So true

I genuinely think boycotting the World Cup is some of the strongest leverage the Europeans have.

Horrific. Trump’s federal agents shot and killed another person. Republicans in control of Congress could put a stop to this chaos. Enough. Get ICE out of Minnesota, stop funding this violence, and end the assault on our communities.

We are searching for the woman in a red jacket who captured the ICE situation on video. We heard she was taken by federal agents. If anyone has updates, let us know.

The news just keeps getting worse. Hard to tell who's worse: the ICE clowns, their boss (Mr. Is My Uniform Gestapo enough?), their boss's boss (Botox Barbie), or their boss's boss's boss (Orange Cheeto)

How science profs can be subversive under Trump while still staying in their lane, Part 2: include pictures of all scientists you reference in your PPTS (even including all those dead white men brings a focus to the past hegemony). Other examples welcomed!

How science profs can be subversive under Trump while still staying in their lane, Part 1: use examples that include the Gulf of MEXICO, Greenland, and Denali (don't call it Mt McKinley), call it the JWST (instead of James Webb, in support of the LGBTQ community)...

A recent blog post of mine ccsugeologyrocks.wordpress.com/2025/01/03/j...

www.tolkiensociety.org/events/westm... Already registered and abstract submitted!

Awesome weekend attending the Tolkien Society's Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference. Got my paper up on Journal of Tolkien Research already (in the conference papers section) - scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftol...

Wow, that House report must have some really damning stuff in it. Glad it is keeping Gaetz out of Congress.

How we have fallen. I miss Dr. Fauci. 😔

New report is out from the CDC on states with the highest rate of STD infections. The top 9 are all Republican states. 1. LA 2. MS 3. AK 4. SD 5. GA 6. AL 7. NC 8. SC 9. AR

Linda McMahon as Education Secretary? There isn't enough wine in France to make the next 4 years survivable

I have only 8 more days of classes left to teach this semester. I can do this. Really, I can.

I relate to Dad

Appearing on a Christian nationalist podcast last night, Pete Hegseth said he's creating a system of "classical Christian schools" to provide recruits for an underground army that will eventually launch an "educational insurgency" across the nation. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

I know which one of them I'd rather be in any public space with. #transrightsarehumanrights www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/p...

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My 8th book is now available, from McFarland Books mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...

OK, I'm here now. whazzup peeps?