Danielle

I agree that sustained teaching matters enormously, but I’m not sure “inspiration” is the right thing to dismiss here. External speakers often do different epistemic work than teachers who are constrained inside institutional norms. Those moments for students can have surprisingly long half-lives.

Die USA holen schnell auf.

Aus der FT von letzter Woche.

www.ft.com/content/b474...

How steep is Trump’s democratic backsliding?

I, too, identify as a joyfully self-aware curmudgeon.

This is one of the few contexts where design choices meaningfully shape the boundaries of institutional access.

The rise of Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump’s hardline immigration policy With time, events in Los Angeles of the past week may come to be seen as the anti-immigrant zealot’s ultimate revenge

I wonder if it has anything to do with this: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025....

strong “let them eat cake” vibes

👇👇

This is a strong article and I recommend reading it.

Let’s be honest. ICE functions as a distraction. While outrage is focused there, the administration continues siphoning public money through contracts, donors, & corruption. Patterns that many including @kenklippenstein.bsky.social have shown.

If you want people to think critically while dismissing history and philosophy as useless, you fundamentally misunderstand what critical thinking is.

As Congress Begins to Grapple With Restrictions on ICE, States Take Matters Into Their Own Hands On Thursday, a Michigan State Senate committee held a hearing on a...

There are at least 85 ICE-related bills in nationwide state legislatures as Democratic lawmakers in red and blue states like alike are moving ahead on their own. What states accomplish could offer insight into midterm elections.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/state-a...

And no arrest record for the citizens abducted which makes it difficult to press charges later.

Guessing ICE broke the bat signal too. 🤷🏼‍♀️

A recent Science analysis shows the US has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office, with agencies shedding scientists and researchers across the board.

To borrow from Hamilton: breaking things is easy. Rebuilding is harder.

www.science.org/content/arti...

DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

THREAD: 404 Media has been covering ICE and the technology they've been using to surveil and raid "targets", detain people based on a flawed facial recognition app, and lie about violence on the streets.

They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

YouTube video by Flobots Flobots – ICE OUT (Official Video)

If you ever pondered whether “Handlebars” was more than a song about riding a bike, this should settle it.

youtube.com/shorts/5wNdW...

States Want to Know: Why Does the DOJ Want Their Voter Rolls, Really? Read more here.

@marcelias Democracy Docket suggests the strategy is to compare voter rolls to SAVE, an unproven citizenship-check system.

In close elections, discarding 3,000 votes can be outcome-determinative if they can justify it procedurally.

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Condoleezza Rice has an extensive background in authoritarian regimes. She also partially owns the Denver Broncos. Since they’re not in the Super Bowl, she should have time now to comment on the current relevant issues. #SuperBowl #football

This woman speaks for the majority of Americans. 🙌🙏🫶👇

This is interesting. This also explains why individual media literacy can’t solve the problem. No amount of ‘critical thinking’ counters an environment that pre-structures choice.

two muppets are laughing in front of a bookshelf while sitting at a desk . ALT: two muppets are laughing in front of a bookshelf while sitting at a desk .

If you don’t know who he is, ask anyone under 30.

YouTube video by penguinz0 This Should Make You Very Angry

Noticing a pattern: creators like MoistCr1TiKaL (24 million followers)—who’ve been deliberately apolitical for years—are starting to speak out. When people whose incentive is neutrality move, it’s often a signal that the pendulum is shifting.

youtu.be/jd4YXki8l2c?...

A grey fluffy cat sitting on a standing desk in front of a computer monitor.

Who’s going to break the news to him that I need my standing desk today?

A steaming Boiling pot on stove with oranges, apples, cloves, cinnamon, and lemons

In light of the current sociopolitical entropy & the seemingly unrelenting cascade of global crises, a simmer pot is a necessity-not merely as an olfactory indulgence but as an existential recalibration device.

Hearing another Census data purge is coming

Prioritize downloads of anything IPUMS does not have

They are targeting anything with race and sex

Fantastic article by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social - don’t let Trump make you think he has more power than he does. (no paywall link) archive.ph/2025.02.02-1...

What a treat to see this! Blue is such a rare color in nature!

GIS peeps-this 👇👇

Long eared owl perched on a branch in a slight breeze so its owlish expression is complemented by jaunty ears

Sorry but this owl is very funny to me.

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing

It’s true. www.science.org/content/arti...

“There is no bad weather, only bad clothing.” Snowy hikes ❄️