A very important issue to cover 👇🏽

It was never about money. What a shame that so many in the press went with that line.

🔵 FACULTY POSITION 🔵 U of Illinois is hiring a Secondary Literacy professor (open rank, tenure-track)! 💰 $78K-$130K (rank dependent) 📅 Start 9/2026 ⏰ Deadline: 10/20/25 For more info: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... #AcademicJobs #LiteracyEducation #HigherEd #Literacies Please boost! 🚀

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (PTA, 2025)

Wow - One Battle After Another. See it in the biggest and best format possible.

New interview! On the GOP and the DOJ, the Comey indictment, and why Trump keeps getting what he wants www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1bp...

How power can work.....

Thanks to those who joined! I'll be working through my replies and mentions over the next few days to continue the conversation. I'll plug an amazing volume of research on censorship that you can get now, and vol 2 focuses on teacher voices and is coming out in November (before NCTE). #literacies

New @nepc.bsky.social policy brief with Faith Boninger: how commercial edtech undercuts key goals of public education—and what we can do about it. We look at transparency, governance, and privacy issues and offer recommendations for educators and policymakers. nepc.colorado.edu/publication/...

Be sure to check out our latest Inquiring Minds podcast: Multimodal Authoring! tinyurl.com/Multimod... #Literacies

📊 New @pewresearch.org data on news + social media: • 20% of U.S. adults regularly get news on TikTok (3% in 2020) • Under-30s: 43% • 55% of TikTok users get news on the app 🔗 pewrsr.ch/49Er7sE Other sites: Facebook (38%), YouTube (35%), Instagram (20%), X (12%), Bluesky (2%) 🔗 pewrsr.ch/46zu9h4

A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.” 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

The president is a real estate developer and reality TV star. Here’s what doctors, scientists, and autism experts say about Tylenol and vaccines. When disinformation muddies the waters, @rewirenewsgroup.com floods the zone with truth.

Since moving to Miami, our already-expensive home insurance has gone up about 50% This will not be sustainable for us.

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

"Charlie's death was not just a murder. The true word for what Charlie did is 'sacrifice.' ...Charlie Kirk died for all of you. And Charlie's sacrifice means that Charlie Kirk will live forever ...for all future generations of Americans." I'm sorry, are we going full Kirkian Atonement Theory?

States are reeling as Trump and the Republicans’ murderous budget bill slashes SNAP benefits — hitting nearly 42 million people. 🛑 62% are families with children 🛑 37% include seniors or people with disabilities 🛑 38% are working families This is an attack on America’s most vulnerable.

Happy September 21st to those that celebrate!!! 😃 💃🏾🕺🏾

...and goodbye to Academia (.edu) If you need any of my scholarship, just ask!

Said goodbye to Target and Prime- and now it’s Disney‘s turn. Money is what matters —and voting with the pocketbook seems to be the only thing that will enact change.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

But why, I wonder?

The feeling when, you are asked to be a reviewer because the authors cite a number of your papers in their manuscript 🤗

The signs are everywhere

Senate Republicans hosted JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon for lunch today. About an hour later, House Republicans blocked efforts to subpoena JPMorgan for information about Jeffrey Epstein. www.politico.com/live-updates... www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

This is why they’re deleting studies

The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.

Watch the farms be bought up to build and run data centers for AI slop

America, 2025.

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

Hardly a day goes by that I am not so incredibly thankful to have left a very toxic work environment and to be in a new space that has many problems, but is one where I can thrive

under this language charlie kirk would not have been allowed to speak on clemson’s campus

so ICE murdered a father in cold blood from a routine traffic stop, we're murdering random Venezuelans in foreign waters, we're shackling S. Koreans for building the factories we need to keep the southern economy alive, and we have a majority party trying to tie passport status to political views

The lack of truth and the allowance of lies in spite of direct evidence against it does not bode well for anyone's democtratic flourishing

Long-term unemployment at post-pandemic high, straining workers and economy www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Live your life in such a way that, when you die, people directly quoting you does’t sound like a personal attack on your character.

So deserving. She is the heart and soul of the show.

LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later. Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website. Many implications for knowledge 🧪

Today, @olivia.science and her colleagues speak about their efforts to resist the uncritical adoption of AI in academia. Read all about it in today's blog, and see their open letter below: openletter.earth/open-letter-... www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g...

Its H.R. 5300, "To guide the foreign policy of the United States, and for other purposes." This is a five-alarm fire.

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Bolsonaro found guilty of coup plot. Twenty-Seven Years. www.npr.org/2025/09/11/n...

Outgoing senior DoJ Domestic Terror lawyer Tom Brzozowski warned last month that threat level was “red,” not b/c of a terror group but increasing propensity for disgruntled Americans to act on personal grievances. Unit disbanded by Bondi. @SpyTalker www.spytalk.co/p/exclusive-... #KirkAssassination

Trump Administration Withholds $660M for College Access Programs www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

For the last 50 years, what Americans heard about government economic policy was similar regardless of education. This started to break down during Trump's first term. Now it has completely separated.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Loved how I got to clarify that the 5 principles in section 4 of the paper were nothing new. They came straight out of The Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, that every scientists in The Netherlands already ought to know. All we did is apply them to AI. www.nwo.nl/en/netherlan...

The cost of my espresso bean bulk coffee was $21 dollars back in May and is now $39 thanks to tariffs