Miso shawl from Ambah O’Brien. A colorway from Sleeping Bear Yarn Club. The colors in the pic are wrong. It’s a deep pink and purple. Finally getting into the rhythm and will look great with the whole thing as the eyelets will show up better with more repeats. #knitting

Two decades or more of teachers telling students that Wikipedia is BAD—with no room for nuance—has fed into young ppl being more likely to believe Gemini slop summaries than human curated knowledge. That messaging can change.

Did women ruin seduction?

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

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

This, right here.

Click through for a nice romp. An aside: I love that the font design points me to a general time period. And it makes me realize how this is the kind of thing we've lost with word processors and 'perfect' fonts. Like, the shift from Times New Roman to Aptos is now the closest equivalent.

Let's circulate this verdict alongside Sandwich Guy.

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Growing concerned that Boo Boo might be the world's most photogenic kitten.

THEYRE CLOSING THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN THIS SYSTEM TO BAN BOOKS BECAUSE THE SECRETARY OF STATE TOLD THEM TO. This is a big fucking story. They won't be the only ones.

@maggietokudahall.bsky.social, thank you. Powerful, clear, unrepentant words.

THIS! SO MUCH THIS! "long-running ideological war" Teachers and communities have been gaslit for literal decades by the standards and accountability movement, neoliberalism, rigor, high-quality whatnot, into a belief that schools are failing. AI is the next thing in a long line. We're exhausted.

"TCU is a private institution. The Texas Legislature didn’t force this decision. No law required the school to close these departments. They did it willingly." Powerful testimony about the state of academic freedom and higher ed in Texas.

Apparently the Friend ads have arrived in Chicago and the people know: AI is not your friend.

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Congratulations to my friends in New York. Now can we please shift the focus to Chicago? (These items are all from today.)

Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it. It's the story of our time. The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next. www.authoritarian-stack.info

Hey, Texas friends: The social studies TEKS rewrite has started and it's a doozy. Three content 'experts' and simply not: David Barton, David Randall and Jordan Adams. Search 'em up and be unsurprised. Sign this petition to ask they be removed.

“Texas is not red. Texas is exhausted. And exhausted people don’t show up for a message of “maybe, if we’re quiet, they’ll stop.” They show up for someone who says, “We deserve better, and I will fight like hell with you to get it.” That’s the campaign that wins.” ~ @lonestarleft.com

A reminder that blue states aren’t ‘safe’ from terrible decisions made by leaders capitulating to power. The best advocacy work is local advocacy work, and it’s needed everywhere.

Higher Ed friends, read the whole thread. Seconds verse, same as the first.

I think this single video could radicalize a lot of centrist parents further against ICE

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

Yes, please.

The pundit class this morning:

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.

Lots of great things about it, but Mamdani’s victory is also an encouraging win over the evil AI hate slop that Cuomo was tossing at the virtual wall at the end there. Deepfakes are dangerous but they are also a sign of despotic desperation.

Election hangover

Texas can surprise you.

Every school board election.

Certainly true in Texas! bsky.app/profile/fran...

I'll go ahead and say it. Texas book banners got their butts kicked in tonight's school board elections. Again.

Just to pre-empt the pundits, I absolutely believe you could run a Mamdani in middle America and win

Didn’t even have time to make popcorn damn

Quick summary of early voting with Princeton ISD still pending: In the most consequential election of the night, Cy-Fair ISD, book banners are down big. The worst candidate in Texas, Monica Brown, is losing in Granbury. All 5 candidates endorsed by Moms for Liberty are losing so far. GREAT START!

Texas school boards matter to the people they represent and as a barometer for the nation as a whole. Strategies that work here get exported, so stopping the weirdos here matters.

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

What happens to a sandwich hurled? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

Black smoke in Louisville 5 miles from a plane crash near Muhammad Ali International Airport.

I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.

The line for voting in San Antonio. My precinct has one of the best turn out rates typically, but this far exceeds anything I’ve ever seen! There’s a smattering of terrible constitutional amendments, but folks are likely interested in the new Spurs arena proposal.

When I think about forgiveness in terms of political discussions, Fratelli Tutti is my model: 🧵 "We are called to love everyone, without exception; at the same time, loving an oppressor does not mean allowing him to keep oppressing us, or letting him think that what he does is acceptable."

Oh, hey, there was that time I tried to get Claude.ai to design a #knitting pattern and it turned into my #knittinghorrorstory. So, yeah, LLMs came for the handicrafts too. bsky.app/profile/dran...

We are in the lamest timeline. Like, how many more nihilistic lols can there possibly be?

Never heard the term IEP mom, but it is 100% on point. We have no concept of the rage unleashed when Voght cut the Special Ed office. It will do great things, as unfair as it all is. So, join them. Those IEP moms already have organizing structures and you can be an ally in that work. Just ask.