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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Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject
you can’t be putting this in the paper (gift link but i do not recommend you use it www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...)
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject
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@anya1anya.bsky.social wants "to speak to families who are struggling, or have struggled—including through the courts—to get their kids the 'free, appropriate public education' guaranteed by federal law. If this describes your family or you work with families like this, please get in touch..."
How Do You Live In Time?
Are you seizing the moment so hard you choke the life out of it?
thegoldenhour.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
@anya1anya.bsky.social wants "to speak to families who are struggling, or have struggled—including through the courts—to get their kids the 'free, appropriate public education' guaranteed by federal law. If this describes your family or you work with families like this, please get in touch..."
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This insanity is going to pass (not tomorrow but eventually) and at that point there has to be real accountability for these institutions and decision-makers; at this level, it will likely be social and interpersonal more than anything
"The professor will no longer be able to teach a class on diversity after she showed students a diagram that included the 'Make America Great Again' slogan as an example of white supremacy."
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This insanity is going to pass (not tomorrow but eventually) and at that point there has to be real accountability for these institutions and decision-makers; at this level, it will likely be social and interpersonal more than anything
Is this the crisis of masculinity I keep hearing about?
This is good reporting and all that but here's the thing I learned the other day: Bill Pulte, the 50-year-mortgage dude and the guy who keeps pulling the mortgage docs of Trump's enemies is only 37 years old.
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
Exclusive | Fannie Mae Watchdogs Probed How Pulte Obtained Mortgage Records of Key Democrats
FHFA’s acting inspector general handed the probe report to the U.S. attorney office that had indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James.
www.wsj.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Is this the crisis of masculinity I keep hearing about?
Jen Steele is the best
OPINION: "The good news is that soft skills can be taught in tandem with traditional subjects such as math and reading—those areas for which teachers are held accountable—using techniques teachers already know," Jennifer L. Steele writes.
Opinion | Kids Need Stronger Soft Skills in the Age of AI
Jennifer L. Steele writes that teachers still have tools to teach children soft skills even as artificial intelligence becomes more popular.
buff.ly
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Jen Steele is the best
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
This is good and accurate.
“Deporting immigrants to make room for “real” Americans is therefore both about a belief that only certain types of people can be American in the first place and a demand that these authentic Americans be provided an array of nostalgic comforts through government largess.”
Don’t Build Housing, Just Deport People: The Nativist Right Recoils at Trump’s 50-Year Mortgage Proposal
The backlash against Trump's proposal reveals the characteristics of his base's reactionary housing politics.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This is good and accurate.
Dad goals
My 9yo told me he’d done his homework at the daycare. I told him this was impossible. He showed me his finished work. I told him the problem was conceptual not empirical. Now he’s annoyed at me.
November 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Dad goals
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I'm facilitating a causal inference reading group next semester for Sociology PhD students. (I will also be learning!) If there are (1) pedagogical articles or (2) empirical examples in soc that you ❤️, will you share in the comments? [And please RT to help me crowd-source!]
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I'm facilitating a causal inference reading group next semester for Sociology PhD students. (I will also be learning!) If there are (1) pedagogical articles or (2) empirical examples in soc that you ❤️, will you share in the comments? [And please RT to help me crowd-source!]
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it's good for the world that this is happening but man I hate that it has to happen so much
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 12, 2025 at 7:51 AM
it's good for the world that this is happening but man I hate that it has to happen so much
Reading this, I did think about asking some AI engine to generate an image of Jacques Rancière donning Joker makeup, but the layers of cynical irony would have been suffocating
The artist, who said similar stunts he had carried out at Bristol Museum and Tate Modern were not "approved, sanctioned, or acknowledged", denied it was vandalism.
"The work isn't about disruption. It's about participation without permission," he said.
"The work isn't about disruption. It's about participation without permission," he said.
Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery - BBC News
A visitor who noticed the piece says staff "admitted they had no idea about the piece or when it arrived".
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Reading this, I did think about asking some AI engine to generate an image of Jacques Rancière donning Joker makeup, but the layers of cynical irony would have been suffocating
What in god’s name possessed me to rewatch The Big Short the other day
November 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
What in god’s name possessed me to rewatch The Big Short the other day
Who the fuck thinks that workers who hate their jobs are what we need?
Sean Duffy: "what this country needs is fewer air traffic controllers, and for those who do show up to work to be demoralized"
Sean Duffy threatens "action" against air traffic controllers who didn't come to work during the shutdown: "I'm concerned about their patriotism."
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Who the fuck thinks that workers who hate their jobs are what we need?
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This is why the anti-trans political project is a form of hyperpolitics: only rarely is there an explicit articulation of What Is To Be Done, Who Will Do It, and To Whom. The almost-always implicit conclusion is the long arm of the state must crush trans people in both body and spirit, completely
There's a question here that I don't think a lot of people want to ask, because the answer is just too grim to contemplate, and that's how is this murder not a policy victory for the British government? Is this not the intended outcome of smearing trans people as dangerous predators?
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This is why the anti-trans political project is a form of hyperpolitics: only rarely is there an explicit articulation of What Is To Be Done, Who Will Do It, and To Whom. The almost-always implicit conclusion is the long arm of the state must crush trans people in both body and spirit, completely
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A little piece of good news. There will have to be more like this: institutions of civil society, academia, and expertise separating from the state.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Dismantled by DOGE, a Foreign Policy Center Finds New Life
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
A little piece of good news. There will have to be more like this: institutions of civil society, academia, and expertise separating from the state.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
@lastpositivist.bsky.social A couple weeks ago, you posted a new(?) journal article that maybe referenced your own work, but whose main thrust was to say that an epistemological standpoit was an achieved thing rather than a passive inheritance, I think. I cannot remember author/title. Can you help?
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
@lastpositivist.bsky.social A couple weeks ago, you posted a new(?) journal article that maybe referenced your own work, but whose main thrust was to say that an epistemological standpoit was an achieved thing rather than a passive inheritance, I think. I cannot remember author/title. Can you help?
I had this EXACT thought when I read JCO’s thing the first time. From Book 4:
![And like a devillish Engine back recoiles
Upon himself; horror and doubt distract
His troubl'd thoughts, and from the bottom stirr
The Hell within him, for within him Hell [ 20 ]
He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell
One step no more then from himself can fly
By change of place: Now conscience wakes despair
That slumberd, wakes the bitter memorie
Of what he was, what is, and what must be [ 25 ]
Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue.
Sometimes towards Eden which now in his view
Lay pleasant, his grievd look he fixes sad,
Sometimes towards Heav'n and the full-blazing Sun,
Which now sat high in his Meridian Towre: [ 30 ]
Then much revolving, thus in sighs began.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aq3fbtkejgdsygy75f522kju/bafkreica55je53wevwe6xhlss6jjwm6wpgtzqbdes4uo4k4dkinvuafzji@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I had this EXACT thought when I read JCO’s thing the first time. From Book 4:
You don’t stand up to Trump because it WORKS. You do it, at the very minimum, simply because this horseshit is the alternative.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
You don’t stand up to Trump because it WORKS. You do it, at the very minimum, simply because this horseshit is the alternative.
In the form of Nietzsche’s “There is only one true Christian, and he died on the cross,” I just want to say
There is only one true performative reader, and it’s Gavin Newsome
There is only one true performative reader, and it’s Gavin Newsome
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
In the form of Nietzsche’s “There is only one true Christian, and he died on the cross,” I just want to say
There is only one true performative reader, and it’s Gavin Newsome
There is only one true performative reader, and it’s Gavin Newsome
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“at least 20 of the nation’s 25 most populous cities have reported budget gaps for fiscal year 2026—and often beyond—based on a review by The Pew Charitable Trusts of news reports, budget documents, and communications with city officials.” www.pew.org/en/research-...
Big Cities Face Deficits: Should States Worry?
Fiscal stress in the U.S.’ largest cities is widespread. In a five-month span from December 2024 to April 2025, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington all experienced credit rating downgr...
www.pew.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
“at least 20 of the nation’s 25 most populous cities have reported budget gaps for fiscal year 2026—and often beyond—based on a review by The Pew Charitable Trusts of news reports, budget documents, and communications with city officials.” www.pew.org/en/research-...
Called Tammy Baldwin, the literal least I could do
Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.)
Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.),
Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),
Jon Ossoff (Ga.),
Gary Peters (Mich.) Dick Durbin (Ill.)
the Democrats who are are considered by R's as possible “yes” votes for the deal.
Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.),
Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),
Jon Ossoff (Ga.),
Gary Peters (Mich.) Dick Durbin (Ill.)
the Democrats who are are considered by R's as possible “yes” votes for the deal.
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Called Tammy Baldwin, the literal least I could do
Whewwwww
Trump and Hegseth booed mercilessly for 2 minutes straight tonight by Washington Commanders fans.
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Whewwwww
New life purpose
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
New life purpose
My dad has childhood stories involving snakes in the outhouse
15 percent of American homes lacked indoor plumbing in 1960.
The idea that everyone in 1955 America lived in a split-level suburban home with two cars and three kids and one income is, quite simply, a fantasy borne of media consumption.
The idea that everyone in 1955 America lived in a split-level suburban home with two cars and three kids and one income is, quite simply, a fantasy borne of media consumption.
November 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
My dad has childhood stories involving snakes in the outhouse