I just don’t think the Mucinex pills need to be that big

The leadership of the @nytimes.com broadly agrees with Chris Rufo that the existence of "woke" students, professors, and institutions is an affront to society which needs to be dismantled by state coercion. This is, ironically, very obvious, but also politically incorrect to talk about in public.

I just subscribed. Let’s get this over this line.

This is tremendously depressing, but it could have been a lot worse.

Please go for it, I don’t want to watch any more of this game

Amazing

Find me a piece of ed tech from the past thirty years that's genuinely more about student learning than it is about extracting more labor from fewer teachers. Can't be done!

I have the week between Christmas and New Year off thanks to my union (HUCTW), and I absolutely love mandatory no one doing a damn thing time. This should be quarterly.

Just opened a 14 page brief in Adobe Acrobat and it gave me a popup saying "this appears to be a long document, would you like an AI summary?" and I feel like a whole bunch of Gen Z lawyers are gonna lose their licenses if law schools don't warn them about this shit.

What's the difference between states like Florida, where ICE arrests are sky-high, and states like Illinois with much lower rates of arrests? It's all about police & jails. Arrest rates out of homes, workplaces, etc are similar – but reining in sheriffs makes all the difference.

I wonder what the polling says on the question of whether ICE should be above the law and allowed to lie and commit crimes.

only a little more than a personal observation, but there seems to be a gigantic gap between unions on confronting AI. NewsGuild has made fighting AI imposition a big deal; new contracts protect us. but in education? the AFT stuff is depressing and makes me wonder how members are really feeling…

Alright, last book of the year. Let’s go.

We need more deciding collectively what our goals are and less being told some solution is the answer to problems we are told we have.

There are tons of movies about how emotionally painful it was for US troops to invade and occupy Iraq and Afghanistan and commit assorted atrocities while there.

So many things most people support in the abstract but find abhorrent when they are faced with the details.

I think most researchers and policymakers underestimate how much people really do not understand the difference between college sticker and net price. And the way high prices at a select few influences feelings about all.

Worth paying attention to what that nonsense reveals—a ‘ceasefire’ is when Palestinians don’t respond to Israeli violence.

One good thing about me is that my brain works and I don't fall for Orwellian, propaganda nonsense like this. The Israelis are breaking the ceasefire and NBC News is actively running interference to support the Israeli government (as are most other American corporate media outlets).

The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little." ‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.” So a napkin is a little tablecloth. 10/10, no notes.

They said they were gonna ‘move out of New York if the busses were free’ like man describe the inside of a bus to me.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of racism gets at why it's not something that can be ignored: "the state-sanctioned and/or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death". --- THE PREMATURE DEATH part is not something that can be "ignored"

it’s amazing in this moment for anyone in public education to say “you know what kids don’t really need to learn? how to speak for themselves and how to piece together their own arguments about what’s real and true in the face of a lot of bullshit”

This is the @nytimes.com once again whitewashing violence & genocide. He didn’t end “illegal crossings” — wtf even is that — he ended asylum. He didn’t broker a ceasefire; it’s genocide by another name. It’s wild how rotten the storied institutions of this country are showing themselves to be.

Every few years you hear about US troops killed in Africa and for a minute we pay attention to the US military presence there, our bases, alliances, the way US interventions add to instability, and then we in the US forget, only to be told that it’s good that Trump is dropping bombs for peace.

educators know both the labor of education (our working conditions) & the labor of learning (the process we work to facilitate) better than any AI booster. We know what is being sold to us & why. We have been on the ed tech merry-go-round before

Immigration *restriction* – by making black market connected coyotes more appealing – is the national security threat

Institutions obviously matter, but if we don’t collectively reject the ideas that immigration is a national security threat new institutions will eventually perform the same functions.

read this to hate him more

Regular degular neighbors and coworkers throwing themselves directly at the fash and teaching their people to do the same. Not the most radical or the most Democrat, not the youngest or smartest or loudest, just people who give a shit discovering they were the ones they were waiting for.

I think the problem with Trump threatening another country to demand it give up its territory to him is that that is never ok.

unsarcastically: I give credit to Michael Walzer for explicitly saying, in essence, "btw I didn't read any of this and am just gonna vibe it out" in the intro to his racial capitalism article rather than the pretend reading done by most in this genre

In 2008 ICE arrested almost 18% of the population of Postville Iowa. Children reported nightmares about being disappeared after attending school after the raid, their classrooms missing up to three quarters of the students because their parents had either been arrested or feared arrest

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

The definitive proof that ICE was always a fascistic institution is that Trump didn't needed to reform It. No mass firing, no change in training, no mass hiring. He simply said "go, my attack dogs, find brown people". And they went, because they were always fascists.

Anger is essential but so too is knowing who to be mad at and why.

Hegemony works by making relatively uncommon positions feel like common sense and online take having often means a lot of people do this FOR THEIR ENEMIES.

We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.

frankly if the insufferable inhabitants of Hawkins Indiana simply had class consciousness none of this demon shit would be happening in the first place. and no I won’t elaborate on this

If enough legal scholars and judges take a legal position then it is a serious one.

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

Y’all, aren’t going to believe this, but Trump’s administration lies a lot. So, taking their word on anything, especially on military action, is rather foolish.

I got to build and race some Hot Wheels cars today which was fun.

Some people you defeat, not convince.

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” - Ray Goforth

“Righteous violence vented on some brutish lower caste has always been the key to entry into the fraternity of Western nations”. Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win by Clara Zetkin

an easy way to understand this is that people make clothes cool and not the other way around. so our judgement of what looks "good" is often shaped by the cultural capital of various social groups. punks, skaters, hip hop heads, etc look stylish simply bc they are cool. thus money is not a barrier.