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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

May all your public infrastructure be mostly boring, very convenient, completely accessible, and just a little bit cheeky. (Do Cleveland public transit next!)

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Ohioans, take note.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Due to America’s history, the path for working class liberation is the path of Black liberation. There has been no greater working class fight than abolishing chattel slavery. The laws that hurt working class Americans are often rooted in & pushed forward by anti-Blackness.

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

I wrote about Musk and this bureaucratic coup as plainly as I could. There's reporting in here & the particulars are overwhelming but what's happening is so clear: He's not trying to run the federal govt like a software company He's trying to turn it into a political weapon. (gift link)

submitted 19 days ago • 93 comments

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

submitted 19 days ago • 505 comments

🎵Musk eats the sun and drinks the skies, / and they both go with him when he dies🎵

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

"Ohio GOP can do what it wants — including duping its supporters. By Ray Marcano

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What is happening at the CDC, NIH, NSF, and the federal government writ large is very familiar. It's a book burning. A late night post from me for @sequencermag.bsky.social. www.sequencermag.com/this-is-a-bo...

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

Fixed it

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

So, Geauga Sheriff has 20 ppl detained for ICE in his jail but doesn't know "where the detainees came from or where the raids occurred." Uh -- don't you want to know who is in your jail? Why is Geauga assisting mass deportation? "Civil detention" is still JAIL. Ugly. fox8.com/news/fears-o...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Bishop Budde's most recent book, How We Learn to Be Brave, is currently sold out everywhere I looked online. 🔥

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

“You don’t have to be a person of faith to trust that innate human capacity to channel love, goodness, and real strength into our own lives and into the world.” A conversation with Reverend Mariann Budde.

submitted 27 days ago • 32 comments

JFC.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

This is very good news.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

The bill also includes a required a civics and capitalism course with required reading that includes King's letter from the Birmingham Jail, which I can't imagine OH Senator Cirino has read recently. Or if he has, he did not read it carefully or with much reflection...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

These are my marching orders going forward.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

We're new here! Learn more about us and our free writing conference! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om-u...

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Jules Feiffer, 1974

submitted 34 days ago • 14 comments

Regarding all this [gestures indiscriminately], it occurs to me that I'm going to have Irving from Severance saying "You smug motherf*cker" playing on a loop in my head for at least the next four years.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

A teacher and student discovered a recording of the speech in the Glenville HS school library in 2011.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen." — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

submitted 33 days ago • 9 comments

I remain convinced that we’ve “solved” teaching and learning, broadly construed, but continue to exist in crisis because people don’t like the fact that the solution is labor intensive and therefore expensive.

submitted 35 days ago • 5 comments

I'm not on TikTok (I burn out on short-form video almost immediately), but I'm sympathetic to the people who have found flourishing communities there. What would it look like to imagine platforms that help build these communities w/o bad-faith broligarchs and Ozymandians? Can it even be done?

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Ohio needs a complete leadership reset. An one that doesn't involve Vivek Ramaswamy.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Huffman's stated "accountability measure" for private schools is that Ed Choice vouchers costs less per student than the investment per student at public schools. That sounds less like an accountability measure and more like a basic misunderstanding of what the word "accountability" means.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Grab your mithril, Frodo. This sounds like a call for an inter-departmental Fellowship of the AI-Resistance.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Secondary Ed Lamplighters, ASSEMBLE. I read this essay this weekend, and I can't stop thinking about it. This is the creative writing pedagogy energy I have missed since I left grad school and had to leave my precious university writing center behind.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

I teared up a bit when I read the news yesterday. @amyactonoh.bsky.social is the definition of compassionate, coalition-oriented leadership. Ohio needs a leader like this, and I can't wait to support her.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Fantastic reporting from @morgantrau.bsky.social.

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Fantastic writing from @ceilidhann.bsky.social: "... there is sport in the systemic degradation of an entire gender, and it’s not a battle divided along those lines. It’s easy to make women hate women, if only because the smothering fog of patriarchy is something we’re all forced to breathe in."

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

I've been significantly bummed out by the number of teachers I've talked to who've dabbled with GenAI because they feel pressure to adopt (or identify as "early adopters"). My PD for next school year is supposedly designed around "understanding AI in Ed." I understand it perfectly: it's a grift.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

And now I need to know if @jowrotethis.bsky.social has read this book!

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Random appreciation post: The final essay in Magical/Realism from @vanessid.bsky.social is the best piece of cultural criticism I've read this year (and gave me yet another reason to love Jon Snow). Her words are invigorating and a showcase of the reasons why the humanities are vital.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

It’s private equity all the way down.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.

submitted 57 days ago • 106 comments

GenAI is theft.

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