America’s samizdat era begins.

Call your US House rep and tell them NO MONEY FOR ICE. reps.fyi

This is *exactly* why my students wrote guerilla zines countering this whitewashing of American History. Look for them in an Oakland public library near you.

OH HELLLLLL NO Oakland coal terminal will receive $75 million in Trump administration funding share.google/6N52xCueALJJ...

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

It isn’t hyperbolic to say that SCOTUS is at war with the Reconstruction Amendments and multiracial democracy more broadly. We’re a liberal democracy and an apartheid planter society stitched together and it’s clear where the SCOTUS majority’s sympathies lie.

This is excellent from @jamellebouie.net. The Trump administration is not conservative in any meaningful sense of the word. They are revolutionaries undermining the constitutional order. Any competent response from Democrats needs to face this reality squarely.

If you teach US history, US government, or civics of any kind in secondary schools, it's incumbent upon us to teach a thorough and probing unit about the history of voting rights and disenfranchisement next year.

SCOTUS upholds white supremacy, again. The Warren Court was an abberation.

Steady stream of people in to my polling place right now! California! You have until 8! Go vote! Find Your Polling Place :: California Secretary of State share.google/TzctrNzopq7d...

Weary fist bumps of solidarity to California voters today. Remember to have a snack for energy and moral before tackling the ballot. And tell everyone you know not to mail their ballot. They did not do enough education about why you *must* find a drop box because of Trump fuckery.

I find this whole Ken Paxton I'M A MAN! YOU'RE A LADYMAN! shtick so. incredibly. boring. We've all seen this before. It is unoriginal and lacks imagination. Not that I want bigots to be more creative (I DO NOT) but this is some low quality bigotry.

We deserve walkable, metro-able cities connected by bullet trains

Nikita Khrushchev: "We will take America without firing a shot... We will destroy you from within."

new week, new toon www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

For our final US history mini project, I showed kids some of the America at 250 propaganda, and asked them to create a zine about what they want folks to remember and understand about American history. We have 90 different zines, Oakland: they're coming to public libraries near you!

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

"You’re going to get left behind if you don’t use AI.” Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long-form, and books without needing AI summaries.

look how much craftsmanship we've lost in clothing in just a hundred years

The pastor is giving an early sermon today

See you can just say "it sucks we should ban it"

I.C.E. maintains a strict dress code for people seeking to visit their loved ones caged at Delaney Hall. It’s clear the strict rule is useful pretext to deny visitors entry. #ICE #DHS

The UC Berkeley IGS poll is out! Becerra 25 Hilton 21 Steyer 19 Californians: it is your patriotic duty to vote for Steyer to give us a Becerra/Steyer matchup so we can depress Republican turnout for every congressional and down ballot race in the state. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Rocket blows up days after he says teachers don’t need his taxes to go up. Karma, bitch

shout out to the student who said my classroom playlist reminded her of being in a JC Penney

With alt text, and translating the user-name out of unreadable, non-machine readable, inaccessible ascii font: im evil now :3

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Telling my kids this is the papal encyclical on ai: "I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."

Can’t believe that Andy Kim is in two of the most haunting pictures of the last few years.

The absolute bare minimum effort we *should* be seeing from electeds anywhere. “I ran up and put myself between the ICE officers and the crowd, and that’s when they started to shoot at us with the pepper balls — as well as using the pepper spray — and were tackling people."

Oyez! Public school districts! Let us all heed UC Berkeley School of Law's new comprehensive, sensible and *replicable* policy, which "seeks to protect the cognitive skills constitutive of a legal education.” We would do well to protect the cognitive skills constitutive to a K12 education.

Shout out to both my son and the random woman across from me at the Apple store who both asked our "genius" how to turn off any "ai" features, then how to get rid of the automatic chatGPT download on the phone. But why? The genius asked. ChatGPT has no integrity, says the queen across from me. 👑

A student wanted me to watch a bunch of her IG reels, so I patiently sat through a bunch of clips of her with her dog, her little brother, etc, and then had my mind blown by 3 watching students complement me on my *attention span.* Because I could watch the reels all the way through. Help.

Jesse to political candidates: this could be us but you playing

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

Converting to Catholicism so I can tell my bosses using unregulated AI is against my religion and I will sue them like that cake lady who hated gay people if they make me use it

Lot of good fodder lately for my fall semester AI-policy. "In accordance with the Vatican and UC Berkeley Law, this class will..."

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

If you are raising white boys, do everything in your power to make them non-assholes.

An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.

thank you to everyone who sent this to me

We had an end-of-year conversation - what are main takeaways from a year of studying history? What are patterns you see? What are you most concerned about for your future? What gives you hope? Want to take a guess what most 17 yos were worried about? AI and the surveillance state.

The Trillionaire Kill Chain maps a seven-stage attack on American democracy — built on fifty years of work by people who decided democracy was incompatible with their politics — and what every billionaire learned from watching the one man who finally proved them right. This is episode 1.

What a day for AI resistance resources! 1) The AI Resist List from @karenhao.bsky.social and colleagues at DAIR at airesistlist.org 2) The Luddite Lab from @alexhanna.bsky.social and colleagues at DAIR at labor.dair-institute.org

When I was able to identify the kind of bird (dark eyed junco) that flew into our classroom (it's fine!) a student gasped and literally said, "you know EVERYTHING" I didn't want to discourage this thought, but I should've told him: I'm just...an old with binoculars and merlin.

Crockett 🔥: "Some of y'all need to read up on your history books, the same ones Republicans have decided people shouldn't hear about bc you don't want real history taught in schools. You're afraid it's gonna hurt people's feelings to know their ancestors were so savage they would enslave Black folk"

Elon Musk called it “efficiency.” We call it chaos, harm & zero accountability. DOGE’s actions impacted millions & Congress must take action. 📢 RSVP for our DOGE Accountability Mass Call on May 28th to learn how you can take action. ➡️ stmp.link/dogecall @cwaunion.bsky.social @teslatakedown.com

ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

Well let us see, Jeff is worth 239 billion dollars. The NYC budget for teacher salaries is about 12.9 billion. Not sure what percentage is just for Queens but its about 25% of the city's population. So let us say the salaries are 3.23 billion. Seems like Jeff could give them a nice pay raise!

When students write a reparations bill, what harms do they name? As @scmaestra.bsky.social says below, none of their students chose Jan. 6. #TeachOutsideTextbook #TeachTruth www.zinnedproject.org/materials/st...