I am annoying everyone in my house while I read this book, because nearly every page I want to read a sentence out loud or talk about Edmu/ond Hai/l/wley. @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social

JFC, Prudie. Groom outsources thinking, language, and basic human emotions to ChatGPT, and you give the letter writer the bridezilla treatment? Note to the bride - yeah, him having AI write his vows is a big fucking deal. No, you're not overreacting. slate.com/advice/2025/...

I’m rereading The Age of Innocence for the first time in 25 years. I remember May Welland and Madame Olenska a bit - but I did not remember the sparkling, lethal humor of the writing. My god.

Every once in a while, I get to witness a student truly coming to a new understanding of the world - an awakening, a sudden explosion of wisdom. It is messy, breathless, and it's utterly inconvenient to the structures of academic writing. Mind-altering realizations get Bs on standard rubrics.

Dear students, Your AI-generated emails asking for excused absences are too verbose and make you sound like a bootlicking asshole. You don't need 6 overwritten, sycophantic paragraphs to say "I was ill, but I'll get the work done." Sincerely, Your human professor

Reframe the sentiment as “you only need two video games” and see how quickly the white American male gets involved in politics.

I’m head-scratching at the ways that tribalism has made the left forget our critiques of globalization / free trade. Global consumer capitalism is a labor, environmental, and human rights nightmare. Can we both critique the tariffs as a regressive tax AND critique global capitalism?

I feel like a difference between my early adulthood and the current era is the absence today of a meaningful concept of “selling out”. The economic, technological, educational, political and cultural context today means that we are ALWAYS selling ourselves. We can’t afford to not sell out.

What people really don’t want to hear is that shaming people who brag about writing emails with AI would be just fine. Admirable in fact. Norms can sometimes do what law won’t.

USian pro-democracy activism is quite old and white. College students today were in early elementary school when Trump was elected in 2016. For them, the US IS a dystopian hellscape - we have to make a case for why it’s worth saving. And listen to them about how it must change.

You'd think that with a technology as grandiose as AI, students would learn to cover their cheating tracks a bit better? Alas.

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

Van Hollen on Fox News Sunday: "I'm not vouching for the man. I'm vouching for the man's rights. His constitutional rights to due process."

Every Trump apologist laughing at Democrats for “defending MS-13” is endorsing a conception of law in which the executive branch can abduct and disappear U.S. citizens to a foreign prison without even giving them an opportunity to object. It’s really that simple. These losers just crave fascism.

DAVID BROOKS says “we have nothing to lose but our chains.” David. Brooks.

MAGA is a death cult.

The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis. The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall. 1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.

Over on The Hellsite, JD Vance has now functionally called for an end to due process for migrants. His argument is riddled with deceptions, bad faith, and embarrassingly awful logic. I think it needs a real response, so here's what I put up over there. First, his 20 million number is fiction. 1/

“The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of FOUR YEARS…” — US Constitution Article II, Section 1 “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than TWICE…” — 22nd Amendment

What happens next is crucial to every person in the U.S., particularly those who are not white, "Christian", straight, disabled or MAGA adherent. The Supreme Court needs to start the contempt process with a lower level Trump official & go up the ladder until Abregro Garcia is returned

I scrapped my plans for my classes today and had my students build a timeline of the Kilmer Abrego Garcia case - then we articulated the constitutional issues at every step. We noticed how the Trump admin consistently reads court orders in bad faith. Sidestepping responsibility. #BringHimHome

The US has clearly articulated ideals - inalienable rights, rule of law, etc. - that are foundational to its National mythos. They ARE NOT reality and never have been.

Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

Forget about the legal case. A man was wrongly deported and placed in a notorious prison with leaders of a gang out to get him. Anyone with an ounce of basic human decency would fix the mistake and return that man to the United States

Week: From hell. World: On fire. Brain: "Have you tried cake? What about online shopping? Let's definitely not sleep." Stupid brain.

When “fraud, waste, and abuse” means “people I don’t like”, then ACTUAL fraud, waste, and abuse can go unchecked because there’s no way to name them.

Current status: Scared out of my fucking mind. truthout.org/articles/wha...

Am spending time with people I love with whom I disagree very much. It’s a fascinating, horrible tour of the alternate reality Fox News built. Up is down and down is up. But also I love them and they love me and my family. I believe love matters but it’s still so so hard.

If they can abduct people, with no due process, then no one is safe. March Sat. April 5

"Stand up straight with your fucking shoulders back, stop chasing get-rich-quick schemes and porno fantasies, get a job and try talking to that girl you like and listening when she talks to you." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-gend...

My comfort podcast right now is E Pluribus Motto, with @hodgman.bsky.social and Janet Varney. At a time when my feelings about ‘Murica are, um, complicated, this is a loving tour of each of the 50 states and all their little weirdsies. Thanks @maximumfun.org

Tariffs like these raise prices and don't work. But if you skipped class the day we all learned that – here's a refresher:

Ok, who grabbed the opportunity in class today to respond to a raised hand with “I yield to the question while retaining the floor”? #edusky

Stop with the "why is he so obsessed with Greenland and Canada its so weird" discourse. Look at a globe from the top and how close the continents are together. Climate change is opening up sea lanes. Putin has an asset in the White House - the entire northern hemisphere is his for the taking.

This elderly man showed up to support an anti-trans bill in my home state and then, because he had to wait hours to testify, he was stuck listening to queer folks rally against it By the time it was his turn to speak, he'd changed his mind Never doubt that speaking out can change hearts and minds

📄 NEW: "To Survive This, We Must Break the Fourth Wall" With a potential government shutdown looming, old frames of left vs. right political conflict are breaking down. We're dealing with something much bigger — and it's time we talk about it frankly. america2.news/to-survive-t...

Last night, my reaction to Schumer's yes vote was an emphatic "fuck that coward." I'm thinking about it this morning and wondering - if the government shut down, what if the Republicans just decided to NEVER OPEN IT AGAIN? What could we do?

No Dem Senator has to follow Schumer here. This is a weak stategic move driven by fear and learned helplessness. Don't follow him. He's leading the party into irrelevance and helping Trump and Musk in the process. Call your Dem Senators and ask them not to join Schumer's surrender tomorrow.

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

These JHU cuts are to HIV programs in India and TB programs in Uganda. These cuts will kill people. MAGA is a death cult. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

We’ve always been at war with Canada.

This is the news we deserve. “These are the 1st images of humpbacks having sex, and they're both males 'It was not what I was expecting,' says biologist Stephanie Stack”