Jordan P. Mardelle
@jpmardelle.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 enby, bi/pan 🏳️⚧️
CHI > TVC
no justice just us
nothing about us without us ♾️
everything for everyone
leftist not liberal
CHI > TVC
no justice just us
nothing about us without us ♾️
everything for everyone
leftist not liberal
Yesterday, at an EcoSchool site, I went to a staff meeting and refused to consent to being recorded by ChatGPT. I feel like I need a tinfoil hat AND I feel bad that I inconvenienced my boss but AI gives me the existential dread. Also. It’s EcoSchool!
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Yesterday, at an EcoSchool site, I went to a staff meeting and refused to consent to being recorded by ChatGPT. I feel like I need a tinfoil hat AND I feel bad that I inconvenienced my boss but AI gives me the existential dread. Also. It’s EcoSchool!
in 1689, John Locke famously claimed that the child is born as a tabula rasa…Today, this idea…remains incredibly prevalent, providing the foundation for some of the worst forms of pedagogy—that myth of teaching as “molding young minds.”
-Solidarity W Children by Madeline Lane-McKinley #booksky
-Solidarity W Children by Madeline Lane-McKinley #booksky
November 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
in 1689, John Locke famously claimed that the child is born as a tabula rasa…Today, this idea…remains incredibly prevalent, providing the foundation for some of the worst forms of pedagogy—that myth of teaching as “molding young minds.”
-Solidarity W Children by Madeline Lane-McKinley #booksky
-Solidarity W Children by Madeline Lane-McKinley #booksky
Re: the war in Gaza
While the only reasonable response may be shock and rage, El-Rifae asks how we can avoid the ways this rage ossifies into feelings of guilt or shame, “which uselessly burrow inwards.”
-Solidarity With Children by Madeline Lane-McKinley
#booksky
While the only reasonable response may be shock and rage, El-Rifae asks how we can avoid the ways this rage ossifies into feelings of guilt or shame, “which uselessly burrow inwards.”
-Solidarity With Children by Madeline Lane-McKinley
#booksky
November 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Re: the war in Gaza
While the only reasonable response may be shock and rage, El-Rifae asks how we can avoid the ways this rage ossifies into feelings of guilt or shame, “which uselessly burrow inwards.”
-Solidarity With Children by Madeline Lane-McKinley
#booksky
While the only reasonable response may be shock and rage, El-Rifae asks how we can avoid the ways this rage ossifies into feelings of guilt or shame, “which uselessly burrow inwards.”
-Solidarity With Children by Madeline Lane-McKinley
#booksky
This is how it felt when the first boy who ever told me he loved me died of Covid in May 2020
It is such a disorienting feeling when someone you care about but hadn't talked to that much in a couple of years dies suddenly because there is now a freshly dug hole inside of you and yet the day to day routine of your life has not been altered one bit. www.welcometohellworld.com/watertown-ma...
Watertown, Massachusetts
This piece appears in my book We Had It Coming.
I am sitting in a waiting room right now none of us ever want to be inside of crying about an old friend I'm not entirely sure is even gone yet. The te...
www.welcometohellworld.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This is how it felt when the first boy who ever told me he loved me died of Covid in May 2020
Currently reading an essay by Madeline Lane-McKinley called Solidarity With Children and the intro is about Gaza. I can’t believe it’s been TWO YEARS.
November 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Currently reading an essay by Madeline Lane-McKinley called Solidarity With Children and the intro is about Gaza. I can’t believe it’s been TWO YEARS.
Reposted by Jordan P. Mardelle
Wait. What? Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin?
November 21, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Wait. What? Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin?
I’m coming to realize that “eco” does not necessarily equal “nature” in the context of education.
November 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I’m coming to realize that “eco” does not necessarily equal “nature” in the context of education.
I had planned on attending tonight; got notified by the local DSA that I no longer have to
www.interlochenpublicradio.org/2025-11-20/a...
www.interlochenpublicradio.org/2025-11-20/a...
After chilly response from public, Rocklocker calls off plans for Kalkaska data center
'We heard you,' said a statement from the company's Matt Rine, who faced stiff opposition at tense public forums to consider the idea this week.
www.interlochenpublicradio.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I had planned on attending tonight; got notified by the local DSA that I no longer have to
www.interlochenpublicradio.org/2025-11-20/a...
www.interlochenpublicradio.org/2025-11-20/a...
Oh what a shock!
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House Ethics Committee opened an investigation Wednesday into Florida Republican Rep. Cory Mills for numerous allegations, including violations of campaign finance laws and sexual misconduct or dating violence.
Florida US Rep. Cory Mills under investigation by House ethics panel • Michigan Advance
This report has been updated. WASHINGTON — The U.S. House Ethics Committee opened an investigation Wednesday into Florida Republican Rep. Cory Mills for numerous allegations, including violations of c...
michiganadvance.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Oh what a shock!
Lander is such a G
The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza.
The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.
The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.
NEW: Brad Lander says he wants a trial, not a deal to drop his charge stemming from an arrest by ICE.
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Lander is such a G
Reposted by Jordan P. Mardelle
The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza.
The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.
The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.
NEW: Brad Lander says he wants a trial, not a deal to drop his charge stemming from an arrest by ICE.
After Arrest by ICE, City Comptroller Rejects Deal and Seeks Trial
Other officials arrested while protesting at 26 Federal Plaza in September will have their federal charges dropped if they avoid arrest inside a federal building for six months.
www.thecity.nyc
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza.
The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.
The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.
Reposted by Jordan P. Mardelle
[1:1] On the seventh day God rested.
[1.2] And for the six days straight before that as well.
[1.3] Resting whips ass he said.
[1.4] It was all formless and empty
and always would be.
[1.5] And none of this ever happened to any of us.
[1.6] We were all resting too.
[1.2] And for the six days straight before that as well.
[1.3] Resting whips ass he said.
[1.4] It was all formless and empty
and always would be.
[1.5] And none of this ever happened to any of us.
[1.6] We were all resting too.
November 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
[1:1] On the seventh day God rested.
[1.2] And for the six days straight before that as well.
[1.3] Resting whips ass he said.
[1.4] It was all formless and empty
and always would be.
[1.5] And none of this ever happened to any of us.
[1.6] We were all resting too.
[1.2] And for the six days straight before that as well.
[1.3] Resting whips ass he said.
[1.4] It was all formless and empty
and always would be.
[1.5] And none of this ever happened to any of us.
[1.6] We were all resting too.
Reposted by Jordan P. Mardelle
“If the roles are reversed and our people are not having treaty obligations met by the U.S., then why are we still participating in a system that harms us?” Meredith Migizi, the executive director of indigenous advocacy organization Miigwech, Inc., asked.
Story by @kdailey.bsky.social
Story by @kdailey.bsky.social
After SNAP lapse, Michigan tribal officials and advocates reaffirm the need for food sovereignty • Michigan Advance
Amid November’s honoring of Native American Heritage Month — a time when many communities reflect on the responsibilities embedded in ancestral teachings —Meredith Migizi, the executive director of in...
michiganadvance.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
“If the roles are reversed and our people are not having treaty obligations met by the U.S., then why are we still participating in a system that harms us?” Meredith Migizi, the executive director of indigenous advocacy organization Miigwech, Inc., asked.
Story by @kdailey.bsky.social
Story by @kdailey.bsky.social
Meredith Migizi … sees the way that Michigan’s tribal governments respond to the lapse in SNAP benefits amid a government shutdown as parallel to an Anishinaabe oral history of the Hoof Nation Treaty.
michiganadvance.com/2025/11/17/a...
michiganadvance.com/2025/11/17/a...
After SNAP lapse, Michigan tribal officials and advocates reaffirm the need for food sovereignty • Michigan Advance
Amid November’s honoring of Native American Heritage Month — a time when many communities reflect on the responsibilities embedded in ancestral teachings —Meredith Migizi, the executive director of in...
michiganadvance.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Meredith Migizi … sees the way that Michigan’s tribal governments respond to the lapse in SNAP benefits amid a government shutdown as parallel to an Anishinaabe oral history of the Hoof Nation Treaty.
michiganadvance.com/2025/11/17/a...
michiganadvance.com/2025/11/17/a...
Did you accept the apology? says Connell.
She nods, looking down at her nails. Of course I did, she says. I don’t go in for grudges.
Luckily for me, he replies.
(🙄🙄🙄 shut UP Connell)
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
She nods, looking down at her nails. Of course I did, she says. I don’t go in for grudges.
Luckily for me, he replies.
(🙄🙄🙄 shut UP Connell)
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
November 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Did you accept the apology? says Connell.
She nods, looking down at her nails. Of course I did, she says. I don’t go in for grudges.
Luckily for me, he replies.
(🙄🙄🙄 shut UP Connell)
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
She nods, looking down at her nails. Of course I did, she says. I don’t go in for grudges.
Luckily for me, he replies.
(🙄🙄🙄 shut UP Connell)
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
She wishes that she could have forgiven Rob, even if it meant nothing to him. When she thinks of him now, it’s always with his face hidden, turning away, behind his locker door, behind the rolled up window of his car. (1/2)
-Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
-Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
November 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
She wishes that she could have forgiven Rob, even if it meant nothing to him. When she thinks of him now, it’s always with his face hidden, turning away, behind his locker door, behind the rolled up window of his car. (1/2)
-Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
-Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
Dwelling on the sight of Connell’s face always gives Marianne a certain pleasure, which can be inflected with any number of feelings ... His appearance is like a favorite piece of music to her, sounding a little different each time she hears it.
-Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
-Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
November 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Dwelling on the sight of Connell’s face always gives Marianne a certain pleasure, which can be inflected with any number of feelings ... His appearance is like a favorite piece of music to her, sounding a little different each time she hears it.
-Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
-Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
“The Republic was revealed as only a state of mindm no more real than unicorns or pixie dust if you had enough power to safely ignore it and not believe in it.”
fearhonorinterest.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/t...
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The Chains of the Improbable vs. The Chains of the Impossible
An old Vulcan proverb advises us that only Sulla could march on Rome. This proverb may contradict another ancient proverb that claims that all roads lead to Rome. This seeming contradiction is reso…
fearhonorinterest.wordpress.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
“The Republic was revealed as only a state of mindm no more real than unicorns or pixie dust if you had enough power to safely ignore it and not believe in it.”
fearhonorinterest.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/t...
fearhonorinterest.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/t...
“Why do you have to act so weird around her?
He frowned, still lying with his eyes shut, face turned to the ceiling. How I act with her is my normal personality, he said. Maybe I’m just a weird person.
Helen said nothing.”
Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
He frowned, still lying with his eyes shut, face turned to the ceiling. How I act with her is my normal personality, he said. Maybe I’m just a weird person.
Helen said nothing.”
Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
November 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
“Why do you have to act so weird around her?
He frowned, still lying with his eyes shut, face turned to the ceiling. How I act with her is my normal personality, he said. Maybe I’m just a weird person.
Helen said nothing.”
Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
He frowned, still lying with his eyes shut, face turned to the ceiling. How I act with her is my normal personality, he said. Maybe I’m just a weird person.
Helen said nothing.”
Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
“Marianne, he said.
He said this aloud without thinking about it. She looked up and saw him then. Her face was like a white flower. She put her arms around his neck and he held her tightly. He could smell the inside of her house on her clothes.” (1/2)
Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
He said this aloud without thinking about it. She looked up and saw him then. Her face was like a white flower. She put her arms around his neck and he held her tightly. He could smell the inside of her house on her clothes.” (1/2)
Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
“Marianne, he said.
He said this aloud without thinking about it. She looked up and saw him then. Her face was like a white flower. She put her arms around his neck and he held her tightly. He could smell the inside of her house on her clothes.” (1/2)
Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
He said this aloud without thinking about it. She looked up and saw him then. Her face was like a white flower. She put her arms around his neck and he held her tightly. He could smell the inside of her house on her clothes.” (1/2)
Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
“Because of the white dress and because of the white china cup, he wants to say: You look like an angel. It’s not even something Helen would mind him saying, but he can’t talk like that in front of people anyway, saying whimsical affectionate things.”
Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
November 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“Because of the white dress and because of the white china cup, he wants to say: You look like an angel. It’s not even something Helen would mind him saying, but he can’t talk like that in front of people anyway, saying whimsical affectionate things.”
Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
“Marianne puts her hand to the door handle and then sees them inside. This all seems to happen very slowly, though it only takes a few seconds. She opens the door … and he feels a sort of enjoyably painful sensation in this throat.”
Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
November 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“Marianne puts her hand to the door handle and then sees them inside. This all seems to happen very slowly, though it only takes a few seconds. She opens the door … and he feels a sort of enjoyably painful sensation in this throat.”
Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky
Normal People by Sally Rooney
#booksky