I’m only 3/4ths through this book, but I’m wrecked. Lots of people have correctly noted that it feels important, but (a) he’s a damn good storyteller, and (b) it’s hard to read this and not constantly see how the attempt to prop up the violence of western hegemony wrecks all our lives

I wrote a new piece for @truthout.org looking back at 2025 — a year when educators didn’t just endure repression, they built resistance. ✊🏽📚 Education has never been neutral—It either liberates or subjugates. Here are the stories of those who resisted subjugation. truthout.org/articles/in-...

In response to sweeping federal policy changes, organizers and visionaries took a stand, leading the charge to renew rural civic life. Barn Raiser was there, covering these movements from coast to coast. Here are our top 40 stories from the past year. barnraisingmedia.com/barn-raiser-...

Thank you, @laurarbelin.bsky.social, for publishing this! I expected something disheartening from UI's new center... I didn't realize it'd be this bad. Or that they'd say a soup of feminism and social movements is supposedly destroying higher ed. (?!)

Hmm. Where else have we seen this story?

"Fuentes is the fly born of Heritage’s maggot." As viscerally disturbing as it is accurate.

Time for a third reconstruction of American democracy.

We need your support. Help us provide many more people's history lessons to #TeachOutsideTextbook for free to educators. All donations on this #GivingTuesday will be doubled (up to $10,000) thanks to generous support of @dcolapinto.bsky.social. Donate ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/double-...

We know about police violence during CRM, but there was also COINTELPRO type surveillance by local dep'ts. And resistance by CORE & SNCC who confronted police abuses head-on, with sit-ins at precincts, blocking streets to protest officer abuse, & more. Join us Monday to learn more. Free class ⬇️

I'm so excited about this upcoming class! Davis's book is really exemplary. It highlights histories of policing that help us understand where we're at today along with potential ways forward.

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

We have signs! Please dm if you would like one. I’m running for school board to ensure that all ICCSD students and educators receive the support and respect that they deserve.

Here are resources to teach about history of policing including lessons, the Empire City podcast by @chenjerai.bsky.social, Police Against the Movement by @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social, interview with Khalil Gibran Muhammad, on "The Condemnation of Blackness: Lies We’re Told About Crime" & more. ⬇️

A third Reconstruction is desperately needed.

Given this, it is all the more urgent that we create education is subversive in meaningful ways. The @zinnedproject.bsky.social is indispensable. Please support them, and all other learning projects. And my dear colleagues in academia—wake up and pitch in FFS.

"A free education is incompatible with fascism. That was Dewey's petition from his generation’s age of fascism to our own: that to make education incompatible with fascism is to make us more free." My remarks from #TeachTruth 2025: www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/refl... #EduSky

We just kicked off our #TeachTruth event in Chauncy Swan park! Incredible turnout from the #NoKings March! @zinnedproject.bsky.social

"I taught my students slavery was wrong. Then MAGA came after me." -- @wickenkamp.bsky.social, who became target of right wing politician after signing our #TeachTruth pledge. Read his powerful article ⬇️. Join us June 7: www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-t... barnraisingmedia.com/iowa-rural-s...

@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.

In Red States, Rural Voters Are Leading the Resistance to School Vouchers barnraisingmedia.com... @carolburris.bsky.social @piperformissouri.bsky.social @dianeravitch.bsky.social @covingtonedu.bsky.social @gameonkansas.bsky.social

Questionnaire, by Wendell Berry (2010) How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade? Please name your preferred poisons.

So students can be alert to scapegoating divide & conquer tactics, teach outside textbook about Red Scare, "a scorched-earth policy against country’s most progressive forces." Not just McCarthy & Hollywood, it was an attack on Black freedom & labor struggles. www.zinnedproject.org/materials/su...

In 1943 the US government made an antifascist film called "Don't Be a Sucker" in which we see a college professor in Germany removed from his classroom by government officials who do not approve of what he's teaching about race. youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4?...

Really honored to get a chance to work with the amazing editors at @barnraiser.bsky.social -- a publication that's doing excellent work.

To our knowledge, Columbia and Barnard have not officially expelled people for political speech since 1936, when Columbia expelled a student who led a protest against the University’s ties to the Nazis.

New online: Colin Gordon on the Republican war on social assistance programs. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

As usual, the youth have greater moral clarity than many adults.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Teaching history divorced from the concerns of the present is actually doing a bad job at teaching history.

Educator @jessehagopian.bsky.social says Trump's vow to abolish the Education Department is not about "local control" over schools. "Let’s call this what it is: an extremist, authoritarian power grab to dismantle public education and enforce ideological conformity."

They are seeking to criminalize integration efforts across public life. We must be clear eyed and direct about what’s happening here. We have not witnessed this blatant of a comprehensive governmental attack on integration since the Civil Rights Movement. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Words like "historical" and "political" are not just on this list by mistake. History and politics are also going to be real targets, as part of active research questions (anything beyond fictionalized hagiographies and state-approved revisionism).

Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era

It’s work to hold on to, to believe, to remember, but the first lie of fascism is inevitability & the first truth of anti-fascism is the struggle continues.

one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies

Learn more from "Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education" by @rethinkingschools.bsky.social editor @jessehagopian.bsky.social, via @haymarketbooks.org "A must read for anyone concerned with education, justice, & our shared future." --Barbara Ransby - www.zinnedproject.org/materials/te...

Every institution will soon face serious pressure to become an arm of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Today, my new book, "Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education," officially enters the world ✨ 📖 Happy Birthday 🎂🥳 After years of writing, reflecting, and pushing through challenges, I’m thrilled to share it with you all. Many thanks to all who order!! iamaneducator.com/2025/01/14/h...

Look at our students. The ones risking their jobs and futures to protest genocide and getting arrested/expelled/threatened with deportation/assaulted/doxed. And look at the cowardice of the so-called leaders of our field.

I argue that those who struggled before us show the way forward. But the first step is to stop the self-congratulatory lies. You can read the full piece here: clioandthecontemporary.com/2024/11/07/f...