Man, do you know what rules? Actually loving other people, reminding us that we deserve a government that cares for us, and inspiring us to meet our neighbors.

And Zohran Mamdani also placed *joy* and more awareness of history + changemakers as staples in his campaign. He provided space for people to learn and bond rather than just spit out figures and hokum.

Is this what...joy feels like?

so it turns out that fascism is unpopular

Cheney was so evil that him dying actually lifted a curse

The extent to which educators at my school this week were spending lunch periods & before & after school trying figure out & respond to ICE fears & immediate food needs is heartening & absolutely infuriating. I know I can’t stay this mad all the time without health impacts, but fuuuuuck.

I feel like people outside of Vermont should know that Bernie Sanders hands out king size candy bars every Halloween.

"But don’t tell me that excusing that tattoo is good politics. It is the exact same politics that the right is selling, in a different outfit."

“It means believing that racism is not a natural condition of poverty but a political weapon that rich men use to constrain poor people’s political power.” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

In addition to any monetary donations to local food banks & mutual aid efforts, donating grocery gift cards to local schools can be a great way to support your community through difficult times 💛

Take a lesson from the Black Panthers who understood how to feed people

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

There is a robust conversation already about supporting students digital literacy abilities. This is good & necessary & (from what I can see) happening. I would offer that there is an equally compelling case for the need to practice perspective taking. I wish this was more supported.

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

Assata Shakur

Don't engage. Just block. They want to push their rage bait on here. Don't give them the satisfaction. bsky.app/profile/did:...

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

On this Indigenous People’s Day we began preparations to put Columbus on trial 💛 So very thankful to the wonderful resources from @zinnedproject.bsky.social www.zinnedproject.org/materials/pe...

surprise! the real challenge was always getting us to recognize the humanity of other humans! we can anthropomorphize the fuck out of wall-e but genocide is "really complicated"

“It’s not just these two reporters’ fates that are at stake here—and that’s important enough—but also the fundamental, constitutional right of a free press.”

Curious: who is heading to NCSS in December? My wonderful friend Emily & I are attending for the first time (alongside some of my badass colleagues!) Will be presenting a session on Creative Noncompliance 🥰

An amazing thread bringing in fashion and history. A great read for everyone, but especially teachers of World History. 🗺️

Going back to my “roots” a bit this year with book-whisperer-style reading joy in my advisory. Forever thankful to @donalynbooks.bsky.social who left such a mark on my practice so many years ago.

Doctors Without Borders has suspended operations in Gaza City because of the danger to its staff caused by the Israeli military’s ground offensive. The announcement came on the same day that the UN said four hospitals had been rendered unusable in the north of the territory over the past month.

The republishing of The Long Game as Lessons in Power… at this exact political moment. YA authors are brutal!

English teachers, history teachers, government teachers: This is an extraordinary primary source. webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1f...

“I’m actually very scared all the time,” he said in an interview. The trick, Chavarria said, is to not let that fear keep him from doing what he believes duty to his community demands.” www.sevendaysvt.com/news/educati...

When things feel tough, I STRONGLY recommend finding your closest drag queen story hour.

Can confirm we should let Girl Scouts run everything. In a post-apocalyptic scenario, they would be very helpful.

Bell to bell cell phone bans: 10/10!

You know you have a two year old when… you begin your day finding fresh caterpillar food.

Over Half My Students Saw Video of Charlie Kirk’s Murder. Here’s How I Responded www.edweek.org/teaching-lea... by @christienold.bsky.social is new @edweek.org post

Citing concerns about DEI, the Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

More than half of my students in each class I taught today had seen the video. I am sure that number will be even higher tomorrow.

Turns out budget cuts DO alter the experience of teaching & learning… who knew?! Still loving my job AND oh wow… feeling the impact of last year’s cuts. Hard.

"school shooting industry"

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Starting the Tasks for the National Guard in Portland list. Priming the pump with a few and gonna crowdsource the rest; feel free to submit here. I will also have a paper and pen version on my fence.

I spent years researching and trying to explain the imperial boomerang to people and he just … tweeted this out

if you’re willing to throw another population under the bus to save yourself, you’re not actually willing to fight fascism. fascism isn’t a bear, it can’t be escaped by simply outrunning someone slower than you. the only way it can be defeated is through solidarity.

People who might be comfortable with their neighbors quietly disappearing aren't always comfortable when the grotesque human rights abuses involved are made public. They don't like to imagine themselves as the bad people you make them seem like when you point out what's happening. So keep doing it.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign,” Senator Bernie Sanders writes in a guest essay.

After just four days back, I simply stared at the fridge as though I were willing it to come up with dinner… somehow? This lasted a good four minutes before I asked our two year old what we should eat 😬🤦🏼‍♀️

“You don’t get to just fight for Black history, you also have to fight for the sanctuary of our immigrant families. You also have to fight for protections for our trans & queer students, & our SPED students...You don’t get to pick & choose who is a protected class in Trump’s America.” S. Davis Gates

It is clear the school year has started because I just *had* to organize our medicine cabinet this morning 😬

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵