@Romano_PoliSci @williamadler78 @cmMcConnaughy I’m running to class now but am butting in so I remember to come back later with resources. #OER is an answer to all of this (including the challenge of finding level-appropriate, high quality materials). @Romano_PoliSci @williamadler78 @cmMcConnaughy okay, i'm back! and i'm tagging in @michaelgmiller because he was interested too. if you don't love the textbook you teach with currently, or you worry about the cost to students, you are not alone, and there is a solution- #OER!!!!

since the US admin insists on dehumanizing groups, & folks have rightly identified that as a primary step on the road to mass atrocity, let's have a little chat about the genocide convention (which the US helped draft, signed, and ratified (albeit in 1988) shall we? 1/X GC is a fascinating document, grown out of the nullem crimen sine lege (no crime without law) problem after WWII. the nuremberg decisions are fascinating bc they had to work around this issue- the GC was meant to ensure that would not be a problem in the future 2/X