Looking for book recs, specifically #ecopoets ! I'm in a writing slump and would love to just soak up some poetry in the meantime. #poetry

Doing the #sealeychallenge this month. Wish me luck! Poets read so far:
Ilya Kaminsky
Jessica Hinterangi
Alice Te Punga Somerville

Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future Book — Non-fiction. By Jason Stanley. 2024. 256 pages. A global call to action for those who wish to preserve democracy — in the United States and abroad — before it is too late.

Why is GOP dismantling Dept of Ed?

Because, as Jason Stanley's book says, "Erasing History is How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future."

That is why we must continue to support educators who teach people's history & critical literacy in K-12.
⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/materials/er...

There’s a major shift in U.S. cybersecurity policy. A recent CISA memo removed Russia from its list of priorities, focusing instead on China and local systems. Analysts were told not to track Russian cyber threats.

The TL is bleak but Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, donated her Tesla to @npr

Pretty sure a grand nephew or something? Not as distant as I would have assumed

I just learned about the black sea devil angler fish dying after seeing the sun and maybe even the color blue for the first time. it's giving me so much to think and feel

Come on through!

Israel has repeatedly violated the Lebanon ceasefire, continuing frequent strikes despite the November 27 agreement.

Here’s how https://aje.io/7qqmbx

Seconded, makes a stupidly big difference!

A photo illustration with Mildred García’s face and the Drake Hotline Bling meme.

goldengatexpress.org/110070/lates...

CSU Announces Landmark Initiative to Become Nation’s First and Largest AI-Empowered University System | CSU AI tools and training will be available to all 460,000 students and 63,000 faculty and staff.

For extra context: www.calstate.edu/csu-system/n...

The wholesale acceptance of AI—ESPECIALLY in education—is absolutely wild to me. I feel like I'm shouting into the void more than usual these days. A bunch of word salad that means nothing and is far from the critical thinking we're supposed to teach our students.

Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).

As the cart left town, he swore he saw his son's tiny hand waving goodbye from the pile of dead

Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜

The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.

Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

“Screaming. A million mouths screaming but also laughing the sky will bleed and there shall be a great flensing a burning away of the flesh it is coming there is no way to stop what is coming.”