wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

This is horrific. Our country is deeply broken right now.

I unironically love Star Trek the Motion Picture. The score! The visuals! Doesn’t hurt that it also involves a vivid memory of my mom and I going to a drive-in theater, it being sold out, going home to make cookies, and seeing it the next night. It’s so much better than it gets credit for being.

So all the 14s & 88s everywhere are just mysteries and coincidences but 86 is numerical warfare do I have that right

This… should not be a difficult concept. We are watching the erosion of the idea of innocent until proven guilty in real time. Why are people not more horrified??

This this this. I don’t want to hear about how it can help me grade papers or design lesson plans. I won’t use it.

This should be a much, much bigger story. And once again I tell you: Their singular mission is to decimate everyone but them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

I love this. My first “real” job out of college was working at an indie bookstore and I miss it *so* intensely. Now that I’ve worked long enough to be comfortable financially nothing gives me more joy than buying a big stack of lovely hardcover books from my friends at Novel.

The open disdain these men have for teachers is just gross. And notable too: the connection to ClassDojo should be further evidence of the platform as a vehicle to surveil, control, and punish. If there was ever a time to develop a Luddite praxis in education to resist/refuse AI, now is that time.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! March Madness about to tip off. I’m on planning so I can watch the first games. Memphis is in the dance again. When the rest of the world seems so broken, I will embrace the pure joy of college basketball!

Oof. Selection show without Greg Gumbel is just so, so… wrong. 🥺😢

RIP Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, you would’ve loved country music

The South African is now calling our military heroes traitors. I know whose side I’m on.

I approve of this!

I promised some historical background relevant to the implication that "DEI" had played a role in Wednesday's tragic accident in DC. Since today is the 1st day of #BlackHistoryMonth, it's time to lay this out. So, herewith a 🧵 on just what it took to integrate commercial aviation in the 1st place.

Halftime of Memphis-UAB. Run it up Tigers! Keep up the pressure! 🐅

We could have had the first woman in the Oval Office. On the day we set aside to honor Dr. King. Heartbroken right now.

Didn’t expect to see Coach Pastner on the halftime show. Always felt like he was a nice guy but not a strong enough personal for Memphis. Will this be our trap game? Slow starts worry me with this team…. 😳

Moussa Cisse is looking like Lebron out there and dismantling Ole Miss. Rogers, Hunter, Haggerty providing timely 3s to shut down the Rebels. GTG baby #MemphisTigers

Celebratory Memphis Tigers basketball post incoming….

"Stop asking why schools don't have bulletproof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That's the question that needs to be asked,” Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes

how many years will Americans allow themselves to live in a country where guns are the leading cause of death of children? 30 years? 50? 100?

Memphis may be the greatest college basketball team to ever lose to Arkansas State at home by double digits.

I got busy and forgot to turn on Memphis-Clemson. Switched it on to see the beginning of overtime 😬…

Well that was painful to watch… hoping for the Tigers to right the ship next game.

Service journalism.

Memphis placing 2nd in the Maui Classic? Not the result anyone expected, but super proud of this team! GTG 🐅

Memphis Tigers 🐅 in the title game of the Maui Invitational! Was honestly expecting a letdown game. GTG!!

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want a bookshelf with a rolling ladder?

This is a fascinating read. Come for the mentions of Newtonian physics, Enlightenment thinkers, and art history, stay for the satisfying conclusion in which a brilliant scientist’s reputation is rehabilitated from a deeply cruel attack. Long, but worth it.

Oh my God, we just knocked off UConn. What. A. Game!

Hagerty! Hunter! What is even happening right now?!? GTG!!!

So proud of my Memphis Tigers hanging with the defending national champions so far! GTG #MauiClassic

Sharing this, and I’ve signed the petition.

Tennessee teachers scoff at proposed bonuses linked to Gov. Lee’s school voucher plan - https://www.chalkbeat.org/tennessee/2024/11/13/teacher-bonus-school-voucher-proposal-gov-bill-lee/

Things that made me happy this week: students lining up to proudly show me their progress reports. The Onion buying InfoWars. The one basil plant that survived the “Hunger Games” arena that passes for my garden. Holding on to small victories right now…

"Like all empires, this one rested on a foundation of lies." #Oathbreakers, out from @harpercollins.bsky.social on 12/10. The story of how Charlemagne's grandsons fought a brutal civil war and shattered the Frankish Empire. SIGNED COPY GIVEAWAY. Repost to enter. First drawing 7 pm CST USA. /1