I guess I just want to say that Trump has captured every single institution. You can track variation in, say, court decisions or changing positions on tariffs but even conceding those things accepts that his whims run institutions’ priorities. Not a single one of them really stood.
#StreetArt #Resistance ✌🏻
#Activism 👍🏻
I'm sharing my teacher wishlist here. New school, new grade level (8th!!!). Wish we didn't have to do this but most of y'all know how classrooms come to us.
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
It's Teacher Appreciation Week. Here's how to appreciate teachers: trust them to choose books and curricular materials using an established, professional process.
I don't think I ever ask my students what they want to be when they grow up. It's still all around us though bc many of them talk about it.
I promised myself I wouldn’t become the old person who asks kids stuff like this. 😂😂 it takes A Lot of work not to do it. Like a spirit comes over you that says, “and so do you have a little friend at school?!” You must resist.
*SCREAMS INTO THE VOID*
It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.
This is scary as shit. The part about Indiana University erasing his existence entirely from their system is particularly chilling.
www.wired.com/story/cybers...
anyway, today was a GREAT day. and yesterday was also much more relaxing knowing I had today to get work done!!! I wish this could happen more often.
so much planning time goes in to being a good teacher. and I am paid for 4 hours a week of planning. and my paid time happens to come at the end of my work day when I'm exhausted--not optimal for thinking.
we had a self-directed teacher work day today. which means we didn't have to sit in meetings, we could actually do work. it's the first one we've had since august. which says a lot about our profession.
Uncle Munk weekend advice: Slow down. The most important thing to get done this weekend is taking care of you. Spend a few extra minutes on you. Call your friend you've been meaning to call. Sit outside in the sun. Go to that coffee shop you keep passing by. Life ain't what you do it's what you feel
Really good point. I'm realizing we dance around this at my school too. they spend so much time talking about fidelity to the curriculum (🙄) as if teaching methods don't play a role.
Shout out to my editor who let me cook.
Students are being harassed on/near campus by ICE (Fuck ICE) and faculty are like “let’s host a panel on the implications of ICE aggressions on students and then let’s publish a paper.” PROTECT YOUR STUDENTS. DEMAND ADMIN PROTECTS THEM. #resist #academicsky
There is literally no ethical use of genAI.
🔥 It's built on theft.
🔥 It consumes vast environmental resources.
🔥 It consumes vast financial resources to support it.
No company currently touting their "ethical" genAI has attempted to address all three. Once they do then MAYBE a discussion begins.
Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop
Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop
theonion.com/gang-in...
"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says Chris Hayes on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.
@marcusluther.bsky.social hi! I read your new blog post and I’m reporting that I like that format!!
MAN Case put his foot in this shit. and having MJB & Foxy made this unforgettable
since she was 8 months old
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
I'm ONLY eating square cut pizza.
The fact that even after these losses they are still the richest people in the world reveals that they would also survive paying higher taxes
Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.
Let's be really really clear. The Trump admin chose a Palestinian activist as the target of its first lawless political detention precisely BECAUSE they believe that will split the opposition.
If you shrug at the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, or worse, cheer it on, you're following Trump's script.
Agencies from Social Security to the IRS store sensitive data on millions of Americans. Here's what the government knows about us – and what's at risk as DOGE seeks access to the data.
Post-Selma op-eds:
Carville: "Bonehead bridge stunt alienates working class whites"
Durbin: "Protesters lack decorum!"
Fetterman: Why I'm co-sponsoring Josh Hawley's 'Free the Bridges' act, allowing motorists to run over protesters
Jeffries: "God still on the throne"
www.npr.org/2025/03/09/n...