WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

I'm at the "feeling burnt out" part of the semester, which I feel like pretty regularly happens right around weeks 12-14 (we have 16wk sems here). But my online American Lit survey students did a WONDERFUL job discussing the first eight chapters of *Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl* yesterday.

@muhammadshehada.bsky.social chronicles the history of the decades-long siege on the people of Gaza.

🔔 NEW: “The Texas State University chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP-TXST) has issued a formal appeal urging the Texas State University System Board Regents to abide by its own rules and reverse the summary dismissal of tenured history professor Dr. Thomas Alter.”

This, to me, is the most remarkable news of the night

My NY heart is sad I can't be voting for Mamdani today but I did vote in my local elections here in northern New Mexico!

I better not read a single damn word of hagiography from anyone who fancies themself as "pro-democracy" or "anti-fascist" for Dick Cheney this week. General reminder that you have no obligation to "not speak ill of the dead" when the dead were monstrously murderous in life!

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 have not reached at least six hours of sleep once in the last ten days and I'm stressed as hell but I'm feeling prettier and more trans every day so there's that

Any policy position short of "Abolish ICE" is a non-starter at this point.

Sorry native-borns, now that ANYONE can have their actual birth certificate cancelled by a cellphone photo taken on a busy street... Do you still think this is about the immigrants who are murderers and rapists?

This is one of the best analyses of the total grift and scammery of AI in education I’ve seen, and it is a MUST Read: “Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...

Good morning, #asap16 @asapartsnow.bsky.social

Heading to Houston for #ASAP16 ✈️ I'm not staying for the whole weekend so let me know if you are there! (Is ASAP on Bluesky?)

lol Matty Y's latest is on how any big coalition will have bigots in the big tent and buddy, we know. When I say letting bigots into the big tent will shrink it, it's shorthand for courting bigots by treating their bigoted positions as valuables.

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

NEW: Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"Don't give them an excuse." Babe, it isn't about us. There is no "correct" way to resist that won't provoke them. They will interpret anything they want, they will make up anything they want, as an excuse to do what they already decided they would do. Fascists don't need an excuse. Act accordingly.

Saidiya Hartman's latest work, Minor Music at the End of the World (2025), is a collaboration with Sarah Benson inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois science fiction short story, ‘The Comet’ (1920), about the last Black man left on Earth after the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. It asks… 1/🧵 #BlackSky #Lit #Art

As the government shutdown continues b/c Republicans want to pull backwards from reforms instituted by the ACA, just remember that Obamacare was a compromise. It was Romneycare first, a GOP state plan. But b/c Obama's name was attached to it Republicans decided they would try to destroy it.

Every leftist critique of the No Kings protests is true. And also Lots of the folks who show up to them are potential comrades in the fight against racial capitalism & imperialism. In my small town yesterday, I talked to folks about Palestine, anarchism, and ways to follow-through afterwards.

Every conversation about "allyship" needs to include John Brown.

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more. Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Today's the 166th anniversary of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. On this date last year I published this @truthout.org interview with the great historian @profmsinha.bsky.social on the history, lessons and legacies surrounding Brown and the mid-19th century abolitionist movement.

Of all the 21st-century SCOTUS cases that I could have picked with which to open my book, there're some big reasons why I settled on Shelby County v. Holder and discussed the Voting Rights Act in the introduction of *Abolition Time*! 😤🔥🚨

If you want to see the TikToks of a student documenting the horrifying fact that her professor used AI to "write" the textbook she subsequently published and forces her students to use/buy; but also some truly unprofessional behavior from the prof on being caught: www.tiktok.com/@liaaa.bia/v...

The fact that Israel can kidnap 1000s of Palestinians and hold them in what we know to be torturous prisons without bringing any actual charges against them but media only uses the word "hostages" for captured Israelis is racism so obvious it's maddening to see it go uninterrogated.

Felt pretty. Won't delete. (I am incredibly bad at putting on and removing earrings lol need practice!)

This is a great collection and I am so proud to have one little essay on teaching M. NourbeSe Philip's *Zong!* in it! Preorder now for the February publication!

It's been two years and it's been 77 years. Palestine must be free. From the river to the sea. In our lifetimes.

Got some pictures from my local coffee shop book talk from one of the attendees. I enjoyed reading from "Abolition Time" and talking with folks about art & social justice. And it was really well attended for a small town in the northern New Mexico mountains! @uminnpress.bsky.social

I need some help. Got laid-off on Friday: unannounced budget change + my position was first cut, so it was a total surprise. Thanks to a tax status loophole my employer manipulated, I cant get unemployment. In short im SOL Anything you can give would be huge Venmo: Vicky-surge Cash: $VickySurge1312

I remember learning about "The Plan" in my very first year of college and how immediately it made so much sense to me as a white person who grew up on Long Island. White flight + austerity politics as whitelash against the Civil Rights Movement is and was real.

Israel is a structurally evil nation-state. Genocidal in its founding and maintenance. The torture of members of the Global Samud Flotilla is a fractional insight into how that country operates as a settler colony that kills, maims, terrorizes, and humiliates the Palestinians indigenous to the land.

Petition to purge the phrase "compassion fatigue" from the English language.

"Abolish ICE" has been the bedrock demand for two decades. It needs to be a mainstream position, now.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

I've been teaching "anti-American" content that could be construed as "extremism on race/gender/migration" for my entire career and have gotten in trouble for it before. It's weird now that when I walk in the room as trans I'm embodying "extremism on gender." But I will never stop teaching what I do

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 1,514 measles cases as of Sept. 24, the highest number of annual cases since the United States declared measles eliminated in 2000. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

My PhD alma mater is fucking embarrassing. Cornell upper administrators are a bunch of political cowards who have shown time and again that literally defending genocide is more of a core value to them than free speech. Embarrassing and disgusting.

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

I hope every journalist, comedian, professor, podcast/talkshow host, and politician that did "both-sides" takes about "cancel culture" and "free speech" for the past decade loses sleep over how absolutely ridiculous they have been while we see that censorship has fully become foundational GOP policy

The UN officially determines that Israel is committing genocide. How many reports need to confirm what Palestinians have been saying for years? Does international law protect anyone from Western imperialism? I want to be something other than cynical today. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

So apparently people are losing their jobs for literally responding to CK's death by quoting things he himself actually said. Idk, if using the man's own words that he stood behind repeatedly is "speaking ill of the dead" then maybe that says something about the dead.

New faculty page headshot is up and for the first time in my career the photo makes me smile more than the text. What a wonder of a cocktail of makeup, a new haircut, and hormones is for gender dysphoria.

Things that are "political violence": -When people die due to lack of healthcare -police violence against Black, Brown, trans, and disabled people -ICE raids -Raiding houseless encampments -mask bans -Cop cities -Supporting literal genocide in Palestine -Prisons -anti-trans bathroom bills

Raiding homeless encampments is a form of political violence, btw.