https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1339381559456112642?s=20

Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) Tweeted: Claiming “election fraud” is the new birtherism. It’s false. It’s racist. It’s Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/16/mitch-mcconnell-gives-away-game-kelly-david-are-getting-hammered/

«The likelihood that this played a key role in moving Republicans also underscores how unlikely they are to help the economy and the country next year, if they do retain control of the Senate.»

https://thehill.com/homenews/news/530393-longtime-gop-strategist-steve-schmidt-announces-hes-registering-democrat

Well… we’ll see how long that lasts.

The other possibility is that enough conservatives join the Dems to make the Republican party a real rump of its former self and then the Dem party fractures into two parties. If so, I hope the new conservative party stays smart for at least a couple of generations, eschewing the demagoguery of xenophobia (and that includes dog whistles).

Or maybe Steve is growing up.

Or maybe there’s more money to be made consulting on the Dem side now.

Or maybe something else I don’t know.

Day 1 of HolyMolyHowDidIBuildUpAllThisPTO: slacked off more than I planned. At least I got out of bed.

http://facultyguidetoteamwork.umn.edu/why-use-team-projects-my-teaching

Oh, neato. There’s been actual research done on team class projects and now there are best practices for faculty. Things have come along since I was school.

(I wonder how it’s been for folks in the last, say, ten years.)

https://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/1338542672747827202?s=20

INNNteresting.

Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd) Tweeted: And I don’t say this often because it isn’t often true but this one really is mostly about gender. Race is a far secondary issue, except at that level of abstraction where race and class are the same structural force. This is mostly misogyny.

https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1338490926604414981?s=20

This seems right.

(I know I’m sarcastic sometimes and it’s hard to tell, so, to be clear: I’m not.)

Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) Tweeted: First Covid vaccine administered in NYC, broadcast on live tv, to a Black woman healthcare worker by a Black woman healthcare worker. https://t.co/LdT7W2XDtl

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/12/us/politics/republicans-trump-supreme-court-.html

So many quotes i could tee off on here.

«“The Supreme Court has ruled. The Electoral College is going to meet Monday. We’ve got to accept the results,” Mr. Hunter said in a Facebook interview in Oklahoma City. “We need to play the hand we’re dealt.”»

Well, ok, if we must accept the fact that our very best efforts to invalidate and #OVERTURN the election have finally failed….

I suppose at some point (now? maybe? after our best efforts not to be?), we must be a nation of laws….

Republicans. As an epithet, approaching “nazis” or “Confederates”. I wonder how many people will avoid that label as some (predominantly white) churches now avoid the label “Baptist”.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/12/us/politics/trump-lawsuits-electoral-college.html

«…Republican leaders now stand for a new notion: that the final decisions of voters can be challenged without a basis in fact if the results are not to the liking of the losing side, running counter to decades of work by the United States to convince developing nations that peaceful transfers of power are key to any freely elected government’s credibility.»

I don’t think I’m ever going to shut up about this.

https://twitter.com/WESchottIII/status/1337750386694889472?s=20

(Yes, my blog is just a glorified bunch of retweets. So?)

Wes Schott (@WESchottIII) Tweeted: @MattGlassman312 “The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.” It’s always 1860 in America.