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Dr Susan D Blum

@susandblum.bsky.social

Writer, observer, educator, anthropologist, sourdough baker, gardener, linguistic anthropologist. Obsessive about the planet, politics, justice, health. Fascinated by humans. Photo by jan_huber on unsplash

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View of Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning by Susan D. Blum | Radical Teacher

I just came across a new review of my book Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning. The reviewer, Jake Mattox, appreciated the wide reading in multiple areas that accompanied my manifesto/tirade/prayer. radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalt...

02.11.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Or you could have one with #GenAIResistors

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October 19, 2025 All last week, Republican leaders tried to portray the No Kings protests scheduled for Saturday, October 18, as β€œHate America” rallies.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social writes, "What is left when a system loses the give and take of politics is force."

October 19, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Fascism | Holocaust Encyclopedia Fascism is a far-right authoritarian political philosophy. Learn about the history and principles of fascism and its implementation in Nazi Germany.

AntiFa = Anti-Fascist. If you’re opposing this, you’re ProFa, = Pro-Fascist, or possibly Anti-Anti-Fascist. I know where I stand.

encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

09.10.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

2/2 But heartbreaking, for those of us who still believe in the ideals of learning-with-others.

08.10.2025 12:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

1/2 The absurd conclusion of all this GenAI stuff is faculty creating courses entirely w AI; students completing assignments w agentive AI; faculty grading w AI. No humans need be changed in this process. No learning will be required. Easy peasy.

#GenerativeAI

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School Story Lab

My student-led team, schoolstorylab.com, has just rec'd IRB approval for this yr’s project, an inquiry into READING. (We built on @liznorell.bsky.social's survey.) It will take less than 10 min. & is open to ANY STUDENT in ANY COUNTRY, 18 years or older. Plz share widely!
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06.10.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We've had evidence of this for ages, right? Frankly this feels like those endless UBI studies where they all demonstrate UBI works but that's not the answer the people in charge want to hear so nothing changes.

29.09.2025 23:41 β€” πŸ‘ 620    πŸ” 179    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 2
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Magic Wand Dreaming of What Higher Education Could Be

The world we desire will not come about unless we dream it first. Here are some thoughts about higher education.

#highereducation

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29.09.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Promise??? 😬

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The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.

www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...

β€œThe last days of social media might be the first days of something more human: a web that remembers why we came online in the first place β€” not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect.”

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Release the Epstein Files. They are filled with disgusting depravity but we need to know

16.09.2025 23:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not sure it saves time but it makes the work more meaningful.

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The Ungraded Classroom: Feedback, Reflection, and Authentic Learning The Ungraded Classroom: Feedback, Reflection, and Authentic Learning [Ricci PhD, Carlo, Riley PhD, Gina] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Ungraded Classroom: Feedback, Reflection, and Authentic Learning

This new book, The Ungraded Classroom, edited by Carlo Ricci and Gina Riley (with a foreword by @susandblum), has just been published! It has many examples, beautifully and honestly presented, of ways educators have included ungrading in their classrooms. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQHZKJZ...

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If the Democrats wanted to win, they would do whatever they needed to do to convince Mira Nair to do all of their video campaigns

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β€œBoth of them.”

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Lying brazenly is a job requirement in this dictatorship

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New mRNA Cancer Vaccine Delivers Stunning Results, Sparks Universal Treatment Hopes A new mRNA cancer vaccine wiped out tumors in mice and may offer a path toward a universal treatment.

FIRE RFK Jr!! WE WANT THE CANCER VACCINE!!!
β€œNew mRNA Cancer Vaccine Delivers Stunning Results, Sparks Universal Treatment Hopes”
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On the belief that I should not allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good, I got a Pfizer covid vaccine rather than waiting for Novovax. I’m afraid they are going to take them away in Indiana, b/c of our administration’s fealty to the orange menace, so I decided not to wait

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The rich pleasuresβ€”and lessonsβ€”of a college campus Mini-universe, mini-society, humans gathering together, led by art

An experience at a campus theater production made me think about higher ed as practicing being in society. I know this is not news! But it struck me forcefully, and in a great way. My latest Substack post:

open.substack.com/pub/susandbl...

07.09.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.

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Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

It’s time to shut down the government. Democrats have weeks to prepare about how to make the case to the people. Watch how Pres Bartlet did it in The West Wing.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

07.09.2025 11:22 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Immoral, plus illegal. Enforced by….karma?

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A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education The racializing forces of/in AI educational technologies https://lnkd.in/djEr2f7e Methodology, Legend, and Rhetoric: The… | Ben Willi... A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education The racializing forces of/in AI educational technologies https://lnkd.in/djEr2f7e Methodology, Legend, and Rhetoric: The Construction...

#AICon in #education: we’re not all fans.

www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi...

07.09.2025 10:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They lie, steal, cheat, boast, destroy, even kill. #TheReckoningWillCome and we’ll clean up our house, de-MAGAify, the way the Germans denazified. Sooner would be good. There will be one defector, then another, and it will accelerate. Gradually, then all at once.

07.09.2025 10:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sickening sycophants

06.09.2025 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For all the people, especially Democratic leaders, who keep saying, "Trump can't do that! It's illegal!"

Authoritarians can do anything they want. They don't care about laws, order, rules, or civility.

Once they have power, they flex it.

I hope Dems finally understand this.

06.09.2025 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1545    πŸ” 374    πŸ’¬ 70    πŸ“Œ 20

I stand with #Chicago and the rule of law. I stand with truth. I stand with peace.

#EjectTrumpTheTraitor

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