@mrswp
ELA teacher & HVWP Teacher Consultant. PhD candidate in Holocaust & Genocide Studies. Pro-Student/Teacher/Union. Antiracist and Antifascist. Mama to Beloved Offspring and Adopted Cats. All of the Pronouns. On Lenape & Mohican land.
On this day in 1921, a white lynch mob hunting a Black man saw a different Black man walking down a road and killed him instead. The mob claimed mistaken identity and faced no punishment.
Posting this video I made about Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton I originally made back in 2023 for no reason whatsoever definitely donโt share it around the interwebs ๐
A passenger train wagon in flames after being struck by a Russian/Iranian Shahed attack drone early on March 4 in Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine. Such attacks on civilian transport are becoming more frequent, strongly indicating deliberate targeting by the Russians - terrorism.
Arkansas - Go Vote!
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Election Day: TUESDAY, MARCH 3rd
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Make a plan to vote
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Stay in line โ if youโre in line when polls close, you can still vote
#sheshed
Trump's trying to find the guy who did this.
Bernie Sanderโs 2028 litmus test would strangle Americaโs golden goose
Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why?
If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment.
Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.
This is kind of unfair...to NG majors generally.
He was a NG captain promoted on his way out the door to IRR, who was blacklisted from every infantry career milestone position above platoon leader, with no Airborne, Air Assault or Ranger qualifications and no PME above infantry officer basic.
Pete Hegseth is just a walking, talking fascist motivational poster.
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing โreviewedโ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
In a Kakistocracy, the incompetence is weaponized for the benefit of the regime. Norms cannot be met, chaos rules. The least qualified and most corrupt run the show. There is no interest in justice and legitimate governance.
The stakes could not be higher. The US-Israeli war on Iran is catastrophicโand rapidly expanding across the region. Yet Democratic leaders are failing to muster a clear, anti-war response. Instead it's sleepy, feigned opposition after the deed is done. By me and @ahjohnson.bsky.social
Taken together, SB 9 and Proposition 3 illuminate a two-pronged effort to stiffen pretrial detention: They simultaneously tighten the money-bail pathway for some offenses, while widening the menu of cases where people can be held without bail at all.
Feed people.
House people.
Educate people.
Heal people.
Love people.
This isnโt fucking rocket science.
A vintage sepia-toned portrait photograph of Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann taken in 1932, at around age 44. She is posed formally against a softly draped curtain backdrop, gazing directly at the camera with a calm, intelligent, and composed expression. She has short, neatly waved dark hair and wears a simple, elegant dark blouse or dress with a light-colored V-neck insert or scarf tied loosely. The photographer's signature, "Nachtwey 1932," appears in the lower right corner in a flowing script. The image captures her poised and thoughtful demeanor during the early years of her groundbreaking career in seismology, before her landmark discovery of Earth's solid inner core in 1936. #seismology
Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann fundamentally changed our understanding of the Earth's interior by discovering its solid inner core in 1936. Often referred to as ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐ข๐ณ๐ต due to her incredible ability to interpret complex seismic records by hand.
She died #OTD in 1993 #WomenInSTEM
Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.
(Published April 2023)
New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF
just to be the fascist twerp translator: Trump is the law, anything that disagrees with him is per se lawlessness
โWe were stunned [about the prescience] for a while, but weโve really gotten to the point where itโs really sad. Itโs just sad how predictable and lame and obvious and wrong it all is. Fascism is just a total fail in the end.โ www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...
Donald Trump illegally stole $1700 from you is a gift midterm message.
thatโs right
Good piece on how DHS lies are falling apart in court. It's also a reminder- especially for headline writers- to NEVER take anything DHS says as fact. Never.
"no supporting evidence or in some instances were proven by video footage to be blatantly false."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Deja Vu: As Bush geared to invade Iraq in 2002 (a decision we now know he made 3 days after 9/11), it became hard to place anti-war articles in mainstream media as sense a of inevitability built up. Two collogues and I were driven to organize a NYT ad of prominent IR scholars who shared ad cost:
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsorโs arrest prompts calls for justice in the US
and now another retraction/reversal in Chester, New York:
midhudsonnews.com/2026/02/18/c...
Corporate media executives are selling out the First Amendment to curry favor with corrupt politicians.
This is the most dangerous kind of cancel culture โ the kind that comes from the top.
The real fight in this country is not left vs right; itโs top vs bottom.
Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.
And you know why?
Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.
