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Do you need to know what you think before you start writing? Not necessarily, argues historian Lynn Hunt. In a 2010 #AHAPerspectives essay, Hunt explores how the act of writing itself generates new ideas and why getting words on the page is essential to the thinking process.

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

Third government to fall to a GenZ protest so far. Nepal and Madagascar also culminated in a change of government. The kids are not taking it anymore.

Despite the significant investments ploughed into artificial intelligence it has provided “zero payoff” to corporate America outside of technology, according to Apollo's Chief Economist Torsten Slok. Read more: bloom.bg/3UO2c30 📷: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

This whole post is great — including the reminder that “Direct Instruction” is not synonymous with “direct instruction” — but this part is so essential to interpreting educational research that it’s irresponsible not to acknowledge it when discussing implications (ie context matters!!!):

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Work your trauma recovery by the hour. What are you committed to this hour, in terms of managing your self talk, your mental focus, & your physiology? Those are the building blocks of our recovery & our quality of life. Those are the levers that really will make a difference.

The elite hate us being educated, us educating you, you educating each other, and you having time to do this. Stop granting that it's the university that is elitist inherently: it's been made that way for a reason. Some more points below also on the marriages between patriarchy, AI, capitalism...

A question that I recur to daily nowadays.

When the EduCogSci revolution began in the UK, there was a push against pedagogical centralisation: subject specific pedagogies were lauded. This required pedagogical decentralisation. The EduCogSci revolution, however, began eating itself when it once again wanted to centralise pedagogy.

Also, studies show that when we improve a space or system for the disabled, the benefits actually spread to everyone. You’re not just helping yourself later; you’re helping yourself right now.

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

Also worth noting: Many admin and decision-makers were not in the classroom this decade and don‘t have the lived experience of how taxing this has been to consistently have to change EVERYTHING so frequently about how you teach.

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

“Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp states ‘AI will undermine the influence of highly educated, often female voters and give it to working class men. We have feminine energy running our cities and our courts,’ he complained.”

Smartphone cameras mean people can't call Black folk liars when we describe how much racism we receive. The cost of solar panels dropped so much that it's obvious that the US government *chooses* to stay on coal and gas, not that it *can't* get off of coal and gas. China planted 66 billion trees.

🧵 Matt Yglesias is one of the biggest reasons the Democratic Party leadership is so feckless, cowardly, and lazy. I'm not exaggerating. Yglesias is often a featured speaker at private Democratic Party events, despite almost always being wrong. Let's discuss...

I want you to think about realistically managing your triggers & traumatic stressors every day, specifically because your life should be about things OTHER than your triggers & traumatic stressors every day. True recovery empowers us to think about things other than recovery.

My deep dive on the "A.I.-driven" Alpha School, revealing their internal learning and enrollment data for the first time, just as the network expands into public education. There is a big gap between the marketing and reality. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

If you did something amazing today, I'm proud of you. If you went to work today, I'm proud of you. If you took a shower, I'm proud of you. If you did some laundry, I'm proud of you. If you got out of bed, I'm proud of you. And if all you did was make it through another day, I'm still proud of you.

Trans voter to @aoc.bsky.social: Trans people in America feel like they've been abandoned by the Democratic Party, that we are a losing issue, that it's not worth defending us. What do you say to that? AOC:

I think this explains in the language of econ what @tressiemcphd.bsky.social has been arguing in the language of sociology, but which many people deny because it doesn't show up in the charts. People grasp how vulnerable they are to life's vagaries, even if the lexicon they use is affordability.

James Carville, Please Go Away, a column by me: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Mounting evidence suggests that AI can impact foundational skill development for K-12 students. We gathered the research for you here: https://edut.to/4dIvVRi

The Realistic Recovery newsletter is a free resource that will deliver a non-overwhelming selection of my posts about realistic, sustainable trauma recovery to your inbox twice a week. Free yourself from the algorithm. drdoylesays.beehiiv.com

As one of the candidates featured in these polls - the infamous one in late June that showed me plummeting into single digits (which was at odds with our internals) - here's the impact of this "experiment"

Has been so lovely meeting so many of you over the past few weeks! Come see me on these last few stops if you can! I’ll be cool, I promise! Check the link in bio for venue details, love you guys!

My latest @nbcnews.com investigation dropped this morning -- We analyzed the YouTube watch histories of 11 students to look into how some students end up viewing over 5,000 YouTube videos in class, on school-issued laptops, in a single school year www.nbcnews.com/specials/hoo...

Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026, WSJ reports reut.rs/4z2Zi9J

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

“You are still learning to be free.” —a thing I said out loud to myself during a rough moment last week. & wrote it in my journal. & put it on my mirror. Sharing here in case you are still learning & need to remind yourself, too. Slow. Steady. Onward. Free. 🖤

Because there's nothing pretty about our healing doesn't mean we're doing it wrong. It means what happened to us was ugly. Our healing work is necessary-- but not always aesthetic. We're not doing trauma recovery because it's fun. We're doing it because we deserve better.

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Colonisation mindset: destroy all other cultures

Warnock: "I worry that Democrats are missing a real opportunity to invest in a serious & sustained way in the South. If we would just lean in and stay in through the election & after the election, the kind of victory you saw us achieve here in Georgia, it is achievable in a place like Mississippi."

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

a tax revolt fueled by stupid people who don’t understand escrow payments www.politico.com/news/magazin...

“Could I have developed that if I’d had a robot leading my thinking all along?” Appreciate very much how this @edutopia.org piece offers healthy pushback to some of the "AI strategies" being used for student learning right now. 🙏 www.edutopia.org/article/5-go...

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

We already have flying cars. They're called helicopters. They're really expensive and there are good reasons you have to have a pilot license and work with air traffic control to fly them. Putting jets on a sedan is not going to result in a better vehicle or transportation experience in any way.

Like, to check my kid's summative math assignments/grades, I need to use one app. But to check the same kid's formative assignments/grades, I need to use a different app. And then there's a whole other app for communicating with the teacher about those assignments/grades.