Matt Wood

Without even clicking the link, I’ll guess the reason — all the talk of racism makes white kids feel guilty. Again, if your kids are reading histories of slavery or segregation and identifying with the racists in the story, that suggests you’ve got your own problems to work through. Leave us out.

Reposted by

Matt Wood

One of the reasons TA work is sometimes (AND OFTEN NOT) repetitive lower-skilled tasks is bc these are training tasks for early career scholars. If we automate them and eliminate the positions associated with them, we are explicitly gutting the future of these fields.

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

Reposted by

Matt Wood

Just a jaw-dropper from the state whose attorney general is currently trying to execute an innocent man. innocenceproject.org/missouri-cir...

Reposted by

Matt Wood

Bracket Symbols xkcd.com/2954

Reposted by

Matt Wood

Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 69 avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...

Reposted by

Matt Wood

Reply to

Kevin M. Kruse

Kevin are you aware of Tech For Campaigns? www.techforcampaigns.org

Tech for Campaignswww.techforcampaigns.org We deploy world-class tech talent to volunteer for progressive political campaigns. Do you have the skills and a passion for change? Join our community!

Reposted by

Matt Wood

Living under authoritarian regimes is both relatively boring and normal AND incredibly corrosive to the human soul. These things can absolutely co-exist. This is why everyone needs to resist authoritarians, even people who privately assume they’ll be just fine.

The damage this causes across generations (even if the regime is short lived!) is so hard to grasp if you haven’t lived with it. It touches every aspect of life. It makes trust impossible, and without some level of trust and a belief in the possibility of justice, *nothing in society works.*

I just signed up for this. All hands on deck for this election!

I just signed up to write postcards to get out the vote in swing states. You can, too! www.turnoutpac.org/postcards/

Postcards to Swing States - Progressive Turnout Projectwww.turnoutpac.org Voters who receive handwritten postcards are significantly more likely to vote. We proved it in 2020.

Reposted by

Matt Wood

Reply to

Pwnallthethings

Like there's a lot they were not especially clear about, and all sorts of reasons where we shouldn't tie our own future to their past. But "Kings are bad; the President is not a King; he must be constrained by law" is one of the few things they were, to their credit, very clear about

I co-sign this.

Under today’s immunity decision, Biden could order AG Garland to immediately prosecute Thomas and Alito for corruption and insurrection. (Official act). If Garland refuses, Biden can fire him and replace him with someone who will. (Official act) I would suggest Elie Mystal.

Reposted by

Matt Wood

if President Biden declared today's Supreme Court ruling to be an assault on democracy and ordered Chief Justice John Roberts imprisoned indefinitely, would that be an "official act?"

American voters must re-elect President Biden and also elect a Democratic majority in the House and Senate. SCOTUS is deeply partisan and activist and must be expanded and re-balanced.

Reposted by

Matt Wood

So if Joe Biden declared today that November’s election is canceled and ordered the military to keep him in power, would that be an “official act”?

Reposted by

Matt Wood

You know what's crazy is you could easily write a historically compelling op-ed about how Trump should end his campaign because he's a convicted criminal who tried to overthrow the government and is only on the ballot/out of prison because of extremely corrupt judges he personally appointed

Reposted by

Matt Wood

Awful: Trump just revealed that he will attack Biden over "migrant killings" at the debate later this month. It really is time to treat the Trump-MAGA use of these horrific murders to smear millions of undocumented immigrants as a big story. 1/ New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1829...

Trump Just Revealed How He’ll Attack Biden at Debate—and It’s Vilenewrepublic.com He’s going to pin “migrant killings” on Biden. It’s false, and here’s how Biden should respond.

Reposted by

Matt Wood

Twin debunks of Gov. Abbott’s “voter fraud” claim and Lara Trump’s insistence that the GOP can only now do pollwatching. Both dishonesties serve the same end. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Republicans promise that, this time, they’ll find all the illegal votingwww.washingtonpost.com Before the 2020 campaign, there was a similar effort by the GOP to install “poll watchers.” They didn’t see significant fraud because there wasn’t any.

Reposted by

Matt Wood

Reply to

Tom Nichols

It is such a great article because it’s so true.

Donald Trump, the Most Unmanly Presidentwww.theatlantic.com Why don’t the president’s supporters hold him to their own standard of masculinity?

Reposted by

Matt Wood

Reply to

emptywheel

@adamserwer.bsky.social Trump approvingly posted video of a deranged supporter accosting Joe Scarborough and raging that if Trump wins he'll "get rid of" liberals, a sentiment Trump plainly endorsed by elevating the vid, and not one MSM civility cop took note of it: newrepublic.com/article/1819...

Trump’s Ugly, Hateful Attacks on Media Suddenly Take a Dangerous Turnnewrepublic.com His posting of a video of a man cursing at Joe Scarborough sends a broader message: If elected, he’ll use state power to come after countless other Americans.

Reposted by

Matt Wood

If I recall correctly, the Right Wing echo chamber originally defended the story about Harlan Crowe paying for the private education of Justice Thomas's "stepson" with umbrage that anyone would criticize Justice Thomas when he had taken on the huge task of "adopting" this young man.

Clarence Thomas’s “Son” Breaks Silence From Jailnewrepublic.com Mark Martin, the man raised by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a “son,” is speaking out on the sad truth of their relationship.

Reposted by

Matt Wood

No sane person is going to want to go to college in Texas in the very near future.

Two male Texas professors are suing to flunk students who get abortions. Their reason? The students had "consensual sexual intercourse." Which the professors appear to believe is their right to punish. www.salon.com/2024/06/03/t...

Texas professors want to use abortion ban to punish students for "consensual sexual intercourse"www.salon.com It's part of a larger pattern of men using the new law to control and abuse women in their lives

Reposted by

Matt Wood

Read this, share this, write your representatives and senators to demand they back this.

Gift link: Jamie Raskin. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/o...

Opinion | Jamie Raskin: How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Caseswww.nytimes.com Can they really decide for themselves whether they can be impartial?

Reposted by

Matt Wood

Science is awesome. NASA rocks.

Reposted by

Matt Wood

statement by UT Austin faculty, announcing a strike tomorrow in protest of the police presence on campus

Reposted by

Matt Wood

Wow, who could have guessed that putting a bounty on women seeking abortions would have had negative outcomes? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Texan Suing Ex’s BFFs Over Abortion Allegedly Promised to Drop Lawsuit for Sexwww.rollingstone.com A Texas man suing his ex-wife's friends for allegedly helping her get an abortion allegedly promised to drop the lawsuit in exchange for sex.

I've been wanting to get back into making music recently, so downloaded the trial of Logic Pro a couple days ago. Last night I decided to see how fast I could put a (rough) song together using mostly Apple Loops and a (*very rough*) guitar solo on top. Total time < 3 hours. youtu.be/nsZRffRwDgU

- YouTubeyoutu.be Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.