it only took 294 days to get from "immigrants are eating animals" to "we will feed immigrants to animals"

Underneath all this The only thing that matters is What and where you were born And how well you use it and conceal it 'Cause there's no peace On this terrible shore And everyday is a battle How we still love the war The Mekons open.spotify.com/track/2IYUlprl…

“America…The ultimate test of your greatness in the way you treat every human being, but especially the weakest and most defenceless ones.”

This is why the GOP wants to defund public ed and censor history curricula, so that they can characterize slavery and slaveholders as benevolent.

Elaine Scarry is required reading. theparisreview.org/interviews/831…

David Foster Wallace on Importance of Quiet youtube.com/shorts/OOypCWs… via YouTube

82 yr old lost his green card, made an appt to get a replacement, arrested when he showed up and deported. Then his family was told he died in ICE custody. His family discovered he’s alive in a hospital in Guatemala. Pure evil. mcall.com/2025/07/18/lui…

Catholic priests have been barred from providing religious services inside Florida's controversial new migrant detention facility — dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" — nearly three weeks after it opened deep in the Everglades, the archbishop of Miami said. bit.ly/3IFk8qd

Could use some of this right about now.

“…a man stood up in the middle of the congregation and shouted angrily: I didn't come here to listen to this kind of junk, I came to hear Mass.’” Merton writing in the mid-60s…proof that racism & bigotry among Christians is an ancient sin lodged in the souls of white folks.

“Transcendence has to be chosen: it can neither be given nor imposed.”

A lot of ppl’s lives were irrevocably changed on this day.

“Starving people to death is a diabolical way of waging war. It must end.” — Pope Leo to Netanyahu substack.com/home/post/p-16…

There’s no better way to spend a Sunday morning than with Bill Evans…

“If the data found their way to an exit, they became conclusions.” —Richard Powers, GALATEA 2.2

I think what most folks (teachers, admins, edTech wonks, and opinionated bystanders) misunderstand about teaching and learning is that it doesn’t begin or end with “content.” It begins with “What do you think?” and ends with “What do you think?”