Been reading up on 18th / 19th century debates over education and this is a parody of everyone’s worst fears

In light of the US government's move to aggressively revoke Chinese student visas, I thought it worth revisiting former slave Frederick Douglass’s moving response to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882:

Good thing you dorks decided it isn’t fascism

“Almost 40% of glaciers in existence today are already doomed to melt due to climate-heating emissions from fossil fuels, a study has found. The loss will soar to 75% if global heating reaches the 2.7C rise for which the world is currently on track.” theguardian.com/environment/20…

How can you promote the all-purpose solution of "abundance" without talking about how the class tasked with planning investment expenditure is pathologically afraid of overproduction?

As the left predicted at the time: thebaffler.com/salvos/the-eig…

During the George Floyd Uprising, the LAPD really flew out pigs in a private plane to pick up 2,000 “less lethal” rounds from an arms wholesaler in Wyoming because they delepted their stock within a week of the protests

The work and career of Mike Davis speaks to us yet. Here is a retrospective that recently appeared in LABOR read.dukeupress.edu/labor/article/…

racism, and i cannot emphasize this enough, is the state-sanctioned or extra-legal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

The payoff of "impunity culture" is that it ties together BLM (impunity for killer cops) and Occupy (impunity for banksters) with the manifold reactions against the Global War on Terror (impunity for war criminals)

We got rid of anti-racism, except for hallucinatory/genocidal anti-"anti-Semitism." We returned to law and order, except the White House is full of people who make Hunter Biden look like Dorothy Day.

The CA homeless student population rose 9.3% this year & 37% in a decade—20K more kids without stable housing. In the wealthiest society ever, this is a moral failure. We're sinking. edsource.org/2025/increase-…

Five years ago today, I shot this photo that changed my life. I'll always remember May 30th.

I don't think we should make it illegal for people on Medi-Cal to save more than $2000, jesus christ man

1. CA governor proposes cutting UC funding by 8% 2. in response to pressure from UC community, CA governor reduces cut to 3% (still bad, but a difference of $249M) 3. UC admin is still moving forward with 8% budget cut, as if nothing had changed utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/05/betray…