Not for nothing, there are few things as radicalizing as getting involved in childhood hunger issues. Once you realize how cheap it is to feed kids in need, how valuable it is to do so, and how often in the US we just choose not to do so, you get passionate about the issue fast.

bossk baby@bonnnt.bsky.social · 4d ago

found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

Too much modern culture only understands politics as a form of performance art and not as a form of individual and/or collective action, even though the latter is what politics actually is.

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Dolly Parton lived with a gay man for years. She was a vocal advocate for LGBTQ+ folks and a philanthropic champion of childhood literacy and education, vaccines, and the black people in her community. "We don't know what her politics were"? Please. She lived them. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/a...

RIP Dolly

FT@fucktheory.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

L to R: Chris Richards: biracial kid from Alabama who speaks about black history and has tattoos of MLK, Ali, and Obama Sergiño Dest: Dutch-Surinamese, emigrated to Brooklyn as a kid, naturalized Fola Balogun: born in Brooklyn to vacationing parents, raised in UK but CHOOSES to play for USA

Zito@zeets.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hard for this team to be good vibes when this keeps happening

First W of the season! Go Racing!

Racing Louisville FC@racingloufc.com · 6mo ago

RACING LOUISVILLE DUB 😤 #LOUvORL

RACING LOUISVILLE DUB 😤 #LOUvORL

I should say (as I do in the essay) that both Vladimir and Rooster have a lot going for them, and that accurately representing university life isn’t their main purpose. But at a time when higher ed is in the culture warrior crosshairs, it’d help if our pop culture were more plugged-in to reality.

Like a lot of other TV critics, I couldn’t help but notice that we got two shows set at colleges this month. As someone who spends a lot of time around teachers and students, I found these shows’ cliched approach to modern higher education frustrating, so I wrote about why for the AVC.

The A.V. Club@avclub.com · 7mo ago

The fictionalized depiction of college in shows like Rooster and Vladimir is becoming a real-world problem. www.avclub.com/have-tv-writ...

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

They didn’t give the man a turkey leg and he never forgot.

Toyotathon Jordan Love plus Thanksgiving Jordan Love is like the powers combining for Captain Planet.

She is simply 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘽𝙀𝙎𝙏!!! 😤 In just her 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣 as a head coach, #RacingLou’s Bev Yanez has been named the 2025 NWSL Coach of the Year! This makes Bev the 𝙁𝙄𝙍𝙎𝙏 American and 𝙁𝙄𝙍𝙎𝙏 former NWSL player to win this award! 🥇

GO ON GIRL 👏 Emma Sears has been named to the NWSL Best XI Second Team!

The Queen of the midfield has 𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐃 👸 Taylor Flint has been named to the NWSL Best XI Second Team!

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Oh, and after all the millions of dollars spent on advertising, the harmful policies and all the demagoguery... Stop. Picking. On. Trans. Kids. The Rs lost to me four times in six years. That should've been a hint. But apparently it wasn't, so the voters made their thoughts crystal clear tonight.

History! Racing Louisville in the playoffs for the first time ever! LFG!

“If you are in the masters house, did you honestly think you would live there comfortably?”- PHC on resistance within the academy… 🫢🥴🫠 #ASA2025 #BlackFemSoc

democrats are going to be dealing with anti-trans hate until they either - nut the fuck up and defend these people from bigoted attacks - concede to every republican attack on the issue, inevitably leading to the total eradication of trans people from all public life literally the only 2 options

This, on teaching as opposed to research in higher ed, made me smile:

If you're worried about your daughter losing at sports to a trans kid just wait until you hear about "tall kids" or "rich kids"!!! There's a thousand reasons why one kid might win over another and gender identity is like not even on the list

Poor and working class students of color ALSO face the bullshit racism from people like Andreessen who use their existence as a shield from a real discussion about social inequality in society and as a mechanism for distributing the psychological wages of whiteness that white solidarity depends on.

Of course Andreessen's position is racist as fuck but I wanted to directly address what he's avoiding discussing: the actual barriers poor and working class students face to accessing higher education -- including the white ones. Of course poor and working class students of color face the same ones+

The white students who are struggling to make ends meet are not struggling because Black and immigrant students got into our university. They are struggling because of a shitty social safety net & high tuition because people like Andreesen don't pay sufficient taxes/the state doesn't pay its share.

<diligently updating the list of career paths on the university’s “Major in Mathematics!” poster>

It’s the same reason colleges have academic deans.

Josh Gondelman@joshgondelman.bsky.social · 2y ago

Referees are a good concept because it’s nice to have someone in a position of authority at your job you can yell at a little bit until they’re like okay that’s enough.

The central premise of Trumpism is that white guys are inherently the most capable and qualified people for any meaningful position. As a white guy who spends a lot of time with white guys, I can assure everyone that premise is fundamentally wrong

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

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