The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

Oh, well, it's not like trust is important in teaching...

[gift link] "At 16 and 17 years old, Sam and Ben for the past two months have made it their mission to follow, investigate and capture federal immigration activity across the Chicago area." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/14/d...

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

"to get her to be good probably requires more firmness than I enjoy"

Chockful or chock full... Oh well.

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

Happy to say that the reading/teaching guide for Unequal Lessons is now live! It's chockful of prompts and resources for folks who are using the book in reading groups or classes. You can find it on the NYU Press book page or access it directly here: nyu.app.box.com/s/hcffzukiyq...

Thanks to @gregpak.net for letting us know about zine folding in an "oasis of geekdom" which is truly my family's sweet spot.

Happy to say that the reading/teaching guide for Unequal Lessons is now live! It's chockful of prompts and resources for folks who are using the book in reading groups or classes. You can find it on the NYU Press book page or access it directly here: nyu.app.box.com/s/hcffzukiyq...

When I studied for a semester in Canada, I had to see a doctor. I asked about the charge and they laughed and laughed at me. I said, "But I'm not Canadian so I don't pay into the system!" They said: "We literally have nowhere to put your money."

When I studied for a semester in Canada, I had to see a doctor. I asked about the charge and they laughed and laughed at me. I said, "But I'm not Canadian so I don't pay into the system!" They said: "We literally have nowhere to put your money."

As the parent of a 14 y.o. who easily could have received this report card, I will just say... people will not, in fact, put up with many things if you are excellent at math. (We are SO proud of him. But mostly because it no longer takes a page to detail concerns about how he treats other people.)

Oates, Lamar, and Chotiner.

FWIW, all it takes to organize grocery gift cards is 1. Find someone who can take donations by Venmo/Zelle etc 2. Ask PTA/class parents/leaders to send emails to families with donation info 3. Use donated money to buy as many $25 gift cards as possible 4. Ask principal/PTA to distribute as needed

"save your anger for 2026" wait you think I'll run out in a year this is why I hate amateurs

It took 10 minutes total, by the way.

I just stopped doomscrolling to (a) organize grocery gift card donations for families at my kid's school, (b) make plans to fold zines about ICE through @handsoffnyc.bsky.social and (c) call Chuck Schumer to tell him what I think of his leadership. Highly recommend, way less infuriating.

Thanks so much for this excellent phrasing, which I really struggled with when I called his office all dismayed last night. Today I'll just leave a voicemail that reads this aloud.

Make the Goddamn meal and put it in your Free Fridge. Write the $100 check to the food bank. Ask your local school what they need for the kids and then go about trying to get that stuff.... Do these things regularly and you are making meaningful contributions to your communities.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

as a thought exercise for everyone reading ross douthat's latest missive in the NYT, i want you to think about sending an email to your entire company with the subject line "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?", then think about the over/under on the number of minutes/hours you would still be employed

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June. It’s louder & clearer tonight.

This, my friends, is the one.

One reason why Jamelle Bouie is the best - and the greatest - is not only is he brilliant - he is an A+-level hater and I am always here for it.

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

I am still thinking about a family costume I saw trick or treating on Friday. A dad in t-shirt covered in fake blood waving a fake knife. A mom with Shelley Duvall hair. And twin girls with braids in blood stained blue button down dresses. SO GOOD. But... how did they explain it to their kids?

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

There really are much bigger things to worry about in the world, but I just tried to sign in to Manuscript Central and...

Dolly Parton releases “9 to 5” 45 yrs ago today. “I knew what it was like to be a working woman trying to make a decent living, trying to be taken seriously. .. I wanted a song that sounded playful on the surface but spoke to that frustration .. A song about women .. saying, ‘We deserve better.’”

It's like they didn't even want the jewels.

Awful in and of itself. And also, just to state the obvious... Kids of color are much more likely to be treated as adults (and less likely to be considered "young") than White kids.

Well, now I can't decide between Halloween voting and marathon voting. So many choices!

Sometimes I believe that we will get through this for something better because we are yearning to take care of each other.

"Reporting the thoughts of a billionaire as news is as grotesque as the amount of wealth they’ve been allowed to accumulate." I had a lot of fun writing this for @thenewrepublic.bsky.social -- seeing Gates' thoughts on climate change reported yesterday made me cranky

There is so much to be disgusted by here but let's start off very basic with the claim that Mamdani "doesn't understand New York culture." One candidate received a historic wave of support from an incredibly diverse coalition of New Yorkers. The other did not. Which one understands New Yorkers?

10 y.o. doing math homework tonight: "Wait... the answer is 6.7!" Me: "I think maybe your teacher did it on purpose." Kid: "No. He wouldn't do that. Or would he???"

You can vote for Andrew Cuomo, who lied about elderly deaths and sexual harassment OR you could vote for the guy who uses warm familial relationships to describe people who are not as closely related as those words imply

If I wanted to run a study using these teaching methods as a field experiment, my university would not allow it.

I periodically post great things I see happening in my kids' schools. Today's highlgiht comes from 9th grade US History (via Google classroom which I generally loathe but may need to change my mind about).

obviously this is the dementia test etc but can we take a beat to savor the intersection of maga and race science in light of this. chef kissing fingers

support whomever you’d like, but what is frustratingly dishonest about this take is that actual issue — the thing critics have identified as the problem — isn’t the decision of the 21-year old to get the tattoo, but of the judgment of the 40-year old who still has it.

I can't exactly explain why but this might be the headline that entirely breaks me for the rest of 2025.