Elizabeth G
@elizabethmg.bsky.social
Born in Boston, raised on the Gulf Coast. Californian by choice for more decades than my students have been alive. Dyke nerd. (Almost) terminal English major (academe joke). Proud union member/ white co-conspirator. Star Wars fan as of 77, now w/Magic Key
Just canceled my Washington Post subscription as a direct result of their “editorial board’s” decision to carry water for this White House’s immoral and illegal decision.
It’s a good thing my mother didn’t live to see this day. She was a huge fan of the Post’s work on Watergate.
It’s a good thing my mother didn’t live to see this day. She was a huge fan of the Post’s work on Watergate.
January 4, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Just canceled my Washington Post subscription as a direct result of their “editorial board’s” decision to carry water for this White House’s immoral and illegal decision.
It’s a good thing my mother didn’t live to see this day. She was a huge fan of the Post’s work on Watergate.
It’s a good thing my mother didn’t live to see this day. She was a huge fan of the Post’s work on Watergate.
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My mom: Why are there only white kids in the IU marching band?
Me: …
Mom: There are black kids who go to IU!
Me: Mom, if you live in Indianapolis and you are good at marching band and think of going to IU, Grambling comes in the night and knocks you into sense.
Me: …
Mom: There are black kids who go to IU!
Me: Mom, if you live in Indianapolis and you are good at marching band and think of going to IU, Grambling comes in the night and knocks you into sense.
January 1, 2026 at 10:48 PM
My mom: Why are there only white kids in the IU marching band?
Me: …
Mom: There are black kids who go to IU!
Me: Mom, if you live in Indianapolis and you are good at marching band and think of going to IU, Grambling comes in the night and knocks you into sense.
Me: …
Mom: There are black kids who go to IU!
Me: Mom, if you live in Indianapolis and you are good at marching band and think of going to IU, Grambling comes in the night and knocks you into sense.
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Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
You know what I really wish the world at large understood about academia? (And by world at large I mean doctor’s offices and car insurance companies and any other business that expects everyone to be able to sit at a desk and wait for a phone call or to take a random weekday morning off?)
December 13, 2025 at 6:16 AM
You know what I really wish the world at large understood about academia? (And by world at large I mean doctor’s offices and car insurance companies and any other business that expects everyone to be able to sit at a desk and wait for a phone call or to take a random weekday morning off?)
You know what I love about Bluesky? I just for my video game/Star Wars news from a post from @elienyc.bsky.social , political and justice writer from
_The Nation_.
Also, other nerds: go watch the Fate of the Old Republic trailer. It’s amazing. I got chills.
I mean, I am biased, but still.
_The Nation_.
Also, other nerds: go watch the Fate of the Old Republic trailer. It’s amazing. I got chills.
I mean, I am biased, but still.
December 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
You know what I love about Bluesky? I just for my video game/Star Wars news from a post from @elienyc.bsky.social , political and justice writer from
_The Nation_.
Also, other nerds: go watch the Fate of the Old Republic trailer. It’s amazing. I got chills.
I mean, I am biased, but still.
_The Nation_.
Also, other nerds: go watch the Fate of the Old Republic trailer. It’s amazing. I got chills.
I mean, I am biased, but still.
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Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.
Time Magazine puts the "architects of AI" on its Person of the Year cover time.com/7339685/pers...
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
youtu.be/Tq-KqQXy4LE
Mamdani may be mayor elect for NYC, but his video is as good as the presentation we had years ago on campus. Everyone who cares about overreach by ICE and border patrol should watch. Includes images of warrants ICE may duplicitously use and the ones that do let ICE in legally.
Mamdani may be mayor elect for NYC, but his video is as good as the presentation we had years ago on campus. Everyone who cares about overreach by ICE and border patrol should watch. Includes images of warrants ICE may duplicitously use and the ones that do let ICE in legally.
Know Your Rights When Dealing With ICE
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 6:55 AM
youtu.be/Tq-KqQXy4LE
Mamdani may be mayor elect for NYC, but his video is as good as the presentation we had years ago on campus. Everyone who cares about overreach by ICE and border patrol should watch. Includes images of warrants ICE may duplicitously use and the ones that do let ICE in legally.
Mamdani may be mayor elect for NYC, but his video is as good as the presentation we had years ago on campus. Everyone who cares about overreach by ICE and border patrol should watch. Includes images of warrants ICE may duplicitously use and the ones that do let ICE in legally.
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This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
Would have been nice if Sen /Dr Cassidy had listened to folks who warned that RFK Jr was likely to do this before Cassidy ensured RFK’s confirmation.
Late to the conclusion is slightly better than never.
When the reckoning comes in the future, I’d still like to talk about leopards eating faces.
Late to the conclusion is slightly better than never.
When the reckoning comes in the future, I’d still like to talk about leopards eating faces.
December 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Would have been nice if Sen /Dr Cassidy had listened to folks who warned that RFK Jr was likely to do this before Cassidy ensured RFK’s confirmation.
Late to the conclusion is slightly better than never.
When the reckoning comes in the future, I’d still like to talk about leopards eating faces.
Late to the conclusion is slightly better than never.
When the reckoning comes in the future, I’d still like to talk about leopards eating faces.
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Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now.
Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.
Shameful.
Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.
Shameful.
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now.
Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.
Shameful.
Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.
Shameful.
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Specifically at 25555 Alicia Pkwy, Laguna Hills, CA 92653 - have to make a pretty important medical appointment for my mom so afraid we couldn’t stop to take pictures
December 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Specifically at 25555 Alicia Pkwy, Laguna Hills, CA 92653 - have to make a pretty important medical appointment for my mom so afraid we couldn’t stop to take pictures
A post not about politics:
1. I feel like it should be much more widely known that batteries treated with bitterant don’t work in AirTags? (This fact explains *so* much.)
2. Why do they make pockets in women’s jeans such weird useless shapes? Lost pen wasn’t lost—just migrated to a weird corner.
1. I feel like it should be much more widely known that batteries treated with bitterant don’t work in AirTags? (This fact explains *so* much.)
2. Why do they make pockets in women’s jeans such weird useless shapes? Lost pen wasn’t lost—just migrated to a weird corner.
December 2, 2025 at 4:02 AM
A post not about politics:
1. I feel like it should be much more widely known that batteries treated with bitterant don’t work in AirTags? (This fact explains *so* much.)
2. Why do they make pockets in women’s jeans such weird useless shapes? Lost pen wasn’t lost—just migrated to a weird corner.
1. I feel like it should be much more widely known that batteries treated with bitterant don’t work in AirTags? (This fact explains *so* much.)
2. Why do they make pockets in women’s jeans such weird useless shapes? Lost pen wasn’t lost—just migrated to a weird corner.
I am really tired of the LMS’s limits (everything is a checklist, everything can be assessed with multiple choice questions, everyone grades based on points) steering my pedagogy in a million little ways.
One of us—me or the LMS— is a subject-matter expert with decades of teaching experience.
One of us—me or the LMS— is a subject-matter expert with decades of teaching experience.
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I am really tired of the LMS’s limits (everything is a checklist, everything can be assessed with multiple choice questions, everyone grades based on points) steering my pedagogy in a million little ways.
One of us—me or the LMS— is a subject-matter expert with decades of teaching experience.
One of us—me or the LMS— is a subject-matter expert with decades of teaching experience.
I’m teaching a new class this semester. Our campus LMS is Canvas. There is literally no way for me to write questions of the type normally used on exams to teach this class in Canvas. As it is, Canvas doesn’t allow exams, only quizzes.
If I call IT, they will just tell me Canvas can’t do that. 🤬
If I call IT, they will just tell me Canvas can’t do that. 🤬
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I’m teaching a new class this semester. Our campus LMS is Canvas. There is literally no way for me to write questions of the type normally used on exams to teach this class in Canvas. As it is, Canvas doesn’t allow exams, only quizzes.
If I call IT, they will just tell me Canvas can’t do that. 🤬
If I call IT, they will just tell me Canvas can’t do that. 🤬
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the Harvard Crimson called Epstein a “child sex offender” while the Chronicle of Higher Ed called him a “disgraced financier” and that pretty much sums up where we are with higher ed journalism
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
the Harvard Crimson called Epstein a “child sex offender” while the Chronicle of Higher Ed called him a “disgraced financier” and that pretty much sums up where we are with higher ed journalism
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In related news, the claim ‘the Tooth Fairy does not actually take lost baby teeth from under pillows’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that magical beings are secretly thieving teeth in the dead of night…”
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
CDC backpedals on vaccines and autism, despite earlier assurances from RFK Jr.
The CDC, under the direction of an unqualified health secretary, is now promoting claims that flunk Logic 101.
www.ms.now
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
In related news, the claim ‘the Tooth Fairy does not actually take lost baby teeth from under pillows’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that magical beings are secretly thieving teeth in the dead of night…”
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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The American Association of University Professors (@aaup.org) released a new report documenting an escalating assault on faculty governance structures across the country, with state legislatures in multiple states moving to strip faculty senates of their authority and independence.
AAUP Report Warns of Growing Legislative Threats to Faculty Governance Nationwide
New analysis highlights attacks on faculty senates in Texas, Indiana, Ohio, and Utah as undermining academic freedom and institutional integrity.
www.theeduledger.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The American Association of University Professors (@aaup.org) released a new report documenting an escalating assault on faculty governance structures across the country, with state legislatures in multiple states moving to strip faculty senates of their authority and independence.
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Joint Statement from Goodlander, Slotkin, Kelly, Crow, Deluzio, and Houlahan
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Joint Statement from Goodlander, Slotkin, Kelly, Crow, Deluzio, and Houlahan
Last day of classes before our fall break. POTUS is calling for US military to hang Congresscritters.
(Also w/ a run-on sentence. I know that detail is not the most important, but it’s late enough in the semester that my grading brain is permanently turned on, so I can’t not see that part.)
(Also w/ a run-on sentence. I know that detail is not the most important, but it’s late enough in the semester that my grading brain is permanently turned on, so I can’t not see that part.)
November 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Last day of classes before our fall break. POTUS is calling for US military to hang Congresscritters.
(Also w/ a run-on sentence. I know that detail is not the most important, but it’s late enough in the semester that my grading brain is permanently turned on, so I can’t not see that part.)
(Also w/ a run-on sentence. I know that detail is not the most important, but it’s late enough in the semester that my grading brain is permanently turned on, so I can’t not see that part.)
Sometimes it’s so clear that I live in So Cal & work at a university relatively close to Disneyland.
Last week, as I was leaving campus, I saw a group of students jogging on campus and had to do a double take to confirm:
One of them was, in fact, carrying an (uningnited) light saber while jogging
Last week, as I was leaving campus, I saw a group of students jogging on campus and had to do a double take to confirm:
One of them was, in fact, carrying an (uningnited) light saber while jogging
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Sometimes it’s so clear that I live in So Cal & work at a university relatively close to Disneyland.
Last week, as I was leaving campus, I saw a group of students jogging on campus and had to do a double take to confirm:
One of them was, in fact, carrying an (uningnited) light saber while jogging
Last week, as I was leaving campus, I saw a group of students jogging on campus and had to do a double take to confirm:
One of them was, in fact, carrying an (uningnited) light saber while jogging
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After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇