Christopher Martell
@chrismartell.bsky.social
Teacher Educator & Researcher, Associate Professor of Social Studies Education UMass Boston; Boston Public Schools parent; Author of http://bit.ly/teachjustice; Editor of http://bit.ly/ss-te
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Social studies teachers: How are you teaching about the current economy? Here is a recent jobs growth chart (data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; chart credit Steven Rattner). Important that we help students think about the data rather than the partisan rhetoric. #sschat #edusky
November 27, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Fun fact. I'm an Eagle Scout. It taught me that democracy is incredibly important and to treat all others with respect and care. The Trump administration doesn't have a single person who has learned those two lessons. www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Fun fact. I'm an Eagle Scout. It taught me that democracy is incredibly important and to treat all others with respect and care. The Trump administration doesn't have a single person who has learned those two lessons. www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
We are planning to make @socialstudies.org conference this year about teaching against fascism and for justice and democracy, right? I'm ready. Are you?
November 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
We are planning to make @socialstudies.org conference this year about teaching against fascism and for justice and democracy, right? I'm ready. Are you?
There is an irony in Trump's Department of Education de-classifying education as a professional degree. This will hurt educators (increase student loan debt) and exacerbate the teacher shortage. www.newsweek.com/full-list-de...
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
There is an irony in Trump's Department of Education de-classifying education as a professional degree. This will hurt educators (increase student loan debt) and exacerbate the teacher shortage. www.newsweek.com/full-list-de...
"Money becomes evil not when it is used to buy goods but when it is used to buy power." -Samuel Huntington
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
How billionaires took over American politics
The current concentration of wealth is unlike anything in history. So is billionaires’ involvement in politics.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"Money becomes evil not when it is used to buy goods but when it is used to buy power." -Samuel Huntington
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing." -George Orwell, "1984"
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Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing." -George Orwell, "1984"
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Next time I fly, I will be dressing sloppier than usual as a small act of protest. 😂 thehill.com/policy/trans...
Trump official wants us to dress with ‘respect’ on planes. What does that mean, exactly?
The U.S. Department of Transportation is hoping the public will help usher in a “Golden Age of Travel” — and it apparently means dressing up before you head to the airport.
thehill.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Next time I fly, I will be dressing sloppier than usual as a small act of protest. 😂 thehill.com/policy/trans...
"The American fascists ... their propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity. ... They use every opportunity to impugn democracy. They use isolationism as a slogan to conceal their own selfish imperialism."
-Henry A. Wallace (1944)
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-Henry A. Wallace (1944)
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Republicans Prove Irony Is Dead With Vote on Condemning Fascism
Republicans hate being called fascist, and yet ...
newrepublic.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
"The American fascists ... their propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity. ... They use every opportunity to impugn democracy. They use isolationism as a slogan to conceal their own selfish imperialism."
-Henry A. Wallace (1944)
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-Henry A. Wallace (1944)
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Reposted by Christopher Martell
I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
Tell Students the Truth About American History
We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
www.theatlantic.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
Important quote from this article by @clintsmithiii.bsky.social.
November 18, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Important quote from this article by @clintsmithiii.bsky.social.
I stand with the Allston Car Wash workers. No one should be treated this way (and especially not workers with legal status who are just trying to make a living). #ICEOutOfBoston www.newsweek.com/student-repu...
Student Republican who called ICE on car wash faces backlash
An attorney for those detained said, "Is he taking a college seat away from an American since he's from London?"
www.newsweek.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I stand with the Allston Car Wash workers. No one should be treated this way (and especially not workers with legal status who are just trying to make a living). #ICEOutOfBoston www.newsweek.com/student-repu...
Social studies teachers (especially in New England): Check out this new documentary on activists in Boston's Chinatown who fought and continue to fight for community, housing, and against gentrification. #sschat #edusky youtu.be/Ex9uk7HQ9bM?...
LOVE, CHINATOWN (full documentary)
YouTube video by GBH
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November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Social studies teachers (especially in New England): Check out this new documentary on activists in Boston's Chinatown who fought and continue to fight for community, housing, and against gentrification. #sschat #edusky youtu.be/Ex9uk7HQ9bM?...
Just Florida being Florida.
We all feel for you educators down there.
www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/11/13/f...
We all feel for you educators down there.
www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/11/13/f...
Florida OKs ‘evils of communism’ standards, signs Heritage Foundation pledge
Some criticized both documents, calling them propaganda and indoctrination, but state leaders said they would help teach patriotism and create better American citizens.
www.sun-sentinel.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Just Florida being Florida.
We all feel for you educators down there.
www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/11/13/f...
We all feel for you educators down there.
www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/11/13/f...
Democrats better wake up before the midterms. Most voters strongly dislike Trump and his policies, but also not seeing them as the alternative. The answer is to be a strong alternative. Standing for nothing and trying to be more moderate isn't working for them. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Voters broadly disapprove of Trump but remain divided on midterms, poll finds
Most Americans disapprove the president’s handling of top issues, and a majority say he has gone too far in exercising his powers.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Democrats better wake up before the midterms. Most voters strongly dislike Trump and his policies, but also not seeing them as the alternative. The answer is to be a strong alternative. Standing for nothing and trying to be more moderate isn't working for them. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Remember, all resistance is important, no matter how big or small. abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...
Donald Trump booed as the 1st sitting US president at a regular-season NFL game since Carter in 1978
President Donald Trump has become the first sitting president in nearly a half-century at a regular-season NFL game
abcnews.go.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Remember, all resistance is important, no matter how big or small. abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...
Just a little reminder on this gloomy (for democracy) Tuesday. Article from 2020. nymag.com/intelligence...
The Senate Is America’s Most Structurally Racist Institution
Why is massive overrepresentation for white America still acceptable in 2020?
nymag.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just a little reminder on this gloomy (for democracy) Tuesday. Article from 2020. nymag.com/intelligence...
Dear Texas professors. We have job openings in Massachusetts that you should know about. Thank you.
The Texas A&M University System will vote on Thursday on whether to prohibit faculty at its 11 universities from teaching “race or gender ideology” unless those lessons are pre-approved by each campus president or a delegate.
Texas A&M to vote on banning “race and gender ideology”
The proposal appears to mark the first time a Texas university system offers definitions of what kind of instruction related to race and gender should not be permitted.
www.texastribune.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Dear Texas professors. We have job openings in Massachusetts that you should know about. Thank you.
This case should have never made it this far, but it is important that marriage equality will not be overturned. www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...
Supreme Court declines to revisit gay marriage decision
The challenge to the court's 2015 ruling came from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex licenses after the court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which recognized a const...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This case should have never made it this far, but it is important that marriage equality will not be overturned. www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...
This is what kings and dictators do; put themselves on money (and it goes against a longstanding tradition and likely violates the spirit of the 1866 law that only deceased people can appear on US currency). www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
A Two-Headed Coin That Always Comes Up ‘Trump’
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This is what kings and dictators do; put themselves on money (and it goes against a longstanding tradition and likely violates the spirit of the 1866 law that only deceased people can appear on US currency). www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
Chuck Schumer is the worst Senate Minority Leader (and at the worst possible time). Prove me wrong.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Chuck Schumer is the worst Senate Minority Leader (and at the worst possible time). Prove me wrong.
"Give me your tired, your poor. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
apnews.com/article/refu...
apnews.com/article/refu...
Trump sets 7,500 annual limit for refugees entering US. It'll be mostly white South Africans
The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees admitted annually to the United States to 7,500 and they'll be mostly white South Africans.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"Give me your tired, your poor. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
apnews.com/article/refu...
apnews.com/article/refu...
Social studies teachers: What do you teach your students about the filibuster? Do they learn about its complicated/terrible history? #sschat #edusky
I have found the one and only issue that Donald Trump and I agree on. No other democratic country in the world has a filibuster that can essentially stop the majority from passing all legislation (nor was it the "founding fathers" intention-not in the Constitution). www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Trump ramps up pressure on his own party to nix the filibuster as shutdown drags on
After meeting with Trump, some Republican senators appear more open to nuking the 60-vote filibuster rule. But GOP Leader John Thune says, "It's just not happening."
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I have found the one and only issue that Donald Trump and I agree on. No other democratic country in the world has a filibuster that can essentially stop the majority from passing all legislation (nor was it the "founding fathers" intention-not in the Constitution). www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Trump ramps up pressure on his own party to nix the filibuster as shutdown drags on
After meeting with Trump, some Republican senators appear more open to nuking the 60-vote filibuster rule. But GOP Leader John Thune says, "It's just not happening."
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I have found the one and only issue that Donald Trump and I agree on. No other democratic country in the world has a filibuster that can essentially stop the majority from passing all legislation (nor was it the "founding fathers" intention-not in the Constitution). www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
One important outcome from yesterday's elections was it showed that being anti-trans rights is not a winning issue. We need more of that (and I will never vote for Seth Moulton)! glaad.org/pro-equality...
Pro-Equality Candidates Win, Anti-Trans Campaigns Lose Again, in Election 2025 | GLAAD
History was made, and repeated, in the 2025 election, with significant impacts for LGBTQ Americans and candidates who campaigned to support LGBTQ people. Virginia voters elected the Commonwealth’s fir...
glaad.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
One important outcome from yesterday's elections was it showed that being anti-trans rights is not a winning issue. We need more of that (and I will never vote for Seth Moulton)! glaad.org/pro-equality...