Kate Powers

Happy Thanksgiving!

Bootleg Pedagogy: A Toolkit for Subversive Teaching in Oppressive Circumstances What do you do when you are required to teach topics that are limited, irrelevant, misguided, or even harmful to your students? How do you invite your students to read the world, think critically, and...

Our new resource is finally available to anyone who would like it; together with several of my graduate students, we built a toolkit for subversive teaching in oppressive circumstances.

Help yourself.

Good time to read @mollyroberts.bsky.social:

“It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.”

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STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now. Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

If you are an alum of:

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U of Southern California
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U Arizona

Your alma mater is RIGHT NOW weighing the costs and benefits of giving up its independence and abandoning academic freedom. SPEAK UP NOW:

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I mean. Maybe.

Her contempt is extraordinary.

Trump thinks he's a king. He believes he's accountable to no one. Not Congress. Not the American people.

And so when his people testify before the Senate, they act like they are bound by no rules and no laws.

Understand what they are doing: using the massive power of the state - including military power and the power to imprison - to carry out a campaign to eliminate their political opposition.

It's growing in seriousness by the hour.

JOIN RISE AND RESIST IN NYC ON TUESDAYS: 12-1pm Protest at Fox HQ, 1211 6th Ave, NYC 1-2pm Protest Complicit Law Firms, 48th St / 6th Ave

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JOIN RISE AND RESIST ON TUESDAYS:

12-1pm Protest at Fox HQ, 1211 6th Ave, NYC

1-2pm Protest Complicit Law Firms, 48th St / 6th Ave, NYC

Just kidding. Recovered.

ICE Zip-Ties Children in Horrific Raid on Chicago Apartment Building ICE agents forced everyone out of a Chicago apartment building in the dead of night.

ICE Zip-Ties Children in Horrific Raid on Chicago Apartment Building newrepublic.com/post/201258/... via @newrepublic.com

Bonjour, Snoops! Just traveling home from visiting a student in Montana.

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📣 NO KINGS N.Y.C.
📍 Times Square (the red steps)
📆 October 18th
⏰ 11am

The NYC march route is from Times Sq, south on 7th Ave, dispersing at 14th St.
We need your help to make this big, and to make our voices heard.
Bring a friend, tell a friend, sign up to volunteer at NoKingsNYC.org

Proposed reply:

Dear Secretary McMahon,

Our offer is this: Nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which we would appreciate if you’d put up personally.

Sincerely,

Universities

Literally, Karoline, you are lying.

Re that educational pledge: if ever there was a moment for collective action, this is it. Seriously, if we don't hang together,... you know the rest.

Just. Nope.

Ugh. Spell check. Capitulate is a word.

Please don't capitulation, Senator. Hold the line.

Hey, MW, I think I love you.

Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no.

Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.

Every single DC journalist should be spending this afternoon/evening finding Speaker Johnson & John Thune & asking them why the impeachment/removal has not happened yet, & continuing to hammer them with the same question over & over & over & over again & not accepting the boilerplate non-answers.

The GOP controls all of govt. The GOP has broken so many promises to the democrats, like rescinding money they passed, cutting programs they approved by executive order, that trust cannot be assumed.

So, fund govt GOP. If you need Dems help then ok, but there is a price. Easy

Get this image out there, y'all. The Dems are doing the smart thing here. (A sentence I do not get to write as often as I would like.)

I want better for everyone than what so many of my colleagues of color have to navigate constantly.

Local News Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

Graphic reads General meeting Rise and Resist Join us, Tuesdays 7 pm zoom link at Rise And Resist .org Fighting fascism with all the joy that we can muster.

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Rise and Resist is a NONVIOLENT direct action group in NYC, which is committed to opposing, disrupting, and defeating any government act that threatens democracy, equality, and our civil liberties.

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Nothing about this is normal, friends.

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Go Bills, Ed.

The President has spent the better part of the week mad at an escalator, now he wants troops to invade Portland for no discernible reason. He has forgotten about the dead podcaster. The oppo would seem to write itself, but I am not a highly compensated Democratic consultant