Kristen

Baseball is clearly an insane sport. I think I should get into it.

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

Two children hold posters for No Kings. One has a candle drawing on it and says "This Little Light of Mine melts ICE." The other has a big pink cross in the background and says, "Christians against Christian Nationalism."

#NoKings in #Tucson

Amen

Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."

UA profs oppose 'academic compact'; Trump admin gives school until Oct. 20 to submit 'limited' feedback The White House has given nine universities—including the University of Arizona—until Oct. 20 to send "limited, targeted" feedback on a "compact" for higher education, agreeing to suppress campus crit...

Faculty Senate calls on President Garimella to reject deal that would 'endanger the independence, excellence & integrity' of University of Arizona

Simple white flyer with black text. At the top is the full color UCWAZ logo. Below the logo, in bold capital letters, text reads "UCWAZ CWA Local 7065's Official Statement on the University of Arizona's China Microcampuses Shutdown." Below, in italics, text reads "October 2nd, 2025" Below, regular text reads "United Campus Workers Arizona (CWA local 7065) calls on the University of Arizona to deliver on its promises to students, faculty, and staff at the satellite undergraduate-degree programs in China." At the bottom, text reads "1/4".

Simple white flyer with black text. Text reads "On Monday, September 3, UA President Suresh Garimella sent out a campus-wide email celebrating the university’s new Strategic Imperatives: “Delivering on Our Promise,” which proclaims “student success as our North Star.” Two weeks later, on September 17, the University of Arizona announced to the microcampuses in China that all academic programs and contracts were shut down “immediately,” declaring that these students are not included in their promise of “success for every student.” The University of Arizona has dismantled its successful partnerships with undergraduate, instructional programs in China in response to a contested congressional report. While this congressional report is not a federal mandate to sever ties with Chinese academic programs, the UA responded as if it were and shuttered all four of their Chinese partnerships, going above and beyond what the report urged. Inside Higher Ed reports that 12 U.S. institutions were named specifically, but it is unclear if any of the other 11 reacted with such an immediate and sweeping closure of their partnerships." At the bottom of the page, text reads @UCWArizona and 2/4.

Simple white flyer with black text. Text reads "Instead of supporting Chinese students, the University of Arizona simply gave in to fear. It abandoned 2,200 students who were promised and who paid for the opportunity to earn a degree from the UA. According to students in the UA-Ocean University of China Joint Law Program, the university’s subsequent proposals for students to transfer to another online program or to apply for a visa to study in the United States would increase each student's costs by anywhere from $40,000 to $100,000 to obtain a UA degree, which is unreasonable and unfair. The university's action sends these students a poor message about the United States and adds to the disharmony between our nation and theirs. In its haste to abandon thousands of students, the UA has broken its promise to the faculty and staff who worked most closely with the students. The UA reports that 35 faculty and 4 staff were “impacted” by this decision. The impacted faculty include instructors who just relocated to Tucson in August, at the university’s request. One month later, the UA revoked their original appointments, and they now face unemployment in January." At the bottom, text reads "@UCWArizona 3/4"

Simple white flyer with black text. Text reads "Far from delivering on its promises, once again, the UA has put the consequences of its choices on the backs of students, staff, and teaching faculty. We call on the University of Arizona to: Ensure a practical path for the 2,200 students to earn the degree they were promised; Honor the original employment offer for all faculty and staff working with microcampuses in China; Create a clear and ethical policy that offers a legally binding, timely contract, and a publicly stated, humane process for non-renewals. In solidarity, Your Union, United Campus Workers of Arizona CWA Local 7065" At the bottom, text reads "UCWArizona.org @UCWArizona 4/4". Next to the text is the full color UCWAZ logo.

Our official statement on the University of Arizona's China microcampuses shutdown.

You can read the full statement on our website at UCWArizona.org/our-statements, or at the link in bio.

As a "former gifted child" and a mother of a kindergartner whose dissertation work focused on the cultural anxieties invested in gifted children in America since the Cold War, there should be no testing, tracking, and segregating "gifted" children in kindergarten (or at all 😅).

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.

Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

Jane Fonda Relaunches Committee for the First Amendment With Support of 550 Celebrities Including Pedro Pascal, Viola Davis and More Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment with the support of Pedro Pascal, Viola Davis and more.

Go, Jane, go! She's rounded up hundreds of Hollywood figures to revive the First Amendment organization her father championed. Fonda, in her late eighties, is in her prime as a climate champion and a powerful voice for justice.

👀

Trying to stop Tracey from going to a Saudi comedy festival is a solid 30 Rock B plot

I will take any excuse to pull up my favorite Phil Vischer tweet:

I am finally reading Paladin's Grace after trying and hating every other romantasy book, and hell yeah! I went from interested to All In the moment the female Bishop was introduced.

Gotta be honest today was the first time I've heard the phrase "ANTI-ICE".

Typically leftists say things like 'fuck ICE' or "Abolish ICE'

Ben Wildflower Art Relief prints by Benjamin Wildflower, Philly printmaker working with lino and woodcuts, exploring themes such as God, money, and cute animals.

I still have official antifa membership cards available at officialantifa.org . Become a card-carrying member today!

Instead of going to church, thousands (millions?) of Christians tuned into this message today... And they view us as the heretics.

Being sick or in pain while pregnant is a misery already because you cannot take *anything* but Tylenol. I can't imagine going without even that, and so much already gets blamed on the mother's choices while pregnant.

It’s cruel to women. Wildly offensive to people with autism. And generally offensive to anyone with a brain or a heart. He needs to resign or be removed immediately.

AI assignments automatically built into the online PDCs, so if you don't want students using AI you have to remove them, an AI committee who so far has presented at every program meeting we've had this semester, half of the faculty learning communities are on AI. Just taking up space!

I did yesterday! Already worth it for the new members email I received.

Suzanne Swierc Let me be clear: if you think Charlie Kirk was a wonderful person, we can't be friends. His death is a tragedy, and I can and do feel for his wife and children. I believe in the Resurrection, and while it's difficult, I can and do pray for his soul. Charlie Kirk's death is a reflection of the violence, fear, and hatred he sowed. It does not excuse his death, AND it's a sad truth. The shooting is a tragedy, and I can and do feel for a college campus experiencing an active shooter situation. The deaths of Melissa and Mark Hortman, the children shot and killed in Minneapolis last month, and the children shot in Colorado today are all tragedies that also deserve your attention. Charlie Kirk excused the deaths of children in the name of the second amendment.

Here’s what a Ball State University employee said that led to their termination:

Holy shit. The comments that got him taken off air?:“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

That is chilling.

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

This. It's legitimately sad. Imagine living your life in this miserable way only to die anyways (as we all will). Truly a fate worse than death.

And this is why M.T. Anderson's Feed continues to be the most prescient YA dystopian novel I've ever taught and the one students consistently email me about years later.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

It really does epitomize the extreme degradation of his intellect and character that the man is incapable even of grief.

millennials are band directors now and I think that’s terrific