NEW: In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant. She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency. Then she died. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…” Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza. 🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...

MESA and the AAUP have released a critical report exposing the weaponization of civil rights law to suppress campus speech concerning Palestine. Read full report here: mesana.org/advocacy/tas...

Hope you enjoy #NoCuomo!, a pro- #Zohran "Gaston"/Beauty & the Beast #parody I produced+cowrote for @jfrejnyc.bsky.social! Share to replace hate+disinfo with humor+joy! @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got majority of Jewish primary votes. We'll do it again! #LFG #NYC #Mayor #Election2025 #Cuomo #GOTV

So devastated we’ve lost D’Angelo. All of his music is amazing, but this recording is particularly special to me. At a time when I really needed beauty in my life I’d listen to it over and over and over again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWCb...

I wrote about Peter Thiel’s lectures on the Antichrist and how the fact that there’s a strong chance Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg is the literal Antichrist isn’t even the weirdest thing about them — at the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

My article on the 20 point gaza "peace plan" is now out. Let me tell you why peace processes in the Israeli Palestinian conflict seem to keep failing, with a focus on Tony Blair the menace of the middle east theconversation.com/a-gaza-peace...

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing. Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter. Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵 x.com/andrewcuomo/...

A helpful thread! Owners of rent-stabilized units may be facing rising costs relative to rent increases—but this seems to reflect the cost of financing, not the cost of operations and management per se. Add to the list of reasons why housing should not be a commodity…

Warren’s interlocutor says raising taxes on the rich is an issue for Congress, not NYC, to solve. It makes one wonder which Congress he thinks will do that and when? Moreover, if/when Congress ever does decide to raise taxes on the rich, he’ll say “But the wealthy will just pick up and leave the US”

cpb.org/pressroom/Co... The corporation for public broadcasting shutting down is awful news for people looking to keep public media’s mission alive. a brief thread on what it means for public radio:

Copy of my book just arrived in the mail today! Feels unreal. You can preorder it here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

This offering from @prisonculture.bsky.social is for us — the heartbroken & yet hopeful, the exhausted & still going, the down but not out.

“We should see political theory’s expanding geographic remit as something other than accumulating cases of historical difference, of minor literatures. ... [W]e might see decolonization & its study for what it is: a direct & unambiguous contribution to democratic theory.” Really excellent essay!

“The actual politics of ‘free speech’ in the United States is not as a freestanding statement of values but a right-wing political strategy—one that advances polarization against the left under the guise of reducing it” Concise & convincing history of “free speech” as right-wing polarization tactic

A remarkable moment from an interview with Brad Lander on the Jewish Currents podcast: two ICE officers who arrested him are immigrant New Yorkers, one of whom was considering voting for him and Mamdani podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

I wrote about how the Everglades experiment fits into the history of concentration camps in the US and abroad, and how it will connect a domestic network of camps to an international one. We’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network.

now calling and texting friends and family who live in these districts...

You have to add up all the red bars and stack them on top of each other to pay for the green bar.

“If it involves handcuffs on wrists, it’s probably worth pursuing”

In case those names aren't familiar: Harvard Medical School fired Martin Kulldorff last year after he refused to get a mandatory COVID shot. Twitter banned Robert Malone in 2021 for sharing videos that falsely linked athlete deaths with COVID vaccines (including a guy who died in 2013).

Babies can only have milk. They can’t even have water. Since Israel is banning all aid including baby formula, these babies will die. And since Israel is also starving everyone in Gaza, moms can’t nurse their babies either. They’re just watching their babies die as they die to.

“fellowship is heaven, & lack of fellowship is hell: ... & the life that is in it, that shall live on and on for ever, and each one of you part of it, while many a man's life upon the earth from the earth shall wane.” –William Morris, A Dream of John Ball archive.org/details/McGi...

inspired by @mieinouye.bsky.social , I’ve just set up a recurring donation to @gmasolidarity.bsky.social. I invite others to do the same! givebutter.com/c/GazaSolida...

New from @theappeal.org and @typeinvestigations.org: For years, people incarcerated at Mule Creek State Prison have raised the alarm about mystery diseases and foul-smelling water at the prison. But no one is taking responsibility for ensuring the water is safe. theappeal.org/mule-creek-d...

“Because you don‘t know what‘s going to happen to you after you drink out of the tap. You‘re going to be sitting on the toilet all day or seeing a doctor,” Dixon, now 58, said. “That‘s typical.” www.nj.com/mercer/2025/...

Please use this labor-created tool to call for the return of @smart-union.bsky.social Local 100 apprentice Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was unjustly disappeared by Trump and Bukele. actionnetwork.org/letters/brin...

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

Tomorrow! 5:30! Neil Roberts on revolution — livestream linked in the quoted post Please share!

I know a lot of people are traveling right now, and CUNY Clear has created an amazing know your rights resource on how to protect yourself while traveling in this moment (they also a ton of other valuable KYR resources on their site) www.cunyclear.org/know-your-ri...

Very much looking forward to hosting Prof. Neil Roberts at Bard next week to deliver his lecture, “Of Strivings for the Revolutionary Spirit”—on the contributions of Walter Rodney, Sylvia Wynter, and Hannah Arendt to theorizing revolution. Livestream it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZDq...

We're excited for the 3rd annual De Gruyter–Arendt Center Lecture in Political Thinking next week! Neil Roberts of Williams College will keynote the spring conference on #HannahArendt & Black Political Thought at @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social @bardcollege.bsky.social hac.bard.edu/de-gruyter-a...

Join us and hundreds of thousands of people demanding that DHS immediately release Mahmoud, and that Columbia University - and all college administrators - start protecting their students from the reach of the Trump regime. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

Here is an open letter signed from UChicago AAUP signed by over 200 faculty to our administration on what we believe this moment requires: uchicagoaaup.wordpress.com

Join us TODAY at 1:30pm ET/12:30pm CT/11:30am MT/10:30am PT! Let's tell our legislators: 🎇 HANDS OFF our healthcare, research, jobs, and education! 🎇 See you in D.C. and online. Register: labor4highered.org/feb-25 @aaup.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social @phew-cwa.bsky.social @uaw.org

In modern history, what is the least popular that party leaders have ever been to their OWN voters? Second place was the GOP in 2009, where their net approval with Republican voters was only +6. Currently Dems are -8, shattering all previous records.

in view of Sean O’Brien’s latest bs, I’m reposting this essay I wrote a while back that calls out this conservative strain in the history of unionism and highlights an alternative vision for labor politics medium.com/quote-of-the...

Across the country on Feb 19, workers impacted by cuts to federal funding are coming together to say: Hands off our healthcare, research, and jobs! Join us in one of more than a dozen cities (& if there's not an action near you yet, sign up to be the first to know when there is): labor4highered.org

Rosa Luxemburg’s “The Mass Strike” resonates with what Hayes is saying here. Luxemburg’s famous defense of the strike tactic was occasioned by the 1905 Russian Revolution when mass strikes started more or less spontaneously in response to heightened repression. (www.marxists.org/archive/luxe...)

Musk’s attacks on federal workers pose an existential threat to the whole labor movement, all workers, and the broad Left It’s alarming that most people don’t yet understand the stakes 🧵

The only hope for higher ed is the academic labor movement. Join this @higheredlabor.bsky.social call next week to plan our fight us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

An EEOC admin. judge sent a fiery all-department email this AM alleging: 1. Trump's exec orders & instructions to target private citizens with them are illegal. 2. the judge had sent an earlier email with a similar tone yesterday that later vanished from their sent folder & colleagues' inboxes.

NLRB's Acting General Counsel just send this memo out to staff saying, "I cannot promise you that everything is going to be OK." "I know that the past few days and nights have been extremely scary and distressing for some of us."

Something I learned in the course of organizing a union at my workplace—and something that is keeping me from completely losing it as these ridiculous executive orders and actions accumulate: We organize on our timeline, not on the boss’s timeline.

“The weight of the entire animal kingdom [...] is around 0.5% of Earth’s biomass, or around 4 gigatons of life. As of 2020, humans have produced 8 gigatons of plastics. By 2040, it will be double that.” newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

What are your best ideas for higher ed under a 2nd Trump admin? State/local policies that could be enacted? Things private schools could do? Where are potential areas of opportunity? Thinking of putting something together for Public Books. I’m all ears. Or email me at dennis dot m dot hogan @ gmail