulated an open letter calling on the college to investigate & publicly address trustees’ past connections to Epstein,& urging the removal of Francine A. LeFrak’s name from campus buildings as well as her resignation from the board. archive.ph/2026.02.11-0...

“If America’s university presidents believe that their foremost responsibility is simply to keep their institutions operational — collecting tuition and protecting endowments — they are mistaken… presidents and chancellors are stewards of intellectual freedom and democratic norms.”

Really I should have said “no longer in deportation jeopardy.” None of this was legal, even if it used systems that purport to be about “law enforcement.”

Teachers College alumna no longer in legal jeopardy over her op-ed.

I CALLED IT I CALLED IT

Good morning. Yellow rose, eastern morning light.

I haven’t been particularly interested in the question of what to do with the losers who represented something horrible - the ex-Confederates, ex-Nazis, etc. But since, as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says, we are going to win, this question is on my mind every time I see an image like this.

lfg

Also, this is a perfect portrait of high school.

Correct. And proud.

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I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...