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classic piece on this by the great D. Stanley Eitzen and Maxine Baca Zinn: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

thanks Earl. Please share as you see fit.

Activists must lift timid Democratic leaders It’s spring, and Democrats are exulting over the prospect of recapturing the House in November. Enthused optimists conjure scenarios where Democrats flip the Senate. Maybe, some imagine, this could ev...

Democrats dream that winning the midterms will bend the arc of history back toward justice. But that won't be enough. Social movements must lift, educate, and pressure politicians before, during, and after elections. My piece in the Santa Fe New Mexican: www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_v...

and consider also, on another side of the ledger, all of the cuts to health, food assistance, clean energy, education, US AID. This is a massive shift of resources from human needs to war.

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

Death, displacement and military duties: children plunged into crisis by Middle East war The US-Israeli war will have a lifelong impact on millions of children across the Middle East

war's horrible impact on children. Good to see someone focusing on something other than gas prices. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Does "No Kings" matter? Protesters understand the assignment. They're showing up to save democracy.

I wrote about what No Kings is accomplishing. Forming a nationwide network in a vast stand against Trump is critical at this point, because he represents a different kind of challenge. Meanwhile, millions of No Kings protesters are taking other actions close to home—and say they're ready to do more.

Opinion | The People Trump Pardoned Are on a Crime Spree

Who could have seen this coming?

Black Power, White Heat: From Solidarity Politics to Ra… Black Power, White Heat is a major historical reinterpr…

Important new book by historian Alice Echols, on the promise and perils of multi-racial coalition-building: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

I was proud to be among the No Kings throngs in Santa Fe, NM, and it's great to see images and stories from small towns and cities in the U.S. and around the world.

"The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903-2024" ("Women Coaches") YouTube video by Rutgers University Press

Women's History Month, March Madness--check out my short video on women high school coaches: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN4c...

5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds Exclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined

The US-Israel war on Iran is a disaster for the climate, draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined. The conflict released 5m tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in just 14 days.

“Every missile strike is another downpayment on a hotter, more unstable planet."

No pay wall.

and of course the human cost of death and injury, especially to civilians, and the environmental destruction of this war are incalculable.

War, injustice and a coalition in the making War, injustice and a coalition in the making

on the need for renewed progressive coalition politics. enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/art...

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

Mentoring might have benefited young Donald When I was 10, I went camping with Donnie Hallstone and his dad. We skipped stones in a shallow creek and cooked out on a fire. In the evening light,

My piece about Trump's splashing his name and face all over everything. Sadly, the editor removed a key word from the rebuke I received when I was a youngster: should read, "writes his name on shithouse walls." www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_v...

Death toll from Iran school bombing reportedly rises to almost 150 Strike on girls’ elementary school in south of Iran has killed 148 people and injured 95 others, according to Iran state media

This is not "collateral damage." It is always civilians who suffer the most when nation states wage war. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Trump’s unprovoked attack on Iran has no mandate – or legal basis US president violates UN charter just days into his Board of Peace era, and chooses to take the biggest gamble of his administration

"In the Board of Peace, however, there is no requirement for Trump to justify himself. There are no rules other than those giving Trump the power to make them up as he goes along." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903-2024" ("John Steinbeck") YouTube video by Rutgers University Press

February 27 is the 124th anniversary of Nobel Prize winning author John Steinbeck's birth. The 1919 senior class president is also Salinas High School's most famous alum. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvv9...

thanks for sharing this important piece.

The Pride flag at the Stonewall Monument is re-raised!

New Yorkers won’t let Donald Trump erase LGBTQ+ history, or trample the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors.

What's the Matter with Florida? An Interview with Zachary Levenson A discussion about Florida's censorship of sociology and teaching under authoritarianism

This week at Group Threat, I spoke with @grundrza.bsky.social about Florida's censorship regime, teaching under authoritarianism, and how folks are coping (or not).

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

"Masculinity, Empathy, and the American High School: A Dialogue with Mike Messner" - Sociologists Talking Real Sh*t In this episode of Sociologist Talking, James welcomes Mike Messner to discuss Mike's new book, 'The High School,' which examines the sociological significance of high school yearbooks from Salinas Hi...

It was a pleasure to talk about The High School with James McKeever on his podcast, "Sociologists Talking Real Sh*t" sociologiststalkingrealshit.buzzsprout.com/1214180/epis...

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Combatting the regime’s whitewashing of history and our rich heritage is very important to me. This month I try to make a Black History post everyday. Happy Black History Month! 💙

Trump-administration officials and MAGA influencers have repeatedly called these activists “violent” and said they are involved in “riots.” But the resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation. Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents. Of the three homicides in Minneapolis this year, two were committed by federal agents. “There’s been an incredible, incredible response from the community. I’ve seen our neighbors go straight from allies to family—more than family—checking in on each other, offering food and rides for kids and all kinds of support, alerting each other if there’s ICE or any kind of danger,” Malika Dahir, a local activist of Somali descent, told me. If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.

One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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