A sobering and hopeful analysis from Nikhil Pal Singh: www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

A sobering and hopeful analysis from Nikhil Pal Singh: www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis

UPDATE: Palestine Studies Search is back up! They could delay us and annoy us, but they could not keep us down. Please apply, share with friends, cannot wait to meet our new colleagues. hrsa.cunyfirst.cuny.edu/psp/erecruit...

The library and the post office are the only two systems we have that circulate things widely and to everyone, no matter who they are or what they believe. The library is the only one that, for now, is not forced to pay for itself at point of sale. Attacks on IMLS are attacks on every one of us.

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“Today there isn’t a single state, city or county in the United States where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a median-priced two-bedroom apartment.” Not a *single* state, city, or county, people! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/o...

The Hatch Act's restrictions on engaging in partisan political activity are narrower than federal employees have been led to believe, and the AFGE has also advised they don't apply to union activity. Labor Notes Editor Jenny Brown reports: labornotes.org/2025/02/fede...

"It’s a familiar Silicon Valley mindset, the reason startups are forever reinventing a bus, or a bodega, or mail. It’s the implacable confidence that if you’re smart at one thing you must be smart at all of the things." www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

Saw someone say, "End your friendships with people who are going about life like nothing is wrong." I will never understand people who think that further isolating ourselves from everyday people who don't get it is going to save us. It's not. Your judgment and disdain will not save us.

A beautiful portal into the creative process: x.com/dusttodigita...

Social media is getting worse. Every platform, the whole internet really. It’s all enshittified, and I worry that a lot of us are coming to like it. It’s easy to enjoy, when we should be freeing the internet from the shackles of profit and oligarchy. My latest: www.jphilll.com/p/everything...

🚨BOYCOTT STARBUCKS🚨 Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store between Dec. 20 -Dec. 24 while the workers are on strike! Here’s how to support: x.com/sbworkersuni...

We are thrilled to announce new Ph.D. and master’s programs in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies (BRES), the first such programs in the New York metropolitan area! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/cuny-gr...

Citing the union’s history of opposing apartheid and fighting for justice, UAW president Shawn Fain—who represents 400,000 workers across the country and just won a historic strike—has just called for a ceasefire in Israel and Palestine. THIS is what real union leadership looks like.