“If not us, then who? If not now, then when?” John Lewis

This week in teaching. It’s going to be a weird one. #AcademicSky #FilmSky

"I felt a great disturbance in MAGA, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”

What is it with this superbowl and urine?

This halftime show is great.

I wish this concert had more music because it’s great.

Whew.

I was promised owls.

“All literature is protest.” ― Richard Wright #BlackHistoryMonth

Just saw Peter Hujar’s Day. Perfect piece of filmmaking: simple and beautiful. #FilmSky

Dear Europe, You didn’t boo JD Vance enough.

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.” bell hooks #BlackHistoryMonth

What football teams are playing at the Bad Bunny/Green Day concert?

“Truth is on the side of the oppressed.” ― Malcolm X

I’m no longer giving Fs. I’m giving out tickets to Melania. #AcademicSky

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

“I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.” ― Nikki Giovanni #BlackHistoryMonth

“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.” ― Toni Morrison #BlackHistoryMonth

Had my 2.5 hour seminar today. Usually begin with an informal discussion, and then, when they start to peter out, I will move to a formal lecture. We stayed in the informal lane until the bitter end. #AcademicSky

“You can put law on paper but that don't make it right.” ― August Wilson #BlackHistoryMonth

“DAMN MY EGGS! DAMN ALL THE EGGS THAT EVER WAS!" ― Lorraine Hansberry #BlackHistoryMonth

This week in teaching. #AcademicSky

ICE is now operating in the town where my university is located (just got an email from GC). To say I’m apoplectic is an understatement.

“I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, Why Democracy means, Everybody but me. ” ― Langston Hughes #BlackHistoryMonth

Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him, And all their ministers attend on him.” #ShakespeareSunday

Anyone know how to lean on a groundhog? Asking for a few million friends.

Today’s listen. #MusicSky

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel

Best scene in Melania.

Is Melania Week like Infrastructure Week?

So now we know why Don Lemon was arrested.

To all the Republican politicians who were performatively quoting Martin Luther King, Jr. last week: What you have been seeing in Minneapolis this month are exactly the tactics of civil disobedience that King put into practice from Montgomery to Selma to Memphis.

In 1945, even as millions lay dead and the country was little more than a smoking ash heap, there were still Germans who fully supported Hitler. His base will never leave him. Never.

“Freedom of the press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose.” ― George Orwell

Autocorrect just tried to change “world” into “workflow” and I think that encapsulates our current moment in a nutshell.

“There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.” ― Terry Pratchett

“The Germans puzzled me. What a waste. Was such a destitute, cruel world worth ruling?” ― Jerzy Kosiński, The Painted Bird

“Others? He dares to call us others? He’s the other. The one who looks most American—and he’s the one who is least American! The man is unfit. He shouldn’t be there. He shouldn’t be there, and it’s as simple as that!” ― Philip Roth, The Plot Against America

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“Fear not those without papers, but those without conscience.” -Amanda Gorman

Death, taxes, Cybertrucks getting stuck in adverse weather

“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.” - Cervantes

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.” ― Hannah Arendt

Hey MAGA, ICE and Border Patrol are the jackbooted thugs you have been looking for.

“Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.” ― Henry David Thoreau

From The Declaration of Independence: “He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.”

This week in teaching. The Intro to Cinema students voted for Film Noir. #FilmSky #AcademicSky

Welp, they were right. My tauntaun did freeze before I reached the first marker.

“Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.” #ShakespeareSunday

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."