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Talked with my #APUSH students today about how quickly new technological developments are appropriated for war.
I pointed out:
- Kitty Hawk 1903
- First aerial dogfight 1913
A student pointed out:
- Release of Anthropic’s Claude March 2023
- Claude used to kill Iranian children February 2026
To me this says FUND LIBRARIES‼️
Fund collections. Fund staff. Fund more folks working in reference and research. Fund teen library space & teacher in the library programs
We ALREADY have a wildly popular institution that helps kids learn, respects their privacy, and teaches critical thinking 📚
It’s hard right now being a high school history teacher who was in high school when the US invaded Afghanistan and Iraq. I’m so sad for my students.
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
Not watching the #SOTU tonight. Anything necessary for an #APUSH teacher will come out in clips. Instead, I will be reading and writing about Sauron, the Crimson King, and the Devil.
Bloomberg says we've spent $3B on Trump's invasion of Venezuela.
Which is 6X more than the cancer, Alzheimer, diabetes, and heart disease cures they've cut to pay for it.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Teaching the Progressive Era and conservationism this week!
This is a tax on you.
You paid $1,000 more in a tax because of Trump.
![Photo of white computer screen with text. Here is the text:
Henry Weeden, African American tailor & abolitionist in Boston to Watson Freeman, a United States Marshal responsible for enforcing the Fugitive Slave Law:
Your Coat came to me this morning for repairs. I take this method of returning it: without complying with Your request. With me Principle first. Money afterwards. Though a poor man, I crave the patronage of no Being that would volunteer his services to arrest a Fugitive Slave or that would hang 100[negroes] for 25 cents each.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fzalwfmgvffutkf5b5ap6igy/bafkreigskbazn2xxznruwimjskq4cqmhzavlrjvgbw4bmjndcrdqx3hv3a)
Photo of white computer screen with text. Here is the text: Henry Weeden, African American tailor & abolitionist in Boston to Watson Freeman, a United States Marshal responsible for enforcing the Fugitive Slave Law: Your Coat came to me this morning for repairs. I take this method of returning it: without complying with Your request. With me Principle first. Money afterwards. Though a poor man, I crave the patronage of no Being that would volunteer his services to arrest a Fugitive Slave or that would hang 100[negroes] for 25 cents each.
A text my students worked with recently.
Photo of Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy album Cover. Yellow writing on a green background.
Can’t sleep. So I’m rockin’ out to Vitalogy.
“In everything do to others as you would have them do to you, for this is the Law and the Prophets” (Matthew 7:12).
Something that once seemed so basic is now revolutionary.
“In everything” is striking.
Tell everyone you know
HALF A BILLION $
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If you are looking for some sermons to listen to or watch, our church started a Gospel of John series on Christmas Eve that will go through the Second Sunday of Easter. Here’s the playlist with the first four sermons: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Photo of the top of page 21 in Phil Ziegler’s “God’s Adversary and Ours.” Epigraph of chapter two reads: “We should establish a religion's degree of truth according to what it makes of the Devil: the more eminent the rank it accords him, the more it testifies that it is concerned with reality, it rejects deceit and lies, that it is serious, that it sets more store by verification than by distraction and consolation.” E. M. Cioran
Reading about the Devil and thinking about all the deceit and all the lies we have been hearing.
Preaching on John 5 in a few hours.
He came to raise the dead to life, and for that, people wanted to take the life of the One in whom was life.
Will we ones who take life, or will we love as Jesus has loved and be ones who give life?
I’m not voting to fund this lawless violence. Trump’s abuse of power is tearing us apart. We have 3 years left of this presidency. Either we stand up and protect our democracy now, or we risk going down a path that is unthinkable, will hurt countless people and do irreversible damage to our country.
ICE operations in Minnesota must end immediately.
This is an older interview of Tom Gregg’s back in 2018. It’s an excellent overview of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s life and theology. Greggs’s contextualization throughout is impressive. It is especially illuminating given the racist nativism running rampant in the US now. open.spotify.com/episode/6x3p...
Imagine the witness if the church had welcomed the protesters, invited them to the Table, and peacefully conversed with them during the coffee hour afterwards.
Imagine also the government’s (lack of) response if it were an armed, right-wing group of protesters in a LGBT-affirming congregation.
I just finished teaching Unit 5: 1844-1877 in the APUSH curriculum. This included territorial acquisition, the Sectional Crisis, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. A student asked, “Is what’s happening in Minnesota our ‘Bleeding Kansas?’”
Book cover of Christian Socialism: An Informal History by John C. Cort.
Those who neither make after others' goods nor bestow their own are to be admonished to take it well to heart that the earth they come from is common to all and brings forth nurture for all alike. Idly then do men hold themselves innocent when they monopolise for themselves the common gift of God. In not giving what they have received they work their neighbors' death; every day they destroy all the starving poor whose means to relief they store at home. When we furnish the destitute with any necessity we render them what is theirs, not bestow on them what is ours; we pay the debt of justice rather than perform the works of mercy.... Of Dives in the Gospel we do not read that he snatched the goods of others but that he used his own unfruitfully; and avenging hell received him at death not because he did anything unlawful but because he gave himself up utterly and inordinately to the enjoyment of what was lawful. -St. Gregory the Great
Cover and epigraph of tonight’s reading.
Christian Socialism: An Informal History by John C. Cort.
Teaching history reminds one that everything is contingent & that change is inevitable, at least as we experience the world.
As I was going over the changes in our political parties from the Feds vs. Dem-Reps through Reconstruction, the seeming fixity of our system melted away. Things can change.
Go Birds! 🦅
This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
A missionary; a martyr. Good’s last words to the man who killed her were: “That’s fine, dude, I’m not mad at you.” Even her name is a witness. www.bbc.com/news/article...
No cell phones in NJ schools starting in September 👏 www.nj.gov/governor/new...
Photo of the cover of John Behr’s “The Mystery of Christ: Life in Death.”
Last day of Christmas is tomorrow. Easter is on its way. Time to prep.
As a NJ resident, I agree. I also hope to see more than mere posts. You’ve called out this military action and the inaction of Congress in another post. Keep pressing. “We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice; we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”
