Need a mood boost? Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl

#pairedtexts @jennbinis.bsky.social?

Database of decisions/penalties in legal cases where "AI" was found to be used by either a litigator or a judge; does not count *All* cases of "AI" used in court filings, just those where it was a) found & b) officially remarked upon or penalized. Incredibly useful collection & arrangement of data:

The talented @mimicofmodes.com introduced me to the world of AO3 and I just spent the morning reading a truly incredible piece of multi-genre Heated Rivalry fanfic. The author wrote fiction vignettes, social media conversations, legal transcripts, podcast excerpts, and more.

If only sociologists would stop talking about structure & agency.

For non-NYers, five of these athletes are from upstate. Four are Western NYers and one is from Po-kip-see.

NEW: lawmakers in new york rolled out a proposed data center moratorium bill today, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce legislation pausing data center development in the past few *weeks*:

Opening ceremonies are making Mrs. Volts cry, and she can't quite explain why. I honestly just think that, these days, in the US, any glimpse of decency or beauty or love or wonder in public life is like an oasis in the f'ing desert. A reminder that humans can be good & creative & cooperative.

One of these platforms has been home to a decade-long project to bring curated, high-quality and in-depth public history content into people's feeds every day. Just saying.

Educator Who Read ‘I Need a New Butt!’ to Students Wins Job Back in Court 📚 (Four years later) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...

One of the paradoxes of this plan is that its fans should be some of the staunchest abortion access advocates out there. They're not.

Hey, everyone! You didn't realize, or weren't thinking thru effects or implications of sharing violent propaganda. Understandable! Researchers who study nazi/supremacist imagery mark it up when sharing to render it not reusable. So, please, "X out;" draw a line or otherwise disfigure these. 🙏🏼

ICE surge news: Minneapolis Public Schools has extended *optional* distance learning until April 6.

A very dear and smart friend of mine is confident she knows when AI is wrong and how to ask the right questions to prevent it from hallucinating. Going to try and subtly slip this thread onto her desk.

In NE Minneapolis and Columbia Heights today, Weds. 2/5/26, ICE has been focusing on schools and schoolbus stops. SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLBUS STOPS. This is their “softer touch”

AI is a cancer on the profession. I know in all of these cases the judge is like "there are legitimate uses of AI that should not be discouraged" but I disagree. Just ban it. We practiced law without it for hundreds of years. It's fine.

"we prohibit the use of AI in peer reviews of articles ... conducting literature reviews, describing methods, collecting and analyzing data, ... drafting descriptions of analyses and findings, interpreting analyses, or ... identifying citations and references" 😍 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

decided to see what upscrolled was like, and the third post i saw after making an account was csam i already had concerns about the platform’s leadership, but now you can be certain i’m going nowhere near it and would recommend others stay away too

The book that formed the base of Wikipedia and social studies classes, now gone for no reason. And that personnel bit at the end about how the World Factbook was built by generations of CIA officials is the strongest I've ever seen them criticize a current admin. www.cia.gov/stories/stor...

Being a poll worker is a powerful, life-affirming experience in many ways and I mean that with all sincerity I can muster in this day and age! And! Each time a new voter check ins, you get to lead everyone in a round of applause for them! (or at least we did in 2024 and it was great!)

Today on Volts: I'm joined by the great @michaelhobbes.bsky.social to discuss "reactionary centrism," an intellectual tendency that's come to dominate US public life. You know the type: would never view themselves as conservative, yet finds voluntary pronoun use vastly more aggravating than fascism.

as i keep saying, the things to do to secure elections are to volunteer to work the polls or to serve as an observer, & to pressure your *state representatives* to take steps to further secure voting locations and ballots. you should also learn about how election administration works in your area.

This is a great question and it's not going to happen in a world where the concept of "good schools" exists.

As an occasional writing exercise, I like to draft out what a progressive response to a conservative-authored educational essay might sound like. This is a good essay for such an exercise. Some of the questions I'm thinking about: fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...

If people laid off from The Post are wondering about maybe starting a Substack, last summer I wrote about why I wasn’t. www.pbump.net/o/the-power-...

One of the many lessons of The Good Place was that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism and WHY ARE WOMEN EDUCATORS STILL ON TWITTER?

This is my thing, yes criticize Dems and call them. But run your Republican Congress critters ragged right now. Make it impossible for them to have a moment of peace.

#Edusky may remember Emmanuel from his time on the education beat, at Hechinger... What a devastating day for the news.

Teachers are people. And some people are assholes. She's an extra special asshole because she used her access to a child's files and took advantage of her position to try and make life harder for a child in her trust. Also, this takes a wild turn around minute three. She is making CHOICES.

“.. Not a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum .. on the violence inflicted by federal immigration agents, featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good ..” @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/post/206100/...

Opposition to data centers appears to be an issue that can bring a bunch of different people together. Let's do it! Broad coalitions are needed to take on oligarchs.

Look for a two-part series in @edweek.org this week featuring several educators sharing their suggestions for how to teach during these chaotic times. Contributors include @christienold.bsky.social , @scmaestra.bsky.social and others!

A whole of lot of the current administration's actions really don't seem to register with conservatives but I'll tell you what - the news about the changes to USPS postmark dates was just discussed at my very red town board meeting and it REGIS.TER.ED.

It's on now! I am at the AskHistorians Reddit Forum answering questions about KGB spy fiction & my new book #KGBLiterati! See you there! @socintelhist.bsky.social

Reporter: The Columbia Heights Public School District put out a statement saying they're overjoyed that Liam is back in Minnesota, but they flagged that 4 other students from across the district are currently being held at Dilley. And early this morning, the school received a credible bomb threat

Very excited to share an excerpt I illustrated about a measure called the super-expropriation index from David I. Backer’s new book, “As Public As Possible: Radical Finance For America’s Public Schools.” If you’re interested in rebuilding school finance policy to serve the public read his book now!

If these had been agents under my purview I would have *immediately* reprimanded and reassigned them after taking that call. Immediately. And the fucking DNI of all people facilitated it. That is so far out of bounds I can hardly fathom it.

#PairedTexts 1. Justin Spiro: Schools never closed EIGHT DAYS after a snowstorm before COVID. COVID school closures normalized that school is not essential and children’s education is disposable. (RTed by Alexander Russo) 2. Lake Storm Aphid, October 2006 (Schools closed for 11 days)

As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused. So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.

and again, the New Yorker reporting from Columbia Heights is well worth reading www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Helen. I am not a fan.

Please make it your new resolution to visit AskHistorians once a week, because we've never been this invested in overtaking another community.

lolsob. I have easily a dozen books on my shelves authored by progressive CHANGE SCHOOL NOW guys pre-2020 that say, basically, this same thing. (Todd Rose, in particular, is a fan of this sentiment.)

#MeToo didn’t go far enough, actually

I make the bed every day except for #Caturday. Because we sleep in until 6:30 and then Steve! kicks us out.

An entire political movement founded on uncovering hidden messages in documents to discover the powerful secret pedophiles and meanwhile the powerful pedophiles out here sending gmails saying "Hi fellow pedophile when are we meeting to do pedophilia again"