Rob Glover

This is the GM firing an assistant coach and hoping that will be the end of the questions, except with fascism.

Like is it good the trenchcoat nazi is gone? Yes. But let’s remember he was always a ridiculous member of the supporting cast.

Politicians gotta start calling for Miller to go. Right now.

The Problem Isn’t Apathy. It’s about Teaching Students Where Power Lives. American politics has become so nationalized that many people—especially students—no longer know where their participation ought to be focused. Every issue feels federal, every fight existential, and ...

In this @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social op-ed, @robglover.bsky.social (UMaine) and @kcolempls.bsky.social (Metro State University) explain why teaching students to engage with state-level policymaking builds practical civic skills and deeper public policy engagement.

Read now:

Why a Maine Democrat says Trump officials are putting extremist imagery on ‘public display’ The Trump administration's social media posts and messages in recent months have raised eyebrows.

A short interview with Karyn Sporer shared in an article by the @pressherald.com.

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’ The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials and a lawyer for the family say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramo as “bai...

The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.

They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.

The book (and the article) draw on nearly a decade of work within the ENACT network, a consortium of faculty empowering students to drive real civic and policy change in their communities and across nearly all 50 states.

ENACTing Change Explains the ENACT model of student civic engagement, empowers instructors to implement it, and shows them how to assess its impact.   ENACT: The Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation ai...

We (along with co-authors in Rich Meagher in VA and Kat Owens in CT) have a new book which provides a clear guide for engaging students in this important work.

The Problem Isn’t Apathy. It’s about Teaching Students Where Power Lives. American politics has become so nationalized that many people—especially students—no longer know where their participation ought to be focused. Every issue feels federal, every fight existential, and ...

We all know the federal government is dysfunctional and chaotic. The critical democratic work is happening closer to home.

@kcolempls.bsky.social (Metro State in MN) and I make the case in @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social — explaining why teaching students to build power locally matters more than ever.

Trump administration sends letter wiping out addiction, mental health grants The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services. The cuts could total as much as $2 billion.

With the stroke of a pen, the Trump administration is wiping out critical life-saving addiction and mental health support that has helped the US turn the tide on opioid overdose.

If you want to be really enraged check out the math on our adventures in Venezuela:
www.defenseone.com/ideas/2025/1...

JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.

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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

Land of the free (via @dailynous.com )

Making sense of Donald Trump’s cannabis ‘rescheduling’ "Rescheduling means moving cannabis out of Schedule I and into a less restrictive category. That’s meaningful."

The whole cannabis "rescheduling" thing probably seems like it was years ago at this point. Anyhooo...I wrote a thing about it.

something I've noticed with right wingers is that they don't really understand like what tradeoffs *are* they just kind of generally fetishize the aesthetic of Hard Men, Hard Choices, so we get idiot playacting at Hard Choices like committing war crimes to stop .000000000004% of illegal drugs

TODAY! Looking forward to this Q&A with @robglover.bsky.social et al

ENACT empowers students to be active participants in the democratic process by connecting with policymakers and community orgs, conducting research and analysis, and informing public policy with evidence and expertise 📍

Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders

Adopt far-right policies to stop the far right gaining influence - continues to be the stupidest idea in European politics today.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke

I never sensed the crumbling of American empire would be this unequivocally stupid.

A promotional graphic announces a virtual Q&A event titled “Student Civic Engagement in Action: Q&A with the Authors of ENACTing Change,” scheduled for Wednesday, December 10 at 1pm ET, featuring headshots and university affiliations of Robert Glover, Kathleen Cole, Richard Meagher, Katharine Owens, and Melissa Stimell, alongside the book cover for ENACTing Change: A Handbook for Teaching Advocacy and Civic Engagement and the Scholars Strategy Network logo.

Join us for a Q&A session tomorrow at 1pm ET with a few of the authors of "ENACTing Change: A Handbook for Teaching Advocacy and Civic Engagement." This session will provide examples of how to bring civic engagement into the classroom!

🔗 Register: scholars.my.salesforce-sites.com/event/home/s...

Thanks, Ryan!!

Senate Dems: actually it’s totally fine to make life worse for Americans as long as you promise us a performative vote

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

This right here.

You ever drunk dial your senator?

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

If a budget deal goes through without restoring Medicaid & ACA subsidies, they will never be restored.

That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.

Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means.

Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.