Gas pollutants are finally liberated to re-enter the atmosphere so the US can protect the oil, coal and gas corporations. I look forward to seeing the air I’m forced to breathe. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

Is this the sign of MAGA’s Christian ethics?

As frustrating as union organizations often are, they are the only way one has rights in a workplace. Workplaces are set up as dictatorships where the whole organization is available to management in any fight.

National security Israeli Court Denies 5-year-old Palestinian Cancer Patient Life-saving Treatment Because of Gaza Address - Israel News www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Always more spending for the ‘right’ hand of the State (social control & institutions of violence) than on the ‘left’ hand of the State (care, education, housing, transportation).

Why does transparency matter in workplace organizing? Because union busting consultants often don’t tell workers who they really are or what they’re getting paid to do: convince you to vote no. LaborLab is helping workers access transparency and expose union busting across America.

This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.

It's not just Minnesota. Childcare owners across the country told me that after the hyped up allegations of fraud they've been targeted by harassment and surveillance. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Epstein affair clarifies a dynamic of global capitalism in last 40 yrs. “The extreme concentration of wealth creates the conditions of a double impunity: economic and moral”

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

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).

Coffee doesn’t make itself—workers do! Today we stood with @sbworkersunited.org in Los Angeles to keep up the momentum as their ULP strike continues! Want to help? Delete the Starbucks app and tell your friends! #DeleteTheApp #NoContractNoCoffee

Explore the report from the International Committee of High-Level Experts on Democracy at Work below: reportondemocracyatwork.org/en/home/

🚨NEW INQUIRY! - Behind the Face of AI🚨 In this short comic, two data workers describe their work impersonating an “AI” chatbot for a major social media platform. Sleepless nights, penalties for sounding “too human,” and emotional drain are just a few of the job hazards. ➡️ data-workers.org/france

We had a good discussion with @flyingwithsara.bsky.social, President of @afacwa.org, at this week's @laborcaucus.house.gov meeting. Flight attendants keep us safe in the air, and they deserve fair pay, strong protections, and respect on the job.

Big Bill Haywood had a simple dream: to build one big union for all workers in every industry. He was born in Salt Lake City on February 4, 1869. His father died when Bill was just 3 years old. Bill grew up with little education... 🧵 #unionhistory #laborhistory #1u #solidarity

The politics of eugenics brought you by the boys of California, many of whom were socialized in apartheid societies. Time to re-read Mike Davis on disaster and dark utopias in California.

Talked with @democracynow.org about the latest: 1. Elon vs EU sovereignty 2. Grok deepfakes as business decision 3. The attempted biggest land grab in human history—this time in space (FCC filing for "up to one million satellites" for orbital AI). www.youtube.com/watch?v=R76f...

AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt's Executive Order issued today immediately eliminating academic tenure at the state’s public regional universities and community colleges.

Wow, this blew up. Let's keep it going, everyone! If you live in Silicon Valley or the SF Bay Are and want to learn about future organizing to stop ICE, sign up with Bay Resistance: https://www.bayresistance.org/ If you're elsewhere, check out Purge Palantir […]

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #abolishice #iceout #palantir #paloalto

Comparing historical hair samples from people from when they were babies to today, a new study finds a nearly 100-fold decrease in lead from samples after the EPA's crackdown on leaded gas. Regulation works and it saves lives! […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz]

Only half way through, but the Harvey interview is exceptional and looking forward to the new book: www.versobooks.com/products/337...

Sociologist C. Wright Mills saw this coming—and tried to warn us—60+ years ago. jacobin.com/2026/02/wrig...

Immigration agents have shot a dozen people since Sept--yet police are often skipping any investigation. After agents near Chicago killed a man, an officer asked if chief who would investigate. The answer: “You’re not going to investigate a federal officer”

Your reminder that Starbucks baristas are still ON STRIKE. So our call to action is simple: Delete the Starbucks app. #DeleteTheApp bit.ly/deletetheapp

They’ve been on this for a minute. More teaching + post tenure review (and contracts) plus ai supercharged productivity surveillance tools also makes professors more vulnerable to student evals, which gives admin more power to fire you. That’s the plan.

Another good reason for Democrats to try to get every reform possible, including reduced funding, for ICE while they still have leverage www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The GOP’s hostility to public schools has given Dems a huge opening in red states. But taking if requires ditching elite orthodoxy and big donor bucks

The Texas Dem everyone is so excited about ran as a populist supporter of public education. He understands that vouchers are a scam but he’s also against the sort of education reform that thrills so many Dem elites and their donors open.substack.com/pub/educatio...

Steve Bannon calls for Trump to deploy ICE and military troops to polling sites www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

SEIU’s first Black woman president, April Verrett, is leading the fight for justice by confronting inequality and attacks on our civil liberties head-on. This is what RESILIENCE under pressure and LEADERSHIP that doesn’t back down look like.

Such an important initiative.

When men on the Right commit casual misogyny, people do nothing, because, "Of course. What else would you expect him to do?" When men on the Left commit casual misogyny, people do nothing, because, "He must not mean it. Look at all his other views."

Le trumpisme est un fascisme parce qu'il est un illimitisme, un suprémacisme, un obscurantisme et une gangstérisme. Démonstration dans mon #Edwyto de @backseat-fr.bsky.social youtu.be/ciWhRSwoYnU?...

General strikes are workers’ most powerful weapon. But it takes more than hashtags to make them real. Here’s how we can build a real general strike to stop ICE in the US www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-to-org...

Don’t we call this eugenics?

Higher Ed Labor United's monthly newsletter published a write up of "Theory At The Bargaining Table" big ideas for informing campus organizing! take a look, take a listen (or read the transcript) - and join +follow HELU! @higheredlabor.bsky.social higheredlaborunited.org/2026/01/26/h...

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Broligarchs must be cheering: chase immigrants out, destroy the care of sub-humans (elderly, disabled) and clear space for their self-delusions of a master race.

Eugenics policy and ethnic “cleansing” merge

Like the US, France has its own anti-immigration politics that puts at risk the whole society because population decline is the outcome.

No problem here for the oligarchs who openly advocate a politics of eugenics.

Vance the hypocrite, who always redirects to bury his nose into the ass of the nearest billionaire.

Let’s subvert these dead dollars and show the wealthy and their paid Parties that live, organized people have real power.

Broligarchs like their felon president seek zones where laws do not apply

Drump is a symptom of a larger set of changes and his administration (if that is what we can call it) continues the program of destruction begun in 1980.

We all needs unions, to build our power, to each gain our share of the wealth we collectively create. From there we can create a political democracy for our neighbors and ourselves.

Holy shit. So this just happened at Minneapolis's legendary First Avenue club. That's Tom Morello introducing Springsteen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jHe...