The person who really convinced me was Steve Almond, who LOVED football, & 11 years ago wound up writing a book about why we should all stop watching Bottom line: "Consuming as a form of entertainment a game that causes human beings to suffer brain damage is wrong." free link: archive.is/SHJms

I would rather watch people throw themselves off a mountain than watch football.

Is this what Texas pride feels like?

The best winter sport, you can’t convince me otherwise.

I hate when they fall.

I need a recent example of a poll in the news that somebody might think looks real but is biased and/or lacking transparency on methods for students to look at.

I need an emotional support pierogi plushie. Go team Team Poland!

Care to comment, Ted Cruz?

I stopped watching football back in the early 2010s, when I got frustrated with the league not taking issues seriously. A player on the Chiefs shot and killed his girlfriend before killing himself, and then less than 24 hours the Chiefs played the Panthers. RIP Kasandra Perkins.

Never forget the anniversary of King Taejong falling off his horse!

There are so many reasons to hate the Patriots. But for me, it starts and ends with the ICE collaborators they're enriching. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/the-truth-ab...

We sold 122 boxes of cookies today. So many cookies and so many cookies to go.

"The new law forbids counties and local law enforcement from contracting with ICE. It mandates that public bodies terminate any existing immigration detention agreements and prohibits the use of public property for federal civil immigration detention..." kfoxtv.com/news/local/n...

ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota. This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats. They hate the helpers. Which is why must keep helping.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

When a student tells me they are a sociology major, I immediately know what’s up in a way that like doesn’t work for philosophy or political science.

Maybe, just maybe, people should start to understand that there is no such thing as non punitive detention. And so the entire premise of immigration law— that this is civil and isn’t meant to punish or coerce— is a tremendous lie

We will wander around Phoenix to Sedona/Flagstaff to Grand Canyon so trip suggestions. It’s going to be dark too so we can see the sky, which I’m also super excited about.

We are going to the Grand Canyon for spring break and I’ve never been and I’m very excited.

We are going to the Grand Canyon for spring break and I’ve never been and I’m very excited.

I think we found out who the staff member who posted it was. It was the racist, in the west wing, with the phone.

She's up for reelection this fall, and I don't think there's much choice. If she agrees to cooperate with ICE on immigration enforcement, I can't imagine Minneapolis voters are going to re-elect her. Not to mention, why would you ever negotiate with Trump thinking that he is acting in good faith?

New piece: From body cams to masks to independent investigations of recent shootings, the public supports a wide range of major reforms for ICE/federal agents www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-ameri...

I'm reviewing a paper that I really wish I had written. Legit jealous of the good job this author (or authors) did.

I heard that if Susan Collins says she's concerned AND Mike Johnson says he hasn't seen it three times, then it is free Bloody Marys at brunch everywhere this weekend.

Abolish ICE as a message is not going to work everywhere for Democrats, as no message is. But the idea that it wouldn't work anywhere is so consultant brain. Listen to organizers.

Oh, how I wonder what staffer could it be. Such a mystery.

DHS has been posting Nazi memes for months. None of this is an accident.

Random editing thoughts: If you took a shot every time we say "states vary" or "state and local governments differ widely" in our state and local politics textbook, you would be dead. Yay, federalism.

Breaking news: the NYT reports that it is unclear if the sun will rise tomorrow.

The “innovative power of AI”

“Campus members are challenged to identify a current operational opportunity for improvement… and propose a practical, AI-enabled solution that has the potential to be piloted on campus and scaled over time.” Use AI to analyze the budget and identify which individuals are over and underpaid.

I hope the media and politicians don’t do that “racially charged” thing today. It is racist.

It has been 0 days since Mike Johnson has to act performatively ignorant.

But Senator Katie Britt is still thinking about him.

I am sorry but I gave up on my Bill Buckley book, and I traded it in for a book on Charles Sumner.

3 yrs ago I started writing a book that is in stores TODAY. It's narrative nonfiction, anti-fascist spy thriller set in Trump era. It's timely as hell & I'm proud of it. A thread of what people are saying abt it & why I hope you'll help make it a bestseller www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

I have a student studying influences of support for Trump's gold card. I'm a little stumped on finding scholarship on attitudes towards special access for WEALTHY immigrants. I know work on attitudes towards "high skilled" workers and attitudes towards different types of visas (diversity). Ideas?

Sigh.

I am still the last person standing in my household against these germs. Kid has a fever again (day 5). Husband has a fever (day 3). I have anxiety (day 15,256).

Schumer is rage baiting.

In 1956, Texas Attorney General John Ben Shepperd sued the NAACP, accusing it of operating without a permit, engaging in illegal lobbying, and financing lawsuits (barratry) to challenge segregation. A temporary injunction kept the NAACP from operating until 1961.

I am persistent and have a long memory and an incredible willingness to be annoying for unbelievably sustained periods of time!

I remember when past me said, "we'll do that later" and now it is later, and I don't like that.

I can’t believe it took me six chapters in this state and local politics textbook (will it ever be done?) to work Buddy Cianci in.

I get why they aren’t, but CAVA could totally be great on this. A canvas cloth bag version with like ICE OUT would sell out so fast. Proceeds to an immigrants’ right group.

We have a reference to the Rolling Stones beefing with a governor in our state and local politics textbook, and I just had to add an explanation of who the Rolling Stones are in case the students didn't know...