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Garrett Ruley @garrett-ruley.bsky.social · 2d

Huh I wonder why this reminds me so much of abusive evangelical Christian parenting advice like that peddled by James Dobson, oh well, probably just a coincidence...

R.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social · 2d

"Haarer viewed children, especially babies, as nuisances whose wills needed to be broken."

Harsh Nazi Parenting Guidelines May Still Affect German Children of Today

The Nazi regime urged German mothers to ignore their toddlers’ emotional needs—the better to raise hardened soldiers and followers. Attachment researchers say that the harmful effects of that teaching...

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 5d

University of Chicago sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is brilliant, kind, and courageous. Please spread the word about her detention.

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Garrett Ruley @garrett-ruley.bsky.social · 6d

I was a little disappointed when I had to switch my voter registration from NC to NJ because NC is so competitive, but I feel much better now that I get to vote against this loser.

Ms. M @msmalarkey24.bsky.social · 6d

Reporter: “How important do you think Black & Hispanic voters are to you winning your campaign?”

Jack Ciattarelli, Republican candidate for Governor of one of the most diverse states in the nation:

“Next question.”

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 6d

Between this, the epstein list, obsession with trans kids playing sports, & neverending conspiracy theories about what's going on in schoolsin general, you realize that the primary concern of the Republican party and its supporters is their deep desire to abuse children

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 6d

The inhumanity is accelerating.

There are multiple reports of ICE agents laughing as kids scream and cry, and one in this raid saying literally “fuck them kids.”

Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 6d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11d

It is, far and away, the most challenging thing I’ve encountered since entering the academy. And that is saying a lot. I might be working on this but I keep putting it aside because I’m not medicated enough to describe how demoralizing it all is.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11d

We have allowed the lazy, grifting Silicon Valley charlatans into the front door, & in doing so, we have learned just how many of our own colleagues & administrators simply are not interested in the actual business of education. It's incredibly demoralizing.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks so much for your reporting on this, Ben. I just got an email from my campus's IT office triumphantly advertising free student access to four different AI models -- at the same time as we have a hiring freeze, caps on grad enrollment, and a 7% budget cut -- and wanted to scream.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 11d

Re: the male loneliness epidemic, there is *still* not enough emphasis on how many heterosexual girls and women are staying single out of self-preservation, because the sexual norms that many heterosexual boys and men have adopted are exceptionally dangerous.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 11d

The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11d

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 16d

I was walking down a street in New York and I thought how lovely it was, with the trees and the light. Tried to take a photo and this came out. It’s incredible how blind we become to the ugliness of cars. They really do mess things up. Yet somehow we manage to filter them out.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 21d

Not sure this was clear.

Collapse isn't an event, it's a process that historically is only clear in hindsight.

That applies to us now. We still locate the possibility of collapse in the future.

But we're already in what history will see as the process of collapse, and it has to be affecting us.

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 21d

I keep thinking we're radically underestimating the psychological and affective impact the climate crisis is having on us.

In a worst-case scenario, in a historical treatment of the period we're in now, it would be at the heart of the epochal end time, not a preceding period or prelude to the end.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 18d

It’s been said before but this idea that Republicans have captured the spirit of the volk, and Democrats must imitate them to appeal to the “real” Americans, also concedes that all the people Republicans target for indignity and repression—here, women—are less American than others.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 20d

The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 21d

"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 21d

Its ppl voting to throw it away bc theyd rather burn the place down than share a good deal with other ppl that they consider to be less than human

Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 21d

this is the thing, from top to bottom. we had maybe the best deal any country has had in history. our decline is a series of people voting to throw that away because they cannot understand that it is a good deal

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 21d

I will go to my deathbed, which god willing will be in like seven decades, absolutely hating these people for their sheer hubris and decadence. We had the world, and they are risking it all because they can't see past the bridge of their nose shoved up their ass

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 22d

And you'll see this conversation happen a lot in social sciences, too.

There is a tendency to assume that numeric data is somehow less subjective than "qualitative" data.

And so often the most explanatory data gets discarded or underemphasized.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · Aug 7

I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.

Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · Aug 6

I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trump’s influence peddling, but don’t stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just won’t work.

Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · Aug 6

Still, more than 7-in-10 U.S. adults have been a victim of an online scam or attack like credit card fraud, ransomware or online shopping scams. www.pewresearch.org/...

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Luke Smith Morgan @slukemorgan.bsky.social · Aug 7

increasingly toying with the idea that this is the root of all "rule of law" issues. A democratic theory of the rule of law should begin with the idea that the rule of law emerges from the average citizen's lived experience. And that experience today is being ruthlessly ripped off at all times.

Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · Aug 7

I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.

Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · Aug 6

I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trump’s influence peddling, but don’t stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just won’t work.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28d

Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28d

A professor who was actually canceled - fired - and crickets from the hysterical “anti-cancel culture” crowd.

Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 28d

A lot of people who were panic mongering about a woke cultural revolution are conspicuously quiet about a youth activist denouncing a professor for wrong think and that professor being fired as part of a campaign of public shaming by political leaders.

Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 29d

Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 28d

beware of people who want to "protect" the children but are vehemently opposed to empowering children, giving them information so they can have agency, teaching them about consent, and actually listening to them

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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 29d

My facilitation trainer and mentor a million years ago told me that no one learns in a conversation where they can’t walk away with their dignity and it has ALWAYS stuck with me.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 29d

I'm kinda resigned to the fact that most people don't really give a shit about how millions globally will die horrible deaths directly due to Musk and Trump's decision to gut USAID - I guess it's too abstract to comprehend, or something - but it is HAPPENING, and nobody is swooping in to stop it.

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Garrett Ruley @garrett-ruley.bsky.social · Sep 6

One. Hundred. Percent. Our over-focus on calculus is a relic of the Cold War space race and is a burden on students and math teachers alike.

Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · Sep 6

One of the greatest errors in K-12 education, in my opinion, is prioritizing trigonometry and calculus over statistics. Yes, trig and calc are important for many professions. Statistics are important for literacy.

Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Sep 6

oh noooo

Garrett Ruley @garrett-ruley.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ok I'm glad it's not just me because that sure was the first thing I thought after seeing this.

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Garrett Ruley @garrett-ruley.bsky.social · Sep 3

In my naïveté, I then reopened the bottle without any caution.

You can guess what happened next.

I have now earned my "scrubbing kombucha off the ceiling" brewer's badge.

Garrett Ruley @garrett-ruley.bsky.social · Sep 3

Today I uncorked a new bottle carefully as usual, letting the carbonation out a bit at a time, until the pressure had equalized.

I then proceeded to recork the bottle and turn it over a few times to shake up the pulp at the bottom.

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