Popular Education
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Currently publishing a series on Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans.
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ICE agents who terrorize immigrants can receive high pay & student loan forgiveness. Nonprofit workers who offer food, legal help, or shelter: loan relief denied for being “improper.”
This is how a disciplinary society works—violence is incentivized, care is criminalized.
This is how a disciplinary society works—violence is incentivized, care is criminalized.
January 8, 2026 at 3:08 PM
ICE agents who terrorize immigrants can receive high pay & student loan forgiveness. Nonprofit workers who offer food, legal help, or shelter: loan relief denied for being “improper.”
This is how a disciplinary society works—violence is incentivized, care is criminalized.
This is how a disciplinary society works—violence is incentivized, care is criminalized.
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"The real goal of the Trump operation lies elsewhere: reclaiming Venezuela’s oil rents for the benefit of America’s economic elite—an arrangement that peaked in the 1950s, during the mythic “golden age” endlessly invoked by the MAGA movement"
January 6, 2026 at 9:05 PM
"The real goal of the Trump operation lies elsewhere: reclaiming Venezuela’s oil rents for the benefit of America’s economic elite—an arrangement that peaked in the 1950s, during the mythic “golden age” endlessly invoked by the MAGA movement"
Stock charts don’t lie. U.S. oil stocks are rising on Venezuela news. This isn’t about democracy or narcotrafficking—it’s about restoring foreign access to oil and profits.
January 5, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Stock charts don’t lie. U.S. oil stocks are rising on Venezuela news. This isn’t about democracy or narcotrafficking—it’s about restoring foreign access to oil and profits.
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Past U.S. interventions point to a familiar outcome for Venezuela: imposed neoliberal “reforms” that transfer public assets to private investors, crushes unions, and guarantees profit extraction for foreign firms under the language of "democracy" & "freedom".
January 4, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Past U.S. interventions point to a familiar outcome for Venezuela: imposed neoliberal “reforms” that transfer public assets to private investors, crushes unions, and guarantees profit extraction for foreign firms under the language of "democracy" & "freedom".
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When countries in the Global South try to control their own resources instead of submitting to the Washington Consensus free-market model, they’re met with sanctions, destabilization, or invasion. Venezuela is being punished for pursuing development through economic sovereignty.
Remember that the US *does not care* about the people of Venezuela. It is not about "narcotrafficking", or "democracy", or whatever propaganda they have going. It is *explicitly* about US control over oil, capital accumulation, and geopolitical power.
January 3, 2026 at 4:10 PM
When countries in the Global South try to control their own resources instead of submitting to the Washington Consensus free-market model, they’re met with sanctions, destabilization, or invasion. Venezuela is being punished for pursuing development through economic sovereignty.
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What Katrina revealed was not randomness, but demographic disparities built over decades. Long before the storm, race and poverty determined who could escape and who remained trapped. This article unpacks how that vulnerability was produced.
populareducationblog.substack.com/p/demographi...
populareducationblog.substack.com/p/demographi...
Demographic Disparities: Victims of Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina demonstrated that structural inequalities, rather than nature alone, dictated vulnerability, evacuation, and post-storm recovery
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December 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
What Katrina revealed was not randomness, but demographic disparities built over decades. Long before the storm, race and poverty determined who could escape and who remained trapped. This article unpacks how that vulnerability was produced.
populareducationblog.substack.com/p/demographi...
populareducationblog.substack.com/p/demographi...
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A last-minute delay of a segment exposing deportation policy isn’t just a scheduling choice. It’s a window into how media power operates: through ownership, access, and the quiet shaping of what’s deemed fit to air.
www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-s...
www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-s...
'60 Minutes' Suddenly Drops Segment on Major Trump Controversy
The show announced a programming change just before its Sunday night timeslot.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
A last-minute delay of a segment exposing deportation policy isn’t just a scheduling choice. It’s a window into how media power operates: through ownership, access, and the quiet shaping of what’s deemed fit to air.
www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-s...
www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-s...
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Ending EPA greenhouse gas reporting follows a familiar strategy: eliminate measurement to evade responsibility. When climate harm goes uncounted, corporate power becomes harder to confront.
truthout.org/articles/tru...
truthout.org/articles/tru...
Trump EPA Plan Would Restrict Public’s Right to Know About Climate Pollution
“The problems don’t go away when the reporting goes away,” says the Corporate Toxics Information Project’s co-director.
truthout.org
December 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Ending EPA greenhouse gas reporting follows a familiar strategy: eliminate measurement to evade responsibility. When climate harm goes uncounted, corporate power becomes harder to confront.
truthout.org/articles/tru...
truthout.org/articles/tru...
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DOGE framed neoliberal austerity as "efficiency". Social programs and oversight were cut, spending stayed high, and corporate power faced fewer constraints. Elon’s objective was never fiscal discipline—it was political realignment further in favor of private power.
CATO INSTITUTE:
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
December 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
DOGE framed neoliberal austerity as "efficiency". Social programs and oversight were cut, spending stayed high, and corporate power faced fewer constraints. Elon’s objective was never fiscal discipline—it was political realignment further in favor of private power.
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“Work harder” stops functioning as advice when the price of housing and insurance rises faster than wages. At that point, economic precarity is a structural issue and not behavioral.
December 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
“Work harder” stops functioning as advice when the price of housing and insurance rises faster than wages. At that point, economic precarity is a structural issue and not behavioral.
Katrina wasn’t just a storm—it was the product of centuries of extraction, environmental neglect, and ignored warnings. Our series traces how history and power shaped the disaster long before 2005.
populareducationblog.substack.com/p/new-orlean...
populareducationblog.substack.com/p/new-orlean...
New Orleans: Geography, Growth, & Environmental Risk
The growth of New Orleans reveals how strategic geography encouraged expansion despite inherent environmental risks.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Katrina wasn’t just a storm—it was the product of centuries of extraction, environmental neglect, and ignored warnings. Our series traces how history and power shaped the disaster long before 2005.
populareducationblog.substack.com/p/new-orlean...
populareducationblog.substack.com/p/new-orlean...
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Modern capital no longer grows by building productive capacity, but by draining it. A sharp analysis of how investor extraction has replaced long-term economic growth.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/parasiti-c...
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/parasiti-c...
Parasiti-capitalism: How Investors Drain Companies and Call It Growth
How modern capital captures control, drains cash flow, and leaves economies weaker.
graceblakeley.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Modern capital no longer grows by building productive capacity, but by draining it. A sharp analysis of how investor extraction has replaced long-term economic growth.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/parasiti-c...
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/parasiti-c...
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Apparently food is affordable now that we’ve switched currencies from dollars to labor.
December 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Apparently food is affordable now that we’ve switched currencies from dollars to labor.
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The carceral state turns detention into a business and once it’s profitable, the system has every incentive to keep people confined.
🎯 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER @oliverma2026.bsky.social: “The detention centers are run by private prison companies (like @CoreCivic) — they make millions PER PERSON… that’s why they’re looking for anybody brown, so they can keep stealing from taxpayers.”
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
December 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The carceral state turns detention into a business and once it’s profitable, the system has every incentive to keep people confined.
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The only real innovation in the U.S. healthcare system is figuring out how to use new technology to deny you care faster.
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
Thousands of Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI
Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny.
www.kuow.org
December 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The only real innovation in the U.S. healthcare system is figuring out how to use new technology to deny you care faster.
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
Katrina revealed what decades of racialized disinvestment, environmental degradation, and hollowed-out public institutions had already created. Our series traces this history—and how elites used the storm to push privatization and displacement.
populareducationblog.substack.com/p/hurricane-...
populareducationblog.substack.com/p/hurricane-...
Hurricane Katrina at 20: What The Storm Revealed About America
An introduction to our series on Hurricane Katrina that will explore how racial inequality, environmental neglect, and neoliberal policies shaped the disaster and its aftermath in New Orleans.
populareducationblog.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Katrina revealed what decades of racialized disinvestment, environmental degradation, and hollowed-out public institutions had already created. Our series traces this history—and how elites used the storm to push privatization and displacement.
populareducationblog.substack.com/p/hurricane-...
populareducationblog.substack.com/p/hurricane-...
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Defense stocks dropping because peace talks are progressing is the perfect summary of capitalism: good news for humanity is bad news for shareholders.
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Defense stocks dropping because peace talks are progressing is the perfect summary of capitalism: good news for humanity is bad news for shareholders.
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Auto repos up, debt up, defaults up — but stocks are up too, so apparently that’s what a "healthy economy" looks like now.
November 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Auto repos up, debt up, defaults up — but stocks are up too, so apparently that’s what a "healthy economy" looks like now.
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Imagine looking at record profits, record executive pay, and record inequality, and concluding: yup… the minimum wage is the problem.
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Imagine looking at record profits, record executive pay, and record inequality, and concluding: yup… the minimum wage is the problem.
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Katrina gets called a ‘natural disaster,’ but the real disaster was decades of segregation, poverty, disinvestment, and a city where 35% of Black households couldn’t evacuate. This piece shows what actually drowned New Orleans.
populareducationblog.substack.com/p/demographi...
populareducationblog.substack.com/p/demographi...
Demographic Disparities: Victims of Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina demonstrated that structural inequalities, rather than nature alone, dictated vulnerability, evacuation, and post-storm recovery
populareducationblog.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Katrina gets called a ‘natural disaster,’ but the real disaster was decades of segregation, poverty, disinvestment, and a city where 35% of Black households couldn’t evacuate. This piece shows what actually drowned New Orleans.
populareducationblog.substack.com/p/demographi...
populareducationblog.substack.com/p/demographi...
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The American healthcare system where your survival depends less on your doctor and more on a hedge fund’s quarterly targets.
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The American healthcare system where your survival depends less on your doctor and more on a hedge fund’s quarterly targets.
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In the U.S., billionaires figured out it’s more cost-effective to buy elections than pay taxes. Apparently that qualifies as democracy.
Federal election spending by the 100 wealthiest Americans is now 140x what it was in 2000.
Last year they crossed $1 billion in election spending.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
Last year they crossed $1 billion in election spending.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
In the U.S., billionaires figured out it’s more cost-effective to buy elections than pay taxes. Apparently that qualifies as democracy.
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Private equity paywalling kids’ sports is peak late-stage capitalism: even your kid’s memories are just another monetizable asset.
November 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Private equity paywalling kids’ sports is peak late-stage capitalism: even your kid’s memories are just another monetizable asset.
Katrina was not a “natural disaster” — it was 300 years of choices that put profit and extraction ahead of the land. From plantations to oil canals, the catastrophe was built long before the storm hit.
Read how New Orleans was set up to fail:
populareducationblog.substack.com/p/new-orlean...
Read how New Orleans was set up to fail:
populareducationblog.substack.com/p/new-orlean...
New Orleans: Geography, Growth, & Environmental Risk
The growth of New Orleans reveals how strategic geography encouraged expansion despite inherent environmental risks.
populareducationblog.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Katrina was not a “natural disaster” — it was 300 years of choices that put profit and extraction ahead of the land. From plantations to oil canals, the catastrophe was built long before the storm hit.
Read how New Orleans was set up to fail:
populareducationblog.substack.com/p/new-orlean...
Read how New Orleans was set up to fail:
populareducationblog.substack.com/p/new-orlean...
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Median homebuyer age is now 56. Turns out if you suppress wages and let investors hoard housing, people can’t afford… housing.
November 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Median homebuyer age is now 56. Turns out if you suppress wages and let investors hoard housing, people can’t afford… housing.