Giknowbili
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he/him, teacher stuff, SATX
Stevie Wonder
Caribou (back when they were Manitoba)
Kraftwerk (well, Ralf Hutter and a few of his German friends)
George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars
Radiohead
Caribou (back when they were Manitoba)
Kraftwerk (well, Ralf Hutter and a few of his German friends)
George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars
Radiohead
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to:
The Cure
Prince
The Mountain Goats
Orbital
Chic
The Cure
Prince
The Mountain Goats
Orbital
Chic
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Cocteau Twins
The Blue Nile
Kate Bush
David Sylvian
Frazier Chorus
Cocteau Twins
The Blue Nile
Kate Bush
David Sylvian
Frazier Chorus
November 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Stevie Wonder
Caribou (back when they were Manitoba)
Kraftwerk (well, Ralf Hutter and a few of his German friends)
George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars
Radiohead
Caribou (back when they were Manitoba)
Kraftwerk (well, Ralf Hutter and a few of his German friends)
George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars
Radiohead
Watching both my favorite European teams simultaneously walking out of the tunnel on Thanksgiving to play in their respective continental tournaments (Rayo in Conference League, Celtic in Europa) is...something something American dream IDK.
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Watching both my favorite European teams simultaneously walking out of the tunnel on Thanksgiving to play in their respective continental tournaments (Rayo in Conference League, Celtic in Europa) is...something something American dream IDK.
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
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And with perfect timing, @mpershan.bsky.social just dropped a new essay. I haven't read it yet but I'm confident it's better than other ones.
pershmail.substack.com/p/i-dont-kno...
pershmail.substack.com/p/i-dont-kno...
I Don't Know What to Think About America's Declining Test Scores and Neither Should You
The case for confusion
pershmail.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
And with perfect timing, @mpershan.bsky.social just dropped a new essay. I haven't read it yet but I'm confident it's better than other ones.
pershmail.substack.com/p/i-dont-kno...
pershmail.substack.com/p/i-dont-kno...
Michael is right to eviscerate this take (as usual) and I have to roll my eyes whenever people decry how teachers unions hold back public ed.
I live in a right-to-work state where unions are defanged professional associations at best. Everything meaningful about schools is worse here.
I live in a right-to-work state where unions are defanged professional associations at best. Everything meaningful about schools is worse here.
And of course we get the brain-dead political analysis. The biggest crisis of public education (and the greatest threat to kids with mental illness) is the Republican Party's funding cuts. But guess who gets blamed in the conclusion of the article?
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Michael is right to eviscerate this take (as usual) and I have to roll my eyes whenever people decry how teachers unions hold back public ed.
I live in a right-to-work state where unions are defanged professional associations at best. Everything meaningful about schools is worse here.
I live in a right-to-work state where unions are defanged professional associations at best. Everything meaningful about schools is worse here.
My pet proposal is that we should have the whole six weeks from Thanksgiving to New Year period off, and I'd shave off a few weeks from summer break to make that happen.
I have, since childhood and onward through my teaching career, ALWAYS had the whole week off for Thanksgiving, and it always sets me off when people elsewhere in the US don't. Y'all are getting robbed!
November 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
My pet proposal is that we should have the whole six weeks from Thanksgiving to New Year period off, and I'd shave off a few weeks from summer break to make that happen.
Chris Paul, among PGs:
*1st all-time in career win shares
*2nd all-time in assists
*2nd all-time in steals
*T-2nd all-time in All-NBA teams (behind Cousy; tied with Steph, Oscar, Stockton)
*T-2nd all-time in All-Star teams (behind Cousy; tied with Thomas, Oscar, Magic)
*1st all-time in career win shares
*2nd all-time in assists
*2nd all-time in steals
*T-2nd all-time in All-NBA teams (behind Cousy; tied with Steph, Oscar, Stockton)
*T-2nd all-time in All-Star teams (behind Cousy; tied with Thomas, Oscar, Magic)
One hell of a career for Chris Paul. One of the best PGs I ever watched. For a very, very long time, the game was played at whatever pace and style CP3 wanted it played at when he was on the floor. I don't know where he ranks all-time among PGs, but it's very high on the list.
November 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Chris Paul, among PGs:
*1st all-time in career win shares
*2nd all-time in assists
*2nd all-time in steals
*T-2nd all-time in All-NBA teams (behind Cousy; tied with Steph, Oscar, Stockton)
*T-2nd all-time in All-Star teams (behind Cousy; tied with Thomas, Oscar, Magic)
*1st all-time in career win shares
*2nd all-time in assists
*2nd all-time in steals
*T-2nd all-time in All-NBA teams (behind Cousy; tied with Steph, Oscar, Stockton)
*T-2nd all-time in All-Star teams (behind Cousy; tied with Thomas, Oscar, Magic)
Today one of my students asked how to make the prefect bun. It took me a second to realize she meant MINE. The hair is hairing now I guess.
November 22, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Today one of my students asked how to make the prefect bun. It took me a second to realize she meant MINE. The hair is hairing now I guess.
More like Scary Bummers, get this creep outta here yesterday.
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
More like Scary Bummers, get this creep outta here yesterday.
Hey so did anyone else sob uncontrollably when they watched the del Toro "Frankenstein" movie or was it just me?
November 15, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Hey so did anyone else sob uncontrollably when they watched the del Toro "Frankenstein" movie or was it just me?
I write farewell letters for my graduating seniors that I hand to them at some point before they walk the stage. It's one of those gestures to let them know that your time together was meaningful. Would recommend if for no other reason than to preserve the art of letter writing.
Every year I write a letter of gratitude to each of my students. It’s nothing deep; I’ve been making little notes about beautiful sentences they write and smart things they say in discussions. Even my “tough” students get a “thank you for challenging me to see things differently!” 😂 +
November 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I write farewell letters for my graduating seniors that I hand to them at some point before they walk the stage. It's one of those gestures to let them know that your time together was meaningful. Would recommend if for no other reason than to preserve the art of letter writing.
I think an underrated part of why Dems have struggled to get anything substantive off the ground in the Trump era is how they've misidentified the Obama years as a triumph. He had 60 senators and the mantle for change, but he retreated into neoliberal technocracy.
44’s two terms changed my brain chemistry. Maybe I’m jaded, but comparing anyone to Barack makes me instantly think they’re a fraud.
November 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I think an underrated part of why Dems have struggled to get anything substantive off the ground in the Trump era is how they've misidentified the Obama years as a triumph. He had 60 senators and the mantle for change, but he retreated into neoliberal technocracy.
I'm glad I'm not the only one aggrieved by this! It's literally all the things that are intensely political, too!
"X shouldn't be political." OK but it is. Now what?
October 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I'm glad I'm not the only one aggrieved by this! It's literally all the things that are intensely political, too!
Had our first class discussion on this on Wednesday, and MAN am I stoked for this book. One of my students told me she was talking to her tia about it. Had another kid who has been really reluctant to read all semester tell me he didn't realize the West Side had a history.
I handed out copies of this to my juniors today since we're going to start reading it this week. I mentioned that the two TikTok videos I made about it were my most viewed/liked/commented.
tupress.org/978159534973...
tupress.org/978159534973...
October 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Had our first class discussion on this on Wednesday, and MAN am I stoked for this book. One of my students told me she was talking to her tia about it. Had another kid who has been really reluctant to read all semester tell me he didn't realize the West Side had a history.
I handed out copies of this to my juniors today since we're going to start reading it this week. I mentioned that the two TikTok videos I made about it were my most viewed/liked/commented.
tupress.org/978159534973...
tupress.org/978159534973...
October 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I handed out copies of this to my juniors today since we're going to start reading it this week. I mentioned that the two TikTok videos I made about it were my most viewed/liked/commented.
tupress.org/978159534973...
tupress.org/978159534973...
*deep breath, swallows bug, clears throat violently*
TEACHING IS CARE WORK
TEACHING IS CARE WORK
a thing about human teachers—it’s not just about having someone around who’s “nice” or “encouraging,” there’s no substitute for a teacher who likes ideas and enjoys being in a room full of thinking students
October 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
*deep breath, swallows bug, clears throat violently*
TEACHING IS CARE WORK
TEACHING IS CARE WORK
LMAO AP US Gov has ONE Black person's writing as a "foundational document" (surprise, it's MLK Jr., and surprise, the guided reading exercise CB makes for it excludes the "white moderate" section). They axed Roe v. Wade as a required case the second the SCOTUS overturned it in Dobbs (2022).
"The College Board in particular sometimes appears lost in a progressive haze."
No, it's something else.
www.wsj.com/opinion/clas...
No, it's something else.
www.wsj.com/opinion/clas...
Opinion | An ‘Oorah!’ to the Classic Learning Test
U.S. service academies move to accept an SAT and ACT alternative.
www.wsj.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
LMAO AP US Gov has ONE Black person's writing as a "foundational document" (surprise, it's MLK Jr., and surprise, the guided reading exercise CB makes for it excludes the "white moderate" section). They axed Roe v. Wade as a required case the second the SCOTUS overturned it in Dobbs (2022).
This rules. Being a teacher is so rad when you get to do it right.
I see the light in our teacher candidates' eyes when they speak about working with young people.
We are light workers. I don't want that light hidden under a proverbial bushel. I want it to shine. God knows we need all the candles we can get in these bleak times.
We are light workers. I don't want that light hidden under a proverbial bushel. I want it to shine. God knows we need all the candles we can get in these bleak times.
October 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This rules. Being a teacher is so rad when you get to do it right.
Accomplishment unlocked, slow burn edition: was told by a friend of mine that my one-teen protest in 2002 against the school prayer group doing a 9/11 anniversary event at the flag pole was a radicalizing event for their younger sister.
September 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Accomplishment unlocked, slow burn edition: was told by a friend of mine that my one-teen protest in 2002 against the school prayer group doing a 9/11 anniversary event at the flag pole was a radicalizing event for their younger sister.
Seven weeks into the school year and I feel like I'm having a mini-renaissance.
1. Year 2 of my school newspaper, got lots of kids who never signed up thrown in there. But they're working hard! We're getting everyone press badges this year, there's peer editing, more leadership from my returners...
1. Year 2 of my school newspaper, got lots of kids who never signed up thrown in there. But they're working hard! We're getting everyone press badges this year, there's peer editing, more leadership from my returners...
September 27, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Seven weeks into the school year and I feel like I'm having a mini-renaissance.
1. Year 2 of my school newspaper, got lots of kids who never signed up thrown in there. But they're working hard! We're getting everyone press badges this year, there's peer editing, more leadership from my returners...
1. Year 2 of my school newspaper, got lots of kids who never signed up thrown in there. But they're working hard! We're getting everyone press badges this year, there's peer editing, more leadership from my returners...
FWIW I managed to get class sets of two books each this year that I selected for my TX *and* US Government classes. We do weekly class discussions and reflective writing. I teach in one of the poorest public ISDs in my state. We're still out here doing our thing where we can.
at the same time, elite private k12 schools will (continue to) offer literature courses featuring paper books that teachers select while public school teachers will face very real impediments to offering parallel experiences
Some small, wealthy private college will eventually market a bespoke chatbot & mobile phone free academic environment, likely paired with a conservative GenEd curriculum (classical education, or the like). It will take off like wildfire. They will leap up the rankings. It’s just a matter of time.
September 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
FWIW I managed to get class sets of two books each this year that I selected for my TX *and* US Government classes. We do weekly class discussions and reflective writing. I teach in one of the poorest public ISDs in my state. We're still out here doing our thing where we can.
This reveals something important about the difference between the major parties and how they think about and do politics. GOP cleaves tight to their ideological goals,and doesn't feel beholden to public opinion or majoritarian consent in pursuit of those goals. Dems pursue reconciliation from jump.
real problem that democratic politicians fetishize being “responsible” and “the grown ups”
September 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This reveals something important about the difference between the major parties and how they think about and do politics. GOP cleaves tight to their ideological goals,and doesn't feel beholden to public opinion or majoritarian consent in pursuit of those goals. Dems pursue reconciliation from jump.
Slept in a Soulja Boy shirt, woke up with my swag turned on.
Slept in a Tom Petty shirt, woke up in a cabin down below.
Slept in a Dave Matthews Band shirt, and slept like a littlebayBaaaay
September 3, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Slept in a Soulja Boy shirt, woke up with my swag turned on.
Everyone who wants to make the world a freer, more just place needs to join an organization in their local areas and participate in meetings.
Also, spend less time arguing with people who want you dead and more with discouraged people who want to help but don't know how.
Also, spend less time arguing with people who want you dead and more with discouraged people who want to help but don't know how.
What's your take on the moment we're living through in 50 words or less. [you able to quote post]
August 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Everyone who wants to make the world a freer, more just place needs to join an organization in their local areas and participate in meetings.
Also, spend less time arguing with people who want you dead and more with discouraged people who want to help but don't know how.
Also, spend less time arguing with people who want you dead and more with discouraged people who want to help but don't know how.
I know I'm not the only one to draw this connection, but the type of men who were throwing sex toys at WNBA games recently and the men who become feds and do this are the same kind of men.
As if this week were not bizarre enough: Mount Pleasant residents tell me a group of federal agents gathered for a photo-op near a pro-immigrant banner, pictured below, then tore it down.
In its place, they left a dildo. A neighbor's Ring camera captured the whole thing...
In its place, they left a dildo. A neighbor's Ring camera captured the whole thing...
August 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I know I'm not the only one to draw this connection, but the type of men who were throwing sex toys at WNBA games recently and the men who become feds and do this are the same kind of men.