This is Jack Dorsey’s world, we’re just living in it. It was no surprise this week to see “Guillotine Twitter,” a popular subculture on Jack Dorsey’s 24/7 ideological war app, allowed to flourish on a platform now ostensibly committed to censorship of content that “glorifies violence.” The gang — mostly neckbeard-y white men and pseudonymous, genderqueer anime fairies with, notably, rose emojis in their bio — is after all entirely comprised of militant, far left socialists and “anarchists” (“anarchy” here defined as “also socialism, but angrier”), and content in this specific, political vein, no matter how gruesome, no matter how explicitly inciting of mass murder, is read by moderators and media personalities with nuance afforded no other group on the internet. I was however surprised to see this week’s disturbing volley of content come from a public teachers union.

“Protestors” building a guillotine in front of Jeff Bezos’ house — “protesting,” in this case, the man’s life (totally normal, nothing to see here) — is old news. But that the trend towards political violence, much encouraged by Twitter, has breached a public mouthpiece of the Chicago Teachers Union is worth talking about. Teachers are charged with the not unimportant task of shaping the minds of our children, and while we know what our public-sector teachers do not want — at the moment, to actually teach — it’s always worth asking what they do want, and how they think about our world.