That critique of the government extracting resources from PR. The power poles.

I can’t believe they turned me against donuts.

This week at Group Threat, I spoke with @grundrza.bsky.social about Florida's censorship regime, teaching under authoritarianism, and how folks are coping (or not).

“You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)

ICE’s surveillance app is a techno-authoritarian nightmare, I write. The app, Mobile Fortify, lets agents obtain vast amounts of information on anyone by scanning their face www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

No words. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Please amplify: about an hour ago, faith leaders including my sister Rev. Liz Theoharis of @kairoscenter.org were arrested in the Hart Building praying with their feet and calling on the Senate "No Funding for ICE." www.facebook.com/reel/1385064...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Latest co-authored op-ed with Cortney Sanders and Trudy Goldberg of the National Jobs for All Network out now in @citylimitsnews.bsky.social - thanks for reading.

Latest co-authored op-ed with Cortney Sanders and Trudy Goldberg of the National Jobs for All Network out now in @citylimitsnews.bsky.social - thanks for reading.

Do you realize right now hundreds of thousands of Haitians are waiting for an update on their legal status that ends Feb 3rd unless something changes before then? Students, workers, neighbors, parents, all waiting in fear? Getting emails from HR to renew expiring work authorization? This is torture.

I don’t believe in hell but these people really make me wish I did.

“A voluntary public option for jobs, offering living wages, benefits, health care and union protections, would raise the wage floor and stabilize the economy during downturns.” citylimits.org/opinion-the-...

Opinion: The Missing ‘For All’ Program? A New York City Jobs For All "A voluntary public option for jobs, offering living wages, benefits, health care and union protections, would raise the... #Government #Labor #Opinion #employment #job #for #all #jobs […] [Original post on citylimits.org]

Opinion: The Missing ‘For All’ Program? A New York City Jobs For All https://www.europesays.com/us/531054/ “A voluntary public option for jobs, offering living wages, benefits, health care and union protections, would raise the…#ny #nyc #newyork #nynews #nycnews #newyorknews #us #news #usnews

Global Stratification Economics (GSE): A Primer - Definitions and Research Implications by Alan Aja, Anita-Alves Pena, Mary Lopez :: SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Coining the term Global Stratification Economics (GSE) to extend Stratification Economics to diverse international contexts and offer a checklist for researchers to apply GSE, from Alan A. Aja, Anita Alves Pena, and Mary Lopez www.nber.org/papers/w34664

“We Southernized Dr. King”: Historian @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social on MLK’s Struggle Against Racism in the North www.democracynow.org/2025/5/23/we...

“The creation of a powerful state apparatus for identifying, incarcerating, and deporting immigrants began decades ago—arising, in part, from the aggressive policing of communities of color.” Alan A. Aja and Alejandra Marchevsky:

Our statement on the violent suppression of peaceful protest at Brooklyn College.

We strongly condemn the forcible dispersal of a peaceful protest by CUNY and the NYPD on May 8th at Brooklyn College, which resulted in serious injuries and multiple arrests. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Riot cops did full sweep of the campus not allowing observers to return to their offices. They made everyone exit through a narrow gate. I saw people moving towards the exit arrested for no reason and I saw non-participants forced in to harms way because of the violence outside the gates.

Sorry to be a buzz kill but "Deport Elon" & "Send Trump to El Salvador" are not slogans that move us forward. They center individuals & not the system they're wielding for new cruelties. They accept the use of torture as punishment & they minimize violence people are enduring now. 1/

The most frustrating thing about this whole manufacturing bullshit tariff debacle is that there ARE good jobs that we need to be funding here have here that can’t be outsourced. It’s called the Green New Deal.

There’s a myth that the media supported the civil rights movement. While many reporters did courageous reporting in the South, these newspapers help protect segregation at home and viewed local activists and MLK as troublemakers when they challenged northern segregation and police brutality.

Please join us at the Schomburg Center tonight at 6:30 for this conversation on Martin and Coretta Scott King with Barbara Smith, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Robyn Spencer-Antoine, and me! Or watch on youtube here: youtube.com/live/KYWok7T...

I am honored and excited to be speaking at Morehouse on Tuesday April 1st on King of the North!

If you don't what a force of steel, Coretta Scott King was, you need to! She was more of an activist than MLK was when they met—& became the "family leader" on issues of peace & global justice. @msmagazine.com published an excerpt from my book ‘King of the North’: msmagazine.com/2025/03/25/c...

Academics (and others!) want to fight back against the attacks on higher education and democracy (and diversity and civil rights and trans people and immigrants and and and...). Our letter is at bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd and is designed so that ANYONE can sign. There are other letters - thread

Who among us has not mistaken The Atlantic for an active agent of US war making?

KING OF THE NORTH comes out today from @thenewpress.bsky.social! De-Southernizing Martin Luther King changes so many of the ways we have come to see him, the movement and the US during the civil rights era and provides so many lessons for what we face today. A 🧵:

Another Columbia student taken by ICE. Shame shame shame

For no particular reason certainly not one named Chuck Schumer and the his punk ass Senate colleagues I am again sharing this academic work showing that accommodation pushes politics to the right www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

further, expelling the president of the student worker union a day before negotiations are set to begin is uniquely transgressive. nobody should take this opportunity to normalize Columbia University's behavior

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

Wow. Watch this from Zohran Mamdani. It looks like the exact "fight" and "conviction" people are hopelessly asking for from the people in charge of the Democratic party:

For the @theguardian.com I wrote about the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil & Trump's exploitation of anti-Palestinian racism to descend the nation into authoritarianism, with the full collaboration of academia. No one is free until Palestine is free. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Important piece: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Jewish Voice for Peace has a really useful tool/script that makes it simple to call your reps about Mahmoud Khalil's chilling arrest www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/cal...

I want to just focus on the Federal Student Aid bar at the top for a minute. Student debt policy advocates have been arguing for many years that the student debt system is not designed to serve its stated goal. This mass firing within the FSA office will **ensure** student debt processes break more

Trump is taking his first steps to shut down the Department of Education. We need to talk about how to fight back—especially those of us with federal student loans. Join us next week—let's chat about our creditor and how we can organize. debtcollective.org/event/100-da...

abundantly clear that this administration takes “discrimination” to mean “any regard for minority communities” and treats “merit” as a synonym for “white (and preferably male)”

looks like the DHS is scrubbing its website of references to abuse at its ICE facilities.

He is lying. I was on Columbia's campus the day Johnson visited, April 24. The congressional delegation spoke from the steps of the Low Library, hundreds of feet from the pro-divestment encampment. No one could even hear Johnson– only press microphones. He was heckled. That's all.

The era of the federal gov arresting us for our opinions is now here. We cannot let this stand. BREAKING: DHS Detains Lead Negotiator of Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment After Online Campaign by Pro-Israel Groups www.dropsitenews.com/p/dhs-detain...

when your business model is blowing things up (exploding cars, spaceships, the bureaucratic state, the rule of law)

remember when this guy covered up a brutal police killing? i do!

“If a scholar studying these historical phenomena cannot be hired at CUNY, if a job advertisement mentioning these historical phenomena cannot be posted at CUNY, it’s safe to say that it probably won’t be long before any course examining these phenomena cannot be taught at CUNY.”