Thinking about all the people who have to relive last summer today as the Guadalupe floods again

H calls the botanical gardens the "enchantical" gardens and he is correct

Which god is preventing Odysseus's story from being told?

This story reveals some unfortunate truths about both the epistemologies of both the field of classics and US evangelicalism

Use of force

At this point texts with my husband are just shopping lists and death notices

(Been watching Mad Men) Character were so unsettled by JFK'S death and Oswald being shot by Jack Ruby...their raw emotions brought clarity to their lives: who do you really love and what do you want in your life? Anyway it's business as usual today and most days to come

Dishonesty isn’t just one of Doug Wilson’s annoying quirks. It is deliberate strategy. open.substack.com/pub/kristind...

Some people could use a hefty dose of imposter syndrome

"His focus now is on growing his movement through "preaching the gospel, planting churches, starting classical Christian schools" to gradually turn the U.S. into a Christian theocracy over the course of several generations" www.npr.org/2026/07/06/n...

"At its core, what gets diagnosed as a literacy problem is often the technology working by design. "

when the telephone screamed if you logged on it was trying to warn us

Finding out that losing teeth can be a child's first existential crisis

Y'all

the CLT is the "learning classicism test" the project is divorced from classics, education, and even classical Christian education. it's laundering nationalism flirting with Nazism with aestheticism and religion not Christian nationalism, its nationalist Christianity

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

One of the Vacation Bible Schools in town is Rome-themed this year, and it made me think immediately of this

I expect the CLT and Hillsdale College grads/affiliates to be pretty involved in however these grifts manifest

‘Classic lit’ is showing up at the Texas SBOE mtg. Michael Torres from Classic Learning Test testified. Talking points were clearly circulated focused on this term ‘classical literature.’ Very few testifiers actually cite what books they mean or addressing books on any list.

Maynard: New rule text. Let’s charter schools pick the grade levels. He named Valor and Great Hearts. P-D: why make an exception for charters. Accountability and testing, but these are the TEKS. Maynard: Charters are models of innovation. TEKS, statutory language for charters is different.

never mind, i found it... Through Hans’ eyes 9-to-14 year olds will learn to know Martin Luther not only as the great Reformer-preacher, but also as a father with a sense of humor and as a friend. www.mennomedia.org/978083611740...

This is enraging. Time to research!? Either we value expertise and research, or we don't. Why can't we trust local schools and teachers to curate texts that are appropriate, both for the grade they teach and the context they teach in? I wouldn't let most of these people babysit for an hour.

the CLT loves the new Texas reading list

the CLT loves the new Texas reading list

Christianity is about dignity and God’s authority transcends the state. Quotes Hanson on western tradition rooted in Athens and Jerusalem. Teaching literature is important. Now something about ideology that references Communism and Islam.

proving the point that people need to read Hurston and DuBois and Baldwin and Ellison... and people who have read them...

'Tis the season

Mother's and Father's Day celebrations should be on the schedule of the summer/winter Olympics

liberty and small government have become the antithesis of the TX GOP project. we are a few cycles away from Catholics receiving this same treatment.

One of the things we neglected to point out on this Texas Required Reading list is the lack of authors from Texas! @txfreedomread.bsky.social

I do think that phrase is overused and under explained but not in THIS direction, Jeremy

hey, #Classics folks, anyone assigning recent and good scholarship about masculinity in their Intro Myth classes, appropriate for undergrads? could be general or specific to greek myth/the Iliad/Heracles, etc

hey, #Classics folks, anyone assigning recent and good scholarship about masculinity in their Intro Myth classes, appropriate for undergrads? could be general or specific to greek myth/the Iliad/Heracles, etc

I've been listening to J Noa for a while and did not realize she was so young, holy crap

I've taken to calling the intentional avoidance of technological takeover of everyday tasks "cognitive prepping," (e.g., using google maps to get to work, googling recipes vs. using a cookbook)

lolololololololol this state's politics are a joke

Texans: The restrictive, white-washed mandatory reading list is BACK up for discussion and a final vote at the State Board of Education's June meeting. WE NEED YOUR HELP fighting it! Read here for a call to action: franklinstrong.substack.com/p/the-texas-...

What I mean when I say I want my kid to have a '90s summer:

GSG

going absolutely buck wild over here this weekend

Dr. Chew is incredibly supportive and generous, I'm so happy to see this in her honor!

nothing says Liberty like "you MUST be aligned politically with President Trump and his administration"

avalon was always a little cheesy to me, but this morning I let my inner middle-aged KLOVE mom freak flag fly, treble up, bass down, and blasted this song, tears streaming down my face thinking about my gay best friend from youth group. now there's a sentence no one has ever said before

"My inspiration, Amy Grant, she heard the song yesterday and sent a message to me that it made her smile and put a little lump in her throat because she was so proud." 🥹

hope cornyn goes scorched earth now on trump, honestly it could only help him at this point may he be as tough as his christmas eve brisket

JUST IN: After months of anticipation, Trump endorses Ken Paxton over John Cornyn.

I am so confused on why Microsoft insists on trying to make this happen we want comments in footnotes, that's all we've ever wanted

just hanging out on the forums and posting my thoughts hope you see this Bill

what is RICO for if not this