Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Not only did they sing American Idiot, but they changed the last verse to "MAGA idiot", but sure.

I'm ready for the longread(s) on that whole halftime show. I gleaned a bit and am picking up more with the scroll but, culture writers, I await your analysis and discussion!

niche, but is there anyone associated with #4C26 who can tell me whether the projector connectors are going to be HDMI or VGA? need to secure the correct dongle @ncte.org

I read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...

finally finally, my review of @caddiealford.bsky.social's brilliant ENTITLED OPINIONS is live at Enculturation! parlormultimedia.com/enculturatio...

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

Copaganda

Democrats in Congress need to immediately appoint an adhoc bicameral working group to organize civil society and the legal community to stop Trump's ongoing desecration of our national monuments and the Capital. This has gone too far. Congress must step up and fight.

Jesus Christ

The ONLY surviving Gullah-Geechee community in Georgia just stopped developers with an 85% vote on Sapelo Island. They protected their language, culture, and ancestral land from gentrification. When Black communities unite, we win. This is power.

5 classes you took in college: Intro to sociology Western religions; Selected concepts in chemistry; Japanese literature; An honors course taught by a physics prof about debunking pseudoscience; A creative writing course working with justice-impacted community members Liberal arts is GOAT

One of my most cherished classes is my 18th century novels course where the primary learning objective is "learn how read long novels." We did a "couch to 5k" approach to attention span and note-taking.

i think this is exactly right. fascism is the Death Drive as ideology. it's why the catastrophic end of the Nazi Party does not deter people from worshipping Nazis. that the Nazis destroyed Germany along with the rest of Europe is part of the appeal.

oh no not catherine o'hara.

there's a killing to be made in the garment industry for high quality knits that directly (via insignia positioned in upper right chest) or indirectly (via color blocking) invoke maritime flags. "I am manoeuvering with difficulty" and "my engines are going full speed astern" would do NUMBERS

Some! News! Our book, REVISING MOVES, has won the 2026 CCCC Outstanding Book Award (edited collections). Chuffed to the max!! upcolorado.com/utah-state-u...

heyyy we've got a great craft essay today on erasure in nonfiction from the wonderful @suburbanprairie.bsky.social !! www.craftliterary.com/2026/01/28/e...

Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Hive mind pls help: I need some NOVELS to read while on sabbat. I need books that I don't have to be in a hold line at my library for. (I am awaiting two books already). Fave recent novels include MARTYR!, The Sentence, Hamnet (ofc), Klara and the Sun. I'm very *under*read, grateful for all recs

I just want to know whether all diversity, equity & inclusion initiatives, programs, offices that universities ended, closed, sunsetted, etc b/c of the “dear colleague letter”—the racist guidance that was treated as law (although unjust laws should be challenged)— will now be re-instated. Or?

Unrivaled co-founder and WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up an “Abolish ICE” sign during player intros ahead of Mist’s game this afternoon. Photo via @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social

There are 690 separate polling locations, for 1703 voting divisions, just in the City of Philadelphia. And Pennsylvania law specifies that LEOs cannot be within 100 feet of the entrance to a polling location unless (a) they're there to vote or (b) have been asked to come in to break up a fight.

Has anyone else noticed the return of wired earbuds as, like, a status flex? I assume it's a security thing since wired can't be bluetooth hacked (this would explain prevalence among pro athletes, celebs), but it also seems like a kind of aesthetic throwback....

So many years of using war rhetoric against the US has turned into war against the US. It's a natural progression, which is why we asked people to notice the war rhetoric when it started. You don't use war rhetoric to prepare a nation for war unless you plan to do it 🥹

I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.

This is the woman that led a protest at a local church where the minister is connected to ICE. Please pass the word and support her as much as the suspended auto worker that called trump a pedophile protector.

Today I'm remembering Philando Castile, shot in 2016 by police in the Minneapolis suburbs after being pulled over for a broken brake light. "Sir, I have to tell you that I do have a firearm on me," he said. Ten seconds later one of the cops had shot him five times. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

if you are looking for a way to help our brave neighbors in Minnesota, here is a GoFundMe for rent relief for residents of Powderhorn neighborhood, which has been swarmed this week/month www.gofundme.com/f/support-po...

This describes every show on apple tv and they are all the best show on television!! Apple execs hemorrhaging cash for the love of the game

if you are in the path of this big ass storm PLEASE make sure you know where your furnace and water heater vent outside your home. if they vent at or near ground level, you need to make sure those vents don't get blocked by snow or ice

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

They are defunding and abolishing everything from cancer research to invasive species elimination in the Great Lakes to this. And they’re doing it with hardly a whimper of protest from the same Ds that are boo hooing about we can’t defund ICE, let’s trying making them wear cameras instead.

Of course, there's no mention of the 200+ degree programs she cut or consolidated to help pay for this historic football win (by tripling the football budget).

Why is it being left up to the neighbors to protect each other when there is a supposed Democratic governor and elected Democratic officials

Well I will certainly not be logging into my investment accounts this quarter

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

Yes in thunder. My syllabus statement:

“ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval.“

Happy to report that I sent all 3 volumes of John Lewis's MARCH to my 10yo nephew in Edina MN and he read them in a single day, the day they arrived. What should I send him next?

A balm for the soul

Yes, all of this. Like Kat, it was blocked for me before I even knew they were here. Block it IMMEDIATELY if a list hasn’t already done it for you.

Blockity block block

Last week I wrote about how these rumor disasters happen and a little comms advice on how to prep and respond. But the @cip.uw.edu recently wrote a approach that could be expanded to inoculate communities by covering in real time how rumors spread. 🧵 /1

As a cognitive scientist, I'm embarrassed at how long it took me to realise that emotion matters a lot, not just for understanding humans, but for understanding any thinking agent. Why? Because emotion is an indicator of what that agent values, and values are essential to rationality. Examples:

"Although it is not 'therapy,' creative writing is (in Richard Hugo's words) "a slow, accumulative way of accepting one's life as valid."" (Pagh, 21. Write Moves: A Creative Writing Guide & Anthology)

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