Tyler Derreth

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself."

Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.

This is authoritarian madness. The right unleashed a bunch of know-nothing propagandists and A&M’s President decided to give them veto power over course material.

Rather than tenure, I'd prefer a strong union that includes my non-tenure track colleagues. I think we'd have more power and better protection.

Every decision Mamdani makes seems to try to answer the question “what can we do to show people how much we love this city and how great it is.” A winning strategy when you want to lead the city!

Congrats!

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Meme of Beyoncé during a "Homecoming" rehearsal: Until I see some of my notes applied...it doesn't make sense for me to make more.

Anyway.

Someone should check if he’s ever falsified business records

Making the argument that structural racism is the reason we shouldn’t have affirmative action policies because structural racism doesn’t exist is a wild take

Exactly! Future generations thinking our best ideas came out of nowhere

We need a record of how people work out ideas!

Let America Be America Again Let America be America again.

"O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!"

Starting the day sharing my favorite Langston Hughes poem in the family group chat before doing my own reading

poets.org/poem/let-ame...

Judge: And so given all those factual findings, I'm going to exercise the discretion I have to ORDER THE RELEASE of Mahmoud Khalil

Look what understanding humanities and cultural-contextual analysis can do

The majority’s contention that I reject “ ‘pure textualism’ [a]s insuf ficiently pliable to secure the result [I] seek,” ante, at 10, stems from an unfortunate misunderstanding of the judicial role. Our interpretative task is not to seek our own desired results (whatever they may be). And, indeed, it is precisely because of this solemn duty that, in my view, it is imperative that we interpret statutes consistent with all relevant indicia of what Congress wanted, as best we can ascertain its intent. A method ology that includes consideration of Congress’s aims does exactly that— and no more. By contrast, pure textualism’s refusal to try to understand the text of a statute in the larger context of what Congress sought to achieve turns the interpretive task into a potent weapon for advancing judicial policy preferences. By “finding” answers in ambiguous text, and not bothering to consider whether those answers align with other sources of statutory meaning, pure textualists can easily disguise their own pref erences as “textual” inevitabilities. So, really, far from being “insuffi ciently pliable,” I think pure textualism is incessantly malleable—that’s its primary problem—and, indeed, it is certainly somehow always flexi ble enough to secure the majority’s desired outcome.

Whoa. Spicy footnote from Justice Jackson, dissenting in the ADA case. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:

“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

I’ve told the story many times. Now @katemasur.bsky.social and I have filed it in federal court: Free Black Americans were first to recognize BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP in the US. When denied it, they fought to secure it. They show us what the 14th Amendment meant and what it meant to live without it.

Ed researchers! @aeraedresearch.bsky.social asks that we take a 5 min survey on "how specific [IES] datasets, surveys, research, and evaluations are used and relied upon by members" by May 28th to respond to questions from the judge. I'm not including the link on purpose but please check your email!

Read it! This doesn’t do what most major outlets do—tell a feel good story about some answer that promises to eliminate our problems. Instead this is a hard work, know-your-power story imploring us to get together in the midst of our problems, and maybe we find our way through them.

Anyone who has grieved knows that hope is not the thing you need. What you need is what Hanif Abdurraqib writes about so beautifully here.

And it takes an expert guide to get through it

I will shout this forever. Learning is just not an efficient process. Learning something new means rebuilding a lot of what we thought we knew…there’s a lot of roundabouts and dead ends on that road.

Not hard at all.

I may be biased. I have a lot of friends in English. But the AI admin push feels really targeted at how much English courses bedevil their funding models. They’re inefficient, they cannot shuttle it to professional schools, & weirdly students want it.

I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!

The Beat has also recently partnered with Peabody Brewery, a local company, to introduce a new beer product, Beat Box. A launch event is scheduled for May 2025 to showcase local musicians, and ticket sales will generate donations for the news outlet. For every pint sold at the Brewery and every case sold in stores, The Beat will receive $1.

Thanks to Editor and Publisher, who wrote about our upcoming collaboration with Peabody Brewery!

Yes!

I’m a mere education researcher but I know humanities work when I see (and google translate) it