there are so many gutting stories, but this one is hitting me extra hard. just imagining wael tarabishi slowly dying without his dad there to care for him because he was jailed by ICE makes me…i don’t have words. this country is disgusting.

I take educating every kid as a serious moral obligation. In addition to my moral stance, there are decades of legal precedent about ensuring English Language Learners can learn in schools. The ESOL training requirements for teachers everywhere are hefty. This is both highly immoral & illegal.

I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.

This is true. At the same time, I have an extensive family tree with custom tags that include "crime," "evil," and "murder." There's a Quebecois brothel madam locally famous for rejoicing at a gallows as a man was hung for stealing. It's okay if you have shitty ancestors. The future is now.

Totally agree with number six. I wanted to more inundation!! We needed to hold more space!!!!!! variety.com/2026/film/ne...

They didn't want to air Sesame Street in Mississippi because it was integrated.

This is disgusting

Found an article on my dissertation topic (involuntary musical imagery aka earworms) from just this past November and of course the pre-title is JUST CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD and now Kylie Minogue is lodged in there FOREVER.

the WBNA has the best politics of any American sports league (maybe world?) - I learned who Raphael Warnock is via the @nodunks.com podcast discussing Atlanta Dream players supporting his candidacy against Kelly Loeffler seemingly early in his campaign

Went to grab the link to my article from almost a decade ago about children's literature whitewashing George Washington's slaveholding. It was published in the journal Social Education. Colleagues, if you didn't know, AI is now summarizing our articles on Google. I'm pissed. This is not OK.

This kid is awesome, actual hero.

Is this where I say what I think — that another movie camp began all of the concern trolling over Ariana & Cynthia’s bodies on purpose to tank their Oscar chances? Unfortunately it worked.

I am a mother of three children living in a torn tent that cannot protect us from cold or rain. My children’s small bodies shiver and their hearts ache 💔 We need a new tent, warm clothes, and education to restore hope amid this pain 📚❄️ We humbly ask your kind hearts to donate 🙏 gofund.me/ef0ddd607

hwhat

Guess I should not invite this writer to the Carlo Rossi jug stand party I’m having with the other wine moms next week. 🤷🏻‍♀️

there are plenty of reasons Air Force One would suddenly turn around. for example, they may have forgotten Kevin

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

with winter weather ramping up this weekend, i am going to get ahead of The Discourse™️ and say... if you have the capability, shovel more than your little parcel of land. regardless of the ability, age, or health of your neighbors, channel that inner Ned Flanders and scoop away.

BlueSky indeed has the juice, and it comes as absolutely zero surprise that it was our cherished Duck who gave it a squeeze.

Now tell us all what the soundtrack and aural aesthetics of a busnapping is lolol

That's really beautiful, thanks. I am not exaggerating when I say that Belafonte's original performance of that song on The Muppet Show is one of the most influential musical performances in my life. (I had a VHS of this from a special that aired some years later) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErhJ...

I use an Abby Cadabby puppet as part of our daily routine in 2nd grade music class. Kids at the start of 2nd grade: “that’s for babies!!” Kids in 4th grade, still totally emotionally dependent on Abby: “ONE ABBY HUG WOULD FIX MEEEEEEEE”

of the moral conundrums you will be presented with, as an adult, "stop buying these specific children's toys" is like. the easiest possible

And if you go after Sesame Street, you are going after one of the most explicitly anti-racist works of public art in the 20th century...in an article where you are arguing for keeping all the dirty musics away from the lofty heights of the classical canon... I applaud your being paywalled.

I’m paywalled upthread but, agreed. Sesame Street has done more for kids in this country than the sum of the 20 best European composers ever have. Happy to die on that hill.

I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.

Hey! Are you a science teacher or interested in science education? Would you like to kick the tires on a (forever) free science education support app? I keep building out sciencepractice.app and would love any and all thoughts on how to improve it. #eduaky #iteachscience

If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.

Also my position continues to be that no one deserves to be assaulted by ICE or afraid to go to the bathroom even if they voted like a dipshit

All of the millennial Pinterest bitches know that if you mix a Hidden Valley Ranch packet with Greek yogurt you are good to go.

Bluesky is owned by musicology now, I don’t make the rules

J’ACCUSE

Someone else was a 17–0 champion, beating the team that beat the eventual national champions, w/e man.

Indiana is the first *new* national champion in college football in 30 years?!

Dude do not reach over abuelita with that microphone.

I do hope that Fletcher & Toney (from Miami) get big fat NFL contracts because they played like wild tonight. It won’t be remembered but they were working it.

Know who is the most excited tonight? Mendoza’s former youth pastor.

“It’s synergy, Lemon. It’s bigger than both of us.”

For God so loved the world, He gave the Indiana Hoosiers synergy.

Ugh am I gonna end up rooting for Miami next year.

Was that literally the only interception of the game?

yeahhhhh i probably will be more willing to fork over the extra money for amtrak next time

My pfp is me holding my research poster (not coffee) on the famous Embassy Bridge while heading out from FMEA.

@nickstarrmusic.bsky.social HI NICK!!!!!!!!!!

Hey. No one is secretly mad at you. Go have a snack. You’re beautiful. You’ve got this.

IKR!!!!!!!

Now that Duck is off the bus, y’all better be cool. They are our most Legendary Music Poster & lots of people will throw hands if anyone harasses them.

New world struggling to be born? Skill issue

Piling on the ratio. Good luck to you, sir.