@elizabarnett
Commuting through Texas on I-10, pretending I'm a trucker, teaching English, making little notes on index cards, writing Egads! about queer picture books in the seventies and eighties. Book of poems,The Law at Night, coming in '27 from U of Nebraska Press.
"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids."
That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.
Why don’t they order the same shoes in the correct size?
"Lessons become slide shows, assignments feel like busy work and a real connection is rare."
crucial coverage from The Guardian that features our collaborative, movement-building website
against-a-i.com
He looks like ai trying to make Matthew Rhys.
These poor kids. This family did nothing wrong except believe in the United States.
Every hour, the Trump administration changes its justification for war with Iran. And they have no plan for how to end it.
Trump started a new illegal war with no end in sight.
There’s a streak of misogyny running through Murphy’s work.
Cover of Cheryl Mendelson’s Home Comforts
Child’s large handwriting inside cover of the book, “Warning boring do not read”
During peak Covid, I tried to teach my fourth grader homemaking.
on spring break with my feelings
“Compiling” is also integral training for life as a teacher and syllabus-builder.
There is no shortcut to doing hard things; you just have to do them, and then keep doing them until you get better at doing them.
"What we can do is find and join collective efforts dedicated to meeting the moment. We can find support and camaraderie in these efforts. We are very fortunate that there are so many dedicated to doing what is good and right."
Imprisoning children. Raping children. Killing children. It boils down to this, which nothing can justify.
Bill Hader as Stefan with a side part and floral sleeves. In front of a map.
The hottest new club is Einstein, a haunted bagel emporium that has everything, especially the stuff that got Aaron Swartz arrested
4/5
Deci invited us not only to recognize the potential harm done by rewards and other forms of control but also to see that people flourish when three basic - and universal - needs are met: for autonomy (self-determination), belongingness (connection to others), and competence.
Looks like a ship’s hold
Pardoning drug lords but deporting sick little kids straight from the hospital really sums the whole thing up doesn’t it
Nothing that can help regular people is possible. Everything that can hurt regular people is easy to do. This is basically how most politicians act right now.
AI does not enhance “efficiency.” AI is a permission structure for a totalizing regime of austerity and labor immiseration.
Yes, one theory — the one endorsed here by the Dallas Morning News — has been tested repeatedly for 25 years, having never succeeded, failing each time. Unsurprisingly, the conservative DMN suggests Democrats try it one more time.
The other theory — the Jasmine Crockett one — has never been tried.
Seven children from this MN school district have been detained by ICE. 2 of them are still in ICE custody in TX. The district has lost track of how many parents have been taken. At just one elementary 26 parents have been detained by ICE
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Maybe you have
that common nightmare
of falling in your bathroom
and being found
naked. Fear no more.
Imagine if even a fraction of what this administration plans to spend on cages went toward housing people.
On Feb 27th, 7pm ET, I'll do a public webinar Q and A, designed primarily for high school students and their teachers who may be using my translations of the Odyssey or Iliad in class. You can register here: www.emilyrcwilson.com/resources-fo...
When I picked up Liam from Dilley to go home, he was scared. He was taken away from his home, family, school, and was imprisoned. Liam is home now, but so many children remain. ICE must be disbanded and Dilley must close. #FreeOurChildren.
We have to abolish every single part of this apparatus and change whatever needs to be changed so it can never, ever be rebuilt
tonight 🌈
Fascinated to learn from Biele's "Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker" that in the forties NYer determined pay by assigning poets a letter grade that was multiplied by the average width of their poems! Bishop was, to them, a B+/A- poet with 1.0 column lines or a C+ poet with 1 1/3 column lines.
Well, they were
Cutting the what-makes-life-okay-sometimes sections