The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
A seemingly forgotten chapter in the Final Destination series
A seemingly forgotten chapter in the Final Destination series
Lucifer has a point
An excerpt from Jesse Jackson’s powerful speech to the Democratic National Convention on July 19, 1988.
May he rest in peace.
At times like these it always helps to read some William Butler Yeats
Red states are taking control of school districts as Republicans decry poor test scores, student protests. Via @chalkbeat.org
Booke, booke,
Reade a booke,
Reade anothir booke,
Reade a large amounte of bookes -
Bookes are freakinge awesome
if i was Kristi Noem i simply would not quote Orwell
The biggest winner Tuesday night was voter turnout.
Even if your candidate didn’t win, Texans should be proud of this. Voters showed up in huge numbers.
The majority of America’s teachers — a whopping 71% — have at least one side job because they’re so underpaid.
Meanwhile, the country is about to be launched into a long, drawn-out war that has already cost an estimated $2 billion.
Priorities.
I love what actress Sheryl Lee Ralph said about educators. It’s what I see in every classroom I visit: “It is the heart of a human being that spends six to eight hours with other people’s children … and still chooses to come back to work with love, ready to begin again.” time.com/collections/...
Eisenhower
“There really is no panic quite like the panic of being belted into the backseat of a speeding, swerving car with a confident drunk at the wheel.”
medium.com/curious/driv...
Personally, I always wanted to be a teacher because I so cherish my role as a cog in economic infrastructure.
This is one of the most intentionally cruel examples of ICE handiwork I’ve seen. In no universe is this “law enforcement.” At the very least, those involved must be held accountable.
NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.
By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social
Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.
This work emerged from arts-based YPAR with queer and trans* youth in Texas.
The political context was part of the methodology. Hostile environments require researchers to innovate, not just apply existing frameworks.
If you're doing research with marginalized youth right now, this one's for you. 🏳️⚧️
2/2 We argue that standard protective research frameworks aren't enough when vulnerability is fluid, politically shaped, and different for every participant. Responsive, individualized support structures built around each young person's circumstances rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.
"Individual Participant Scaffolding: Methodological Innovations for Youth Research in Restrictive Political Contexts" is out in the Intel Journal of Qualitative Methods. Gold open access, free to read and share. Co-authored with @drnicolekraus.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1609...
#AcademicSky #YPAR
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Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’
Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got
This blatant xenophobic racism against an entire group of immigrants is unacceptable, and every member of Congress who cheered it is a horrifying stain on America.
It’s time for our legislators to take a lesson in courage from eighth graders like Lydia and stand up to the gun lobby.
I wrote you a piece about the concept of moral injury and why we need the voices of the prophets during times when concepts like "ethical compass" and "basic decency" elude us as a collective.
Among other things, it explains moral injury and how to heal from it, which, you know, might be useful.
ICE tackles and arrests New Jersey father outside his home, leaving his 6-year-old first-grade daughter at home alone.
She goes out looking for him.
"I got my boots and changed my clothes. I wanted to find some help to find my dad..."
www.ms.now/the-weekend-...
"Always, always, always concentration camps are an end run around the existing legal system. These people that are getting rounded up because whoever’s in power wants to do something that they can’t do using the letter of the law..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...
STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated)
My new piece is up with lots of info about the SAVE America Act - the version of the SAVE Act that passed the House and is before the Senate this week. This is a MUST READ and then ACT.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
