Why Gas Prices Go Up Fast and Take So Long to Fall Fuel station owners take some of the hit for consumers when oil prices surge. On the way down, they try to get their money back.

Oil prices have fallen from their peak after weeks of war have choked off the Persian Gulf, but gasoline prices are likely to descend more slowly. Here's why.

I feel like all of this is connected to capitalism…
time is money,
learning takes time,
learning doesn’t always = money,
so why learn

The world on two pair of draws???? That’s crazy

Carrying the country on his back? The man can barely carry a coherent thought through a full sentence without stopping for a side quest about windmills.

The thing about “viewpoint diversity” is it’s an affront to legitimate scholarship. What counts as knowledge should have to earn that status - but right-wingers want cheat codes so their shoddy “research” will get as much hearing as serious peer-reviewed work.

there was the commissioning and then canceling of that Pride collection by queer and trans artists, then there was the DEI rollback, now it’s AI-driven false arrests. Target is setting land-speed records for torching customer goodwill, given how high their popularity and how far they had to fall

Trump TS post featuring an illustration of himself as a Christian faith healer

I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.

I too have written about white conservatives in southern state legislatures rushing through bullshit changes to the law just to thwart the advancement of literally one black man, but I'm a historian who writes about the Jim Crow era South and not a reporter discussing current fucking events there.

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we cannot live this way.

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A reminder that the Heritage Foundation architected Project 2025 with Viktor Orbán in mind. Kevin Roberts called modern Hungary “the model” for conservative statecraft.

Far-right authoritarianism is a globally collaborative movement.

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

America’s 250th Is Repeating a Familiar Mistake The push to downplay slavery today echoes the 1932 Washington Bicentennial, writes John Garrison Marks.

It's publication day for **THY WILL BE DONE: GEORGE WASHINGTON'S LEGACY OF SLAVERY AND THE FIGHT FOR AMERICAN MEMORY** at last!

I have a new piece at @time.com about what our struggle to remember George Washington and slavery can teach us as we commemorate the 250th. time.com/article/2026...

The way I don't see anyone talking about Harry Potter anymore is the highest comedy. That trailer dropped and everybody went, "No, thanks" and went on about their business. They couldn't even get a buzz off the antiblackness of outrage marketers. Black people are not coming to that man's defense.

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

God help us.

We now live in the United States of Disassociation. And I fear for what this means for our future.

Hey media--

Pam Bondi is not a victim -- she willingly carried out Trump's political agenda to prosecute his political enemies and undermine free and fair elections.

Todd Blache is not shouldering a "burden" or "walking a tightrope." He is a willing accomplice.

Language matters.

😂😂 no PT for me, but I scheduled a massage and asked him to only focus on my legs

I tried my 6inch heels about a month ago and felt it in my hips and calves for like a week and a half. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers 😅

Updated 3/31/26: "College Board may use artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other computational methods (collectively, 'AI'), including in the development and scoring of tests and for test security purposes."

Got it.

Who Owns High School English? On communities of practice, corporate capture, and what happens when teachers are cut off from the disciplines they teach

New post: What happens when teachers are cut off from the discipline they teach? How is HS English becoming codified, commodified, & captured by corporate interests and administrative functionaries? Where do we go from here? #edusky #literacies #academicsky

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if Wikipedia, an org with a shoestring budget and volunteer workforce can ban use of llms, what excuse do large orgs and universities have

This summer I'm teaching a workshop on human-centered education writing. What's your favorite piece of education writing that centers students/teachers as full people, even as we discuss policy or practice? Blogs, articles, book chapters, etc all welcome! #EduSky

I’m in central Illinois as well, and I’m paying about $18,000 a year… this is with a discount 😅. The monthly fee is double the rent of my first 1 bedroom apartment 🥴

Design: A backdrop of the World Map overlayed by red shackled hands breaking a chain. Words accompanying list the date "March 25." And "International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Ghana has been in the news recently as they have submitted a draft resolution before the UN declaring the Atlantic Slave Trade the gravest crime against humanity.

In the spirit of that, March 25 is also International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

The way I laughed at this Tyler Perry wig on him 😂

Dark blue flyer with picture of Black child with Afro on the right. Top left: Column Editor: S.R. Toliver Submit to: Stoliver@illinois.edu Journal: English Journal Word Count: 1200-1400 Genres Accepted: essays, poems, comics, stories, etc Middle left: Black Youth Futures Bottom Left: Questions to Consider. • What texts (written by and about Black people) have you found particularly useful in the ELA classroom? • How have you made space for Black joy, Black dreams, Black genius, and Black pride in your ELA classroom, literacy research, and/or community work? • What literacy assignments have you created that enable Black youth to voice their concerns about the world? • What does the future of English education, schools, or schooling look like for Black youth? Bottom Right: Published September, January, and May

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When I talk about the speculative, I always make sure to say that’s it’s not inherently equitable or just. White supremacy is speculative AF, creative AF. The current moment is a white supremacist dreamscape, a reimagining of a world where equity is even possible.

It hasn't gotten enough attention that Trump, Homan, and Duffy have all confirmed there's a plan in the works to have armed ICE agents at airports *tomorrow.* Words fail to describe how stupid this is. Let's hope more people aren't disappeared or killed.