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…
Check with your higher ed faculty pals. And high school teachers. We are not ok.
People born in the 2000s will never understand a nation once so innocent that an ice skater kneecapping another ice skater sent us into an existential crisis.
Wow.
Ground-truthing one of the AI commercials from yesterday showing how it could save worker time with reports and spreadsheets - from a college teacher perspective, I have never gotten back my time when technological advances were implemented at work. It just results in higher work expectations.
I am also not an artist, but I am a crafter and a fellow Spidey writer, so taking a page out of Jody's book to contribute to #Comics4Liam
Please visit comics4liam.com for more info on how you can help our immigrant communities 🕷️🕸️❤️
I haven’t checked yet, but I assume someone also trademarked trauma-informed leadership, which is never used either (at least in education).
Terror is the goal.
You can now have your car window broken, be injured while getting pulled from your car, and have no recourse after federal agents find your proof of US citizenship.
Screenshot of the plot from my phone, showing measles cases in the US in 2023-2026 - very tall and skinny, it makes the slope of the 2026 cases nearly vertical. The line for the 2025 cases goes up at approximately a 60-degree angle
Screenshot from widescreen monitor of the same plot. The 2026 cases are no longer as vertical, and a flattening of that line is visible The 2025 cases line is more of a 45-degree angle
This plot from CNN’s article on measles is a *perfect* example of the dangers of auto-resizing plots. Although the data don’t change, and the communicated message *is* still correct, the impact of that message is very different on my phone and my wide-screen monitor.
Black text on white background.
Black text on white background.
In case you are unaware:
-it’s not illegal to have a group chat
-it’s not illegal to film anyone in public (and it’s important, bc otherwise people just disappear)
-it’s not illegal to tell people when you see masked officers
-it’s not illegal to collect and distribute food
ICE must leave MN.
Gen Xer science major here, just learning about the political history of my early childhood that might explain a few things happening in this decade.
"Indigenous students speak out following Oglala Sioux ICE arrests"
My first abstract acrylic (taking a class at the school where I teach) reflects some of my inner turmoil of existing in 2026.
Everything is political and touched by current events.
@wyden.senate.gov @jeff-merkley.bsky.social Assuming this is verified - DO NOT VOTE FOR FUNDING FEDERAL EXECUTIONS
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
"IT IS A HOPELESS TIME, BUT THERE IS A LOT OF REASON TO HAVE HOPE." 😭
You need to watch this and spread it far and wide.
PS: I will never ever again root against any team from Minnesota even when they are playing against mine. 🙏🏼
bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Reading Letter from Birmingham Jail for the first time
Working every day to be less of a white moderate
Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
Yes, many teachers do have a “liberal bias,” but it’s moral, not partisan. Empathetic, not party lines. Evidence, not propaganda. Fairness, not force.
Liberal: willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one's own; open to new ideas.
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
Thanks for the resource @monicamedhist.bsky.social
Now to scheme about how to share this with students and colleagues.
When I grow up I want to be a medical historian. Okay, maybe a second career?
Find out how we can all observe this 250th anniversary
A little bit of light in our cold, dark reality.
How can the model in this blog post from an intro Humanities course be applied to STEM courses?
This aligns a lot with my teaching philosophy. Ruminating on how to apply this model to intro STEM courses at a community college.
For their anti-immigrant, white nationalist post about 100 million deportations, DHS stole the artwork of a non-white foreigner: Japanese illustrator Hiroshi Nagai.
Apparently no white Americans were available to design an image. View Nagai's work here: hiroshinagai.com/contents.html
Wrapping up 2025 with some dark humor (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...
The top half of a cat is concealed behind a gold curtain, its bottom half exposed.
David Attenborough [whispering]:
“Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”
