Craig Teague
@cmteague.bsky.social
Husband, dad, prof, chemist. Interim Dean of Faculty, block plan, POGIL, fac dev. Midwesterner, baseball fan, musician, geography nerd. Deconstructing Christian, former Republican. I work at Cornell College, but views my own.
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5 years since January 6 and Republican leadership still refuses to honor the law enforcement officers with a legally required plaque in the Capitol.
Here’s a replica outside our office.
Here’s a replica outside our office.
January 6, 2026 at 10:19 PM
5 years since January 6 and Republican leadership still refuses to honor the law enforcement officers with a legally required plaque in the Capitol.
Here’s a replica outside our office.
Here’s a replica outside our office.
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Proud of those who served, like Sen. Kelly and my dad, who did not seek deferment when he was drafted. My dad fought and almost died in a country a long way from home. Service over self, which our president cannot comprehend in the slightest.
Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.
January 5, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Proud of those who served, like Sen. Kelly and my dad, who did not seek deferment when he was drafted. My dad fought and almost died in a country a long way from home. Service over self, which our president cannot comprehend in the slightest.
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Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.
January 5, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.
I've been thinking a lot about asymmetry in our politics and political discourse. This is a great example.
Speech standards are clearly asymmetric. Edgy left-leading speech can get you fired. Edgy right-leaning speech can get your instructor fired if they give you a poor grade for not completing the assignment.
January 5, 2026 at 7:17 PM
I've been thinking a lot about asymmetry in our politics and political discourse. This is a great example.
1/ I think this is it. Important corollary to follow next.
What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things
January 4, 2026 at 2:44 AM
1/ I think this is it. Important corollary to follow next.
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Apt, as Mary Oliver often is.
January 3, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Apt, as Mary Oliver often is.
Some good news:
Iowa sees lowest annual traffic death toll in 100 years
Iowa sees lowest annual traffic death toll in 100 years
Iowa's traffic fatality count for 2025 was the lowest is 100 years, a milestone state officials are saying is thanks, in part, to a new hands-free driving bill that was passed by the Iowa Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Kim Reynolds last year.
www.thegazette.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Some good news:
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Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/
January 2, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/
Happy new year, friends. I appreciate this perspective, in more than one way.
Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.
January 1, 2026 at 6:57 AM
Happy new year, friends. I appreciate this perspective, in more than one way.
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What the KENNEDY Center used to be…
Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.
Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.
January 1, 2026 at 5:04 AM
What the KENNEDY Center used to be…
Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.
Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.
I've thought a lot about this over the past several years. It's one reason education, real education, is so important.
December 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I've thought a lot about this over the past several years. It's one reason education, real education, is so important.
Most unhinged compliment: One student referred to me repeatedly as "the Chuck Norris of p-chem"
The one semester I taught organic chemistry lecture a student came up to me after one class and said I was "Captain Picard, but of teaching organic chemistry".
Forget insults, what’s the most unhinged *compliment* you’ve ever received?
December 31, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Most unhinged compliment: One student referred to me repeatedly as "the Chuck Norris of p-chem"
Great thread! Well, not great, but enlightening - I learned something.
And actually--Comet Pizza was a page out of a playbook that started with daycare decades before.
In 1983, a California mom accused her son's childcare provider of subjecting children to Satanic rituals--like flushing them down toilets into secret basements where they were then filmed for porn. 1/🧵
In 1983, a California mom accused her son's childcare provider of subjecting children to Satanic rituals--like flushing them down toilets into secret basements where they were then filmed for porn. 1/🧵
Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
December 31, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Great thread! Well, not great, but enlightening - I learned something.
Every time I watch it I notice something else
December 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Every time I watch it I notice something else
This brings back memories: in college, I basically worked security for one of their concerts, except that I wasn't trained for that and didn't get paid. 1/
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
December 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
This brings back memories: in college, I basically worked security for one of their concerts, except that I wasn't trained for that and didn't get paid. 1/
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My dog and two cats love to throw up on the floor and they represent 60% of the household. As a leader I can't just ignore public opinion so I also throw up on the floor sometimes to stay popular
December 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
My dog and two cats love to throw up on the floor and they represent 60% of the household. As a leader I can't just ignore public opinion so I also throw up on the floor sometimes to stay popular
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I see this on the right - the idea that the existence of foreign academic staff and faculty are evidence of discrimination against natives. It's not discrimination, its selection: academia is a global marketplace, the US is the biggest center of that market. So yes, some foreign talent will win.
Striking nativist editorializing by the federal judge who just upheld the $100,000 tax on high-skill immigrants.
She opines that it’s “troubling” that universities hire talent from abroad at all, instead of only native grads.
Then admits (!) that opinion is irrelevant (So why write it? Venting?)
She opines that it’s “troubling” that universities hire talent from abroad at all, instead of only native grads.
Then admits (!) that opinion is irrelevant (So why write it? Venting?)
December 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I see this on the right - the idea that the existence of foreign academic staff and faculty are evidence of discrimination against natives. It's not discrimination, its selection: academia is a global marketplace, the US is the biggest center of that market. So yes, some foreign talent will win.
The days between December 25 and January 1 are the Lanthanides and Actinides of the Gregorian calendar
December 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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To be clear, the student by her own admission forgot an assignment to react to a specific reading til the last second, didn't want to delay going out, dashed something off in 20 min without reading the piece to comment on(!), no citations and not answering the assigned question.
Teacher fired
Teacher fired
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
To be clear, the student by her own admission forgot an assignment to react to a specific reading til the last second, didn't want to delay going out, dashed something off in 20 min without reading the piece to comment on(!), no citations and not answering the assigned question.
Teacher fired
Teacher fired
Some amazing replies in here!
welcome to the Second Annual Bluesky Christmas Eve Snowball Fight!
please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light
please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light
it’s Christmas Eve morning and apparently Bluesky is in a fightin’ mood today.
please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light
please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light
December 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Some amazing replies in here!
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4 extra seconds of daylight let's goooooo
December 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
4 extra seconds of daylight let's goooooo
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College costs are soaring! www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...
December 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
College costs are soaring! www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...