For the @ajc.com, I wrote about how close reading cultivates the virtues that promote eudaimonia, or human flourishing, or the good life. That's me in the picture at the front of the room. www.ajc.com/opinion/2026...

It is time to vote Steyer. Porter has a problematic track record of failing to support progressive taxation and has spoken out to support war criminal Netanyahu.

If I were an opposition party, I'd be renting buses across the country with large signs on them saying "The President and his party are robbing you, making you poor and they also cannot organize concerts..." LMAO!

“Disaster Donald” Trump: Technofascists and Know-Nothings

A good reposte to “electability” misconceptions open.substack.com/pub/thewhite...

WMO predicts temperatures will be ‘at or near record levels’ for next five years. Surface heat average through 2030 likely to exceed 1.5°C target climateandcapitalism.com/2026/05/28/t...

A great piece, and an important account of the debate between bell hooks and Judith Butler about the film. I'm definitely disappointed to read about hooks' position.

Itamar Ben-Gvir has been attacked across Israeli politics for a cruel video showing him mocking flotilla activists as they were being abused by officers. His offense was not his fascist celebration, but rather showing the true face of Israel. mondoweiss.net/2026/05/itam...

This pope is not mealy-mouthed: "New forms of slavery are fueled by economic chains and digital infrastructures."

"At the root… lies a technocratic and post-humanist mentality that tends to regard the human person as an object to be manipulated or a resource to be optimized, removing all safeguards against the unchecked pursuit of profit. What prevails is efficiency, rather than… freedom and human dignity"

Colbert knows how to live. Trump knows how to be dead inside. Yes, he said the comedian was "like a dead person." As usual, he was projecting. Here's Colbert a day after his show ended. Still funny, joyful. Guests: Jeff Daniels, Eminem, Jack White. My THREAD. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJTX...

It is amazing how quickly my interest in reading SF stories about AI has dropped to basically zero. All it took was a couple of years of tech bros insisting I think about it!

Nothing promotes individual liberty quite like a state-mandated indoctrination.

US media keeps using the phrase “heightened tensions with Cuba” to describe what is in reality unilateral US aggression, with illegal sanctions and threats of illegal invasion, against innocent people who repeatedly say they just want to be left alone.

Wikileaks released footage of a very similar incident perpetrated by US soldiers in 2010. The footage triggered global outrage at the highest levels. Now Israel perpetrates this crime over and over again, with total impunity. Zionism is hollowing out humanity and must be ended.

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Screwed up the link yesterday! Here’s my Boots Riley profile, a splashy exposé of Oakland cocktail culture, Prince fanhood, Communism, surrealism, maximalism, non-medicated colonoscopies & the real reason Boots wears his hats: Boots Riley, Marx Brother www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

It’s not about declining humanities majors or declining humanities enrollments (which are respectively overblown and not a thing). It’s about structural disinvestment.

This is exactly right. www.chronicle.com/article/kill...

More Becerra corruption

Like the bumper sticker: “Jesus helps me trick people.”

We will not forget!

It has been a difficult decision, but I am voting for Katie Porter for Governor. It would be so beautiful to have a (progressive) woman in that office. I can’t vote for the hedge fund billionaire based on an “electability” arithmetical logic. And forget corrupt establishment stooge Becerra!

Becerra corruption www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/u...

This is one of the reasons I left education early. I was forced as a teacher supervisor to police teachers to use Amira at least 1 hour a day. If kids got tutored before or after school they got stuck on it for additional time. Kids hated it. Kids with special needs were harmed by it.

Trump's arrival to China with billionaires as well as his son is raising serious questions about who really benefits from these deals. The American people or Trump and his family of parasites? One thing I know for sure, China is not worried about a thing🙄 #china #TheTrumpCrimeFamily #pinks

There is a big difference between "people who are 'scared' of AI and don't want to learn new things" and "people who have deep moral objections to AI's underpinnings, impacts, and the systems of power behind it." It's wild to me that institutions pushing AI adoption don't seem to understand this.

"Silicon Valley spent years selling the public the fantasy of 'the cloud,' as if AI exists in some clean digital space floating above reality. But AI is not weightless. It is deeply physical." open.substack.com/pub/grumpych...

The absurdity, the cruelty, the suffering

So the U. S., one of the most corrupt governments in world history, says they can’t support Ukraine any longer because of… wait for it…corruption. If it wasn’t such a travesty it would be laughable.

That’s strange. Why are they booing? Maybe she should try being very condescending

Love this though; finally a country that follows the science rather than the hype arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

rather than focus on what ( fascist crook Putin puppet) Orban did wrong in Hungary. What did the pro democracy protesters do right, and what lessons are there for America? youtube.com/shorts/Bv_d3...

This is hopium but it feels like the only alternative to the Politics of the WHCD Guy at the moment

Links: www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog... www.ibtimes.co.uk/judge-blocks... www.cnn.com/2026/05/08/p...

To slightly adapt Orwell: The Supreme Court told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was its final, most essential command.

Always a good time to read McClanahan and McCune’s “Ed Tech” keyword, but now seems even better www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Please don’t forget that the story about the hack broke widely on MONDAY. And instead of preparing campus contingencies, administrators kept it quiet. www.techrepublic.com/article/news...

Also, this article from over winter break. I shared this with my students first day of class and we made a collective agreement to minimize our use of canvas. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

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Same energy:

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

No to Becerra as Governor