As someone said to me today, academia is full of high stress and low stakes

@alexisgoldstein.bsky.social is a real one and she's running for Congress. www.democracynow.org/2026/2/18/al...?

I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...

Popping up across Brooklyn... All of the people featured in the windows are Black people.

I'm working with a doctoral candidate who is studying plasma donation for her (amazing) dissertation project (multi-site, multi-year data, etc.). I wish a foundation would give her a generous fellowship so she could spend more time writing. Because it's gonna to be something folx will want to read

Pruning is definitely the hardest part for me of this whole tree growing thing, deciding what to let go of

"Good morning, I'm writing in response to the email you sent me in November..."

"These are the times to grow our souls. Each of us is called upon to embrace the conviction that despite the powers and principalities bent on commodifying all our human relationships, we have the power within us to create the world anew." --Grace Lee Boggs

No one has seriously said LLMs aren’t important or that AI is categorically junk. Some of us have said that there is something bigger than tech. It’s called power — governance, civic norms, etc — & refusal is absolutely part of how we think soberly about that power. Who has it & how they use it.

Our AAUP chapter statement on solidarity with workers and families impacted by ICE, in Minnesota, Michigan, and beyond umaaup.org/2026/02/09/a...

What could go wrong.

If you hated that Ring ad, have I got a book for you.

How interesting that only racism has no explanatory power.

🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social. 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy 𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below. We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

“You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)

Call for abstracts: Money and Power in Social Work Research, a special issue of Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work ⬇️ apsw-ojs-uh.tdl.org/apsw/announc...

“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.

Call for abstracts for a special issue of APSW guest edited by @terrifriedline.bsky.social. I am so grateful for all of our special issue guest editors and for all of the authors who have trusted us with their work! I am so excited about this special issue. For the full call visit APSWjournal.com

Call for abstract submissions to Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work! Bring your best critical and abolitionist scholarship to questions about money and power www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Call for abstract submissions to Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work! Bring your best critical and abolitionist scholarship to questions about money and power www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Hearing ICE targeted the parents at bus stops as they waited for their kids to arrive in -10 cold.

Important letter from the University of Michigan AAUP chapter and @aaup.org national challenging the expansion of surveillance practices at our university: umaaup.org/2026/01/23/a...

My latest, co-written w/ @edgeofsports.bsky.social "What It Took to Save a Soccer Field in Palestine." The good news arrived at the same time that Swiss parliament is scrutinizing UEFA's tax-exemptions over Israel’s attacks on Gaza & the West Bank @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

📢 CALL FOR PITCHES We're seeking pitches for a story about orgs working in Black communities to do air monitoring & addressing asthma in light of the news that the EPA will *no longer consider* public health benefits in limiting deadly air pollutants. #️⃣1500 words 💌[email protected] 🙋Guidelines!

It was inevitable.

DETROIT: The Practicing New Worlds Study Circle series at The Boggs Center kicks off on 1/22, with a book signing featuring our co-founder Andrea J. Ritchie, author of Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies. 📖 📍 Boggs Center, 3061 Field St. in Detroit 🗓️ Thursday, January 22, 6-8pm

“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough. Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Strangest of all is the liberal pipe dream that local police will stand up against ICE and CBP, when police have collaborated with ICE and been deployed to protect agents from protesters, even in so-called sanctuary cities." An interview with Robin D.G. Kelley www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...

Anyone who has read Copaganda knows that we are in the crucial early moments of virality after an extra-judicial police murder. It's extremely important for ICE that the media plays along with the idea that what happened is contested and there are multiple perspectives.

“At least 35 people died in ICE custody last year. That is not a failure of training. That is the manufacturing of premature death. And what we want is an end to that violence — however it’s dealt out, however it’s dressed up, however it’s defended.”

Starting tomorrow, the Trump administration is set to send notices to 1,000 student loan borrowers (first round) noticing them of an intent to garnish their wages for student loan debt. This is cruel and unnecessary. Join the meeting below to get educated and fight back.

Israel violently smashed through the gates of Birzeit University in the West Bank, shooting 5 students and injuring dozens more with tear gas. The world cannot continue providing Israel with weapons to attack Palestinians.

“An abolitionist education means asking generative questions in the service of freedom-making and liberation for all.“ An interview with @prisonculture.bsky.social in @rethinkingschools.bsky.social

In a recent Hammer &Hope newsletter, Robin D.G. Kelley wrote about supporting the magazine's crucial, independent work. Join him — and help us become self-sustaining — by becoming a monthly donor today: hammerandhope.org/membership

Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of racism gets at why it's not something that can be ignored: "the state-sanctioned and/or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death". --- THE PREMATURE DEATH part is not something that can be "ignored"

Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.

Absolutely stunning that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft were able to buy off an entire teachers’ union for just $23 million.

the vice president is a klansman

"My most daring idea is to refuse...I think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future, than the one that is telling us that the future is already settled and decided"

"Over the past 11 months, consumers filed 253,000 complaints about collection companies to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), up from 140,000 during the same period in 2024." But that's A-okay according to Trump Toady Russ Vought. www.forbes.com/sites/jeffka...

I listened to this on my morning run, which seemed a fitting way to learn from Tamara on abolition in practice

There is a lot to contend with in this from @thrasherxy.bsky.social. I’m increasingly coming to this conclusion that schools aren’t capitulating, they are collaborating.

I know too many people (researchers) excited for tr*mp accounts

I really enjoyed this book. Congratulations to Justene Hill Edwards. macmillan.yale.edu/stories/yale...

Join leadership and experts from @aaup.org AI team and Mijente for an online press conference on the urgent concerns about Palantir Technologies' involvement with the Department of Education. fedscoop.com/palantir-edu... TOMORROW Wednesday, December 17, 4PM ET Register here: bit.ly/4p3iCh7

Last week, the New School issued voluntary separation & early retirement offers to 40% of the full-time faculty & the majority of non-union staff. These cuts to the bone are an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry & social justice. Share our statement tr.ee/qQBIDCpIuj

The goal of the Trump administration is an ethnic cleansing that is actively being enacted, and that promises to destroy the diversity & freedoms that were ever the strength of this imperfect nation. My latest in @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...