Just because a topic or book or author - even a controversial one - is on a syllabus doesn’t mean anybody is being indoctrinated.

Hey #academicsky, what are our favorite citations at the intersection of rural education access, rural sociology, and/or spatial inequality?

Zootopia 2 is somehow much weirder than the first one?

JRR knew what he was Tolkien about...

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

Deploying ICE at airports is to normalize their transition from being a special operation targeting immigrants to being an entity that polices all. This is the production of the American Gestapo, one institution at a time.

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

Once more I find myself haunted by the time I absent-mindedly wrote "narrative" instead of "essay" on a lesson plan for the WRA101 - in the unit where we explain medium, genre, conventions, available means - and Rhet Comp colleagues saw it.

This may be the most powerful 85 seconds I've ever seen on television.

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor” – Desmond Tutu

You're going to want to read @vermontgmg.bsky.social's obit for Robert Swan Mueller III. Garrett wrote about Mueller more than most and he empties the notebook here. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/rememberin...

Oh. Stage an assassination attempt, you say? Interesting.

What's telling here, of course, is that Trump has always insisted Mueller CLEARED him Trump's psychotic reaction here suggests: even TRUMP knows Mueller DID NOT clear him

I have a joke about self-deprecating humor, but I don't think I can pull off the punchline.

Love when a court case is so squarely in my wheelhouse. 😂 This judge is a legend.

Sláinte!

Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?

Take an hour and get yourself a nice beverage and read this.

For as long as I live I will never trust anyone’s war opinions if they hear “creator and user of a palantir” and think “trustworthy.” This is why we need the humanities. JRR would never.

Whack it real hard with a five iron, try not to get bogged down in the sand trap.

May they be made an example of.

Fair play, 'the mad emperor started compulsively buying shoes for his court, guessing their foot size & his courtiers were too scared not to wear them even when they didn't fit' is some classic, on the nose End Days Of The Empire stuff

Trump burned $5.6 billion on munitions alone in the first two days of his unjustified, unauthorized war. But they don't have money for your health care.

Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.) This is an atrocity.

Every time I think, "Surely someone has studied this" and I commence a lit review, I am shocked - SHOCKED - to discover that no, actually, there is YET ANOTHER gap in the literature? I do not have the time to personally research everything I want to know about.

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

I knew somewhere this was coming. CBP was in bed with Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...

Bill Bramhall cartoon.

The best case scenario is that Trump will waste $38 billion. The more likely outcome is that these will become warehouses of human suffering, and a permanent stain on America's history.

Honestly I don’t know this answer at all but my high school earth science teacher has hundreds of thousands of TikTok followers and I think that’s really cool.

no, it simply isnt. People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

This is El Paso, where the airspace has been shut down without explanation for ten days btw

Age verification? I could really go for a refreshing Zima.

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

I am so smitten with this Olympic dance. Absolute good time to watch and try to explain it to the kiddo who was barely 2 the last time the Winter Olympics came around and has no idea what's going on. 😆. "Why are they doing a dance about snowboarding?! What's gonna happen now?!"

Sociologist C. Wright Mills saw this coming—and tried to warn us—60+ years ago. jacobin.com/2026/02/wrig...

“Live free or die” is quite the slogan for a state that allows the building of concentration camps on its soil.

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

Holy shit. Not only was Tulsi Gabbard present for the raid on Georgia's election center, she called Trump and put him on speaker phone to the FBI agents conducting the raid! (Gift link)

This email between Epstein and JD Vance’s tech oligarch benefactor Peter Thiel where they plan to “collapse” society to create investment opportunities for themselves seems… not great (They also met with the UN ambassador to Russia together)

I can't think of anything less patriotic than allowing a corrupt pedophile to suspend the constitution so he can murder citizens, enrich himself, and imprison journalists.

Lately my favorite thing to do while teaching is channel my high school English teacher Mr D & be like, “I’m gonna use a $10 word here” and then use and define new vocab like I’m Lemony Snicket.

“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.