Trucks are still at a standstill at the York distribution center, with at least one recently turning around. Starbucks could end this RIGHT NOW by finalizing fair union contracts and putting an end to union-busting! #NoContractNoCoffee

NEW: Chi Ossé, an ally of Mamdani, has filed paperwork to challenge Jeffries from the left.

“It is puzzling that as higher education faces the worst attacks it has ever had to contend with, Len Gutkin seems intent on undermining the AAUP…one of the organizations that has come out fighting in response.” www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

Don’t buy Starbucks! inthesetimes.com/article/star...

Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

“This represents saving higher education, saving public research and the standing up of faculty and staff and students”—AAUP, one of the parties that brought the case against the Trump administration

Protect the University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program! The PPFP is a critical faculty hiring incentive for the UC system & the Provost plans to end it WITHOUT Faculty Senate input. This is a violation of shared governance & academic freedom! Sign onto the letter👇

Later morning reminder: Boycott Starbucks!

DON'T. BUY. ANY. STARBUCKS! (until @sbworkersunited.org strike is over)

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

Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa. Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality. In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

They should all be primaried and so should democratic leadership.

Remember when some of us said the Democratic leadership would take all the wrong lessons from the blue tsunami and squander all the goodwill? Here you go.

Primary all the democrats who capitulated to Tump/republicans' cruel demands and primary democratic leadership who could have fought this but decided not to.

The surrender caucus secured yes votes from Democrats who aren't facing re-election this cycle, but four of them have Democratic governors who can pick their replacement. If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.

U.S. airlines' daily cancellations top 2,000 for the first time since the shutdown cuts began. There were more than 7,000 delays Sunday.

I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave. It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.

"New York is going to turn into a communist hellhole where poor people are barely exploitable anymore. So count me out. I’m packing up the offices of my toxic masculinity troll site and taking my miscreant talents somewhere they’ll be appreciated, like Florida or Texas."

"When I think about our pain in that moment, & then I think about Gazan parents...words generally fail me. We love our son more than anything in the world. We don’t love him more than Palestinian parents love their children. Their love, loss and pain are crushing" inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

Wow, shocking.

New intelligence shocked officials in late 2024, spurring heightened fear of U.S. liability, HuffPost has learned. The period saw Secretary of State Antony Blinken ask if Israel’s actions constituted “ethnic cleansing."

Happening Now: 100+ people rally outside of Apollo Management Group headquartered in NYC to protest its CEO Marc Rowan, the conservative billionaire behind Trump's Higher Ed compact deal that undermines universities ‼️

Our November 7 day of action to defend higher education has taken the country by storm! ✊ “There is only one way forward in saving higher education and democracy writ large and that is students, faculty, staff united...We have to become a new political force.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

Thank you to @sanders.senate.gov for joining hundreds of union Starbucks workers last night after we announced our supermajority-approved strike authorization. If Starbucks doesn’t finalize contracts and end union-busting, we’ll be ready on November 13! ✊

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

MESA and the AAUP have released a critical report exposing the weaponization of civil rights law to suppress campus speech concerning Palestine. Read full report here: mesana.org/advocacy/tas...

A new report published today by the AAUP & @mesa1966.bsky.social finds that the weaponization of civil rights law has been central to attacks on campus speech over the past two years. Only one of 102 antisemitism complaints reviewed raise antisemitism claims unrelated to criticism of Israel. 🧵

"The passage of Proposition MM marks the second time Coloradans have voted to tax themselves to provide meals for public school kids in recent years." coloradosun.com/2025/11/04/p...

Colorado voters have approved raising taxes on households earning over $300,000 to fund meals for all public school students, raise salaries for school meal staff, and bolster SNAP at the state level.

BREAKING: Former FTC chair Lina Khan to serve as co-chair of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral transition team.

“We're ready and willing to go on the biggest strike we’ve ever been on,” said Silvia Baldwin, a Philadelphia barista who is one of the delegates representing @sbworkersunited.org in negotiations. “If the company wants to avoid that, they can settle with us today." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

“Civil Rights Act of 1964 is no longer being used to address racial discrimination in higher education...Instead, Title VI has been repurposed as part of the admin’s broader effort to remake higher education in line w/ its rightwing political & cultural agenda.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Some complaints are just rants with almost no evidence or detail,” noted Darryl Li, a professor at the University of Chicago and co-author of the report. “Government civil rights enforcement is now being driven by the equivalent of a YouTube comment section.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models. OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so. A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.

BREAKING: Three Democratic justices on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court have all won another 10-year term in a retention election. The Court’s 5-2 Democratic majority will remain, giving Democrats the chance to continue using it to protect voting rights. More to come.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of New York City after running on a platform centered on making the city affordable for working people.

BIG BREAKING: Democrat Zohran Mamdani is elected Mayor of New York City, in the largest turnout vote since 1969. He becomes the first Muslim and immigrant mayor of New York City, and the first Muslim to be elected of a major U.S. city.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

Democratic socialism WINS in Atlanta! Meet your new ATL City Councilperson for District 2, and former ATLDSA co-chair, Kelsea Bond!

this is genuinely wild

D leaders in Congress need to go. Enough. Make way for next generation!!!

Wow

Democrat Larry Krasner, a national figurehead for reform prosecutors, has won reelection as Philadelphia’s district attorney.

BREAKING: NBC News projects: Ghazala Hashmi (D) wins Virginia Lieutenant Governor. Democrat Gain.

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Please primary Schumer, please. And Jeffries too!