Or, teachers are adding kitty litter to their classrooms for the kids who identify as cats.

It’s the Seventies Moral Majority “sex ed means public schools will be teaching your first grader how to put on a condom” propaganda all over again.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h ago

Royce White is now ranting about "transgender sex dolls" during a forum that is supposed to be about agricultural issues. This guy is a serious Republican in Minnesota who had the party's nomination for a Senate seat two years ago. Insanity.

I made this for my students last year and there are some links at the end to professional advice! docs.google.com/presentation... For more “real” advice, I tend to search for something like “annotations + libguide” in order to get librarians’ resources.

How Do Scholars Take Notes?

How do scholars take notes? I like seeing examples of different people’s notetaking, so I asked scholars to show me how they take notes for research.

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What is this person doing with AI all day that he can't work without it? Maybe it's an industry or role specific thing. I barely use it and wouldn't notice the difference.

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 22h ago

I have one answer.

Considering a Substack comment I received.... It's frustrating that Black wariness and cross-checking keeps getting dismissed as "reverse-racist" generalizing instead of the safety tool it is,

To be clear I think women are just more honest about this than guys who feel the need to hoot performatively over Sydney Sweeney to prove something but secretly all have crushes over three women on Law & Order and Leela from Futurama

Guys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

Digging through archives for two years only to finally find something that makes you go: "Well... damn, I've been wrong for TWO YEARS?!" is a crucial part of the historical process and these idiots will never put the work into learning how that is important.

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Yeah it is a psychologically comforting but factually incorrect (and dangerous) myth that chronic illness doesn’t impact young people, especially as we are learning more about early presentations of things like ankylosing spondylitis (which I have) & doctors slowly start to catch up to that research

I think there’s this idea that elderly ppl have “earned” the right to be unproductive & therefore are allowed to be disabled. They looks I get from other patients & their family members for being the youngest person in my rheumatologist’s waiting room are very telling: abject pity, or abject disgust

100%. The left needs to do just as much self reflection about the impact of capitalism on social issues. People don't need to be "productive" by this standard to deserve care & support. They exist, that's enough.

Love to have a rando on here basically demanding to see my medical bloodwork results because they can’t believe that long covid is real. This is a proported leftist. There really is a problem and right wing people arent the only ones who are in denial. Have those conversations with people.

There is soooo much ableism on the left it is ridiculous. I think it’s the hardest ism for them to unpack bc it challenges a lot of what we consider to be the morality of productivity in our society

god forbid

Ugh. And it's not like there isn't money in the economy to fund these fields. Besides the obscenely wealthy tax dodgers hoarding money, our govt is choosing to spend millions and billions on warfare and other things that don't serve the country or its culture (or global reputation...).

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

After the viral clips from Chinese social media mutilating and destroying Black baby dolls, I'm unfortunately not surprised. I really don't understand it, and I'm entirely disgusted, but unsurprised. 😮‍💨 Anti-Blackness is global and is found even among other non-white/Euro cultures. Exhausting.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d ago

"In Feb 2020 a shocking video began to circulate on Chinese social media. A group of African children are being instructed, by a voice off-camera, to chant phrases in Chinese. The kids repeat the words..." I am a black monster and my IQ is low.""

Thread, on the use of gAI to produce xenophobic videos featuring stereotypes of the dangerous, dirty, sexually predatory, violent foreigner threatening the cleanliness, order and peace of China. Fascinating, and terrifying.

Manya Koetse@manyapan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Chinese viral AI videos are turning foreigners into villains, flooding Chinese social media. They depict foreigners as threats to China’s social, moral, and national order. Strong, confident Chinese people confront, violently beat, and humiliate them in defense of their country. See more below🧵

he’s dressed like a slob in LSU gear for years. I guess he’s butching up in the military garb to show how tough he’s gonna be when fighting the people who want us to have healthcare and a clean environment

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Donie O’Sullivan@donie.bsky.social · 4d ago

"I am not going to be in the same party with Hasan Piker ... if he becomes a force in the Democratic Party, I am out of here," James Carville says on Fox this morning. Reminder: The Left Insurgency airs tonight on CNN at 8p ET.

The next day (well after the post went viral)

Playing music loudly indoors with the bass up is seriously uncool. 😮‍💨

Wow. The actual fuck.... Yes, yes she might have. He really thought we'd buy this as "proof"?

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

I really dislike this "larp/-er" insult people are throwing around. Yelling at clouds, I guess.

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Idk why everyone keeps evoking Platner here as if the problems with masculinity started with him.

Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 5d ago

‘Platner on steroids’: Rep. Max Miller abuse claims have Republicans silently sweating www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

This is the largest electric ferry, actually the largest electric vessel of any sort, in the world -- built in Australia and being readied for delivery to South America. Australia has no operating electric ferries of any size.

go follow @news.abc.net.au@abc-news.bsky.social · 6d ago

Slow-motion big ship lift operation thrills spectators in Hobart: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/tasmania-incat-ferry-ship-lift-operation-black-marlin-hobart/106981888

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