Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

by "redefining," i think you mean "learning"? jesus, @npr.org, you're embarrassing yourself. people who face economic pressures and struggle to afford groceries have been a meaningful part of society -- full humans, even -- longer than your brand has existed. christ almighty.

I talked about public scholarship with @bonni208.bsky.social on her terrific “Teaching in Higher Ed” podcast! teachinginhighered.com/621

all this sweaty calvinball horseshit feels like hysterical panic from the court

In conclusion, the financialization of everything has been bad for democracy and human thriving.

Happy 226th Birthday to John Brown, the only white boy to ever truly understand the assignment

“provost monthly” 🧑🏻‍🍳💋 captures it exactly

We can’t make curiosity and the luxury of learning only available to rich people. State colleges are not corporations and 5 majors in French is fine.

my campus uses moodle but i don't store any info there that isn't backed up elsewhere. if it went down, i wouldn't miss it. i hate moodle. canvas is a little better, but still. i'll be over here with my excel spreadsheet of grades and my printed-on-paper! essays to grade if anyone needs me.

sheesh. signed on to share a delightful little book i just read only to find out the author is the Main Character right now bc someone shared a quote out of context & good people are really stressed out right now, so it read to some like an insult i doubt it was intended to be. anyway, i liked it.

A particular thank you to everyone teaching somewhere where people from outside the classroom are trying to decide what you teach and how you teach, ignoring your expertise, undermining your hard-won know how, and sidelining you. To everyone who's doing work for far too little pay.

we need to talk about what Louisiana Republicans are doing to Calvin Duncan, who deserves so much better than this ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Obama: "What I'm more interested in for Democrats is, do you know how to just talk to regular people like we're not in a college seminar? Can you talk in plain English to folks? And not have a bunch of gobbledygook around it. Just talk like normal people talk. 'The rent is too high.'"

louisiana's senate candidates vying to be the biggest trump suck-up 🤮

Watching HBOs Dark Wizard about the climber Dean Potter and damn. Talk about "the things men will do to avoid therapy." Amazing and truly tragic.

this is horrific. if you need a palate cleanser after reading, here's an article about my son's AP african american studies teacher, easily the most popular teacher at baton rouge high. time.com/6257576/ap-a...

Every news headline, everywhere, all the time:

She didn’t just dream of the stars. She reached them. Ellen Ochoa became the first Latina astronaut, an engineer and inventor who helped expand what we know about space and opened doors for others. Astronaut. Engineer. Pioneer. She made space for others #SheShed

I can think of one thing that would get a lot of people off of them

BREAKING-ish: If 8 Republican AGs (TX, FL, AK, KS, LA, MO, MT, SD) win a case they filed today, Section 504 plans will end as we know them...and it will remove the federal protection against unnecessary institutionalization. I wish I was being dramatic.

This whole lot should be a permanent cure for imposter syndrome because my god they are dumber than a sack of hammers

These are Jim Crow vagrancy laws.

You don’t have to use AI in the classroom. You’re not a salesperson and it’s not a skill:

"The [Just Income] pilot participants who received assistance were given $1,000 in the first month and then $600 for the following 11 months. The results showed recidivism fell, and self-sufficiency and mental health improved ... Florida spends over $41,000 annually to incarcerate a single person."

snuggly #caturday wishes

Nice work, @insidehighered.com This is a perfect headline & lede.

what sadist invented this? i've never lost a board game so slowly before. #historians #historysky

**quietly adds “Our university president doesn’t run students over” to his “Things-I-Like-About-My-Job” list**

Amazing. In Paris, school streets "with the full treatment — trees, gardens, light-colored pavement — were on average, an astonishing 9 degrees (Fahrenheit) cooler than nearby non-school streets."

the state of copyediting at major presses these days... embarrassing

happy may day, y'all

they should invent a me that's awake

When you want to "abadndon the South" just know that you are abandoning the part of the country that has 60% of the US's Black population. The racism employed by neo-libs in this argument isn't hidden, you just probably don't have anyone but liberal whites in your life you're not called on it.

what's tragicomic about it all is he originally accepted the map -- i.e., pretended to be on Black folks' side -- because it ended the career of a popular white congressman who'd dared cross him. and now that that guy (garret graves) is gone, he's done with this map and back to doing all the racism.

But we have an election right now!!! Please. Don’t participate in the voter suppression. We have a current election. May 2nd is early voting. May 16th is voting day. Landry is pushing 4 amendments that will decimate our public health, our public schools, and human health services & care.

hey @drewmckevitt.bsky.social is this bad www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2...

This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’

*smash mouth voice* well the emails start comin' and they don't stop comin'

Whatever policy problem you think you’re working on, whoops it’s actually a democracy problem.

Right. Previously you had to be radicalized first before you'd do something like this. But now things are so bad that this is a rational decision for centrists to make. No radicalization step.

i believe this is related to the rise in people who are utterly incurious about anything not directly beneficial to themselves

“Everybody needs to turn down the rhetoric.” -supporters of a guy who threatened to destroy an entire civilization of 90 million people

Last night a room of adults experienced what children in this country experience on ordinary Tuesdays. Most of those adults went home to debriefs and people trained to help. The kids go back to math class. We’re asking children to carry what we cannot carry ourselves. #HumanTogether

four days ago, i had to check to make sure my kid’s elementary school wasn’t still on lockdown at dismissal time bc we are so close to the mall of louisiana that we could see the police helicopters from the school parking lot, so yeah

I would start the business of not having a business seriously though some people are like “I would be so bored without a purpose” and that’s valid but if you let me retire tomorrow to dick around all day every day I’d be totally happy

this wasn't the point of your post, but it is mind-blowing to me that the standard recommendation now is *at least 90 days* of inpatient treatment for meaningful recovery. we've been short selling rehab as "28 days" and blaming relapse on the people who suffer it.

“If you don’t embrace AI you’ll be left in the dust” like yes that sounds lovely one dust please