Always told my statistics classes that if you only remember one thing from this class it should be "correlation does not imply causation..." Tylenol doesn't cause autism. Vaccines don't cause autism.

Today, I will do a damn good job of educating the youth of my community in spite of a state and a nation that wants me to cower.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.

*taps sign*

I’m weary of the ‘closing schools during pandemic hurt kids’ garbage. The true hurt is that 1. money was not invested in helping to mitigate the harms 2. Nobody listened to teachers telling us what the actual harms were.

After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

Weingarten: Their attacks on public education are relentless and why? Because they fear knowledge. Why do they fear teachers? They fear us because we teach critical thinking… their brand of greed, power, and privilege cannot survive in a democracy of diverse educated citizens

A scientist told me the real story is the unfolding of climate change. And a doctor told me the real story is the ongoing pandemic. And an activist told me the real story is the rise of fascism. And a historian told me the real story is that these are all the same story.

I've got an adapted essay (based on LAWLESS) up at Slate! slate.com/news-and-pol... If you like it, check out the full book!!! (discount code STRICT24): bookshop.org/p/books/lawl...

AI is the ideal technology to accompany the decline of America. It caters to the entitled, to those who have no desire to learn and think they know everything, it destroys creativity and critical thinking, and lays the cultural foundation for fascism. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/artificial...

“This is taxpayer-funded, state-sponsored religious indoctrination. You’ve just got to call it what it is.”

Assigning Sen. Thurmond’s “longest filibuster” of the Civil Rights Act to the dustbin of history is a powerful part of the story. Because no matter what, that’s where they’re all going, no matter how hard they fight it. Men who fight the future are the most foolish of all men.

Seems to me what we’re seeing across the federal government are the dividends being paid from years of adopting market language to talk about public goods. Run government like a business? Businesses exist to make profit. Government exists to serve the people. We’re about to see the difference now.

She's braver than essentially the entire Democratic Party and the entire media industry