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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NEW: Mike Rogers is campaigning against Abdul el-Sayed based on what el-Sayed supporter Hasan Piker has said. But who's looking at the anti-American radicals supporting Rogers? They’re not hard to find. I found some because I’ve already reported on them.

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Rogers Touts Backer Who’s “Not Necessarily” on America’s Side

“Whose side do we wanna be on?” backer of GOP Senate candidate asked, “Not the United States of America, necessarily.”

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The idea that classrooms are chiefly spaces for product testing, and that it is irresponsible pedagogy not to enforce this, is both cynical and vile, and “fuck off” is a cogent response from any professional educator to any non-teaching salescreep or tech-but-not-subject-matter expert who voices it.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 05/09/2026

We are told that humanities majors are dropping; hence universities don’t hire tenure line humanities faculty. Yet, computer science has lost colossal #s of majors; by the logic applied to humanities, one would expect a corresponding drop in tenure-line positions. But is this happening?

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

OK. @jamellebouie.net has a great takedown of our pundit class. Exhibit 1 is David Brooks. Guess what? Yale just hired him to teach undergrads. 1/ youtu.be/46tpqFxfomI?...

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The pundits have completely lost the plot

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Substack @substack.com · 22/07/2026

From empires to coups, from propaganda to Native history, Jermaine Fowler of The Humanity Archive offers a reading list of books that will make you "impossible to lie to" thehumanityarchive.substack.com/p/these-his...

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These History Books Will Make You Impossible to Lie To

How power actually works, who got erased, and where we go next. Mainstream history can be rewritten. The books on the shelf in your house cannot.

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

My parents are in their 70s and are struggling because everything is an app or online in some way.

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Of course Finley wrote this trash.

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Fantastic piece. Cogent, emotional, and infuriating for those of us who try to explain to others the glorious and frustrating complexity of the past.

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Suspicious of this. It sounds like grading is being reduced to a checklist rather than an evaluation of student work. Sure, it's great if a student cited 12 articles in an assignment, but did they demonstrate that they understood those articles and how they fit together?

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Since when has the "entirety of the left" in this country not been positive about this nation's history, culture, etc? Could you provide specific, concrete examples?

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

What the everloving FUCK is this!?

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

If you're one of Sorsby's teammates this year, how on Earth do you trust him? How could you not be suspicious, even just in the back of your mind, with every pick, every missed receiver, every sack taken?

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I tired using AI for PowerPoints once or twice, and it absolutely is not as simple as putting in a single prompt and getting the complete, polished slide deck you want. Save yourself time and do it yourself.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

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🦌 The Deer Whisperer 🦌 @thedeerwhisperer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Mt St Helens May 18, 1980 I just cannot imagine what seeing this would've been like. The person who took this photo had to abandon their car and escape with the motorcycle. 📸Richard Lasher

A Pinto with a motorcycle and a volcano erupting down the road

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Is this the same meeting in which they voted to raise the president's salary by a million dollars?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Not pictured: End Times Fascism, Taylor & Klein and Expulsions by Saskia Sassen. About a 1/3 way through.

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

What an embarrassment this Court is.

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is smart thinking from the Dems. Everyone knows Trump and his cronies will try to interfere in some way, shape, or form in the midterms, so why not plan ahead and have strategies in place to counter such interference?

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

For me this is the most insidious aspect of AI.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This passage citing the work of Jonathan Haidt in the Yale Report is instructive. For a group pushing "intellectual pluralism," it is notable that it doesn't mention the widespread criticism of the book, such as the reviewer in Nature who bluntly said his argument "is not supported by science."

In the fall of 2025, NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt visited Yale as a Presidential Lecturer and presented the research behind his book The Anxious Generation, which documents the effects of smartphones and social media on adolescent mental health, attention, and social development. Haidt’s visit helped to inspire a conversation among faculty and students about the fundamental shift that has taken place in the relationship between technology and learning.47

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The Yale report on trust in higher education has some good recommendations for reforms in many areas that I hope Yale and other schools implement. But its diagnosis is oddly silent about what I suspect is the most important force driving the decline in trust in higher education: political attack.

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I'm sorry, but you simply cannot use the English language this way. You can't put "too many" and "chocolate chip cookies" in the same sentence, unless that sentence is "There's no such thing as too many chocolate chip cookies."

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

In his @status.news newsletter @oliverdarcy.bsky.social reports the White House got Getty to delete this photo (from a Thanksgiving White House PHOTO-OP STUNT) because Karoline Leavitt was offended It ran only in a Swiss newspaper. It would be a shame if you retweeted and Streisanded it

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Sometimes I think about how antagonists are treated in movies and TV shows. How they often never face any legal consequences but are rather killed or die in some karmic way. And how that trains us to expect consequences will just happen to the unjust instead of being imposed through elections or law

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

What caused them to make such a threat Karoline? WHAT CAUSED THEM TO DO THAT!?!

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The more this fascist regime sinks its tentacles into everything the more I think something bigger than No Kings protests will be needed. Something like this.

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I once had a student who thought $300,000 per year wasn't that much money.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

This simply repeats the same nonsense talking points: AI isn't going anywhere, if you use it "the right way" you'll actually learn more! Shameful on NPR's part.

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Second. AI is not inevitable. We can make different choices. We have agency here.

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Guys listen: don't call this the Epstein Administration. Please do not call Trump's second term the Epstein Administration. He's getting really mad about it being called the Epstein Administration. Epstein. Administration.

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Both the college and pro football seasons ended the way they should've ended.

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

You're not gonna convince me that if Bo Nix hadn't gotten hurt Denver doesn't win that game and we're watching a Denver/Seattle match up right now.

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

This makes slap boxing look smart.

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

You're literally both sides-ing an armed occupation of an American city and the murder of innocent people by agents of the state. Both sides don't need to back down, ICE/CBP/DHS need to get the fuck out Mnpl and every other city they're in.

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

So if you film ICE/CBP shooting someone your face will be all over the place, but if you're the officer doing the shooting you can still hide behind a mask, got it.

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Prof. J @historyprofj.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Maybe don't abduct five year-old kids, use them as bait, and then send them to a detention facility without their family and you can pee in peace.

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