We have experienced and are experiencing an epochal shift in our species' existence.

All we have ever had and will ever have is each other. We should all be holding hands as we face the future.

Perhaps our children will. (End)

Yes, Go Canada! Go EC! Fight the good fight, for real.

But everything everywhere all at once is collapsing. Our children won't care about Tesla, SpaceX, Musk, Trump, the stock market, Putin, or all the other horrors of the day. They will be trying to survive. (14/x)

Yet, collectively, we have our heads shoved so far up our asses that we dream of release through technologies yet to be invented, impossible space colonization, grotesque religious prophecies, murder and genocide. (13/x)

Not a single ecosystem on the planet thrives. Everything alive is feeling the shift away from the holocene. Whole species are dying off, others are on the move in search of better resources.

Mass human migration is just getting started. (12/x)

I can only speak for myself, always, but I think humanity is totally fucked. With entrenched (yes, entrenched) fascism and rapid climate change, there are no options left for the global social order. Billions will die in the coming decades. There is no more fresh air or clean water. (11/x)

My emotional baseline has shifted from lifelong vague anxiety to near-constant fear and loathing. Will I get fired? Arrested? Beaten? Stabbed? Shot? Is my family safe? Is my home safe?

I've already been "reported" for teaching the truth. What's next? (10/x)

I'm honestly enraged by the failure of progressivism. I'm saddened by the failure of empathy, love, compassion, generosity, kindness, equality.

I'm broken by the ascendancy of racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, robber-baron billionaires. (9/x)

I'm not writing this for 'engagement' or whatever—I don't know shit about how to participate in social media (not as ironic as it sounds). I'm too old to care. Plus, I could get fired for saying this. Really.

I'm writing to vent the rage I feel. (8/x)

Like a lot of well-informed people, I saw the writing on the wall decades ago. But I survived on the paycheck, hope, and the belief that my work—the work of all educators—was morally, ethically, and intellectually meaningful and important.

So much for that. I still need the paycheck tho (7/x)

I have taught two generations of folks the role of media in democracy. On the shoulders of their racist forefathers, Trump and MAGA and everyone at Fox News broke the progressive imaginary that fueled the pro-democracy, rational, evidence-based egalitarian model that drew me to the career. (6/x)

Those students who are closer to the bottom of the middle class and those who are not white are generally better listeners. More women than men are engaged with reality. They are informed by experience, but silenced by by the sexist white supremacist social patriarchal order. (5/x)

There are always a few who are engaged and who make the effort. But most (for real) attempt to cheat with Chat GPT or Grammerly because they don't know how to write anything more serious than a social media post.

They, like their parents, were born and remain chained in Plato's Cave. (4/x)

Most of my students are not prepared for university—they do not read books or newspapers, even on the screens to which their eyeballs are glued. They do not understand government, politics, economics or even the history of their own county. They cannot fact check (I tested them). (3/x)

It seems I can be arrested for speaking truths about authoritarianism, fascism, Palestine and Israel, Ukraine and Russia, Trump and Musk. The thought police are here and watching us. I've had unknown visitors in one of my classes who were there to see my media and ideology lecture. (2/x)