I read this when it came out on @truthout.org and remain gutted. Dante got nothing on a global shrug at scholasticide, ecoside, genocide. Israel’s Attacks on Seed Banks Destroy Millennia of Palestinian Cultural Heritage truthout.org/articles/isr...

Big win for Pitt Students for Justice in Palestine.

Not the first time 'let it burn' was literal - so much stupidity and harm.

Rather than simply talking about horrible responses to the flooding in Texas, let's share some vetted and trusted avenues for support, and donate if we can. Hands Off Central TX is raising funds and resources for mutual aid including housing, food, transportation (gas), and medical needs.

The protests have continued all week. Yes, Nebraska. Who does Trump preps his fast food?

Well, SCOTUS that is one way to be during Pride 🏳️‍🌈

This is the year for every single higher education institution to make THIS book their read of the year. Admins, start reading it now. breakout groups should consider: Perfect Victims by Mohammed El-Kurd, Can't Pay, Won't Pay by Astra Taylor. other recs?

So grateful for this session today. The Fire this time with Ezekiel Dixon-Romàn and Jerry Rosiek. Please join us. As adrienne marie brown reminds us, none of us is leaving this (imperialist fascism on steroids) at the same time, but no one is leaaving alone. Come, gather, join.

Tomorrow, PIttsburgh, Schenley Plaza, Film screening to follow!

Writing is hard going tonight. Deadline looming.... But, I have the opening sentence nailed. Inspiritation for a strong openine: Prince

learn, archive and protect

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“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.” ― Toni Morrison

Crackling with truth and incisiveness. Thank you @hfdavis.bsky.social electronicintifada.net/content/univ...

In 1940 the immigration courts were moved to the Department of Justice, whose main job is fighting crime and criminals. That transfer implied that immigrants were dangerous people—invaders, Trump now says—from whom the country needed protection.

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For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

"As protests and support efforts for Khalil continue, we should all uplift demands for his freedom."

I am confused, not really, when my public university asks to give IT a donation. Let me know when the contract with the union-busting law firm of Ballad Spahr ends and how those monies are directed to the most vulnerable.

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

The decision by a group of people, no matter how few, to commit themselves to this collective and protracted struggle and to reject “on the go” politics, shapes everything that follows. Grace Lee Boggs

hmmm....that standing up and looming in a white dress just isn't landing in the same for Taylor Swift tonight.

Gwynne Wilcox has been a lawyer for workers' right her entire career. Trump's firing of her was a deliberate attempt to stall the NRLB from any hearings ro decisions. Cowardice embodied. I am trying everyday to refuse distraction that leads to lack of action

Higher ed, you are behind but now is when you join organizing for teachers and kids terrified from ICE raids

This video report is foreboding & a great teaching tool. At the same time so much to say about how often this and other outlets did not do this kind of reporting more and sooner. “Hear from people who missed the first signs” (and you should) as the framing w/ no institutional reflexivity.

Updated this list today. Please keep using and sharing it you find it helpful. Added the letter to principals/school leadership and district/state leadership against EOs and in support of Black and Brown, and Tran students, and those at the intersections. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Workers at a Whole Foods in Philadelphia just voted to become the first unionized store in Amazon’s grocery chain

I have always despised the ethnocentric category of "Best International Film," but completing missing the briliance of All We Imagine As Light is a new low for the Oscars. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mgQ...

Thank you for this! I just sent this to white boomers relatives who are liberals. This administration has begun to radicalize them & they are so angry. But many don’t know what to do. Let’s hand them these kind of step by step manuals. They are retired & have time to go to meetings.

Why I stay close to conjunctural analysis: This gutting of DEI positions/money materials was already walking a thin line of nonperformativity (Ahmed) continued material impact from the whim of leaders (not just Trump, not even close. wapo.st/4h2GoXb

What if one of Oprah's 'favorite things' was a permanent cease of genocide?

ICYMI....resources for supporting people in the firezone (not all of them are in the U.S. (news flash!). These have been vetted. docs.google.com/document/d/1... docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

An LA organizer I trust shared this General Resource Spreadsheet with me. It includes nonofficial shelters and other resources for people affected by the LA fires.

Abortion escort stories - compelling, necessary read h/t @prisonculture abortionescortstories.com/blog/

Finalizing syllabi this early in the damn year is bettered by selecting an image from the newly free domains of 2025. A Frida Kahlo self-portrait will be pic for Advanced Qual Research this 'Spring.'

Yes, only surprising in a society where, to paraphrase Carla Shalaby, adults treat children from a basis of control instead of care. This also, btw, shapes young children to lean into control instead of care.

Formerly enslaved, Anna Julia Cooper earned an MA in math in 1887 & a PhD. Educator, leader, democracy activist, her 1892 book championed women's rights. “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.”

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crack nbc news: securing safety in the superdome is far easier. Define safety for ppl displaced by Katrina

Context, Contradictions, and False Equivalencies I write this essay on the cusp of several holiday traditions. As always, the holiday season can be incredibly painful for many. Loss of loved ones, memories of painful past holidays, undealt with grief, and the yearning for comfort are palpable…

Thanks for the reminder Duolingo. Say it with me everyone : Ayiti pa yon teritwa Etazini. Ayiti/Haiti is NOT a US territory. 💪🏾✊🏾💜🇭🇹 #themoreyouknow #knowledgeispower

Losing people, confronting another holiday w/o loved ones and facing harmful generational patterns in your family? You are not alone. See you at noon eastern on IG live to answer your questions about ancestral listening as a practice. If you can’t wait sangodare.podia.com/repetition-i...

Starter pack of scholars whose work looks critically at schooling and efforts to interrupt the social reproduction of inequality through education in transformative ways (in the U.S. and globally) #eduskyhttps://go.bsky.app/BYF1JZJ

Grades lodged. Now for my annual read of their Eyes Were Watching God Ever grateful for ZNH

I now want to teach a course on Cultural Studies and Education using Stuart Hall's work and 🧵s from Derek Guy. Or I will simply keep muttering "you 'Nita' size up your suit coat"

You have more in common with most prison inmates in the United States than you do with any billionaire