Jesse Hagopian

We can’t fight what we refuse to name.

Fascism grows in the shadows of silence, censorship, and the violence of organized forgetting.

Grateful to the @zinnedproject.bsky.social for continuing to arm educators and students with the tools to understand—and defeat—fascism.

#TeachTruth

"A Black man is getting a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol. What a marvelous moment for baseball. What a marvelous moment for Atlanta and the state of Georgia. What a marvelous moment for the country and the world.”

This was Vin Scully's call of Henry Aaron's 715th home run. Tonight Major League Baseball cut off the first sentence, starting it with the "What a marvelous moment" part because they don't want to anger the white supremacists who run our country and of whom Rob Manfred is an ardent supporter.

"[W]hat we're calling AI in schools today doesn't think, doesn't reason, doesn't understand. It guesses. It copies. It manipulates syntax and patterns based on probability, not meaning. ... In short, [AI] mimics intelligence. But mimicry is not wisdom. It is not care. It is not pedagogy."

Wonderful new piece in @truthout.org on AI in schools by my friend @jessehagopian.bsky.social.

Socialism 2025: A Movement Gathers At the largest socialism conference yet, thousands came together to study, strategize, and build a fighting left

"This conference cut through cynicism, detached academicism, and vague slogans. Instead it featured intellectual inquiry, comradely debate, study, struggle, and solidarity."

Review of Socialism 2025 by Teach Truth author, @jessehagopian.bsky.social:
jessehagopian.substack.com/p/socialism-...

Regulating AI Isn’t Enough. Let’s Dismantle the Logic That Put It in Schools. AI in schools isn’t progress — it’s a sign of how far we’ve strayed from the purpose of education.

“But we have to ask: Why, in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, are class sizes so large — and resources so scarce — that teachers are forced to rely on AI instead of instructional assistants?” — @jessehagopian.bsky.social
truthout.org/articles/reg...

📚💙 #Bookdrop #booksky #politics

#Teach-Truth (Jesse Hagopian) timely and clearly a valuable tool in the climate of 2025 globally

os5.mycloud.com/action/share...

a woman in a black shirt is pointing up at the word this in pink letters ALT: a woman in a black shirt is pointing up at the word this in pink letters

These words by Jesse Hagopian are some of the best on AI that I've read: "In short, it mimics intelligence. But mimicry is not wisdom. It is not care. It is not pedagogy."

So great to get to kick it with @chenjerai.bsky.social at #Socialism2025!

“The person leading federal education policy wants to replace the emotional and intellectual process of teaching and learning with a mechanical process of content delivery, data extraction, and surveillance masquerading as education.” ~ @jessehagopian.bsky.social

Thank-you for this!

Regulating AI Isn’t Enough. Let’s Dismantle the Logic That Put It in Schools. AI in schools isn’t progress — it’s a sign of how far we’ve strayed from the purpose of education.

My latest: “Real learning, as the renowned psychologist Lev Vygotsky showed, is a social process. It happens through dialogue, relationships, & shared meaning-making.

AI can’t do that.

It can’t sense when a student’s silence means confusion or when it means trauma.“

truthout.org/articles/reg...

Can’t wait to hear what you think!

This is a solid read and as an educator I plan to share it with my colleagues.

A quote earlier than the screenshot here: "What we’re calling AI is better understood as Artificial Mimicry: a reflection without thought, articulation without a soul."

Thanks @jessehagopian.bsky.social for the article!

🔥Still buzzing from my convo w/ Boots Riley at #Socialism2025.

We talked art, communism & revolution—and he was into my book Teach Truth (even caught the “Heven Tonite” lyric I quoted).

Grateful for the brilliance & the laughs. Can’t wait for his new film “I Love Boosters”!

www.TeachTruthBook.com

This is just one of the sessions that we will be participating in at @socialismconference.org next weekend.
Join Bill, @eveewing.bsky.social @barbararansby.bsky.social, @profwayneau.bsky.social, @jessehagopian.bsky.social, @waazn1.bsky.social and others as we dream of other worlds!

Please check out his previous appearance. Also suggest other guests, topics. Let’s use BlueSky to be a space to grow and publicize alternate education. speakingoutofplace.com/2025/03/23/t...

If you ever feel heavy because you care deeply about injustice suffering and ecological destruction remember that a trillion dollar propaganda machine was built to make you numb and it didn’t work on you

I needed this today

Money for health care and education not for war and occupation!
#NoWarOnIran

Trump Bombs Iran, Then Demands Iran Agree to End the War After the unprovoked attack, Trump demanded that Iran effectively surrender while continuing to threaten the country.

President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran, in an unprovoked act of aggression.

No Kings Day: How Mass Protest Can Turn Liberal Dissent into Struggles for Liberation In cities from Alaska to Puerto Rico, thousands marched against authoritarianism. The next step is helping those in the streets radicalize through struggle.

"...when people take action and run up against the limits of this system, they begin to see it for what it is. That’s how the civil rights movement grew into Black Power. That’s how moderate reformers became revolutionaries." Excellent analysis by @jessehagopian.bsky.social.

June 16, 1976: Soweto Uprising Student-led protests in South Africa that began in response to the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in local schools.

#tdih 1976 Soweto Uprising: HS student-led protests began in South Africa in response to gov't instituting Afrikaans as medium of instruction.

The police fired teargas & live ammunition. Hundreds killed.

The U.S. government supported the apartheid gov't. & classified Nelson Mandela as a terrorist.

A sign in Seattle!

#NoKings

No Kings Day: How Mass Protest Can Turn Liberal Dissent into Struggles for Liberation In cities from Alaska to Puerto Rico, thousands marched against authoritarianism. The next step is helping those in the streets radicalize through struggle.

I wrote about this in my new Substack post:
“No Kings Day: Mass Demonstrations Challenged Trump—The Next Step Is Challenging the Whole System”

jessehagopian.substack.com/p/no-kings-d...

We’re in a moment of rising fascism—but also rising resistance. The question is whether that resistance will deepen. Will it stop with Trump, or grow into a challenge to the whole system of racial capitalism? That’s up to what we do next.

Yes, critique liberalism. But don’t mock people in motion. Organize with them. Engage them. Grow with them. The civil rights movement gave rise to the Black Power movement because people fought, hit a wall, and kept going.

No Kings Day: How Mass Protest Can Turn Liberal Dissent into Struggles for Liberation In cities from Alaska to Puerto Rico, thousands marched against authoritarianism. The next step is helping those in the streets radicalize through struggle.

Thousands hit the streets for the national #NoKingsDay protest—from Seattle to NYC. Many were liberals, waving flags and quoting the Constitution. While liberalism won’t save us, liberals in motion are essential. Because struggle—not scolding—radicalizes. 🧵
jessehagopian.substack.com/p/no-kings-d...

Today!! If you’re in Miami, I’d love to see you here.

I just met Dr. Dunn and I’m already blown away by his kindness and wisdom.

"To understand what’s happening in education today-the banning of books, the rise of AI that surveils & dehumanizes learning, the outlawing of honest lessons on race & gender, and the criminalization of critical thought-we must look beyond the classroom and name the dystopia being built around us."

Tomorrow I bring the #TeachTruth book tour to Miami, FL—the belly of the beast for “truthcrime” laws that ban honest education, books, and Black history.

Honored to join the great Dr. Marvin Dunn & other courageous educators!

Learn more at: TeachTruthBook.com

#StopTheBans #TeachTruthBook