I’m getting news alerts like this, when the media should instead be asking “can the right manage its own reactive violence?”

There are actually more guns in America… than there are Americans

James Dobson is dead, and in case anyone is not familiar with his influence on Christian Evangelicalism, here is a small sampling

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Like 3 months ago the “know your rights” advice about things like administrative vs legal warrants was the main word being spread re: ICE raids. That seems completely moot now as masked agents who won’t even identify themselves as agents are hauling people off and arresting/punishing bystanders

Apple News is wild for putting these two news items side by side in my notification. They really don’t get it

A thing that's been killing me lately is seeing the AI's summary note at the end of a student's assignment submission

My mother-in-law: Why does it cost $400 for 14 pills?

Me:

Yet more evidence of how teachers operate as oppressors

Parable of the Sower Day! I have found it important to ground myself in what Octavia Butler saw, in her own prescient way, about the political world she was living in (don’t forget the past!), in addition to reflecting on her forward-thinking vision for how we can survive what is ahead of us

This is my Goodreads review of Vance’s book from two years ago

Right! None of us should need Biden to say a single disingenuous word right now. Or as Baldwin once put it -

I work with some high school students who wanted to make a zine. Here are some highlights from Anti Fascist Textbook Vol. 1

This part on election 2024:

Happy shoe day to all who celebrate

…like making it easier for us to breathe