50 years late, we're seeing a course correction from Nader's Raiders: moving at least a little from a nation of pissed-off consumers towards a nation of pissed-off citizens.

There's a reason why I stick around Bluesky.

I (think I) organized my 2025 taxes yesterday.

Note to student right now: I know we often imbibe reflective passive voice through article readings, but believe it or not, APA style does not require passive voice and allows first-person when describing a research process. apastyle.apa.org/style-gramma... apastyle.apa.org/style-gramma...

Is the newsletter Nazi bar down?

Margery Davies' "Woman's Place Is at the Typewriter: Office Work and Office Workers, 1870-1930" (1982) is incredibly useful here -- gender and changing work culture and technology

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Also: does anyone know if the courtroom characters from the Black Lady Sketch Show had names? Asking for justice.

JUDGE: I'll allow it.

Just to boost and point out my being an Old: when my children were young, the only non-poison option was the Licemeister comb, which the National Pediculosis Ass'n still recommends. I know there are other things out there now.

MS rejected ☑️ MS edited and submitted to another journal ✅ Number of Girl Scout cookies eaten in sad memory of about 2000 words cut from the MS: #️⃣TBD

Not the April 1 edition, not The Onion

Tomorrow, in the FCC building: "Sorry, boss, the analysis of the next spectrum auction options will have to wait. I need to watch the halftime show another time, just to be sure." Sorry, @haroldfeld.bsky.social, the bureaucracy will have to pause while EVERYONE triple-checks this.

Also applies to proposal defenses.

Higher ed folks: I missed the loan draft regulations when it came out 10 days ago: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

So many people living in Trump's head rent-free it's a code violation.

Never mind what Chris Berman thinks -- what about the octopus!?

Notes for an update to Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It

Last night, my mom asked my daughter and me if we're watching the Bad Bunny concert today. Apparently he's letting the Seahawks and Patriots open for him in an innovative mixed-media concert "intervention" like Kendrick Lamar did last year. 😏

This is an important story about education right now, tol by @bethhawkins.bsky.social

I have some lovely student writing to read today, so my week has now leveled up.

Does all of our parasocial relationship with Mamdani count? 😏

Ordered my Girl Scout cookies this year online from a troop in Minneapolis, and reportedly they're on their way. A few friends and I realized over the weekend that what we REALLY wanted in addition to Girl Scout Cookies were Girl Scout dog biscuits. I have to find cookie booths and suggest that.

Back at my old university, seeing one of my senior colleagues walk out of the bathroom without washing his hands was traumatizing: how many times had I shaken his hand over the years?

This reads so oddly, as if Alderman is upset that there *hasn't* been a bloodletting. Also: 1) How much can we trust the new NCES figures? 2) How about disaggregating by state?

The skills AOC has to turn any question into what appears in retrospect to be a softball. (It would not have been a softball for several of the Congressional D caucus leaders.)

If I see "Isaac Chotiner" as the Caller ID, I am giving away all of my possessions and moving into a hut.

Friends, I committed Critical Reading Field Research this morning, and purchased a packet of Clorox Toilet Bombs, to see if Christopher Mims' blathering about AI and consumer-product "innovation" in the Ethan Mollick Chapter was as mid as I expected. Toilet Bomb in toilet now, results pending.

Chapter 8 dived into tendentious bullshit, and no surprise, Ethan Mollick followed quickly thereupon.

In the end, it will turn out that in this admin "distraction" is more frequently an internal dynamic, and for me the key Q on more-fragile authoritarian moves like this is, "Who WITHIN the admin is this intended to distract?"

When literacy means stuff embedded in a culture, it has power because culture has power. When _______ literacy means info-dump-and-pray, it's info dump AS prayer. Most "AI literacy" is info-dump-and-pray.

I missed this last week: Laura Tohe is the new poet laureate of Arizona. This is great!

To Trump, Miller, Noem, Homan, and others, the cruelty is the point. But there are alternatives, those who inspire by their love and creativity.

Just pre-ordered @sjjphd.bsky.social's A Second Sight

The credits listing looks remarkably .. 1984

Bari Weiss has become the Bluesky Character of the Day.

We can and should change the CBP authority, to shrink the margin to something reasonable like 25 km.

Trying to explain to some of my CA folks that joke maps dividing the country is essentially saying they want to abandon millions of Black and brown folks living in red states. And someone dared to reply, "let’s have a fund to get them the heck out" 🤦🏻‍♂️

💯 on the metaphor from @icpetrie.bsky.social

"[T]he impulse ... drawn from a long history of ed tech" shermandorn.com?p=9703

cc @drantonioduran.bsky.social

Friends don’t let friends think Zinn’s People’s History was groundbreaking. DuBois’s Black Reconstruction? THAT was groundbreaking, 45 years before Zinn.

Thomas in Bruen: you gotta document "history and tradition" Hawai'i: Look, here are examples from "history and tradition" supporting our gun laws. Thomas: No, not like that.

Corresponding with a prospective doctoral student about campus vs virtual visit, and I explained that either is just fine because there are plenty of admitted applicants who are unable to travel, including "almost tall international applicants."

Now that they've moved to @beehiiv.com, I'm a happily paid subscriber (again) to @arizonaagenda.bsky.social

The dentist office that was auditioning for my business* is now inspiring a Venn-diagram-in-process. * My current dentist is retiring soon, and an urgent issue popped up in late Dec when they were closed.

Denver's OT all-PI offense.

To anyone in ICE or CBP out in Minneapolis today looking to violate rights: זאָלסטו זיך אויסגליטשן אויף שוואַרצן אייז, באַקומען צעבראָכענע עקביינער, און פֿאַרגיסן דיין הייסן קאַווע אין דיין קראָטש

My approach is when I see someone I generally agree with engage in what I think is ableism, AND IF I HAVE TIME AND THIS IS NOT BECOMING AN ENERGY VAMPIRE, to call them in, not call them out. Including things like suggesting alternatives. Instead of stupid, idiot, moron, try blowhard, asshat, Nazi.

This is the first credible call for a general strike in the US in decades. The 1934 Minneapolis general strike lasted more than 3 months. (In the US general strikes have been local, historically.)