@liznicholson.bsky.social
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During this period of communal grief our most pressing spiritual work is to end Israel’s siege of Gaza and affirm the dignity and beauty of Palestinian life.
In the words of Hillel, if not NOW, when?
In the words of Hillel, if not NOW, when?
July 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
During this period of communal grief our most pressing spiritual work is to end Israel’s siege of Gaza and affirm the dignity and beauty of Palestinian life.
In the words of Hillel, if not NOW, when?
In the words of Hillel, if not NOW, when?
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Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.
![Reading Scenario Experiments. This series of prompts is designed to get you thinking about how the setting for reading affects concentration, comprehension, and even the existential experience of reading. Every week, one of the following prompts will appear on the syllabus. I encourage you to try all of them that you are able. How does a different reading setting affect your mood? Your receptiveness to the prose? Your pleasure or difficulty reading? What are the particular impacts of changing your lighting or surroundings? What do you notice about yourself and about the work you are reading during this experiment?
1. read by candlelight (use a small lamp in dorms where no candles are allowed!)
2. read for one hour without checking any devices, answering texts, etc.
3. walk out into nature (climb a tree, sit on a rock, grab a spot in a hammock) and read
4. host a reading night with friends & food (sit in companionable silence, reading without chatting)
5. read aloud a chapter to someone else
6. climb into bed at night and read by flashlight under the covers for at least 30 minutes, as if you’ve already been told “lights out” as a kid
7. reread a chapter and see what new things you notice the second time through
8. change your ambient-noise level: add music if you normally read in the quiet; or read without music if you are normally a music-listener
9. read with a sketchpad at hand and sketch scenes, characters, or other elements from the story
10. practice focused listening: have someone read to you
11. make yourself a special, fancy snack on a real plate to nibble while eating: pay attention to the cooking or arranging or choosing of ingredients to make it especially appetizing first
12. make tea (even if you’re not usually a tea drinker), and read and sip
13. invent a new reading scenario for yourself, or repeat the one you liked the best from this term
[writing assignment using these prompts follows; text character limit prevents inclusion of it in full]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rfs7afx6ue4mknbhhpnrzkyz/bafkreiel77b25truczj372qokmg5p3apa2dphux3jtplpz3dv35jul6wdu@jpeg)
July 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.
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“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington
May 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington
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The House GOP snuck a provision into the budget bill that would strip away any consequences for officials who defy a judge’s ruling. It’s yet another attack on what @judgeluttig.bsky.social says is “the last obstacle to a president with designs on tyrannical rule.” Luttig joins @ 11aET #Velshi
May 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The House GOP snuck a provision into the budget bill that would strip away any consequences for officials who defy a judge’s ruling. It’s yet another attack on what @judgeluttig.bsky.social says is “the last obstacle to a president with designs on tyrannical rule.” Luttig joins @ 11aET #Velshi
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Kaitlin Curtice’s Living Resistance is about the many connections that exist across time, distance, and space. Her concern is that we are letting those connections wither to the detriment of us all. And so we must resist in all ways possible.
REVIEWED: Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day
A steady refrain in Kaitlin Curtice's new book is “I am a human being. I am always arriving.”
www.friendsjournal.org
April 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Kaitlin Curtice’s Living Resistance is about the many connections that exist across time, distance, and space. Her concern is that we are letting those connections wither to the detriment of us all. And so we must resist in all ways possible.
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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
April 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
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A professor of environmental sciences gives a quick punchy take on the "eye-popping" numbers re. how clean air promotes economic growth.
An EPA analysis of 20 years of the Clean Air Act (1970-90) found the economic benefits of the regulations were about 42X greater than the costs.
No pay wall.
An EPA analysis of 20 years of the Clean Air Act (1970-90) found the economic benefits of the regulations were about 42X greater than the costs.
No pay wall.
America’s clean air rules boost health and the economy − here’s what EPA’s new deregulation plans ignore
Clean air has become one of America’s best investments, returning $10 for every $1 spent on regulations, by one estimate.
theconversation.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A professor of environmental sciences gives a quick punchy take on the "eye-popping" numbers re. how clean air promotes economic growth.
An EPA analysis of 20 years of the Clean Air Act (1970-90) found the economic benefits of the regulations were about 42X greater than the costs.
No pay wall.
An EPA analysis of 20 years of the Clean Air Act (1970-90) found the economic benefits of the regulations were about 42X greater than the costs.
No pay wall.
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I talked with Nikki Marín Baena about community defense and how we can organize in opposition to Trump’s mass deportation agenda. If you want to defend your community and your immigrant neighbors, this episode can serve as a resource.
Fight Fear, Build Power: Community Defense Works
“This kind of repression, part of its intention is to isolate people,” says organizer Nikki Marín Baena.
truthout.org
March 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I talked with Nikki Marín Baena about community defense and how we can organize in opposition to Trump’s mass deportation agenda. If you want to defend your community and your immigrant neighbors, this episode can serve as a resource.