"Decisions about multi-million dollar EdTech subscriptions are made without faculty governance, usually without faculty input, and sometimes by a single individual (often a CTO) who may have zero teaching experience."- @mattseybold.bsky.social
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/against-te...
How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Letâs keep working to unrig the system.
Instead of asking for more donations, would love to see Zohran start asking supporters to join mass organizing fightbacks
Even the savviest governance and comms strategy can't get far without more people power on the ground
Starbucks workers this Thursday 11/13 are starting a long strike to win a first union contract
*** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY***
Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy
"[David Brooks] engages in self-reflection the same way that a newscaster on live TV picks his nose: quickly, leaving no evidence that it ever happened." -@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social, from the top rope!
open.substack.com/pub/howthingswork/p/shift-change-at-the-wheel-reinvention
âSomeoneâ cancelled my familyâs flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation âdisappeared.â
Cory Booker is as trustworthy as a watery fart after an atomic level vindaloo.
He's the same as Starmer. Says he wants change, then votes to protect the rights of Corporations & Banks.
Your classic lying Centrist
youtu.be/qQKNjhq29qI
Centrist thinking is awfully like Mussolini's third way.
âThe mole of collectivity still burrows away through the frivolous individual gratifications of a privatized & atomized society.â
- Fredric Jameson
DC 33 is a majority Black union whose members have been underpaid and undervalued for the utterly essential work they do for way too long. This strike wonât be pretty, but they deserve to win, and I hope to see all of Philadelphia rally around them!
Bernie endorses Zohran đ
Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.
David Brooks headlines, 2020-2025
Modeled off the facuty senate resolution by Rutgers, the UMass-Amherst Senate has called for the establishment of mutual academic defense compacts among colleges and universities. These recent actions have been reported by the Chronicle (www.chronicle.com/article/thes...) #academicsky
Endowments canât fund everything that is threatened forever â especially at less wealthy universities. But they can buy time. Time for universities to develop a political strategy to defend themselves and allies from Trumpâs political assault on civil society.
This is what a movement actually looks like, MAGA.
So proud of American Resisters today!
#Handsoff
The U.S is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We should not have the highest rate of child poverty of nearly every major country on earth. We should have the lowest.
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It's time to end this international embarrassment & create an economy that works for all.
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3. ManyBooks
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5. Internet Archive
6. BookBub
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seems like a good time for the Working Families Party to be dramatically ramping up their national effortsâŠ
Given their pre-emptive skittish purge of DEI initiatives, AASCB's next version of "Story in the Stats" will celebrate all the white males buying their places in MBA programs to strengthen the broligarchy www.aacsb.edu/insights/art...
1. What explains the paralysis that seems to have overcome us, as we watch the most powerful nation of Earth spiralling towards fascist dictatorship? Well, a large part of it, I feel, is the surreal, astonishing uselessness of the Democratic Party. đ§”
Primary Every Democrat...
...Except Al Green
congrats democrats, you got played like chumps. but at least you're respecting the office or some bullshit
NOAA is an absolute mess, and itâll be worse tomorrow. Please help us. There have already been over 1,000 terminations. Itâs not just layoffsâElon Musk and his staffers are trying to completely dismantle us. Today, there were tons of firings, and more are coming tomorrow.
Stopping the doomscroll to review 6 antifascist history and tactics books. Timothy Snyder (meh), Robert Paxton (sharp), Paul Mason (compelling), Mark Bray (inspiring), and Spencer Sunshine (super practical).
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-antifascist-woodshed
Trump is speaking in the old language of the Discovery Doctrine. Thatâs what we excavate on today's Conspirituality.
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/246...
go go go
