The term “working class” in common usage today isn’t about income or type of work. It’s been superseded by a postmodern definition focused on aesthetics and culture war stances. A barista who puts pronouns on a nametag is an elite. So is every adjunct lecturer. I don’t think this is a good change.

"More than 60 state and city elected officials sent a letter to top New York University leaders on Friday, urging them to avert a looming work stoppage by giving the union representing the institution’s contract faculty a 'fair agreement.'” 📰 www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

If every top Democrat doesn’t immediately condemn this threat of war crimes and collective punishment, without any ‘process’ BS complaints, then they should be primaried instantly. They’ll be complicit in this crime if they don’t speak out. Tainted forever.

They found him. He died. Another murder by our immigration goon squads

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

In light of all the AI ads played during tonight’s Super Bowl, it’s worthwhile to recall this excerpt from Langdon Winner’s The Whale and the Reactor:

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

what a shot

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

It’s a welcome dose of hope, a welcome dream for a better future. What a great pilot episode!

JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents. @zeteo.com

portland city council confirms that two portland residents have been shot by federal agents. at this time, the city council has been told that both victims are alive.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

ICE just executed someone in cold blood in Minneapolis. The agency is frantically trying to spin it but the videos are already out there. Murderous fascist pigs.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Frey: I have a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

THEY WROTE NUMBERS ON THEIR WRISTS I can’t see straight. Obviously there is so much wrong happening here, but this detail is fucking chilling. These are human beings.

I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.

JUST IN: An independent United Nations inquiry has concluded for the first time that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and that the country’s top leaders have incited genocide, in what it described as “the “most authoritative UN finding to date.” https://cnn.it/3VjaHzS

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

“… They went after Musk’s cars …” As the right-wing pundits start wringing their hands and stoking outrage over Kirk’s death, it’s worth noticing how they hold the life of one of “their own” as equal in value to the price tag of a Cybertruck

We conceptualize borders as a space outside of law, where we can use extreme forms of policing (warrantless searches & now execution). But these acts do not protect us; they endanger us by creating a vast, unregulated police state. What happens at the border will eventually happen everywhere.

Gavin Newsom has the exact vibe of a Weyland-Yutani executive who watches in glee as a xenomorph eats you

What the fu**ing shit, nyt!?!?!?! Just within 24 hours after five of al-jazeers journalists were killed, nyt published this. Who wrote it? An israeli writer. The blood of the journalists is still fresh in the journalists’ graves. Blood is on nyt hands.

Thank you to @monachalabi.bsky.social for this powerful graphic, which starkly pictures the severity of the Israeli government’s policy of mass death through forced starvation.

Whelp, they were only a couple years off…

all this talk of Columbia’s admissions procedures reminds me that a member of the NYPD’s notorious SRG put a bullet in a wall of our admissions office about 14 months ago

Columbia functionally returning to its original name King’s College

BREAKING: "A senior ICE official testified that the agency assembled a team in early 2025 to investigate student protestors. The team — referred to internally as the “Tiger Team” — rapidly compiled over 100 reports based on a list of 5,000 people identified on the Canary Mission website."

GSOC-UAW Local 7902 will be hosting a screening of the documentary UNION at the Anthology Film Archives, on July 14th! We’re raising funds for the GSOC Hardship Fund, offering support to NYU graduate student workers facing hardship:

This was twenty months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 14,186 kids since.

New York City had free college tuition at all CUNY schools for 130 years

"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

This.. doesn't even make sense. What is the purpose of a citation and how is citing AI meaningful?

They were wrong in 2003 and they're wrong now.

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo. We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social

I don’t want to colonize the galaxy. I want to hold my loved ones close, to care for my neighbors and siblings of conscience, to go through the difficult work of finding the miraculous in the present

Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for: "As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

Just a few days after Columbia announces the Pulitzers, the university goes and suspends its own student journalists.

Tomorrow April 21 3:30-4:30pm EST, Alissa Walter discuss her new "Contested City," published by @stanfordpress.bsky.social. Free but registration required. @rosscaputi.bsky.social of "Archive Iraq" & @cohntexts.bsky.social of "NYU Cultures of War" are main organizers. www.umass.edu/humanities-a...

TOMORROW! 4/17, 4pm @ Foley Square. Organized by an enormous coalition of unions and aaup chapters across the nyc area. This is just the beginning!

In case there was any doubt that Trump will try to put History Departments into "receivership" next. "Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order restoring truth and sanity to American history." www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...