Liza Featherstone
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Journalist. Essayist. Author. Teacher. Mom. Socialist. Union member.
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Jacobin
6 days ago
Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to tax the superrich to fund universal childcare and other urgent working-class needs. The oligarchic city council Speaker Julie Menin is trying to block his agenda.
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Julie Menin Is Protecting New Yorkās Ultrawealthy
Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to tax the superrich to fund universal childcare and other urgent working-class needs. The oligarchic city council Speaker Julie Menin is trying to block his agenda.
https://jacobin.com/2026/03/menin-hochul-mamdani-taxes-rich?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign&utm_content=ap_ou1kofprvs
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New York City's leadership needs to unite for the good of the city -- but oligarch Speaker Julie Menin is standing in the way:
jacobin.com/2026/03/meni...
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Julie Menin Is Protecting New Yorkās Ultrawealthy
Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to tax the superrich to fund universal childcare and other urgent working-class needs. The oligarchic city council Speaker Julie Menin is trying to block his agend...
https://jacobin.com/2026/03/menin-hochul-mamdani-taxes-rich
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Speaker Julie Menin, I wrote
@jacobinmag.bsky.social
, is a class warrior for her own class: the ultra-wealthy:
jacobin.com/2026/03/meni...
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Julie Menin Is Protecting New Yorkās Ultrawealthy
Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to tax the superrich to fund universal childcare and other urgent working-class needs. The oligarchic city council Speaker Julie Menin is trying to block his agend...
https://jacobin.com/2026/03/menin-hochul-mamdani-taxes-rich
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It seems fitting that Trump, a creature of the 80s, is bringing back the most hellish features of that decade:
newrepublic.com/article/2077...
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Bush Sr. Solved the Acid Rain Problem. Trump Is Bringing It Back.
With bombs in Iran and deregulation at home, Trump seems determined to resurrect one of the most apocalyptic images of the 1980s.
https://newrepublic.com/article/207709/acid-rain-iran-pollution-trump
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Bucks County Beacon
17 days ago
FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Radical History of International Womenās Day and the Feminist Movement, with
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#IWD
#InternationalWomensDay
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The Signal (Episode 3): The Radical History of International Womenās Day and the Feminist Movement, with Liza Featherstone - Bucks County Beacon
On this episode, I welcome Liza Featherstone to the show.Ā Liza Featherstone (@lfeatherz) is an author, journalist, essayist and critic. She is a
https://buckscountybeacon.com/2023/03/the-signal-episode-3-the-radical-history-of-international-womens-day-and-the-feminist-movement-with-liza-featherstone/
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Rainesford Stauffer
19 days ago
re: jobs, among everything that needs coverage, for people starting their work lives, it feels like an impossible labor market to break into. Impossible for everyone, but with less work experience or start of work shaped by the start of the pandemic, there's a LOT impacting young workers right now.
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just look at this grotesque warmonger! for
@jacobinmag.bsky.social
I wrote this week on why Chuck Schumer is even worse than you think -- and why it's time for him to exit the stage:
jacobin.com/2026/03/schu...
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The Iran War Shows Why Itās Time for Chuck Schumer to Go
Chuck Schumer is not only failing to meet the moment by not opposing the war on Iran. He has long been a hawk on Iran among Democrats and Americans who are yearning for peace.
https://jacobin.com/2026/03/schumer-iran-war-opposition-democrats
19 days ago
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Senate Judiciary Democrats šŗšø
20 days ago
GOOD RIDDANCE, Kristi Noem. š
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Seems like more people in Epstein's orbit have been held accountable for writing emails to Epstein than for actually assaulting women
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The New Republic
26 days ago
Last week, Trumpās Environmental Protection Agencyāwhen will they rename it?ārolled back Biden-era limits on the amount of mercury pollution that coal plants can emit. It will disproportionately harm his own voters.
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JW Mason
28 days ago
Merchantās piece on the politics of AI goes perfectly with
@lizafeatherstone.bsky.social
ās recent piece on the politics of data centers.
newrepublic.com/article/2066...
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Data Centers Are the Enemy Weāve All Been Waiting For
The startling rapidity of the bottom-up revolt against Big Tech shows people will indeed get off the sofa for the right fight.
https://newrepublic.com/article/206633/data-centers-ai-big-tech-opposition
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Bright D Limm ģėģ¤
about 1 month ago
Labor's electoral realignment with the Left is an essential condition for transforming government into a force of, by, and for the many. This realignment is emerging via
@claireforny.bsky.social
's campaignāand she's not even an incumbent. I'm telling you: this is a big opportunity. Let us seize it.
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Daniel JosƩ Older
about 1 month ago
DOCTOR Rümeysa Ćztürk has earned her PhD!!
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Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people⦠|...
Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people ca...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/meysaozturk_hi-everyone-i-earned-my-phd-from-the-department-activity-7429937242703290368-SUtf
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The New Republic
about 1 month ago
This administration felt a need to interrupt its virtually nonstop death drive to reassure Americans it would "forceā companies to absorb the cost of data centers. That means the mass revolt against AI data centers is working.
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Heather Souvaine Horn
about 1 month ago
What if people aren't apathetic? What if they just want something to DO? Insightful stuff from
@lizafeatherstone.bsky.social
about the data center backlash and the mechanisms of political change.
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John Kostyack
about 1 month ago
@lizafeatherstone.bsky.social
: Climate movement in retreat? The growing community pushback against data centers shows that "when it comes to energy and climate issues, people will act when there are immediate local effects."
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Data Centers Are the Enemy Weāve All Been Waiting For
The startling rapidity of the bottom-up revolt against Big Tech shows people will indeed get off the sofa for the right fight.
https://newrepublic.com/article/206633/data-centers-ai-big-tech-opposition
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Dave Kamper
about 1 month ago
Many thanks to
@lizafeatherstone.bsky.social
for a thoughtful, critical review of my new book, āWhoās Got the Power?: The Resurgence of American Unions.ā Please read it! (I really thought Iād avoided any major howlers in the book, but she catches a doozy.)
democracyjournal.org/magazine/79/...
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Labor Gains
A look inside the resurgent labor movement, from the inspiring moments to the mundane work that must be done every day.
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/79/labor-gains/
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Violence against protesters is a sign of a regime's crumbling legitimacy, a couple experts told me last week. here's the piece
@newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
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A Truth From Iran to Minneapolis: Weak Governments Kill Protesters
Regimes are most violent against dissenters when they know that the protests have traction.
https://newrepublic.com/article/205994/ice-violence-against-protesters-iran
about 2 months ago
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congrats to these tenants!!
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about 2 months ago
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andros believes you're matter
about 2 months ago
great piece, thank you!
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Antonia Marrero
about 2 months ago
āI want tenants 2 know that if they come together& if they get organized& if they form a unionā¦the
@mayor.nyc.gov
has their back, & that we will be partners w you in enforcing your rights 2 safe, inhabitable housing & to collective community control over your homes.ā
@ceaweaver.bsky.social
@wbai.org
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I spoke with
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Meet Cea Weaver, the Tenant Leader Who Terrifies NYC Landlords
The recent right-wing obsession with Cea Weaver, a longtime tenant organizer appointed to lead the Office to Protect Tenants, reveals how shaken New York Cityās real estate elites are by Mayor Zohran ...
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/weaver-mamdani-tenants-nyc-real-estate
about 2 months ago
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
about 2 months ago
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
about 2 months ago
The DHS funding bill is effectively dead in the Senate.
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Don Moynihan
about 2 months ago
Literally all of this is a lie. We are about to find out who is state media, because they will be the ones to parrot a justification for state-sanctioned murder.
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Margaret Killjoy
about 2 months ago
Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position
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Tom Scocca
about 2 months ago
In some countries the outbreak of bloodshed inspires the opposition party to call for the leader to resign
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Scott Horton
2 months ago
The spiteful, vindictive nonsense that this regime engages in knows no limits.
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/01...
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Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ā24, will be rearrested and deported to Algeria, DHS says
Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ā24, will be rearrested and deported to Algeria, Tricia McLaughlin, Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary for public affairs, announced Thursday, as the federal gove...
https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/01/22/mahmoud-khalil-sipa-24-will-be-rearrested-and-deported-to-algeria-dhs-says/
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JW Mason
2 months ago
Along with everything else, it's clear that Trump has mixed up asylum seekers with people in mental asylums. As
@lizafeatherstone.bsky.social
says: it's like we're ruled by Amelia Badelia.
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It's "Drill Baby Drill," only without the spirited porno subtext. Crude violent resource grabs will not address the economic woes of Americans.
newrepublic.com/article/2051...
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Trumpās Venezuela Plan Is Peak Petrobrain
To present regime change in Venezuela as an answer to the affordability crisis, you have to ignore basically everything about the affordability crisis.
https://newrepublic.com/article/205171/trump-venezuela-oil-affordability-cheaper
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Scott Horton
2 months ago
ICE officers tell media that the conduct in Minneapolis is part of a plan by Stephen Miller to provoke as much violence and death as possibleāwhich in turn will be taken as pretext for more. āTheyāre essentially operating now in a resource constraint-free environment and doing very dangerous thingsā
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Former members of ICE say recent violence is "by design"
"What has changed is there has been an encouragement from the top to be much more aggressive in enforcement."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/former-ice-workers-trump-violence-by-design-renee-good/
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Michael Pollak
2 months ago
Great article on the details and the politics by
@lizafeatherstone.bsky.social
jacobin.com/2026/01/mamd...
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Zohran Mamdani Is Already Winning on Childcare
Weāre less than two weeks into Zohran Mamdaniās mayoralty, and he has already notched an impressive victory on one of his key campaign promises: universal childcare.
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/mamdani-hochul-universal-childcare-policy/
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He can't stay focussed on it without changing the subject to something that interests him, whether that's racist fear-mongering...or himself, I wrote
@newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2048...
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Trump Is Bored to Death by the Affordability Crisis
Heās finally started to acknowledge the struggles of ordinary Americans, but heās incapable of staying focused on them.
https://newrepublic.com/article/204856/trump-affordability-crisis-bored-death
3 months ago
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this president does not give a shit about your problems
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Trump Is Bored to Death by the Affordability Crisis
Heās finally started to acknowledge the struggles of ordinary Americans, but heās incapable of staying focused on them.
https://newrepublic.com/article/204856/trump-affordability-crisis-bored-death
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Liza Featherstone
Jacobin
3 months ago
A new study shows that socialist plans to take over the privately owned power utility in New Yorkās Hudson Valley would lower rates for users and improve its long-term health. Public ownership of power companies is better for everyone but the rich.
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Keeping Power Utilities in Corporate Hands Doesnāt Make Sense
A new study shows that socialist plans to take over the privately owned power utility in New Yorkās Hudson Valley would lower rates for users and improve its long-term health. Public ownership of power companies is better for everyone but the rich.
https://jacobin.com/2025/12/hudson-valley-public-power?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign&utm_content=ap_vgvhkby7gv
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Jacobin
3 months ago
Issue 60 of Jacobin, āMunicipal Socialism,ā is here! As Zohran Mamdani takes office, we examine the history of socialism at the local level, from Red Vienna to sewer socialism and more. šŖ Annual subscription just $20:
jacobin.com/subscribe/?code=MUNICIPALSOCIALISM
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fluxt [nƩe fluxed]
3 months ago
Below, a great piece from
@lizafeatherstone.bsky.social
on public takeover of private utilities for the greater good. And here's a deep dive on Massena, NY, the town mentioned in Liza's piece: "More than forty years on, Massena...still has some of the cheapest, cleanest electricity in the state."
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Why should the public take over a local utility? Because if the public is engaged, it will work much better than the for-profit model, according to a new study. Everyone is talking about energy affordability but no one else has any solutions, says
@sarahana.bsky.social
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jacobin.com/2025/12/huds...
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Keeping Power Utilities in Corporate Hands Doesnāt Make Sense
A new study shows that socialist plans to take over the privately owned power utility in New Yorkās Hudson Valley would lower rates for users and improve its long-term health. Public ownership of powe...
https://jacobin.com/2025/12/hudson-valley-public-power
3 months ago
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Michael Pollak
3 months ago
Great article by
@lizafeatherstone.bsky.social
on Sarahana Shreshtha's extremely effective campaign to take power utility public in mid-Hudson Valley. And how straightforward & great it would be, there & everywhere else.
jacobin.com/2025/12/huds...
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Keeping Power Utilities in Corporate Hands Doesnāt Make Sense
A new study shows that socialist plans to take over the privately owned power utility in New Yorkās Hudson Valley would lower rates for users and improve its long-term health. Public ownership of powe...
https://jacobin.com/2025/12/hudson-valley-public-power
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The New Republic
3 months ago
Disliking cancer is an easy sell for most people. Sort of like being against Hitler. And yet, during his first administration, Trump reportedly said that āHitler did some good things.ā Now, his second administration seems to be extending this attitude to cancer.
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3 months ago
"The Trumpist assumption seems to be that diseases like cancer, much like climate disasters, will weed out the weak and sick, leaving the chosen few unscathed.... ...Cancer can strike an otherwise healthy person. But facts and logic arenāt their forte."
@newrepublic.com
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Voice4Justice
3 months ago
Trump Seems to Be Trying His Best to Give Us All Cancer ā ļø The administration's commitment to spreading the fatal disease is impressive.
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Jacobin
3 months ago
At an unusual event in Queens on Sunday, everyday New Yorkers lined up to offer their expertise and experience to democratic socialist mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
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Zohran Mamdani Is Listening ā and Taking Notes
At an unusual event in Queens on Sunday, everyday New Yorkers lined up to offer their expertise and experience to democratic socialist mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
https://jacobin.com/2025/12/mamdani-listening-event-new-york?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign&utm_content=ap_p6gkge0lyb
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enjoyed reporting on this experiment in co-governance as
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gets ready to take office!
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OlĆŗfįŗ¹Ģmi O. TĆ”Ćwò
4 months ago
i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Almost half of American homes face dire climate risk, and Zillow has just decided not to tell us about it, I wrote
@newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
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Zillow Doesnāt Care If Climate Change Destroys Your New Home
The real estate platform recently removed climate risk scores from its listingsāa potentially ruinous development for some buyers.
https://newrepublic.com/article/203982/zillow-climate-risk-home-house
4 months ago
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Home buyers are perilously short on information when it comes to climate risk. Insurers are not. That spells trouble, I wrote
@newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
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Zillow Doesnāt Care If Climate Change Destroys Your New Home
The real estate platform recently removed climate risk scores from its listingsāa potentially ruinous development for some buyers.
https://newrepublic.com/article/203982/zillow-climate-risk-home-house
4 months ago
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My favorite NYC Xmas event of the year! Come on out Sunday:
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What the Dickens
Housing Worksā Annual Reading of "A Christmas Carol" is back at our Bookstore!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/what-the-dickens-tickets-1688917069419?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl
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haha this is a great blind item. I wonder who it is??
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