The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact

Seems like a good day for big ideas.

A damn daycare. This is sick. What are we doing?

“The Sudanese war serves as a tragic analogy: the nation has become a high-value commodity caught in a global auction, where the SAF and RSF are merely the proxies bidding with foreign-supplied arms, rather than independent political actors fighting for national interests.”

Working people have done what they can within what's left of this electoral system. But will this reminder that fascism is both unpopular and unconsolidated lead the regime to govern as if it will be held to account someday? Probably not. Organize harder.

Meet Rockbridge, the secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now re-writing MAGA’s future. It roots its action in a “controversial theory — an ‘aristocracy’ is needed to move the country forward.” It’s method: a venture capital approach to politics. gift link: wapo.st/3Jsvgrl

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

An Argentine friend I was speaking with last week in Paris suggested the global future would be less democratic. And while the outlook isn't exactly encouraging, the demand for democracy, or at least some sort of accountability and popular say in governance, remains strong everywhere it is denied.

Where America stands, one year after the election. A fascistic movement controls the government; they are building an authoritarian state; but they have not been able yet to extend authoritarian rule across society. A democracy no more, but not a consolidated autocratic regime yet. New piece:

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

I’ve seen enough. Luddism is the way. Smash the machines.

NEW: I learned a lot talking to Alex Karp's biographer, Michael Steinberger. Namely, that Palantir has ambitions to become what IBM used to be for the U.S. government: its de facto operating system. www.inc.com/sam-blum/ale...

Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around. Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.

What a finish by Hellen Obiri at NYC. Shattered the course record.

Always love watching Eliud Kipchoge run. 41 years old, 15 seconds off the pack, 18 miles in. Amazing.

Hazardous predawn long run: got attacked by 1) an owl and 2) a fucking Waymo. Latter very nearly hit me, was accelerating the whole time. At least the sunrise was gorgeous. #running

“The Coalition for Action in Higher Education and AAUP Local 6741 are delighted to announce: ‘Mapping Anti-Palestinian Discrimination, Harassment, and Misinformation in U.S. Higher Education.’ This series of five webinars takes place from October to December.”

Yes to academic freedom against fascism. And, as June Jordan asked, “What freedom does this institution care about? Is it the freedom to maintain traditions based on hundreds of years of genocide, theft, rape, humiliation and hypocrisy? … Show me the freedom that this University upholds.”

"As lungs need air, so the U.S. economy needs Latin American minerals." —Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America

Haunted house for introverts: people pop out and try to make small talk. Final room is a networking event where everyone asks for your info at once

Increasingly convinced that today’s ruling classes foresee only the collapse of empire, impending accumulation crisis without resolution, and are angling to wall themselves off from the catastrophe.

No to war with Venezuela.

Today I summon the ghost of Du Bois. I too am getting too old for Halloween parties and don't like shopping in Atlanta.💀

So when the end-times fascists declare some emergency, put troops on the streets, and suspend an election, will the political scientists just continue studying voting behavior?

“A transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers” is, quite literally, the EXACT phenomenon that Hannah Arendt was referring to when she coined the phrase “the banality of evil.”

Standing room only at Morehouse tonight. An incredible book talk on Jennifer Black and Mumia Abu-Jamal’s new co-edited volume ‘Beneath the Mountain.’ Free Mumia! www.prisonradio.org/commentary/o... @citylightsbooks.bsky.social

Whenever people invoke the Black Panther Party for self defense, I wonder if people know that there are still Panther members currently incarcerated.

Adorno: "The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the saying goes, falling for the swindle; if it guarantees them even the most fleeting gratification they desire a deception which is nonetheless transparent to them."

I wrote something about Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens getting (really) mad at me for not liking his big 25-year blanket extension of Atlanta's existing, old tax increment financing (TIF/TAD) districts... Thought about titling it: Is Trumpist ad hominem trickling down?

Mondoweiss speaks to celebrated Palestinian scholar Sabri Jiryis about his life, Zionism, the genocide in Gaza, and the judgements of history. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/pale... #Palestine #Israel

Looking forward to an event tonight where I get to talk about Angelo Herndon, the Communist organizer who protested the suspension of unemployment relief and was convicted of sedition here in Atlanta in the 1930s. 90 years on, way too many lessons both learned and unlearned.

A 🧵 to start the day. Read:

Had a great time speaking with @modernmoneylab.org.uk about complementary currencies with my MOTL colleague @robbhawkes.bsky.social!! Some of our slides below 💛🫡

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders

The surplusing of population naturalized by antiblackness under Keynesianism and neoliberalism has been perversely democratized. These cuts at Amazon and all the other companies illustrates the vision of the tech oligarchs and the wider fascist right, accumulation without laborer/ laborer.

Israel slaughters another 100 overnight, including 46 children. US murders another 15 in Caribbean waters. ICE kidnaps who knows how many more. While 40M Americans are about to go hungry and NVIDIA market cap hits $5T. What an unsustainably irrational world capitalist imperialism has wrought.

Israel killed at least 104 people in Gaza, including 46 children, in overnight strikes on the Palestinian territory. The attacks came after Israel claimed its soldiers came under attack by Hamas militants, though the group denied responsibility.

We promised to campaign the way we want to govern. That’s why we’re launching a statewide food drive to support the 1.4 million Georgians losing SNAP benefits during the shutdown. Find a drop-off near you: bit.ly/gafoodbankmap 🧵

Blustery, drizzly, 40-degree fall morning — chef’s kiss conditions for solitary predawn running. Worried about my plans for a 50-miler in December. November work schedule is pure chaos. Training schedule in jeopardy.

Very important not to become accustomed to the fact the US is literally in the "masked men are rounding up your neighbors" phase

"The pen was an archaic instrument, seldom used even for signatures, and he had procured one, furtively and with some difficulty...He was not used to writing by hand. Apart from very short notes, it was usual to dictate everything into the speakwrite." Orwell, 1984

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

iMiXWHATiLiKE! w/ Dr.( @imixwhatilike.bsky.social )Jared A. Ball "The Politics of Dr. King and the Academy with Prof. Andrew( @ajdouglas.bsky.social )Douglas & Prof. Jared Loggins" #IMWIL www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Sj...

Here is the proposed agreement the Trump admin sent to UCLA, which administrators fought tooth and claw to keep secret ucop.edu/communicatio...

In this week’s segment, we focus on Africa. We hear about the Black Alliance for Peace Month of Action Against AFRICOM and about African governments that cooperate with the Trump administration's third-nation deportation policy. www.blackagendareport.com/index.php/bl...

US imperialism has always deployed its mercenaries for the private sector but this is a distinct heightening of the contradictions.

#PrisonBannedBooksWeek (Oct. 19–25) shines a light on censorship in jails and celebrates programs fighting back.📚⛓️. Midwest Books to Prisoners received the Martin Sostre Memorial Prison Books Fund, powered by royalties from our book, Books Through Bars. Buy a copy at ugapress.org!

Teaching the later Du Bois this week. Including speeches by Du Bois and Robeson given #otd in 1950. “We, the anti-fascist forces of America – the working masses, the Negro people, the brave Jewish people, the foreign-born progressives… will continue to raise our voices for peace.” -Paul Robeson

Contextualizing the expansion of extralegal murders by the US in Latin America is necessary. The geopolitical flexing is tied to heating the warlike competition with China over global hegemony in the projected new economy. The return to craven open imperialism is centrally about minerals.

This episode has aged very well.