kristobol
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To quote James Baldwin: "Great [people] have done great things here and will again and we can make America what America must become."
In the weeks before the '86 election me and some friends went to a George HW Bush election stop in rural WI to protest Central American Policy. Our chant:"TRADE BUSH FOR HASENFUS!" brought this response from Bush:"Looks like Halloween started a little early this year" and the entire crowd chuckled
Eugene Hasenfus, Gunrunner Who Exposed Iran-Contra Plot, Dies at 84
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December 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
In the weeks before the '86 election me and some friends went to a George HW Bush election stop in rural WI to protest Central American Policy. Our chant:"TRADE BUSH FOR HASENFUS!" brought this response from Bush:"Looks like Halloween started a little early this year" and the entire crowd chuckled
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November 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This! \/
I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.
November 6, 2025 at 4:07 AM
This! \/
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I am a scientist
I seek to understand me
All of my impurities and evils yet unknown
I am a journalist
I write to you to show you
I am an incurable and nothing else behaves like me
from “I Am a Scientist” by Guided By Voices, Bee Thousand (1994)
October 2, 2024 at 1:19 AM
I am a scientist
I seek to understand me
All of my impurities and evils yet unknown
I am a journalist
I write to you to show you
I am an incurable and nothing else behaves like me
from “I Am a Scientist” by Guided By Voices, Bee Thousand (1994)
Ok all of you Bugoniacs. I highly recommend pairing this film with the Korean Film it's based on "Save the Green Planet"(2003). It's available for viewing on Kanopy.
October 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Ok all of you Bugoniacs. I highly recommend pairing this film with the Korean Film it's based on "Save the Green Planet"(2003). It's available for viewing on Kanopy.
*This* was an outstanding episode/conversation. This hit hard: "...we all knew the backlash was coming...most of what happened in 2020 was performative...[no] ..societal or structural [changes] that people were asking for..we got symbolic victories and now were being met with structural resistance."
My friend and colleague Wesley Morris and I had a very sobering conversation about America since the 1619 Project published and how it feels to be falling back under the veil that W.E.B. Du Bois so mournfully wrote about. I hope you’ll listen to this episode of Cannonball @nytimes.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
*This* was an outstanding episode/conversation. This hit hard: "...we all knew the backlash was coming...most of what happened in 2020 was performative...[no] ..societal or structural [changes] that people were asking for..we got symbolic victories and now were being met with structural resistance."
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TODAY, I AM OFFICIALLY AN AUTHOR!!! A CHILDHOOD DREAM COME TRUE!!!!!
#TheDoubleTax is the first book I've ever written and it’s OUT EVERYWHERE TODAY. Four years. 100s of stories. Countless drafts. I woke up today as a FIRST TIME author. WOW.
Get your copy TODAY: annagifty.com #booksky #blacksky
#TheDoubleTax is the first book I've ever written and it’s OUT EVERYWHERE TODAY. Four years. 100s of stories. Countless drafts. I woke up today as a FIRST TIME author. WOW.
Get your copy TODAY: annagifty.com #booksky #blacksky
September 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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It's pretty clear that the Christian Nationalist pushing hardcore minoritarian rule do not support democracy if it means they might lose.
NatCon signatory Meg Basham—an admirer of Doug Wilson, Claremont alum, & pal of Russ Vought’s ex-wife —wants you to know that “You’re not going to find universal suffrage in the Bible. You’re just not. Now, you can argue for it as a matter of law and reason, but it’s not heresy to debate it.” 1/
August 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
It's pretty clear that the Christian Nationalist pushing hardcore minoritarian rule do not support democracy if it means they might lose.
Many curriculum scholars have been making these same data-based argument & discussing it with our students for the last 15 years+. But such crises in masculinity have real world consequences on those who we "blame." 1/2
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Opinion | The ‘Boy Crisis’ Is Overblown
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Many curriculum scholars have been making these same data-based argument & discussing it with our students for the last 15 years+. But such crises in masculinity have real world consequences on those who we "blame." 1/2
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
40 years......Listened the shit out of this album (um, CD). open.spotify.com/album/07CZep...
Steve McQueen
Prefab Sprout · Album · 1985 · 22 songs
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July 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
40 years......Listened the shit out of this album (um, CD). open.spotify.com/album/07CZep...
Wow! I could not love @seetickets.bsky.social any more! I just discovered that Death From Above 1979 is playing Friday here in ATX. A postponed show for which I bought tix two years ago and the tix are still good! Gracias folks!
June 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Wow! I could not love @seetickets.bsky.social any more! I just discovered that Death From Above 1979 is playing Friday here in ATX. A postponed show for which I bought tix two years ago and the tix are still good! Gracias folks!
For all who celebrate June Dairy Month in WI. Henning Cheese is giving out *free* cheese with all purchases.
June 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
For all who celebrate June Dairy Month in WI. Henning Cheese is giving out *free* cheese with all purchases.
1/ Just curious. How can this be explained w/o drawing on theoretical traditions (now disparaged as--taddum: *CRTs*) that highlight that such disparities in outcomes did not just *happen* accidentally, they were the direct result of humans?
April 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
1/ Just curious. How can this be explained w/o drawing on theoretical traditions (now disparaged as--taddum: *CRTs*) that highlight that such disparities in outcomes did not just *happen* accidentally, they were the direct result of humans?
Could there possibly be more clear visual evidence for the current/longitudinal effects of systemic/institutional racism than the School Grades given out by TEA? #I-35 #I-35divide.
April 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Could there possibly be more clear visual evidence for the current/longitudinal effects of systemic/institutional racism than the School Grades given out by TEA? #I-35 #I-35divide.
1/ In my Education, Schooling & Society course, I used this image as we explored the many (MANY) ways LGBTQI+ issues are present in K-12 settings and the reasons why accurate information is crucial. A pre-service teacher took a picture of it and told me she sent it to her mother....
April 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
1/ In my Education, Schooling & Society course, I used this image as we explored the many (MANY) ways LGBTQI+ issues are present in K-12 settings and the reasons why accurate information is crucial. A pre-service teacher took a picture of it and told me she sent it to her mother....
"Bring him home!"
April 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"Bring him home!"
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Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison
Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison
GREENBELT, MD—Decrying the deportation as “wholly lawless,” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ruled Monday that the Trump administration had three days to return her to the United States from a Salvador...
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April 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison
This👇
April 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This👇
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Musk Signals Willingness To Bid More Than $97 Billion To Acquire Respect theonion.com/musk-signals...
Musk Signals Willingness To Bid More Than $97 Billion To Acquire Respect
WASHINGTON—Stressing that he was open to going far higher to close the deal, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced Wednesday that he had made an unsolicited $97.4 billion offer to acquire respect. “This is a ...
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April 2, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Musk Signals Willingness To Bid More Than $97 Billion To Acquire Respect theonion.com/musk-signals...
Dear Colleague: How does our society explain the many(!) educational outcome gaps between middle-class white students and low-income students of color in academic achievement, access to ed resources, school quality, graduation/drop out rates, college enrollment, disciplinary actions etc, etc?
February 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Dear Colleague: How does our society explain the many(!) educational outcome gaps between middle-class white students and low-income students of color in academic achievement, access to ed resources, school quality, graduation/drop out rates, college enrollment, disciplinary actions etc, etc?
Dear Colleague: Grounded theory and pedagogical precision are my resistance tools of choice when helping pre-service teachers better understand the many ways race/class/gender/sexual identity influence the in-school experiences and academic outcomes of young people.
February 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Dear Colleague: Grounded theory and pedagogical precision are my resistance tools of choice when helping pre-service teachers better understand the many ways race/class/gender/sexual identity influence the in-school experiences and academic outcomes of young people.