I see some teachers are again claiming that the common core is reason they cannot teach novels or book length nonfiction. Nope. Nothing in the standards/outcomes prevents you from requiring students to read and work with entire books.

Field botanist job with Virginia Natural Heritage, based in Roanoke, VA. $55-65K pay range. Please share widely! www.jobs.virginia.gov/jobs/field-b...

there are not enough hotdog gifs in the world

So pleased to see this new volume, Shopping in Eighteenth-Century Europe published in our Routledge series. Congratulations to My Hellsing and Johanna Ilmakunnas for putting together such an interesting collection of essays! #skystorians #c18th 🗃️

Missouri Republican lawmakers do not respect Missouri voters. The only way to undo the damage is to kick them out of office. The only way to get them out is to win races across the state. The only way to win races is to contest every race on every ballot. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

BREAKING: Democrats have *flipped* a seat in Georgia's state House tonight. Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall. This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.

Except, of course, neither the question posed nor the answers suggested by a college president primarily hired by schools to slash, burn, then leave are why the private SLAC was struggling. Teaching out under-enrolled majors is nothing new. Nor is deliberately using cheap, contingent labor….🧵

Do me a favor and don’t dunk on the college kid, bc we’ve all bitched as teens/twenty-somethings about stuff we thought was useless. But, Kruse is correct. Signed, an English prof who bitched *a lot* abt FORTRAN in the 80s, then was hugely grateful for the next few decades for the habits of mind.

Remember, as Sean Duffy keeps telling us his ideas for air travel -- dress up nice for your flight! do a little workout before you get on too! -- this is an actual Good Thing We Wanted that Democrats secured for us before these assholes took it away

Rabbit locomotion — Brehms Tierleben, 1914

BREAKING: HUD has withdrawn the grant funding notice that threatened to yank most permanent supportive housing allocations (and displace some 600 Atlanta households). But that doesn't mean housing nonprofits can stop panicking. (1/) www.courtlistener.com/docket/71959...

I wonder who in Texas will use this very same mechanism to put Freedom Schools in high school and colleges across the state. Test their claims of *viewpoint* diversity and demand the same money that will be going to this effort to also support Freedom schools.

Farm bailouts are a combination of socialism & coporate welfare The bulk of Trump's reported $12B in farm bailouts are merely pass throughs that go to big corporate interests like John Deere, Archer Daniels Midland, BASF & Bayer www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...

Fun fact: Flame is one of the most kissable dogs of all time

For this month’s @outsidemag.bsky.social column, I took a rat taxidermy class, and it was… surprisingly sweet? As the teacher said, “We’re reclaiming what’s beautiful and interesting about the things we’ve been told are bad or gross.” I love my rat. His name is Meatball.

Flame is doing great! At 12, she still has a 5-foot vertical and can jump any fence. She says it’s because she eats a lot of bread.

That thing Trump has accused his enemies of? He did it himself. “Given Trump’s position on situations like this, he’s going to either need to fire himself or refer himself to the Department of Justice,” said one expert. We got the receipts. 👇🏻

Did you or someone you know dance on Soul Train in the 1970s? I’d like to talk with you or them about that experience for my research Thanks!

Stunning footage from earlier today, when the new Kilauea eruption covered the USGS Webcam 3, which is situated in the Halemaʻumaʻu crater near the southern rim of the much larger Kilauea caldera. This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw. But it's not very far off.

NPR fights Trump's executive order against public media The case isn't getting much attention. But it pits the press's right not to face government retaliation over coverage against the president's assertion of vast executive powers My story: www.npr.org/2025/12/05/g...

Everyone please, and my Georgia folk especially, please amplify this one and let’s see if we can get Luna a home for Christmas.

It's not hypocrisy, it's power.

Our latest poll asked what Marketplace enrollees would do if their total health care costs — including premiums, deductibles, and other cost-sharing — increased by $1,000 per year. See what they said ⤵️

Every year, Tom Cotton appears more and more to be one of those guys who joined the military because he was hoping to slake a blood lust.

Some good news for libraries! 📕📗📘📙 www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...

JUST IN: Democrats have flipped the mayor's office in Roswell, Georgia, in tonight's runoff. GOP Mayor Kurt Wilson conceded earlier tonight to Mary Robichaux, the Dem challenging him. (This is a city in the Atlanta suburbs, the 9th most populous city in Georgia.)

Dark red glacé leather ankle boots with matching fake fur trim. Charles Jourdan, France. c1975. Via The Museum at FIT.

I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...

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“That sounds illegal”

it looks like the "mississippi" miracle in reading scores was due to be a pretty basic stats error in the design of the experimental study (selecting on the dependent variable)... a lotta people Got Got on this one! statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/01/h...

If you’re unfamiliar with @annelouiseavery.bsky.social and her lovely Advent Calendar, do yourself a favor and follow her. These are stories that acknowledge dark times and offer light and hope and more in response.

Just make sure to read the replies I give you English profs and their adjacent colleagues

Sen. Jim Justice (R-West Virginia) and his wife agreed to pay over $5 million in unpaid income taxes that the IRS said dated back to 2009.

It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!

Sparkling like a festive bauble, Victor Stiebel’s early #1960s cocktail dress deploys a heap of embellishment not just in the form of beadwork at the bodice but a textured cloqué fabric as well. Sold via #AugustaAuction #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

I don't know what's happening here, but the word "scam" is having a surge in congressional communications from Republicans.

A vintage blue VW bus that became an unlikely symbol of resilience after it survived a California wildfire made its public debut this week, shiny and like-new after Volkswagen spent months restoring the damaged vehicle.

This is lovely work. Poetry!

ABC's story about the investigation of Eagle Ed and Bill Pulte's outside investigators is quite extensive. abcnews.go.com/US/doj-fbi-p...

Victorian medicine chest, which contains medications for pain relief, such as opium. It also includes a set of scales, weights, a pill tile, and a spatula. It was probably used in the home or by an apothecary. Photo: Wellcome Collection, London

The pull quote alone. 😂 Have a read — it’s a good one.

Keen to explore maritime environments and histories without going to sea? The Royal Museums Greenwich Caird Fellowship deadline is 18 January 2026.

Just in case, be careful out there folks and look out for each other.

They're so fucking stupid and don't realize it. The only reason many white students can afford graduate degrees is because foreign students pay for the programs and allow them to be economically efficient. Without foreign students, many programs will now simply collapse. Genius.

"By any consistent standard, if Summers is unfit to work for each of these institutions [from which he resigned], he is equally unfit to teach at our school. Harvard should not be the only institution in America where Summers remains above reproach." 🔥🔥🔥 www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.