@dsweet
Autistic. Feral peace researcher. Teaching conflict, peace, human rights, activism. I have a day job so I can afford to teach for Carter School, Schar School, Integrative Studies @ GMU & PACS @ CU-Boulder.
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.
Current events confirm the achieved wisdom of time-honored classics in the social sciences.
This is so accurate it hurts.
A brief overview of the hit songs of the 1980s will reveal exactly how thoroughly Armageddon was in the zeitgeist.
People ask what it is exactly we expect of Dems in this situation, and for me it's this.
Make these assholes fucking scared.
Make it clear that they are on borrowed time, that consequences WILL arrive, and that they will be harsh.
Just saw this in the FT, too. I'm not sure how we are supposed to live in a world where one county can assassinate the leader of another and no one does anything about it. Heckofa semester to be teaching human rights and the international system.
Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.
Understood instantly what it meant.
“i’m still punk” i whisper to myself as i turn down the music in my car so i can see better
i just want to hang out on the internet and talk about my hyperfixations but nooooooooooo powerful people decided being evil was the best way they could spend their time
I couldn't teach in FL because I don't know the difference between discussions that suggest, argue, state, and describe. Oh, and because this is completely wrong.
words projected on the front of the USIP building that say “Trump destroyed this Institution, imposing his name on the building, a narcissistic attempt to associate himself with peacemaking.”
New — This was projected on the US Institute of Peace building this evening ahead of the first meeting tomorrow of Trump’s farcically-named “Board of Peace.”
Photo taken by person who was over there tonight. Unclear who’s behind the projection.
Instead of grading, I am enjoying the fact that my brain, which can't tell live humans apart, immediately recognized this clip art from Married to the Sea from 2025 as one of the guys from Get Your War On, even though GTWO ended 15 years ago. Wikipedia helpfully tells me it's from a book from 1998.
It's me, I'm that person
Jesse Jackson reading "Green Eggs and Ham" is so wonderful. RIP
Anatol Rappoport was good on this issue by differentiating between debates (opponents try to persuade each other), games (opponents try to win, within rules) and fights (opponents try to win without rules). A lot of politics seems to be people thinking they are in a debate when it is a fight.
Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps.
I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.
To be fair, it has made teaching feminist IR a lot easier
The ONLY WAY we get out of our current mess is by caring about everyone. Switching the targets of fascism doesn't end fascism. If both political parties embrace full throated fascism, we're not left with any electoral options, and a lot more regular people will embrace their own bigotry.
Eight members of the group Twice on a square stage under lighted pink boxes and large screens showing the group
Well, that was entertaining. Everyone seemed to have a good time.
So my daughter is going to the Twice concert tonight for her birthday with friends and one of those friends is sick and had to cancel. I am now going to the Twice concert tonight as well. I have only the vaguest understanding of what Twice is.
This! This! This! It sounds like someone averaged the words in a sales meeting.
Our rallying cry for public education and public libraries:
“Free, life-changing, and available to everyone.”
stimpunks.org/philosophy/f...
Time to dust off theories of the democratic peace for some updates.
A group of students stand on the corner of our local shopping center protesting ICE.
Kids these days!
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
I was late to class today because of Peace Monks. First time that has happened. When I was getting near campus I saw a lot of people on the sides of the road and thought it was ICE watch. Nope. Peace Monks.
Fuck, and I mean this from my never got accomodations but disabled ass, you.
As more college kids claim to have disabilities, the Gen Xer in me revolts at the way everything is being pathologized, writes Rich Cohen. on.wsj.com/4bGsdYm
I can't believe we're gonna get to buy our Halloween costumes at the damn Kennedy Center.
Kindle version of @jwomack.bsky.social's "Random Acts of Senseless Violence" is on sale in case reality isn't grim enough.
www.amazon.com/dp/B008V460XS
