Over 1.3 million people still need urgent shelter while 740,000 face toxic flooding from collapsed sanitation systems due to Israel's bombardment. Winter rains and collapsing buildings from Israel's genocide have killed at least 20 Palestinians. Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.

I'm overjoyed by the publication of this open-access journal issue themed around my book, Beyond Education. I'm honored to see these brilliant contributions to how we think about intersecting struggles across K-12, higher ed, and beyond. works.swarthmore.edu/critedpol/ The contents include: (1/5)

For me, one of the highlights of 2025 was launching @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social with my dear friend @robynollett.bsky.social as part of the #GlobalDonutDays. You can catch a glimpse of our event at 0:52 in this video, which beautifully captures the GDDs’ celebration of #DoughnutEconomics.

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Genocide.

“…a flourishing research programme on the institutionalization of money, grounded in the claim that it is constituted by a relationship of mutual acceptance, or trust.” I’ll add that Aglietta’s work on money is a fantastic teaching resource, essential reading for any class on philosophies of money.

I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet

An Atlanta cop murdered a woman and then killed himself and one could read this hard-hitting piece of journalism and miss that minor detail. Paper of record in Cop City, USA. www.ajc.com/news/2025/12...

Looking back on one of the top running stories of the year, and as someone who greatly appreciates Saucony’s Endorphin line. “Running should embody freedom, unity and humanity—not be used to mask injustice... This decision proves that collective resistance works.” –Nazrin Kkanom

"The question for the Luddites was never simply whether to accept or reject a new machine, but rather who controlled it, how it was deployed, and whose interests it served. . .

50k trail race this weekend. Literally never run on trails. Got a pair of trail shoes I’ve worn maybe twice. The surface has me nervous.

I wasn’t sure they were going to publish this. So good for them.

So frustrating because teachers’ unions possibly could bring down this whole empire of AI. But we’ll never know whilst membership is left to fight the compradors.

Why is it that tech and AI boosters keep saying "you can't put the genie back in the bottle" when making arguments about AI's supposed inevitable dominance? Did they not read the story? The genie does, indeed, go back in the bottle. Maybe we should start there.

WSJ said 50% of GDP growth in US in first half of 2025 related to AI yet over 50% fear it. Has there ever been a boom with a greater gap between market commitment and popular buy-in? This is a dreaded technology.

Today in luxury surveillance… Garmin watch perfectly estimated the distance of an hourlong treadmill run down to one-hundredth of a mile.

In 2008 ICE arrested almost 18% of the population of Postville Iowa. Children reported nightmares about being disappeared after attending school after the raid, their classrooms missing up to three quarters of the students because their parents had either been arrested or feared arrest

Forget even prosecuted. The party will NOT defund ICE. And most of their voters will be fine with this if they return to power. I don't think this is defeatist in the least. To me, it's reality. You would expect to see something different right now if they were going to act differently in power.

1/ Arguments about “misuse of campaign resources” always smuggle in an accounting assumption that rarely gets defended.

Last week I joined the authors’ suit against Anthropic. Today I got the “ClaimsHero” solicitation urging me to opt out. Sifting through grift and exploitation atop a bedrock of monopoly capital—what a time to be alive.

Support laid off union workers from PushBlack who lost their jobs right before the holidays. Anything you might be able to donate helps! www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

The year in #running. New marathon PR (2:56). Qualified for Boston. Ran my first international race. Somehow managed to win my first 50k. Subscribed to Ultrarunning Mag, lol. Aiming for 6-7 races in 2026, including my first attempt at a 50-miler. Here’s to more miles and another healthy year.

Running is an introvert’s paradise. The idea of a running club or group is insane to me.

First-ever US airstrikes in Nigeria put the second Trump admin’s 2025 combat actions at: —Nigeria—tonight’s strikes —Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr) —Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid —Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids —Caribbean—11 strikes —Eastern Pacific—20 strikes —Iran—3 strikes —Iraq—1 strike

W.E.B Du Bois, 1940: “Some of my friends protest. They like Christmas. And if Christmas were what they imagine it is, I should like it too. If, for instance, it meant rest, not exhausting debauchery; peace, not bickering and quarreling; good wishes, not presents; kindness not expense…

This seems right - Bari Weiss works for the Ellisons, not for Trump. In general, I think a weakness of a lot of analysis of this political movement is that it treats Trump and MAGA (and their equivalents elsewhere) as principals rather than agents. theintercept.com/2025/12/22/b...

Calls are growing to release Palestinian protester Leqaa Kordia, who has been detained by ICE for nearly ten months.

All I want for Christmas is an opposition party.

Echoes of Gompers believing getting on board early with the then-emerging big business elite's utopian claims about technological progress would protect his members.

Absolutely stunning that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft were able to buy off an entire teachers’ union for just $23 million.

The US aggression against Venezuela is naked imperialism. All pretext has been exposed as farce. An invasion would cause tens of thousands of deaths. Every sane person must oppose this madness.

“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”

An infant froze to death in Gaza last night, starved and cold.

Today, @azohra.bsky.social and Madiha Tahir argue that recent criticism of the Trump administration's bombings in the Caribbean risks repeating a familiar mistake: debating how the United States wages war while leaving unquestioned why it wages it at all.

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So now I must do a workshop to learn how to do the thing that the people in the positions they eliminated used to do.

Just finished teaching a special topics class on Du Bois and political economy. One student, who has since gone back to Ghana to visit family, just sent me a cache of photos from the Du Bois Centre in Accra. Meanwhile a colleague sent me some artwork. ❤️🥹

"With the newly issued EO from the U.S. President designating fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction (WMD)... The Lemkin Institute warns that a war in Venezuela will render the U.S. deeply vulnerable to the commission of genocide at home and abroad." www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...

Nice to see the Cassandras who’ve been trying to warn people about Trumpian fascism since 2016 get their due.

“One online user commented on the video: ‘When Olivier Janssens writes a paper on the impact of sugar and slavery on St. Kitts and Nevis, then I would maybe consider him to be kinda Nevisian.’” Online user still far too generous.

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We are excited to announce the 13th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium, to be held Thursday, May 14, 2026 at Georgia State University. More information on the symposium and how to submit your abstract or session proposal is available from: atlantastudies.org/2025/12/17/c...

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No to war with Venezuela.

“The cause of war is preparation for war.” -W.E.B Du Bois

Three weeks out from a 50k and testing the old maxim that it’s safe to run when sick as long as symptoms are above the neck. Does the concept of the “recovery run” apply to head colds?🤔

Why is it that big private banks can take in billions in interest payments from the Fed on their reserves, while it refuses to provide any money for public school districts? JP Morgan made $15bn in 2024 alone! Meanwhile, schools pay 8-10% of their budgets on debt service.

I hear there's discourse about race and employment in the US