i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Much prefer Indi Samarajiva: "Fuck your citizenship. It’s barbed wire around an indigenous graveyard. It’s a moat around a colonial crime scene." indi.ca/abolish-citi...

With the re-implementation of the revised naturalization test first tried out under Trump pt. 1, pondering this quote from USCIS spokesperson: "American citizenship is the most sacred citizenship in the world." www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

We are proud co-sponsors of the "New Yorkers Against ICE" rally on Thursday, 9/25 at 6pm in Foley Square.

Timely and eye opening episode of the excellent @americancampus.bsky.social, especially on TurningPoint's business model. www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

On the difference between cops and the National Guard, @rtfanning.bsky.social reminds us that Guard members "have very little training, and lack much of the discipline that the police have." - they have been moved historically and can be moved now to resist their order.

Great interview by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social with @rtfanning.bsky.social. Helpful for understanding the deployment of National Guard to cities, how to respond, and how to fight ICE recruitment. organizingmythoughts.org/what-do-we-s...

I wrote a piece on tech contracts in higher ed. for Jacobin. The endless outsourcing is troubling for a variety of reasons. Not helping is vendors jumping on the AI hype to offer ever-more-advanced and expensive programs to universities. #CheatGPT

Whatever it’s named and whoever renames it, the Department of Defense, which houses the U.S. military, is the largest employer in the world. Its name is not the issue. And abolition involves dealing with labor and what work is government work.

If you’re a member of the military who is morally conflicted by your service or know someone who is, you’re not alone. bit.ly/MilOptions #dutytodisobey #military #veterans

For a labour movement that understands the power of a strike.. For a labour movement that stands with, not against, Indigenous blockades For a labour movement that stops the flow of weapons & the whole world for Palestine For a labour movement with migrant workers, and against policing & borders

Great episode of @theborderchronicle.bsky.social podcast with @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and Dierdre Conlon discussing their new book, Immigration Detention, Inc. Including subcontractors and the sham oversight/inspections castbox.fm/vb/840657927

I've been bookmarking story after story of veterans and family members of veterans being detained and deported. This piece is my attempt to make sense of the fight against military deportations within the larger migrant justice and antiwar struggles.

"Appeals to deservingness based on proximity to the U.S. military leave the deportation machine intact — and they are not working. More than that, the liberal embrace of these appeals is harmful to the larger social justice project." This piece by @sofaptekar.bsky.social is a must-read.

“Parsing between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ immigrants leaves the deportation system intact in its brutality.” @sofaptekar.bsky.social on how deported vets reveal the cruelty of Trump’s war on all immigrants.

In "Green Card Soldiers," by @sofaptekar.bsky.social, we learn that #citizenship proves harder-than-advertised to achieve through enlistment, but it matters for immigrants’ #military service and the lives they lead afterward. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... #sociology #immigration

This is what I most wish Pete Buttigieg had said when asked about trans kids playing sports. It's all JUST LIKE homophobia of the 80s and 90s, being used in just the same ways.

Does this include all the Jewish students and educators who have been sanctioned for defending Palestinian lives Why aren’t you writing op-eds about the importance of Palestinian safety, Randi Too busy partnering with Microsoft on AI?

I have a new article out in South Atlantic Quarterly: "Indebted Heroes: Debt Extraction and Military Labor in the United States". Here's a link to a free pdf and some highlights below read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...

Harvard, aka Resistance U, is taking advantage of the Trumpist NLRB to crush its grad student union by stripping it of 800 members. Sounds about right. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

On July 9, the CUNY Chancellor along with the leaders of UC Berkeley and Georgetown, will testify to the congressional committee on “antisemitism in higher education.” Orgs from these universities call on leaders to defend their institutions from these cynical and dishonest investigations.

When the Cass Review came out last year, the NYT rushed to cover it complete with post notifications. After reviews in Germany and Utah came out supporting gender affirming care for trans youth, dead silence. You can be just as biased in what you don't cover as what you do.

I read that children 6-12 are more likely to be killed in Gaza because they’re too big to be carried, and not as fast as children 12+, and I can’t stop thinking about it. We have children running for their lives on the regular so much so that there are patterns as to who survives.

Do you know where your tax dollars are going? Through investments in Israel Bonds and Israel’s sovereign bonds at the county, state, & city different levels, taxpayers essentially loan money to Israel without knowledge & with no transparency in how Israel uses those funds. (1/2)

As Hegseth ends the affirmative action carve out for military academies, reupping my piece about race-based admissions and US empire. jacobin.com/2023/07/us-m...

A colleague sent me this photo of Green Card Soldier in the wild at Barnes and Noble. 😊 And 25% off, too.

I personally endorse the defection of Navy jets to the Orcan Liberation Front. el aire y el mar unido jamás será vencido

Honestly I don’t know how you go back and teach and hold meetings and colloquia on a campus where your president just had the NYPD drag 75 of your students out. Calling Ice on others. It couldn’t be me.

In the mail soon! Our 11th issue! With features by Adam Hanieh, Donna Murch, Enrique Balcazar ( @migrantjustice.bsky.social ), @sofaptekar.bsky.social , Andy Battle, Shannon Gleeson, and Marcel Paret.

Excited to join the board of an org Ive been involved in for over a decade, Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse. With a vintage photo from my second ever Manhattan circumnavigation www.bbpboathouse.org/about-us

Side note: Many early career researchers are afraid someone will steal their ideas if they post a preprint. Time and time again, the idea stealer is in the lab or seminar room. Getting your ideas out of there with your name on them can provide protection.

This so directly out of the Nazi playbook. The very obvious plan is to get rid of the independent accreditors and put all universities under jurisdiction of the federal government. This is how Hitler took over German academia and made it a wing of his party.

gothamist.com/news/4-year-... This is horrible. The cuts in federal funding to these non-profits have immediate life changing effects. And yet note the continuities: "before the contract was terminated...30% to 40% of children in a given docket (were) without lawyers."

Wow, we are quickly heading towards a future of AI instructors teaching bots. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/04/14/a...

My union, @psc-cuny.org, will be joining other higher ed unions on April 17 at the Rally for the Right To Learn: Hands off higher ed! Hands off our Students! Foley Sq 4pm. @actioninhighered.bsky.social

Looking forward to co-facilitating one of the virtual events as part of the Day of Action for Higher Education. Check it out. 1pm ET on zoom us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @actioninhighered.bsky.social @commonnotions.bsky.social @cunyslu.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org

Every day at the southern border people are deported for no reason at all. Please let this moment radicalize you. This same judge is judging everyone who is not in the public eye too. What injustices have met the millions of other humans going through this system?

This is how you report properly and any reporter *not* doing this is adding to the problem. Great work Carla Gloria Colomé from El País. english-elpais-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/english....

One thing I appreciate about James's work on housing is his unflinching advocacy of truly *public* housing. Public housing as the North Star, not social housing or affordable housing etc.

I work with some seriously smart urban studies scholars. Check out @cunyslu.bsky.social's Prof. James Rodriguez on this @cunytv.bsky.social show about the NY affordability crisis. Also featuring a SLU grad student asking a question about housing. youtu.be/NjI6-tOZDl8?...

This is coming up soon. Our book is about higher ed but we'll be expanding to discuss debt in K-12 in the context of racial capitalism and enclosure event.newschool.edu/lendrulefigh...

Can't wait for a day full of militant rank and file learning and connecting at @labornotes.bsky.social NYC Troublemakers School tomorrow. labornotes.org/events/2025/...

NYC folks, join us for this Education Against Enclosure event at the New School on April 7. RSVP bit.ly/41zklBa

Like many public universities, CUNY has a private entity, the Research Foundation, used to hire workers using outside funding. Management is using these jobs to undercut unionized workers and privatize the university. Raises for RF workers help all CUNY workers. They are fighting for $20/hr ffs.

The media's focus around the more than 100 Venezuelan nationals who have no gang ties and were transferred* to El Salvador requires a good/bad immigrant dichotomy. It further emphasizes the dehumanization of people who – like each and every single one of us – have made mistakes in life.

To think that an app like Blue Sky could actually help organize donations and prevent Palestinians from starving to death, but instead they're suspending their accounts. It's just utterly shameful that people have no interest to use their power for good.

in what way is this *not* an offshored convict leasing system?

Harvard alum here to say that what happens to Univ of Maine and other public universities like it is way more important than anything financial that is happening to Columbia right now because Columbia can withstand the financial storm. and our public unis serve people Columbia wouldn’t sniff at.

Organizing alongside union leaders like Evan Rothman keeps me going in these dark times. Check out Evan's 🔥speech at the site of the future CUNY Morningside Heights campus. @psc-cuny.org in solidarity with @uaw.org Local 2710 Student Workers of Columbia! ✊ youtu.be/MbER95xa0A4