Oh wow, this is huge. You used to have to go to the Library of Congress to get most of this.

I think before you build an Arc de Triomphe you should be able to identify at least un (1) triomphe

I don't usually follow the Popes too closely - I'm more of a Rabbis fan - but I gotta say, I can't remember the last time I saw them put up these kind of numbers.

Some universities are letting Republican politicians dictate what professors can teach in the classroom; others have faculty who mostly vote Democrat.

"Polarization" is not an honest description of this situation. "Viewpoint Diversity" is a project to worsen it.

Please don't use bullshit language.

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

I think it’s satire.

Good first step. Now keep increasing the tax until you hit 100% on everything over 10M.

Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

This will make your morning better, all you teacher/writer/thinker people.

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Don’t Use A.I. to Do This www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Why do they usually look like they are trying to remember if they picked up the milk?

April 14, 1875: Frances Harper on Grassroots Organizing During Reconstruction Frances Ellen Watkins Harper spoke in Philadelphia at the Centennial Anniversary of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, urging African Americans to continue organizing for...

“What we need today in the onward march of humanity is a public sentiment in favor of common justice and simple mercy.” — Frances Ellen Watkins Harper #tdih 1875 on need to organize to challenge white supremacist violence.

#TeachReconstruction Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fr...

Best way to count down to summer!

Photo of the back of an airplane seat with a sign that says “literature only.”

En route to Chicago. I like American Airlines’ new marketing campaign. 😉

In April 1944, at the Anzio Beachhead in Italy, Sidney Hyman, a United States Army officer, led a Passover Seder for the Jewish troops who assembled from all corners of the beachhead. In an abandoned barn, in the midst of shelling and artillery fire, American servicemen observed the Passover. Sydney wrote to his sister Flo: [...]Iadded that the world owes much to our grandfathers for keeping alive the concept of political freedom -- that in its largest sense, Passover was or should be not only a Jewish holiday, but a holiday for all men of good will to whom freedom and life are indivisible concepts -- that the Exodus of Egypt and the battles fought to secure freedom were the father of all such battles - at Marathon, Lexington, Gettysburgh and the ones we ourselves are fighting -- that the "Haggadah" of Passover, in its largest significance is the "Haggadah" of a Gettysburgh Address or Walt Whitman's poetry. L...] As it was, Passover was observed here because the men truly wanted to observe it, at considerable peril to themselves. We did the best we could with what we had in hand. I think the very imperfection of our means, inviting as it did total participation to compensate for the imperfection, heightened the majesty of the occasion. It was, in a sense, a very primitive observance of the holiday, and for that very reason -- a whole-souled observance of it. I returned to camp over the same road that had been under shell-fire, and once again, the passage was easy. In my mood and in the mood of the men who accompanied me, we all felt that even if a shell hit our vehicle, it would be the shell and not us who would be shattered. All of us who participated in the ceremony feel exhilarated and it has been with considerable effort that I have managed to write you when, instead, I wanted to shout to you. For somehow or other, I felt, while the services were in progress, that father was standing by my side, smiling his wonderful smile at the lesser heresies committed, but a…

Chag sameach.

Here’s a little reading that grew up with, in the Haggadah a family friend wrote. I thought this was a “standard” reading for Passover. Turns out it was pulled by that family friend as she compiled, from the original letter itself in a trunk or drawer somewhere.

April fools only works when reality isn't this stupid.

Welcome to the neighborhood, Ayat. “Every child deserves to live.”

Everything is terrible but this is time-travel magic that will have me smiling all day. Our pasts are always present.

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

Not any more! Now out of detention, not soon enough but finally!!

Opinion | The Erasure of Black Studies A report from the undoing of a field.

Everyone in higher ed either has, or should have, learned a lot from Black Studies over the past few decades.

Crucial read on the embattled state of the field and how little institutions,
and too often colleagues, are doing to protect it.

www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

And I want them to reach out individually to everyone they impersonated. The whole take-it-down thing also hides who was harmed.

Made hanging my head out the window and risking severe electrocution, not with AI

The Danger of Silence When Academic Freedom Is Under Threat Inaction from rank-and-file workers enabled government censorship during the Red Scares.

Spot on, from @bakerdphd.bsky.social. Higher ed did NOT defend academic freedom in the McCarthy era, and most faculty were silent or indifferent.

And now?

Zoom meeting with a prospective student.

Who lives in Peru.

Where there are strikes by taxi drivers because gas prices have climbed so high so fast that they cannot earn enough to live.

The zone of damage from this heedless, feckless war is _everywhere_.

On the other hand, her English teacher is doing #marchmadness poetry-style - every class starts with 10 minutes of reading and debate about two poems, kid argue which is better.

I love slow and careful reading, but this is great for a quick, fun exposure. And we get to hear about poems at dinner♥️

My kid just came home from a class (writing class, no less) with a teacher-created assignment TOTALLY and OBVIOUSLY written by AI. She is taking this class to strengthen her own writing.

It is hard to characterize all the layers of disappointment and disenchantment on her face.

Don’t do this.

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The lower half of a manuscript page, featuring a marginal figure dragging a portion of text encircled with a rope into place.

A marginal figure drags an omitted portion of text into place in this copy of Thomas Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes (Arundel MS 38).

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Thank you for sharing!