I don't think people really internalize the knowledge that in 1860, the outright majority of the populations of South Carolina and Mississippi was enslaved, as well as over 40% of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana, and over 30% of North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. Staggering numbers!

“I’m working to develop a different research agenda. In Niger, they can arrest you without due process. What is happening in the U.S. now actually resembles what has been occurring in Niger for some time.” - Rahmane Idrissa for @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/mili...

The Dept of Edu just proposed a rule that will limit loan eligibility for nursing graduate & professional degrees starting July 2026. DNP-level nurses make up less than 2% of the workforce & our field really needs more advanced nurses to further the field. This administration is bat shit crazy.

Local media is calling it: Katie Wilson will be the next mayor of Seattle. Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger. Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.

I had my email FOIL’d by right wing hacks and all they got was a tranche of “can we move the meeting to Tuesday” and “thanks for letting me know” and “best, Emily.”

For more than 3 years, @pghguild.com members at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have shown incredible strength while on strike. Their heroic persistence demonstrates the real power of our solidarity and what’s possible when we come together in a union.

so basically what happened was: ICE / CBP abducted ~1800 people from across the chicago area during june to oct, & did most of it without warrants. of those ~1800 people, only ~750 are still in the us & ~135 aren't eligible for release. the injustice of everything these people will never get back.

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

feels relevant today

Portland State University AAUP won their arbitration regarding the layoffs of 10 non-tenure track faculty!✊ An arbitrator ruled the university bypassed shared governance protocols required by the Collective Bargaining Agreement. All 10 laid-off faculty must be reinstated! @psuaaup.bsky.social

The new executive director of @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social is Ready to Go! americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/11/03/r...

Some people out there demand that anyone who claims that Marx had it right present a fully working model of what society ought to look like. As opposed to the one we have now, that even Trump voters hate. Let's start with universal Healthcare and a progressive tax system for now, see how it goes.

Now available from my colleagues at @medgareverscollege.bsky.social! The Negro World Newspaper Collection, 1923-1925. Check out this fantastic digital collection here: dcmny.org/do/004b7e44-...

someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES

The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

If the only people left in New York City are people who ride the bus, that will be okay with me. #Q64orBust

A great interview with Professor Mahmood Mamdani in which he discusses his new memoir, the shortcomings of the boycott as a political tool and its implementation in the anti colonial movement, academic freedom, libraries, and the relationship between scholarship and politics. No talk of Zohran!

Today, @brianstraw.bsky.social and five others will be arraigned at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. The government is trying to suppress our collective courage to stand up for our neighbors and democracy itself. Please consider joining me in supporting his legal defense.

federal plaza across the street from the federal courthouse where six Chicago-area protesters are facing federal charges for exercising their first amendment right to protest

More proof that Sean Duffy lied when he said Trump was canceling private flights at the same rate as commercial ones. A new report shows that private jet travel saw massive increases as thousands of commercial flights were being canceled.

'Vets Say No': Protesting Trump's 'moral injury' on troops in U.S. cities open.substack.com/pub/allrisen...

the president admitted to sexual assault on camera and it didn't matter

What if higher ed administrators just, I dunno, administered higher ed? Signed, 18 months and counting

The zine librarian community is one of the best parts of our field and I hate that the same bad actor is at it again. www.zinelibraries.info/wiki/zluc2025/

I see the world through Bowker and Star’s Sorting Things Out-colored glasses.

if you told 17 year old me how thoroughly, world-historically vindicated ICP would be within a couple decades...

The takeaway is that broad, full spectrum demands once held back must be made now.

Business rent is way too high on Mag (not Miracle) Mile so companies are just shuffling around. H&M moved two blocks down the road to save cash. He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.

My kid is in love for the first time. The way she makes him smile, I haven’t seen that since he was maybe 12. She came to dinner last night and her presence prompted him to go ahead and laugh at my jokes. Such a gift!

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.

The distance between "we decided to do this" and the thing we decided being done is a vast, lonely, chilly wilderness. I have been wandering for months. Every once in awhile I hear the howl of a wolf. Are the requisite course codes available in CUNYFirst, or will my journey continue? #ThatCUNYLife

This is what a corporate giveaway looks like 👇 #TaxJustice

Design something to get my vote you fools!!!

My annual Veterans Day share of my combat veteran father’s words against war. www.facebook.com/share/p/1BcX...

My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.

Remember this? Actively building power for the Republican Party is a longstanding tradition. www.bbc.com/news/electio...

COMPLICITY NOT COWARDICE. COMPLICITY.

Now there will be limits on prop bets on pitches if you're looking for one good thing that happened today.

What they're never gonna get from me is five dollars.

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Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The wait time to get a live person at PACER is currently 223 minutes.

Primary them all.

BREAKING: We won! Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years. pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...

Trump is offering a pardon to any criminal who tried to help him steal an election.   The most corrupt administration in history and Republicans won’t say a peep.

In yet another meeting about how to comply with the law and why are we the only people who have to?

Good morning especially to Ann Katrin-Berger.

Chuck Schumer’s decision making this week alone (between Mamdani and this CR debacle) should be absolutely disqualifying to leadership. I dare one rank-and-file Senate Democrat who believes this to say it out loud.

John Thune is not from Idaho.