"The issue of class size is not just about numbers, it is a reflection of our values – of who and what we are willing to invest in. Right now, it’s clear that the government is not valuing the students, educators or communities that sustain public education."

Right-wing leaders here want to continue courting disaffected white men to further a movement built on a politics of resentment. We need a deep, regenerative approach to equity. theconversation.com/why-dei-need...

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

A must-read for folks in education. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

My brilliant friend Ellis Scott is releasing his gorgeous debut novel next year. This is an unexplored archive of stories of grief about men who endured the AIDS crisis in the 80s and 90s. Stunning prose. Please consider pre-ordering to support a luminous writer. www.ellisscott.ca/new-page

In her book, @jenniecstephens.bsky.social "insists that higher education reckon with its complicity in addressing the intersecting crises of systemic abandonment and ecological collapse." Read Dr. @mariavamvalis.bsky.social 's full review here: bit.ly/48ioTQS @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Just reviewed @jenniecstephens.bsky.social excellent book, Climate Justice and the University. She names so clearly what’s at stake and how post-secondary institutions could be mobilizing for climate justice, equity, and community well-being. journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm... #climatejustice

"The promise of democracy was that the lives of all would steadily improve as knowledge spread: we would turn our gathering understanding of the world into social progress. For a while, in some places, we did. But that era now seems to be coming to an end." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."

Climate change is a crisis of intergenerational justice. It’s not too late to make it right theconversation.com/climate-chan...

Take what broke you and teach from the gold in the fracture.

Happy to share that my doctoral thesis on climate justice pedagogies is now available online. My deepest hope is that it contributes to educational renewal, regeneration and relationality in these dark times. utoronto.scholaris.ca/items/f386f4...

Deep transformation is always possible where truth and tenderness meet.

Survey: Only four per cent of Canadians give schools an ‘A’ on climate education – students deserve better theconversation.com/survey-only-...

Witnessing and being witnessed in love across time is a form of justice.

This is how we come together. Transforming their divisiveness into our cohesion. open.substack.com/pub/satyadoy...

In these times of great unravelling, where we name our losses, we must also remember that we can still receive guidance from what what was never colonized.

Where this culture mistakes the depth of relationality for weakness is where it has sown the most potent seeds of its unravelling.

Having experienced their Little Amal performance art to highlight the plight of refugees, the Herds project promises to offer a powerful opportunity for a profound shift in consciousness - one that the arts are uniquely capable of bringing forth. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

This world is not designed to value what cannot be curated for consumption. It is wearying...a slow bleed of the imagination until the collective soul flatlines from the lack of nourishment, expression, and reverence.

“There is fatigue, but the momentum is still there, it’s just not as visible.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Academic freedom is vital to climate justice. We can’t tackle urgent crises if educators are silenced for questioning systems or naming injustice. Protecting critical thought is protecting our future. #AcademicFreedom #ClimateJustice #Education www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

The 2024 Lancet Countdown warns: delayed climate action is driving record-breaking health threats worldwide. From heatwaves to food insecurity, human lives are on the line. #ClimateHealth

Empire has always been deeply invested in inducing the forgetting of the deep aliveness and connection to this Earth that is our birthright. World-shaping revolutions commence from this remembering.

It is painful to live in a world that continues to mistake self-destruction for freedom.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - At a town hall hosted by Shelby County Health Dept. on Fri. night, designed to help ease concerns about the xAI supercomputer’s impact on Memphis’ air, electricity and water www.actionnews5.com/2025/04/26/e... xAI’s representative Brent Mayo…

"End times fascism is a darkly festive fatalism – a final refuge for those who find it easier to celebrate destruction than imagine living without supremacy." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

"The stereotype of a scientist is a dispassionate, objective and neutral seeker of nature’s truths, and many think that this makes a career in science incompatible with political activism. Canadian climate scientist Katherine Hayhoe thinks that this is a mistake." www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

“We are fast approaching temperature levels – 1.5C, 2C, 3C – where insurers will no longer be able to offer coverage for many of these risks...the premiums required exceed what people or companies can pay...Entire regions are becoming uninsurable.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fascism demands that we deny our humanity in order to prove that we are worthy of it. I refuse these logics.

Farmers depend on climate data. They’re suing the USDA for deleting it. Growing food is a precarious business, and losing access to key information makes it worse. grist.org/food-and-agr... #Farmers #Farms #Food #Agriculture

A Manifesto for Decarbonizing Scholarship Sign: educators-for-climate-action.com/researchers

A critically important study on fossil fuel company involvement in schools and climate education. www.forourkids.ca/pollutingedu...

"What I did not anticipate, when thinking that the whole suite of behaviours, from Nazi saluting to upturning reality, belonged well and truly to the past, was the sense of paralysis that would settle when fascism finally put its fancy dress on." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Social & historical amnesia are now paralleled by ongoing attempts by far-right politicians across the globe to eradicate the notion that emancipatory policies are inseparable from critical thought & the institutions that facilitate it." www.laprogressive.com/progressive-...

“The engineers, on the other hand, represent the triumph of instrumental reason in our new century. They fetishise efficiency and understand the democratic state as an impediment to the sort of “progress” they desire.”

I stand with the trans community. Pass it along.

Re-sharing my conversation with @twyspy.bsky.social at this inflection point where we are called to root ourselves in the power of the flow of planetary life to gather the courage to challenge a paradigm that must be hospiced for collective well-being to flourish.

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

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Employees are critical catalysts for climate action (now more than ever). Our Job Function Action Guides provides easy-to-use checklists for getting started! drawdown.org/programs/dra...