I have my students write three-sentence summaries of articles and then read them aloud in class, to see how different summaries are depending on the things that most interest you. We map overlaps and differences to help them understand why trusting a supposed summary machine short-circuits thinking.

"Caleb has persisted with the same grift oh my gosh gift oh my gosh grit I had a long week and said the quiet part out loud again lol you're not a grifter, like my dead husband who I hated"

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention is “deeply concerned” that Israel is preparing to launch a large-scale military operation against Lebanon framed as an effort to “disarm Hezbollah.” www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...

"Students physically take over their schools, sleeping in gymnasiums, replacing state-mandated curriculum [..], and turning the institution into a fortress of political thought." "Today, that fortress is flying the Palestinian flag." #Italy #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Education #Protest

THIS IS VERY BAD FOLKS

Let's be clear here, Elon is using a neo nazi term to call for the ethnic cleansing of Europe.

"3.5% rule" "60% of nonviolent protests succeed" You may have heard these cited as fact. But they stem from a single dubious source. In the first in a series @thefreeradical.org debunks these, showing how they're propaganda to erase the power of militant, riotous revolt and peddle passive protest:

In addition to perpetrating ethnic cleansing and outright genocide against Palestinians, Zionists have endangered Jewish people around the world, not least by contributing to the rise of the far right, which has unsurprisingly fostered a new wave of antisemitism.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

The real purpose of US bombing in Syria is to set up the Israeli occupation of Syria. aje.io/clyf0e

Despite and in response to the Executive Orders censoring teaching honestly, teachers are bravely signing up in greater numbers to access people’s history lessons. Donate so we can reach more teachers with free people’s history lessons & defend their right to use them: www.zinnedproject.org/donate/

A 13th immigration judge has just been fired in San Francisco. With other judges retiring, the court, which started 2025 with 21 judges, will have just four in the new year. It has the worse case backlog of any immigration court in California. missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-i...

We offer a lesson about Indigenous leaders in Climate Justice Movement, valve turners using civil disobedience to stop flow of oil, & legal team that uses “necessity defense” as political tool in courts. #Resist By HS teacher Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. Free ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ne...

UN refugee agency says women and children arriving 'exhausted and severely traumatised' after fleeing eastern DRC.

Everyone should take a couple of minutes and watch this, because it's a perfect illustration of how ICE disappears people by making it almost impossible to communicate with family, friends, and lawyers.

Who is college for? And what does college do? are two questions of increasing urgency because if those of us involved in these institutions don’t provide compelling answers then the tendency towards reducing it to glorified job training will destroy every meaningful part of the endeavor.

Community schools are lifelines. They provide food, health care, counseling, and real support so kids can learn. Gutting their funding isn’t “budget discipline”, it’s abandoning students, families, and educators who are already doing more with less. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Dec. 18, 1925: A wave of crime being committed by young men is really the fault of the women in their lives who are greedy for a good time, says Mary Hamilton, chief of New York police women. “The girls of today have no moral code,” she says.

This looks like a great org to support if you want to make holiday donations! My mom and I are going to ❤️

The science behind gender-affirming care has been endorsed by every major medical organization. This isn't about science or medicine. It's about the discomfort many non-trans people feel over the *existence* of trans people.

Amazon has conned school districts out of tens of millions of dollars with AI-fueled pricing and bunk claims of competitive bidding. @naomibethune.bsky.social argues that it’s time for school districts to end their contracts: trib.al/fWPnG3J

Faced with Trump’s deportation push, US teachers fear leaving the classroom https://aje.io/wq9ot0

RFK Jr is Mengele 2.0

"What did you do today at work, babe?" asks the trooper's wife. "Well, hon, I stood outside the women's room telling ladies to prove to me they were born with vaginas before I let them pee." Not all fetishes are fascist, but all fascism is fetishistic. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/12/t...

1. Earlier this year, Yale and CCMC capitulated to the Trump administration and ended care for trans youth. Now, 10 families are suing them for violating state law. Hospitals cannot be made to believe throwing trans people under the bus is risk free. Our latest story.

DRC says M23 vow to pull out of Uvira is a ‘distraction’ as forces remain https://aje.io/vzp58o

Vanity Fair’s portrait of Karoline Leavitt isn’t body shaming. It’s an artistic critique of the illusion of white supremacy along with the hypocrisy and insecurity of Trump’s fascist foot soldiers

This is one for the history books. Econ teachers take note...

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"Housing insecurity hits differently for Black mothers. It doesn’t just displace us—it puts everything at risk." "We get labeled unreliable, unwell, or too stressed to lead, when in truth, the system is unstable, not us." #SouthCarolina #USA #Housing #Courts #Labour #MutualAid

My amazing teacher and sister @cathylutz.bsky.social with @reedgalen.bsky.social giving lessons on American war-making as Trump pushes us toward another unnecessary, costly, and immoral war.

Some solid media coverage of today's actions. "The faith leaders, wearing religious garb from various denominations, stood in front of the courthouse doors, singing, “If you come for them, you’ll have to go through us.” #AbolishICE #BayResistance

My favorite tyrant joke: a man comes every day and peers at the front page of the newspaper without buying it. The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?" "An obituary." "Obituaries aren't on the front page." "This one will be."

Go Rev. Deb Lee et al. Well done.

At press time, people were hoping it’s not too inconceivable that Death redeems itself soon by asking the far more right person to prepare to die as they wish.

Curious how to use graphic novels in your classroom? Here are some of the guides my wife and I created for these powerful books and more - www.historycomics.net/free-lesson-... . Always looking for more opportunities to work with publishers and creators…

A Chinese citizen who fled the country after gathering evidence of alleged human-rights violations against the nation’s Uyghur population is at risk of being returned there after being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, his supporters said www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Don’t worry, Biden’s legacy will be enshrined in every museum dedicated to the Gaza genocide. That’s all that will be remembered of his presidency and 50 year political career — that he armed & enabled genocide because he prioritized one group of people over a group who he considered to be subhuman.

I had a cool day hanging out with @leevgaines.bsky.social , a freelance reporter for @npr.org! She shadowed me and spoke to many of my students about AI. The full story will come out in January, but please go watch Lee’s TikTok here! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yJ1WUu/

I can't pay no doctor bills But Elon's five years from the moon Ten years from now I'll be payin' still While Elon's five years from the moon The man just upped my rent last night Cause Elon's almost on the moon

everything is getting worse in all the ways I've been predicting for my entire adult life

“Success looks like healthy food systems, our nations being healthy again, not being dependent on the federal government.” SNAP stoppage exposed once again how fragile & punitive federal food systems are for Indigenous people, making bare the need for food sovereignty, @alexmar.bsky.social reports.

FBI OPS DIRECTOR: Antifa - that's our primary concern right now. CONGRESS: Where is Antifa headquartered? FBI: [Pauses]...We are building out the infrastructure right now. CONGRESS: What does that mean? FBI: Well, that's very fluid.

This is awesome. The Guides’ leadership needs to practice what they teach.

The process of shrinking the gap between your values and actions is a lifetime journey.

Someone invite me to give a keynote and/or talk to your preservice teachers about how I cultivate moments of joy in my classroom in an effort to spite the fascists who want to silence teachers like me and students like mine.

This is my friend's cat. Its name is Cookie Swirl, and it disappeared in the American section of Charlotte airport on 11/10. We're asking for your help. She doesn't have any other socials, so if you can post it widely to see if anyone knows where it is. It's a little thing, but matters a lot to her.

Don't miss the chance to hear from award-winning scholar Kelly Lytle Hernández on Monday at 7pm ET. She will provide an introduction to the new Mapping Deportations site, including how the history of anti-immigrant legislation and racism are intertwined. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/mapping...