From outlawing any classes, curriculum, programs, or any mention of diversity, inclusion, and equity to targeting Transpeople and monitoring menstrual cycles, and most recently, a bill proposing that "any bloggers who write… Read the rest of the article: Indoctrination is nothing new in Florida's schools

Marcos Colón has used documentary film to engage significant questions about surviving the consequences of capitalist development, the impact on the earth, and indigenous peoples.  Colón recently released a deep… Read the rest of the article: Stepping Softly on the Earth and Beyond Fordlandia, two documentaries by Marcos Colón

What is propaganda? What does propaganda look like in a liberal electoral democracy? How is the controversy over curriculum, African American AP classes, book-banning, the targeting of gender non-conforming young… Read the rest of the article: On this day in 1943, the Office of War Information won an Academy Award for Best Documentary

As Sophia P. Sarantakos, Assistant Professor at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work,explains in this Twitter thread, "Over the past many months, a few of us from… Read the rest of the article: Why have social workers come together to form an activist collective?

"What is the function that people have to be separated from their family? What function does it serve that people can't get jobs and employment in prison? What function does… Read the rest of the article: The case for getting rid of America's corrupt, expensive, barbaric prisons

How is this possible, you ask: Walking upside down on the ceiling of a frozen lake in Vaala, Finland? Well, in this video clip reposted by Science Girl, that is… Read the rest of the article: Walking upside down on the ceiling of a frozen lake in Finland

In solidarity with the open letter by some 180 New York Times contributors expressing "serious concerns about editorial bias in the newspaper's reporting on transgender, non⁠-⁠binary, and gender nonconforming people."… Read the rest of the article: The State Press Magazine calls for Arizona State University to divest from The New York Times.

Dinasours, Christianity, ninjas, and justice; the perfect movie mix for this burning planet of unrepentant mutants – author proudly included, and the taglines of a cult classic. Released in 2018,… Read the rest of the article: Have you not seen The VelociPastor: A Man of the Claw?

The most recent Russian invasion of Ukraine is one year old. But this post is about a Ukrainian artist, actor, and teacher named Vladimir Denshchikov, whom I learned about from… Read the rest of the article: The beautiful threadwork of Ukrainian artist Vladimir Denshchikov (1952-2022)

As reported by AJ+ in a short video post, the mayor of Barcelona, the Catalan capital, has made a bold political statement, cutting "ties with Israel over systemic violations of… Read the rest of the article: Barcelona the first major European city to suspend ties with Israel over Palestinian abuses

I was curious whether or not cats could see and follow (tobacco) smoke as it billowed and clouded and what they might think as it dissipated and disappeared into the… Read the rest of the article: Crispy and friends have a cat-nip hotbox party

As Marjorie Taylor Greene continues to represent the supposed unprecedented originalist interpretation of US history as one of a white Christian nationalist capitalist country fulfilling its deity-ordained destiny, a child… Read the rest of the article: Survey reveals the numbers of Christian Nationalists

"I sometimes write fantasy, but I'm not a 'fantasy author', just call me Nnedi Okorafor." The Nigerian American writer Nnedi Okorafor has announced that DAW Books will publish a new… Read the rest of the article: She Who Knows, a new trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor

US history pedastools the names of Robber Barons Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and John D. Rockefeller as the "men that built America," particularly the steel, copper, railroad, and banking industries.… Read the rest of the article: Railroads and US Imperialism

Maison Deschamps scaled the Chase Tower building in downtown Phoenix on Thursday, some 480 feet in the air. This is a long video, but at minute 17:45-ish, you can witness… Read the rest of the article: "Pro-life Spiderman" arrested after climbing Phoenix building

Algorithms reflect bias: that of the programmers and the data sets, a new kind of virus infecting machine learning. Machine learning can, through algorithmic oppression, replicate social prejudices and structures… Read the rest of the article: Coded Bias and the Algorithm Justice League

Spoiler: It was political liberals and MAGA folks, according to the Death Panel Podcast. The liberal-conservative binary is related to the left-right binary bequeathed to the world in 1789. The… Read the rest of the article: Who killed masking?

These were the words that a young person named Lola Smith, who has been on the earth for twelve years and identifies as non-binary, spoke to a boardroom full of… Read the rest of the article: Trans girl to politicians: "please, please, please, let us exist."

After a loud delay, the AP has responded to the decision by Florida's Department of Education to refuse to recognize AP African American history as a legitimate course. As reported… Read the rest of the article: "Our commitment to AP African American Studies is unwavering": College Board statement to the Florida Department of Education.

As we approach March 19th, 20 years will have passed since the small imperial coalition of the willing launched the "shock and awe" attack on the people of Iraq as… Read the rest of the article: Why We Fight was a 2006 documentary on the logic of America's endless parade of pointless wars