Dems need to be on every news channel saying this. Everyday. All day.

"reading changes our neurochemistry in real time. Reading isn’t just about decoding words on a page. It’s a complex neurochemical process that affects everything from our heart rate to our hormone levels."

The Ellisons bought CBS for the same reasons Musk bought Twitter and none of those reasons were to make money, which they do not need. It's a mistake to assess them that way

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

"One doesn't have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient." - Charles M. Blow

The goal is to normalize the presence of armed federal agents and soldiers at locations where Americans are required to show ID and submit to screening before they can proceed. Get people used to it at airports first. Then roll it out at polling places in the midterms.

Ironically, those workers are then most likely to be promoted into leadership positions. 🙄

Markwayne Mullin confirmed as head of DHS — Americans should feel safe with him at the helm.

Instead of paying ICE to harass passengers at airports, we could be using the money to hire more air traffic controllers to keep them safe.

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This kind of history is so important because it betrays the lie that our current day racism and persistent segregation is just a long, slow healing from slavery. As though there have not been (and continue to be) new legal frameworks introduced to entrench racism in every period of our history.

One of the biggest crimes of the Neoliberal University has been its total rejection of the idea that there could be value to learning that doesn't benefit "industry" or lead on to a job.

A reminder that we don’t need billionaires to pay charity, we need them to pay their damn taxes. Billionaire philanthropy is PR to disguise their tax evasion. Don’t fall for it. Tax billionaires. Save our democracy. Period.

The process of organization is one of the strongest metamemory strategies. Cut that out, and you've cut out learning. As a teacher and cognitive psychologist I find this all so sad and frustrating and kind of incomprehensible.

Even if this were true, no one is requiring a valid birth certificate (& marriage license) to get said work ID in NYC (or anywhere else). Stop with the false equivalencies. The SAVE Act isn't about election integrity-it's about disenfranchising voters and creating chaos before the next election.

An athlete who never shows up for practice will never get very good at their sport, and the same goes for brain growth.

A total collapse. The National Institutes of Health went from 756 funding announcements published to 14 in two years. One example of the effects: emerging threats will become harder to address quickly. Response to future health emergencies (like Covid) will be slower and less coordinated.

It's wild to me that higher ed leaders can tell themselves that institutional neutrality will get the job done and then you've got Hungarian ambassadors and Russian dissidents saying this is the way you aid authoritarianism

Please stop referring to the Voter Elimination Act by the Orwellian moniker MAGA gave it, which makes it sound good. We do not need to repeat their words (ahem, "Patriot Act," "Citizens United") but rather make clear exactly what's at stake.

Higher ed contributes a great deal more to their communities than most people realize. At a time when funding is increasingly scarce & decision makers are eroding tenure, dismantling programs, & shuttering campuses to score political points, it’s worth noting the economic/social benefits at risk

I have long wished to see people in this country fight as hard for the first amendment as they do for the second.

students are also frustrated by rampant careerism. they *want* options; they *want* to pursue things that interest them; they *want* more than the credential from college. we saw this in 2020-21: why did students hate distance learning so much? because college is about more than completing credits.

But folks wanted this ..

Delighted to see this volume out and open access with lots of interesting chapters related to the human right to science. My chapter explores the notion of ‘epistemic jurisdictions’ as a way of better understanding the interlacing of local knowledge and scientific knowledge under this human right.

I was reading an article about how workers keep waiting for AI to reduce their workloads and wonder why it's not happening and in fact they are now expected to do MORE work. I feel we have fundamentally failed to communicate what capitalism is to a lot of people.

What’s wild is hearing his real accent before he started doing the Foghorn Leghorn routine. bsky.app/profile/clay...

It’s still wild to me what Kennedy actually sounds like.

"In a just world they would be cast out and condemned, their misdeeds exhaustively catalogued, never able again to show their faces in polite society. That world may not come to pass .." This is fabulous Definitely read it today:

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

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Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves

And free college.

If the US spent that money on education, health care, and helping people, then we wouldn't have enough people in precarious positions to conscript for our war profit machine.

Whether you think AI may have good applications for education or not, it's clearly *not right* for global AI vendors to be controlling the production of evidence about their own products.

This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and we’re going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future

Not to be THAT feminist, but I knew this was the case before opening the article. Men see fatherhood as an abstract milestone that's a proof of their virility, women see the associated costs. Not to mention that women not being locked into domesticity is the core of the antifeminist backlash today.

Just received this email. This is not a learning tool: expert/prof feedback is silly; "ready-to-use rewrites" are rewrites. And when students are told AI is okay for brainstorming, okay for proofreading, okay for feedback and use this, writing becomes more fixing, less thinking.

Not just lit reviews. I get an email like this every few weeks. They are selling hard to academics to offload the analysis to make space for other work But analysis & writing IS the work that honors the voices of intellectual ancestors, centers the participants & connects the two to to build theory

Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why? If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment. Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.

This is the part about the Gen AI revolution that gives me great pause. This is a real example: compare two PDFs, text only, tell me if one copied the other. Claude Code *cannot do it* What level of task do you trust without verification?

Right now, there's open grumbling on the right -- Ted Cruz said there was no need for war and even lickspittles like Matt Walsh are having trouble with the quick reversal here -- but that window will close and they'll circle the wagons soon enough. Dems need to be vocal and unsparing now.

FYI Markwayne Mullin is not A war veteran and never served

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the HPV vaccine is fucking incredible, period end of that's it

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

“We can endure this, and be a guiding light through it, but only by recentering, by teaching citizens, not workers; power, not PowerPoint; aspiration, not apocalypse.” Yes! The race to the bottom is paved with microcredentials & reduced degree requirements for the sake of workforce readiness.

Again, the way to think about things now is that we've had a Reverse Enabling Act. Congress is totally non-functional & does nothing while Trump monetizes the presidency, goes to war, & violates the law & Constitution 99 ways every day. Every claim he <can't> do ___ requires 👆 not to happen anymore.

Okay I feel like this is going to come up a lot in the next 24 hours so let's just clear this up: Ayatollah Khameini, the Iranian supreme leader allegedly killed today, is/was *not* the same person as Ayatollah Khomeini, the supreme leader who came to power in the 1979 revolution.

Don’t believe them when they say it’s inevitable.