Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

Oh my. What a terrible story. We can’t let this come back. I had the measles as an infant. My mother said that I was so sick. This is not a joke.

Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

I'm not really a popsicle person, but these are always so, so good.

I feel like 90% of my job is following up with people who said they would do a thing and still haven't done the thing.

Me at the #AERA26 conference this week.

The US Capitol Building with a blue sky in the background; the text reads "How To Tell Governments What You Think webinar, April 22, 11am PT/2pm ET."

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OK SZA! “I’m not up against the pop girls. I’m not up against the R&B girls. I’m up against anti-intellectualism & doing things easy. The type of blend of information my human experience provides, AI can’t even be prompted to fuck with. I want to just let this angst drive me into bizarre directions”

My daughter has been singing, "This is the song that never ends" for 19 straight minutes as we navigate rush hour traffic, in case you're wondering what it's like to have kids.

a woman is sitting at a table with a netflix logo on it Alt: a woman is sitting at a table opening and closing her hand. The caption reads "give it here."

I always try to make them produce it first. One office didn't even have copies to give out; it was just in some binder behind the desk. I was like, "I'd still like to read it please."

UNGA vote map

I really appreciate how he always makes everything a teachable moment 🥹🍀

Gonna hold on to this croissant metaphor for the rest of my creative life

Inside Iran as a Black American: What They Don’t Show You 🇮🇷 YouTube video by Don | The Bearded Backpacker

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Yes, more proof that it can be done!

I used to work in a school with this structure. Students were dismissed early on Friday while faculty spent the afternoon debriefing the week. It was an alternative school so the Friday debrief included a lot of time brainstorming how to help struggling students but it was still a public school.

I create an entire Google Drive folder with itineraries, budgets, digital copies of pre-paid tickets to events, and payment schedules, and I schedule at least one pre-trip meeting to review all plans and answer questions. I might be in the wrong profession.

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

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We Found Heavy Metals and VOCs in CR's Follow-Up Braiding Hair Investigation - Consumer Reports For our second evaluation of braiding hair, CR tested 30 human and synthetic hair products to determine if there are less toxic products on the market.

Please share widely, #Blacksky! This is very, very scary.

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I do this with my syllabus as well--I make a "future" copy and use comments and track changes so that I know what I want to modify and why for the next iteration.

Someone made a 4 minute song about why you should hate Curtis Yarvin.

I had to post it in two parts.

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kermit the frog is driving a car and looking out of the window . Alt: kermit the frog is driving a car and looking out of the window .

"omg they're splitting up families we've never seen this Nazi shit before"

Stares in Black American..........

The absolute refusal to connect American history to American current events is one of the weirdest expressions of modern racism.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of the AMAE Journal
Community Resistance and Educating in an Authoritarian Climate

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2026 Summer Institute

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Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Sat, March 26, 1988. Last night we saw Jesse Jackson, hopefully our next president. And guess what! No joke about it, Kim Fields was there! We were all routing [sic] for him! This morning Mom is voting for Jackson. She even made a tape on the answering machine that said: "Hi! We're going to City Hall to Vote for Jesse Jackson and we hope you are too! But before you go leave your name, #, & a brief message and we'll get back."

My mom took me and my sister to see Jesse Jackson during his 1988 presidential campaign. I wrote about it in my diary. So appreciative of the example my mom set for me.

Now we just need colleges and universities to explain why they complied in advance and to put the programs back and make them better. I know, I know, we will be waiting a long time for them to have some integrity. Thanks tho ACLU!

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