Sarah Jaffe
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Troublemaker. Vagrant. Author of From the Ashes, Work Won't Love You Back and Necessary Trouble.
this is soon!
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Phil Lewis
5 days ago
Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers
www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
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You know you're doing something right when you're asked to step in for the legendary Silvia Federici
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In These Times
8 days ago
"The flaming Waymos express something else: a targeted defiance of tech-enabled Trumpism with material consequences." As new technologies (not immigrants) replace human labor,
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social
reports āmachine breakingā as a tactic of rebellion is taking on a renewed vitality.
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Capitalism Without Humans
As new technologies (not immigrants) replace human labor, "machine breaking" as a tactic of rebellion is taking on a renewed vitality.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/capitalism-without-humans-labor-ai-tech-waymo-riot
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American Worker
9 days ago
UPDATE 5/11: Silvia Federici won't be able to join us, we are ever so pleased that author and labor journalist
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social
will be participating in our panel. Join us this coming Sunday!
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Global Justice Now Scotland
8 days ago
Scotland Resists Big Tech Power š Sat 13 June, 11-4pm šEdinburgh Free!
globaljustice.org.uk/scottish-gat...
With:
@nickdearden.bsky.social
Global Justice Now Dr. Samer Abdelnour , Edinburgh University Dr. Craig Dalzell,
@thecommongreen.scot
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social
@rachaelrevesz.bsky.social
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Select tickets ā Scotland resists big tech power ā Augustine United Church
Scotland resists big tech power ā Augustine United Church, Sat 13 Jun 2026 - With: Nick Dearden, Director, Global Justice NowDr Samer Abdelnour, Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh UniversityDr Craig Dalzell...
https://globaljustice.org.uk/scottish-gathering
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Jathan Sadowski
15 days ago
A town meeting in January intended to answer peopleās questions [about data centers] felt more like a marketing session, residents said. āI think itās sneaky,ā Ms. Peedle said. Projects are given obscure names, like āProject Cannoli,ā and āProject Cherry Blossom.ā
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/u...
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David Kaib
19 days ago
Strategy and LeverageāNot VibesāAre What We Need Now by
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Strategy and LeverageāNot VibesāAre What We Need Now
The general strike remains a goal to aspire to. But simply saying the words over and over again will not call the strike into being.
https://progressive.org/magazine/strategy-and-leverage-not-vibes-are-what-we-need-now-jaffe-20260430/
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just in time for May Day, my column on what general strikes are, and what they are not, and why it matters to think in terms of power, risk, and strategy.
progressive.org/magazine/str...
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Strategy and LeverageāNot VibesāAre What We Need Now
The general strike remains a goal to aspire to. But simply saying the words over and over again will not call the strike into being.
https://progressive.org/magazine/strategy-and-leverage-not-vibes-are-what-we-need-now-jaffe-20260430/
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Socialism Conference
21 days ago
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social
will be at Socialism 2026!
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Stacey Burns
25 days ago
The cover of the current
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, with a story by
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social
ā includes a conversation with MFPS leader and current Minneapolis Public School Board candidate
@christin612.bsky.social
rethinkingschools.org/articles/twi...
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Ursula
about 1 month ago
I always read
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Twin Cities Educators Resisting for the Common Good
Jaffe describes the rise of social justice teacher unionism in the Twin Cities and how unions have confronted ICE.
https://share.google/RD5zEJr9SbXuQLXm8
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Brian Merchant
about 1 month ago
Last week, a 20 year-old man threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion; two days later, people fired a gun at it. Earlier that week, someone fired gunshots into an city councilman's house who approved a data center. Why the AI backlash has turned violent:
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Why the AI backlash has turned violent
And why it's probably only going to get worse from here.
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/why-the-ai-backlash-has-turned-violent
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Chris Dixon
about 2 months ago
Kathi Weeks: "Thereās always this pragmatic assumption: 'If we lose, people will go home and be disappointed.' How do we narrate what it means to commit to fights that wonāt be won in our generation? We donāt have the vocabulary to explain what that means."
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I talked to the brilliant Kathi Weeks about her new book, Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures, about Angela Davis, Shulamith Firestone, and Donna Haraway, and about abolishing work, the prison, and the family
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Dissent Magazine
about 2 months ago
New online:
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social
interviews Kathi Weeks about her new book.
dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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Abolitionist Feminism - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Kathi Weeks.
https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/abolitionist-feminism/
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Heart Reacts episode 38 is up! we talk about Cesar Chavez, lonely men, and how to have an easier time making plans with your friends.
www.patreon.com/posts/154296...
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about 2 months ago
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In These Times
about 2 months ago
As new technologies (not immigrants) replace human labor,
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social
reports, āmachine breakingā as a tactic of rebellion, is taking on a renewed vitality.
inthesetimes.com/article/capi...
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In These Times
about 2 months ago
Looking for a history lesson this morning? We recommend this 2017 conversation
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social
had with historian
@mark-bray.bsky.social
about the origins of modern anti-fascist movements.
inthesetimes.com/article/anti...
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Craig Gent
2 months ago
All new Heart Reacts! This time
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social
and I respond to a letter-writer who is struggling to move on after their labor union employer fired them while on disability leave (yep). Find us where you pod or at
patreon.com/heartreacts
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C.M. Lewis š¦¬āļø
2 months ago
i spent an inordinate amount of time dissecting why the media is obsessed with union voters and Trump, and why they keep getting it absolutely wrong when it comes to labor
thehousered.substack.com/p/the-medias...
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The Media's "Pro-Worker GOP" Fever Dream Isn't Real
News outlets and pundits insist there's a growing rapport between unions and the GOP. There isn't.
https://thehousered.substack.com/p/the-medias-pro-worker-gop-fever-dream
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Claire E. Aubin
2 months ago
Calling Cormac McCarthyās authorial style a āmistakeā that AI no longer makes is so funny
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Grey Sky Photography
3 months ago
Must-read here by
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Flavor Flav is president now.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli
3 months ago
It doesn't matter what they ask. Stick to your talking points.
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Janice Fine
3 months ago
Wanted to share the Workplace Justice Lab's latest piece on the story behind the story of the Minneapolis occupation through the eyes of our close partners in organizing, government and small business.
conta.cc/3O8RFvL
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The Stories Behind the Stories
Email from Workplace Justice Lab The impact, organizing response and lessons on the Minneapolis ICE siege ā The Month in Review: Minneapolis by Janice Fine ā This monthās newsletter focuses on the ICE
https://conta.cc/3O8RFvL
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āļø Michael Whitney
3 months ago
As always,
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social
has been on top of Minneapolis organizing:
sarahljaffe.substack.com/p/the-war-at...
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the war at home
If you had asked me before this week which city in the US could pull off a general strike I would have told you āMinneapolis.ā Or really, the Twin Cities.
https://sarahljaffe.substack.com/p/the-war-at-home
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @ TCAF (6/6-6/7)
3 months ago
When we were evaluating them at the hospital I worked at over a decade ago, surgeons tried them and the response was "I guess I could see how this could be useful with a lot of caveats, but it's a lot easier to see how it will be terrible and make us look like assholes and creeps" and that was that.
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Movement Law Lab
3 months ago
āGeneral strikes are rare and something like lightning in a bottle: They tend to overspill their boundaries, becoming, in historically specific moments, something more than just the sum of their parts.ā -
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newrepublic.com/article/2053...
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Ewan Gibbs
4 months ago
The Minnesota general strike demonstrated the leading place the labour movement is playing in opposing ICE.
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social
's interview
@poltheoryother.bsky.social
provides a history of the current moment through exploring the central role of migrant workers in American trade unionism.
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ICE, resistance, and 'capitalism without humans' w/ Sarah Jaffe
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5w48qz1dkTeNFuXcgsqG4Q?si=2dPoHKiARgSThn5oxkb16g
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Emiliano Mellino
4 months ago
The proposed changes to immigration rules in the UK will be a real test for unions. Unison has had a huge increase in membership among migrant health and care workers, but the party it's affiliated to is pushing rules that will destroy the lives of these people.
www.unison.org.uk/news/2025/12...
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Care workers lobby MPs over visa rule changes, says UNISON - UNISON National
Hundreds of workers travel to Westminster to voice their concerns
https://www.unison.org.uk/news/2025/12/care-workers-lobby-mps-over-visa-rule-changes-says-unison/
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Emiliano Mellino
4 months ago
While it has been getting better over the last decade, large part of the UK labour movement suffers from the same problem that
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social
talks about here. I recently wrote this on the barriers to organising migrant farm workers:
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
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Matt Browner Hamlin
4 months ago
This is the best piece Iāve read diving into the community organizing going on in Minnesota - from grassroots activists to labor to neighbors. Itās so empowering to see this level of rising amidst resistance. It prefigures renewal.
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Politics Theory Other
4 months ago
"The US labour movement often has been guilty of assuming that immigrant workers are unorganisable... Actually the immigrant worker organisations have been the ones leading the labour movement..." -
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As Minnesota kicks off its day of freedom from ICE, my piece on how the state's movements built power to be ready for this moment, and the closest thing to a real general strike in maybe a century
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
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If Anyone Can Pull Off a General Strike, Itās Minnesotans
The massive outpouring of support for Fridayās day of action against ICE is something that just comes naturally to residents of the North Star State.
https://newrepublic.com/article/205318/minnesota-general-strike-ice-protest
4 months ago
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Politics Theory Other
4 months ago
ICYMI -
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on the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE and the recent history of organising and protest in Minnesota (and the centrality of the Somali community to those efforts):
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ICE, resistance, and 'capitalism without humans' w/ Sarah Jaffe
Podcast Episode Ā· Politics Theory Other Ā· 01/20/2026 Ā· 59m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ice-resistance-and-capitalism-without-humans-w-sarah-jaffe/id1370561641?i=1000745854025
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Harms Committed
4 months ago
"What happens when U.S. capitalism simply needs fewer humans?" "The flaming Waymo, then, is [..] a symbol of the way that more and more people are being rendered surplus." "[E]xpect to see more machine-breaking."
#USA
#Labour
#Protest
#Transportation
#Technology
#Deportation
#EthnicCleansing
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Capitalism Without Humans
As new technologies (not immigrants) replace human labor, "machine breaking" as a tactic of rebellion is taking on a renewed vitality.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/capitalism-without-humans-labor-ai-tech-waymo-riot
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4 months ago
Breaking: Three unions are calling on the University of Minnesota to shut down for Jan. 23. They include the Graduate Labor Union Electrical Workers Local 1105, AFSCME 3800, & Teamsters Local 320. Campus undergraduate organizations are joining the call.
labornotes.org/2026/01/will...
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Politics Theory Other
4 months ago
š¢ NEW EPISODE š¢ -
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on the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE and the history of organising and protest in Minnesota (and the centrality of the Somali community to those efforts). We also talked about the entwinement of the tech industry with ICE and the surveillance state:
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ICE, resistance, and 'capitalism without humans' w/ Sarah Jaffe
Podcast Episode Ā· Politics Theory Other Ā· 01/20/2026 Ā· 59m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ice-resistance-and-capitalism-without-humans-w-sarah-jaffe/id1370561641?i=1000745854025
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In These Times
4 months ago
Minnesotaās proposed January 23 statewide shutdown didnāt materialize overnight. In 2024,
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social
reported on how unions and community groups spent years building the coordination and trust that now make a total shutdown possibleāand powerful.
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The Most Important Labor Story Right Now Is in MinnesotaāIt Might Be the Model We All Need
A strategic alignment of major networks of unions and community groups in Minnesota have worked together for more than a decade to leverage their collective power.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/minneapolis-stpaul-minnesota-unions-labor-strike
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Nathan Tankus
4 months ago
A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country
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Mr. Business
4 months ago
One of the things that genuinely shocked me as I read through surveillance logs for the police is how much of their energy and attention is dedicated to shutting down vigils and other ceremonies of remembrance.
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Miao
4 months ago
āSo letās stay brave, stay committed, and stay together. We will remember the fallen, fight like hell for the living, and when this terrible moment is over, we will still have each other, our potential, and the hope of building a better world.ā
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5 months ago
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social
Listening to this stellar book on my way to and from work every day. This morning I was wandering around our shop muttering āthereās more to life than this!ā Probably listening to it during my commute isnāt the best idea. Or maybe it isā¦. š¤
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Ursula
5 months ago
If we were given the time to grieve properly, what might we decide to change? ā
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A little holiday newsletter, my lovelies.
open.substack.com/pub/sarahlja...
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AFL-CIO
5 months ago
If you're a video game worker looking to have a stronger voice on the job, stop corporate greed and get better pay, benefits and more, join
@videogameworkers.bsky.social
and build worker power to change the gaming industry for good.
uvw-cwa.org
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Ask all the professors being laid off, the underemployed adjuncts, the PhD students working in service industries about the "idea machine" š
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