“Where everything else felt exhausted, the classroom was overflowing, plentiful. All we needed was a poem, a few hours each week, and trust in what we could do, in what we did do, together.” @johannawinant.bsky.social on the real power of close reading in a growing age of austerity:

the mother of her nephew!!!

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

God has let Bolsonaro slip the icy cold grip of death time and time again just so this moment can happen

"Pela primeira vez na história, militares são punidos por golpe." 25/11/25, escalada do Jornal Nacional.

This is spot-on. The UVA "deal" might be the worst/most dangerous (so far). With the help of UVA's leadership, Trump coerced a leading U.S. university to foreswear all efforts (including 100% lawful measures) to achieve diversity. A betrayal of our values. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Post a movie where you are from

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

The last female Governor of South Dakota was Kristi Noem. A Native woman is running for the seat in 2026 as an Independent. Allison Renville is Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota, Hunkpapa Lakota, Omaha and Haudenosaunee.

Take that in! More than TWENTY THOUSAND children are too afraid to go to school because of state terrorism!

Whenever people discuss if ChatGPT should be used in education, it should be noted that OpenAI's board includes a a professor who sought advice from a pedophile on how to manipulate one of his mentees into having sex with him, and in those conversations they substituted her name with a racial slur.

teaching a short excerpt from rob nixon’s ‘slow violence’ this morning. this is how nixon starts the book, reminding you that the global south has always known larry summers for the moral degenerate that he is.

I had a great conversation about this phenomenon with some sociologists at ASA once. A colleague took me to task for failing to see how they KNOW the reference. They aren’t misreading literary references — they are wielding them to demonstrate their power to shape our ethics.

Two weeks into a new program that gives New Mexico children free childcare, officials are opening up about the surge that happened day one & how it’s been moving forward. In just a short time, the state said thousands of children are now enrolled in free childcare, & daycares are lining up to join.

1) 'Why I Resigned' from UVa Prez 100% worth reading www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... 2) Events were forced by NYT story w leaked info that he was under pressure to resign. UVa prez has 'no idea' where leaks came from (See below.) 3) FWIW same NYT team did leaked "Harvard will cave" stories

Many people dismissed the announcement Catholic hospitals will ban gender-affirming care nationwide under the assumption that there will be other options. In reality, Catholic hospitals make up as much 46% of options in some states. This map is 2020, prior to Trump’s assault on safety net hospitals.

I also told the reporters that this entire campaign was an exercise in white supremacy, an effort to resegregate UVA. They left that out. Lots of people still find such statements too uncomfortable to consider.

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it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are

Meanwhile, “did women ruin the workplace?”

I just googled this man like 'ew who tf is this Tom Barrack guy' and the answer is the sitting, Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Turkey

As I sometimes like to mention, s the only reason you know who Jeffrey Epstein is (that is, if you weren't one of his friends/clients/beneficiaries) is because Ms Brown, below, broke the story of his sweetheart deal to get out of the 2008 trafficking charges.

Montclair State is getting rid of its humanities departments. 🤬🤬🤬

Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE

Ghislane Maxwell is a person that should never be free again... this account of Epstein and Maxwell victims is truly awful www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...

but guys did liberal feminism ruin the workplace

Rosalía ha comprendido el espíritu de la época hasta el punto de crear una inmobiliaria.

Wyoming (population of fewer than 600k people) has just as many Senators as California (population of close to 40 million people). That seems like quite a lot of influence.

Yah but lowkey has Rosalía seen Viridiana.

get in bitch we're destroying the west

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

As county governments wrestle with property tax declines, library systems across Wyoming are among casualties. Some libraries have found temporary lifelines through outside donations. Others have reduced services or shuttered. The situation is only expected to worsen.

"should women work" but it really means "should men have to ever answer to or even encounter women who are not their wives, offspring, and/or other servile figures"

Employment lawyer here: the number of male employers who genuinely believe they should be able to sleep with their female employees and pay working mothers less than working fathers is most of them. They genuinely believe that it is an injustice against them that they might face repercussions.

mid-theory.com/2025/11/04/m... More parks. More beauty. More light.

THEY'RE PLAYING NOT LIKE US AT THE MAMDANI CAMPAIGN RALLY

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A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates. Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

i hope that a governor spanberger and a democratic general assembly uses its authority to discipline the university for its capitulation and to remove these BOV members who have decided that they work for donald trump and not the people of the commonwealth

This is shameful. It’s not the US president’s role to oversee our state public universities. Appeasement is a road to nowhere. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

Important to understand that Gov Youngkin (and likely AG Miyares) pushed the UVA Board to pressure the previous president to resign in order to get precisely to this place!

We can participate in democracy and be flawed while also having non-negotiable. No nazis. No racists. We aren’t abandoning trans people. Triple the minimum wage. Universal healthcare. Reproductive freedom. Etc etc etc. Stand for something! Appeasement accomplishes very little.

We are in the throws of a battle over who is going to survive the future. A future marked by scarcity and disaster. A future these people are accelerating. That is what is driving the attacks on civil rights and basic equality. Supremacist beliefs are the tool needed to justify human culling.

Electric cargo bikes are a great option for families looking to get around town in a way that fun, healthy, and cheaper than a minivan. But we need the protected bike infrastructure to make it safe! www.npr.org/2025/10/18/n...