A little holiday newsletter, my lovelies. open.substack.com/pub/sarahlja...

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

Ask all the professors being laid off, the underemployed adjuncts, the PhD students working in service industries about the "idea machine" 🙃

using machines as metaphors for humans has gotten us nowhere good www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

We have not run out of good ideas, we have a global inequality where good ideas cannot get the necessary supports into becoming solutions. Good ideas are everywhere if we would just allocate resources to trying some out. AI cannot make new ideas. It cannot have ANY ideas.

if you haven't seen it, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social wrote a book called From The Ashes that is very good at situating grief and how it inherently conflicts with capitalism

Did you miss my critical conversation on work & intimacy with @sarahljaffe.bsky.social? Catch the 5min highlight reel here! youtu.be/gZp-IMyKSQg?...

The extreme, ideologically-driven, fast, furious, economically reckless decisions being made by New School president & provost are NOT the simple consequence of economic need. they're a malicious disaster and must be stopped... an assault on critical thought.

This is today! Register here: darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This is today! Noon EST/5pm GMT/whatever time those are where you are, online darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

You two, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and @vivaharehills.bsky.social: This podcast, which I discovered like last week, has been such a companion to me. And I keep recommending it. Thank you for this gift of vulnerability and wisdom. Tis the perfect season to have you in my ears.💕🙏🏻

Little lol here but after reading Sarah Jaffe’s “Work Won’t Love You Back” I was telling my supervisor about the section on NPOs (we work at one) and she eventually just sighs and sadly says “please don’t go quoting that book around here.” And friends when I say that only strengthened my resolve!

I'm returning to Work Won't Love You Back territory for this conversation with @sarahmosseri.bsky.social -- online, December 9, free to all, timed for both US and Europe. darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

"The death of institutions hasn’t killed solidarity among journalists — I’m a member, for example, of the Freelance Solidarity Project at the National Writers Union, which provides resources for independent writers and has contracts for minimum standards with several publications." 🫡

I contributed a piece to TPM's look back at 25 years of digital media. Unsurprisingly, I wrote about unionization and how it shaped the press: talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/digit...

Another little clip from the newest Heart Reacts, where we discuss a trend piece about the neologism "chalance" www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

if the amount of people who send me AI-slop PR emails about my book had actually bought and read my book, I wouldn't need their PR.

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

tonight at 7, @housmansbookshop.bsky.social!

All new Heart Reacts on your podcast feed of choice! This week @sarahljaffe.bsky.social talk about feeling simultaneously over- and under-committed, whether having boyfriends is embarrassing now, and why people are talking "chalant"

Mr. Mamdani, would you please be my mayor? I wrote about the Zohran phenomenon and economic populism for some folks across the pond: macrodosepod.substack.com/p/f0caf063-a...

"Others will take time in catching up to that." whew

After Zohran Mamdani beat disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in this year’s New York City Democratic mayoral primary, Cuomo, his billionaire backers and corporate media all took a beating. But they picked themselves up, got back in the ring, and lost again. fair.org/home/mamdani...

I'm told by Cuomo and others that this is "not" possible.

Recently, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social sat down with @kaiheron.bsky.social, @kmilb.bsky.social and @bertrussell.bsky.social, authors of “Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future” to discuss the difference between radical and bullshit abundance. inthesetimes.com/article/radi...

If anyone is in or around Glasgow on Saturday and wants to hear me talk about my most recent essay on Video Game Worker Unions and Revolution, I'd love to see you there! notesfrombelow.org/article/vide... 6pm at Broadside in Glasgow!

Heart Reacts is up! Some thoughts on relationships and organizing, clarity, terminology, and why I hate the word "situationship" with every fiber of my being. Link below or find the show wherever you get your podcasts. www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

Heart Reacts is up! Some thoughts on relationships and organizing, clarity, terminology, and why I hate the word "situationship" with every fiber of my being. Link below or find the show wherever you get your podcasts. www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

That should be a career ender. Let’s hope that we’re at the point in time when we’re organized and aware enough that it is.

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

One person riding a bike while naked probably requires some kind of emergency response. But a whole group = a regular-ish PNW event.

Stay until the end to learn it’s possible to buy an inflatable axolotl costume…

Hundreds of people arrested by ICE agents around Chicago over the past few months could be released, according to a new fed. ruling. |https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/08/100s-could-be-freed-from-ice-custody-after-ruling-that-warrantless-arrests-violated-consent-decree/

And you can listen here or wherever you get podcasts www.dw.com/en/grief-a-c...

This beautiful podcast inspired by From the Ashes is up for a Signal award and you can vote for it: vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...

What would it really take to build a green, democratic future? @sarahljaffe.bsky.social interviews the authors of “Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future,” who lay out a roadmap for transitioning out of capitalism through public-common partnerships and collective power.

Grief: a catalyst for social change?

This beautiful podcast inspired by From the Ashes is up for a Signal award and you can vote for it: vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...

"The left _cannot_ be a historical re-enactment society." (YES!) Appreciated this podcast (even I am not particularly "Lenin-curious" heh...)

Reading this alongside news about the military being requested for Memphis is something else.

*elite capture intensifies*

the latest Heart Reacts is up, a particularly tender one for me. we do a bit of an update on "Your Party" but mostly focus on a question about how to care and be cared for in a privatized world www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

the latest Heart Reacts is up, a particularly tender one for me. we do a bit of an update on "Your Party" but mostly focus on a question about how to care and be cared for in a privatized world www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

Please stop what you are doing and go listen to Melinda Cooper on @thedigradio.bsky.social you will thank me later open.spotify.com/episode/3gAL...

During the Trump administration, we are seeing *lots* of examples of unions stepping up to defend employers' (stated) core values -- this is an important one

Brad Lander and ten other elected officials were arrested inside 26 Federal Plaza after demanding access to observe the 10th floor, where detainees are held. The group staged a sit-in before Federal Protective Service officers moved in with zip ties.

Heart Reacts is up, and is a long set of reflections on the new left party formation-in-progress, whether and how to hope, and much more. Find it wherever you get podcasts. www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

A headline for the ages www.theguardian.com/politics/202...