Full rights and citizenship actually means they’re not a “foreign labor class.” And that’s what he’s angry about. He’s mad citizenship is universal rather than restricted to white people like before the civil war bsky.app/profile/gbbr...

I don't think it is a coincidence that I don't see my Italian or other Continental European colleagues demonstrating the same anxiety over GenAI - given how prevalent oral and in-person exams are there (that is, GenAI-proof methods of assessments)

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

Happy to have some moral clarity at the head of my union these days. Join AAUP. Your dues pay for these legal victories we keep wrapping up and these trainings that have taught a thousand new organizers how to do the work.

Wrote this last night: colemanallums.net/blog/2026/1/... Poetry is so we don’t forget.

It's time to abolish Trump’s ICE.

Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since. That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.

We already have this data. It’s from when everybody used to die because there were no vaccines.

The latest Duke CFO survey shows that the vast majority of CFOs are seeing no impact from AI on labor productivity, decision-making speed, customer satisfaction, or time spent on high-value-added tasks Torsten at Apollo

“what if”

Now that America has attacked and destabilized Venezuela (like so many countries before) many of its people will end up heading north seeking safety and stability and the US and Canada alike will respond with anger at “too many immigrants!” The US fucks up the world then blames its people 😡

Somebody pay me to go to Bristol and teach Kevin Negandhi about epistemology.

You could teach an entire grad seminar on social science methods just using ESPN’s attempts to project/justify the College Football Playoff field.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

We really do live in hell

Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

I, personally, will never forget or forgive the careless terrorism of this exercise. I know too many whose personal and professional lives were mutilated by a handful of incurious ideologues, saw too much good, careful, lifesaving work go up in smoke.

If I were sick, I would simply choose to be healthy. Bing bang boom bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

Reminds me of one of my all time favorite books:

If I could solve one ubiquitous problem, it’d be the public’s manifestly inadequate understanding of what ‘politics’ is.

On Hiking Without Maps open.substack.com/pub/jaaronsi...

Wrote this in The Sirens Call about mass shootings as the darkest, most violent form of extreme trolling and think it likely applies here as well.

A threat to authoritarianism anywhere is a threat to authoritarianism everywhere

You will never be able to make "data driven" decisions until you realize just how much your decisions are driven by emotions: fear of missing out, defensiveness of your favorite idea, apprehension over something unusual. That's because there's no such thing as "the data" - only interpretations.

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.

Death cult. There’s nothing else to say. Utter madness.

This. America is, if anything, a dramatically stifled society because everyone is afraid to engage in acts of human goodwill lest they be torted into oblivion.

Two things can be true: 1) I hope Cristian Roldan starts next to Tyler Adams in the USMNT's pair of friendlies this month. 2) It's hilarious that the tenure of the USMNT's highest-profile, highest-paid foreign manager is actively being defined by his love for MLS players.

thinking about the fast, efficient driverless cars we should’ve had decades ago

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

This isn't just a political claim, it's an empirical one. If "the problem is not guns" then we shouldn't see any correlation between gun ownership and oh wait platform.vox.com/wp-content/u...

Paul Virilio has that devastating line about how the invention of the ship implies the invention of the shipwreck, how the latter—as “accidental”—betrays the true substance of the former. I can’t stop thinking about guns and school shootings through the same schema.

You know it’s back to school season in America because we are back to having school shootings.

The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025 were repeatedly arrested, beat, jailed, mocked by elites and non-elites over the past 5 years. This was bipartisan. I find it interesting whenever some people ask 'where the young people are' now.

Great charts from the Atlanta Fed showing small businesses are getting hit hardest by the trade war (largely because they are more exposed to Chinese imports and have less ability to borrow money while they shift supply chains) www.atlantafed.org/blogs/macrob...

Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job

When geographers say maps are weapons of state and capital power, this is what they mean

Marcuse, in one of my all time favorite bits of writing: monoskop.org/images/5/57/...

reposted this today because the inverse is also true: if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period. if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Huh, so I guess they haven't all fled the state

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.