Steven Maher

If there's anything I've learned from scanning through Anthropic's S-1, is that the word compute is also a noun

History teachers teaching the discipline rather than the school subject can use 9/11 to show how two contradictory statements, both replete with verifiable evidence supporting them, can both be true at the same time. 9/11 both "brought the country together" and "divided the country".

US History teachers should take this recommendation and add also read Nicole Hemmer's "Partisans" to realize teaching this period is essential. It's 2026 and we still spend more time on the cotton gin than the internet

"We are accustomed to think that, in questions like the present, involving the first principles of civil liberty and the dearest rights of mankind, passionate invective, rash menace, and random exclamation, are poor substitutes for reason and argument." ~Caleb Cushing (1837)

18 U.S. Code § 912 - Officer or employee of the United States www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

Hey K-12 Social Studies teachers, this is for you and your geography lessons

It's good to hear what adults sound like

And these are the senators who voted to confirm him as Secretary of Health and Human Services. www.senate.gov/legislative/...

Fall season previews for America

Teachers need to take this advice as well. There's not much time left in the summer to save thousands of children from the oceans of AI Slop presentations headed their way

Hello local business, your AI ads are costing you customers: aftermath.site/ai-poster-ad-f...

Prebunk: Labour Day is often treated as the unofficial end of summer in the U.S. and the moment campaign season really kicks into gear. As the election cycle heats up, watch for arguments suggesting that it’s somehow normal or acceptable to have federal agents stationed at polling places. It isn’t.

If the gas gauge in your car was inaccurate and left you stranded, you'd stop relying on it. You wouldn't rely on a banking app that consistently miscalculated your cash, or a weather service that was always wrong. Media reporting what the president says ignore this basic understanding of life.

Teaching the 70s in 2026 is the functional equivalent of teaching World War II in the 1990s. Not teaching the 90s in 2026 is the functional equivalent of not teaching the Vietnam in the 1990s.

If you're a teacher you owe it to your students to click on this and read Tip #1. Then take a look at your instructional materials and think about what you say to students while assigning and talking about writing. Dollars to donuts you won't find a reference to audience or readers anywhere.

While reeling from the VRA decision, keep in mind that the 35 smallest states together only comprise 30% of the population. This means 30% of the country elects 70% of the Senate. 90 million people in CA, FL and TX have the same voice in the Senate as the 2 million people in AK, WY and VT

"There is no constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong—deadly wrong—to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country." - This speech echoes Paine's "cause of all mankind" www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNjl...

To the US History teachers who repeat the "Rosa Parks was just tired" story. Read this before you dare to teach the Civil Right Movement again. "Preparing for the sit-ins took almost two years. "

Red carpet pictures are not for journalists, they are for celebrities, actors and actresses. People who play roles well. So, sadly, these pictures flooding our streams are perfectly appropriate. But these people should never, ever, be referred to as journalists.

Hey teachers - this essay should frame the discussion at your next department meeting

US History teachers who want to use pictures of the Boston Marathon like this one in a lesson on Title IX can find a lesson here infinitude.maherpages.net/index.php/le.... It also uses the story of Billie Jean King and a 12 year-old who helped lift the ban of girls from little league, Marie Pepe.

Any teachers that want to use the removal of the panels as a lesson can use this one. Everything's included, just add students and mix. infinitude.maherpages.net/index.php/20...

Random head-slap thought: What would happen if a school district replaced chromebooks with e-ink devices?

I wonder how future historians are going to use the juxtaposition of the 1968 Earthrise and the 2026 Earthset images in their narrative of our lifetimes. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Hey history teachers - having students dig through the arguments attacking and defending the President's House exhibit in Philadelphia invites them into the conversation of how we should remember the contradictions of our past. This lesson shows how it can be done. tinyurl.com/NationalPark...

This "Performance Expectation" in the NJ Social Studies standards is screaming for a lesson that I have to write this morning - "6.1.5.CivicsCM.2: Use evidence from multiple sources to construct a claim about how self - discipline and civility contribute to the common good."

Hey US History teachers - put this in front of students after the reading from excerpt from The Jungle in that Progressive Era lesson

Hey US History teachers - this is what you skipped between the Gulf of Tonkin Lesson and My Lai before you moved into that that "protest music of the 60s" Friday afternoon activity. There's plenty of primary sources to draw from, you just have to learn the history first

"when the people on the one part considered the army as sent to enslave them, and the Army on the other were taught to look on the people as in a state of rebellion, it was but just to fear the most disagreeable consequences. Our fears, we have seen, were but too well grounded" Dr. Joseph Warren

Here's your connection US History teachers, add this to your Vietnam lesson

Looking at this essay through the lens of highschool US History makes it responsible to ask where the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq appear in the curriculum. Limited instructional time forces tough decisions, but choosing to spend more time on the War of 1812 doesn't make sense to students of 2026.

US History teachers should clip this into their primary document sets for a DBQ on the 20teens

"The presumption of regularity that has been previously extended to Plaintiff that it could be taken at its word—with little doubt about its intentions and stated purposes—no longer holds." It would be difficult to find a single sentence that better encapsulates the totality of our current crisis.

Just heard a little of the Bessant hearing in the Senate, hearing him and the Republicans repeatedly mention President Biden. Imagine a new coach of any professional sports team repeatedly mention the coach he replaced when asked why his team is doing so poorly.

US Teachers should add this or quotes from it to their Mexican-American War DBQs

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Serious question - Looking for individuals or organizations supporting the removal of enslaved interpretive panels at the President's House Site in Philadelphia. I'm creating a lesson that features a DBQ comparing and contrasting views, but don't have something more than the EO and DOI letter.

Anyone else wondering if Tom Homan is planning on eating out in Minnesota or will be just be brown bagging it?

If innocent blood is not heard and avenged according the laws of every good system of civil government, it will continue to cry, not only against the murderer, but the government & land, which suffers murderers to go unpunished. "Innocent blood crying to God from the streets of Boston" John Lathrop

This ain't right. "Preserve" means to keep something safe, intact, or in good condition, protecting it from harm, decay, loss, or destruction. "Erase" means to remove something written, drawn, or recorded, either physically or digitally or to eliminate something completely, such as a memory.

Hey Social Studies teachers, here's your next current lesson starter. "The news" is not the events themselves, but what someone decided to say and show about the events. Every word, picture and video represents a choice. Source influence public understanding almost as much as the events themselves

History teachers can hear the echoes

Beginning to see Minnesota as our Ukraine

Today's history fever dreams include Joseph Warren's 1775 commemoration of the Boston Massacre (go read it), Ky. Rep Massie's opposition to the invasion of Venezuela compared with and Lincoln's January 1848 "spot resolutions" opposing the Mexican War and thoughts about Renee Good and Ashli Babbit.

"Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger."

Isn't about time that for Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and Jon Stewart to go full Howard Beale and get millions of Americans yelling out their windows?