Derek Gottlieb

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Professor, indexer, Milwaukee for the duration, etc., etc.

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Around the world, the left keep saving the center while getting nothing but condescension from the haughty, dubiously-democratic ingrates.

The French are world leaders at "The govt sucks, I'm voting for my ideal, no way I'll compromise, you compromise" (round 1) followed by "The only way to stop the far right? Ugh, fine." (round 2). Often a responsibility placed more on the left, but this time the center too, perhaps more. Let's see...

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The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

A short history of WHATEVER innovative education reform we happen to be talking about at any given time, technological or otherwise:

I think about this quote from Audrey Watters' Teaching Machines a lot: "With the students of Harlem as his test subjects, [B. F.] Skinner could rescue them from a failing system and as an ed-tech savior, he could then convince the rest of the world of the effectiveness of his teaching machines."

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

", barely fit for an Oklahoma public school," is the most devastating appositive in the history of the English language.

Wrote about FORREST GUMP at 30. For a film that obviously resonates with a lot of people, I honestly can’t fathom what it’s trying to express. amp.theguardian.com/film/article...

Forrest Gump at 30: a wildly popular movie that remains as light as a feather | Tom Hanks | The Guardianamp.theguardian.com Tom Hanks is an affecting lead but the popularity of Robert Zemeckis’s much-loved Oscar-winner is still a curious mystery

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Wrote about FORREST GUMP at 30. For a film that obviously resonates with a lot of people, I honestly can’t fathom what it’s trying to express. amp.theguardian.com/film/article...

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Michigan, I owe you an apology. I was not familiar with your game.

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Books from Katherine Jensen and Jessica Calarco made this list of nine books to read this summer from the College of Letters and Sciences ls.wisc.edu/news/hot-rea... #SummerReading #SociologyBooks #NewPub

Hot Reads 2024ls.wisc.edu

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More trains *through Milwaukee*

More trains please.

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WE WANT TRAINS

More trains please.

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~o~l~d~~p~e~o~p~l~e~~d~o~n~’~t~~w~a~n~t~~b~i~k~e~~l~a~n~e~s~ #bryantbikepath #winning

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"remote work allows [many more moms] to be in the workforce... but the challenge is that remote work is not a great substitute for child care." Thanks to the AP's Claire Savage for this Q&A about Holding It Together and remote work's double-edged sword. apnews.com/article/wome...

Q&A: Jessica Calarco on ‘how women became America’s safety net’apnews.com Compared with its economic peers, the United States lacks social safety net programs like sick time, vacation time and health care.

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"The premise that we should all pay taxes for public schools regardless of whether we have children in them presumes that education is viewed as a universally beneficial public good." jacobin.com/2024/06/publ...

We Can’t Win the School Culture Warsjacobin.com Flash-in-the-pan school controversies distract us from the Right’s long-standing aim: destroying public education itself. To preserve this audacious experiment in democracy, we must bridge cultural an...

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Hey look what showed up in today's mail! Congratulations, @cjdenial.bsky.social! I'm excited to dive in

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the conservative theory of law in one headline

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Additional context for these attacks in the basic tenets of democracy: many whites would rather die than have to share power with non-whites in a multiracial democracy. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Growing sense of social status threat and concomitant deaths of despair among whiteswww.sciencedirect.com A startling population health phenomenon has been unfolding since the turn of the 21st century. Whites in the United States, who customarily have the …

This is how I find out the episode is up :) It's not just the religious right, but all proponents of privatization as a means of general improvement in some sector (in my view). Whether they recognize it or not, it always comes down to somebody's exclusive use or exclusive decision-making power.

Just heard @derekgottlieb.bsky.social say on the latest @haveyouheard.bsky.social pod, "[the religious right] is trying to make the acceptance of this anti-pluralistic, anti-democratic public space the cost of having ANY services [public ed], ANY protections, ANY individual liberties whatsoever." 🔥

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Durbin pulling his punches so as not to “ruffle the feathers” of Republicans is yet another example of preemptively attempting to prevent an expected backlash. Trying to placate the right in this way has failed over and over again, and it is important to note that the GOP rarely if ever does this.

this is even more ludicrous! durbin could unilaterally prevent republicans from blocking nominations if he simply stopped the blue slip nonsense—something republicans themselves won't honor once in power. this democracy is cooked

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This is so important because the fascists are depending on us to be cynical and hopeless. It is literally part of their strategy.

The Court ruling today is terrible but expected. I will just gently remind everyone that the election hasn’t happened yet. We shouldn’t assume the worst outcome as a foregone conclusion. That only encourages more apathy than many are already feeling.

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16/ meanwhile, the wi gop was doing this. abortion is very much on the ballot in wisconsin this year. www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...

Assembly passes referendum on 14-week abortion ban that faces certain Evers vetowww.jsonline.com The bill deploys a seldom-used process by which a law passed by the Legislature and signed by the governor can be enacted only with voters' approval.

Yes, yes, yes. This is excellent public service.

🧵A brief history of education reform in the 21st century US: ◾ GW Bush dismantles the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, creating the Institute of Educational Sciences with the call to create a "science of education," with the "Gold Standard" of RCTs

Of course, this AI product nominally *was* to support kids. The real and egregious and apparently irresistible error is imagining that there must be some *new* and *innovative* way to support kids that's more efficient than actual people-hours and direct material resources.

six million dollars that could have actually gone to support kids

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You see this at the University level constantly; they claim not to have money to fund programs that might actually help students but there’s always $100m for the absolute dumbest shit you’ve ever heard of and when it inevitably fails they’re like welp better close the classics department

six million dollars that could have actually gone to support kids

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Must be nice to have choices

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the latest in public-private partnerships. The public gets to punish the school district for wasting money, but the leaders of the tech company itself skate (its employees also holding the bag).

A.I. ‘Friend’ for Public School Students Falls Flatwww.nytimes.com Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed.

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All you need to know about this WSJ article is that the author is one of those diversity of thought people who can’t imagine that racial or gender based discrimination could shape the worldview of wealthy people.

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Saving this for the next time I teach about the interest convergence thesis.

@jbouie.bsky.social Mostly through Ganz's Rodney King chapter, and I cannot wait for you guys to do "L.A. Confidential" on the pod. What ideological WORK is a movie about corruption in the mid-century LAPD doing for its viewers in the aftermath of 1992?

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Philosophers be like “you know what would be great? A king who was just the smartest and most judicious person I can imagine. A philosopher king, if you will”