The strongest protections against AI at work have not come from Congress, nor have they come from lawsuits - no. They've come from collective bargaining by organized labor. My new essay for @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social (feat. Hanumankind & Elf-on-a-Shelf) washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/20/a...

a reminder that segregation among other things is a form of theft

The Egyptian poet and activist Ahmed Douma is once again incarcerated—and facing another five years behind bars. Today, we share a poem he wrote while in Badr Prison in 2023 (translated by @elgendy95.bsky.social).

The Seattle Times published a full obituary for Juniper Blessing. It's a moving tribute to a life well-lived. May she rest in peace, and may UW honour and carry on her legacy. Scholarships named for her might be a good start.

Corporate Sponsors include: Deloitte Exiger ExxonMobil IndyCar January AI John Deere Lockheed Martin Mastercard Oracle Palantir Penske Phorm Energy SAP Scotts Miracle-Gro UFC United Airlines

Rising antisemitism is the UK is real, but mainstream commentary on its meaning and causes has been worse than useless. We spoke to Barnaby Raine about the moral panic deployed by those who claim to be "protecting Jews". www.equator.org/articles/goo...

New Dig ep is an interview with Fahd Ahmed and Alina Shen, leaders of DRUM and CAAAV—two brilliant organizers leading powerful basebuilding organizations—on how they organize, then electing Zohran mayor, and struggling through the contradictions of governance. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/orga...

You’ll find the names and stories of the victims as best as we at L.A. TACO could research them. We hope this list offers a moment to remember these individuals. The full list: lataco.com/ice-death-tr... By Memo Torres, Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Izzy Ramirez, and Odessa Hairapetian

“Teachers, nurses, hospitality and sanitation workers, and above all the networks formed by immigrant workers across these sectors, shape our present landscape of political possibility.“ This is thoughtful and important

Today, Greg Baltz explains why New York City’s annual Rent Guidelines Board hearings are critical for tenant organizing, and why such organizing is essential to prepare for the real estate industry’s inevitable backlash. Co-published with @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social!

I knew I recognized this guy from somewhere.

What I do know is this: the crisis this book describes is not an accident. It was built—policy by policy, decision by decision, over decades. And what's been built can be dismantled.

“If New York's state leg can figure out that a gig-work platform is just a staffing agency in app form, then other states can do so as well. If they don't figure that out, that's because they don't want to.“ Essential reading

Folks are not asking for enough on any level. To me, we should be demanding 2500 NEW well-funded public libraries across the country by 2050. We need to be making ACTUAL demands for MORE.

The irony here is that Alito’s decision is itself driven by racially discriminatory intent.

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire”--Gustav Mahler's epigraph to this book

Why is ICE buying so many warehouses, and what does this have to do with the warehouse's shifting place in the US economy? In Places Journal, I chronicle the long arc of Warehousing's carceral geography and the speculative building boom that ICE is absorbing. placesjournal.org/article/the-...

“They use solitary to remove people who are ‘contaminating’ the rest of the population or to isolate those who agree but don’t yet have the courage to speak up. Essentially, it’s a way to dismember a group that’s opposing them.“ @ccijustice.bsky.social

Thanks to the editors @inquest.bsky.social and collaborators @ccijustice.bsky.social

Applications are open for our free 10-week Removal Defense course for community advocates and organizers. June 24 - August 26, Wednesdays 6-7:30 PM ET. Apply by May 22. secure.nationalimmigrationproject.org/np/clients/n...

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up”

What industry calls "personalized pricing" is really *surveillance* pricing: using digital tools' flexibility to change the price for each user, and using surveillance data to guess the worst price you'll accept: pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/p... 1/

You should read everything Zohra Ahmed writes, but also & especially this post abt the criminalization of leftist solidarity by the Trump Admin through the use of material support laws & RICO (laws that are admittedly pernicious in most contexts but esp here) lpeproject.org/blog/guilty-...

Less income tax = more sales tax = a more regressive tax system. This is a fact of life. You cannot fix it by simply taxing only the income of rich people, because they are always in the best position to avoid it altogether. It will not work. Period.

Delighted to review @azizaahmed.bsky.social's terrific book "Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of Aids" at JOTWELL: health.jotwell.com/public-healt...

I said it before, Habermas’s great talents was to produce critics like Nancy Fraser, Dena Goodman, and Michael Warner, who do not “extend” his ideas, but subject them to ruthless criticism, and to come up with better ways to grapple with their primary themes.

The U.S. runs the largest immigration detention system in the world. But what law actually protects people inside it? A Harvard Law Review article by @Das_Alina provides an alarming answer. 🧵

ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.

“Instead, they wanted to align themselves with men whose sole concerns are whether they’ve purchased enough Tomahawks to replace the one they just slammed into the roof of a school.” @joshuadiemert.bsky.social

happy publication day to *The Future That Was* out today from @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

This is the AI the Department of Defense is using. It's called Maven, it's from Palantir, and it’s scary as hell. It's dangerous for an innumerable number of reasons. I don't even know where to begin. From not prioritizing civilian casualties to assassinations and god knows what else, this is nuts.

Today, @jeenashahesq.bsky.social argues that Trump’s contradictory treatment of Hernández and Maduro reveals the consistency of U.S. foreign policy: the War on Drugs serves as a flexible tool for maintaining global capitalism’s necessary periphery.

“the single most consistent trend at UK universities over the past 15 years has been to ensure as few people (students and staff alike) have the material conditions necessary to depart from their prescribed roles, to do any type of meaningful political activity“

A PSA for all my law professor friends: instead of scrolling through an article titled “The Top 100 Legal Scholars of 2025,” where impact and influence are reduced to citation counts, consider reading this excellent article on value capture. jesp.org/index.php/je...

I found this report to be both startling and disturbing.

New article theorizing the “spatial burdens” of state institutions. Drawing on 125 interviews and over 400 hours of observations among court-involved people in the Bay Area, we show how space shapes poverty governance and institutional inequality. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The catastrophic impact to local health where the air is poisoned, as well as to our global ecosystem as they literally set the planet on fire and fill the atmosphere with pollutants

“At the root of so many of our moral and political crises today is what Simone Weil, describing life under European fascism, called ‘the adoration of power in its most brutal form’.” Our editors on the Iran war: www.equator.org/articles/epi...

I keep circling back to that line from the Mishnah Sanhedrin, "whoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world" and wondering what it means to live at the mercy of men who are equally indifferent to any individual life, to millions of lives, and to the world itself

🧵: my latest draft paper ‘The Legal Realism of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is still looking for a law review home 🤞🏽 Here are some brief highlights for anyone interested

is it so hard to see people are not waiting to be told what’s possible

Now on SSRN and looking for a good home - "The Case for Professional Disobedience" Using healthcare professionals as a case study, the Article meets this perilous moment in U.S. history by thinking seriously about disobedience as a response to institutional failures papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

One thing about these big camp systems is that they inflict a tremendous amount of harm through sheer momentum. When a system is built to be both negligent and punitive, it tends to cause suffering by default.

Heads up movement-based researchers. Applications for the UCLA Strategic Labor Research Conference open April 1. Great opportunity to hone skills and network with folks who leverage research for worker justice

“If you want to know how it feels to have slaves, in the modern world – and not be blamed openly for this desire – visit Dubai.” newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Instead, I see Powell as symptomatic of a historical conjuncture in which neoliberal ideas that had been in circulation for decades found a foothold as the prosperous post-war political economic order gave way (to one marked by stagflation, fiscal crisis, & declining industrial profitability)