just about burst a blood vessel this morning when I was catching up on crypto headlines and came across several to the effect of "but what will a Trump genocide in Iran mean for the price of bitcoin"
This is my periodic plug for tutoring immigrants in English/for the citizenship test - established orgs will provide training/materials, and they all need help. You will see immediately what a tangible, life-changing difference you're making. There's no more motivated student than an immigrant.
Joel Harrington's _Faithful Executioner_! The diary is a such rich source, and Harrington does excellent work explicating the cultural and social milieu. How and why a family ends up in this trade in a German principality in the 1500s makes a compelling read. Also second all the Ginzburg love here.
Jonthan Gienapp's book Against Constitutional Originalism, A Historical Critique with an abstract image of the US flag at the top
RE: the whole "literature" that is now furiously being manufactured by a handful of law professors on birthright citizenship to backstop the unconstitutional EO, anyone can do historical analysis, but it take training + time to do it properly. There are standards of historical accuracy. See 👇 1/
Ten years down the road I’m willing to bet that we will look back at the thoughtless rollout of AI to K-12 students as an educational disaster on par with COVID shutdowns.
Bought 10 gallons of gas today for about $40. Same purchase a little more than two weeks ago was $28. I’m fortunate I can afford this, but damn, this is going to be really painful for a lot of people. AND FOR WHAT?
SO TRUE! Preventing crackpots from gaining local office is perhaps the most powerful motivator to get people to run. "For the love of GOD not that guy!"
There is no bottom.
Not a Hillary stan at all, but these clips of a person of her caliber of intellect being questioned by utter fucking morons who don’t understand the most fundamental basics of our system of our system is pretty entertaining: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...
Unboxing a book that took 16 years. What’s it about, who is it for? How to order? www.annaolaw.com/book-migrati... want 🎧 to Dahlia Lithwick interview me about it? Fresh podcast below 👇🏽/
YAY!!!!!!!
The opening of "Substitute" is one of the greatest moments in pop music, and I will die on that hill. Townshend's frail and plaintive guitar line followed by the enormous rumble of Entwistle and Moon kicking in in never fails to produce a visceral joy in me.
Teachers: PLEASE do not normalize AI use with K-12 students. First and foremost, they need to know it's a tool for some bad people to exploit them, alienate them, and undermine confidence in their own thinking. Trying to be open minded, but nothing offered by pro-AI peers has convinced me otherwise.
How could you ever leave this place?
Huge fan of both X-Files and Coogler! Still watch old X-Files episodes when folding laundry. And Sinners was my favorite new movie in years! Been following Coogler’s career since Fruitvale Station.
Yes, I am the son of a Latin teacher and went to Roxbury Latin.
Radix! Third declension feminine noun. Radishes and radicals are etymologically rooted together.
You just don’t usually hear them articulate in public, out loud, the idea that as long as a few folks get rich it’s OK to rape children.
Puerto Ricans did not choose to be colonized by the US and held as second-class citizens in perpetuity. The historical irony of certain White people in the US still being angry over a 15 minute celebration of a nation that their ancestors seized by force is indeed very rich.
I always think of the chants that broke out across the UK when Thatcher passed. "Maggie" and "Donnie" are the both two syllables!
This books will reframe the entire way we think about US migration history. Please check it out!
Friends in Holden, MA: Please get the word out that folks should come out to our town meeting on Monday, February 23, and vote "YES" to the sensible rezoning plan that puts us in compliance with the MBTA Communities Act. #masspoli #mbtaca
AP US Gov student answering a prompt asking for an example of a federal law that failed and explaining why is almost poetry: "No Child Left Behind because children were left behind."
Overheard in our household: “Now that hockey is gay, maybe we will watch it!”
They killed a woman & called her a fucking bitch. Then, they killed a man for protecting a woman they likely wanted to murder and call her a fucking bitch, too.
ICE KIDNAPPED four innocent children and trafficked them to a concentration camp in Texas.
These euphemisms have to die.
There should be a whole chapter on Judith Miller alone.
Learning this lesson over and over again: the complete dumbness of everything breaking my brain (today it’s ICE and Greenland). People can’t possibly be this stupid. But apparently they can.
