congratulations to the kinks, i love waterloo sunset
It seems we are now entering a new phase of the rise of inequality in the US. It's not just wealth and billionaires — it's a broader acceleration. Here's who benefited from economic growth in 2025, according to the latest estimates available on realtimeinequality.org
It feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
"I'll burn down your house" - legally actionable, boring, common "I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
POV: you are two mini muffins in a breakfast buffet and I am nearby
Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · last yr.The zoomers can’t comprehend how big this pose was in the early 2000s
I knew this was coming, but this is just so f*ing depressing.
Why Some Schools Are Rethinking ‘College for All’ (Gift Article)
The idea that every student should aim for a four-year college motivated a bipartisan movement for decades. Now even enthusiastic promoters of the idea are reconsidering it.
nytimes.com
This reality is not sufficiently accounted for in the postsec access/success space.
Kim Weeden@weedenkim.bsky.social · 2y agoHow many of the people pushing trade school have ever worked a physical job, let alone worked one after age 40? Bodies can only tolerate so much driving road graders, climbing ladders, or contorting under sinks. Often they wear out long before there's enough money to retire. Then what? Pop pills?
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,679,317!
"Ai is coming for your jobs". I'd like to see ai take a southwest flight with 3 layovers to open for hoobastank at a county fair
please sign my petition to post the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition on the wall of every Louisiana classroom
“Consider shifting away from liberal arts programs to programs that are more career specific, particularly if the institution serves a large number of low-income students.” If the liberal arts have no value, why reserve them only for high-income students? The motives are so transparent.
UW System president privately suggested chancellors ‘shift away’ from liberal arts programs
In an email to chancellors of UW campuses, UW System President Jay Rothman privately suggested schools “shift away” from liberal arts programs while making large, one-time budget cuts.
dailycardinal.com