Like Toni Morrison said, decades ago, “We really have to learn to love thinking again. Not fretting, not worrying, but thinking.”

Coping strategies, which we often need to get by, are too often treated as sociology, theories of change, or political plans.

The relationship between feelings and political action is often speculated in political discourse. But people can have various and conflicted feelings––especially in a capitalist and racist society––and do things anyway, whether daily activities or activism and organizing. It happens all the time.

“I wrote a lot of words to say, essentially, ‘fuck AI.’ It has no place in our industry and we don’t want it forced into our bookstores. Maybe it will do some good for us to take a stand.”

BREAKING: More Perfect University and @mayor.nyc.gov Zohran Mamdani are hosting a Rental Ripoff Hearing *Student Edition* to hear from students, young people, and first-time renters about their living conditions and rent. RSVP and be there Thursday. actionnetwork.org/forms/rsvp-m...

Pretty good summary of why people are so pissed off about data centers, the physical representations of the technology companies keep saying is going to take everyone’s jobs away

We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.

I don't have a problem with Mamdani paying a bunch of money to attend the NBA conference finals. I have a problem with him not keeping his word regarding his promised library budget.

Somebody work with Mamdani on an upscale athletic wardrobe. This man wearing suits while riding bikes and attending basketball games.

I would really like to talk to Mamdani about this statement that he publicly made: “My first name is Mayor and I need to be doing more squats.”

oh great www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/t...

BREAKING: A federal judge has dismissed the criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia stemming from a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee. The evidence before the court, the judge wrote, "sadly reflects an abuse of prosecuting power." www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...

Sometimes it seems we conflate our coping strategies with theories of change.

Many authors and activists we quote for inspiring optimism had a lot more complicated and, at times, conflicting views about pessimism, hope, optimism, and political change. We can disagree with famous authors and activists, but it is noticeable how their more critical or gloomy views get neglected.

Octavia E. Butler said, “I had to stop writing ‘save the world’ books... The world is in bad shape! ... remarkable to me that a lot of people don’t recognize this. A lot do, thank heavens, but I’m not sure it’s going to matter, I’m not sure there is anything that can be done now to make it better.”

I have been diligently building my research agenda to deal with wellness politics and it has sharpened my critique of everything.

this aligns w/ what i've thought but haven't said because people are really (and rightfully) engaging in a public mournig ritua. there were extensive write-ups about the failing economics of late night for years, before Trump. I think they're juicing a culture war attack to hide basic cost cutting.

In undergrad, the physics instructor let us write poetry for a final assignment. I had lines saying stuff like, “Malcolm X knew that a man in motion was not at rest.” The instructor had the nerve to write on my paper, “Great job!” Lol.

Kevin Garnett is a gifted storyteller. Another reason to do knuckle push-ups on a hardwood floor.

I think that many people advocate for others to do things that they will never do themselves. It's ridiculous and a waste of everyone's time. You are not organizing your own workplace.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Trying To Draw Foul While Shooting Free Throw

Didn’t wanna go to the gym today but what Jamelle Bouie said about working out helped. We don’t always need some deeper meaning to do something. “It’s a task that must be accomplished... it’s important to do things that have to be done because they have to be done and that’s the only reason.”

This is not me but I tried these for the first time. Did 50 and now everything hurts.

View from today’s gym. I love night running.

If you teach research methods and haven’t considered it, I suggest including material on the impact of data centers. I scheduled the topic under the section on research ethics.

Like Friedrich Engels said, “Capitalists are always organised.” And many of us workers are not. New report shows “U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidance.” www.epi.org/publication/...

Like Friedrich Engels said, “Capitalists are always organised.” And many of us workers are not. New report shows “U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidance.” www.epi.org/publication/...

So much of solidarity and activism discourse is telling minority groups to be the bigger person.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett showed how the criminal punishment system—which worked with lynching, even as the state at times quarreled with white vigilantes over dominion to punish and kill—was a means to legally maintain racial, economic, and gender subjugation and repress resistance after Emancipation.

I truly wish people in this country ACTUALLY understood what the criminal punishment system is rather than what they want it to be. The criminal punishment system is FUEL for fascism. People really need to understand this to their core.

more of this in every sector

I love that there are different heights given for Wemby.

Please don’t let Mamdani end up just being an I’m good at social media politician.

The police board argues that the city must allocate at least 22% of its general revenue to policing. Mayor Cara Spencer called the lawsuit outrageous, stating it could financially devastate the city. fox2now.com/news/missour...

Cambridge City Council votes to end use of ShotSpotter technology #news https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/05/20/cambridge-city-council-votes-to-end-use-of-shotspotter-technology/

“Inside the Shaolin monastery that helped build Victor Wembanyama” www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

THIS WEDNESDAY: join @dairinstitute.bsky.social as we launch the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a resource for workers fighting AI at work. We provide strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of this tech through case studies, primers, and a resource library. www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-...

“The 61-year-old retired police officer spent 37 days behind bars before authorities dropped the felony charge against him in October.”

A lot of union members and leaders hate DEI, “woke“ politics, and minorities, and support a police state against others. Again, why we shouldn’t romanticize unions, and how unions are what we make them.

a reminder that segregation among other things is a form of theft

“.. The document says the U.S. is ‘forever barred and precluded’ from examining or prosecuting Trump, his sons and the Trump organization’s current tax issues ..” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/irs-...

BREAKING: The Trump Justice Department has expanded the just-announced settlement of Trump's IRS lawsuit to include a pledge that the IRS will no longer pursue *any* claims it may have against Trump, his family members, and his companies over unpaid taxes.

A US city has effectively banned data centers for the first time. St. Charles, Missouri has changed their land use rules so that data centers cannot be built. The change is indefinite, and to build data centers in St. Charles the land uses rules would need to change again.

A lot of us who demand strangers take political action and risks, and even those of us who organize others, are not organized ourselves in terms of where we work and live. Not part of labor unions, tenant unions, or school or neighborhood associations.

Having done both, I’ve learned it’s very different to work with communities to build their political power than organizing your own workplace or building. Organizing where you work and live just comes with different stakes and the risks and need for a safety net can feel much different.

Many demand strangers take action with their jobs or income for a political cause without any organized campaign to support them. Or without taking the same risks. With labor unions, members take on the risk together and try to build a safety net and support. Yet many of us are not unionized.

@jamellebouie.net ”I genuinely hate squats.” Sir, this is your most controversial take.

anyway listen to me on the latest episode of secretly sporty talking about my fitness habits podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...