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a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning. https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/

In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

An original Nashville sit-in member, along with Diane Nash, James Bevel, and John Lewis. Trained in non-violence by James Lawson. At age 21, he signed a will before the Freedom Rides, knowing he could die.

May his soul be at peace, and may we all have such courage in the face of oppression.

you can impeach people after they've been removed from office for the crimes they did while in office and the failure to do so to george w. bush is one of the reasons we wound up here

YAY! GO ALL OF US WHO COMMENTED!

Nice job using the process to put the brakes on!

We have shirts!

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Idaho Pursues Higher-Ed Cuts, While Wyoming Backs Off Big Hit to Flagship The legislative session is underway in dozens of states, and higher education is very much on the agenda. Here’s the latest.

The legislative session is underway in dozens of states, and higher education is very much on the agenda. Here's the latest. https://chroni.cl/4d2w820

Deeply evil and not at all the case when I began teaching in 1999. You wouldn't have much left over, but you could eat without having a side hustle.

Everyone my age and older needs to call out the ridiculously low wages being paid to PK-12 practitioners these days.

why are you hiring a postdoc if generative AI can do everything you claim it can?

Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $

This is one of the key reasons that I have a no generative AI policy in each of my classes. I do not want students, many of whom are already stressed and vulnerable, slipping into this predicament. It is also why I design my classes for students to talk to & work with each other to reduce isolation.

To incoming University President Mnookin: Please don’t let artificial intelligence devalue the liberal arts Last month, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin <a href="https://www.dailycardinal.com/article/2025/12/uw-receives-approval-to-move-l-ss-largest-majors-to-new-ai-focused-school...

students know they are being cheated

~45 minutes outside Minneapolis this afternoon, a small but spirited crowd is gathered to protest outside the gates of Sherburne County Jail.

According to organizers: the jail has held an average of 131 ICE detainees daily for nearly 20 years. As of 2023, the jail makes $110 per detainee per day.

Bronze Age swords and arrowheads dating back almost 4,000 years are seized by CBP in Philly Considered cultural artifacts, the items were imported into the United States without proper permitting, and were likely the product of “illicit excavations of burial sites,” federal officials said.

@artcrimeprof.bsky.social @sarahebond.bsky.social Bronze Age swords from Iran end up in Philly?!

Lawrence Summers Will Resign From Harvard After Epstein Revelations

I'm glad to see accountability for academia's bad apples. But I also hope that resignations like this one won't be the end of the story. Because we still need to reckon with how the structures and cultures in "elite" academia have created ripe conditions for rot. 1/🧵

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

I personally know two separate people who just won neighborhood races By Applying. Both were relatively shocked

Remember when people cared about learning loss?

The way I have to do annual hours-long trainings on FERPA and keeping university data safe, only for this kind of stuff to make it all moot

Real science includes understanding how you are situating your work and how what you learn from your research fits in that realm. A lit review allows scholars to think in new ways, make important connections, and improve their work.

I have no trust in scholars who want to outsource this process.

This sounds…cool? @disabilitystor1.bsky.social @parismarx.com @bcmerchant.bsky.social what do you think? @emilymbender.bsky.social?

Rewiring Democracy Now: Switzerland shows us an alternative to corporate AI Public AI must counterbalance corporate AI

AI causes real harms - water, electricity, exploitation of workers or elimination of jobs, copyright violations. Or rather capitalist corporations selling AI cause those harms. AI itself doesn't have to be harmful at all, if we create guardrails to make it work for us.

In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better? Coaching from artificial intelligence chatbots, personalized and accessible at any time, is now shaping how some students write.

The most relevant sentence in this article:

“The Washington Post has a content partnership with ChatGPT developer OpenAI.”

Thanks everyone for your replies — @zacharyschrag.bsky.social has helpfully compiled it for his extremely useful blog site: historyprofessor.org/methodology/...

I would also recommend his @princetonupress.bsky.social book for anyone teaching or doing research: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

"the loss of critical thinking and learning skills is less of a personal failure and more of a policy one, calling the generation of Americans educated with gadgets victims of a failed pedagogical experiment."

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Quakertown parents, groups demand release of students in police clash Civil rights groups and parents gathered in front of the Quakertown Police Department Saturday demanding answers for the violent confrontation Friday.

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday.

They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

Keep Minnesota Housed! Much of the medía has left, but ICE is still in Minnesota and hundreds of families need help with rent in order to avoid eviction. Visit keepMNhoused.com to adopt a rent or donate to rent funds! #keepMNhoused

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation.

Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

Historian of abolition here 💯#theslavescause www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

Shame on NYU Langone for ending gender-affirming care & kicking trans New Yorkers to the curb. It's a violation of their promise to treat all people equally, kindly, and respectfully — and a violation of NYC's human rights law as well. Bending the knee is bad; denying people care is even worse.

Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people… |... Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people ca...

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

Civic Education News Roundup Civic humanities, the politics of civic learning, and a new AAA&S report.

New civic education news roundup! Everyone seems to have scheduled great webinars this week, so there's plenty to check out. And check out @cfr.org's Presidents' Day quiz today!

therenovator.substack.com/p/civic-educ...

And not only people in tech, but educators and administrators who welcome OpenAI into their schools, colleges, and universities.