Phil Gibbon

One Belichick = four Scaramuccis

Was there anyone in the meeting brave enough to say “Yeah, people are going to call us the PhArt Museum, right?”

And the pitching ain’t bad either 😑

everything is terrible, but at least it's all really fucking stupid too

This is pretty common across several books I’ve been reading/re-reading:
Nathacha Appanah, The Last Brother
Hanna Krall, Chasing the King of Hearts
Anita Lobel, No Pretty Pictures
Elie Wiesel, Night
Hanna Krall, Shielding the Flame
The Stroop Report

Very useful—for here in PA and across the country 👇🏼

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

The reason a hillbilly scholarship kid like me got a great public education at William & Mary was because they invested in teachers, not bullshit computer magic. I guess that has changed.

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)?

Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter

And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

Will absolutely do my part to help launch this guy’s senate career into the sun.

Pulled that from our box today and thought the same thing, smdh

Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes

Been saying it for awhile now. I have assigned this in 3 consec semesters

tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/...

Worried about societal risks, labor exploitation, environmental impact, mis/dis/biased info, privacy violations, intensified surveillance, intellectual property theft, etc.? Don’t be a doomer! Join in! Help shape the future!

Reading through this as I’m about to engage my university’s faculty survey on GenAI in teaching. Woooo buddy “defense of actual education” is challenging in the face of the AI cult of inevitability.

“Professor Monsignor”

Une université américaine lance une enquête sur un professeur d’archéologie suspecté d’être un « antifa » L’université américaine Marshall a annoncé lancer une enquête approfondie concernant les activités suspectes de l’un de ses enseignants, aujourd’hui décédé, une renommée du monde de l’archéologie, le ...

Une université américaine lance une enquête sur un professeur d’archéologie suspecté d'être un « antifa » www.legorafi.fr/2025/09/19/u...

Gives permission to do a lot of GWoT-style damage.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Told my lecture class today that the New Deal's National Recovery Administration's "Blue Eagle" logo inspired the owner of the Philadelphia football team to rename the franchise as the Eagles.

Voice from the back of the lecture hall: "Go Birds!"

Check out the September issue of Diplomatic History! Featuring Elisabeth Leake's (@emleake.bsky.social) Bernath Lecture "The Decolonization Paradigm: Rethinking the US and the World" in which she argues for a "new paradigm for understanding modern international history"
doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Robert Pape has been begging for this for a decade. He needs to phrase it this way.

The Trump admin’s cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. The defunding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium will deny treatments to children like him.

On the Trump administration's cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium: my op-ed @statnews.com

My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. This research would have helped children like him

www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/p...

Years ago I scrapped more structured sessions, moved lectures to recordings available online, and built class time not around "debate" but at least offering students provocative things to read, putting some context around the provocation, and then encouraging them to express their own ideas in class

It's so crazy that you can monger both war and fish.

A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

Must read

www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

I've been listening to Long Shadow, which is Garrett's podcast about 9/11, and it's first rate narrative history. Garrett is our best chronicler of that day.

Secretary Seuss

I’m a little late here, as always, but maybe this helps?