Thrilled that my upcoming book, Cleanup on Aisle Five, has received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. “This illuminating debut turns Larson’s pandemic-era stint as a grocery worker into a rallying cry against corporate greed… Essential reading.” www.publishersweekly.com/9781668094501

10K jobs at the concentration camp. LOL. ICE wrote this in a press release and you laundered it as "journalism." Totally humiliating.

On this day in 1871, the Paris Commune began its brief history before a conservative government drowned it in blood. While it lasted, the Commune sketched out a new way to run a major city based on democracy and the public good, not private profiteering.

"My silence ends here." Read Dolores Huerta's statement about her decision to reveal that she was sexually assaulted by Cesar Chavez. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

"Detection tools communicate, even when instructors do not, that writing is a performance to be managed rather than a practice to be developed. Students learn that style can count against them, and that fluency invites suspicion." www.chronicle.com/article/ai-d...

Roughly 300 readers, free speech advocates and local organizers gathered for Let Utah Read’s annual “read-in” event at the Capitol. “We do not want the government controlling what we can and cannot consume,” one 16-year-old participant said.

Yep. The market problem writ large is exceptionally true in highered. But it won’t matter — and doesn’t matter — to those in charge right now because the point is to strip the institution.

I have so many stories I could share about this. I'm sure everyone does. newrepublic.com/article/2063...

Nick Shirley learned how to be a propagandist on his Mormon mission to Chile. “On the mission, I would talk with everyone — it didn’t matter who it is,” he said. “Now, in my YouTube videos, I talk with everyone as well.” www.sltrib.com/news/nation-...

I'm looking for people to interview whose budgets are extremely tight this year because of 1) Increased health insurance premiums, 2) catching up on student loans or being forced into a higher payment plan or 3) both. Contact me at mpotts at tnr dot com (monicabpotts.57 on signal) if this is you!

they're going to play an NFL regular season game in Paris next year

Here's our writing fellow Naomi Bethune on how attacks on Black journalists have a pedigree going back to the 19th century. prospect.org/2026/02/02/a...

There are over 300 anti-ICE protests organized for this weekend. ICE is occupying cities to extort voter roll information from the state and require local law enforcement “surrender” to federal authorities, as Stephen Miller put it. Society pushes back in defiance with low tech warning systems.

cowardly, vile www.sltrib.com/news/educati...

oh nothing just packing the court out of spite

The bravery of Minnesotans should inspire us all.

This essay is a wonderful read both for its specific claims about close reading and also for its broader claims on the critical importance of the humanities in a world turning increasingly inhumane. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

🚨NEW: A new poll Americans’ support for Medicare For All has intensified to the point where the old attacks may no longer work. As both parties legislate criticism of socialism, there has been a 50-point shift on a key question in just 6 years. This is YUGE. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Post the best visual metaphor for the Democratic Party that you’ve seen. I’ll start.

Torturing myself by watching Vance's Ole Miss q&a. Everyone got riled up about the hug, but look at this kid flashing a white power symbol and Vance guffawing.

@debbieberkowitz.bsky.social Can we talk about the ergonomic standard?

I keep thinking about @michaelhobbes.bsky.social's reporting from Utah in 2019. Even then, the state was retreating from Housing First—after being hailed as a success story—and embracing criminalization. In hindsight, Utah's involuntary "treatment center" is not a rupture but the next logical step.

Surfing in the desert. Sounds about right for the times we are living in.

In the past 10 yrs, teachers' wages DECREASED by $46/week after adjusting for inflation. Wages increased by $220 for other college grads Why are we penalizing teachers for working one of the hardest & most important jobs in our communities? We need to pay teachers more! www.epi.org/publication/...

Hakeem Jeffries says of Cuomo's attacks on Mamdani for living in a rent controlled apartment: "It's a legitimate issue that has been raised, and the [Mamdani] campaign is going to have to address it."

"The worth of an ideology can only be judged by its delivery." This is a good answer in a great interview that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social gave the Nation. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

There have now been five separate formal determinations that the Trump administration has illegally impounded funds appropriated by Congress. @brycecovert.bsky.social looks at the real-world impact of these delays on the thousands of organizations who rely on that money. prospect.org/health/2025-...

We had a relatively unnoticed coup at the Justice Department last week. An antitrust division that was following the law has now been reduced to a puppet in a pay-to-play scheme involving MAGA influencers and corporate treasuries. On Organized Money we talk to the writer who broke open this story.

The University of Utah will discontinue 81 academic programs in response to the Legislature’s mandated budget cuts for higher education.

I wrote back in April that the best way to think about Trump's tariffs were as sanctions to shake down other countries. The final result reinforces this: Trump is using trade as a bargaining chip to win other policies, or even just the illusion of wins. Here's my post-Liberation Day update:

Canvas just became one of the most powerful surveillance, IP theft, & data monetization tools in the world. OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts. But they can’t make us use their trashware. Boycott. Luddify. Open source. Don’t let them have your work or your students.

From Dickens to Dean Koontz, Ed Simon explores prolific authors, their habits, and the persistent need to produce.

"It’s morning again in America. Federal agents snatch students off the streets. The White House boasts of banishing hundreds of people to a Salvadoran prison, ignoring the judges who demand due process." hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

At the DeSantis Everglades detention camp, people with green cards are being held in terrible conditions, with maggots in the food, the lights kept on 24 hours a day, and delayed access to medicine. One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."

Steering the country toward another potential financial crisis, the Trump administration has moved to completely gut the federal regulatory agency tasked with reining in financial institutions: jacobin.com/2025/04/trum...

The only meaningful institutions in the civic life of the United States that working class people control are labor unions. The only meaningful path to any democratic transformation requires the leadership of institutions that working class people control.

"Students told WNCN, Raleigh CBS affiliate, that they’ve been dealing with a lot — from mold in the dorms and broken air conditioners to brown tap water and mice. They say they’re simply asking for better, safer living conditions." context: this is a public HBCU www.wfmynews2.com/article/news...

Reminder that millionaires and billionaires evade an estimated $150 billion in taxes every year, according to the IRS. Happy Tax Day.

Are you a history professor who has been pressured to alter your curriculum — particularly regarding the history of Black & African American people in the United States? We would love to talk to you. Send us a DM!

En route vers Washington, Netanyahou aurait survolé l'espace aérien français. Sous le coup d'un mandat d'arrêt de la Cour pénale internationale pour crime contre l'Humanité, il aurait dû être intercepté et arrêté.

Organizing on the scale that our struggles demand means finding common ground with a broad spectrum of people, many of whom we would never otherwise interact with, & building a shared practice of politics in the pursuit of more just outcomes. @prisonculture.bsky.social & @mskellymhayes.bsky.social:

Trump's Hammer, Our Hope 🌱 Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, & @astra.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the cascading crisis and how we can fight back. Tuesday, April 8 at 5:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Abundance™ aims to kill the antitrust movement & deter Dems from challenging oligarchy. It wrongly pretends corporate power isnt the creator of scarcity. Its political theory was tried in 2024 & was defeated by Trump. Co-published with Rolling Stone 👇 www.levernews.com/abundance-is...

more bad news

Attorney General Pam Bondi directs prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione

At 5:30 pm today, March 27, our union will join labor and community organizations in a demonstration at the NW Detention Center to protest the detention of longtime labor leader Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez and SEIU 925 UW lab tech Lewelyn Dixon.

Some astonishing numbers in here: -OpenAI loses $2 for every $1 it makes -OpenAI projects annual losses of $14 billion by 2026 -To break even OpenAI needs to increase revenue 25x in just 5 years -33% of VC portfolios are committed to AI -5 AI-heavy stocks account for 29% of the S&P 500's value

Now the CEO of Freddie Mac has been fired. Keep an eye on this: it's only $7.7 trillion in finance toward the largest market on earth, the residential housing market. www.scotsmanguide.com/news/freddie...