The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:

-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech

If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

I’m several years late to the far right lodging “cultural Marxist” as an insult at university professors, but I finally have a come back! After reading Quinn Slobidian’s Hayek’s Bastards I think we just need to dismiss these insults coming from those we can label “eugenicist economic determinists.”

And don’t miss Richard Henry Pratt’s journals! He’s got some material where, as an outside (& obviously very racist) observer, examines various schooling configurations on the Great Plains when he was a soldier.

The periodization may be off a bit, but Keith Burich’s The Thomas Indian School and the “Irredeemable” Children of New York. Could be a helpful frame for thinking about mission schooling in the more urbanized/industrialized North.

Thanks @actualkatherine.bsky.social!

I think Amanda J. Cobb-Greetham’s work is helpful—
Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852-1949. I’d also recommend.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

This work is super important! These great scholars’ suggestions for rural schools would also help protect Indian Education in BIE schools by association, which account for approximately 10% of all Native students & are under attack by a 2025 E.O. intent on introducing vouchers for BIE students.

On this Remembrance Day, please also remember the tens of thousands of children and families who survived the Mormon Indian Student Placement Program which only ended a quarter century ago. Nearly 1/12 of the entire Navajo Nation was impacted by this boarding-school-like program. #HistEd

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Met w/ a student who asked me to be on their dissertation committee today and I’m so exited for the work they’re going to do and to help be part of the process. This kind of mentoring & collaborative work is really exciting.

Importantly, I don’t want to “cancel“ Ezra Klein

I want him to voluntarily shut the fuck up while he works on being less incompetent

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

Coates has said it all so well here:

The latest play in a very old and long game to privatize and profitize the whole project of public school.

I wrote a paper about how white supremacy leads to people being more illogical, even in science … right wingers really didn’t like it but thanks to them it was one of the most read academic papers of 2020

I’m glad to hear it gets even better!

@bluesky moderation is suspending people for posting Kirk's own words which tells you everything you need to know.

Yeah it was quite odd! I have (reluctantly but also helpfully… ugh) had ChatGPT make some Word document instructions for helping my oldest with her math homework, and the proposal in question had the same font and color scheme which immediately drew my attention!

Glad to hear this!

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This Nevada desert is dry and my impulse control was so low! 😂

Also excited to get my copy! @schooldaves.bsky.social TikTok is also popping! Speaking to Dave now, I appreciate your ability to take the ideas to the masses there!