Source:
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/friday-may-22nd-alien-commencement-address
#Ai #Art #Capitalism #Cartoons #DataCenters #JoeDator #educationworkers #KevinMaher #students
(Interview) The #Overseer Class:
“a phenomenon in which people from marginalized populations amass power not by uplifting people from the communities they come from, but by collectively cracking the skulls of their own.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/6/2/steven_thrasher
(2024) #Gaza #Genocide Protests
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/5/steven_thrasher
(Note: #Kapos
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kapos-and-other-prisoner-functionaries-in-nazi-concentration-camps

We speak with journalist, academic and author Steven Thrasher about his new book, The Overseer Class, in which he explores how members of historically marginalized groups rise to positions of power within institutions in lieu of structural change. He identifies Black police officers as a prominent example of this phenomenon. As public opinion in the United States has grown more critical of law enforcement, “Black cops are kind of rehabilitating police departments, as are women cops and LGBTQ cops,” Thrasher says. “Those are the people who I call overseers, the ones who rule between the ruling class and the working class.”
Free Palestine - Free Speech
Political expression and the Contemporary University
Sydney University Staff For Palestine
present:
A one-day, hybrid symposium at the University of Sydney and online
Thursday, 4 June 2026
9.15 am – 6.30 pm

Tech vendors promised personalized, frictionless learning. What American schools got instead was mind-numbing, data-hungry junk software that devalues teachers and shortchanges students. A growing movement, led by alarmed parents, is saying enough.
https://overland.org.au/2026/05/behind-cravens-audit/
#educationworkers #Gaza #Genocide #Palestine #Solidarity #studentprotests

In November 2025, when antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal announced that Emeritus Professor Greg Craven would head what she called the “University Report Card Project”, the media referred to her plan as an “audit” of higher education’s response to antisemitism. It was never anything of the kind.

By Christopher Robé April 28th, 2026 Greetings from the Swamp. Florida has been the bellwether for the past five years regarding attacks against public education and public sector unions. Course curricula have been attacked, subject matter censored, and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives defunded by reactionary state legislators who view anything challenging their narrow worldview in […]