‼️"Rhys drew narrative and temporal structures for her feminine counterfaith from the visual form of Christian stained glass, which provided a way to cohere the fragmentation of Antoinette’s Creole identity into a single sacred mosaic in the novel’s final vision."

Political attacks on higher education will undoubtedly intensify beyond their already heightened levels. Understanding the authoritarian inspirations for those attacks is crucial. Re-upping my recent IHE article on this subject. #EduSky

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This morning the Chicago Tribune ran another hit piece claiming we, educators, don’t care about our students—meanwhile we, educators, are creating plans within our school communities to keep our students safe from ICE raids. #edusky #eduskyil

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Efforts to get the UAW to divest from genocide are growing stronger by the day. If you're in a UAW local, consider joining UAW Labor For Palestine mondoweiss.net/2024/11/uaw-...

With Grading Season officially upon us, I thought I would share "Dr. Baldassarre's Science Writing Tips™️". This is a living document, so let me know what you think! What am I missing? Email if you'd like a copy.

Today's Gardening Advice: Winterberry (Ilex verticillata) provides winter food for birds. People often use the branches in holiday decorations. Some years birds will eat the berries almost immediately in December. Other years they wait until late winter. An excellent adaptable plant. 🌱

The warmth and light beginning to go now. Coffin on its way. Fade. Gone. (Gardening Samuel Beckett style.)

An exotic salute to Henry Kissinger. Your death was not remotely excruciating enough, no justice was found in your passing, but at least you are fucking gone and can do no more harm.

how countries that practice colonization use words like "help" to turn their extraction histories into white-washed, do-gooder-savior narratives.

Coming off their historic strike, the UAW has joined the call for a cease-fire. It’s a major sea change for the labor movement—and the fight for peace and justice in Palestine and Israel. inthesetimes.com/article/uaw-...

I'm starting to think Shawn Fain has some non union political ambitions. Sure, don't hate that

That the UAW is calling for ceasefire - this feels encouraging in terms of another big, united voice who the US gov is already listening to. 🔥
Now for the UAW to call for no more arms for Israel - ishr.ch/latest-updat...

Citing the union’s history of opposing apartheid and fighting for justice, UAW president Shawn Fain—who represents 400,000 workers across the country and just won a historic strike—has just called for a ceasefire in Israel and Palestine. THIS is what real union leadership looks like.

World leaders kicked off the COP28 climate summit in Dubai on Friday with pledges to boost investment in green solutions and calls for more decisive action to cut greenhouse gases.

Here's a snapshot of what happened today. Read our complete coverage ➡️ trib.al/HuAPn32

Penguins are champion power nappers. They fall asleep thousands of times, each bout a few seconds long, over the course of a single day, researchers have found. It may be an adaptation to their noisy and crowded colonies. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/s...