Brian Deyo
@deyob.bsky.social
Husband, Proud Papa, Teacher-Scholar-Activist, Writer, Democratic Socialist. Nihil humani a me alienum puto ... y sigo a los perros. Opiniones son mias.
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Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City
Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …
moneyontheleft.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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This book is a godsend for academic workers! Read it, share it with folks who care about the fate of democracy and the planet, teach it, talk it up within organizing, union, and faculty governance spaces. It's gonna be indispensable to the struggle to build a political economy that works for all.
University Keywords
How American universities operate as social and economic engines that shape society beyond their traditional educational roles.University Keywords gathers, contextualizes, and develops original unders...
www.press.jhu.edu
August 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This book is a godsend for academic workers! Read it, share it with folks who care about the fate of democracy and the planet, teach it, talk it up within organizing, union, and faculty governance spaces. It's gonna be indispensable to the struggle to build a political economy that works for all.
So much I wanna say about this episode. For now, just wanna extend my most heartfelt thanks to Matt and the collective of good folks who make AV possible—and are fighting, on the daily, to build a more just, beautiful, and verdant future. Burn, burn—always, Matt—with Pater's "hard, gem-like flame"!
Cruel Futurism
The American Vandal · Episode
open.spotify.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
So much I wanna say about this episode. For now, just wanna extend my most heartfelt thanks to Matt and the collective of good folks who make AV possible—and are fighting, on the daily, to build a more just, beautiful, and verdant future. Burn, burn—always, Matt—with Pater's "hard, gem-like flame"!
Thinking (too much!) about technofeudalism, the seemingly unstoppable genocidal/ecocidal violence/madness directed toward Palestinians, climate apartheid, the death drive, Eisenhower's warnings about the military-industrial complex, Trump's interminable bloviating, then happened upon this title...
The Palestine Laboratory
Winner of the 2023 Walkley non fiction journalism prizeFinalist for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights WritingIsrael's military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a te...
www.versobooks.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Thinking (too much!) about technofeudalism, the seemingly unstoppable genocidal/ecocidal violence/madness directed toward Palestinians, climate apartheid, the death drive, Eisenhower's warnings about the military-industrial complex, Trump's interminable bloviating, then happened upon this title...
Academic workers at public regional universities MUST have a seat at the table with admin to determine their respective digital strategies; it's also imperative they have a say in their contracts with EdTech, AI startups, and companies like Ziplines. If not, they need to ORGANIZE and DEMAND it!
How Venture Capitalists Built A For-Profit "Micro-University" Inside Our Public Flagships
You can graduate any time, but you can never leave.
open.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Academic workers at public regional universities MUST have a seat at the table with admin to determine their respective digital strategies; it's also imperative they have a say in their contracts with EdTech, AI startups, and companies like Ziplines. If not, they need to ORGANIZE and DEMAND it!
Just formed a faculty-staff-student led Land-Use group at Grand Valley State University to collectively resist technofeudal projects in the Great Lakes region, such as the building of data centers that will drive up the costs of energy and water for working people...
JD Vance Funded AcreTrader. Here’s Why That Matters.
The real estate platform streamlines investing in US farmland. Now farms are fast becoming a portfolio staple for investors worldwide.
share.google
July 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Just formed a faculty-staff-student led Land-Use group at Grand Valley State University to collectively resist technofeudal projects in the Great Lakes region, such as the building of data centers that will drive up the costs of energy and water for working people...
Close reading—FUCK YEAH!
May 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Close reading—FUCK YEAH!
As I keep tellin' my students while they're makin' their podcasts together, if we're gonna make a revolution, we gotta become maestros in the ART of LISTENING. If yer feelin' down or downright disgusted with the state of things, then simply pour this tasty episode of AV into your ear!
From Technostructure To Technofeudalism (A Tale of Today, Episode #16)
with James Livingston, Astra Taylor, & Yanis Varoufakis
theamericanvandal.substack.com
May 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
As I keep tellin' my students while they're makin' their podcasts together, if we're gonna make a revolution, we gotta become maestros in the ART of LISTENING. If yer feelin' down or downright disgusted with the state of things, then simply pour this tasty episode of AV into your ear!
Paging all critical university studies folks—and anyone interested in understanding university budgets in the context of polycrisis—please join us for our webinar this Wednesday, April 16, 4:30-5:45, EDT. Link to register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
April 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Paging all critical university studies folks—and anyone interested in understanding university budgets in the context of polycrisis—please join us for our webinar this Wednesday, April 16, 4:30-5:45, EDT. Link to register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Paging all critical university studies folks—and anyone keen to learn more about university budgets—I'm jazzed to announce this is happenin' next week! Join us👇✊
April 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Paging all critical university studies folks—and anyone keen to learn more about university budgets—I'm jazzed to announce this is happenin' next week! Join us👇✊
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From @aaup.bsky.social, what to do if ICE is on your campus.
January 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
From @aaup.bsky.social, what to do if ICE is on your campus.
"The Iron Dome is a global project [....] a certain kind of fortressed inequality and apartheid that is actually a global project."
‘The Exceptions Have Become the Rule.’ Naomi Klein on Trump, Gaza and the End of the ‘Liberal Order’
Award-winning author and journalist Naomi Klein speaks to Democracy in Exile.
dawnmena.org
January 25, 2025 at 3:45 AM
"The Iron Dome is a global project [....] a certain kind of fortressed inequality and apartheid that is actually a global project."
Anticipatory obedience is suicide.
Against Anticipatory Obedience
The statement that follows, prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance and Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved for public...
www.aaup.org
January 24, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Anticipatory obedience is suicide.
Methinks the late Fredric Jameson would have deep and penetrating insight into the fact that a US president-elect/greedhead/bullyboy/con-man/real estate mogul just brokered a ceasefire in Gaza:
"I will put a very simple proposition to you: namely that today, all politics is about real estate."
"I will put a very simple proposition to you: namely that today, all politics is about real estate."
January 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Methinks the late Fredric Jameson would have deep and penetrating insight into the fact that a US president-elect/greedhead/bullyboy/con-man/real estate mogul just brokered a ceasefire in Gaza:
"I will put a very simple proposition to you: namely that today, all politics is about real estate."
"I will put a very simple proposition to you: namely that today, all politics is about real estate."
"These developments expose without a shadow of a doubt that the Biden administration’s failure to achieve a ceasefire was always wilful, and that the Democratic Party government positively chose to arm and support the genocide.
There will have to be accountability for that."
There will have to be accountability for that."
Why is Trump pressuring Israel to end its war on Gaza?
Gaza ceasefire is closer than ever thanks to resistance steadfastness and intervention by US president-elect.
electronicintifada.net
January 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
"These developments expose without a shadow of a doubt that the Biden administration’s failure to achieve a ceasefire was always wilful, and that the Democratic Party government positively chose to arm and support the genocide.
There will have to be accountability for that."
There will have to be accountability for that."
Galvanizing to witness hundreds of fellow academic workers protesting the MLA's refusal to allow its members to vote to approve a resolution endorsing the 2005 call of Palestinian civil society organizations to boycott, sanction, and divest from Israel at the Delegate Assembly meeting today✊🇵🇸♾️
January 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Galvanizing to witness hundreds of fellow academic workers protesting the MLA's refusal to allow its members to vote to approve a resolution endorsing the 2005 call of Palestinian civil society organizations to boycott, sanction, and divest from Israel at the Delegate Assembly meeting today✊🇵🇸♾️
Matt has answers to the ongoing and accelerating climate catastrophe—build and harness the power of a transnational labor movement. Wanna do something about the wildfires in California? Or the genocide in Gaza? Support and build unions that are excited and ready to FIGHT to defend the planet!
The video of my talk to the Marxist Education Project (@project_marx) on "Reading Capital in an Age of Climate Change." www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PNL...
Reading Capital in an Age of Climate Change with Matt Huber - Jan 8 2025
YouTube video by Marxist Education Project
www.youtube.com
January 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Matt has answers to the ongoing and accelerating climate catastrophe—build and harness the power of a transnational labor movement. Wanna do something about the wildfires in California? Or the genocide in Gaza? Support and build unions that are excited and ready to FIGHT to defend the planet!
Lookin' out my hotel window at the MLA in New Orleans and ... cruise ships on the Mississippi—WTF?😱
January 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Lookin' out my hotel window at the MLA in New Orleans and ... cruise ships on the Mississippi—WTF?😱
Warm thanks to colleagues in the MLA for their principled stance on the genocide in Gaza. Anti-BDS legislation is fascistic and continuous with the barbarous logics of coloniality since 1492. To capitulate to the idol of neoliberal economic rationality at this historical moment is MADNESS!
“The Chicago School doctrine of Corporate Social Responsibility is a rhetorical justification for private corporations to do what they prefer to do anyway: act contrary to the interests of rank-&-file employees, harmed communities, & social activists. This is what the MLA is endorsing…”
What The MLA Is...
The organization has chosen an interpretation of fiduciary responsibility beyond the wildest hopes of Chicago School economists.
open.substack.com
January 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Warm thanks to colleagues in the MLA for their principled stance on the genocide in Gaza. Anti-BDS legislation is fascistic and continuous with the barbarous logics of coloniality since 1492. To capitulate to the idol of neoliberal economic rationality at this historical moment is MADNESS!
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“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
fortune.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
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Events like the California fires demonstrate why it's so dangerous when tech billionaires decide to eschew rigorous fact-checking. Social media remains a vital source of real-time life-saving information during crises and disasters. Having accurate information is often a matter of life or death.
January 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Events like the California fires demonstrate why it's so dangerous when tech billionaires decide to eschew rigorous fact-checking. Social media remains a vital source of real-time life-saving information during crises and disasters. Having accurate information is often a matter of life or death.
Holy smokin' mother of SIN! "BILLIONS AND BILLIONS SERVED"—indeed ... and legions upon legions of wild-ass chickens comin' home to roost!
So this is 2025—buckle up, folks ... and UNIONIZE, UNIONIZE, UNIONIZE!
So this is 2025—buckle up, folks ... and UNIONIZE, UNIONIZE, UNIONIZE!
January 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Holy smokin' mother of SIN! "BILLIONS AND BILLIONS SERVED"—indeed ... and legions upon legions of wild-ass chickens comin' home to roost!
So this is 2025—buckle up, folks ... and UNIONIZE, UNIONIZE, UNIONIZE!
So this is 2025—buckle up, folks ... and UNIONIZE, UNIONIZE, UNIONIZE!
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Always read Mike Davis:
"You say fire, I say climate change, and we both ignore the financial and real-estate juggernaut that drives the suburbanisation of our increasingly inflammable wildlands."
"Unnecessarily, our children, and theirs, will continue to face the flames."
"You say fire, I say climate change, and we both ignore the financial and real-estate juggernaut that drives the suburbanisation of our increasingly inflammable wildlands."
"Unnecessarily, our children, and theirs, will continue to face the flames."
Mike Davis | El Diablo in Wine Country
In 1942 Alfred Hitchcock recruited the author of Our Town, Thornton Wilder, to write the screenplay for Shadow of a...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Always read Mike Davis:
"You say fire, I say climate change, and we both ignore the financial and real-estate juggernaut that drives the suburbanisation of our increasingly inflammable wildlands."
"Unnecessarily, our children, and theirs, will continue to face the flames."
"You say fire, I say climate change, and we both ignore the financial and real-estate juggernaut that drives the suburbanisation of our increasingly inflammable wildlands."
"Unnecessarily, our children, and theirs, will continue to face the flames."
Gearing up to write an abstract for an essay on indebted life and the ways that higher education is entangled with neoliberal, extractivist, racial capitalist political economies. Gotta recognize the ways that listening to @mattseybold.bsky.social's podcast has made this work possible.
The First Curriculum is Work Without Wages (A Tale of Today, Episode #11)
with Rachel Sagnar Buurma, Jelani Favors, Laura Heffernan, Nathan Kalman-Lamb, & Derek Silva
theamericanvandal.substack.com
January 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Gearing up to write an abstract for an essay on indebted life and the ways that higher education is entangled with neoliberal, extractivist, racial capitalist political economies. Gotta recognize the ways that listening to @mattseybold.bsky.social's podcast has made this work possible.
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"Collective actions that have material impacts can also remind people that we can affect the heartbreaking conditions that discourage us. Feelings of powerlessness and overwhelm are responsible for many of the harmful dynamics that hinder our work as activists and organizers."
As we prepare ourselves for the struggles ahead, many people are feeling discouraged or confused about how to move forward. Organizers Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba, Shane Burley, Dean Spade and Eman Abdelhadi discuss how we should be showing up for each other in these times.
In 2025, We Must Show Up for Each Other and Our Movements
“We need to distinguish our enemies from our friends, even when those friends make mistakes,” says Eman Abdelhadi.
truthout.org
December 31, 2024 at 11:47 PM
"Collective actions that have material impacts can also remind people that we can affect the heartbreaking conditions that discourage us. Feelings of powerlessness and overwhelm are responsible for many of the harmful dynamics that hinder our work as activists and organizers."