Ghormeh sabzi, tofu kebab, sabzi polo and tahdig, Shirazi salad. Whole lot of darkness out there these days, hoping for some more light on our Nowruz Shabbat. Shabbat Shalom, Eide Shoma Mobarak.

Everything is pretty awful, but holy shit the 11 year old and I are going to the Garden to see the Knicks Tuesday night!

Just the contrast of all the darkness in the world with such joy for Eid and Nowruz. It's a really difficult contrast but also there is something to be said for people finding their spaces of joy in between it all.

I remain especially tired because every argument in favor of this candidate essentially boils down to the thoroughly debunked “it’s not racism; it’s economic anxiety” idea that we’ve heard non-stop the last decade as fascists rose to power on racism

At the end of the day, if your criticism of a nation-state cause you to start using terms coined by the former grand wizard of the KKK, you need to log off, get some perspective, and stop fucking talking for however long it takes for you to figure out where you went wrong.

Incredible run from the women’s team at the U this year including a win against Pitt earlier. Great stuff.

(I picked Siena. Sigh)

My ingenious pick on High Point might get undone by having had USF win two games…

You can’t call dibs in Chicago without an ID.

As Gabe and I have been saying for years now, meat is well and truly central to cultural politics and, increasingly, electoral politics. What a world we live in where veganism is seen as politically disqualifying. newrepublic.com/article/1717...

Notes from the 11 year old while at school…

Imagine thinking so little of the progressive working class that this is the person that you believe represents their interests, lives, and worldview.

The Xtian fundamentalist nature of Hesgeth's speech combined with the continued blame from the administration on the Israelis is giving me all kinds of bad vibes and feelings for where things go from here.

Too many students are convinced by their own universities, by some of their teachers and professors, and by the AI companies themselves that ‘using ai to study is getting ahead of the game’ But the process they seek to get ahead of is the point.

Super looking forward to an ounce of self-reflection for all of the people who boosted this Nazi asshole's resignation letter.

I have a history of medicine joke But you'll have to humor me.

I am strangely mesmerized by this standing piece of ice in our parking lot (I’m guessing was hanging from the back of a car?).

Team USA coming in second, just like the team most of them root for did in 1865.

Unraveled is endorsing Tom Skilling

Given Rand Paul's relationship with his neighbor, this is probably a subject that he is well-versed in.

Bryce Harper disconsolately drinking a room-temp pint of raw milk in the clubhouse right now.

I just...Eugenio Suárez. Having his citizenship application canceled. Getting the game winning hit for Venezuela. Holy shit. I love him so much. I'm so happy he gets this moment.

What bullshit. Only mention of anything was a passing, “a country that has so much turmoil for so long…” Ummm…

No more apropos guy to be the final out of a dying empire than a Roman.

In nine months MLB owners are going to tell you they need to shut the sport down because places like Miami are small markets with few baseball fans

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Josh Hart 30 piece

This might be the loudest place I have ever experienced in my entire life.

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It strikes me as so patently weird and unfair that people are simultaneously trying to denigrate younger candidates for their lack of formal political experience while also complaining about younger people and their levels of political engagement.

It really should not be difficult for people to understand that if a white supremacist and Nazi raises a point, that they are probably raising that point in defense of white supremacy and Nazism. And yet...

And sadly many are going to buy and embrace this hook, line, and sinker.

Oh, heck no.

Oh, damn. Now Smotlz is ruining talking about food. Has he no mercy?

My most overly simplistic but notable thought of the day while class prepping to raise in class tomorrow is how the red lining maps of Wilkes-Barre marked all of the areas right on the Susquehanna as "Best," and these were the exact areas most impacted by the hurricane floods in '72.

One of the most officially weird, "I am old" things is searching through my email correspondence to get back to a colleague about a curricular question and having a whole bunch of results in my inbox search because I taught said colleague as an undergrad.

Paging Northwestern Univ. faculty/grad students: I need a copy of a 1940 thesis that's locked behind a library password. Anyone out there able to help out a remote researcher? DM for details. Thank you.

Class prepping for Sports History tomorrow and anticipating student reaction to the first minute or so of this interview with Jackie Robinson during the '64 RNC... www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaRk...

Damn…

Kind of funny that they haven’t shown a reply of that called third strike yet.

Easily the dumbest quarter of Knicks basketball this season amongst some pretty dumb quarters here and there.

Big Knicks at the start of game 6 against the Heat without any of the starters energy at the start of this Warriors/Knicks game for Golden State.

Watching Jedi with younger kid and after Yoda reveals”there is another,” kid says, “You’ve been kissing your sister…”

Between this and the so-called SAVE Act, I'm struck by how the fascists rely on a disengaged public who are, perhaps, not going to look deeper than the very cheery sounding names of legislation.

It feels like the constant misuse of “controls” versus influences US foreign policy vis-a-vis Netanyahu and Putin is (in addition to other not great things) also American desire to not have to come to grips with the fact that this is very much who have been and who we are over time.

So apparently “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan made an appearance at Parade Day last night in Scranton.