Thank you for this amazing and important thread showing how together, price discrimination (see @katiejwells.bsky.social incredible research w/consumer report) and wage discrimination will squeeze us all dry

At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures. Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:

Joan is one of the most forceful leaders of data labelers who do a lot of the behind the scenes work that make "AI" function. Listen to her reframe "human capital" and her analysis on the way global majority workers get treated in the global tech economy and why. So much good stuff in here.

I’ve admired @chenjerai.bsky.social’s work for many years. Grateful he had me on his podcast, and that we had such an in-depth conversation about ICE flights, humanity, and real actions we can take to help our immigrant neighbors. www.patreon.com/posts/shackl...

India has positioned itself as a “third way” for AI — an alternative to U.S. and Chinese approaches — that promises to use the technology to benefit the public, not not corporations or the state New from @ambakak.bsky.social and Astha Kapoor: restofworld.org/2026/india-a...

Thanks for this shoutout to our research --- which the UN Trade and Development Group discussed this morning (h/t @ericgardner.bsky.social and CR's Grace Geyde) --- and for showing how our research builds from @veenadubal.bsky.social's pathbreaking work on algorithmic wage discrimination.

The 51st has produced so much valuable reporting in just a single year, with only one full-time reporter. Can you imagine what a second year could look like if this newsroom had triple the reporting capacity? The good news is that we don't have to imagine — we can make it happen. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Some personal news

“The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently rolled out a new policy that permits university officials to record classes without notifying the instructor. It’s a practice administrators have used in the past to investigate professors but have now formalized in writing.”

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

The Wall Street Journal just illustrated the core argument of my book: a system rigged to reward capital over labor is one in which even full-time work no longer secures the most basic material needs. This is the economic order that produces the "working homeless." www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Compare how Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Editorial Board treated Republican redistricting in Texas and Democrat redistricting in Maryland and Virginia.

excited to share that I am *officially running* to represent Massachusetts state employees on the MA public pension board! I'm running because public pensions are *ours* and should serve the interests of state workers and our communities I'm endorsed by @massteacher.bsky.social www.mapension.com

Huge victory for workers and patients

"...I never saw another butterfly... Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp." www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/184184...

Such an important story: ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the U.S. and the fear of what comes next. @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 10/

It really looks like the March for Life brought measles to DC

Everyone should watch this video. Everyone. It’s about collective responsibility for what ICE will do wherever it builds a gulag, and it is *powerful.* It’s less than three minutes of your life. Pass it on.

Full story: apnews.com/article/immi...

The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

Martin, an 18-year-old citizen and soccer player, traveled with his Madison-area team to Minneapolis for a Futsal tournament (which my kid's team was going to play in, then opted out). While there, ICE stopped Martin and took his mom, who has been detained since. www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt's Executive Order issued today immediately eliminating academic tenure at the state’s public regional universities and community colleges.

Every American needs to watch this:

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As the @51st.news's first full-time reporter, I don't actually disagree with this. We're building something new one brick at a time, but at this point it's simply not a one-for-one replacement for what's being lost at the Post. (Please read and support us, though!)

Democracy, dying in darkness?

A mother who was going to get treatment for her sick seven-month-old is instead locked in a *bathroom* with other people: "I don't want my baby to die!"

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Nonsense, this. The idea that kicking Blackstone et al out of SFH rentals may "backfire" by choking investment in new construction presupposes they have any interest in increasing supply. They don't! Like, none. The opposite, in fact.

Right as New York City is requiring Instacart and other delivery companies to pay its drivers fair wages, the company is hitting New Yorkers with a fee they don’t even see until checkout. My office is looking into this.

“Agents can identify people on the street through facial recognition, trace their movements through license-plate readers and, in some cases, use commercially available phone-location data to reconstruct daily routines and associations.” All surveillance tools people have pushed back on for ages…

The arrest of my friend and colleague Don Lemon is an outrageous attack on the First Amendment and free speech in America. This cannot stand.

NYC: Instacart sues city to avoid up-front tipping and min wage. Loses both battles. Adds dubious "regulatory fee" to try to sway consumer base. Spain and France: Instacart deliveries will be made by workers with employee status. No "regulatory fee" expected.

This is by design. By making the US market too risky for investment, they can take vaccines out of the US healthcare toolkit, without having to do the dirty work of banning them outright.

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

ICE is now buying e-commerce warehouses to convert into jails. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The mother of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, who is detained with the father in an ICE Texas facility, says the boy "is getting sick because the food they receive is not of good quality. He has stomach pain, he’s vomiting, he has a fever and he no longer wants to eat.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

“No one can reasonably say that a Philosophy professor shouldn’t get to teach Plato in a philosophy class.” —Martin Peterson, AAUP Texas A&M @tamu-aaup.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org @cwa-tseu.bsky.social @movetexas.bsky.social

“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.

Legal asylum seeker, no criminal record, working two jobs, dragged out of smashed car and kidnapped by ICE as his US citizen newborn cries in a car seat in the freezing cold in Maine and his wife who barely speaks English pleads for help. WTAF

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

National Nurses United, largest nurses' union in US, are holding actions over the coming week in honor of Alex Pretti and all others killed by ICE www.nationalnursesunited.org/week-of-acti...

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

A number of responders were quite opposed to the idea of giving ridealongs to The Atlantic (I understand their frustration with the outlet). But I drove these guys around for two hours and they witnessed abductions, confrontations with the public, tear-gassings. The lesson: let the world see.

Some immigrant parents, fearful of their children facing similar uncertainty if they were to be arrested, detained or deported are taking the extreme step of legally transferring parental authority to teachers, co-workers, fellow parishioners and neighbors.