Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023

Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.

Starbucks workers are ON STRIKE! Now is the time to tell everyone in your life to STOP BUYING Starbucks. www.nocontractnocoffee.org?utm_source=s...

big ups to our colleagues from UPTE for showing us how to fight… now it’s time for UC to bargain in good faith with AFSCME whos been fighting for affordability and a fair contract they deserve

🚨🚨 Texas A&M Board of Regents is meeting next week and set to approve a new policy requiring pre-approval of courses on race and gender. This is a blatant violation of academic freedom.

BREAKING: Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz have been indicted by prosecutors in Brooklyn on a host of charges related to a scheme to rig bets on pitches thrown in MLB games. Ortiz was arrested in Boston earlier today. Clase is not currently in custody.

Meranze's new post at the Remaking blog: UC officials are making technical changes in personnel policies in a way that could allow them to set academic freedom aside when they perceive it to conflict with their institutional interests. Know the fine print utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/uc-m...

@lucecaroline.bsky.social 💯: Conceding to these demands would be sacrificing the sanctity of public higher ed in this country. [..] It would demand access to [data on] undergrad students under the guise of trying to stomp out DEI, which we know is just a veiled excuse to resegregate our universities

How is the university situated in the larger struggle against unconstitutional operations of ICE? convo with Chenjerai Kumanyika, AAUP National Council Member, Caroline Luce Communications Chair for UC-AFT, and Aaron Krall, President of UIC United Faculty. m.youtube.com/watch?v=62uj...

Bovino went into popular Carniceria Aguascalientes in heart of Little Village. “They said they were just here to buy something,” said Elizabeth Gutierrez. “I told them we wouldn’t serve them and escorted them out. Bovino seemed upset, but I don’t care.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...

The @uptecwa.bsky.social union at University of California - representing 21,000 UC healthcare, research, & technical professionals - was ready to strike 11/17-18 and be joined by by tens of thousands of additional unionized UC workers. The strike is now off, according to UC x.com/uc_newsroom/...

power is out in Pico Robertson - LA people is it out for you too?

Damn we are ruled by completely irredeemable sociopaths:

At the port today with our Labor Studies students and wishing @miriamposner.com was here to contextualize the APM folks bragging about their automated terminal. The straddle carriers are cute though

There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Hell yes let’s gooooooo @ucaft.bsky.social

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.” A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

Fed. judge issues TRO to address constitutional deficiencies in ICE detention facility in Broadville, Illinois. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Getting new details on this now: As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.

(to the tune of Eleanor Rigby) 🎶socialist muslim🎶

Zohran Mamdani: "I am Muslim. I am a democratic-socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this."

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.

This person took this when they called the race

this rips

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

I cordially invite you to give a listen to this song Dodger Blue by Kendrick Lamar because it’s actually a nice smooth old timer kind of goodness youtu.be/c7y2ziOBA1s

This photo. Wow. #WorldSeries

Los Angeles suffered tremendously because of the wildfires. The president of the United States has wanted to make the immigrants who make the city suffer and declared war on the city. But all throughout it, L.A. makes it work daily. It’s a place where people go to make it. LA deserves this.

This is the photo.

Dodger ownership (Mark Walter) has a private equity stake in ICE facilities, and tonight their club’s fans are being hunted and targeted by a militarized police force (including ICE troops) that they benefit from financially.

Calling all UC-AFT lecturers: Join the November 14 Fall Bargaining Summit on Zoom. We’ll be discussing our contract pillars and building collective power as we move toward bargaining. RSVP now! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price? $2733.15 a month.

Bari Weiss makes a clean sweep, firing all women, Blacks and Hispanics in high-profile positions at CBS News. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

pretty cool that our economy is built on credit default swaps, tranches, and sketchy securities again

loving how especially this name sounds when you remove the titles

Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

Developed an old roll of film that had one single frame from the 2024 UCLA encampment and man idk if there's a more vindicated group from the last few years than the student protestors, pretty much every single issue they dealt with has since been deployed at scale

chinga la migra

“Fuck you, Greg Bovino. You’re the scum of the earth.”

I'll conclude by noting a tension. The implication appears to be that writing history based on the perspectives of the oppressed and the marginalized is, along with taking the Declaration's claim about equality as a worthy aspiration, part of an ideologically-driven "elitist" project./13

“Groundhog Day”: Israel Breaks Ceasefire to Attack Gaza, Killing 104 People Including 46 Children

one small story in a vast ocean of outrageous injustice, but my goodness FREE LARRY wtf

You may be aware that UC Berkeley disclosed personal information to the federal government on specious grounds regarding individual faculty members' supposed political activities and positions. The likelihood that other campuses did likewise is high. This is a public statement demanding more.

1st Circuit in Stand with Us v. MIT: "[O]ur Constitution bars the government from forcing a private university to prohibit students from voicing vehement support for, or opposition to, the policies and conduct of the United States and its allies." www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Yeah this is completely deranged. Among other things: - a billion dollar payment - Much more aggressive anti-diversity rules than required by law, including arguably forbidding stuff the Supreme Court explicitly said was permissible in SFFA (Cont)

Useful article, and an interesting study from 2020 (linked in the article www.gao.gov/assets/d2145...) Most states don't properly collect employers, & the study only profiles a few. One that jumped out at me? The #1 employer of recipients of SNAP benefits in Massachusetts is Dunkin'