Data center. In Tower Hamlets/Brick Lane. F*cking hell.

find someone who looks at you like 📸 @sarahljaffe.bsky.social looking at that fox looking at that bin:

“What happens when U.S. capitalism simply needs fewer humans?” @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on automated taxis, AI, ICE raids, data centers and the rebellions taking shape against a system that treats workers, migrants and whole communities as disposable.

I just read this great article in the January-February 2026 issue of In These Times magazine @inthesetimes.com by Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social. Highly recommended: inthesetimes.com/article/capi...

the media and voter messaging should be this: the current government and the government in waiting do not want your children to be able to go to university, they will not support people in the UK to do original research, they do not care about job losses in one of the largest sectors in the economy

All new Heart Reacts, in which @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and I talk about turning loved ones into NPCs and keeping the flame of communal living alive. www.patreon.com/HeartReacts/... or wherever you listen

Abolitionist Feminism: An Interview with Kathi Weeks by @sarahljaffe.bsky.social via @dissentmag.bsky.social

when you quote the 18th Brumaire on your relationship advice podcast

“An empire in decline is always at its most dangerous - and we’re seeing that already.” On the new episode of The BREAK–DOWN podcast we're joined by author and Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter, Laleh Khalili

Excited to finally have @katiejwells.bsky.social on the podcast, especially to discuss such an important issue. We can’t let the gig work model makes its way into healthcare, and degrade not just working conditions, but patient care along with it.

“Artificial intelligence” is often neither artificial nor intelligent. In a 2024 conversation with @vivaharehills.bsky.social and @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social looked at the workers, supply chains and colonial histories Silicon Valley would rather keep hidden.

Trumpism links militarism to a gender backlash: officials cast the military as feminized and promote the hetero nuclear family. This piece ties this agenda to economic change, especially the decline of industrial work. By @sarahljaffe.bsky.social in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social buff.ly/Ez0Wkic

Episode 40 of Heart Reacts is up and it's a crossover with @thebristolcable.bsky.social ! www.patreon.com/posts/specia...

The policies contained in the 2010 manifesto of the British National Party - once considered fringe and extreme - have now been mainstreamed by both Reform and the traditional British establishment argues @trillingual.bsky.social:

lol

Down at Brick Lane for the protest against locating a data center in Truman Brewery

Excited to have @mattcole.bsky.social and @sarahljaffe.bsky.social coming to KCL next week (3 June) to talk about Matt's new book, Unpaid: The Past, Present, and Future of Wage Theft. Register to attend here - and please share widely! www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...

“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; rhetorical maximalism is not enough.” @sarahljaffe.bsky.social @theprogressivemag.bsky.social progressive.org/magazine/str...

I was nine years old when I read Les Miserables on a dare from my grandparents granted I'm a huge nerd but come on

tony blair must be tired of getting slapped around by popes by now

“What happens when U.S. capitalism simply needs fewer humans?” @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on automated taxis, AI, ICE raids, data centers and the rebellions taking shape against a system that treats workers, migrants and whole communities as disposable.

“In lieu of actually doing anything, Democrats these days seem to settle for an occasional chest thump before meekly rolling over. Evoke a feeling, rather than initiate a material change.” @sarahljaffe.bsky.social @theprogressivemag.bsky.social progressive.org/magazine/str...

Did you miss the launch of our new imprint Class Compositions? Watch it on Red May's Youtube channel! @charmainechua.bsky.social, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social, Kieran Knutson, and Peter Linebaugh discuss "Class Compositions in a Time of Fascism" with @americanwork47.bsky.social as moderator.

this is soon!

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...

You know you're doing something right when you're asked to step in for the legendary Silvia Federici

"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 “machine breaking” as a tactic of rebellion is taking on a renewed vitality.

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!

Scotland Resists Big Tech Power 📆 Sat 13 June, 11-4pm 📍Edinburgh 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

A town meeting in January intended to answer people’s questions [about data centers] felt more like a marketing session, residents said. “I think it’s sneaky,” Ms. Peedle said. Projects are given obscure names, like “Project Cannoli,” and “Project Cherry Blossom.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/u...

Strategy and Leverage—Not Vibes—Are What We Need Now by @sarahljaffe.bsky.social via @theprogressivemag.bsky.social

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...

@sarahljaffe.bsky.social will be at Socialism 2026!

The cover of the current @rethinkingschools.bsky.social, with a story by @sarahljaffe.bsky.social — includes a conversation with MFPS leader and current Minneapolis Public School Board candidate @christin612.bsky.social rethinkingschools.org/articles/twi...

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:

Kathi Weeks: "There’s 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 won’t be won in our generation? We don’t have the vocabulary to explain what that means."

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

New online: @sarahljaffe.bsky.social interviews Kathi Weeks about her new book. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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...

As new technologies (not immigrants) replace human labor, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social reports, “machine breaking” as a tactic of rebellion, is taking on a renewed vitality. inthesetimes.com/article/capi...

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...

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

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...

Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny

Must-read here by @sarahljaffe.bsky.social

Flavor Flav is president now.

It doesn't matter what they ask. Stick to your talking points.

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