Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social

Teaching Constitutional studies, poli sci, political theory, US history topics in Virginia. Own views & comments, these don't reflect my institutional affiliations. Husband / cat person / Madisonian / Lincolnite / Trekkie / strategy gamer / metalhead.

come on now if any of us take the spirit of the establishment clause seriously how is the President utilizing the bully pulpit of social media to weigh in on the Christian and relative political qualities of the specific leadership members of an entire world religion not a Constitutional problem?
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Finally saw Sinners, it was good, fine, impressive film in many ways. But I suspect that my strong allergy to folk religion woo-woo mysticism and race essentialism, lack of patience with vampires as a storytelling mechanism and trope makes me about the least ideal audience for this particular film.
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From 1848-1852, the cause of democracy and self-determination for Hungary were the cause of the hour in the US, inspiring fashion trends, surges of domestic interest, making Kossuth more or less the first foreign head of state to speak to Congress. Let's take that as a hope for the future.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...
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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social
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Intellectual freedom seems like a pretty important principle to honor in schools
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wild that Jared Kushner, a private citizen with no official status or clearance or Senate confirmation whatsoever besides being married to the President's daughter, has become a fixture at every diplomatic negotiation (with implications for the President's businesses) in which the US is engaged.
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Every once in a while I am reminded of the absurdity of modern economic trade offs when I realize you could run the whole high school I teach at for a year or so with the cost of one MQ-9 Reaper drone. I’m no end-military-spending weirdo, it’s just that the comparisons can be striking at times.
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honestly though one of the better films of our era is definitely shaping up to be Garland's CIVIL WAR. Not because it gets everything it could get right, right but also because it is both a good film on several levels as well as one which puts a finger right on the pulse of several deep disquiets.
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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com
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Well, I think we’ve got just about all the horsemen of the apocalypse lined up here, let’s roll
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Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social
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my kingdom for a multi-member PR type system with transferable votes. But “Doesn’t solve everything, but it’s better than this at least” is probably not going to be a successful bumper sticker.
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Still one of my favorite movies of all time, though it's several generations before my time. Oddly, I tend to show Notorious or North By Northwest to students, though, if I'm trying to talk about the paranoia, military/cold-war, and gender-role-obsessed dynamics of 1950s filmmaking.
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honestly kind of interesting that the era of radio's primacy as the medium of mass entertainment - roughly 1928-1952 - wasn't actually all that much shorter or longer than broadcast TV's moment (56-92) or cable TV's moment (92-16). Doubt social media shortform video's moment will be much longer.
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...I suppose I want to be clear tho, coaching is an important job, coaches contribute enormously to student's lives and development. We should want good, professionalized coaches and good, professionalized teachers not folks who are forced to wear both hats which, even when successful, is a strain.
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one of many insane things about US secondary educational system is how many teachers we expect to coach a sport as part of the job, often for a p. small additional stipend. It's one of many ways we tell teachers their main jobs of content knowledge, pedagogy, student cultivation etc are unimportant.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social
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It feels like a lost cause but i hear you, intensely: the idea that any justification for education other than naked instrumentality at the level of economic production has just gone away is — striking. Nobody even talks about “democratic citizenship” anymore! Bleak stuff
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I feel like the rest of Europe owes France a huge debt of gratitude for maintaining a top-to-bottom military industry and logistics system mostly independent of US parts, support, or equipment. I wouldn't want to rely on the US for spare parts for my F-35 or ammo for my missile launchers right now.
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I am really curious what this war has looked like from the perspective of the average news consumer - someone who mostly scrolls TikTok and Instagram for their favorite influencers or cute animals or hobbies, follows the occasional link found there to NY Post or Yahoo! news or whatever.
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I am really v curious how public opinion absorbs all of this, if it does at all. Lots of contradictory diplomatic statements, tweets, truth social posts, halfway contradictory stories and simple headlines...what does Jim Car Insurance or Jane Elementary School Lunch Worker or Erica Nurse grab onto?
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one of the problems with war is that it unleashes chaos and destabilization. what is the next unexpected shoe to drop? what is the next bad actor emboldened by the norm-less environment we are finding ourselves in at the moment? What bad dynamics are developing without enough monitoring right now?
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Amy Ash @lolennui.bsky.social
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books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social
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Obviously not a substitute for Congress doing its job, but now would be a good time for Clinton, W, Obama, and Biden to say something jointly.
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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social
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Artemis II happening while Trump threatens to annihilate a civilization is a stark demonstration that the United States government is neither good nor bad, it is *powerful*, and power can be wielded for good or bad ends in smart or dumb ways. It's our job to push hard in the right direction.
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This should not feel like something as distant from reality in our schools as Artemis is from Earth, and yet…
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niche but fun question - what is the best King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard album? There are lots of permissible answers to this question. I lean towards "Polygondwanaland" in first place, "Quarters!" a close second, and I'm split with "K.G." and "L.W." for third.
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it's had some problems, but Strange New Worlds has really gotten the most tight of any of the new Trek series, and mostly in ways that have nothing to do with its legacy characters or settings - which makes the choice of being wedded to legacy characters and setting a little sadder and unfortuntate.
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I voted against W twice and at the time thought he represented a real degradation of democratic norms with things like the US attorneys scandal or the treatment of press investigations, but this quote compared to President Trump's statement this morning shows just how unprecedented Trump really is.
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barely two years after 9/11 and mere weeks into the invasion of Iraq, this was W Bush's easter message: "Join me in praying for peace, wisdom, and resolve...may Christ's example of love and sacrifice compel us towards justice and compassion, renew us with an assurance of hope and everlasting joy."
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social
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im sure people think they’re being humorous and self-depreciating when they use incel lingo to describe themselves online or in casual conversation but it mainly just makes me feel sad.

you’re a person with worth and dignity. you really deserve better than to drop insane slurs against yourself.
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AI based grading probably is coming for anything extremely formulaic and rubric-driven. Gonna have a real complicated impact on the grading of things like AP-style short answer and AP-style essay questions and hopefully with let us deplatform those formats as somehow demonstrating sophistication.
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