When Europeans arrived to the Pacific Northwest, they spread smallpox to the Indigenous people, plundered salmon, hunted down deer, and erected sprawling cities. New research details the profound impact, in numbers.

“I absolutely disagree with Carney that the economy and market forces need to be used because the economy itself is driving us into the ditch. It’s based on the creed of cancer — steady growth — and you can’t have endless growth in a finite world.”

This rural community fought one of the country’s biggest gas-powered data centers — and won. Inside the grassroots opposition that fended off a 2,200-acre data center campus in southern Virginia, and why their struggle isn’t over yet. grist.org/energy/this-... #Climate #Energy #DataCenter #AI

Seems bad because it is bad.

Happening Monday, May 26 - in Edmonton and online: Roundtable on Relational Research Methods in the Face of Climate Crisis. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/roundtable...

Victory! After farmers, represented by Earthjustice, filed suit, the USDA agreed to restore climate information to its webpages after the Trump administration took it down. This is a significant win for farmers and other Americans who rely on this scientific data.

First, Carney named Evan Solomon as the first-ever minister of artificial intelligence and digital innovation. It beggars belief that AI has its own dedicated minister while workers get little more than a passing mention.

We are alarmed by Tim Houston's attempt to control academic research in Nova Scotia. This sets a dangerous precedent, posing a danger to current and future research. Long-term research should not be impacted by partisan issues of the day. researchns.ca/2025/05/01/n...

Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought that complying with authoritarian demands would protect their independence. It didn’t—and history is warning us again. 🔗 theconversation.com/universities... #AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #Authoritarianism #DEI #TheConversation

This! I’ve never seen this many people in the streets in this many places in the U.S. in my lifetime. It’s inspiring, dammit.

Over 2000 protest in wake of student detainment at Tuft's www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...

Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri Remains in Immigration Jail After Masked Agents Snatched Him in D.C.

International students are being hunted on their campuses. For raising their voices for justice. This is pure evil.

A parallel establishment envisioned by Andreessen and others in the Network State movement, aims to dismantle the US and replace it w competing fiefdoms. "We're gonna take out Harvard. We have parallel education -- Replit, Synthesis, K-12, also AI tutoring, the Thiel Fellowship, Emergent Ventures."

Using pigments made from ash and charcoal collected at Altadena burn sites, artists Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, David Solnit, and dozens of volunteers created a painting to hold oil and gas companies accountable.

NEW! Our all-ages colouring book about extraction is now available in French, Spanish & Portuguese. You can find all versions of 'What It Takes' (with instructions on how to print!) on our website: www.beyondextraction.ca/what-it-takes #DisruptPDAC

Time for NS universities to speak up against this legislation and take a stand with faculty. “CBC News contacted all 10 universities in Nova Scotia requesting an interview, but none put someone forward.”

Nova Scotia has proposed legislation increasing political interference in universities. Political interference in education isn’t just an American phenomenon. It’s alive and well in Canada too. Politicians should not dictate the priorities of universities.

Check out “Research as Solidarity,” where a collective of youth researcher-activists share how research can be a form of solidarity in the face of climate change and systemic inequities. By Research for the Front Lines for the SI of Youth on “Politics of Disruption.” www.mdpi.com/2673-995X/5/...

The Patriotic Divide: while 90% of Canadians may still believe that we're a sovereign country, the elites and their mouthpieces know better. That divide is why the "51st state" discussion is so weird. My latest.

“Dismantling Democracy” is now its own category of ongoing reporting in the Halifax Examiner. @halifaxexaminer.ca

Manifesto for decarbonizing scholarship - please read, share, sign, and best of all, try some things out. Let’s shift academia towards a different world. #climatesky educators-for-climate-action.com/researchers/

Fossil fuel companies are funding misleading #education in #schools. We must demand that students receive accurate, evidence-based information that is free from industry messaging. @albertateachers.bsky.social #abed

some critical learnings from curriculum development grounded in Indigenous knowledge - among our team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous folks. Free e-prints: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/5GFGE...

“For rural freedom fighters who are feeling alone, you aren’t.” @jbethiejean.bsky.social and Steven Smith of West Virginia Can’t Wait on a political strategy that centers rural folx.

You know, social media sucks and all, but I am very tired of all this doomer shit I'm seeing everywhere that's like "oh well can't counter social media misinformation, it's too hard, the world is over" Bad guy domination of mass media is not historically unprecedented. Go build relationships

"Like the abolitionists of the 19th century arrayed against the planter class, today we need to break the economic, ideological and political foundations of billionaire rule." @lfelizleon.bsky.social for @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/labo...

Climate, eco-justice, sustainability, etc. people, come work with us in a great program. Please share this post with any and all. Happy to answer questions. 😊 www.cbu.ca/faculty-staf...

Climate, eco-justice, sustainability, etc. people, come work with us in a great program. Please share this post with any and all. Happy to answer questions. 😊 www.cbu.ca/faculty-staf...

“We must build robust, independent, social movements and fight to teach the truth — because no executive order, no political intimidation, and no forced ignorance can erase history, so long as we refuse to stop teaching it.” - @jessehagopian.bsky.social truthout.org/articles/tru...

All is not lost of the climate change and social justice front, people. Free webinar series on environmental racism and environmental justice hosted by Environment and Climate Change Canada. Check it 👇🏻 enviroequity.ca/webinar-series

"The American Association of University Professors, the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education &other groups argue in a lawsuit filed Mon that the orders exceed executive legal authority, violate both the 1st & 5th Amendments, &threaten academic freedom &access to HE for all"

For my latest, I talked with @ctulocal1.bsky.social president Stacy Davis Gates and artist and educator Silvia Gonzalez about how Chicago teachers are creating Sanctuary Teams to protect undocumented students and other marginalized youth from Trump's aggression. (Includes organizing resources.)

@mark-carney.bsky.social Canadians expect to be put on a ‘war footing’ to face this existential threat to our sovereignty. Any winning leadership platform to become PM must include a plan to radically re/order the US relationship to defend Canada.🇨🇦 www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

What Alberta Wants Children Taught about Fossil Fuels via @thetyee.ca #education #abed thetyee.ca/News/2024/11...

"Teachers have every reason to be guarded about what they say & do within state-surveilled school spaces. But teachers’ selfhoods do not end at the door of the classroom. Teachers are friends, neighbors, beloveds- & they are amazing organizers" [email protected] inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

There have to be other ways to talk about political community inside nation-states without invoking nationalism. How about collective responsibility to those whom we share nothing in common with beyond the sanctity of life and geography? Let’s take the opportunity to invent new social relations.

“Failing to urgently remove the waste from the water near the Mi'kmaq community, he said, sends a message that First Nations residents are "just second-class citizens to the Canadian government.”” #Mikmaki #CDNpoli #NSpoli #NovaScotia www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices provides educators with powerful tools to uncover the history and current context of Palestine-Israel in the classroom. rethinkingschools.org/books/teachi...

This is a great piece. "As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."

According to Elisabeth Ellis, "the antidote to mortally bad reasoning about climate change is more and better democracy.” muse.jhu.edu/article...

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

Good grief. I just stumbled upon Legacy Plus. The Kielburger brothers have rebranded Me to We as Legacy Plus, continuing their grift under another name, but with the same neoliberal model, promising to build brand identities through stadium events, global education, etc...

"We see this again and again; bullies are never appeased by submission. And if the presidents of post-secondary institutions would stand together in responding to the bullies, they might be surprised by their collective leverage." canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

www.commondreams.org/news/mla-bds Great coverage. Thank you, @commondreams.org

Check out this interview with award-winning Brazilian investigative journalist Maurício Angelo about the mining sector in his country, the harms it causes, the role played by Canadian companies, and grassroots resistance: mediacoop.ca/node/119266 #cdnpoli

My book got its first Bluesky review! 😊

Living with nature when you’re living rough is all about figuring out what you can and can’t control. My latest column follows the life of unhoused Minneapolis resident Jorge Grijalva. www.startribune.com/koerth-how-o...