Dr I Have 6 Pencils
Classics/Late Antiquity professor at UT Austin. Augustine/Cyprian/Ancient Letters/Imperial and Late Antique History. Disability advocate. Owned by cats. The Enemy.
- Reposted by Dr I Have 6 PencilsREPORTER: “Any message to the United States?” POPE LEO: “Many.”
- Reposted by Dr I Have 6 PencilsPoor outcomes for public K-12 kids are then used to justify defunding public education or funding charter schools. I genuinely think that this was always the plan: to de-skill the working class. Kids from elite backgrounds will always have access to private schools. It doesn't have to be like this.
- The stupid is one of the most aggravating parts of our timeline. Not close to the worst in a country kidnapping migrants. But aggravating.
- Reposted by Dr I Have 6 PencilsIn another habeas case, DOJ said it arrested a Georgetown student targeted for removal for his pro-Gaza views had to be moved to a detention center in Texas because it was worried about overcrowding at Virginia jails. When he got to Texas, there were no beds available so he slept on the floor.
- Reposted by Dr I Have 6 PencilsThe granular thing I feel most often every day — not just like dread and horror — but very specifically — is that my imagination isn’t equal to the global moment. Why they gotta be like that? And why can’t I understand it? Imagining why people would do fucked up shit is my actual job.
