Mike Steele
@mdsteele47.bsky.social
Progressive math teacher educator & researcher at Ball State University, runner, husband, dad. Past prez Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators. Intellectual troublemaker and coconspirator. Music, hockey, brewing.
It’s going to bedlam when it comes out that Adam Lee Decker is just Jackie Daytona’s latest alias.
#CarolinaCulture
#CarolinaCulture
September 29, 2026 at 9:19 PM
It’s going to bedlam when it comes out that Adam Lee Decker is just Jackie Daytona’s latest alias.
#CarolinaCulture
#CarolinaCulture
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As a former professional football player, I can confidently say that this essay is incorrect from every conceivable angle, and contributes heavily to the culture of toxic masculinity that still infests high schools and colleges across the country.
I think it’s safe to say that some version of this essay by Ben Sasse on youth football has been written for over 100 years.
“Football is a character-forming institution that channels strength… In a culture of passivity, football privileges action. In times of peace, football prepares us for war.”
“Football is a character-forming institution that channels strength… In a culture of passivity, football privileges action. In times of peace, football prepares us for war.”
Opinion | America Needs Its Boys to Play Football
The sport forms character by harnessing wild masculinity and directing it toward the good and the pure.
www.wsj.com
September 5, 2026 at 7:37 PM
As a former professional football player, I can confidently say that this essay is incorrect from every conceivable angle, and contributes heavily to the culture of toxic masculinity that still infests high schools and colleges across the country.
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When Democrats have the House, the Senate, and the Presidency, we should split the 9th Circuit into 3 parts and expand the Supreme Court to 15.
Former Supreme Court law clerk here. I said what I said.
Former Supreme Court law clerk here. I said what I said.
It's worth noting that this isn't a random number but a goal that would simply restore the court to an earlier norm in which there's one justice for each of the judicial circuits. We used to have nine, we now have thirteen.
The people defending the current setup have the tougher case to make here.
The people defending the current setup have the tougher case to make here.
Rep. James Clyburn says he supports expanding the Supreme Court: "13 is a pretty good number. A baker's dozen would be a good number to have on the Court."
August 31, 2026 at 4:13 AM
When Democrats have the House, the Senate, and the Presidency, we should split the 9th Circuit into 3 parts and expand the Supreme Court to 15.
Former Supreme Court law clerk here. I said what I said.
Former Supreme Court law clerk here. I said what I said.
I could have not felt more validated by @harryshearer.bsky.social this morning having spent decades rolling through the jazz band in my mind. #summerbreeze
August 31, 2026 at 12:20 PM
I could have not felt more validated by @harryshearer.bsky.social this morning having spent decades rolling through the jazz band in my mind. #summerbreeze
On a scale of Students for Fair Admissions to Plessy, in units of Korematsu, how worried am I supposed to be about this SCOTUS decision?
August 24, 2026 at 11:06 PM
On a scale of Students for Fair Admissions to Plessy, in units of Korematsu, how worried am I supposed to be about this SCOTUS decision?
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She's entirely right. Middle school is too late. When they're younger, many are small and spry enough to go down chimneys and through HVAC vents and clean them right and well. I've read my Dickens.
BASH: One of the things that's happening is there's a push to start students down a trade school track as early as elementary school. Is that too early?
LINDA McMAHON: I don't think so
BASH: But elementary school?
McMAHON: I think you can have some introduction of skilled trades in elementary
LINDA McMAHON: I don't think so
BASH: But elementary school?
McMAHON: I think you can have some introduction of skilled trades in elementary
August 23, 2026 at 5:17 PM
She's entirely right. Middle school is too late. When they're younger, many are small and spry enough to go down chimneys and through HVAC vents and clean them right and well. I've read my Dickens.
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Tales of everyday corruption.
Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned.
Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!
Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned.
Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!
August 7, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Tales of everyday corruption.
Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned.
Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!
Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned.
Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!
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You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable.
Trump administration pauses $1 bln in Medicaid payments to California, Minnesota www.reuters.com/world/us-hea...
Trump administration pauses $1 bln in Medicaid payments to California, Minnesota
The Trump administration is pausing over $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota "because of suspected fraud and noncompliance," U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said ...
www.reuters.com
July 21, 2026 at 6:41 PM
You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable.
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… Remember when Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort gave a bunch of internal polling data to a Russian intelligence agent? I was just thinking about that for some reason.
July 17, 2026 at 1:27 AM
… Remember when Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort gave a bunch of internal polling data to a Russian intelligence agent? I was just thinking about that for some reason.
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The Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, the Arctic island's leading environmental and natural-resource research centre, is halting new collaborations with US partners to protect its data and scientists.
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July 16, 2026 at 4:49 PM
The Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, the Arctic island's leading environmental and natural-resource research centre, is halting new collaborations with US partners to protect its data and scientists.
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/w...?
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/w...?
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This is akin to Trump raiding the National Parks Service in order to pay for his Reflecting Pool disaster. (Which he has done). Take something that works remarkably well, and divert resources to cronies to deliver something the public did not ask for.
“To accommodate the expected funding withdrawal, programme officers…are being required to pull back proposals that have already passed peer review and have been recommended for funding….[M]any of the researchers who submitted those proposals had already been informed”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative
A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency struggles with a squeezed budget and a backlog of grant applications.
www.nature.com
July 14, 2026 at 12:04 PM
This is akin to Trump raiding the National Parks Service in order to pay for his Reflecting Pool disaster. (Which he has done). Take something that works remarkably well, and divert resources to cronies to deliver something the public did not ask for.
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“To accommodate the expected funding withdrawal, programme officers…are being required to pull back proposals that have already passed peer review and have been recommended for funding….[M]any of the researchers who submitted those proposals had already been informed”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative
A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency struggles with a squeezed budget and a backlog of grant applications.
www.nature.com
July 14, 2026 at 11:28 AM
“To accommodate the expected funding withdrawal, programme officers…are being required to pull back proposals that have already passed peer review and have been recommended for funding….[M]any of the researchers who submitted those proposals had already been informed”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Whoa, over a quarter million people (so far!) have left a comment on the egrgious openly fascist takeover attempt of the OMB.
You can too! @standupforscience.net has instructions and everything you need. It's not hard, and it's critically important to science.
fight2win.standupforscience.net
You can too! @standupforscience.net has instructions and everything you need. It's not hard, and it's critically important to science.
fight2win.standupforscience.net
July 11, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Whoa, over a quarter million people (so far!) have left a comment on the egrgious openly fascist takeover attempt of the OMB.
You can too! @standupforscience.net has instructions and everything you need. It's not hard, and it's critically important to science.
fight2win.standupforscience.net
You can too! @standupforscience.net has instructions and everything you need. It's not hard, and it's critically important to science.
fight2win.standupforscience.net
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As a journal editor, I have been confronted with an influx of AI produced text and, sadly, reviews. At one point, I felt frustrated enough to convene other journal editors in my field to talk about how we can navigate this time.
July 6, 2026 at 8:55 PM
As a journal editor, I have been confronted with an influx of AI produced text and, sadly, reviews. At one point, I felt frustrated enough to convene other journal editors in my field to talk about how we can navigate this time.
Somehow missed this yesterday - GMET out here playing 4D chess. #SoundtheSiren
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Canes Acquire Kyle Masters From Anaheim | Carolina Hurricanes
Masters recorded three assists in 10 games with Wichita (ECHL) in 2025-26
www.nhl.com
July 1, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Somehow missed this yesterday - GMET out here playing 4D chess. #SoundtheSiren
www.nhl.com/hurricanes/n...
www.nhl.com/hurricanes/n...
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Blending algebra and geometry: An approach to high school math slowly gains favor
Supporters say ‘integrated math’ allows for a variety of STEM pathways in high school
hechingerreport.org
July 1, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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NSF is spending more money servicing old grants than making new ones. As of the end of May, more funds flowed to old projects than new, for the first time in recent history. Much of this was for funds planned years ago for new supercomputing structure. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF 🧪
June 30, 2026 at 6:11 PM
NSF is spending more money servicing old grants than making new ones. As of the end of May, more funds flowed to old projects than new, for the first time in recent history. Much of this was for funds planned years ago for new supercomputing structure. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF 🧪
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The fact that FOUR sitting Supreme Court justices were willing to greenlight Trump's racist attack on the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship is a national embarrassment. Tear down the institution, it is beyond saving.
The Constitution Is On Life Support
Four justices are prepared to stuff the Fourteenth Amendment’s promises in the garbage because Mister Trump demands it.
ballsandstrikes.org
June 30, 2026 at 5:08 PM
The fact that FOUR sitting Supreme Court justices were willing to greenlight Trump's racist attack on the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship is a national embarrassment. Tear down the institution, it is beyond saving.
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See, people always want to make this just about "sports," but the real upshot here is that, 6-3, trans women can't make a claim under the Equal Protection Clause. And if they can't do that, it's hard to see how they have constitutional rights.
June 30, 2026 at 2:16 PM
See, people always want to make this just about "sports," but the real upshot here is that, 6-3, trans women can't make a claim under the Equal Protection Clause. And if they can't do that, it's hard to see how they have constitutional rights.
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Sotomayor’s dissent is an obituary for science, NIH, and NSF.
“Seldom, if ever, has this Court worked such a profound bait and switch on a coequal branch: For more than 90 years, Congress believed, with this Court’s express approval, that it was allowed to create a workable Govern-
ment…”
“Seldom, if ever, has this Court worked such a profound bait and switch on a coequal branch: For more than 90 years, Congress believed, with this Court’s express approval, that it was allowed to create a workable Govern-
ment…”
June 29, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Sotomayor’s dissent is an obituary for science, NIH, and NSF.
“Seldom, if ever, has this Court worked such a profound bait and switch on a coequal branch: For more than 90 years, Congress believed, with this Court’s express approval, that it was allowed to create a workable Govern-
ment…”
“Seldom, if ever, has this Court worked such a profound bait and switch on a coequal branch: For more than 90 years, Congress believed, with this Court’s express approval, that it was allowed to create a workable Govern-
ment…”
Why are there no hats on the field? What’s wrong with these soccer types?
June 17, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Why are there no hats on the field? What’s wrong with these soccer types?
Ok, Aho deferring to Hall broke me. #SoundTheSiren
June 15, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Ok, Aho deferring to Hall broke me. #SoundTheSiren