Instead of funding our schools and our teachers, we are prioritizing a multi-billion-dollar war that has no end date. More in my oped for TIME time.com/article/2026...
Surprise, surprise! The Vanderbilt report decrying the state of scholarship in the humanities is itself a terrible work of “scholarship“:
Asheesh Kapur Siddique
Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
What in the Baudrillard is happening with that picture of the White House in front of the White House
Me after a few beers talking to my normie dad friends about America: “Yeah, but like—I’d argue Trump isn’t a political aberration as much as he’s a symptom of a longer standing decline of American empire blah blah”
Me after a few beers watching the #USMNT with my normie dad friends: “WOO AMURICA!!”
I feel like Bluesky is one of the few places where people might relate to this sentiment. 😅
Don’t want to jinx but the USMNT looks… good? And not in like a “Yeehaw! Donovan, Deuce, and the boys are playing with their hearts on their sleeve!” kind of way. Like technically and tactically we know what we’re doing. This feels very odd. I’m scared to like it.
"Guilt is not a fruitful basis for political renewal, any more than moral superiority, which is often only the mirror image of guilt...What exhortations have the power to call forth... conscience and responsibility?"
Ehrenreich
It’s pretty wild how many of the worst ideas from edu-consultants, admin, central office types, etc. are microwaved managerial approaches from the corporate world that have long past their expiration date. The MBA-ification of everything is seriously a scourge.
