Walia reminds us that calls to abolish ICE must be rooted in a broader abolitionist politick, as ICE is a bipartisan piece of the carceral machine. Abolishing ICE means abolishing the DHS means abolishing borders means abolishing all carceral systems.

This is nicely put. The machine that subordinates all life to its own algorithm of self-expansion is already operating: It’s called capital. www.newyorker.com/science/anna...

Randi Weingarten promotes guardrails for AI like people who don‘t want abolition call for police reforms.

"it’s receiving donations through its JPMorgan account"

I’ve said it before and will say it a few more times. When Trump 2.0 came for accreditation I knew we had crossed into a different era of white reclamation. Precise, focused, stealth. Anyway, you probably don’t want these reforms.

“As people continue to organize for a better future, we're likely to see more surveillance and criminalization of this opposition, just as we have of Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and environmental movements in recent decades…”

Lawsuit says university and private investigators conspired to intimidate, terrorize and retaliate against Josiah Walker

I suppose that should read abolishing instead of reforming, because that's what I'm really getting at

Like Friedrich Engels said, “Capitalists are always organised.” And many of us workers are not. New report shows “U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidance.” www.epi.org/publication/...

Banks have never collected customers’ citizenship information before. Now, in an order titled “Restoring Integrity to America’s Financial System,” Donald Trump will make them. trib.al/09dh35e

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

New video out now! Watch our panel titled ""Against Surveillance & Spectacle: Building Global Resistance to Tech-Mediated Oppression," featuring @vashetc.bsky.social , Kim Fernandes, & Cheng-Hsiu (Shin) Yang in conversation w/ @remiyergeau.bsky.social youtu.be/GXEjOPdpfa0?...

Lots of tech companies are releasing surveillance specs & I’m reminded of the internal Meta memo to put facial rec in their glasses during a “dynamic political environment” because people will be too focused on other issues to resist. Companies think now is the right time to foist these on us all.

What could go wrong?

Here for this

Congrats to Penn State faculty on unionizing.

Researching while Chinese: The full story of what is happening to Chinese postdocs--and faculty members--at the University of Michigan and Indiana University www.science.org/content/arti...

On AI, Arundhati Roy, in 2018: “I do see a time when the masters of the universe will decide that the universe is a better place without most of the population. Artificial intelligence is a way of becoming the perfect human being, which fascists have always thought about: the supreme human being.”

Do many people know that the ICC judges, once sanctioned by the US, almost immediately lost access to credit cards, google, amazon & microsoft cloud, etc. www.ft.com/content/4c3a...

Me! I am one of those academics and you can be one too!

Wrote an article for Truthout about how the recent SCOTUS decision and how it and this administration has sought to impose Jim Crow through "colorblind" means smh

“I’ve worked on Wall Street. I’ve worked in the government. I’ve worked at a nonprofit trying to pass tougher rules on banks and Big Tech. I joke that I’ve cased the joint, and now I’m ready for the heist—except it’s not a heist, because it’s our money. They stole it first.“

my team at @ainowinstitute.bsky.social is hiring three new roles: a program associate, comms associate, and senior operations director. come join us in the fight to shape the future of AI in the public interest! more details here: bit.ly/49jMZe7

New in #Academe: "What Does AI Do?" by @uam-umd.bsky.social Vice President Daniel Greene www.aaup.org/issue/spring...

If you accept that these folks support and are enacting white supremacy, so much becomes clear. You don't to worry about interpersonal issues. White supremacy is a coherent world view.

The drama that could be posted on social media but isn‘t

"The strikers have shared a list of demands ... The top three are that ICE officials speak with them to explain why they are being held, that they be released on bond as happened in the past, and that decisions about their status need to come more quickly, since many have been waiting for mo[nths]."

Why worry whether a case has merit when you can screw your enemies just with an indictment?

Always wild to fly over the WH and see a third of it missing

This meant immigrants no longer needed a smuggler. Instead, they just had to register at the camps, and give their biometric data. Unbeknownst to them, it went right into a CBP database, part of what Honduras did to earn $1.6 billion in aid from the US between FY 2015 and 2024.

After facing pressure from AAUP Penn and other organizations, a federal judge has delayed the order for the University of Pennsylvania to comply with the Trump administration and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's subpoena to hand over a list of Jewish faculty and students. Read more ⬇️

“Police learned from—in some cases, literally stole ideas from—organized labor without preserving the fundamental principle of solidarity at the core of the labor movement.” @stschrader1.bsky.social on his new book, BLUE POWER: HOW POLICE ORGANIZED TO PROTECT AND SERVE THEMSELVES:

NEW today in the New York Times: In the face of unprecedented authoritarian attacks, the AAUP is building a powerful and militant resistance movement in defense of American higher education, the freedom to learn, and our democracy. Join Us!

Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.

"I will remember the discussions we had in this class for the rest of my life" Me, too, students, thank you

I think absolutely everyone should read this. It offers simple and well thought out ways that the Mamdani Administration can counter the targeting of working class immigrants in NYC by both predatory financial services and the federal government

"I'd never ask someone to give up one iota of their integrity, but..."

"On April 23, Citizens Bank will hold its annual meeting...We need your help to make sure that they are aware of the damage Citizens is doing to its brand by continuing to bankroll the for-profit ICE detention companies" www.de-icecitizensbank.org/toolkit

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It really did, glad the semester is ending

You’re most likely the one called to build the community you crave and can’t find.

In 2024 The Conversation had 8.3M in revenue and 7.8M in expenses and paid $0 to writers. Is that really ok with you? projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

Forgot I wrote this: "We need the USPS. We do not need Wells Fargo"...or even the NYTimes truthout.org/articles/wel...

"Kali Akuno—co-founder of Cooperation Jackson and a lifelong movement builder—is facing a serious and urgent health crisis. He needs immediate access to specialized cardiac care that he simply cannot get in Mississippi." please give what you can if you can! chuffed.org/project/1771...