Khalil Anthony Johnson, Jr.

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"Anthropic’s chief philosopher Amanda Askell told The New Yorker, 'If it’s genuinely hard for humans to wrap their heads around the idea that this is neither a robot nor a human but actually an entirely new entity, imagine how hard it is for the models themselves to understand it!'"

A woman told the FBI that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her when she was 13, and she was deemed credible enough to interview four times.

The administration has been covering up the existence of those interviews—and what is said within them.

The regime is covering up evidence Trump abused kids.

It’s a shame we never talk about the ways in which a lot of black people have also been radicalized by extreme right wing content online

and that, my fellow academics, is one reason not to hire war criminals: so they can't show up years post (their) war arguing in favor of the scaffolding behind their own atrocities with the imprimatur and status of your university

What do you call it when the conditions of your job become unbearable.

As I teacher, I will never believe that our job is bullshit and will forever defend liberal education. But surely the some of the conditions are becoming that way.

Bullshit Jobs - Wikipedia

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A snowy pond

Snowy woods

A snowy pond with birds

The headlines about the city being “pummeled” by a “blizzard” fail to capture the joy of slogging around in the park throwing myself into snowdrifts while yelling “Yay!”

still unclear to me how the species made it this far

"I seem unreliable, but I'm actually very reliable. You just have to trust the process." Alysa Liu, U.S. Olympic figure skater

When I’m two weeks behind on my grading.

“As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that.””

Conservatives spent years complaining about ”safe-spaces” and “liberal snowflakes” only to turn around and show they are absolutely terrified of ideas they don’t like (“racism is bad” “gender is fluid”) and willing to use state power to avoid the slightest discomfort.

The snowiest of flakes.

Always inspired and motivated by your thought!

This is an essential conversation at the intersection between Black Studies and Native American and Indigenous Studies, and there are few scholars better to spark it than William C. Anderson.

Excited to share my new article on how rural K–12 educators exercise epistemic agency and navigate local politics to keep inclusive curriculum alive amid book-banning efforts.

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Maybe I’ll just keep posting this every time we learn of another violation of our 1st amendment rights (from our actual government) to remind us of the 152 prominent writers who were so bothered by “cancel culture” (post #metoo and #blm that they wrote an open letter about it back in 2020.

You can look at ANY POLICY AREA and gender is driving the choices

Exceptions prove rules, but my TFA experience in the Navajo Nation ultimately led me to become a professional historian who critiques the organization’s neoliberal secular uplift model—and schooling more broadly—from Indigenous Studies, Black Studies, and anarchist perspectives.

The Atlantic FIRST JOBS MATTER MORE THAN WE THINK They could help us solve society’s biggest problems. By Wendy Kopp

This new op ed by Wendy Kopp shows exactly everything that is wrong with Teach for America and the ideas that underpin this program that puts college grads with little teacher preparation into the highest needs classrooms in the nation. I’ll explain why.🧵 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Rafael Serra: Grandfather of Cuban Anarchism Black Rose/Rosa Negra is a revolutionary political organization. This means that we focus our efforts on developing and applying a strategy to build popular power in our workplaces, neighborhoods, sch...

Part of our role as a revolutionary organization is to recover the historical memory of our movement. Here we present a brief biography of afro-cuban anarchist militant and labor organizer Rafael Serra. 🌴🚩🏴

www.blackrosefed.org/rafael-serra...

Opening Colorado’s Primaries: How Landon Mascareñaz Is Building a Colorado-First Coalition for Reform | Unite America As the founder of Courageous Colorado, a Unite America grantee, Landon is focused on opening Colorado’s primary elections so more voters have a voice in who represents them.

Grateful to be profiled by Unite America on my background, open vs closed systems, and the moment for redesigning our democracy.

www.uniteamerica.org/articles/ope...

Can’t believe we are still doing this

medical miracle: this 75 year old man was born yesterday

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Newport for governor challenge

University of Connecticut, looking to save $1.57M, removes trash cans from many of its offices The cost-cutting effort aims to save $1.57 million in trash disposal and custodial cleaning expenses, according a UConn official.

we are theatrically tightening the belt in the dumbest ways, what more does Ned want from us www.ctinsider.com/news/educati...

Motion to inaugurate the term "Molotov Cocktail Mom."

Why won’t the mainstream media cover the most impactful product category of the last decade

US paid $32m to five countries to accept about 300 deportees, report shows Some of the world’s most corrupt countries have received huge payments in controversial third-country deportation scheme

Third country deportations are a way to nullify asylum protections. Lawless and inhumane.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...