Lisa Covert
@covertprof.bsky.social
Historian | Writer | LatAm | Tourism | Disasters | Urban Studies | UNESCO | etc. https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496200389/
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‘Trump wanted to overthrow Maduro during his first term but complained that the US military prevented him from invading so that he could take Venezuela’s oil. He can now claim “mission accomplished”.’
Forrest Hylton on Trump and Venezuela, new on the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
Forrest Hylton on Trump and Venezuela, new on the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
Forrest Hylton | Murder Inc.
US foreign policy in South America used to differ from its approach to Central America and the Caribbean. In the 20th...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 12:10 PM
‘Trump wanted to overthrow Maduro during his first term but complained that the US military prevented him from invading so that he could take Venezuela’s oil. He can now claim “mission accomplished”.’
Forrest Hylton on Trump and Venezuela, new on the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
Forrest Hylton on Trump and Venezuela, new on the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
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Many of you have called or texted to ask my thoughts on the rapidly developing situation in #Venezuela
I hope this blog post helps shed light on where our focus should be in the coming days —> doubleclick.blog/the/
REMEMBER: Talk to Venezuelans about Venezuela!
I hope this blog post helps shed light on where our focus should be in the coming days —> doubleclick.blog/the/
REMEMBER: Talk to Venezuelans about Venezuela!
The Long Road Ahead For Venezuela
Welcome to a special edition of Double Click Newsletter. The following are broad thoughts and analysis of the recent events in Caracas, Venezuela. For full disclosure, the author, now a U.S. Citizen a...
doubleclick.blog
January 4, 2026 at 4:18 AM
Many of you have called or texted to ask my thoughts on the rapidly developing situation in #Venezuela
I hope this blog post helps shed light on where our focus should be in the coming days —> doubleclick.blog/the/
REMEMBER: Talk to Venezuelans about Venezuela!
I hope this blog post helps shed light on where our focus should be in the coming days —> doubleclick.blog/the/
REMEMBER: Talk to Venezuelans about Venezuela!
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finally, we're living through precedented times
January 4, 2026 at 6:56 AM
finally, we're living through precedented times
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There is no plan, gang
January 3, 2026 at 4:48 PM
There is no plan, gang
This is the one thing we can predict 👇
Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
January 3, 2026 at 2:46 PM
This is the one thing we can predict 👇
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I just woke up and am already exhausted.
January 3, 2026 at 11:54 AM
I just woke up and am already exhausted.
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Watch Trump give himself the $50 million reward
January 3, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Watch Trump give himself the $50 million reward
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Good live blog on WTF is going on in Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Good live blog on WTF is going on in Venezuela.
That is one of the hardest parts for me as an educator, to see how much it has affected students' confidence in their own skills and abilities. So many don't believe they can produce something as good as the LLMs.
The other thing about normalizing gAI use in higher ed is that we are teaching our students that they cannot trust their own creativity, their own thoughts and brains, their own skills without having it reshaped/shellacked/transmogrified by LLMs. We’re setting them up for failure and dependence.
December 29, 2025 at 5:00 AM
That is one of the hardest parts for me as an educator, to see how much it has affected students' confidence in their own skills and abilities. So many don't believe they can produce something as good as the LLMs.
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if conservative sociopaths can override faculty governance and professional expertise, you aren't running a university you are running a propaganda factory
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
if conservative sociopaths can override faculty governance and professional expertise, you aren't running a university you are running a propaganda factory
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Yes, this!: "this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning"
I'm finding that I don't have just to change assignments. I have to **abandon my entire teaching strategy**, which has always been built around scaffolded independent projects across the semester.
I'm finding that I don't have just to change assignments. I have to **abandon my entire teaching strategy**, which has always been built around scaffolded independent projects across the semester.
It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
December 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Yes, this!: "this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning"
I'm finding that I don't have just to change assignments. I have to **abandon my entire teaching strategy**, which has always been built around scaffolded independent projects across the semester.
I'm finding that I don't have just to change assignments. I have to **abandon my entire teaching strategy**, which has always been built around scaffolded independent projects across the semester.
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Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social.
I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI.
A few thoughts for your consideration...
I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI.
A few thoughts for your consideration...
Read about Commonsense Guardrails for Using Advanced Technology in Schools aiinstruction.org/sites/defaul...
aiinstruction.org
December 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social.
I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI.
A few thoughts for your consideration...
I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI.
A few thoughts for your consideration...
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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Literally no other discipline is less suited for AI, this is a fucking joke
The AHA has published Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education, offering a disciplinary approach to AI that focuses on the specific needs and challenges of history educators. 🗃️
Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education
These 14 foundational principles are meant to assist educators and administrators in crafting AI policies suited to local circumstances and the specific needs of students.
www.historians.org
August 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Literally no other discipline is less suited for AI, this is a fucking joke
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It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.
We know the students don’t read the syllabuses. So who will? Right-wing activists looking for excuses to hound profs.
December 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.
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"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.
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Clemson University administration's actions in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's killing are an incredible portrait of cowardice, but these days not unusual or unexpected. www.chronicle.com/article/insi...
Inside Clemson U.’s Response to Backlash Over Employees’ Charlie Kirk Posts
Before it fired three people, administrators scrambled to manage demands from the public and politicians, according to records obtained by The Chronicle.
www.chronicle.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Clemson University administration's actions in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's killing are an incredible portrait of cowardice, but these days not unusual or unexpected. www.chronicle.com/article/insi...
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Physical copies arrived! My Conflict and Correspondence with @univnebpress.bsky.social is now out in the world. #mexico #guadalajata #jalisco #history #skystorians #academicsky #urban #city Check it out here: share.google/mkZuTC4aGXLP...
December 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Physical copies arrived! My Conflict and Correspondence with @univnebpress.bsky.social is now out in the world. #mexico #guadalajata #jalisco #history #skystorians #academicsky #urban #city Check it out here: share.google/mkZuTC4aGXLP...
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The New School was founded by Columbia University professors who wanted a university run by the faculty with minimal administration. For over 100 years it has been a unique institution with progressive values and incredible students and faculty from Ai Weiwei to Hannah Arendt. We are devastated.
Last week, the New School issued voluntary separation & early retirement offers to 40% of the full-time faculty & the majority of non-union staff. These cuts to the bone are an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry & social justice. Share our statement tr.ee/qQBIDCpIuj
OFFICIAL Statement from AAUP-TNS on Cuts to Faculty and Staff 12-9-25
The New School - Austerity Cuts to the Bone A Statement from the Leadership Council of AAUP-TNS On December 3, 2025, New School President Joel Towers and Provost Richard Kessler issued voluntary sep...
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December 14, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The New School was founded by Columbia University professors who wanted a university run by the faculty with minimal administration. For over 100 years it has been a unique institution with progressive values and incredible students and faculty from Ai Weiwei to Hannah Arendt. We are devastated.
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Everytime I read something like this it makes me so angry.
The fact that a society has been letting this happen for so long and so often that there are now regularly people who live through a second mass shooting before even finishing their education is the most shocking indictment of US politics
The fact that a society has been letting this happen for so long and so often that there are now regularly people who live through a second mass shooting before even finishing their education is the most shocking indictment of US politics
December 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Everytime I read something like this it makes me so angry.
The fact that a society has been letting this happen for so long and so often that there are now regularly people who live through a second mass shooting before even finishing their education is the most shocking indictment of US politics
The fact that a society has been letting this happen for so long and so often that there are now regularly people who live through a second mass shooting before even finishing their education is the most shocking indictment of US politics
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British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
What a fucked up world we've created
CNN interviewing survivor of Parkland shooting not because it's the anniversary of that tragedy but because she's currently locked down in her dorm at Brown University where at least two have been killed.
December 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
What a fucked up world we've created
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Yes we all agree that this is the reason colleges are in trouble
December 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Yes we all agree that this is the reason colleges are in trouble
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they say there are no teachers or medics in the region and they'll be preventing the army from undertaking eradication of poppy crops while the government doesn't do anything to prevent farmers becoming destitute
Communities in #Guerrero #Mexico say they're going back to growing opium poppy after the withdrawal of the Sembrando Vida program of subsidies to farmers to grow sustainable crops www.reforma.com/pasan-de-sem...
Pasan de Sembrando Vida... a sembrando amapola
Autoridades de 66 comunidades de Guerrero informaron que campesinos regresaron a siembra de amapola tras retiro de programa Sembrando Vida.
www.reforma.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
they say there are no teachers or medics in the region and they'll be preventing the army from undertaking eradication of poppy crops while the government doesn't do anything to prevent farmers becoming destitute