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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We are an army of artists Merchants of life, Beauty's our bomb, Love its shrapnel… www.blackagendareport.com/index.php/ar...

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

Nearly every African country on this list, plus Cuba and Venezuela, has either 1) recently accepted ICE deportation flights and/or 2) recently agreed to “host” third-country nationals. Playing ball with Trump’s cruelty machine hasn’t helped them diplomatically AT ALL.

Just filed my paltry claim in the Anthropic settlement. The lawyers, seeking $300M for themselves, say "they invested more than 26,000 hours of work in the case, which they said was 'teeming with risk.'" Pretty sure every author in the class could say the same. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

People should take a page out of New School faculty's book and start doing forensic accounting for their own institutions using public documents

‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead

Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?" Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."

Today, Amna Akbar continues our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts,* reflecting on what her account of capitalism tells us about the state and law as terrains of struggle.

✨ MotL 85 is live! ✨ We are joined by David I. Backer, associate professor of education policy at Seton Hall U., to discuss his new book: As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Schools (@thenewpress.bsky.social, 2025). moneyontheleft.org/2025/12/01/r... Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌

#OtD 11 Dec 1968 the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement of radical Black car factory workers in Detroit issued an attack on the spectacle of Chrysler funding Black banks. Learn more about this inspiring group in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e61-...

The Seattle SuperSonics should be defending champs and off to a 24-1 start this year. Howard Schultz can rot in hell.

The Trump Ceasefire Plan is paving the way for mass population transfer of Palestinians in Gaza and massive land theft by the Israeli government.

The world would be better off if the Palestinians just didn't exist, says former president of the United States

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Empire is “powerful but he is wounded beast, and a wounded beast who sees things slipping out from under him all over the world becomes increasingly dangerous. We have to be together to withstand his fury.” -Shirley Graham Du Bois, 1975 www.blackagendareport.com/interview-we...

Coming May 19, 2026 from Amistad Books and HarperCollins THE OVERSEER CLASS: A Manifesto by Steven W. Thrasher cover art by Jamaal Barber Available for pre-order now www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

“We’re marching today to demand freedom for Mumia and all political prisoners.”

"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

I wrote this with so much love. Through his biography, his own words & the music of those who remember him, I invite us once again to think critically about what decolonisation means through the life of a man who lived and died for it. Long live Amílcar Cabral. folukeafrica.com/amilcar-cabr...

Two articles that explain what weird vision the Chronicle class of higher ed executives is chasing everywhere all at once in the new dispensation. 1) Everyone wants to be the SEC, now that the NYU model of growth via real estate speculation, fed-funded research, grad-degree retail sales has failed

Today’s lesson: when in Greenville run the Swamp Rabbit Trail. Wish I had the time to see even more of it. #Running

A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings. “It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale. This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading: www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...

I got to walk the campus of Morehouse College with Frank Gehry in 2017. Our president at the time had visions of a Gehry-designed campus makeover. Would’ve been something. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...

AI Is Not Inevitable join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Note that Roger Stone refers to Prospera, the Network State city in Honduras, as a "freedom city." Trump wants to build ten of these cities on federal land, and Stone makes it clear that these fascist cities are, indeed, the Network State.

On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI

She was an anti-Black racist who supported US segregation policies

TIL that Alex Karp’s mom created the mixed media series, Mourn Black Murder, about the Atlanta child murders. It’s in the High Museum of Art’s collection. I… don’t know what to do with this information.

How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire? Here are the numbers aje.io/usdhib

“American involvement has little to do with ending violence, and everything to do with unlocking strategic mining access for corporate interests. The agreement effectively rewards aggression while sidelining essential conditions for durable peace.” www.oaklandinstitute.org/press-releas...

I’ve told way too many students that I want to develop a class on theories of post-capitalism. At this point, if I don’t do it, there will be hell to pay.

Join this Wednesday's webinar WHY PALESTINE IS A UNION ISSUE (12/3) at 5:30—7:30pm ET, hosted by our comrades at Coalition for Action in Higher Ed! Registration: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I would love for more French people to read “Africa’s Last Colonial Currency” by Fanny Pigaud and Ndongo Samba Sylla. Currently 50% off at Pluto Books. www.plutobooks.com/product/afri...