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I simply cannot understand how one person has that much wealth.

Today's reminder that the decisions made by powerful institutions--like the Supreme Court of the United States--can have powerful effects on norms and behavior.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, with more than 770,000 people counted as homeless.

Picture of tweet from saying: Every once in a while I ask myself: how did we get here? How did misinformation become a near existential threat to democracy and public health.

Deleting tweets and this rings truer today than ever

That dude throwing millions around at far right parties in democracies is just very unnerving.

At a certain point this whole billionaire owning mass and legacy media thing is going to precipitously crumble like gallium on aluminum.

This is the context in which academia, media, and politicians have landed on “we should stop discussing racism as a systemic problem” as the consensus common sense stance.

RFK Jr.’s Lawyer Has Asked the FDA to Revoke Polio Vaccine Approval Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.

POLIO?!

that was not on my 'worst case scenario' bingo card

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

Private equity everything is really bad. Why are we doing this?

Feel like GNX is one of those best heard in the car blasting

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a microphone with the words job 's not finished behind him . Alt: Kobe in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a microphone with the words job 's not finished in front of him .

Student: Are you happy class is done?

Me thinking bout class prep for tomorrow:

Happiest of birthdays to you!

Good luck! Let’s go!!

Have we not watched Black Mirror?

I have a lot of changes to make and I am glad I know where to go, but what a cool semester.

This semester I taught a class that about the relationship(s) between universities & cities. I taught with a bit less structure than I would’ve liked, but did so b/c I wasn’t sure what I’d need to do it well.

In reading students’ final reflections…I think we did well. They also had good feedback!

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This semester I have legitimately seen just how powerful teaching can be AND this has made me think a lot about what it means to do so in the face of what’s to come. I dunno, like, I want students to go out there and change the world and I want them to be safe. Just thoughts into the void lol.

Sending you a lot of love fam

Cheering for you

I think a lot about what @nanjala.bsky.social said once about oligarchy and threats to freedom:

One way to stay free and resist authoritarianism is “resisting the narratives of inevitability”.

We are being told to accept exploitative AI, because our tech overlords say so.

We don’t have to.

I just changed the handle but did just follow you

Would love to be added as I make this move!