A Light in Very Dark Days: Nancy Pelosi and AIDS www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

More affordable career pathways are a good thing, but this seems like papering over a much larger problem related to rising college costs and stagnating teacher pay, ensuring first year teachers will be even *less* experienced. Why not pay student teachers for practicum time, for starters?

New from me: I went deep on the way that generative AI and chatbots act as wormholes, pushing us deeper into our own minds. They threaten to compound the problems of algorithmic targeting that have festered unaddressed for years and years—what comes next may be even more alienating and isolating (🎁)

I’ve said this before but white guilt is useless. I don’t want people to feel guilty for things they had no part in, and guilt easily curdles into resentment. But everyone regardless should feel an obligation to correct injustice, especially if you somehow benefit. bsky.app/profile/mich...

The best way to help folks impacted by SNAP withdrawal is to donate money to your local food bank. They multiply your monetary donation through bulk buying contracts that dwarf individual donations of items www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

Unless the shutdown ends before Monday, Texans on SNAP will lose November benefits. WIC could also end later next month. Please consider donating to Central Texas Food Bank if you can: www.centraltexasfoodbank.org/get-involved...

“Our North Star has always been that academic freedom, free expression and independence are essential for universities to make their vital and singular contributions to society. It must be preserved” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

I’ve been flying all day and the TSA and airport staff have been professional and efficient. I’m so grateful for the folks who show up in this situation. Thank you, tower folks, for your work and your service

You should read this by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social if you haven't already done so: organizingmythoughts.org/the-emergenc...

"A belonging story also honors and celebrates difference—race, gender, religion, and all types of group identity are not rendered invisible in service to a larger, universal story or short-term political project." - john a. powell Full #FightForward Essay: belonging.berkeley.edu/belonging-st...

I cannot stress this strongly enough: Support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them. They need us, and more importantly, we need them.

Reposting resources to support students from @larryferlazzo.bsky.social larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2017/02/26/t...

“America’s senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, must approach Trump now and make clear to him that they will not obey illegal orders to act against American citizens or disrupt the American political process.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

I still don't have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder, so no, I'm afraid your email did not "find me well."

BREAKING: Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize, winning recognition as a woman “who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.” She was lauded for being a “key, unifying figure" in the once deeply divided opposition to the Maduro regime.

Breaking: MIT just became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump admin's higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment. "Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

While superintendents are reporting fewer overall stressors, a growing number of them still feel the job's stress isn't worth it.

If you want to look up if your book is part of the Anthropic Settlement (AI lawsuit) here's a search portal: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup #writersky #authorsky #booksky

🧒 Inequality reshapes young brains A study of more than 10,000 US children found that living in states with greater income inequality is linked to structural brain changes and poorer mental health, regardless of family wealth. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #SciComm #Inequality 🧪

Mike Johnson: "The WIC program, the nutrition program -- women, infants, and children -- that program won't be funded. FEMA won't be funded."

“Children, everybody, here's what we do during war: In a time of destruction, create something. A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.” From The Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston

Audre Lorde wrote, “Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action.” Assata Shakur embodied this.

Assata Shakur’s autobiography is brilliant, and I encourage everyone to spend some time with her poems. My best friend Tim teaches Affirmation every year to high school freshmen and it sticks with them heavy for years.

The gap between teacher pay and other college graduates’ pay is the highest it’s been in over four decades. Is there a “teacher shortage,” or a shortage of jobs that treat educators with the pay, dignity, and support they deserve?

If state takeovers don’t consistently improve outcomes, what’s the actual purpose? These takeovers normalize removing local control whenever the state says it’s necessary www.texasobserver.org/state-school...

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

In the minds of most Americans, we’ve tended to mythologize the Warren Court as most representative of the Supreme Court, when in truth, for most of our history the Court has ruled against minority rights, upheld the power of wealthy white men, and rarely protected the most vulnerable.

Thanks to @shannapeeples.bsky.social for a thoughtful review of my Lancaster book. "Laats’ greatest contribution lies in excavating this link between early notions of educational improvement and present-day echoes in perennial technological miracles that promise comprehensive learning on the cheap."

I am not surprised about the degrees which are useful because I have three of them and they've been very useful indeed. This is one of the earliest pieces I ever wrote @insidehighered.com. Spreading the gospel in 2013! www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-v...

Warnings From Weimar www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...

"Large data centers, many devoted to researching artificial intelligence, are expected to use more than 150 billion gallons of water across the U.S. over the next five years, according to the advocacy organization Alliance for the Great Lakes. That’s enough water to supply 4.6 million homes."

I highly recommend “Wild Faith” by @swordsjew.bsky.social for understanding the profound damage wrought by this man www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

“None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books. bookriot.com/penguin-rand...

"It just gets me upset with the administration, because, why? What was the purpose of the freeze? Why did you do that? You're hurting people, not just adults, but children" www.texastribune.org/2025/08/14/t...

Repost for correct tags: In their book, Drs. McCart, Kelly, and Sailor "use theoretical grounding and practical pathways to argue that belonging is not a feel-good add-on but the foundational condition for educational justice." Read Dr. @shannapeeples.bsky.social's review here: buff.ly/m4EOPDP

"It is disturbing, it is heartbreaking, it is reprehensible, it is unacceptable," - @lausdsup.bsky.social Supt. Carvalho is going to great lengths to protect the children of LA. 🔗 www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n... #ICEGestapo

In their book, Drs. McCart, @wadekelly.com, and Sailor "use both theoretical grounding and practical pathways to argue that belonging is not a feel-good add-on but the foundational condition for educational justice." Read Dr. @shannapeeples.bsky.social's review here buff.ly/m4EOPDP @wwnorton.com

It would be more honest if more people would say "I am doing OK amidst the horrors being suffered by others." It's actually not true that everything is terrible for everyone right now. We're living under unequally distributed fascism.

WATCH: “Democracy demands our outrage, and our courage.” Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social says he shares Maddow’s view that we have “crossed a line”, and says he hopes Tx dems breaking quorum will inspire others to stand up to would-be tyrant Trump. Full: youtu.be/8_OzeeDmoyk?si

Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share this far & wide. MISINFORMATION at CDC is spreading throughout our country & most people have no clue. Please stay updated & bookmark this page for your health & well-being.➡️ www.youtube.com/@americanmed...

When we take students’ feedback seriously, we get more than just better design. We get better schools.

My latest must-reads list and some thoughts on why everything feels harder right now. “We're dealing with a series of horrors that are vicious, and they're spiritually exhausting and difficult to combat in law," says @sarahkendzior.bsky.social. "Authoritarianism is here ... and it's sadistic.”

As we all stagger home from vacations & begin working on syllabi in earnest, I’d offer my semesterly recommendation that @wcaleb.org's generic syllabus maker can generate a list of days your class will meet—all you have to do is delete any holidays, etc. from the list wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...