I had a revelation that my mom isn’t dumb, she’s just been fighting for survival her entire life until like 2017. Now I need to read books about it.

Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Holy shit they murdered Rob Reiner? I was just doing the White Man Overbite from When Harry Met Sally :(

No countries, no borders. Let them in and let them stay.

“Admitting large numbers of students who are profoundly underprepared risks harming the very students we hope to support” Sounds like what’s going down in the charter schools in MI

“After all, when a thought takes one’s breath away, a lesson in grammar seems impertinent.” -Thomas Wentworth Higginson, friend of Emily Dickinson and editor of her poems (along with Mabel Loomis Todd) #booksky

In 2000-2002 I was Fall Out Boy adjacent; I ran in a crowd that sometimes overlapped with theirs. I saw them in church basements, I had their first EP in a cardboard sleeve, we were all in a McDonald’s together one time etc. Anyway I’ve been listening to From Under the Cork Tree and it holds up!

“People who have not weathered massive repressions of individual thought find it difficult to believe in the cultural centrality of reading and writing.” Benjamin DeMott, March 1990

My stance on immigration: if you’re here, you get to stay. If you want to come here, you can. No countries, no borders.

Um how about no, Gavin

“I think that a lot of us are young apprentices who believe that we know our work at this moment except that we’ve never fully practiced that work because we’re afraid to make mistakes. We are learned people but lacking in practice.” Feeling called out, @prisonculture.bsky.social shorturl.at/Lk11O

This woman looks like exactly the type of person who would complain about a person using a bathroom

“The discrimination complaint, the media tour, the outrage — it’s all in service of the goal stated plainly in the posts Kristi Fulnecky is boosting: trans people should not be allowed to work in education.” @parkermolloy.com www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...

“It is the worst kind of failure and disgrace to steal, from people like myself, a world where we can find meaning and love and participation in a human community after we were given the chance to comfortably grasp it.” www.welcometohellworld.com/i-will-not-g...

From @newrepublic.com …parenthood has changed me in at least one way: I hate robots even more than I did before…Humanoid robots are the perfect symbol for the suicidal absurdity of the AI frenzy…Those metal toddlers want your job, particularly if you work in manufacturing.

“…the Frankfurt edition of this poem which states that the Nazis first persecuted the communists, then ‘‘got rid of the ill, the so-called incurables.’’ Via @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/the-devils-b...

OOF “We will never know quite what was lost. We will never know which ones could have been saved, or how many; we will only know that an uncertain but likely significant proportion of the victims died because of the actions of RFK Jr” @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/medical-rese...

One thing I love about working in childcare is that we’re all women or present as women (2/7 of us are non-binary) so when an unfamiliar man shows up we all go on alert like “why is there a MAN here? Who is that MAN???”

"[D]ooming is itself a liberation from the burden of choice. If everything is ruined forever, if your allies have already forsaken you, if the battle is already lost, you aren't responsible for your choices. They can't affect the outcome. You're free." www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

LOL “Catholics think they’ve got the market cornered on miracles … if something happens in their own backyard, which just happens to be a Baptist backyard, well then, that’s really not worth a thing.” -The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett #booksky

What the actual hell you guys I am a year older than this moldy potato of a person and it messes me up that people still think this way

Okay this one is so good I just want to quote it all

Yesterday, at an EcoSchool site, I went to a staff meeting and refused to consent to being recorded by ChatGPT. I feel like I need a tinfoil hat AND I feel bad that I inconvenienced my boss but AI gives me the existential dread. Also. It’s EcoSchool!

Madeline Lane-McKinley uses the term “lactational dogma” and I just really enjoy it #booksky

in 1689, John Locke famously claimed that the child is born as a tabula rasa…Today, this idea…remains incredibly prevalent, providing the foundation for some of the worst forms of pedagogy—that myth of teaching as “molding young minds.” -Solidarity W Children by Madeline Lane-McKinley #booksky

Re: the war in Gaza While the only reasonable response may be shock and rage, El-Rifae asks how we can avoid the ways this rage ossifies into feelings of guilt or shame, “which uselessly burrow inwards.” -Solidarity With Children by Madeline Lane-McKinley #booksky

This is how it felt when the first boy who ever told me he loved me died of Covid in May 2020

Currently reading an essay by Madeline Lane-McKinley called Solidarity With Children and the intro is about Gaza. I can’t believe it’s been TWO YEARS.

Wait. What? Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin?

I’m coming to realize that “eco” does not necessarily equal “nature” in the context of education.

I had planned on attending tonight; got notified by the local DSA that I no longer have to www.interlochenpublicradio.org/2025-11-20/a...

Oh what a shock!

Lander is such a G

The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza. The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.

[1:1] On the seventh day God rested. [1.2] And for the six days straight before that as well. [1.3] Resting whips ass he said. [1.4] It was all formless and empty and always would be. [1.5] And none of this ever happened to any of us. [1.6] We were all resting too.

“If the roles are reversed and our people are not having treaty obligations met by the U.S., then why are we still participating in a system that harms us?” Meredith Migizi, the executive director of indigenous advocacy organization Miigwech, Inc., asked. Story by @kdailey.bsky.social

Meredith Migizi … sees the way that Michigan’s tribal governments respond to the lapse in SNAP benefits amid a government shutdown as parallel to an Anishinaabe oral history of the Hoof Nation Treaty. michiganadvance.com/2025/11/17/a...

Did you accept the apology? says Connell. She nods, looking down at her nails. Of course I did, she says. I don’t go in for grudges. Luckily for me, he replies. (🙄🙄🙄 shut UP Connell) - Normal People by Sally Rooney #booksky

She wishes that she could have forgiven Rob, even if it meant nothing to him. When she thinks of him now, it’s always with his face hidden, turning away, behind his locker door, behind the rolled up window of his car. (1/2) -Normal People by Sally Rooney #booksky

Dwelling on the sight of Connell’s face always gives Marianne a certain pleasure, which can be inflected with any number of feelings ... His appearance is like a favorite piece of music to her, sounding a little different each time she hears it. -Normal People by Sally Rooney #booksky

If I watch Normal People the show I will dissolve into a puddle of tears and possibly not return, and I just have a lot to do #booksky

“The Republic was revealed as only a state of mindm no more real than unicorns or pixie dust if you had enough power to safely ignore it and not believe in it.” fearhonorinterest.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/t...

“Why do you have to act so weird around her? He frowned, still lying with his eyes shut, face turned to the ceiling. How I act with her is my normal personality, he said. Maybe I’m just a weird person. Helen said nothing.” Normal People by Sally Rooney #booksky

“Marianne, he said. He said this aloud without thinking about it. She looked up and saw him then. Her face was like a white flower. She put her arms around his neck and he held her tightly. He could smell the inside of her house on her clothes.” (1/2) Normal People by Sally Rooney #booksky

“Because of the white dress and because of the white china cup, he wants to say: You look like an angel. It’s not even something Helen would mind him saying, but he can’t talk like that in front of people anyway, saying whimsical affectionate things.” Normal People by Sally Rooney #booksky

“Marianne puts her hand to the door handle and then sees them inside. This all seems to happen very slowly, though it only takes a few seconds. She opens the door … and he feels a sort of enjoyably painful sensation in this throat.” Normal People by Sally Rooney #booksky

I’ve been an atheist since I was a teen, and this still messes me up. It doesn’t surprise me but it fills me with a visceral disgust and rage.

ICE vs the clergy