For reading with your pie and tea/bourbon by the fire this evening: @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social 's What Kind of New World Is Being Born? www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...

A friend of mine reminded me about this little thing I wrote almost a decade ago. I'm not a preacher, but it's what I'd preach. A blessed Christmas Eve to you and yours: medium.com/@sardoandton...

"for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me."

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects the Trump administration’s request to deploy National Guard troops in Illinois at this time, over the dissenting votes of Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...

Even if we grant the -highly questionable - premise that this essay was graded inappropriately, functionally ending a graduate student's career is a massive overreach. At worst this should be a grade correction and a discussion between the grad instructor and faculty instructor of record.

Tired: Prior Restraint Wired: Having your billionaire allies buy the news

Going full Scrooge

A 6 game winning streak for the sabres!!In this economy?!?

Everytime an edtech person talks about using GenAI alongside an "inquiry method" to promote student learning and engagement, I'm going to throw this thread at them.

Yep 100%

I think this is true but really hard work especially when those in power are pushing the opposite of something humanistic. But I think it's absolutely essential that we link scripted curricula to AI: two ways to make the teacher irrelevant and interchangeable in the classroom.

This is really worth everyone's time to read; I went into it skeptically, and I'm not totally convinced, but it makes a compelling case.

no one’s emailing to say “10th grade boys especially love brave new world and everyone has a great time with frankenstein and there’s real value in teaching those books”

Same probably

I would much rather have a student *read* a wikipedia article about an event than ask a chatbot to explain it.

THIS 1000% Everyone should have to take humanities classes so that they better able to appreciate literature, visual arts, film or better understand the human experience through history, philosophy, or theology. This isn't about the job market; this is about living flourishing lives.

It literally says "faithfully executed." I don't know how you can read this clause as not a constraint on executive power. Executive power is held in trust for the sole purpose of fulfilling the acts of Congress.

This is explicit in some of Sumner's speeches in which he says that the constitution is subordinate to the Declaration and must be.

She says its tough to "gin up sympathy" for people murdered in the water without any sort of due process. This is a monstrous perversion of one's moral sense and truly a sign of the basic failures of our society to enforce any moral standards.

Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.

You'll be visited by three spirits. The three spirits

With every passing day, America needs a bigger third reconstruction.

The utter erosion of public institutions and the destruction of all trust in them is going to have such long-lasting and far reaching consequences that it makes me genuinely fear for the future.

You cannot make me care about Nuzzi.

My biggest takeaway from all the Epstein emails is that having that much wealth really does corrupt your soul.

So, I've been giving the Lincoln-Douglas debates an actual close read (not just the highlights that get excerpted in a course reader), and wow Douglas says some wild stuff in there.

Odysseus 's Taxi Service. We'll get you where you're going...eventually.

One’s identity as a consumer organizes one’s politics in part because the thicker social structures that once performed that role — unions, fraternal orgs, churches, etc. — have mostly faded away.

so there's lots of garbage and racist stuff in this, but my follow up question: This language implies that every citizen has a "right" to own a house. Would you support legislation that would make that right a reality?

Not to diminish law review articles & law school committee work, but right now law professors should be working collectively on an intellectual & service project of immense, existential importance: building consensus around a revolutionary constitutional framework-of a Reconstruction 2.0 magnitude.

abolish states

One of the coolest things I've ever seen - @clppng.bsky.social used a bunch of tiny robots and everyday junk and trash to create the backing tracks live for a tiny desk concert. I'm seeing them in February, I wonder if the robots will be hitting the road?

As usual, @stevevladeck.bsky.social does a good job parsing out the moving parts to explain Jacksons administrative stay this evening.

So I'm glad that Gorsuch is worried about the "continual accretion" of executive power, but...come on. After Trump v. Hawaii, Trump v. US, Trump v. CASA and all of the shadow docket rulings that allowed the President to circumvent the spending clause of Article I,...

A clear demonstration of the power of framing. If you only saw this headline you probably would have a knee jerk aversion to Prop 50. Context matters. In a world where we know people aren't clicking past the notification we need to find ways to contextualize better.

I'm fairly convinced by the argument (made by KYE and others) that the buffoonishness of Trump's public appearances has greased the wheels of authoritarianism because it's hard to admit to ourselves or convince others that this person's administration is steamrolling over the republic.

Big Buckley Energy

This post from @benjaminjriley.bsky.social was lab grown to appeal to my interests: the dangers of AI for democratic self-government, the value of in person face to face dialogue in schools for democratic subject formation, and the danger that young men will just further retreat into AI sex paradise

Game 7 of the 2016 World Series broke the space-time continuum. Maybe this game 7 is resetting it.

It's time for a Grand Remonstrance!

But don't worry, it's the intolerant Left that needs to think more about how they can unite the country and engage with people who disagree with rather than isolating themselves.

Teaching about the value of an independent bureaucracy is a challenge because the ideas of "unelected bureaucrats" is persuasive within their folk political psychology - even for high school students.

I tried to give up on this game and go to bed, but my wife keeps texting me the play by play from downstairs...

Is this the MLB's plan to re-open the government? Keep this game going until the shutdown ends?

Imagine teaching US history and government to high schoolers.

I wonder if there are any historical examples of oligarchs buying off the military that might be instructive here? I wonder how they turned out?🤔

You love to see it

This is monstrous.

💯 These are all things I've added readings or topics on since I expanded the course from a one semester to a full year. I also added a whole unit on state and local governments, since it's not in the CED, as well as a day on immigration law, + brought in Chevron/Loper Bright into the bureaucracy

I actually think this is more upsetting to me. Using private money to transform something that is supposed to belong to the public is much more of a betrayal of democracy than just the demolition of the building or the claims of "wasting money while the government is shutdown."