Derek Sweetman

words projected on the front of the USIP building that say “Trump destroyed this Institution, imposing his name on the building, a narcissistic attempt to associate himself with peacemaking.”

New — This was projected on the US Institute of Peace building this evening ahead of the first meeting tomorrow of Trump’s farcically-named “Board of Peace.”

Photo taken by person who was over there tonight. Unclear who’s behind the projection.

Instead of grading, I am enjoying the fact that my brain, which can't tell live humans apart, immediately recognized this clip art from Married to the Sea from 2025 as one of the guys from Get Your War On, even though GTWO ended 15 years ago. Wikipedia helpfully tells me it's from a book from 1998.

It's me, I'm that person

Jesse Jackson reading "Green Eggs and Ham" is so wonderful. RIP

Fights, Games, and Debates A scientifically grounded method by which we can understand human conflict in all its forms

Anatol Rappoport was good on this issue by differentiating between debates (opponents try to persuade each other), games (opponents try to win, within rules) and fights (opponents try to win without rules). A lot of politics seems to be people thinking they are in a debate when it is a fight.

Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps.

I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.

To be fair, it has made teaching feminist IR a lot easier

The ONLY WAY we get out of our current mess is by caring about everyone. Switching the targets of fascism doesn't end fascism. If both political parties embrace full throated fascism, we're not left with any electoral options, and a lot more regular people will embrace their own bigotry.

Eight members of the group Twice on a square stage under lighted pink boxes and large screens showing the group

Well, that was entertaining. Everyone seemed to have a good time.

So my daughter is going to the Twice concert tonight for her birthday with friends and one of those friends is sick and had to cancel. I am now going to the Twice concert tonight as well. I have only the vaguest understanding of what Twice is.

This! This! This! It sounds like someone averaged the words in a sales meeting.

Free, life-changing, and available to everyone. Free, life-changing, and available to everyone. Provide freedom to those who deal with a world that’s built to be hostile toward them. Public education, public libraries, and open source. Let’s help…

Our rallying cry for public education and public libraries:

“Free, life-changing, and available to everyone.”

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Why most democracies won’t touch Trump’s Board of Peace Whether it’s the $1bn price tag or the US president’s outsized power, key allies are steering clear of the board

Time to dust off theories of the democratic peace for some updates.

A group of students stand on the corner of our local shopping center protesting ICE.

Kids these days!

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

I was late to class today because of Peace Monks. First time that has happened. When I was getting near campus I saw a lot of people on the sides of the road and thought it was ICE watch. Nope. Peace Monks.

Fuck, and I mean this from my never got accomodations but disabled ass, you.

For Some at Elite Colleges, ‘Extra Time’ Means Gaming the System More college kids than ever claim to have disabilities. But what is lost when we allow them “reasonable accommodations”?

As more college kids claim to have disabilities, the Gen Xer in me revolts at the way everything is being pathologized, writes Rich Cohen. on.wsj.com/4bGsdYm

I can't believe we're gonna get to buy our Halloween costumes at the damn Kennedy Center.

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Protest sign from MN that says, “DEARLY BELOVED. WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY TODISMANTLE THIS THING CALLED ICE.” with a picture of Prince in the left hand lower corner.

10/10 ICE protest sign

The only role higher education has to play here is giving people the tools to learn how vile ICE is and the resources and support to get jobs working for something other than a fascist government or corporation.

A drawing of an anthropomorphic goat and sheep, the goat is saying “THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THE FORCE OPPOSING HOPE IS DESPAIR. THE DESPAIR WE FEEL IS MANUFACTURED. AND WHAT HAS BEEN MANUFACTURED CAN BE TAKEN APART.”

I’ve put a free printable PDF of the below image up on my website (from the comic ‘Goat and Sheep by the Well’). Print it out and staple it to a telephone pole, tape it up on your wall, etc. www.joshuawcotter.com/jwc-comics-a...

One of my favorites, too

This sounds like the setup for a horror film: “It was almost as if they were deliberately trying to transform this image of a human hand into something else – an animal claw perhaps,” said Brumm.

we're living in a simulation but it's actually just a model UN scenario that has really gone off the rails

An NFL player is wearing eye black that says “stop the genocide”

Houston Texans’ Azeez Al-Shaair has reportedly been fined $11,593 for wearing eye black that contained the message "stop the genocide”

The report says he was fined for violating NFL uniform and equipment rules

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A list of the teams in the two AFC playoff games this week. The bottom two are the Texans and the Patriots. The top two are the Bills and the "Brocos"

This disrespect will not be allowed!

They did fix it after we won.

They will never be able to take down Wikipedia because it is largely run by autistic people. Have you ever TRIED to combat an autistic person?? you cannot. Also they are crazy strong

if your pedagogical philosophy is “actually, learning, thinking, and being intellectually challenged is fun and can be life-giving,” grades are like a pebble in your shoe.