Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation: Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

Ever get that sense that you're looking at something and it will reappear when some historian from the future is deciding what photo should go in a callout box for 2025 in that textbook they're writing?

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

A little aurora & Milky Way combo from last night. Not too shabby for far southern Oklahoma, eh? #photography

made a video on the filibuster — its history and why it's bad — for my youtube channel. check it out!

Every educated adult in the U.S. knows this but the senate shouldn't exist. There is no justification for North Dakota and South Dakota to have four senators between them when the combined population of both states is smaller than that of Chicago.

Literally every day.

He said it.

Can we do this every Tuesday

One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong. How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Shouts to @stephenwolf.bsky.social and @gregpak.net for motivating me to finally write this silly thing: Twice Upon a Time in the United States badanalogytheater.beehiiv.com/p/twice-upon...

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Where we stand, in long arc of history: -Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people. -Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites. I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

Today is a good day to read some contemporary accounts of Columbus's voyages to the Americas & their consequences, such as those of Bartolomé de Las Casas & Fray Ramón Pané, who both condemned the treatment of Indigenous peoples. www.dukeupress.edu/another-face... www.dukeupress.edu/an-account-o...

Thirty-one years ago, there was a slave auction reenacted at Colonial Williamsburg. Some thought it powerful, many thought it insulting. This summer, I traveled to Williamsburg myself to see how the country’s largest living history museum today tells the story of Black life at America’s founding.

It's the moment with just under 30s left that gets me EVERY time. I handed my wife the video last night and I heard her snort from the other room... It was that part. This needs to be broadcast/shared everywhere.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

feeling this one today

Paine: "To those unenlightened conservatives who dare to ask, where is the king? tell them, “in America the law is king."

Writing about this right now. We've had five-plus years of educators being ousted by MAGA. Can we go back and restore those folks' careers, safety, and peace of mind?

Again Bouie from the top rope

He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.

The manifesto from Andor is still so relevant.

Powerful piece by @mrneibauer.bsky.social about the challenges of teaching today. It should illuminate for everyone--not just teachers--how resisting conformity, standardization, and authoritarianism by promoting creativity, community, and communication in our workplaces is essential right now.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

S. Carolina Senator James Hammond delivered the "Mudsill Speech" in the Senate, explaining how Southern society was superior, built on a foundation of slavery, which only they were brave enough to do. He was appointed AFTER he sexually assaulted 4 teen nieces. Said they were lucky he didn't do more.

Historian of Reconstruction and I approve of this message.

The press should not report this illegal name change like this stenographer social media post from Axios.

Eric Schmitt's speech was cribbed from Samuel T. Francis.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-schmit...

“It’s time for a new Reconstruction story [to] . . . better understand how we got here. A story where the central characters are the Black people who fought to liberate themselves. . . despite every attempt at violent suppression.” — @kidadaewilliams.com ⬇️ www.teachreconstructionreport.org

I taught AP US History last year, 15 years after last teaching anything US, and the through line of "liberty" as 1st priority as outlined by @hcrichardson.bsky.social in this book could not possibly be clearer. The abuse of that idea at the expense of equality screams when you know to look for it.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social tried to tell us this years ago in her book How the South Won the Civil War.

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.

Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

Welcome Back to US History, 2025 Edition (yes, I'm using K-Pop Demon Hunters and Star Wars to talk about teaching US history, don't sue me, for real) #SSChat #EduSky badanalogytheater.beehiiv.com/p/welcome-ba...

When has this worked, exactly? If this is one part of a massive turn out/protest effort okay, but by itself it's just more of the same. This should absolutely not be the headline action.

Again we see the incoherence of right-wing policy. Rounding up homeless people and imprisoning them *is* housing them! Punitive solutions to this problem also cost a shitload and require a massive bureaucracy. They are fine with providing housing, but only if it is ineffective and dehumanizing.

“Working-class people can’t think, but should be allowed to become knowledge workers by using machines to think for them” is about the most “the author of this argument works for Microsoft” version of cosplay progressivism I could possibly imagine. (The author of this argument works for Microsoft.)

Fck the center. There is no center right now - one is either with the fascists, or is against them

MAY EVERY DAY BE ANOTHER WONDERFUL SECRET

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This, so much this. Teachers are the worst about this sometimes, and it frustrates me to catch it from family and coworkers when I try to talk about how there are better ways to do this whole government of the people thing. Ask a high schooler about fantasy football and tell me they can't do more.

Well I have a new favorite actor. The way my jaw hit the floor when Ebon Moss-Bachrach mentions an author at the very end. Amazing. That author (I don't want to spoil) has become my fave as I've gotten older, replacing all my childhood faves. Incredible.

The American left political project of the remainder of my life must be the third Reconstruction.