Hey, fellow Higher Ed Arts faculty members: we are not teaching how one performs surgeries on babies. Focus on our actual impact. I know we’re tired. And. We’re teaching our students how to grow & become MORE of themselves. Put your ego on a shelf. And explain to your students how to do the same.
This is how liars lie (and how I call it out).
the defining characteristic of art — what distinguishes it from other forms of cultural production — is its potential to elicit controversy in the absence of a determinate concept of taste…ie every work fits this description
This could get ugly quickly.
So many people are having this same moment of self recognition, this uncomfortable awareness that they are thinking things they never used to think and feeling things they never wanted to feel. This is not bloodlust. This is a nervous system trying to find a way out. 👇🏼
Autocrats always find way to contribute to entice people to give up their morals.
That’s why it’s so important for all of us to be aware of when they’re trying to do, remain true to our morals, and find ways to respond accordingly.
Southwestern view of the Mackinac Bridge traversing the Straits of Mackinac. // Image captured at: 2026-03-06 18:29:00 UTC (about 8 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: windy.com // Current Temp in St. Ignace: 37 F | 3 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: ESE at 8 mph | 14 kph // Humidity: 99%
Current* conditions near St. Ignace, MI:
The economic story just changed dramatically.
Payrolls fell -92k in Feb. Jan growth was revised down by -4k to +126k. And Dec revisions subtracted -64k to -17k.
Unemployment rate up a tick to 4.4%.
Recession questions are back on the menu
Now, to be fair, the first female med students had to have all but one of their classes completely separate from the men. But that only lasted a few years.
And even after that, their anatomy classes were separate for years - and anatomy labs were separate for decades.
But it was still a BIG deal.
View looking north from the Riviera Motel looking at the Lake Huron side of the Mackinac Bridge. // Image captured at: 2026-03-06 12:12:14 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@RivieraMotelMackinawCity // Current Temp in Mackinaw City: 33 F | 0 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: ESE at 15 mph | 24 kph // Humidity: 100%
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My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.
The best band you’ll ever see
She can’t write off all the filler anymore 😞
Kristi Noem misattributing a paraphrase of Rudyard Kipling to George Orwell really does sum it all up huh
FKA Twigs reads a letter about feeling the societal pressure on women to be ‘nice’, but being secretly furious about it.
This strong #CupOfJoe goes to all women who know that being nice isn’t what gives you value. It’s living your truth.
#WomensHistoryMonth
This is Button. His family decided he was ready to be left home alone for the first time today. As it turns out, freedom can be a little awkward. 12/10 (TT: beginningwithbutton)
It's very funny as a Catholic to watch Talarico get raked over the coals by Evangelicals over "God is Non Binary"
You really think it's beyond the pale that God is non-binary?
GOD IS LITERALLY AN ETHEREAL BEING!
GOD DOESN'T HAVE GENETALIA!
THIS ISN'T ZEUS!
GOD DOESN'T FUCK!
Drug cartels, well-known for their Marxian tendencies.
If @slotkin.senate.gov and @peters.senate.gov go through with funding billions more for Trump's apocalyptic Iran war, congrats, the tail has successfully wagged the dog.
Call them; demand NO more 💰 for this illegal war. That's how we get forever wars. Just get out.
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
NE view from Alpena Lighthouse with Lake Huron and North Point in the distance. // Image captured at: 2026-03-05 14:40:01 UTC (about 3 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: glerl.noaa.gov/metdata/apn/ // Current Temp in Alpena: 33 F | 1 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: E at 11 mph | 19 kph // Humidity: 91%
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I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.
I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.
This was absolutely my experience, forty years ago. We lived in fear of her.
This is gorgeous
Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.
No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.
Worth a watch.
(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
leveraged, partnered, advanced, precise — somehow even more grotesque when the numbed, bullshit jargon of corporate marketing, already nihilistic, is transposed into the domain of state murder
It’s 38 degrees here at 10:37pm. It’s raining. And we have windows/doors cracked. And it is glorious.
4 March 2026, Ann Arbor
This is wretched & stooopid & yuck.
Watch this.
19 minutes and $12 to get meds at a public Chinese hospital. Without insurance.
As we slash Medicaid to start unnecessary wars and cut taxes for the rich. 🇺🇸
We should all be so much angrier than we are. It doesn’t have to be this way. #MedicareForAllNOW
