Beth

To say nothing of the fact that teachers are often already on board with the better pedagogy but are stymied by district mandates and pet programs.

Launched a thousand masters theses, should academia survive.

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office.

I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

Hegseth fires general officers and JAGs, cracks down on dissenting views in military, orders killing civilians at sea without legal rationale, calls generals to Quantico to demand loyalty.

Trump deploys troops to U.S. cities.

"What are Trump and Hegseth up to? It's a mystery!"

YES! The OAH used to have a publication that did something like this (although it was organized around a theme, not just recent work) that was just incredibly useful for high school teaches.

Really would love to put ADU to rent out in the back of my house in Ballard, but yeah, can't afford it. We clearly need bigger thinking.

Jesus, right? The amount of energy this generated was so weird. I think it’s just a sign of how on edge people are right now.

Leaving likeliness aside, you should absolutely not want this unless you have really, really researched the possible consequences under the current FBI and are ready and have the resources to fight them.

Also ignorant. My very normie (white, professional) husband has now been arrested twice on the periphery of pro-Pali events and it is at best an expensive and frustrating situation and at worst he's looking at a life-changing conviction on a (made up) felony vandalism charge.

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Hey! Maybe you could also choose not cave on the spending resolution until this happens!

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

The reason affluent media people are such suckers for “civility” is that the actual content of most politics has no real stakes for them personally. If you want to find these people’s true political feelings, mess with their money.

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

also weird: widespread tendency to apply the term “political violence” only to acts of violence committed by non state actors.

There is literally no Western politician alive that I can think of that has incited more hate, bigotry, and violence than Donald Trump.

That so many in our public life, in our 'liberal' media, have just memory-holed 10 years of nonstop incitement and abuse from him is shameful.

Honoring democracy means eschewing terror as a political tool, but it also means taking people’s words and ideas seriously as a reflection of their goals and personal character.

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.

Same.

Super interesting. I'm an LA Metrolink rider (not rich) and could care less re: train or other form of transit, but curious why you'd say "the rich must have their trains."

If you're being snarky about children drowning in a flash flood what the fuck is wrong with you

💯 It's disgusting.

Treating things college students say and things a mayoral candidate doesn’t say as of equal or greater importance than what the sitting president says and does is a sign of a deeply unhealthy informational culture.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

To me, this reads as him talking about the owners of the farms, not the "owners" of the workers. Which I realize is a one-step removed distinction, but still.

Driving from Seattle to Reno and stopped in Eugene to participate—terrific crowd!