Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026These centers are the guy who thinks hot young women aren’t showing up to the bar he stocked with weird dude things because pink-haired woke commie broads won’t let them. 4752159
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Can't believe "I hate you. You're the dumbest generation. You don't deserve jobs." hasn't been a winning sales pitch. 1139976
wickenkamp.bsky.social @wickenkamp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The Common Sense Policy Institute, was recently shown to be part of the widespread corruption and grifting of the Trump administration. If you're an Iowan or interested in higher ed, the name of this group should sound familiar... 🧵 100
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Red State Universities: we believe in indoctrination and job training Students: we hate that is there another option? Blue State Universities: we promise to have no values except job training. It ain’t enough. My latest. Gift link.startribune.comPerry: Republicans fought ‘indoctrination.’ Now they’re telling students what to study.The conservative attack on higher education in states like Iowa is hard to watch. But it also provides an opportunity for blue states like Minnesota. 251286419
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialTrevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026University of Iowa, Northwestern University, University of Georgia, University of North Carolina, and University of Texas are just some of the institutions that have ended or merged their Black Studies/African American Studies departments. I don’t hear much chatter about it…. 16937
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialChris Jones @theswinerepublic.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Brought to you in Iowa by big corporate agribusiness. Thanks Bayer, Syngenta, Koch, Corteva, Nutrien, Farm Bureau, and the rest of the syndicate that has hollowed out rural Iowa and left us these ruins. Dickens, IA 02311
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialManisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Historian of abolition here 💯Garrison always called it the slaveholders rebellion, that’s the correct term. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)To face our own history, we must be honest about it. 221022321
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I wrote about Florida Governor DeSantis' getting rebuked by the 11th Circuit for his tyrannical (and unconstitutional) "Stop WOKE Act." Hopefully, this will serve as a warning to other GOP states (but I doubt it). www.ms.now/opinion/flor...ms.nowFlorida's so-called Stop WOKE Act gets the legal rebuke it deservesVictor Ray: Ron DeSantis' loss in court is a win for education 415553
wickenkamp.bsky.social @wickenkamp.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Critical education is a crucial part of ushering in this overdue, necessary third Reconstruction 030
wickenkamp.bsky.social @wickenkamp.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Cracking open history to reveal new new futures waiting for us, Hagopian offers searing clarity to today's convoluted spectacle. So. Damn. Good. 011
wickenkamp.bsky.social @wickenkamp.bsky.social · 28/06/2026"But if it is childish, if any of this—the outrage, the horror, the belief that something must be done—is childish, it is only because a child could see it. It is only adults who find comfort in the reassuring sobriety of pessimism." 021
wickenkamp.bsky.social @wickenkamp.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Why should we all be feminist historians? This incisive piece by @drlmmurillo.bsky.social lays it out plain. 010
wickenkamp.bsky.social @wickenkamp.bsky.social · 04/06/2026de Castro stands to steal $400,000 annually if appointed full-time director of this sham. Paraphrasing him, "It's unfortunate students aren't forced to pledge support to an economic system that brought us slavery, Jim Crow, and the theft of whole continents." 020
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialAAUP @aaup.org · 07/05/2026Conservative “civic centers” are being embedded in public universities to normalize a right-wing version of U.S. history & political thought in order to produce the kinds of knowledge that some politicians & ideologues would prefer. “This civics curriculum is really just propaganda.” #AcademicSkyprismreports.orgFlorida uses public universities to build conservative civics pipeline ahead of ‘America 250’Several civics centers opened in Florida as part of the Department of Education’s America 250 Civics Education Coalition to “renew patriotism” 24726
wickenkamp.bsky.social @wickenkamp.bsky.social · 12/04/2026A solid piece worth reading. "This center isn’t a balance for anything. It is, instead, a beachhead for the right’s attempted authoritarian takeover of higher education in the state." 1118
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialAmanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Huge thank you to everyone who participated in our virtual #NoKings protest. It meant a lot to many people who couldn't go in person. Thanks for bringing the fire! 🔥 @thedrdery.bsky.social @grantstern.bsky.social @wickenkamp.bsky.social @mariannedhe.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/lUJ21CF... 1/2youtube.comNo Kings 3YouTube video by COVID Long Haulers 271
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialAmanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Guerilla Advocacy is back! Join us for a virtual No Kings rally focusing on anti-intellectualism and censorship. We have a stellar lineup of speakers. Want to participate but want to go out in person as well? Go for it! We start at 6:30 pm Central. You can register at the link below. 1/6 615392
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialZinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Wonderful article by our colleague Greg Wickenkamp about rural educators who, despite censorship campaigns and laws, "take pains to present history in all its complexity, encouraging students to develop their own informed stances through critical thinking." ⬇️ #TeachTruth 01710
wickenkamp.bsky.social @wickenkamp.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Deep gratitude to the editors and the truly heroic educators quoted in this piece. “We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and to the future.” 010
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialLouise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Attention Iowa folks interested in public schools!! You won’t want to miss this, @schooldaves.bsky.social brings so much expertise and interesting ideas to school finance. 365
wickenkamp.bsky.social @wickenkamp.bsky.social · 01/02/2026🧵 Glad this is getting coverage, though it deserves more. Over a year before UI's center was founded, I bumped into David Barker, an Iowa board of regents member. Before I realized who he was, he was telling me how he and his network planned to begin a new push around civics education. 101
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialManisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Historian of abolition here yes worse than the Civil Rights movement when the federal government could be goaded into doing the right thing. right now we are confronting the new Slave Power that controls the government of the United States. 110726
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/01/2026One day, if we are lucky, the erasure of American history will itself be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history 10444251364
wickenkamp.bsky.social @wickenkamp.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Grateful for @democracynow.org for always bringing crucial daily news and for today airing excerpts from Dr King's ever-timely speeches. 0122
wickenkamp.bsky.social @wickenkamp.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Re-listening to King's Beyond Vietnam speech today it is striking how timely it remains. As Dr Jackson reminds us in this beautiful article, these are still revolutionary times. Tomorrow is already today and we must move with the fierce urgency of now. 010
wickenkamp.bsky.social @wickenkamp.bsky.social · 19/01/2026"Abolishing an agency that teargasses two-year-olds and shoots mothers in the street isn’t radical. It is basic human decency" "'Abolish ICE' does not go far enough. We need to move away from a system predicated on violence in favor of one that centers people’s humanity" damn right the time is now 1238
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialZinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 13/01/2026"I could not move, because history had me glued to the seat. . . It felt like Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder & Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on another shoulder, & I could not move." — Claudette Colvin Claudette Colvin ¡Presente! has died at age 86. 💔zinnedproject.orgMarch 2, 1955: Claudette Colvin Refuses to Give Up Her Bus SeatAt age 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Alabama. 5269119
wickenkamp.bsky.social @wickenkamp.bsky.social · 13/01/2026One of the best independent journalists in Iowa being denied access to elected officials. 010
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialLaura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Devastating, from Jane Nguyen, who works in the Des Moines, Iowa public schools: “For the first time in my 27 years as an elementary teacher of English Language Learners, I don’t have a single student new to the country this school year.” asianiowan.substack.com/p/the-empty-...asianiowan.substack.comThe Empty Chairs in My ClassroomIn one year, my table has gone from overflowing to nearly empty 17126
wickenkamp.bsky.social @wickenkamp.bsky.social · 09/01/2026I've lately been researching the JBS in Iowa. Their influence is hard to overstate. Surprising to me, they were 1) wildly successful at getting their framing in the media, and 2) funneled huge amounts of cash to far-right causes throughout the 1960s (likely > $250,000,000 in today's dollars) 010
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialNick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026"The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind...It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane..." 0157
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialRead the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 07/01/2026We’ve graduated from “abolish ICE is the moderate position” to “Nuremberg trials for the Trump regime and its Gestapo is the moderate position.” 192409669
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 22/12/2025I highly recommend this article from U Iowa PhD student @wickenkamp.bsky.social on the new (and Orwellian) "Center for Intellectual Freedom's." Their inaugural event was headlined by Christopher Rufo, the right's leading anti-school propagandists and an authoritarian cheerleader. 092
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialJesse Hagopian @jessehagopian.bsky.social · 27/12/2025I wrote a new piece for @truthout.org looking back at 2025 — a year when educators didn’t just endure repression, they built resistance. ✊🏽📚 Education has never been neutral—It either liberates or subjugates. Here are the stories of those who resisted subjugation. truthout.org/articles/in-...truthout.orgIn 2025, Educators Didn’t Just Endure Repression. They Built Resistance.The right wants the teaching of history to no longer indict power or inspire resistance. But our side won’t submit. 1258
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialBarn Raiser @barnraiser.bsky.social · 22/12/2025In response to sweeping federal policy changes, organizers and visionaries took a stand, leading the charge to renew rural civic life. Barn Raiser was there, covering these movements from coast to coast. Here are our top 40 stories from the past year. barnraisingmedia.com/barn-raiser-...barnraisingmedia.comBarn Raiser’s 2025 Year in ReviewExplore a selection of rural stories in 2025 from Barn Raiser that made an impact, from covering the Trump administration to Native voices. 011
wickenkamp.bsky.social @wickenkamp.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Thank you, @laurarbelin.bsky.social, for publishing this! I expected something disheartening from UI's new center... I didn't realize it'd be this bad. Or that they'd say a soup of feminism and social movements is supposedly destroying higher ed. (?!) 2126
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialJon Green @modestholdings.com · 16/12/2025Hmm. Where else have we seen this story? 612330
wickenkamp.bsky.social @wickenkamp.bsky.social · 11/12/2025"Fuentes is the fly born of Heritage’s maggot." As viscerally disturbing as it is accurate. 061
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialManisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Time for a third reconstruction of American democracy. 510233
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialZinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 28/11/2025We need your support. Help us provide many more people's history lessons to #TeachOutsideTextbook for free to educators. All donations on this #GivingTuesday will be doubled (up to $10,000) thanks to generous support of @dcolapinto.bsky.social. Donate ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/double-...zinnedproject.orgDouble Your Giving Tuesday DonationThanks to the generous support of Dave Colapinto, donations made through Giving Tuesday (Dec. 2) will be DOUBLED up to $10,000. 065
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialZinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 06/11/2025We know about police violence during CRM, but there was also COINTELPRO type surveillance by local dep'ts. And resistance by CORE & SNCC who confronted police abuses head-on, with sit-ins at precincts, blocking streets to protest officer abuse, & more. Join us Monday to learn more. Free class ⬇️zinnedproject.orgPolice Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought BackScholar Joshua Clark Jackson will discuss his new book Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back. This session is part of the Zinn Educat... 06033
wickenkamp.bsky.social @wickenkamp.bsky.social · 07/11/2025I'm so excited about this upcoming class! Davis's book is really exemplary. It highlights histories of policing that help us understand where we're at today along with potential ways forward. 074
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2025This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical 10170581898
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialDan Stevenson @dbsiowa.bsky.social · 29/07/2025We have signs! Please dm if you would like one. I’m running for school board to ensure that all ICCSD students and educators receive the support and respect that they deserve. 0132
Reposted by @wickenkamp.bsky.socialZinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Here are resources to teach about history of policing including lessons, the Empire City podcast by @chenjerai.bsky.social, Police Against the Movement by @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social, interview with Khalil Gibran Muhammad, on "The Condemnation of Blackness: Lies We’re Told About Crime" & more. ⬇️zinnedproject.orgTeach the History of PolicingResources for middle and high school classrooms on the history of policing in the United States. 0133