YES WE DO

Red States: We're going to cut all the programs that don't support our theology
Blue States: We're going to cut the same programs, but because they don't support the business school

It's the first day of spring break, so I guess why not start an etsy shop for generative AI refusal stickers? 🫠 www.etsy.com/shop/byebot

I'm planning to donate all proceeds to anti-generative AI, pro-human community organizations. Hoping to be able to share more about this soon! #byebot

A PUBLIC GOOD

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

A Visual Tour of Minneapolis’ Radical History The city’s all-out rebellion against ICE builds on more than a century of labor and social justice organizing, explains archivist Isaac Silver.

Community activist & archivist Isaac Silver built Buttons of the Left, a project that educates people about historical movements.

He gave me a tour of his in-house collection & told me how after 100+ years of radical organizing, Minnesotans got ready to resist ICE.

inthesetimes.com/article/visu...

One of my most cherished classes is my 18th century novels course where the primary learning objective is "learn how read long novels." We did a "couch to 5k" approach to attention span and note-taking.

The amount of money the US government spent on troops in DC in 2025 ($223m) would have been enough to give the city's ~5,100 homeless residents each $43,000. Instead, federal troops destroyed their meager encampments.

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

called my senators to ask for a specific body count on how many people need to be executed in the streets and murdered in concentration camps before they call to abolish ICE.

In the year I spent teaching some of the brightest young computer scientists in America, they were extremely critical of facial recognition and surveillance tech in general. The research was damning five years ago, and has only gotten worse with careless AI implementation

thinking a lot lately about our surprise when the victim of state violence is white, a citizen, a priest, a veteran, some category viewed as exempt from that violence. it’s time to understand you aren’t. no one is. whiteness isn’t the color of your skin it is a conditional privilege you can lose.

Cop City RICO Cases Dismissed Years After 61 Activists Charged as Criminal Conspiracy - UNICORN RIOT Atlanta – Racketeering charges against 61 people indicted as co-conspirators in the Stop Cop City movement were dismissed yesterday, marking a significant victory for those facing prosecution in the y...

New: Cop City RICO Cases Dismissed Years After 61 Activists Charged as Criminal Conspiracy

Racketeering charges against dozens indicted as co-conspirators in the Stop Cop City movement were dismissed yesterday marking a legal victory for the movement

unicornriot.ninja/2025/cop-cit...

We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.

There might be no better example of the war coming home than a CIA trained teen death squad recruit getting asylum in the US and then shooting a bunch of soldiers who were deployed to DC for no reason other than Kabuki Security Theater

Texting Your Dad Simulator Opening move: Roll the die. >If the number is even, share an important life update. >If it’s odd, just ask, “Hi. How are you?”

Opening move: Roll the die.
>If the number is even, share an important life update.
>If it’s odd, just ask, “Hi. How are you?”

“Close reading is not magic. Its power lies in argument: always vulnerable, nothing simpler and yet nothing harder. And to clarify my stakes: the way that close reading is powerful is that it lays claim to power.”

#EduSky This is SO DANG GOOD!

Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.

Yn a free society, universitye-level studye of the artes and humanityes sholde not be avaylable onlye to the wealthye and privileged.

A capybara in a hat and harness the caption says “I’m built different like incorrectly I think”

It seems crucial (and long overdue) that our national political discourse has finally shifted from an obsession with "the economy" to what actually matters: whether people can afford the basic things they need to live.

Welcome to Woke 2.0 Democrats won by running on kitchen-table issues and accepting or embracing trans people and immigrants.

got to post-Zohran blog @thecut.com — multiple election outcomes on Tuesday showed that refusing to fold on trans people, migrants, Muslims, and marginalized communities while pushing kitchen table issues is a winning strategy. the pundit class’s “Decision to Win”-style arguments can be put to bed

What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom My students call it “Chat,” a cute nickname they all seem to have agreed on at some point. They use it to make study guides, interpret essay prompts, and register for classes, turning it loose on t…

I missed this piece over the summer, but @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social put it on my radar and I highly recommend it. It models what I think must be done, a direct engagement with whether or not "writing" is valuable and forcing students to answer the question for themselves. lithub.com/what-happene...

I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store looking over the plums, one by one

I love Eve L. Ewing‘s poem “I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store.”

poets.org/poem/i-saw-e...

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

Governor Newsom dates 19 year old, thinks that anyone under the age of 26 isn't fit to make meaningful decisions.