Jeffrey Winters calls for enforcing the Corporate Transparency Act of 2021, passing the ENABLERS Act of 2022, cracking down on tax evasion, and instituting a wealth tax on financial assets. youtu.be/p7RqjlWMC6U via @pbs.org youtu.be/_lsDJ4Qmjgw via @democracynow.org #WealthInequality

Kimberlé Crenshaw connecting dots between the Confederacy and MAGA movement. "What's coming down the pike are oligarchs and tech bros who really believe that democracy is yesterday's news": youtu.be/DvxP_0Xg9J8 via @kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social & @redwineblueusa.bsky.social. #BacktalkersAcademy

"At least $8 billion annually" gets spent on "internal anti-union infrastructure". "Employers are not confused or irrational. They are acting like a class of people who understand exactly what is at stake." jacobin.com/2026/05/unio... via @chactivist.bsky.social & @jacobinmag.bsky.social

My latest. It’s a deep dive into the real cost of unions busting - which possibly runs into the hundreds of billions annually - and why employers are willing to go so far and spend so much to keep workers from having a voice on the job.

Consider a donation to keep #InvestigativeJournalism alive. www.propublica.org/atpropublica... via @propublica.org

My latest in PNAS about changes in SES and voting: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Asked at #RedMay: "​Do you think positing an enemy or 'bad guy' to direct anger at is necessary for any mass political mobilization? Is wholly systemic critique - 'it's the system, not individuals' - politically viable?" Reply: youtu.be/fkxYQ1qFsuI via @ajsecor.bsky.social & @jasonread.bsky.social.

In the face of a growing city deficit, five councilmembers are calling for the first comprehensive audit of police overtime spending in over two decades.

"Students who protested for Gaza have been disciplined severely, expelled, arrested, and had job offers revoked... 'Their entire futures were being destroyed, then people wonder why don’t you have the same response'". prismreports.org/2026/05/06/i... via @meghnadbose.bsky.social & @prismreports.org

"Before the Right began its crusade against #DEI, many of its biggest critics were people on the Left who pointed out they produced more pledges to make companies diverse than actual jobs for Blacks." hammerandhope.org/article/trum... via @keeanga.bsky.social & @hammerandhope.bsky.social

www.sacurrent.com/news/bad-tak... Sources: @drrobertbullard.bsky.social @latimes.com @time.com @clairehao.bsky.social @houstonchronicle.com @dallasobserver.com @tbtoro.bsky.social @gollnerfire.bsky.social @megankimble.bsky.social @lonestarleft.com @psskow.bsky.social @insideclimatenews.org.

"Texas residents make up about 9% of the nation’s electricity customers but accounted for 22.5% of all electricity disconnections." www.tpr.org/news/2026-05... via @texaspublicradio.bsky.social

"The countries that are the most open to free trade are the countries that spend the most on social services." youtu.be/RYFlbsPPHxc via @umichstonecid.bsky.social #Populism #Protectionism #Apprenticeship

"When you look at somewhere like the Philippines or Hungary - that took many years to play out. Here it has happened in less than 12 months." #PressFreedomWeek #ItCanHappenHere www.youtube.com/live/C9w-JpJ... via @jodieginsberg.bsky.social, @pressfreedom.bsky.social, @latimes.com & @apnews.com

Representative Summer Lee (@repsummerlee.bsky.social) to HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy: "Do you have an idea of how we could solve the Black maternal mortality crisis if we can't say 'Black'?" youtu.be/vupPMNQ3qA8 via @michelmartinnpr.bsky.social & @pbs.org #AmanpourPBS

"The agency founded to transform the Tennessee Valley in the 30s is barely recognizable today. There are no mobile libraries, no medical programs. [Bringing industry] has come at an incredible environmental cost, as the Kingston Spill made clear". scalawagmagazine.org/2026/04/dirt...

CALL TO ACTION! Delete the Starbucks app on your phone to disrupt Starbucks business as usual and stop buying from *standalone* Starbucks stores until baristas win a fair contract. No Contract, No Coffee, No App. #DeleteTheApp Take the pledge at bit.ly/DeleteTheApp today!

#NationalLibraryWeek www.ala.org/bbooks/frequ... via @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social

A case study in privatization. www.levernews.com/the-helium-c... via @freddy-brewster.bsky.social & @thelever.bsky.social

#BadTakesSATX #NoKings

"'This figure validates concerns that $1 billion a year is not going to be sufficient to meet the infrastructure needs to ensure our water supply', said Perry Fowler, executive director of the Texas Water Infrastructure Network". www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex... via @houstonchronicle.com

www.sacurrent.com/news/bad-tak... Sources: @abenewman.bsky.social @unatcolumbia.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @benburgis.bsky.social @jacobinmag.bsky.social @pbs.org @netflix.com @themarshallproject.org @umassbostonecon.bsky.social @kenklippenstein.bsky.social @arjunjayadev.bsky.social

“What this movement is saying is that the right to breathe clean air, drink clean water, and live in a community that is not contaminated should be a right all of us enjoy.” -- Robert Bullard, 1991 www.nybooks.com/online/2026/... via @scottwstern.bsky.social & @nybooks.com #EnvironmentalJustice

"As of June 2025, Inside Higher Ed reported there were 57,000 undocumented students enrolled in Texas colleges and universities." thebarbedwire.com/2026/04/09/u... via @thebarbedwire.com

www.sacurrent.com/news/bad-tak... Sources: @sbworkersunited.org @pbs.org @c-span.bsky.social @epi.org @spettypi.bsky.social @nbcnews.com @jaureliaglass.bsky.social @americanprogress.bsky.social @leftvoice.bsky.social @msainato.bsky.social @theguardian.com @jacobinmag.bsky.social. #UnionStrong

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

"The Trump administration reversed a 2011 policy that designated schools, churches and hospitals as 'protected areas'...". www.expressnews.com/news/educati... via @expressnews.com #AbolishICE

Ian Haney López contributed to this doc; he's a Critical Race Theory scholar and democratic socialist whose 2019 book 'Merge Left' (via @thenewpress.bsky.social) remains one of the most important texts on political strategy in the US today. www.pbs.org/video/white-... via @pbs.org #NoKings

Reached 100 views on my 'One Battle After Another' post: captswing.substack.com/p/one-deleuz.... Thanks, folks!

"... so the gulf [abyss] between the life circumstances of capitalists and workers would continue to widen." -- Karl Marx, 'Capital: Critique Of Political Economy' (Paul Reitter translation), 1867 www.nbcnews.com/business/eco... via @spettypi.bsky.social & @nbcnews.com #WealthInequality

www.sacurrent.com/news/bad-tak... Sources: @davidgriscom.bsky.social @orbooks.bsky.social @nytimes.com @retirementrevised.bsky.social @heatherhhoward.bsky.social @nejm.org @marcedelman.bsky.social @jacobinmag.bsky.social @kffhealthnews.org @noamross.net @jeremyfaust.bsky.social @apnews.com.

"Yesh Din, an Israeli civil rights group that works to protect the rights of Palestinians, described the attacks as 'a night of pogroms'. ... The settlements are illegal under international law." www.bbc.com/news/article... via @jameswaterhouse.bsky.social

Between 1971 and 2021, unilateral sanctions "were associated with an annual toll of 564,258 deaths". That's over 28 million people killed. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... via @ceprdc.bsky.social & @thelancet.com

Together, we're demanding the pay, hours, staffing and protections baristas need to succeed - and it would only cost Starbucks less than one day’s sales. Starbucks, it’s time to land a union contract and move forward!

"People do not understand that the current regime has picked the wrong city and the wrong state to fuck with." hammerandhope.org/article/minn... via @hammerandhope.bsky.social

"A protest ain’t a protest if you’re not fucking up somebody’s day." "It takes the whole of civil society to stop authoritarian creep." "It went beyond a protest moment into an organized mass resistance." hammerandhope.org/forums/minne... via @hammerandhope.bsky.social

"I think that my association with 'antifa' at that specific time after the killing of Charlie Kirk was sort of the fascist stars aligning to mess with me." hammerandhope.org/article/turn... via @mark-bray.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social & @hammerandhope.bsky.social

"Just 24% of Texas' school voucher applicants' kids were in public schools when they applied for the program, meaning the vast majority had already enrolled their children in private schools. ... Only 35% of applicants are low-income". www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant... via @sacurrent.bsky.social

"If crime is down, why does San Antonio keep adding more officers to the force while piling overtime onto others?" www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant... via @sacurrent.bsky.social

"I don't want to have to deal with all the laws about using the wrong bathroom and the undercurrent of violence toward trans people. It felt safer for [my daughter] to be somewhere else." www.sacurrent.com/movies-tv/sa... via @sacurrent.bsky.social

"Texas is on track to become the world’s largest data center market by 2030." www.mysanantonio.com/business/art... via @mysanantonio.com

“Between 2010 and 2019, all-cause mortality at ages 25 to 64 years increased by 19.6%.” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... via @shwoolf.bsky.social, @jamanetworkopen.com & @jama.com

Tomorrow 🍀 Tuesday 3/17 catch Katy on 'The Source' on Texas Public Radio! #TX23 #TexasDemocraticWomen - team Katy – listen live: www.tpr.org/podcast/the-...

Baby's first Substack post: captswing.substack.com/p/one-deleuz... - a reply to some less-than-enthusiastic reviews of Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film. #OneBattleAfterAnother #Oscars

70+ million US adults live with a disability, yet fewer than half of federal agencies' websites, documents, and software fully comply with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, intended to ensure citizens' equal access to information/communication technologies. www.section508.gov/manage/secti...

"The Palestinian was taken to an Israeli hospital with fractured ribs and a perforated rectum that required surgery... Israel has long been accused of failing to hold its soldiers accountable for crimes committed against Palestinians." apnews.com/article/isra... via @apnews.com #Torture