Laura Jones-Pettit

One of my enduring favorite holiday things is our 5yo singing Christmas songs somewhat wrong.

🎶 Come we now on days of carols, fa la la 🎶

I always end the semester with reflection activities and they are literally my favorite thing to read all year. They have the most insightful things to say! And not always the usual suspects; sometimes it's students who quietly lurked all semester who walk away transformed.

Buster from the tv show ‘Arrested Development’ holding an arm full of plushies while he looks at his mother Lucille, saying, “these are my awards, mother, from FIFA.“

Who has made this 🤣

I know there’s been a lot of good journalism this year but man I hope Wired writers get big award recognition for their DOGE beat.

Okay, but was it an amateur move? Or is it really that a bunch of people have tacitly agreed that it's scamming season? I've talked about this as one of the most significant markers of the Trump era. Scammery has been normalized. Everybody knew. They just decided to try to get away with it.

My Zotero TBR folder provides this service

bernie sanders is wearing a jacket and glasses and is asking for help . Alt: bernie sanders is wearing a jacket and glasses in the snow and is asking once again for our help .

Tis the season to urge tv producers to do a festive music competition, but not just random people singing holiday songs, no no, I want to see a competition among songwriters and performers to craft a new top holiday bop. Give the world a jingle single. We deserve this.

“You’re a writing professor? What do you write?”

Y’all I write comments on papers, I write emails, I write assignments, I write syllabi.

This is my rant:

Like Mike said above, "What is the purpose of the university?" And I'll add, "What is the purpose of a university athletic department?"

If it's not to advance the purpose of the university then what are we all even doing here?

Universities in the US are in an existential crisis.

a man with a mustache is making a funny face while wearing a red shirt . Alt: a man with a mustache is making the sort of funny face that indicates losing patience, long suffering, low-key irritation

Waking up from a dead sleep with the refrain neoliberal multicultural productive inclusion rattling around my subconscious because I’ve got this theory paper due soon.

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

Pie for breakfast, pie for snack.

My most pretentious academic opinion this Thanksgiving morning is that you could write an entire book about neoliberalism, culture, and Lil Jon's Turn Down For What float in the Macy's parade.

My *best* multi-generational dinner party conversation prompt is asking what each person has as their first world historical memory. Like, what was the moment you first felt like you were noticing the big world around you?

This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.

Academic writing is taking 1500 words and 16 sources to prove one sentence.

(But anyway, I did it in 1494.)

I think a lot about temporality and learning. If you want to be someone who is good at doing hard things, you have to spend time grappling with the difficulties. You can’t skip the work. You can’t fast forward to competency.

If you had told me in 2011 that in 2025 I’d have an emotional support fantasy football team carrying the vibes through the SAD season, I simply don’t think I’d have expected that. And I wonder what 2040 hobbies I’ll end up with.

Answering a million student emails before classes the week before Thanksgiving Break: "No worries. Thanks for the heads up. Feel better!"

Recently my husband brought home Trader Joe’s Ginger Brew and with a generous splash of one’s favorite whiskey, I can confirm that it’ll chase out the devil.

My hope here is that there IS a full ongoing investigation, that Harvard’s hands are currently tied with HR and legal office hurdles, and that before long this guy gets gone. It’ll happen faster if students protest and refuse to attend his classes.

My husband has been watching The Last Frontier while I’m falling asleep so I’ve been listening to it eyes closed basically as an audiobook and it’s great but I just turned it on and this is simply not how I imagined ANY of these characters looked. Surreal.

Yesterday I was the sole coat-less person in a frigid classroom and eventually even I got home and was like, this was too cold, I need to find my big socks.

A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.

Hey so it's also extremely weird that "journalist" Michael Wolff was giving Jeffrey Epstein advice on how to handle his pedophilia PR

Silver lining is Mike Johnson has to come up with new reasons not to release the Epstein files

What you say is, “The problems that are facing the country are CAUSED by these people and I’m not going to collaborate with them to make your life worse.”

So Senate Dems despite having the strongest strategic position in years blink on the gov shutdown with NO concessions whatsoever and mere hours later Trump pardons insurrectionists. Love that for us. Great. What next?

Oh, oh no