One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

"You deplore the demonstrations that are presently taking place in Birmingham. But I am sorry that your statement did not express a similar concern for the conditions that brought the demonstrations into being."

Bad Bunny Super Bowl promo is beautiful. Hate is so embarrassing. Imaging being against everyone together dancing to good music 🥹🥹🥹

Respectfully, I am going to whisper to some of our white comrades a truth that should be more widely known: You definitely have some ancestors to be proud of, ancestors who refused white supremacy, and poured out their lives in many of these struggles over time. Time to claim your true history.

every child in America should receive a copy of “The Westing Game” at birth

One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

Listen to the soft crunch of the freshly fallen snow beneath my booths

This story details that the teen they detained for six months was just about to graduate high school early at the age of 16. Definitely the kind of irredeemable criminal monster we don’t want in America.

Screaming "wtf" and waiting for a spontaneous uprising is going to discourage you. There won't be a spontaneous uprising. That's just not where the people are at. Organize for the long term. Build community. Build resilience. Have a strategy for whatever corner of this thing you're working on.

This war and extra-judicial kidnapping is patently illegal and unconstitutional. Political leaders on both sides must condemn it. It’s not about whether Maduro is a tyrant but whether the US is still governed by laws and the Constitution. As if this morning, we are clearly not.

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.

Starting my reading year with The People’s Project. It feels like the right energy to bring into 2026. Lots to reflect on, and worth revisiting throughout this year.

Happy New Years!

Hey it's a new year, here's some life advice from me: - any time you think to yourself "I'd love to do [creative endeavor], but I could never" — just do it. Learn embroidery, write a novel, try doing synchronized swimming, take a ballet class. The worst that could happen is you suck at it.

this administration is trying to murder one of the most brilliant services our country offers and it is so aggravating because the post office is amazing! it shouldn't need to make money it is a public good! I love it! STOP PUNCHING IT, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

I have trans kids. I am not a weirdo. I swear.

This is my favorite version of the AI push — we don’t have any real ideas for how you should use it, but it’s not going anywhere, so you had better figure out a use for it and then start using it quick! Uh, no. I don’t think I will.

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Be mindful of and gentle with the ways you use Newtown and Sandy Hook today and tomorrow. Those moms, dads, brothers, cousins, and loved ones are here, dealing a hurt most of us can never understand, over and over again. Listen to them. Amplify their voices.

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colleges have terrible pedagogy, and professors are not incentivized to be good teachers. some are interested in the craft, but I’m so tired of takes like this from academia that completely refuse to look in the mirror and ask why students aren’t engaged

It's even worse to see it in K12 education presentations. 🫠🫠

*stares into the abyss*

I just got my copy- it’s beautiful! The book, photos and all the extras feel like care was put into making them high quality and worth displaying. @hea-society.bsky.social #Romancelandia

“We owe it to our young people not to lie to them anymore. A democracy whose citizens operate with fundamentally different understandings of the past and its implications cannot sustain itself.”

I finally started a craft project. Embroidery. About a third of the way done, but impressed that I not only did it, but that it was very relaxing (even being a beginner).

“If you’re gonna cheat, you’re gonna cheat, right?” I continue to be much, much more interested in how students are reckoning with adult choices around AI, and this article leaned into that somewhat: thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...

Remember how Trump said ICE targets “violent criminals?” Trump’s own DOJ now reports that ONLY 2.5% of the people ICE arrested in Chicago have any criminal history. That means 97.5% have ZERO criminal record. They were targeted because they were of Latino ethnicity. This is what fascism looks like

I learned so much from listening to her and other disabled people about the perniciousness of ableism. I learned how to check my own ableism and learned the language to talk about it with other able bodied people because of her. It is an honor to have been alive at the same time as Alice Wong.

Yeah, despite the rumblings from other reporters this still feels like another bit of Axios wishcasting. What's for certain is that any Democrat who votes to cave now and betray the base in exchange for nothing at all will live to regret it.

I am sure others have said this already re: the SNAP nightmare, but I haven't seen it. It's called no-school-November — end of quarter, Veteran's Day, usually conferences, & Thanksgiving. So school as an emergency source of food is less so during this month. We have got to shore up the alternatives.

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

I think this is the thing I see most folks get stuck on about public scholarship it looks easy because when it's done right, it's clear and engaging but it takes a *lot* of work to get there

i once had a professor comment that if you really knew your material, you could present it to anyone from any education background in a way they'd understand, from 1st graders to your phd peers

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

Y’all won’t use plastic straws but you’re using GROK to plan your workouts??????????? Go dive off a street curb into a pool of trash bag juice.

Worrying about protecting students does not seem to be a consideration. Presenters are often dismissive of privacy and safety of students if not explicitly promoting unethical or even illegal practices with student data.

Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹 This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨ Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌 youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...

One of the things we are going to have to be very, very aware of is that a lot of people who are being heavily armed right now will simply not be willing to accept the results of a democratic election because they will go to jail.

One easy way to see that those were labor issues was the fact that many of your colleagues with a different employment status didn't have those rights and protections. Instead of seeing that as a problem to be fixed for the good of all, too many saw it as a sad fate they'd avoid because of ✨merit✨

President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers: “It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”

As I was saying

*almost 100% silence from AI enthusiasts on stories like this*

Anyway folks looking to explore short fiction can and should check out the LeVar Burton Reads podcast, the content of which I can definitively assure you was sourced from a broad and inclusive range of magazines and anthologies for 13 whole seasons.

An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.

Wow. I feel seen.

Cleaning off my laptop and found this. I figure someone might need to see it.