‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation

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

Why Summers has any public platform to have his views aired and taken seriously at this point, I do not understand.

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

It really is strange how little Epstein coverage there is, and how much of the stuff reported this year was available in some form for years before. Like, DropSite News is the only one covering this part of it? www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-sp...

Fireable offenses for Harvard president: bad faith allegations over half a footnote in something published two decades ago. Non-fireable offenses for Harvard president: being good buddies with the most notorious child sex trafficker in the country.

“The results were all but assured after Tuesday’s count, when Wilson jumped to a more than 1,300-vote lead. They were finalized Wednesday, confirming a sweep for progressives in this year’s Seattle elections as three incumbents—mayor, City Council president and city attorney—have now been ousted.”

This guy with his insights was president of Harvard when I was on the junior faculty It was not a pleasant time to be a female economist at Harvard

Since we’re on the topic of tearing down buildings, I got the author copies of my book (!!). Real in the world December 2 TL;DR: Detroiters have a lot to teach us about how material conditions reproduce white supremacy w/o racist people and policies. Tearing things down isn’t a clean slate

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

every company in 2025

I spoke to CNN about how demoralizing it was to watch Stanford leadership stay silent while contrarians on campus launched unscientific attacks to stifle Stanford researchers. Now, those attacks have gone nationwide and much of MAHA leadership have ties to Stanford. www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...

This project was fueled by RAGE RAGE whenever I read or heard about (another) abuse of power by faculty RAGE whenever I was asked to discuss a paper about gender wage differentials that attributed gaps to "preferences" with no consideration of how "preferences" are formed

new from me today: not all data centers are created environmentally equal — and building them in states with cleaner grids and more access to water could go a long way in preventing environmental catastrophe

Palantir update via www.wired.com/story/alex-k...

"The world's richest man continually manipulates his company's AI to lie about science and promote white supremacism" sounds like some hack sci-fi writing, but it's just our current reality

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

thought we’d spend the first 20 minutes of class on the question “what’s required to consider the US a democracy?” but that’s apparently quite the complicated question (oops). filled a whole chalkboard wall brainstorming minimal criteria vs. democracy as ongoing process/something to strive toward

"The economy" is GDP, corporate profits, and the stock market. "Affordability" is wondering whether paying for your kid's medication means you won't be able to pay the rent.

It seems crucial (and long overdue) that our national political discourse has finally shifted from an obsession with "the economy" to what actually matters: whether people can afford the basic things they need to live.

"Listeners Like Who?" chronicles a contradiction at the core of public radio: the listener-member model that public radio has turned to after decades of government underfunding conflicts with its stated goal to reflect and serve all Americans. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/fund...

New from me today! An article at @lpeblog.bsky.social, about Trump's tariffs, Magna Carta, and why opponents of democracy always try to undermine the tax system. lpeproject.org/blog/the-lon... Also, I got to write this one sentence:

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian American DSA member who represents metro Detroit, is the second sitting Democratic congressperson to demand the resignation of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

I think this touches a deep, often-overlooked point. In my labour law days, I saw some employers spend MORE money fighting unionization than they would have paid accepting it. Loss of control was driving them at least as much as profits! Control is vital – with environmental policy as well.

beautiful illustration of what Fields & Fields (2012) call race-racism evasion: is it racism (DOL explicitly promoting white nationalism) or is it race (how silly of DOL to not capture the rich diversity of the US workforce)?

As you may know, the US Department of Labor is posting White Christian Nationalist, fascist-style AI #slopaganda for months now. Or, as the Washington Post puts it: «The campaign has drawn scrutiny, with critics saying it is not realistically portraying the diversity of the country’s workforce …»

Los Alamos and U of Michigan want to build a data center in the small town of Ypsilanti. The city's people don't want to help make weapons of mass destruction. The fight is only just starting

New from 404 Media: a small town is fighting a $1.2 billion AI datacenter for America's nuclear weapon scientists. It is fighting the construction of a "high-performance computing facility" that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away. www.404media.co/a-small-town...

"By turning these standing forests into a protected asset, the Tropical Forest Forever Facility, as the new financial instrument is called, seeks to monetize their value as a global public good and give forested nations financial incentives to not destroy them."

I’m no great fan of the ACA. I believe we should guarantee health care as a human right through a single-payer Medicare for All system. But — at minimum — we cannot allow Republicans to destroy our already-broken system by doubling insurance premiums for 20 million Americans.

causal chain flowcharts are always insane but yes it is that serious (+complicated)

everything i learn about the campaign makes total sense. Ganz involved? perfect. “Sometimes, wisdom is recognizing a good thing and supporting it, rather than saying, ‘Oh, this sucks. Do it my way. That’s the arrogance of our political class, and.. consulting industry. But that’s not what this was.”

'prosperity' 'inequality' 'economy' are abstractions and need to be treated as such--important to understand on the macro level and in terms of historical trends, yes, but the original poster seems to want that trend line to map 1:1 onto people's actual experiences of their daily lives. and: what?

One doesn't have to squint very hard to see a bit of defensiveness about these rich guys who lead pretty soft lives and had pretty soft upbringings regarding their "manliness," and it's manifesting in ways that hurts everybody but them.

“Ganz, a political organizing scholar who played a central role in Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, said Mamdani’s team was keen to avoid a widely reported misstep of Obama’s: sidelining the organizing base that elected him.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

An excellent question. The evidence shows pretty persuasively that many Black people don’t use these terms “liberal” or “conservative” in any context. They are terms that are simply not part of lots of people’s political or social lexicon.

“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”

An extension: Poor health makes people more likely to vote far right or drop out of politics. Why? Because prolonged exposure to the healthcare system, social care, HR, would make almost anybody distrustful and resentful. Health-> healthcare -> distrust -> anger expressed in politics

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

The Biden administration was fully complicit in genocide, and anyone who served in it should be held accountable.

“A writer at the Times contacted me to talk. He said he was less interested in Mamdani himself than he was in the Africana Studies part…” On why maybe you shouldn’t talk to the New York Times about Zohran Mamdani.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Low-income households denied SNAP due to administrative barriers suffer downstream consequences. Process-related denials increase debt, delinquencies, and decrease credit scores, from Tatiana Homonoff, Min S. Lee, and Katherine Meckel www.nber.org/papers/w34434

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

Indefensible to argue this belongs in schools.

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

If your mailer addressing Black folks is making me think of a KKK poster you messed up

physiognomy is back baby

If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical, it speaks to how far we’ve drifted from democracy’s core promises. Markets will not beat back the far right. But an antifascist economics might. Mamdani provides a playbook for democrats around the world. My latest www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."