2nd Father's Day without my dad. My dad was a welder; his three kids hold six degrees. One of only a couple of times I saw him crying was the day I received my Ph.D. He built my amazing and privileged life on his welding burns. youtu.be/WIpC_Icpb3A?...

If you haven’t read this yet, fix that as soon as possible: it’s a beautifully crafted response to a great album. And if you teach literature, you might want to consider using the second and third paragraphs as an example of how close reading works.

And Ms. 1920 is pissed about it.

I love this fantasy that Dem leaders talk about problems like they're leading a college seminar. Chuck Schumer, sadly, just sounds like a weak dumbass.

Certainly USC can afford to say no. And USC must know that the correct answer to "do you want us to trash your Uni for 200 mill" is no, no thank you. If they cannot afford to say no, then they should spin off the sports teams and just fold as a university.

Not to mention active citizenship. Crazy as a loon here, but I'm thinking that the ability to engage those texts is required of decent adulting in a democracy.

I don't like, but expect, the Yankees being good. BUT Colorado and Houston have the same record!? AND both of those terrible records are better than Boston's. I don't know any more. I blame those f'ing clocks.

If one were absentmindedly scrolling through the feed, this image, at first glance, appears to offer something like a recipe for a bat burrito.

Welcome!

And even more confusing: one of them is the president of France. I’m not sure which one.

"Way off" you say? Sure, there's all that pre-apocalypse anxiety. But your list seems pretty good. Good day. Oh, perhaps I'm projecting.....

Sure, Bluesky sucks.... What's this? Amazing people sharing amazing ideas about how to teach something amazing. Thanks to you all for sharing.

Bunnicula!

I love Radio Garden. Stop scrolling and spin the globe. You might, for example, learn that there are a lot of classic country radio stations in France. And you can listen to them. You can rebuild NATO. You. You can do it.

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

Happy Friday. As a form of resistance to all that sucks so much... Here's my dog, Louis, doing his best impersonation of Ferdinand.

Happy Friday. As a form of resistance to all that sucks so much... Here's my dog, Louis, doing his best impersonation of Ferdinand.

We have one spot on a panel at Rocky Mountain MLA (Oct. 8-10 in Ogden UT). It's very open panel on US lit after 1900, and I'm open to expanding how we think about US and lit. Working on something and looking for a supportive audience? Join us! rmmla.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/...

Trump is basing his "argument" against birthright citizenship on this language, "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" (suggesting that undocumented people in the US are not subject to the jurisdiction of the US). Is he, then, granting all undocumented folks something like diplomatic immunity?

I'm adding the demand of any politicians who want my vote that they promise to turn over to international courts any and all members of this administration who have committed war crimes.

There is a real opportunity here for a college or several to offer expedited admission and generous scholarships to students who had their educations disrupted because they sought to right a wrong. Those colleges win; Columbia loses.

We really need to get to the bottom of what happened in that blank space between paragraphs! I think that's where the two normal teens from Pennsylvania were radicalized.

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This really doesn't seem to be about the achievement gap. It's a measure of how the caste system will reproduce itself. Rich kids? Let's send them to private schools to focus on thinking and prep for SLACs. Poor kids? Prep them for automated thinking and this generation's version of the mines.

I will keep this safely on my desktop for those moments when I need an emotional boost to face it all.

Wow, that takes a, on second-thought, very predictable turn.

All terrible, but shouldn't we want them to be taller?

I am not that man. But, yes, please, to that hat.

In my mind it goes like this: Trump: Why don't you smile more? Any male reporter in the room: Why don't you shit your pants less?

Just stop the funding to DHS. That'll do. Best partial government shutdown ever.

Does he want to kill them?

This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

Okay, this was beautiful—part movie review, part history of science, and all lyric essay. Yes, NPR is very much worth funding. www.npr.org/2026/02/03/n...

Now that we're in the two-week "reforming" DHS period of the partial govt. shut down, can we just skip to letting funding for it die, shutting down that part of the government? Then congress can get to work clawing back all DHS funding? [Ferris's history teacher voice]: Schumer? ... Schumer?

Yes, that is the way to be in the Epstein files. Tina Brown for the win.

No, Charles Murray, I'm old and grumpy. But I'm not a dick. You are a dick.

Ignoring the great books part for now.... The benefit to that student also turns out to be a benefit to us all: it's a shared, collective good. Those cool, interesting, creative, happy people make great neighbors, and they make my community better.

The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.

Whether it's a Hillary Clinton staffer asking John Podesta how to make risotto or Elon Musk asking Jeffrey Epstein where he could find a party featuring child sex slaves, there's plenty of embarrassing emails on both sides.

A PROTEST SONG! Folks, do what you can. Sing your protest. Speak your protest. Join neighbors in protest. Blow whistles in protest. Record evidence in protest. Offer late nite insight & solidarity in protest (🙃) Do what you can. It all matters.

First Billy Bragg, now the Boss answering the question: what can I do? Well, what are you good at? Do that, but do it in a helpful way. Write, sing, lawyer, consume (buy things for groups organizing on the ground), yell, talk, skeet, teach, etc. Now let me get to work taking my own advice.

And, if we're to believe Dick Durbin, "reform immigration detention," that is, reform concentration camps for critically ill children. Nope, I don't think that'll do. Let's blow past reform.

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

Thank you for this. It provided a nice framework for my call to my two senators. Appeasement is not a good plan; just no, shut it down.

After the Boston Massacre, the soldiers responsible were arrested and received fair trials. King George recalled the regiment to England, and then American leaders were like “good, that was enough, we’ll remain your loyal subjects forever…” wait, that’s not right…

No, let's not settle before the fact: he can be mocked for the rest of his life in prison.

You can't go to prom with me? That's weird: I never invited you. What are you talking about. You're ugly.

It's going to really suck for all of us in the US when we learn what a sweetheart deal our economic hegemony afforded us. I'm imagining a lot of people asking after the fact why we cancelled that deal.

He looks and sounds like he's already the SNL parody of himself.