My hot take is that everyone says schools don't teach you how to do your taxes, but the way you do your taxes is to hang on to important paperwork and then follow the directions on a form while performing arithmetic, which actually is what they spend a fair amount of time teaching.
Kelly Wilkinson was being abused by her husband.
She tried to go to the police.
They told her to “cool off”.
They suggested she give her husband a “break”.
They accused her of cop shopping.
Her husband stabbed her over 20 times and set her on fire.
The cops were complicit in her murder:
How to say "The dog is brown" in Bourdieuspeak
never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.
Nurse practitioners are a lifeline for millions who live in healthcare deserts. A new proposed federal rule would strip NPs of access to education funds, putting the workforce at risk.
@coryellen.bsky.social writes about the dangers of this rule in @nursingclio.bsky.social
I want to take you back, for a moment, to 2020. We are at the beginning of the pandemic and many of us are working remotely. I don't remember this time particularly fondly--this was pre COVID-19 vaccines, and there was a lot of rhetoric around how the virus had come from China. 🧵
An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers.
Why are nearly all of them still in prison?
With @nytimes.com
The child care block grant gets less than $9 billion a year for the entire country
A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
Indiana's support for CPCs doubled in two years, while more rural hospitals and clinics that provide comprehensive reproductive health care close their doors because of a lack of funds.
The Retreat from DEI: The Impact of Legal and Political Developments on DEI Language in U.S. Private Foundations Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, large private foundations in the United States widely adopted language related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) on their public-facing websites. In 2023, a series of legal and political developments began reversing the institutional pressures that had encouraged this adoption: first the Supreme Court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (2023), then state-level anti-DEI legislation, and culminating in President Trump’s Executive Order 14151 (2025). Using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, we constructed a longitudinal corpus of 3,612 archived web pages from thirteen large U.S. private foundations and tracked the frequency of sixty-seven DEI-related terms from 2019 to 2025. Among the nine foundations with data in both years, a Wilcoxon signed-rank test indicates a decline from 2023 to 2025 (one-sided p = .029, two-sided p = .059), with median usage falling approximately 40 percent. The decline was broad-based across many terms. These patterns are consistent with coercive isomorphism: the same process that drove widespread, convergent adoption of DEI language after 2020 now appears to be reversing it. The findings establish an empirical baseline for tracking how political pressure reshapes organizational communication about equity.
🚨What if some intrepid students and I decided to see if private foundations' public stances on justice were thin enough to fold under anti-DEI pressure? We tracked their website language using Wayback Machine. The retreat is real and it seems political vibes alone supercharged it. osf.io/29gda_v1
And that’s on community care 👏🏻
States have started proposing steep reductions in disability services to cope with Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Idaho is the first to suggest scrapping home care altogether — An action with a high human cost. My latest @19thnews.org.
Truly shocking how much running out of my office gum affects my productivity.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented with righteous fury
This sounds significantly more pleasant than the hot dog and dog food factories I lived near as a child . . .
Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.
transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
Our country is being run by lying warmonger criminals and somehow I still have to go teach today,
Of course they do... genius.
On this basis, I'm assuming, there's a retired primary school teacher out there whose antibodies could do the childhood disease equivalent of walking into the Copland Road end at Ibrox in a Celtic shirt and offering to take on all comers.
Incarcerated workers are paid so little, it can take thousands of hours to afford filing fees
"I can only hope that the next time indigent prisoners facing this issue raise nearly $1,000 each just for the opportunity to knock on this Court’s door, my colleagues will choose to open it" heartbreaking
These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.
One of my students uses a service dog, but not all of the time. This morning, in the middle of class discussion, the dog (who, and I cannot stress this enough, I HAD NOT PREVIOUSLY NOTICED) sat up, made direct eye contact, yawned, and laid back down. I barely managed not to burst into laughter.
If you want to confuse your colleagues in other disciplines, just try to explain ASA's five page "extended abstract" submission format. No one understands it. I just got laughed at by someone in psychology.
Why do I leave writing the methods until last? I do this every gosh darn time, and then I'm out of energy, and allegedly, I'm not allowed to say "we did some interviews - trust me, bro."
Jeff Chang points out that “cultural change precedes political change." I think about this all of the time.
“As we prepare for more waves of bad news, I’m remembering that there is always a next right thing to do, that I am never alone in my despair, and that when we come together, we can create new worlds that are kinder and more of what we all deserve." - B Loewe
I hate it so much. I hate not being able to trust my students most of all. Every time I get a particularly good piece of writing, I wonder if it's really the students' work or just AI slop.
I invited a friend to talk to my class on reproduction about her pregnancy and birth experiences. I wish I had pictures of their faces when she talked about her labor and delivery experience. Absolutely priceless.
This is child abduction and white supremacy.
