That was totally obvious. And Betar’s lists

Exactly. I would NEVER do a privilege walk, and even the concept of privilege as framed within a capitalist/consumerist paradigm is suspect.

My America!

The History of Wealth Throughout History YouTube video by Sarah Cooper

OMG Sarah Cooper is brilliant
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cJ1...

Unquestionably, major policy changes, edicts and directives handed down by the new Trump administration will upend lives. But I've also been struck by the widespread efforts to erase/whitewash history. Stick with me for a pretty shocking series of events from just the past few weeks.

ICYMI — ICE protests across 🇺🇸

It’s Black History Month! Teach Black resistance and Black existence. Go to linktr.ee/sonjacherrypaul for the free educator’s guide for Revolution In Our Time and for the full interview with @keklamagoon.bsky.social.

People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency.

(Photos shared with me)

front page of NYT today

A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times

@peterbakernyt.bsky.social

Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.

Read, share, act.

Now if they would just drop Citibank as their credit card. @thirdactorg.bsky.social

1984

This is such a helpful piece!

My solace also

I have the wild hope that beings from elsewhere have received the signal that humans are on a path to planetary descent so are now sending scouting missions to help humans abandon capitalism and tribalism and expansionism and build a world based on climate and economic and racial justice!

I have the wild hope that other beings are coming to rescue us from ourselves!

Eager to read this.....am horrified by how much traction racist, white-ethnocentric shoddy "research" gets......

Why being forced to precisely follow a curriculum harms teachers and students Policymakers commonly suggest that teaching to ‘fidelity’ − following a plan word for word − is best for student learning. However, research suggests the opposite is true.

Educators: This piece by Teachers College grad Cara Furman about why we should not be guided by fidelity to publishers' curriculum is so spot on!

Yesterday in a solidarity salon I helped organize of long-time cross interest activists, I asked that exact question: What does the public rage about their positions vis-a-vis the extractive health "insurance" companies offer us in terms of anti-capitalist organizing?

Sigh....indeed....I do think this Brian Thompson assassination moment offers a great glimpse into Americans' growing outrage at the scraps they are getting....and maybe starting to articulate a critique of capitalism? If so, what could we be doing to deepen this?

Stating the obvious: Yeah, well, one victim was a white millionaire and one was an unhoused Black man......America is consistent: Okay to murder a Black man who probably never killed anyone; totally against the law to mess with white rich dudes. "Same as it ever was....."

So excited to watch this later!!

I feel the momentum also!

According to regulatory filings, Mr. Thompson owned about $20 million of UnitedHealth Group shares as of late September. Bloomberg reported in April that he was one of several company executives who sold shares before the Justice Department’s antitrust investigation was disclosed to investors — about $15 million worth, in Mr. Thompson’s case

NYTimes.

Hope you are doing a book talk in Northampton!

and he sold 15 million of his shares immediately before the Justice Dept filed against the company......Making theft legal...along with all the people he denied medical care and who died: making murder legal...and lucrative!

"In April, Bloomberg reported that he was one of at least four executives at the company who...sold shares before the Justice Department antitrust investigation was disclosed to the company’s investors: about $15 million worth in Mr. Thompson’s case."....these scumbags get away with everything