The Trauma of ICE Raids Is Rippling Through Public Schools Across the US. ICE raids have left children stranded without caregivers after school bus drop-off. Abductions traumatize whole schools. truthout.org/articles/the...

A leading historian of decolonization, Fred Cooper, on the uses and pitfalls of the inflationary invocation of decolonization. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

Mormon settlers colonized southwestern Alberta in the 1880s as an outpost to protect the practice of polygamy beyond the borders of US interference. Ironically, one of the leaders of this movement is a Mormon politician w/ a degree from BYU.

I talked about G. Harris Daggett today. You might not know him. He was central to the case that led to the Supreme Court's 1957 Sweezy v. New Hampshire decision--in which Warren wrote that without academic freedom "civilization will stagnate and die." First time the Court endorsed academic freedom.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

What can you do with a history degree?

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

Do you wanna make sure you didn’t miss a single second of symbolism from Bad Bunny’s halftime show? This thread gotchu!

i think about this every day and the more history i learn, the truer it becomes

Sociologist C. Wright Mills saw this coming—and tried to warn us—60+ years ago. jacobin.com/2026/02/wrig...

So, legal experts/scholars… is their no recourse these professors have if they were hired under the auspices of and/or earned tenure? What about contract law, etc?

My kiddo is playing Hogwarts Legacy, and I’m wondering what this game might look like from the POV of the main character as a professor. 🤔 I guess they’d get to have immediate access to cool magic, grade student HW, distribute house points, & visit the Hogsmeade bar lol.

Iowa closing the African American studies major during Black history month is diabolical. This article is from 4 days ago, but it is now official. The minor will continue.

Gramsci once observed "the old is dying and the new struggles to be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear," and I'm not sure there would be any better encapsulation of our society's comorbidities than this headline.

This is a fantastic dialogue and I think presciently describes the current global crisis we have on our hands, and provides some great analysis about pathways forward without pretense or false hope.

Illinois always knows how to show up!

I understand it's hard for some to use the term concentration camp, even for those horrified by what's happening. And there are settings (e.g., court) where it may not be helpful today. The key thing to realize is that there's an arc of how detention regimes tend to go, and we're recognizably on it.

Also hope that 2026 is when people bring back earnestness. Sincerity is GOOD.

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Very generous of @unevadareno.bsky.social to speak with me about my involvement in a wonderful collaborative research project culminating in a publication in @erjournal-aera.bsky.social. I know we are all very excited for more people to become familiar with this "different Brown (vs. Board) story."

Really wish Apple would bring back iPods. I don’t want my oldest to have a phone, but I want her to experience the joy of thousands of your favorite songs in a simple-to-use device that sleekly fits in your pocket.

🔥🔥🔥"These tools, reportedly deployed across Minneapolis, were not created in America, but in Israel, still another Homeland, enforcing the longest “occupation” in modern history. Thus, the citizens of Minnesota have...subsidized an occupation overseas that is effectively a laboratory for their own"

Marxist scholar, political analyst, historian and author Michael Parenti has died at the age of 92. See our interviews with him here: https://www.democracynow.org/appearances/michael_parenti

If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Today is, among other things, a reminder that you don't get a general strike by posting that we should have a general strike. You get a general strike—on the rare occasions you do—by the long slow slog of building organizing power with those around you in response to local conditions.

Nevada is an interesting landscape for schooling. The state insufficiently funds education, so schools are forced to fundraise for resources by various means. Example: my kiddos elementary school hosted a bingo night (which was fun!) that was sponsored by a local casino 🎰

Trump is not “bringing back” the age of U.S. imperialism. From Indigenous nations, to Guam and Puerto Rico, to migrants detained at our border, the U.S. has always controlled the lands and lives of people who had no say. The U.S. has always been an empire.

Full Circle’: American Indian Movement patrols are back on Minneapolis streets as tensions rise. ictnews.org/news/full-ci...

Once again urging schools to not de-radicalize #MLK for children/families/communities by reducing him to only championing racial equity, or marking the holiday as a “day of service” where free labor is extracted. Planning an event? Better to have a speaker/engage in dialogue about the real King.

On the campaign trail, Trump promised to lower grocery prices on “day one.” But in his first year since being back at the White House, the average family spent an EXTRA $300+ for their groceries. Trump lied and now Americans are literally paying the price. www.allrecipes.com/joint-econom...

Blueskis, studies have shown that when folks see or hear about a book more than five times, they are likely to check it out, and buy it. So in the spirit of creating buzz, here is the gorgeous cover of THE WESTERNERS, which will be published on March 31!

Must-read research and historical context for the Maduro operation 🗃️

The Department of Homeland Security is refusing to release information on 3 detained Oglala Lakota tribal members who are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp for Native people, unless the tribe enters into an immigration agreement with ICE.

🎥 WATCH | Children’s educator Ms. Rachel urges the US and Israel to end the deliberate suffering of 1 million Palestinian children, calling for the immediate entry of lifesaving shelter and medical aid into Gaza. Video: Assal Rad via X (@AssalRad)

Excited to share this published work, online now in @aeraedresearch.bsky.social Education Researcher. This was a wonderful collaboration to be a part of with Oliver Tapaha, @khalil.bsky.social, & Terah Venzant-Chambers. doi.org/10.3102/0013...

Don’t sleep on Concerto no. 2 Part iii (Summer) of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. That shit is good. 🎻

Saw this on Instagram, and it’s pretty good! 😂

Facts. America in a nutshell is “we as a society can’t have nice things because Black people would also have them”. Our entire history has been this, and it’s far past time for all of us white people to wake up to these facts.

The sequels to George Lucas’s Star Wars saga and Andor S2 have really become some of the most revelatory media about our current crisis—the one the US empire has generated.

It's not that ICE isn't about immigration; it's that immigration enforcement is about policing, which is violent and oppressive and hates protesters.

The world is on fire because US Imperialism is spiraling towards its downfall, grasping for control. Much to the chagrin of the earth and its peoples, I'm afraid. Meanwhile, I'm just over here trying to read, think, and write some papers...

Just got a US National Parks annual pass and I hate so much that instead of a beautiful picture of the land (what these passes used to have), it’s got the ugly mug of Trump on it. 😵‍💫

Trying to feel hopeful about a new year is tough when your country’s government decides to conduct illegal bombings and coups three days into it.

Leave it to Christianity to have made “the new year” occur at one of the coldest, darkest points in the earth’s cosmic journey around the sun. Thanks Pope Gregory. #NewYearsEve2026

Grades posted. Automatic email reply message set. First semester as Assistant Professor is officially in the books! ✅ 😅

The majority of archival material out there has NOT been digitized. So if you really want to figure something out, odds are that you have to go to an archive and dig. Historians are trained to dig.

I wonder how orgs like Edutopia decide what the "most significant studies" of the year are... Looking through the list, there's certainly some great findings, but now I'm stuck thinking about the metrics used for selection. 🤔 /1 #EduSky

“Despite the scale of the attacks, efforts to sustain education in Gaza have continued.” open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...