Derek Gottlieb
@derekgottliebphd.com
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I wrote "A Democratic Theory of Educational Accountability," I work at School Perceptions, and I live in Wisconsin.
I wrote "A Democratic Theory of Educational Accountability," I work at School Perceptions, and I live in Wisconsin.
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It really is worth stressing that this "important scholarship" is neither important nor scholarship.
Three generations of law professors making history up is enough.
Scholars spend decades researching and writing history with nuance and care.
American law professors will take a couple of months to relearn all of science to explain why the world is, in fact, flat.
Scholars spend decades researching and writing history with nuance and care.
American law professors will take a couple of months to relearn all of science to explain why the world is, in fact, flat.
January 17, 2026 at 5:00 PM
It really is worth stressing that this "important scholarship" is neither important nor scholarship.
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So many of my students (and myself) have been staying home for our own safety. It doesn’t matter if you have the “right” documentation nor whether or not you’re a citizen.
If you don’t “look” like you belong (i.e. if you’re not a white person), then you’re a target.
If you don’t “look” like you belong (i.e. if you’re not a white person), then you’re a target.
I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
January 17, 2026 at 3:54 PM
So many of my students (and myself) have been staying home for our own safety. It doesn’t matter if you have the “right” documentation nor whether or not you’re a citizen.
If you don’t “look” like you belong (i.e. if you’re not a white person), then you’re a target.
If you don’t “look” like you belong (i.e. if you’re not a white person), then you’re a target.
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who up thinking about the Wilmington massacre and coup
I have become obsessed with civil war history for a lot of reasons but, as I have mentioned before, a big lesson was how the liberal faction of the republican party negotiated themselves out of power, in large part, because of their own personal interest in “getting back to business as usual”
The durability of this particular void is honestly fascinating from a purely sociological perspective.
January 17, 2026 at 5:06 PM
who up thinking about the Wilmington massacre and coup
Listen, the president of the United States doesn’t — and shouldn’t — get to levy tariffs on an arbitrary whim.
Trump says he'll impose a 10% tariff (rising to 25% in June) on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, because they've sent people to Greenland, until the US can buy Greenland.
January 17, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Listen, the president of the United States doesn’t — and shouldn’t — get to levy tariffs on an arbitrary whim.
Solidarity
The powerful Chicago Teachers Union that regularly slams the Trump administration received word on Thursday that its finances are being investigated by a federal agency on top of an already announced inquiry by a Republican-led U.S. House committee.
Chicago Teachers Union leaders question timing of second federal inquiry into finances
www.wbez.org
January 17, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Solidarity
Let’s get reading, with @wewatchwatchers.bsky.social
January 17, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Let’s get reading, with @wewatchwatchers.bsky.social
As of yesterday, the whole 6-episode CHERNOBYL-rewatch podcast @jessicacalarco.com and I have been doing is available. We talk public and private reasons to lie & to go along with lies; we talk about scientific ideals and human messiness; we talk about total systems and fatal flaws. It’s good!
(6) Complicity Is No Protection
Podcast Episode · Control Room · 01/16/2026 · 1h 46m
podcasts.apple.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:32 PM
As of yesterday, the whole 6-episode CHERNOBYL-rewatch podcast @jessicacalarco.com and I have been doing is available. We talk public and private reasons to lie & to go along with lies; we talk about scientific ideals and human messiness; we talk about total systems and fatal flaws. It’s good!
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Current* conditions near Superior, WI:
January 17, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Current* conditions near Superior, WI:
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First big life update of 2026 🫣
I am SO excited to join @endofsportpod.bsky.social as a co-host!!!! Make sure to tune in for both new and familiar content — we’re stoked about our upcoming episodes and plans 👀
@nkalamb.bsky.social @derekcrim.bsky.social @johannamellis.bsky.social
I am SO excited to join @endofsportpod.bsky.social as a co-host!!!! Make sure to tune in for both new and familiar content — we’re stoked about our upcoming episodes and plans 👀
@nkalamb.bsky.social @derekcrim.bsky.social @johannamellis.bsky.social
Out of Left Field: Episode 1
This is the first of bi-weekly conversations between our co-hosts about current issues in sport (and beyond).
In this episode we catch up on the state of the world after our hiatus.
Oh, and we share a podcast-altering announcement. 👀
open.spotify.com/episode/5771...
This is the first of bi-weekly conversations between our co-hosts about current issues in sport (and beyond).
In this episode we catch up on the state of the world after our hiatus.
Oh, and we share a podcast-altering announcement. 👀
open.spotify.com/episode/5771...
January 16, 2026 at 9:33 PM
First big life update of 2026 🫣
I am SO excited to join @endofsportpod.bsky.social as a co-host!!!! Make sure to tune in for both new and familiar content — we’re stoked about our upcoming episodes and plans 👀
@nkalamb.bsky.social @derekcrim.bsky.social @johannamellis.bsky.social
I am SO excited to join @endofsportpod.bsky.social as a co-host!!!! Make sure to tune in for both new and familiar content — we’re stoked about our upcoming episodes and plans 👀
@nkalamb.bsky.social @derekcrim.bsky.social @johannamellis.bsky.social
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workingpartnerships.betterworld.org
January 17, 2026 at 2:37 AM
🚨🚨VERIFIED STRIKE FUND LINK ALERT🚨🚨
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Demonstrations across cities in Denmark, organized by Greenlandic civil organizations.
Directed against the Trump administration and its moves to take over Greenland.
Directed against the Trump administration and its moves to take over Greenland.
January 17, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Demonstrations across cities in Denmark, organized by Greenlandic civil organizations.
Directed against the Trump administration and its moves to take over Greenland.
Directed against the Trump administration and its moves to take over Greenland.
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One question unaddressed in this article. Does Jonathan Haidt still want his kids to go to the University of Austin?
January 17, 2026 at 11:28 AM
One question unaddressed in this article. Does Jonathan Haidt still want his kids to go to the University of Austin?
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ICE raids are not the first time this was made explicit. I think people downplay how much Jim Crow was not just about controlling Black people but it was also about controlling white people. If you thought racism was dumb and acted that way you could end up with a bomb in your home
Just keep coming back to the fact that keeping people in a constant state of terror is a form of mass disablement and essential to the eugenic project that is the United States.
January 17, 2026 at 6:08 AM
ICE raids are not the first time this was made explicit. I think people downplay how much Jim Crow was not just about controlling Black people but it was also about controlling white people. If you thought racism was dumb and acted that way you could end up with a bomb in your home
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"What the people want is very simple--they want an America as good as its promise."
Barbara Jordan, who died on this day in 1996
Barbara Jordan, who died on this day in 1996
January 17, 2026 at 11:29 AM
"What the people want is very simple--they want an America as good as its promise."
Barbara Jordan, who died on this day in 1996
Barbara Jordan, who died on this day in 1996
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Relatedly something a lot of people often forget is that substantively speaking it's not really that hard to be right on the merits about an issue (for example: Palestine) even if you don't identify as left-wing. CVH is as capital L Liberal as it comes and he's the best senator on the issue.
Spanberger is centrist but also clearly genuinely thinks Republicans are scum and for that she deserves plaudits
Wow
The night before Spanberger’s inauguration
She’s cleared house at UVA
Top Youngkin appointees resign
Spanberger should be able to easily replace them given Dem trifecta
The former CIA officer asserting her control
The night before Spanberger’s inauguration
She’s cleared house at UVA
Top Youngkin appointees resign
Spanberger should be able to easily replace them given Dem trifecta
The former CIA officer asserting her control
January 17, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Relatedly something a lot of people often forget is that substantively speaking it's not really that hard to be right on the merits about an issue (for example: Palestine) even if you don't identify as left-wing. CVH is as capital L Liberal as it comes and he's the best senator on the issue.
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Yes. Do you know how many families are being supported by their neighbors right now? Families afraid to leave home being fed by their neighborhoods; immigrant communities feeding the old hippies standing on their street corners with whistles in 10-degree snowstorms. They cannot break us
Is everyone in MN a hero?
January 17, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Yes. Do you know how many families are being supported by their neighbors right now? Families afraid to leave home being fed by their neighborhoods; immigrant communities feeding the old hippies standing on their street corners with whistles in 10-degree snowstorms. They cannot break us
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Tylenol during pregnancy is safe without increased risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability of offspring
A new review of the evidence just out
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
A new review of the evidence just out
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
January 16, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Tylenol during pregnancy is safe without increased risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability of offspring
A new review of the evidence just out
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
A new review of the evidence just out
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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"Welcome, protect, promote, and integrate."
"The Church has always recognized in migrants a living presence of the Lord who, on the day of judgment, will say to those on his right: I was a stranger and you welcomed me” (Mt 25:35).
Pope Leo XIV, Dilexi Te
Pope Leo XIV, Dilexi Te
January 17, 2026 at 2:30 AM
"Welcome, protect, promote, and integrate."
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While our first 5 episodes stuck pretty closely to the series, the 6th is the one where @derekgottliebphd.com and I get into the bigger questions Chernobyl can answer, including about how the fascism in the US right now is rooted in both new and old lies.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/6...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/6...
(6) Complicity Is No Protection
Podcast Episode · Control Room · 01/16/2026 · 1h 46m
podcasts.apple.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:31 PM
While our first 5 episodes stuck pretty closely to the series, the 6th is the one where @derekgottliebphd.com and I get into the bigger questions Chernobyl can answer, including about how the fascism in the US right now is rooted in both new and old lies.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/6...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/6...
It's late on a Friday, but I just put up the 6th and final episode in this(?) season(?) of the Control Room project @jessicacalarco.com and I have been working on--where we reflect on Chernobyl as a whole and talk A LOT about the present state of things here, too. Which is, tbc, the cost of lies.
(6) Complicity Is No Protection
Podcast Episode · Control Room · 01/16/2026 · 1h 46m
podcasts.apple.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:41 PM
It's late on a Friday, but I just put up the 6th and final episode in this(?) season(?) of the Control Room project @jessicacalarco.com and I have been working on--where we reflect on Chernobyl as a whole and talk A LOT about the present state of things here, too. Which is, tbc, the cost of lies.
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I find it necessary these days to affirm the obvious because the descent into fascism is mostly a continuous, not discrete, process so here it goes:
these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.
these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.
It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.
ICE agents to begin checking documents at MSP airport, patrol jet bridges - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will begin checking documents of travelers and workers at MSP airport, with patrols inside jet bridges.
www.bizjournals.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:29 PM
I find it necessary these days to affirm the obvious because the descent into fascism is mostly a continuous, not discrete, process so here it goes:
these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.
these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.
I am once again begging everyone to understand that a budget surplus does not signify fiscal responsibility but irresponsible underinvestment.
Analysis Adds $1 Billion To State Budget Surplus
Analysis Adds $1 Billion To State Budget Surplus
The numbers come as both parties are putting the finishing touches on their 2026 campaign agendas.
urbanmilwaukee.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:03 PM
I am once again begging everyone to understand that a budget surplus does not signify fiscal responsibility but irresponsible underinvestment.
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All the tanks sprung spontaneously and directly from the Marxist murals that Diego Rivera created for the Ford Motor Company that are now in the Detroit art museum
January 16, 2026 at 5:59 PM
All the tanks sprung spontaneously and directly from the Marxist murals that Diego Rivera created for the Ford Motor Company that are now in the Detroit art museum
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“If only Comrade Stalin knew, he’d stop the purges!”
“BAD ADVICE.” Republicans are embracing a method to criticize Trump’s actions without calling him out
Blame advisers.
Threaten Greenland? Just “bad advice.”
Tariffs? “It’s not the president,” it’s Navarro.
Investigating Powell, credit card rates… List is long.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Blame advisers.
Threaten Greenland? Just “bad advice.”
Tariffs? “It’s not the president,” it’s Navarro.
Investigating Powell, credit card rates… List is long.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
'Bad advice': Republicans criticize Trump's policies without going directly at him
Republicans frequently say those around Trump are giving him "bad advice" as a way to disagree with his policies while avoiding blaming him.
www.nbcnews.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:15 PM
“If only Comrade Stalin knew, he’d stop the purges!”