Sherman Dorn
@shermandorn.com
Personal account, historian of education policy
Tomorrow, in the FCC building:
"Sorry, boss, the analysis of the next spectrum auction options will have to wait. I need to watch the halftime show another time, just to be sure."
Sorry, @haroldfeld.bsky.social, the bureaucracy will have to pause while EVERYONE triple-checks this.
"Sorry, boss, the analysis of the next spectrum auction options will have to wait. I need to watch the halftime show another time, just to be sure."
Sorry, @haroldfeld.bsky.social, the bureaucracy will have to pause while EVERYONE triple-checks this.
so one of the biggest racists in our state, Randy Fine, is making claims about explicit lyrics not based on the actual halftime show that aired… but because he googled the songs.
the songs weren’t performed in full, but that doesn’t matter to this guy.
www.tallahassee.com/story/news/s...
the songs weren’t performed in full, but that doesn’t matter to this guy.
www.tallahassee.com/story/news/s...
Randy Fine calls for FCC action over Bad Bunny Super Bowl performance
A Florida congressman is calling for FCC action against Bad Bunny over alleged explicit lyrics during the Super Bowl halftime show.
www.tallahassee.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Tomorrow, in the FCC building:
"Sorry, boss, the analysis of the next spectrum auction options will have to wait. I need to watch the halftime show another time, just to be sure."
Sorry, @haroldfeld.bsky.social, the bureaucracy will have to pause while EVERYONE triple-checks this.
"Sorry, boss, the analysis of the next spectrum auction options will have to wait. I need to watch the halftime show another time, just to be sure."
Sorry, @haroldfeld.bsky.social, the bureaucracy will have to pause while EVERYONE triple-checks this.
Also applies to proposal defenses.
If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.
February 10, 2026 at 4:42 AM
Also applies to proposal defenses.
Higher ed folks: I missed the loan draft regulations when it came out 10 days ago: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Reimagining and Improving Student Education
The Secretary proposes to amend the regulations for the Federal student loan programs authorized under title IV of the Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965, as amended (the title IV, HEA programs) to im...
www.federalregister.gov
February 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Higher ed folks: I missed the loan draft regulations when it came out 10 days ago: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
So many people living in Trump's head rent-free it's a code violation.
February 9, 2026 at 2:19 AM
So many people living in Trump's head rent-free it's a code violation.
Never mind what Chris Berman thinks -- what about the octopus!?
February 8, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Never mind what Chris Berman thinks -- what about the octopus!?
Notes for an update to Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
–Clinton: sex pest, killed welfare, economic growth
–W. Bush: not sex pest, contributed to global financial crisis, did giant awful wars
–Obama: not sex pest, flawed but BFD healthcare, liked to use bomber drones too much
-Trump1: sex pest, chaotic, ended with a coup
–W. Bush: not sex pest, contributed to global financial crisis, did giant awful wars
–Obama: not sex pest, flawed but BFD healthcare, liked to use bomber drones too much
-Trump1: sex pest, chaotic, ended with a coup
February 8, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Notes for an update to Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
Last night, my mom asked my daughter and me if we're watching the Bad Bunny concert today. Apparently he's letting the Seahawks and Patriots open for him in an innovative mixed-media concert "intervention" like Kendrick Lamar did last year. 😏
February 8, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Last night, my mom asked my daughter and me if we're watching the Bad Bunny concert today. Apparently he's letting the Seahawks and Patriots open for him in an innovative mixed-media concert "intervention" like Kendrick Lamar did last year. 😏
This is an important story about education right now, tol by @bethhawkins.bsky.social
My latest: What's it like to be a teacher in the Twin Cities? Two educators on the very different experience in their classrooms — and the awful realities that are the common thread.
‘Teaching as You’re Feeling’: St. Paul Teachers Share Their Classroom Realities
An elementary and a HS educator on who's in school and who isn't, online learning, the value of friends and routine, kids' fears — and their own.
www.the74million.org
February 8, 2026 at 2:40 AM
This is an important story about education right now, tol by @bethhawkins.bsky.social
I have some lovely student writing to read today, so my week has now leveled up.
February 5, 2026 at 7:40 PM
I have some lovely student writing to read today, so my week has now leveled up.
Does all of our parasocial relationship with Mamdani count? 😏
Does anyone know anyone in NYC government?
February 3, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Does all of our parasocial relationship with Mamdani count? 😏
Ordered my Girl Scout cookies this year online from a troop in Minneapolis, and reportedly they're on their way.
A few friends and I realized over the weekend that what we REALLY wanted in addition to Girl Scout Cookies were Girl Scout dog biscuits. I have to find cookie booths and suggest that.
A few friends and I realized over the weekend that what we REALLY wanted in addition to Girl Scout Cookies were Girl Scout dog biscuits. I have to find cookie booths and suggest that.
February 3, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Ordered my Girl Scout cookies this year online from a troop in Minneapolis, and reportedly they're on their way.
A few friends and I realized over the weekend that what we REALLY wanted in addition to Girl Scout Cookies were Girl Scout dog biscuits. I have to find cookie booths and suggest that.
A few friends and I realized over the weekend that what we REALLY wanted in addition to Girl Scout Cookies were Girl Scout dog biscuits. I have to find cookie booths and suggest that.
Back at my old university, seeing one of my senior colleagues walk out of the bathroom without washing his hands was traumatizing: how many times had I shaken his hand over the years?
Once all of the other, uh, things are settled we really need a serious public health campaign around everything involved in being part of a society.
February 3, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Back at my old university, seeing one of my senior colleagues walk out of the bathroom without washing his hands was traumatizing: how many times had I shaken his hand over the years?
This reads so oddly, as if Alderman is upset that there *hasn't* been a bloodletting.
Also: 1) How much can we trust the new NCES figures?
2) How about disaggregating by state?
Also: 1) How much can we trust the new NCES figures?
2) How about disaggregating by state?
@chadaldeman.bsky.social: The fiscal cliff should have hit by now. But public schools are still on a hiring spree as student enrollment keeps dropping www.the74million.org/article/staf...
Staffing Déjà Vu: Districts Add 118,000 More Employees, Serve 135,000 Fewer Kids
Aldeman: The fiscal cliff should have hit by now. But public schools are still on a hiring spree as student enrollment keeps dropping.
www.the74million.org
February 3, 2026 at 5:57 PM
This reads so oddly, as if Alderman is upset that there *hasn't* been a bloodletting.
Also: 1) How much can we trust the new NCES figures?
2) How about disaggregating by state?
Also: 1) How much can we trust the new NCES figures?
2) How about disaggregating by state?
The skills AOC has to turn any question into what appears in retrospect to be a softball. (It would not have been a softball for several of the Congressional D caucus leaders.)
Hey, that’s me asking how ICE can be reined in even if it has $75 billion outside appropriations.
AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.
February 3, 2026 at 2:16 AM
The skills AOC has to turn any question into what appears in retrospect to be a softball. (It would not have been a softball for several of the Congressional D caucus leaders.)
If I see "Isaac Chotiner" as the Caller ID, I am giving away all of my possessions and moving into a hut.
February 2, 2026 at 2:00 AM
If I see "Isaac Chotiner" as the Caller ID, I am giving away all of my possessions and moving into a hut.
Friends, I committed Critical Reading Field Research this morning, and purchased a packet of Clorox Toilet Bombs, to see if Christopher Mims' blathering about AI and consumer-product "innovation" in the Ethan Mollick Chapter was as mid as I expected.
Toilet Bomb in toilet now, results pending.
Toilet Bomb in toilet now, results pending.
Chapter 8 dived into tendentious bullshit, and no surprise, Ethan Mollick followed quickly thereupon.
January 31, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Friends, I committed Critical Reading Field Research this morning, and purchased a packet of Clorox Toilet Bombs, to see if Christopher Mims' blathering about AI and consumer-product "innovation" in the Ethan Mollick Chapter was as mid as I expected.
Toilet Bomb in toilet now, results pending.
Toilet Bomb in toilet now, results pending.
Chapter 8 dived into tendentious bullshit, and no surprise, Ethan Mollick followed quickly thereupon.
January 31, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Chapter 8 dived into tendentious bullshit, and no surprise, Ethan Mollick followed quickly thereupon.
In the end, it will turn out that in this admin "distraction" is more frequently an internal dynamic, and for me the key Q on more-fragile authoritarian moves like this is, "Who WITHIN the admin is this intended to distract?"
Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.
January 30, 2026 at 2:56 PM
In the end, it will turn out that in this admin "distraction" is more frequently an internal dynamic, and for me the key Q on more-fragile authoritarian moves like this is, "Who WITHIN the admin is this intended to distract?"
When literacy means stuff embedded in a culture, it has power because culture has power. When _______ literacy means info-dump-and-pray, it's info dump AS prayer.
Most "AI literacy" is info-dump-and-pray.
Most "AI literacy" is info-dump-and-pray.
Can’t literacy ourselves out of this one, I’m afraid.
"there’s no way that we can become more savvy ... this is not a problem that developing the right skill set is going to solve" @tressiemcphd.bsky.social speaking the things I think some librarians may be afraid to say out loud, but are true nonetheless. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/o...
January 30, 2026 at 2:31 PM
When literacy means stuff embedded in a culture, it has power because culture has power. When _______ literacy means info-dump-and-pray, it's info dump AS prayer.
Most "AI literacy" is info-dump-and-pray.
Most "AI literacy" is info-dump-and-pray.
I missed this last week: Laura Tohe is the new poet laureate of Arizona. This is great!
Governor Katie Hobbs Appoints Laura Tohe as Arizona Poet Laureate
Phoenix, AZ – Today, Governor Katie Hobbs announced the appointment of celebrated poet Dr. Laura Tohe as Poet Laureate for the State of Arizona. Established in 2012, the position of Arizona Poet Laure...
azgovernor.gov
January 29, 2026 at 8:45 PM
I missed this last week: Laura Tohe is the new poet laureate of Arizona. This is great!
To Trump, Miller, Noem, Homan, and others, the cruelty is the point.
But there are alternatives, those who inspire by their love and creativity.
But there are alternatives, those who inspire by their love and creativity.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 6:57 PM
To Trump, Miller, Noem, Homan, and others, the cruelty is the point.
But there are alternatives, those who inspire by their love and creativity.
But there are alternatives, those who inspire by their love and creativity.
Just pre-ordered @sjjphd.bsky.social's A Second Sight
January 28, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Just pre-ordered @sjjphd.bsky.social's A Second Sight
The credits listing looks remarkably .. 1984
January 28, 2026 at 1:12 AM
The credits listing looks remarkably .. 1984
Bari Weiss has become the Bluesky Character of the Day.
"What we need here is more Substack"
The new CBS contributors:
Elliot Ackerman, Peter Attia, Masih Alinejad, Arthur Brooks, Caroline Chambers, Clare de Boer, Niall Ferguson, Roland Fryer Jr., Andrew Huberman, Coleman Hughes, Mark Hyman, Janna Levin, Casey Lewis, HR McMaster, Patrick McGee, Reihan Salam, Lauren Sherman, Derek Thompson
Elliot Ackerman, Peter Attia, Masih Alinejad, Arthur Brooks, Caroline Chambers, Clare de Boer, Niall Ferguson, Roland Fryer Jr., Andrew Huberman, Coleman Hughes, Mark Hyman, Janna Levin, Casey Lewis, HR McMaster, Patrick McGee, Reihan Salam, Lauren Sherman, Derek Thompson
January 27, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Bari Weiss has become the Bluesky Character of the Day.
We can and should change the CBP authority, to shrink the margin to something reasonable like 25 km.
Returning Border Patrol agents to the border is all well and good except the border zone is enormous and includes major cities like NY and LA and the entire state of MI.
January 27, 2026 at 2:42 PM
We can and should change the CBP authority, to shrink the margin to something reasonable like 25 km.