I just came across a new review of my book Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning. The reviewer, Jake Mattox, appreciated the wide reading in multiple areas that accompanied my manifesto/tirade/prayer. radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalt...

@hcrichardson.bsky.social writes, "What is left when a system loses the give and take of politics is force." October 19, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

AntiFa = Anti-Fascist. If you’re opposing this, you’re ProFa, = Pro-Fascist, or possibly Anti-Anti-Fascist. I know where I stand. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

1/2 The absurd conclusion of all this GenAI stuff is faculty creating courses entirely w AI; students completing assignments w agentive AI; faculty grading w AI. No humans need be changed in this process. No learning will be required. Easy peasy. #GenerativeAI

My student-led team, schoolstorylab.com, has just rec'd IRB approval for this yr’s project, an inquiry into READING. (We built on @liznorell.bsky.social's survey.) It will take less than 10 min. & is open to ANY STUDENT in ANY COUNTRY, 18 years or older. Plz share widely! forms.gle/yscpm2vubiEH...

We've had evidence of this for ages, right? Frankly this feels like those endless UBI studies where they all demonstrate UBI works but that's not the answer the people in charge want to hear so nothing changes.

The world we desire will not come about unless we dream it first. Here are some thoughts about higher education. #highereducation open.substack.com/pub/susandbl...

www.noemamag.com/the-last-day... “The last days of social media might be the first days of something more human: a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect.”

Release the Epstein Files. They are filled with disgusting depravity but we need to know

This new book, The Ungraded Classroom, edited by Carlo Ricci and Gina Riley (with a foreword by @susandblum), has just been published! It has many examples, beautifully and honestly presented, of ways educators have included ungrading in their classrooms. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQHZKJZ...

If the Democrats wanted to win, they would do whatever they needed to do to convince Mira Nair to do all of their video campaigns

“Both of them.”

FIRE RFK Jr!! WE WANT THE CANCER VACCINE!!! “New mRNA Cancer Vaccine Delivers Stunning Results, Sparks Universal Treatment Hopes” Story below

On the belief that I should not allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good, I got a Pfizer covid vaccine rather than waiting for Novovax. I’m afraid they are going to take them away in Indiana, b/c of our administration’s fealty to the orange menace, so I decided not to wait

An experience at a campus theater production made me think about higher ed as practicing being in society. I know this is not news! But it struck me forcefully, and in a great way. My latest Substack post: open.substack.com/pub/susandbl...

TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.

It’s time to shut down the government. Democrats have weeks to prepare about how to make the case to the people. Watch how Pres Bartlet did it in The West Wing. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

#AICon in #education: we’re not all fans. www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi...

They lie, steal, cheat, boast, destroy, even kill. #TheReckoningWillCome and we’ll clean up our house, de-MAGAify, the way the Germans denazified. Sooner would be good. There will be one defector, then another, and it will accelerate. Gradually, then all at once.

Sickening sycophants

For all the people, especially Democratic leaders, who keep saying, "Trump can't do that! It's illegal!" Authoritarians can do anything they want. They don't care about laws, order, rules, or civility. Once they have power, they flex it. I hope Dems finally understand this.

I stand with #Chicago and the rule of law. I stand with truth. I stand with peace. #EjectTrumpTheTraitor

Just murdering and mutilating some North Korean fisherman to hide our secret bugging mission, no biggie

The labor market is deteriorating! For the first time in four years, the economy lost jobs. Our economy is in the toilet right now and everything in the grocery store is higher priced than it was during the pandemic. This is what losing looks like! Trump’s economy sucks!

@lawrence_odonnell is on fire about the nepobaby charlatan in charge of US health, RFK Jr, who must be fired. He was appointed by the nepobaby in chief. youtu.be/YMjrZjwxgc4?...

The "Mag 7" tech firms comprise 34% of the S&P 500, & we're expected to spend *$3 trillion* by 2028 on AI infrastructure. But large language models are hitting a wall. What if generative AI is delayed or even dead? Tech writer Bryan McMahon says the bubble popping will hurt all of us:

"'Red' and 'blue' states were manufactured to create monocultures out of a multifaceted nation in which most people belong to neither party." -- THEY KNEW (2022)

These 3 things would hwlp: 1. Release the Epstein Files. 2. Fire RFK Jr. 3. Stop illegal gerrymandering.

The trauma suffered by low-paid workers in the Global South who have to look at violent and horrific videos so that ppl in comfortable rooms can ask Generative AI to read an article for them…MUST be part of the convo. It’s been well documented, though not disc’d aylgorith.com/mind-miners-...

Venezuela says the US and Erik Prince have plans to stage an attack on an ExxonMobil off-shore platform as a pretext to invade it…and normally that would be an insane claim but… www.latintimes.com/venezuela-sa...

I just called my reps to Demand the Release of the Epstein Case Files (UPDATED 9/2) — you should too: 5calls.org/issue/releas...

1/2 I’ve had 5 students request accommodations already this semester, w the default assumption being a need for time extension for tests. My classes have no tests. I just got a request to allow the S to record “the lectures.” There are no lectures.

Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.

And as always, I am TEACHING today, on #LaborDay.

Fire RFK Jr. Former CDC directors (with 100 years' collective experience) explain: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

The always-insightful reporter Beckie Supiano saw my free ebook about Ungrading Five Years On and we had a great conversation about the current status of #ungrading, including in the context of #AI. acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?u...

Powerhouse #TaylorSwift + Travis Kelce….I am somewhere between the Elderly White Hippies & Millennials, but I’m delighted for them & for such powerful public stories of love. And also, weak orange guy isn’t going to prevail. The cult will go when he does. Release Epstein files

The US as a political entity is not an island. We often hear about Russian interference. Here's an article about Chinese influence on elections in New York. We have laws forbidding nonprofits from endorsing candidates. Laws, schmaws. It's a free-for-all, apparently. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/n...

Focused collective action, including boycotts, can have effects, especially when it’s *ahem* targeted 🎯😎💪

20 Aug 25-- Hillary Clinton advises gay couples to get married now, tells Fox News she predicts Supreme Court will eventually overturn gay marriage 1 decade after its landmark 2015 Obergefell v Hodges ruling. Jim Obergefell agrees with her: tinyurl.com/58naceff @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

This is a fancy neighborhood

@npr writes about sensitive info regarding the Putin-Dump reunion LEFT ON THE HOTEL COPIER. This regime is both evil and incompetent. www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...

I’m definitely not claiming expertise here. But just observing, it seems that the owner reiterated the terms of possession, & the underdog hung his sad head & agreed to everything because otherwise...[XYZ] all comes out. XYZ must be even worse than anything criminal & disgusting that we already know

I bet he'd hate if this side-by-side went viral.

Taylor Swift has figured out many things in her decades in public life. She has a voice and a platform and she is using them. She gets attention for art and strength. Wishing her all the good things with this new album. #TaylorSwift

📕 "a sweeping and deeply felt polemic against the moribund, joyless logic of contemporary schooling" -- read Shaowen Ng's #BookReview of "Schoolishness" by @susandblum.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0013... @cornellupress.bsky.social

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Maybe Alaska doesn't want 2 criminals meeting there in a few days