“If Trump truly is, I don’t know, the American Franco or Pinochet—and I’m not going that far just yet—but if he was, he could easily accomplish that through the weapons we’ve given him through decades of national security policy.”

-Chip Gibbons

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“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”

-Cory Doctorow

If you're looking for a literature teaching tool that moves your students from judgment to empathy in their character analysis, please check out my Trauma-Informed Character Analysis chart available for less-than-a-latte dollars.

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Here’s one: Start calling elected officials by pronouns you know will make them mad. If they correct you tell them you need proof of their gender. If they talk about birth certificates ask them about the signing doctor’s vaccine recommendations. Use their narrative-controlling tools against them.

Money designated for teacher raises through the Incentive Allotment program is not guaranteed to end up in any teacher's pocket. Some districts pass those bonuses on directly to the teacher whose performance earned them, but districts have the discretion to distribute that money as they see fit.

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Hey, Millennials! If I’m reading this book correctly it’s about time for your revolution to start. I’m too old and soft for the front lines, but if you need somebody to manage one of your guillotine factories, hit me up.

Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny feels, more than anything, like a call to action. It's not a long read, so easy to recommend to family and friends. In fact I passed my copy on to a colleague moments after finishing it. Its lessons are warnings, and they are clarion calls.

Given the unwholesome realities that I’m absorbing through reading on Substack and in Timothy Snyder’s unsettling On Tyranny which I’m also in progress with, a measure of escapism is called for. Here are my thoughts on A Wizard of Earthsea. You can read them:

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In times like these reading fantasy feels decadent, but what is Christmastime if not a time when decadence can carry us through the darkness?

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I’m going to use this app to post brief book reviews, and I just finished Disaster Nationalism by Richard Seymour, so here you have it. open.substack.com/pub/bryanlin...