Michelle Parrinello-Cason

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

I have live Book Clubs monthly (Sep-May), but this specific one is still available free in Self-Paced format!

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Why is Al Green not the US president?
If your representative is not matching your energy, they are not representing you. Drive them out and replace them. #3E #SOTU

Cruelty and chaos are designed to rile us up and burn us out.

We must keep our calm without betraying our hearts.

Plant our feet without losing our heads.

Take a breath without looking away.

Elmo praises SZA following #SuperBowl Halftime show:

“May Elmo just say, Ms. SZA, YOU WERE FANTASTIC!!! ⭐️❤️🙌”

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

Quick reminder that if you see a headline from a source you’ve never heard of that isn’t being reported by anyone else, you really should do some due diligence before spreading it around as fact. There’s enough misinformation floating around already; no need to add more.

A collage of book covers: Cartographers, All Fours, The Hike, Beautyland, Orbital, Margo’s Got Money Troubles, Vanderbilt, The Wedding People, World of Wonders, Ferris.

Hey #BookSky, here’s what I read in January. (Heavy on #TournamentOfBooks selections.)

The Wedding People was my favorite.

Orbital felt like meditation.

World of Wonders was full of delightful metaphors.

It started out as hope seeking, I swear!

Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.

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Black, white, and brown bernedoodle puppy lying on carpet and looking at camera.

A few days after the election, I decided my family needed a puppy.

Now, as I wake up and read the news, this is at my feet.

Have to take a long walk later.

Tug on a rope and release aggression.

I’m not saying everyone should go get a puppy, but I am not NOT saying that, either.

BREAKING: Philadelphia workers have won the first Whole Foods union under Amazon with UFCW.

Since Amazon bought the chain, workers have lost benefits and felt the squeeze.

Now they're fighting back against the multi-trillion dollar giant and hoping this win will be the first of many.

Def cannot choose just one!

Erasure by Percival Everett, Deacon King Kong by James McBride, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Zami by Audre Lorde, Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

#Homeschool families: Here's a free multidisciplinary mini unit study for your kiddos. Go to the grocery store tomorrow & make a list of different brands and varieties of coffees. Put the data into a spreadsheet and explore how you can sort the data by columns. Next, research top coffee exporting /2

Sean Gallagher @WhatAboutClass “hard for me to see gender as biological if it requires a police state to enforce it”

A collage of news websites with the headline trump wants to ban tiktok trump says he’ll ban tiktok etc

Reminder for anyone who sees Trump as a savior: He lobbied to have tiktok banned in the first place, and now he’s positioning himself as the hero by unbanning it. It’s theatrics.

Here for the new weird little guy!

lmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home.

Send All Available Softness Gentle Gentle Risograph wheat paste on wood panel

Send All Available Softness Gentle Gentle. Risograph, wheat paste on wood panel. Nathaniel Russell.

The rapid and consistent decrease in basic functionality in the world around us has been one of the strangest parts of living in “the future.”

It’s as if a commitment to make everything a little bit worse every day actually makes them a lot worse pretty quickly.

"I want to be the chisel, not the David." -Martyr!

"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing." -Liars

"Probably doomed and perplexingly merry." -I Cheerfully Refuse

"Any election can be the last." -On Tyranny

Hey, #BookSky. A thread of lines from books I read in 2024 that really stuck with me. What are yours?

That population is a disproportionate share of the actual perpetrators of the crimes they’re ostensibly trying to prevent as well . . .

This isn’t the way.

I saw a 1st or 2nd grader who got in serious trouble for drawing a water gun fight.

Practicing consensual attention is about ignoring/blocking obvious nonsense and bait AND finding the patience/curiosity to engage with the better stuff in more meaningful ways.

On a related note, I’ve seen many Bluesky posts about how important it is to block trolls/bots/hate to prevent now-familiar social media hellscapes from forming.

A big part of what makes free speech work is consensual attention.

Both of those things require vulnerability and time.

Quick takedowns of pieces we can rally around as clearly wrong don’t.

I think the signal boosting of hate/misinformation is a side effect of the chase for the quick hit of intellectual “success.”

We need to value the deeper work.