Our political discourse pits identity politics against economic populism. But the choice is false and contributes to incredible confusion about the working class across the political spectrum. For @hammerandhope.bsky.social I show why and sketch an alternative (sorry to crosspost):

Hendrik de Man channeling @dieworkwear.bsky.social

Favorite pope, Leo Favorite drink, O'Doul's Bears, Hawks, Sox, Bulls

He was so real for this

One of the great gags of the moment is the DHS spox using the Berkeley Free Speech movement as the banner on her account, where she posts about deporting academics.

Guess the author

more and more these days, I find myself thinking that you can accept the discipline of your political goals or you can accept the discipline of your resentments.

If I didn’t know better, I’d be shocked by the unchecked meanness and pettiness Mike highlights here. How embarrassing for everyone.

Two days after Michael was killed, I wrote this short piece about what he meant to me – and more importantly, what he meant to us. It was the hardest thing I've ever written. Thanks to @versobooks.bsky.social for running it.

The way that university officials have begun to treat “peaceful” and “disruptive” as antonyms, when they in fact are not antonyms, is the kind of violence to language that one expects of authoritarians

I just learned that you can pre-order books as part of @versobooks.bsky.social's end of year sale. The Master's Tools will be out Jan 7. Throw it in your cart before Jan 1 for some chunky discounts. www.versobooks.com/products/755...

Forget therapy…this is what I need

Call me crazy but I don't think the Harris campaign modeled itself on the Popular Front

This is currently the plan at my campus & is a nat’t blueprint for mid sized state colleges across the country. We need a federal funding/tenure plan for public higher ed such as Jayapal/Sanders advocated: it should be the critical focus of all organizing www.miamistudent.net/article/2023...

absolutely devastating review of deboer and mounk. honestly, just the fact that tanenhaus is reviewing them together is indictment enough.

Teaching Engels this week and was reminded of this banger of a line: “Only barbarians are able to rejuvenate a world in the throes of collapsing civilization.”