What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.

Has anyone tried a doing limited series-style newsletter before, in which a writer (and, ideally, subscribers) commit to a set number of months/X issues on a specific topic/theme/story? This must exist already, right?

Read Kim's excellent new article, but more importantly, you should give to this GFM. With the amount of $$$ that these women have brought to the state of Nevada, with the sheer amount of traffic they've worked through, they've only raised a little more than a third of their goal in 8 days. Misogyny!

When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast. They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

This thread is now dedicated to organizing aid for trans refugees If you need help or have help to offer, please @ me Instructions and updates to follow in below 🧵 www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

fucking genocidal

I know I post a lot about the more challenging aspects of making it work as a freelance labor reporter, but I truly do love this job so much and wouldn’t trade it for anything

As the Twin Cities prepares for an upcoming week of action scheduled to take place from Feb. 25 through March 1, organizers with the group behind the initiative, “Melt the ICE,” shared some reflections and lessons on ICE resistance tactics with Unicorn Riot. Read in full at website-link to follow.

“Unite & Win” with @haymarketbooks.org this week finds @kimkelly.bsky.social in conversation with Abdullah Farooq and Will on how labor can fight for justice aboard, including pro-Palestine actions and supply chain disruption. 🔗👇

I’m writing an article about the unseen labor it takes to become a successful online adult content creator, and would love to hear from more #spicysky #nsfwsky workers: What’s the hardest or most time-consuming part of your job? What do you wish customers understood about the work you do?

So excited for folks to read this! bookshop.org/p/books/amer...

I’m glad I grew up rural as hell because what do you mean there’s a blizzard coming and you don’t have a chest freezer full of deer meat ready to go

Latest from me at @truthout.org: Right now organizers both inside and outside of Rojava are calling for international solidarity as the region faces an existential threat. I talk with folks at organizations like @defendrojava.bsky.social, the Internationalist Commune and elsewhere about how to help

Truly the hero we need. H.B. Reese is waging a one-man war on Hershey’s for ruining his grandfather’s legacy (and his Peanut Butter Eggs) 🍫 share.inquirer.com/xYjxA3

Trump’s Labor Secretary herself was already under investigation for profligate spending at taxpayer expense—which, as @kimkelly.bsky.social recently pointed out, is just one of the many ways she’s abandoned the needs of workers and sullied the legacy of her department.

Clarifying and answering some of your questions about #grok doxxing me. Thank you @noelleperdue.bsky.social and @404media.co for reporting this story. Stay safe, my friends, and FUCK GROK 💚

@itslotuslain.bsky.social hey Lotus, my friend Snow suggested I reach out—could I interview you for a story?

This week’s “Unite & Win” with @haymarketbooks.org brings @kimkelly.bsky.social and Jorge Mújica together to talk about organizing a multiracial and multilingual workplace, plus how to keep our co-workers safe against ICE and other forms of authoritarianism. 🔗👇

don’t call don’t text don’t message I’m hunkered down in book-writing mode until Monday

my sweetie and I do nice things for each another all the time, but I’m still a sucker for Valentine’s Day ♥️ love rocks

got to speak to a bunch of union members at a community college about labor history and organizing in a hostile political climate last night, I loved it so much!

Solidarity forever with the workers at DC's cat cafe who were put out of work by their union-busting owner after they announced they intended to unionize. www.popville.com/2026/02/crum...

so anyway here’s what my subway stop looks like

hey Philly folks, if you’re interested in learning how to start your own little backyard garden, my sweetie is doing a teach-in at Grindcore House tomorrow at 6:30pm 🌱

Smash ICE, listen to Texas death metal m.youtube.com/watch?v=WU9k...

📖 #LaborHistory for the next generation. @kimkelly.bsky.social talks about Fight to Win, revolutionary spirit, and why labor history belongs in our classrooms. 📻 On NOW on WPFW 89.3 FM and streaming at wpfwfm.org/radio/ 🔗 laborheritage.org #LaborHistory#LaborJournalism #UnionStrong #WorkingClass #YouthVoices

🎙️ This week on the Labor Heritage Power Hour 🎶 Labor music, history, journalism & working-class culture Featuring Mindy Mary, @kimkelly.bsky.social, Carsie Blanton and more! Tune in at 1p on WPFW 89.3 FM in #WashingtonDC or stream at wpfwfm.org/radio/ #WashingtonDC#LaborRadioPod #LaborHistory #UnionStrong

Today in “oh I’m also an author“ I’m working on a media list for this book, coming out in July. Suggestions for folks who might be interested in an advance copy welcome!

On Tuesday Feb 10th, 2026, I was wrongfully terminated from my position at Sheri's Ranch for union activity. unitedbworkers.com Support #UnitedBWorkers #UnitedBrothelWorkers

🌟 Sex workers at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America @cwaunion.bsky.social Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...

🚨 Led by the Free Alabama Movement, incarcerated workers across Alabama are ON STRIKE to protest brutal labor exploitation and inhumane conditions behind the walls 🚨 Watch ‘The Alabama Solution” doc and read on for ways to support their strike: docs.proton.me/doc?mode=ope...

A vivid example of "mission creep" and "libraries aren't essential services except when they're told to be" that are creating a mental health hellscape for library workers. bookriot.com/the-state-of...

Our latest discussion on “Unite & Win” with @haymarketbooks.org features @kimkelly.bsky.social, Atulya Dora-Laskey, and Clarissa Redwine talking about union-busting: how can you get ahead of it and prepare for your boss’s reaction? 🔗👇

The Parker administration is failing so many of our most vulnerable neighbors while hanging our overworked, underpaid library workers out to dry www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

Episode #19 has arrived! poweratwork.us/power-half-h... Joining @mrsethharris.bsky.social: @kimkelly.bsky.social - Writer, @inthesetimes.com Michael Z. Green - Professor of Law, Texas A&M University @jamieson.bsky.social - Labor Reporter, @huffpost.com Catch our next episode on Feb 17th.

A new oral history of #StarbucksWorkersUnited just dropped in the @HaymarketBooks Audio podcast feed, and they let me do some yapping about this historic feat of organizing :)

Tuesday's This is Hell! @inthesetimes.com' Kim Kelly, author of, "Fight Like Hell" (@atriabooks.bsky.social) host of "Unite and Win" at workerorganizing.org, on "A Piece of Work: The Department of Labor’s anti-immigrant turn betrays its history" at @thebaffler.com. www.patreon.com/posts/this-w...

we don’t have a Ring camera, we have a guy down the block named Frank who caught and threatened to stab our local package thief. get yourself a Frank

Join @poweratwork.bsky.social LIVE on LinkedIn TODAY at noon ET/9am PT for Power Half-Hour Ep 19 w/ @kimkelly.bsky.social of @inthesetimes.com, Michael Green of Texas A&M University, and @jamieson.bsky.social of @huffpost.com Hosted by @mrsethharris.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

now that's the power of a union

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

Today the crew of weirdo printers that I call the whistle goblins passed A HALF MILLION whistles printed and shipped. I wrote about how we got there and how you can start printing whistles yourself. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

wrote a cool article tonight

i've genuinely been thinking about this a lot recently let female journalists be UGLY

compact, correct analysis of the situation at WaPo

One thing about the enormous pressure journalists are under to make videos and TikToks and do streams that kills me is that, like… some of us are meant to be read and not seen. Commenters get SO MAD about the way I look whenever my face breaches containment! Just let me write!

Oh hey, looks like it's time to bust out that banger of an article by @kimkelly.bsky.social ! www.thenation.com/article/cult...

A dispatch from Surprise AZ where residents gathered to protest plans for a warehouse concentration camp in their community by @azrww.bsky.social “Despite this evidence of authoritarian power, it is possible for even the most local form of government to take a stand in the name of the people.”

this was so much fun that @wajali.bsky.social miiight have convinced me to resurrect my newsletter and start posting videos there

Bezos & Billionaires Murder The Free Press Bezos can spend $50 million on his wedding, but can't find money to support journalists at the Washington Post. The broligarchy continues its assault on democracy. With @briankarem.bsky.social @kimkelly.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...