what’s great about going to sleep, is that you also get to wake up and drink coffee in the morning

me reading my students' discussion posts this week on graeber's debt

Our STRIKE WHILE THE NEEDLE IS HOT virtual event is this Wednesday 9/10!! We can't wait to share labor history & tunes with you all. Authors Josh MacPhee & Kennedy Block will be joined by @albradbury.bsky.social, Robert Ovetz, & Kevin Van Meter. Register & invite a friend! tinyurl.com/StrikeLaunch

yayy revise and resubmit

Bring your reading group to a live discussion of Love in a F*cked-Up World! Bring all your questions about crushes, friendships, open relationships, robust support systems, conflict, hard feelings. Tickets: www.patreon.com/c/DeanSpade/...

rereading knowledge & class just to mess up my english grammar with effect vs affect

Join @commonnotions.bsky.social, authors, labor journalists, and educators at a special celebration of the books release for organizers as they explore how some of the biggest swings musicians, workers, and supporters have co-created cultures of resistance. Register: tinyurl.com/StrikeLaunch

i like wearing my clogs to work and sounding like a little horsey trotting down the hallway 🐎

back to school today, which means i am very excited to eat lunch

A must-read by Mike Wishnie on why even tenured faculties of private universities should be able to unionize under EXISTING law!! lpeproject.org/blog/why-not...

i have mixed feelings about shifting towards blue book and oral exams (and the AI anxiety in general....the whole banking and credentialing model is already screwy), but would be curious to hear how other folks are using these methods in their teaching www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

syllabi, canvas pages, first assignments, and lectures are all prepped and posted for classes next week yayy

Also my organization @interruptcrim.bsky.social along with our partners Community Justice Exchange and Critical Resistance created a jury nullification toolkit that seems more topical than ever: beyondcourts.org/en/act/votin...

IRB approval 🥳

teaching one of my favorite courses on #debt this semester again. we start with chapters from graeber and then go into the great depression, 2008 financial crisis, student debt, and sovereign and national debt. any newly published papers, articles, documentaries, art, suggestions to add?

summer was perfect, but im looking forward to teaching this semester and learning with my students

that time of year again wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...

She has a back cover now, too! Would be so grateful if you’d preorder, request your library to acquire it, tell your friends, etc. Officially out in November.

POTUS and the AG abusing their public powers to try to gain more public power. The Fed has 7 governors. Trump appointed 2 last term. One is vacant. One more vacant seat will yield a majority. Dr. Cook fills the seat with the longest term (to 2038) & is the only Black woman on the board.

enjoying the time of year when i only eat corn and peaches

New dispatch! The 2023 grad strike at the University of Michigan was a signal struggle in the recent upsurge of militancy in higher education, from which organizers in the sector stand to learn as they confront new and forbidding challenges: longhaulmag.com/2025/08/15/s...

“I think that some of the most effective organizing that we've done has been when our co-workers realize that their own experiences are similar to the experiences of other baristas.” Shared, Alex of @bbiunion.bsky.social on the @librarypunk.bsky.social pod. Listen in: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-pbc7w-...

So pleased to have joined @bbiunion.bsky.social and @abolisheconomics.bsky.social on the @librarypunk.bsky.social podcast to chat about our workers' inquiry on the cafe sector in the US. Take a listen and thanks to Justin, Sadie, and Jay for having us on!

Check out @bbiunion.bsky.social @americanwork47.bsky.social and myself chatting about workers' inquiry and class composition in the café sector on the @librarypunk.bsky.social podcast

Are you a cafe worker? Take a read of our inquiry on cafe work and organizing at @notesfrombelow.bsky.social and we invite you to share your reflections too: bit.ly/cafeinquiry Thank you. Your friends at @bbiunion.bsky.social and #workinquirywork!

CLASS COMPOSITION IN THE CAFE SECTOR: Part 2

Class Composition in the Cafe Sector notesfrombelow.org/article/clas...

Issue 3 is on its way to you now 👀 👀 Design by Sara Sukhun Photographs by Gauri Gill longhaulmag.com/subscribe/

really not stoked about >1/4 of my income going to student loans starting this month

is it gross to drink an iced coffee from yesterday that i put in the fridge? 🤔

strava is the only social media i find interesting these days

language is making it really difficult for me to try to explain in tis article im finishing up, how and why care is historically specific

Take a read of our new workers' inquiry on the cafe sector published by @notesfrombelow.bsky.social!

in case you missed it: our comrades at Notes from Below have published our new workers' inquiry with @bbiunion.bsky.social @americanwork47.bsky.social "Class Composition in the Café Sector" in two parts

Great systematic take-down of the polycrisis concept from a Marxist perspective. Callum Cant shows how analyses of polycrisis repress structural explanations, analyse data from the implicit standpoint of the bourgeois state, and discount class struggle. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

"Top economist @delong.social to recent college grads: Don’t blame AI for job struggles—blame the sputtering economy" fortune.com/2025/08/02/d...

A new print run of Anarchy Works just came out from @detritusbooks.bsky.social and it's on sale! Capitalism and the State are dragging us into an abyss of multiplying catastrophes, telling us we can't exist without them. Guess what? We already have and we can do so again!

New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal

i can’t stop watching ann abel’s unhinged rich lady tiktok and the fact that she’s married married to an economist is 🤌 chefs kiss

Are you a café worker? We invite café workers to respond to our inquiry at: www.workersinquiry.work

Take a read via @notesfrombelow.bsky.social: Part 2 (exploring how cafe workers are organizing at work): notesfrombelow.org/article/clas...

Take a read via @notesfrombelow.bsky.social: Part 1 (on what cafe workers think and do while at work): notesfrombelow.org/article/clas...

In ‘Class Composition in the Cafe Sector’ we hope that by presenting workers’ narratives alongside our analysis of the sector, we can develop a framework for how workplaces in the sector are structured and what tensions exist within them that can aid organising for class struggle.

it’s too hot to bike and i’m starting to feel sorry for my air conditioner

Galleys for Lise Vogel’s The Contested Domain (edited by me and with a foreword by Paula Varela) are here! Out in November… Please consider preordering from Pluto Press!

Proofs are in! Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry will be published by @commonnotions.bsky.social‬ this fall. It describes/theorizes/circulates experiences of research that feeds into labour organizing within & against digital capitalism. www.commonnotions.org/notes-toward...

taking time away from work and just riding yr bike is really rad and i wish everyone could do so

my goal for the summer is to take a nap every day