New Dig: powerful convo w Aslı Bâli and @gabrielwinant.bsky.social complexities and contradictions of emerging conjuncture. The fascist authoritarianism of Trump’s second coming; Dem establishment collapse; resurgent left. Recorded live @socialismconference.org www.thedigradio.com/podcast/note...

Also. Super proud to have presented at the @socialismconference.org this past weekend.

"This conference cut through cynicism, detached academicism, and vague slogans. Instead it featured intellectual inquiry, comradely debate, study, struggle, and solidarity." Review of Socialism 2025 by Teach Truth author, @jessehagopian.bsky.social: jessehagopian.substack.com/p/socialism-...

Members in Chicago and other chapters enjoyed participating in @socialismconference.org — we spoke to hundreds of socialists from around the country, shared organizing insights during our cross-sectoral movements panel, and held a libertarian socialist happy hour. See you next year!

Watch my talk on “Sexual Democracy, Moral Panics, and Trans Politics,” virtually live, Saturday, July 5th, 7:00 p.m. @socialismconference.org (Chicago time).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8HTgoHqW7o&list=PLcqXhvSDf0z1h6gfcz5WM3IPbuBIm1C9F&index=3

This panel at @socialismconference.org today was full of so much grounding brilliance! Check this entire thread for some gems! Thanks to all the panelists and to @prayingmantis.bsky.social for documenting! 🙏🏾❤️‍🔥

Reminder that this session is today at @socialismconference.org. Also, if you preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart through my favorite indie bookstore, you'll receive a special note from me, tucked into your book, when it's released on November 4.

Doing only the third IRL conference talk I’ve done in ages (since 2020) later today, on sex, gender, & the so-called law, @socialismconference.org w/ @reproutopia.bsky.social & @reallandsend.bsky.social, live here at 5p CT:

The upEND Team is at @socialismconference.org! Yesterday we kicked off the conference with a session on “Reproductive Justice, Family Policing, and Abolition” and now we get to hear from the incredible activists and organizers presenting this weekend. If you see us around, say hi! #Socialism25

A time when the family-form contracts and shrinks is not the time to abandon the horizon of positive supersession of the private nuclear household. Listening to comrades Emily Janakiram, Katie Gibson and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social talk about abolition of the family at @socialismconference.org ❤️‍🔥

We’ve received many requests for a written version of our remarks today, as @avierkant.bsky.social & I’s were written as a pairing, we wanted to quickly put them out on Blind Archive for folks. All care for all people is not a dream—it’s our demand right now. open.substack.com/pub/blindarc...

This afternoon, as Trump prepares to sign the GOP murder bill into law, @reallandsend.bsky.social & I spoke alongside @vickyacab.bsky.social at @socialismconference.org about the bill and the fight for health & disability justice under the current regime. blindarchive.substack.com/p/where-is-t...

The video is up now! You can also check the @socialismconference.org YouTube channel for a bunch of other great presentations.

Check out this video of our @socialismconference.org panel on Rethinking Antifascism, which went really well and had a great discussion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsQG...

Why am I squeezing in a conference before I go on medical leave? Because it's my favorite conference of the year. These are the people I want to be with when so many things are going wrong. For those of you who aren't at @socialismconference.org, here are some remarks I shared today.

@vetsaboutface.bsky.social is hosting a session at the @socialismconference.org! Aaron Hughes and I will be speaking on the history of using the military to enact state violence, and the history of GI resistance. We have zines to give out for at least the first 30 people that attend! #RightToRefuse

The upEND Team is at @socialismconference.org! Yesterday we kicked off the conference with a session on “Reproductive Justice, Family Policing, & Abolition” and now we get to hear from the incredible activists and organizers presenting all weekend. If you’re here too, say hi! #Socialism2025

That's tomorrow!

I talked to Sanctuary for Family's Reproductive Abuse Initiative about how the changing abortion rights landscape impacts their clients & the anti-abortion movmt's latest campaign to justify abortion bans by sweepingly/baselessly framing abortion as "coercive":

Read @lclaberge.bsky.social on the Y2K techno-apocalypse that wasn’t

The Socialism 2025 organizers plan to take all steps possible to make the conference a safe and responsible gathering 🧵

If you can make @socialismconference.org, arrive a day early, Wednesday, July 2, and join us for This is Hell! Office Hours at Cary's Lounge, 2251 West Devon, Chicago, beginning at 6PM. If you can't, you can attend virtually. The Conferene, not Office Hours. www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Are you headed to @socialismconference.org in Chicago this week? We'll be there—catch members of our team in these sessions. Can't make it IRL? Check out the virtual programming: 2 of the panels our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social is on will be livestreamed. Learn more: socialismconference.org

Join Vicky Osterweil, @reallandsend.bsky.social, and @avierkant.bsky.social at Socialism 2025 for a discussion of what the fight for health communism can look like under the current regime, and what forms of politics may help us move forward. This session is co-sponsored by @deathpanel.bsky.social

Are you coming to Socialism 2025? Join us on Saturday, July 5, at 3pm: Fanon at 100: Insights for Today's Anti-Colonial Struggles. With Ndindi Kitonga, Ricardo Jacobs, and Peter Hudis. @socialismconference.org socialism2025.sched.com/event/254ZB/...

This is just one of the sessions that we will be participating in at @socialismconference.org next weekend. Join Bill, @eveewing.bsky.social @barbararansby.bsky.social, @profwayneau.bsky.social, @jessehagopian.bsky.social, @waazn1.bsky.social and others as we dream of other worlds!

📕Find Pluto and other radicals at @socialismconference.org‬ in Chicago! Authors @kylietcheung.bsky.social‬, @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social‬ and @drdconlon.bsky.social‬ will speak about their books. Come join us! 🗓️July 3-6 socialismconference.org/2025-schedule/

JUST ANNOUNCED! Join Hoda Katebi and @underthetreepod.bsky.social ‬ for an urgent discussion situating the recent Israeli/US attacks on Iran in historical, regional, and global context. Organized with Dissenters. Register for Socialism 2025 today! socialismconference.org/2025-schedule/

How should socialists and abolitionists relate to the state? Join this roundtable featuring Robin D.G. Kelley, @dreanyc123.bsky.social, Geo Maher, and David McNally. Don’t miss it! Register for Socialism 2025 today! socialismconference.org

If you can’t make it there physically, this is a great alternative to view some of the sessions virtually. I’ve been able to attend each year and it’s definitely worth it if you’re looking to connect, organize and engage in thoughtful critique from a place of care and concern.

We’re excited to be hosting a panel at @socialismconference.org this year in Chicago. Join us as our members discuss their organizing efforts and how they were able to bring a union, student group, and neighborhood group, into the fight for Palestinian liberation! More details below ⬇️

It's publication day for my new book, LEARNING TO LIVE IN THE DARK: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe. A few thoughts on sending this book into the world, along with an excerpt from its opening pages: open.substack.com/pub/wensteph... @haymarketbooks.org www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-l...

"Wen has pissed me off many times," writes my friend Anthony Rogers-Wright in this review/testimonial, but he still wants you to read Learning to Live in the Dark, my new book from @haymarketbooks.org progressive.org/latest/embra...

Join us at Socialism 2025 for a screening of @unionthefilm.bsky.social, followed by a short discussion facilitated by @ericblanc.bsky.social. socialismconference.org/2025-schedule/

Check out sessions with @tninstitute.bsky.social fellowship Boris Kagarlitsky, Kali Akuno and @arunkundnani.bsky.social

Can’t make it to Chicago for Socialism 2025? Check out our live-stream schedule, and RSVP to join us virtually! socialismconference.org/virtual-prog...

Remember the long struggle for emancipation. Celebrate Juneteenth.

It is wonderful to see @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social, former co-president of the Teaching Assistants Association of UW–Madison, continue to use his scholarship to inform collective action. Highly recommend attending this session if you are at this year's Socialism Conference!

📕Find Pluto and other radicals at @socialismconference.org‬ in Chicago! Authors @kylietcheung.bsky.social‬, @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social‬ and @drdconlon.bsky.social‬ will speak about their books. Come join us! 🗓️July 3-6 socialismconference.org/2025-schedule/

Chicago! I’m doing a live show July 2nd (just ahead of the @socialismconference.org) w/ @inthesetimes.com on the state of Chicago politics, appraising Mayor Brandon Johnson’s tenure two years in. Guests: @alexhan.bsky.social, @asha-rrs.bsky.social, Alderman Jeanette Taylor. Link for tickets below!👇

Can’t make it to Chicago for Socialism 2025? Check out our live-stream schedule, and RSVP to join us virtually! socialismconference.org/virtual-prog...

The Border is Everywhere; The Border is the Crisis Join @silkys13.bsky.social, @jwashing.bsky.social, @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social, and Angélica Cházaro as they discuss how our side can fight back against immigration policing and border imperialism. Co-sponsored by @detentionwatchnetwork.org

6 members of @jvp.bsky.social in Chicago have started an indefinite hunger strike, demanding food be let into Gaza & public officials use any power they can to make it happen. @inthesetimes.com columnist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social was asked to speak. She said ... inthesetimes.com/article/hung...

By engaging in this very public, and risky, protest tactic, the hunger strikers are picking up on a long tradition of calculated starvation as a method of forcing a public confrontation with crises." @shaneburley.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/jewi...

good morning

For whoever needs to hear this today: Ripping families apart, throwing *people* into detention, beating people with batons, shooting bullets—rubber and metal—into bodies—that’s violence. Destroying or defacing objects: not violence.

Good morning, abolish ICE

new coloring book page just dropped. chinga la migra, ICE out of LA!

Via @garmentworkercentre Please see this fundraiser for 14 families of the detained workers from Ambiance Apparel, a garment warehouse and store. They're raising funds for their bonds and for the families left without their primary breadwinners. www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-aid...

Fundraiser for 14 that have been detained. This was sent by a friend who is a teacher and one of her student's parents is part of the 14. www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-aid...