My 14yo is really into the Victorian Balkans and the Czechs 1920-45, thank goodness for sprawling strategy games

“I’ve studied McCarthyism’s impact on higher education for 50 years. What’s happening now is worse.” -Ellen Schrecker, historian

Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

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ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.

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Saying it's 'about hate,' Beshear vetoes ban on DEI in Kentucky public higher education • Kentucky Lantern Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear issues expected veto of a Republican-backed bn on diversity, equity and inclusion in Kentucky’s public colleges.

Saying it’s ‘about hate,’ Beshear vetoes ban on DEI in Kentucky public higher education kentuckylantern.com/2025/03/20/s...

New:

DOGE's spending has been secret.

No longer.

My colleagues have uncovered it.

www.propublica.org/article/doge...

After that plane literally flipped upside down after smashing into the runway and 100% of people survived, I hope every person who ever said “what’s even the point of seatbelts on a plane” feels like a real doof.

Snapshot of the 1856 article by E. Foote describing her experiment, and concluding that an atmosphere of CO2 would result in significantly higher temperatures.

The core science behind climate change is so basic that it's been understood since the 1850's

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Yes! Loved it

Beautiful!

Yup, especially as I worked towards the proposal stage. We had weekly discussions to narrow and narrow and narrow.

@jamellebouie.net is right again

Who could possibly have guessed...? Ah... Right... Pretty much anyone with an oz of sense.

So...so frustrating that a party appealing to intelligence and pragmatic principles should repeatedly fail so many times.

Not surprising though.

Vivek is literally an unelected federal bureaucrat.

and this is why it is an analytical mistake to use “voter without a college degree” to mean “working class voter”

We also need to continually remind their followers of all the promises that they made them.

Hoping for a good morning...

Evangelicals in November: “Let’s vote against the interests of the worlds most impoverished people.”

Evangelicals in December: “Let’s send them a nice toy and some toothpaste in a shoebox.”

The party with two people who didn’t attend expensive, elite private universities and worked in public service for almost the entire careers failed to adequately speak to the needs of working people like the campaign of Ivy League multimillionaires funded entirely by a handful of billionaires

I love that so many are finding James Baldwin, but he's so much more than the "We can disagree..." quote.

Pick up some essays and books (preferably at a local book store or reseller, but also libraries)

I have found curiosity core to growth.

Really, really bad. The human capacity to ignore some patterns in favor of others is truly AWEsome.

Specifically, I'm pissed that kids in middle school and high school now do not engage with primary texts that would show them what people THEIR age faced in our history. My kids' social studies curriculum deals with those facts as outliers that can't possibly come back. We're about to see.

That scene REALLY rankled me, partly because my brother had just died a couple years before at 13.

I hate that *I* have to be the one to remind my students that MOST of human history (and around the world NOW) involved a LOT more grief MUCH earlier than we pretend it does/did.

Well, we KNOW there will be a fight because of civil findings against him. And, I'm PRETTY sure it will get REAL messy between the fams.

Now, I absolutely do NOT wish for anyone's death, but Trump doesn't seem like an organized detail guy. So, it will be interesting when it happens.

YouTube video by Netflix Hot Frosty | Lacey Chabert | Official Trailer | Netflix

If you're like me, you need a bit of escapism this season that's unrelated to an upcoming transfer of power. I heartily recommend "Hot Frosty" on Netflix: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmi7...

It and it's sequel are incredible. I am so surprised that they are not better known

The War Between the Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids

Picture of hirsute white man in a Hawaiian shirt holding up a copy of "Black Speculative Feminisms" by Cassandra L. Jones

Look what just came in the mail! I'm excited to put my friend's book on the top of my TBR pile.