They are being explicit about turning corporate media into state propaganda.

“In counties with very large disaster damages, white households gain about $126,000 in wealth on average, while Black households lost about $27,000 on average. ‘This is the new redlining,‘ Calvin said.”

using public office to name and shame evil landlords into submission is so cool. i hope democrats learn from him

Respectfully, eat shit. Those kids were expelled, arrested, and targeted relentlessly by their school administrations with the specific goal of preventing further protest. Eighteen year old kids were held down and maced by campus security, hit point blank with tear gas canisters by riot cops.

When you call misogyny misogyny, you're allying with the victims of it and maybe rendering the misogynists uncomfortable, and you're also telling the truth. Whose comfort matters? Matters more than truth? The Times and a lot of the mainstream has been telling us conservative white men come first.

I couldn't tell either. This is from my Heads Up News newsletter: www.headsupnews.org/p/gearing-up...

This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m... I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.

I spent the last week writing up this essay on what it means to be trans in this moment. What it means to live under authoritarianism as the scapegoated minority of the moment and how it feels inescapable as an infinite loop. www.thedissident.news/exit-conditi...

“Although a liberal education is about freedom, it does not produce a person unbounded by responsibility. Rather, [it] forms the person to extend themselves deeper into the world by affirming and loving it, and ultimately claiming responsibility for its transformation.” I needed this today.

University of Minnesota Provost with an after 5pm, during Spring Break, newsletter reminding us that our public research university has an arbitrary limit in scope. provost.umn.edu/about-evpp/c... My thoughts as a research librarian at UMN:

And to be clear I don’t think that means an entire generation is screwed or full of bad people, in fact I think a lot about the kids who are trying to do their best and be moral in a world that teaches them to be immoral

The hyperlink was once the definitive form of technoutopianism. In an era when every US pub imagines itself a walled garden, I was frankly shocked by one of the highest circulation pubs in the Anglosphere putting 30+ external links in a story… …including my newsletter. The hyperlink is Blueskyism

That Dem consultants told Gov. Walz to stop calling them “weird” still has me miffed.

I've submitted multiple. Never once been published. They often don't even publish my comments on anti trans nyt articles. It's that repressive.

After the resolution, I spent the next few hours urging senators not to pass HB 61, which would allow extended-stays to summarily lock families out of their rooms for falling behind on rent and treat them as "squatters." GA residents: contact your senator and ask them to vote NO on this cruel bill.

Well, this wasn't something I ever expected: today several state representatives honored THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US with a resolution at the Georgia State Capitol. I'm very grateful—and hopeful it helps shine a light on Georgia's predatory housing market and the need for stronger tenant protections.

The side reducing access to youth gender transition has no evidence and no coherent case. It plays to popular prejudices, which obscures that fact, but it is a fact.

The martial arts scenes in It’s A Wonderful Life were a key influence on The Matrix

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

“[Framing] homelessness as a problem of mental illness or addiction has been politically manufactured to divert attention from its *actual* causes—skyrocketing rents, poverty wages, gutted social supports—& to justify the removal of homeless people from public space.” — @brian-goldstone.bsky.social

Here’s an idea, instead of trying to nationalize elections while lying about what’s in this bill, why don’t you govern responsibly and try to win elections that way? bsky.app/profile/atru...

2. The bill literally says: " It shall be unlawful for any person to assert that their gender identity is a sex other than that defined in RSA 21:3 for the purposes of accessing places or services restricted on the basis of sex," enforcing the ban under the civil rights act.

The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence. And then he bragged about it on X later.

anti-trans Dems ate shit last night

It’s a bit tiresome, but I think a good general practice when you feel your own institutional/professional life eroding under the forces of late capital is to focus on mentally connecting that feeling of struggle to the many others experiencing versions of the same.

Nearly eight years ago, when I began reporting on the "working homeless," it was treated as an edge case, a tragedy at the margins. That fiction has collapsed. Housing insecurity is now an ever-widening sinkhole, swallowing not only the poor and working class but entire swaths of the middle class.

Today the paperback of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out. It's arriving in a country once again waging war—a country that can spend tens of billions on bombs without blinking, while millions of Americans are one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from homelessness. Let's take stock of where we are.

I wrote.

As I explain via the latest “One First,” the only theme that unites the Supreme Court’s (unrelated) grants of emergency relief Monday night in the California transgender student and New York redistricting cases is what might be called “selective judicial impatience.” And that’s *not* a good thing:

A disturbing and hypocritical ruling on so many levels. Especially the due process holding. The court JUST said there’s no deeply rooted right for women to control their own bodies. But there is a deeply rooted right for parents to know if their kids question their gender at school? Come on.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 2 NYT NY Atty Genl Leticia James orders NYU Langone Hospital to continue offering GAC to minors just 2 wks after it stopped, pointing out that it may be violating state anti-discrimination laws which bar treating a single class of patients differently.

im starting to think the woke mind virus wasnt actually the biggest threat to civilization

Kansas lawmakers bypassed the committee process by doing a whole bill amendment and pushing this in two days. They then overrode the governors veto. They used emergency designation to make it go into effect immediately. There's no grace period. The amount of targeted animus here is staggering.

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

In the 1800s, a slave owner purchased over a dozen people in Georgia and set the foundation for his family’s generational wealth Generations later, a railroad company owned by one of his descendants is using eminent domain to seize land of Black farmers

Jesus Christ, ICE is pretending that their planned 10,000-person concentration camp in the outskirts of Atlanta is nothing more than a country club complete with a furnished gun range.

Universities were once entirely populated by white Christian men of means. Every step toward social equality meant fewer white supremacist and misogynistic ideas were considered true by default, and competition for jobs grew more challenging. They want to go back.

Reminded that there are few more corrosive trends in higher education in recent years than the divide and conquer approach to undermining faculty solidarity by focusing on numbers of majors. Each degree pathway at an institution is strengthened by each other form of expertise available to students.

Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.

All the college and university "leaders" who chose to surrender in advance on this, take a bow And then get in the fuckin sea

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

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There is no bottom with these people. Think of how much we don't know about what is going on inside the concentration camps. I want to hear from every Democratic elected official and candidate about their plans for accountability once this regime is out of power.

Couldn't be more thrilled to share that the paperback launch of There Is No Place for Us will be hosted by Charis Books at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on Tuesday, March 3 at 6:30pm. I'll be in conversation with the brilliant @jduffyrice.bsky.social—truly a gift—and I'd love to see you there.

MAJOR: Twin Cities Tenants joins five labor unions, together repping 25,900 members, to launch a rent strike drive, vowing to withhold rent March 1 if @governorwalz.mn.gov fails to deliver an eviction moratorium and rent relief. If launched, this would be the largest US rent strike in 100+ years.

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

This whole thing completely ignores how the right controls and dominates the entire info space on trans issues. If we only ever accept the world as it is, we'll only ever be building towards our own eradication by ceding ground on debate terms set by the right.

Prison and police abolition creates more safety than a corporate carceral state and most of the benefits of are downriver from being the sort of people who solve problems sustainable solutions, thereby avoiding the terrible dangers inherent to being the sort of people who solve them with punishment.