UNIONIZED STARBUCKS WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE AS OF THIS MORNING @sbworkersunited.org Don't cross the picket line

Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike 🪶

DON'T BE A SCAB! DON'T BUY STARBUCKS!

So I see the discourse and I get it to some degree. But I do have to say: stating that taking over a party is more "practical" than organizing a third party is really... something.

And I've been doing politics for long enough to know clearly that the entire Senate Democratic caucus agreed to this decision to fold. Open your eyes. The 8 who "broke" did so with the complete blessing of Schumer and their colleagues. You don't have to play along because this is not a game. The end

The country is on the precipice of oblivion. It's okay to think and organize beyond the two party system.

What I'll never understand abt "moderate" Dem enthusiasm for risking it all to do a deal w Republicans is that the regime has ALREADY SHOWN that they will act in defiance of existing civil rights & appropriations laws. Why on earth would you expect them to comply with the stipulations of any deal?

This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰

On the 50th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Jerald Podair shares the broader significance of the tragedy, not just on the lives of those involved, but on the broader implications it represented for the post-WWII US economy. 🗃️ clioandthecontemporary.com/2025/11/10/w...

Sign on to demand that Condé Nast executives reinstate the four @condeunion.bsky.social members they illegally fired last week:

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

🚨🚨🚨LOS ANGELES- This is a call for ALL HANDS ON DECK! Organize your neighborhood, patrol your block, & defend your neighbors! Feds are targeting LA more aggressively than ever. THREAD with updates from @latenantsunion.bsky.social on feds escalating + changing tactics & how we fight back:

CALL FOR NEW MEMBERS: The Society of Civil War Historians Graduate Student Connections Committee is looking for 3 new members. Graduate students studying the Civil War Era (broadly defined) are encouraged to apply. If you have any questions feel free to reach out to me (I'm the Chair of the GSCC)

Grad Students! Do you work on the Civil War Era? If so, consider applying for the Society of Civil War Historians' Graduate Student Connection Committee!

A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

“She tasked the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women, her organizing home which until then had largely been advocating for Black men on death row, with researching historical claims to reparations for Black Americans.”

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

Far too many politicians reflexively fold at any car-brained opposition, especially when it's "influential" small business owners doing some solid fear-mongering. But what if instead those leaders didn't capitulate and stood by proven solutions to keep their residents safe?

FUCK HAHAHAHA

I really don’t understand why it’s so hard for certain people to understand that Mamdani is doing so well because he is advocating for more than “keep Trump from taking the few good and/or semi-decent things that remain” and is articulating a real vision for how to make New York better.

To a large extent, @teenvogue.com's Politics section was doing the only dedicated progressive reporting on American higher education. While higher ed issues sometimes receive coverage in places like The Nation & The American Prospect, Teen Vogue treated campuses like a dedicated beat.

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Unfortunately, as depressed as I am by the Teen Vogue news, I don't have the option to subscribe to The Flytrap to make myself feel better, since I'm already subscribed. But maybe you do!

Teen Vogue did some great journalism around immigration detention and enforcement. Sounds like corporate has now killed that off. The media landscape shrinks even further.

This is so fucked up. Lex was doing great work—and I'm sure will continue to do so in whatever form they choose in the future. This is such bullshit.

mamdani is the model for future dem candidates and it can work in all 50 states. not the boring milquetoast candidates who refuse to take a position on hot button issues. they inspire nobody but dnc ad makers.

CALL FOR NEW MEMBERS: The Society of Civil War Historians Graduate Student Connections Committee is looking for 3 new members. Graduate students studying the Civil War Era (broadly defined) are encouraged to apply. If you have any questions feel free to reach out to me (I'm the Chair of the GSCC)

Hey y'all! The Southern is next week, and we hope to see some of you there—comment if you'll be in St. Pete! Please come by the Grad Luncheon on Thursday, Nov 6, from 12:30-1:30pm in the Blue Heron room—there will be free food and good conversation! RSVP: tinyurl.com/SHALunch

I spoke with @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social about her FANTASTIC new book "Queen Mother: Black Nationalism. Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore" for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

Had a blast writing this piece for @cliocontemporary.bsky.social!

THE ANTHEM

Los Angeles suffered tremendously because of the wildfires. The president of the United States has wanted to make the immigrants who make the city suffer and declared war on the city. But all throughout it, L.A. makes it work daily. It’s a place where people go to make it. LA deserves this.

HAHAHAH DODGERS BABY!

Check out Clio’s latest from our very own @oaverettephillips.bsky.social with fantastic advice for PhD students. Check it out!

I was very excited to write this advice piece with tips on how to take, and pass, your comprehensive exams. I received some good advice leading up to my exam on how to tackle comps and that—as well as my own lived experience—is passed on in this piece.

Please read Wages of Whiteness by Dave Roediger. He examines how whiteness disrupted the labor movement and drained the power of unions. Then Remember that’s what Vance wants, for folks to be so invested in whiteness they disinvest from their own power. www.versobooks.com/products/296...

After months of pressure from #NoAzureForApartheid, Microsoft has cut off parts of its tech used by Israel for surveillance and targeting in Gaza. Direct action works. Read @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social’s full report: inthesetimes.com/article/micr...

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

"Real working-class politics does not assume the worst of working-class people’s impulses. It does not launder their concerns for political points. It certainly does not argue, directly or indirectly, that a little racism is a good thing for reaching them." Amen, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social.

Here it comes, folks. I volunteer at a food pantry twice a month. We got slammed today - twice our usual number of households, a bunch we'd never seen before, and people lined up waiting for us to open. It's gonna get bad fast.

So, given the SNAP crisis & that stupid DNC memo making the rounds it's important to revisit Reagan's decade long effort to demonize gov't spending on poor people by inventing the welfare queen lie. He's doing this as early as January of 1976. Please note the response from the crowd at the end.

Great advice from @mingsga.bsky.social on using comps to craft your dissertation prospectus!

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