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John Schwetman
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Politically engaged academic in a remote Midwestern city.
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Most members of the board that manages transit in the Twin Cities—the Met Council—rarely actually use transit, a story that’s all too familiar around the nation.

8 of 17 members never rode over the last year. 2 others took just 1 trip each.

www.msn.com/en-us/autos/...
“It is, frankly, demonstrative of the way that too many local and state governments treat their transit systems, which is a mechanism to move poor people around,” Freemark said. “Board members don’t see themselves as users of the system.”
December 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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We live in an America governed by Trump. But we do not have to accept that we live in Trump’s America.

My latest for @theatlantic.com Daily:

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Trump Insults America—Again
The president of the United States seems to have no interest in appealing to a national sense of pride or honor.
www.theatlantic.com
July 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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annaeclark.bsky.social
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
jaxwendy.bsky.social Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · Dec 11
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 11, 2024 at 10:43 PM