Apparently, on Christian album covers in the ’60s, the only thing worse than the hair was the obliviousness to the lewd double entendres.
Professor Twain
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College professor who loves family, Rays baseball, Cuban cigars, and liberty and justice for all
The “Why would a woman I’ve made worry that I will hurt her if she displeases me cook to placate me?” question is only asked by the least self-aware domestic abusers.
An Arkansas private school owner … • had no prior experience running a school • forced her students to scrub floors as punishment • urged a group of kids to physically attack their classmate She’s now gone. The state still funds that school. w/ @arktimes.bsky.social
This Private School Had Students Scrub Floors and Attack a Fellow Classmate. The State Still Funds It.
One of the few requirements for Arkansas private schools is that they have an American flag and a flagpole. But millions in state funds go to the largely unmonitored schools while complaints about saf...
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Wow, very important story about businesses slaughtering birds on the beach!
Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · last wk.2 #Florida men arrested for scattering hundreds of toixic mothballs on the beach to shoo away black skimmers so they wouldn't roost behind their businesses. www.tampabay.com/news/environ... via @maxchesnes.bsky.social
As we say adieu to Lindsey Graham, we should always remember:
Black kids protecting their Latino neighbors from ICE
I'm on Twitter and only see posts from people I follow. No, it's not a "right-wing fever swamp" for me. I only follow great people, many of whom are not here. It works great.
This is what a complete inability to think about anyone but yourself looks like:
Another great Florida "gator at the front door" story.
Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 2w agoHo hum, just another day in #Florida ...oh, and a 7-and-a-half foot alligator wandered up onto the front porch of a Palm Bay home and blocked the front door, trapping the freaked-out family inside. www.fox35orlando.com/news/alligat...
Oh, look! Explosive diarrhea is 50% off at Whole Foods.
I'm a proud dues paying member of AAUP! Outstanding organization doing great things.
United Academics@local6741.bsky.social · 2w agoSometimes people ask us why we insist that we must understand paying our @aaup.org dues as an important form of building power. Here is one example below. Join @aaup.org and help us keep defending faculty across the country and building power. Then, start organizing your colleagues!
Odyssey is a 173 minute film and the right is losing their shit over 16 minutes of diversity…
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
Ouch. Be careful, degenerate gamblers.
Dissent Magazine@dissentmag.bsky.social · 3w agoMore than a quarter of American adults have a daily gambling habit, 42 percent of bettors have said they spend more than they should, and a majority of men ages eighteen to forty-nine have an active account with an online sportsbook.
"We understood that African American families like ours had opportunities because of union jobs." — @afscme.bsky.social President Lee Saunders
If you have *real* evidence of election fraud, you file a lawsuit. But if you are a pathetic sore loser who wants desperately to believe any fiction that excuses your actual loss, you go on TV where, unlike in court, you won’t be held accountable for your brazen and ridiculous lies.
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 3w agoNow THAT'S a lede! "A decade ago, the state of #Florida stripped a teacher of her license for sexual abuse of a 16-year-old boy. Last year, she opened a private school there with ease." www.propublica.org/article/priv... via @propublica.org
Press release: Butterfly experts are planting 15,000 milkweed plants along #Florida roadsides to help monarchs. www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/butt... via @floridamuseum.bsky.social
Butterfly experts are planting 15,000 milkweed plants along Florida roadsides to help monarchs
If you’ve driven down two-lane highways in rural parts of North Florida recently, you may have noticed a spate of new signs that designate the grassy knolls bordering the asphalt as wildflower areas. ...
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Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon swears in new civil rights division lawyers at the DOJ. Because nothing says “we care about civil rights” quite like only hiring white people.
Nobel-prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has left the United States for a full-time position at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, where he will lead a new AI-assisted materials discovery institute. go.nature.com/4pf2jQ3
Nobel-winning chemist leaves US to direct AI materials lab in China
Omar Yaghi’s move comes amid cuts to US science and a campaign in China to recruit top international talent.
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A victory for the faculty, students, and people of FLORIDA. Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Florida’s Unconstitutional Classroom Censorship Law www.aclufl.org/press-releas...
Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Florida’s Unconstitutional Classroom Censorship Law - ACLU of Florida
The “Stop W.O.K.E.” Act was signed into law in 2022 and prohibited teachers and professors from discussing topics related to race and gender in the classroom
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I lived in Alabama for 12 years (taught at UAB). It is a complex place but I learned to love it despite its flaws. Great article that provides a taste of the complexity of the state and its politics.
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · last mo.Doug Jones’s campaign for governor has a long-shot logic, Howell Raines reports. He spoke with “Alabama’s proven upset artist” about how the state is changing: