The situation only becomes complicated when you believe some groups of people are less worthy of sovereignty or human rights.

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

A resignation letter from UCSF's Jack L. Turban, MD MHS, to NCAA President Charles D. Baker, dated February 6, 2025. Turban resigns from the CSMAS committee, disagreeing with the NCAA's decision to ban trans women from women's sports, citing lack of medical/scientific consensus and political motivation. He thanks the committee for their work but criticizes the decision's basis.

This is how it’s done. Dr. Jack Turban is resigning after the NCAA announced it is banning transgender athletes from women’s sports.

Rosa Parks was born on this day in 1913.

Far from being a face of respectability politics, she was a defiant working-class organizer who despised the cringing submission that Jim Crow induced and who doggedly fought oppression in all its forms.

No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.

Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.

A cartoon by Robert Leighton

A cartoon by Robert Leighton

Usually teach Lord of the Flies at the end of the year but decided to move it up to February because, yeah, I dunno, felt like a good time to explore fascism and masculinity as brutality.

A sign sitting above a library display, reading bright books for dark days

Shoutout to my library, and all libraries. #booksky #readbannedbooks

What an exhausting day.

So much trauma out there in the world, in our people.

Sending love ♥️

Blue skies sounds nice.