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Hi folks.

I spent 18 years studying American political violence and the road to civil war.

Join me tomorrow to discuss where we are now.

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September 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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dblight.bsky.social
Good morning. Here is the cover and all 11 essays of new special issue of the TNR by historians ighting back against Trump administration's assaults on history, museums, archives, libraries. No surrender among historians.
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August 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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lindstorian.bsky.social
K12 #teachers! The white supremacists in the admin cancelled this amazing NEH workshop so the scholars are offering it as a free teach-in. And you can earn CEUs!
A flier for a free teach in for K12 teachers on Indigenous Histories of the US-Mexico Borderlands. This is designed for secondary teachers in social science and STEM but all are welcome. The admin doesn’t want this taught so let’s pack the sessions! It’s July 21-23 from 9am to 12pm MT - first session link is here: https://nau.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DhMKlZnSRUqCl2xkmCrA0Q
July 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Teachers don't need more tech. They need smaller classes and more (paid) time for prep and instruction. But alas, the tech option means more profit for billionaires, while the latter would cost billionaires more in taxes. And so, in our current kleptocracy, tech is what teachers are going to get...
lutzfernandez.bsky.social Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · Jun 29
🧵 addressing the argument: "AI won’t replace teachers, but it will save them time and make them more effective.”

Adding edtech doesn't necessarily save teachers time. A recent study found that LMSs sold to schools over the past decade+ as time-savers aren’t delivering on making teaching easier.
Technology is supposed to decrease teacher burnout – but we found it can sometimes make it worse
Efforts to simplify teachers’ jobs through technology can backfire without a strong focus on teacher well-being.
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June 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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philnichols.bsky.social
Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities—edited by me and @anterobot.bsky.social—is out today! 🎉

It's been an absolute privilege to work with so many brilliant people, over multiple years, to make this book a reality.

www.routledge.com/Literacies-i...
Cover of the book, Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities, edited by T. Philip Nichols and Antero Garcia, and published in the 'Expanding Literacies in Education' series at Routledge. Text from the Table of the Contents. List of Figures, List of Tables, Contributor Biographies, Series Editors’ Introduction, Acknowledgments. Introduction: Literacies in the Platform Society by T. Philip Nichols and Antero Garcia PART I — Histories New Towers of Babel: A Conceptual Argument for Digital Platforms as Unstable Linguistic Constructs by Tom Liam Lynch and Mark A. Sulzer Literacy as a Framework for Computing Education: Affordances, Constraints, and New Directions by Jennifer Higgs, Sepehr Vakil and Charles Logan Waiting on the Platform: The Journey to and From Manuscript Central by Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant Table of contents, continued. Racialized Labor and Digital Sites of Struggle on Asian American College YouTube by Sonia Kim Rethinking Affordances and Constraints in the Platform Era by Bradley Robinson PART II - Pedagogies Teachers’ Use of Technological Applications and Platforms: Classroom Management, Data Literacy,and Unexpected Labor by Jessica Zacher Pandya and Gwen Shaffer Human and Non-human Agency in Elementary Literacy Classrooms: Examining ClassDojo as Part of Pedagogical Practice by Evie Poyiadji and Stavroula Kontovourki Platforms as Texts: Restorying Platforms as Collective Resistance by Amy Stornaiuolo and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas Proceduralized Ideologies in Teacher Education: An Analysis of Student Teaching Simulation Software by Earl Aguilera and Mighty Chen Transforming Pedagogies Across Digital Platforms: Playgrid Ecologies as Sites of Emergent Identities and Literacies for Pre-service Teachers by José Ramón Lizárraga, Arturo Cortez, and Kaitlin Baca Table of contents, continued. Part 3 - Possibilities As We May Mark by Remi Kalir Reimagining Digital Social Platforms and Youth Agency in Schools: Youth Participatory Design Research as an Agentic Curricular Approach by Emily Southerton Between Structure and Collective Care: A Humanizing Approach to Resource Curation by Shelley E. Rose, Mary Frances (Molly) Buckley-Marudas and Calida O’Brien Toward a Critical Race Algorithmic Literacy: Preparing Black Youth to “Talk Back” to Algorithmic Bias and Platformed Racism by Tiera Tanksley Afterword: Some Theoretical and Methodological Notes on Platform Literacies by Kris Gutiérrez Index
June 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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jbf1755.bsky.social
“I don’t like his politics so we should remove his citizenship.”

This is who they are.
esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jun 26
Republican Congressman Andy Ogles has penned a letter to AG Pam Bondi calling for Zohran Mamdani to be denaturalized and deported.
A tweet from Rep. Andy Ogles (@RepOgles) dated June 26, 2025, calls for Zohra Mamdani to be deported, describing him as "antisemitic, socialist, [and] communist" and claiming he will destroy New York City. The tweet states that Mamdani should be subject to denaturalization proceedings and includes a letter addressed to Attorney General Pam Bondi. The letter, on official congressional letterhead, outlines Ogles' request for an investigation into Mamdani's conduct and alleged misrepresentation during his naturalization process, citing concerns about national security and supposed affiliations with extremists.
June 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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carolinaforward.bsky.social
Partisan rigging of North Carolina's state legislature is so pervasive that even when a majority of residents statewide voted for Democrats in the 2024 elections, Republicans still held on to 2/3rds of seats in the NC State Senate, and are just 1 seat shy of 2/3rds in the State House.
June 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
Literally the opening vignette to Audrey Watters's brilliant book, _Teaching Machines_ is about how little Khan knows about the history of education and what a grifter he is. mitpress.mit.edu/978026254606...
Screenshot of the first page of the book, which opens, "In 2012, Sal Khan sat down with Forbes journalist Michael Noer and recorded an eleven-minute video on "The History of Education" as part of the media tour Khan was undertaking to promote his new book, The One World School House. Although he had no formal teacher training, Khan, an MIT graduate and a former hedge fund analyst, had become..." "For the very first time, technology will 'make the classroom more human, more interactive' and free from the 'Prussian model' of schooling. For the first time in the history of education, as Khan and Noer tell it, learning will be personalized. There's at least one problem with the way Khan tells it: the history is all wrong.
June 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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rjlynn.bsky.social
Obama makes a nuclear deal with Iran to prevent nukes. Trump cancels deal. Iran starts making nuke material. Trump bombs Iran for thinking about making the nukes he enabled. Claims he's keeping America safe. Manipulative, narcissistic, sociopathic
June 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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brysonm.bsky.social
i was promised no more history
June 22, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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ditzkoff.bsky.social
at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans
June 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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jbf1755.bsky.social
Tomorrow morning on my live webcast, “History Matters:”

Violence as “Politics”

I’m a historian who specializes in political violence.

I have a lot to say.

Friday 10AM ET
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June 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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alliethrall.bsky.social
My first article in LMT! We discuss Delanda’s theory of “parametrization” as offering a useful methodological tool for multiscalar digital inquiry.
lmt-journal.bsky.social Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social · Jun 6
🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪

In this paper @philnichols.bsky.social, LeBlanc & @alliethrall.bsky.social offer ‘parametrization' to better capture the interplay of digital practices as territorialized and coded in different ways, across different scales.

Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/58m4zrdp
ABSTRACT This conceptual article provides an outline of Manuel DeLanda’s concept of ‘parametrization' and its methodological possibilities for inquiry into emerging platform ecologies in education. Traditionally, education research has treated ‘the digital' as separate from the analog. However, transdisciplinary literature has shown how connective technologies blur these distinctions, expanding the scope of education research to include the interplay of social, technical, and political-economic relations within ‘the digital.' This complexity presents challenges for researchers in prioritizing aspects of these relations. To address this tension, we turn to DeLanda’s ‘parametrization' for setting inquiry parameters with ‘control knobs' to adjust the focus on relevant actors, activities, and interactions. By examining the influence of digital platforms like Google in educational settings, we illustrate how parametrization allows researchers to navigate scales and relations, offering insights into the nuanced impacts of digital technologies on teaching and learning practices.
June 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him?

KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents
June 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Hi. @leahlitman.bsky.social joins Even More News to talk about her new book "Lawless" and how SCOTUS is making it up as they go and allowing Donald Trump to do pretty much whatever he wants while they maintain a facade of legitimacy.

On YouTube and all the other podcast places.
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Why The Supreme Court Keeps Letting Trump Break The Law - EVEN MORE NEWS
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May 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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dblight.bsky.social
When barbarians enter your land and territory, do not plan to negotiate. Build your defenses and get ready to drive them out. At universities and all over American education we need to prepare, as William James said, for "the moral equivalent of War."
May 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM