It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.

Fuck yeah, that’s my hometown!

Last weekend, I retraced the steps of two of the most important moments in American (and Chicago) labor history, starting with the Haymarket Massacre. But the Haymarket Massacre wasn’t just a tragedy. It still provides a compass for us to fight against fascism today:

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

I was thrilled to joint @nolanhigdon.bsky.social and @trevorgriffey.bsky.social on @thedisinfodetox.bsky.social to discuss the challenges facing higher ed this back to school season @cfaunited.bsky.social

As I just said on CNN, my father's parents were Nakba survivors. I don't want Israeli children to live in fear and I don't want Palestinian children to starve to death. There is nothing anyone could do to make me put nationalistic talking points above basic human rights.

Same here! Higher education isn’t just the elites, and our communities don’t mimic those in elite spaces.

John is a dedicated community organizer and professor—come out and show your support!

look I dunno how I feel about America today but I feel pretty good about hanging out with friends and eating grilled food so I’m still gonna do that part

CFP Revised and Call Extended for DC Special Issue on Labor and Unionization!!

Last panel of the day! Social Movements, Feminism, and Reproductive Rights with Lori Bindig Yousman, Isra Ali, Dorothy Kidd, Lars Stoltzfus, Joseph Flores, Aljoscha Paulus, and @tinemalz.bsky.social #udc2025

Great panel and a big thank you to all the contributors and friends and friends!

At 4:15pm today at UDC: Make sure to catch "The Dialectic of Broadband" presented by @sydneyforde.bsky.social in Cherry Parkes 105.

@ricardovalp.bsky.social: Bukele Bitcoin propaganda model: regime run social media; shocking political change to grab attention; video and meme as regime propaganda; invest in the “vibe economy”; perpetuate narrative on social media (spoiler: it fails) #udc202

@ricardovalp.bsky.social Latin America is the lab for US experiments and its people pay the price #udc2025

Congratulations to Professor @couldrynick.bsky.social for being awarded the 2025 Dallas Smythe Award 🏆 A prominent & prolific sociologist of media & culture, he will be delivering the Dallas Smythe lecture on Saturday 21 June @uniondemcomm.bsky.social Find out more: www.democraticcomm.org

Honoured to win this year’s Brian Murphy Student Paper award from @uniondemcomm.bsky.social for my paper “The Dialectics of Broadband” where I breakdown the contradictions between normative CPEC critiques of broadband access & infrastructure vs exploitation of users via bigtech &data commodification

Now: @aaronhere.bsky.social and @johnnyrico.bsky.social on resistance and resolve on BlueSky (so meta) #udc2025

@aaronhere.bsky.social: how do we resist enshitification? End to end principle and data transferability and right of exit are two potentials - how do you deal with the core of platformification and platform decay? #udc2025

@aaronhere.bsky.social: resistance and platforms - decentralization as a technology and a politics (idea of a Fediverse of promise and project). This brings us to BlueSky #udc2025

@aaronhere.bsky.social: Protocol instead of a platform has political saliency understanding that there is no good way out of this. So what happens when you build a protocol to protect the user from the protocol itself? #udc2025

There's the reason the media only shows you burning Waymo cars

My home of Missoula just voted to establish the pride flag as an official government flag of the city, thereby circumventing the state's asinine pride flag ban. 🏳️‍🌈 Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community.

independentthought Trump’s Education Department says it will begin collection on student loans for over 5 million borrowers in default. Garnishing their wages to recollect the debt

This admin is turning on the firehose hoping you’ll burn out and give up. But you don’t have to do it all. Do one thing, take one step each day. Put your phone down. Take a walk. Find the thing that moves you and focus. If we all find our one thing, we’ll build something better—together.

A relief to hear this said. Trump operates from the same untested, blustering ideas he had in the 80s. They weren’t good then and even less so now. It would be great if BUSINESS LEADERS were prepared to say what they clearly know - that Trump only knows how to run a muscle racket. And here we are.

In a world of Gavin Newsoms, be a JB Pritzker

I think there’s probably power in being up against people who simply can’t conceive of anyone caring enough to act without being bribed to do so. It means that they cannot imagine, or thereby prepare themselves for, a driven opposition.

Adding a journalist to a top secret government group chat about dropping bombs *IS* the kind of thing people who aren’t super politically literate can understand and find shocking/notable/disqualifying. Dems should seize on this and never ever let it go. I hope to hear about it in a decade

Commissioner Bedoya nails it in this statement. Trump and his attack dogs are trying to dismantle the administrative state to serve the billionaires backing him. If we're to maintain any semblance of democracy, this illegal firing of principled regulators must not stand.

Was interviewed by the Hollywood Reporter about Trump's apparatchik at the FCC. It's all about beating the media into submission so that everything looks and sounds like Fox News. No dissent can be tolerated.

I think what is making everyone so angry isn’t just the cowardice of Senate Democrats, it’s their cowardice in comparison to the random normal person who runs for school board to oust a Moms for Liberty freak

All nation-state borders are artificial

Special Issue of Democratic Communiqué: Discourse about labor and unionization on digital media platforms in the new era of Musk and Trump 2.0. Deadline for full consideration is June 30, 2025

This is a great piece by @itsmccarthy.bsky.social & Rashida Tlaib and exactly how we should be thinking as we try to imagine rebuilding democracy for a post-Trumpian/Muskian future.

Global economics by algorithm

Boston considering its traditional methods of protest against tyranny at @teslatakedown.com this morning #TeslaTakedown

Oh you could say I dabble in Photoshop #teslatakedown @niedermeyer.online

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

Illinois had to lock up scores of politicians to get this governor, America...get to it.

#BlackHistoryMonth: Since the National Park Service wants to erase the T from Stonewall, let's spill the T through the Stonewall Community Foundation. The first story here is of Frances Thompson, a trans black activist born in 1840.