Two things: The federal government is starving the public but plans to buy warehouses for mega detention centers. The plan is for detention centers to be run and staffed by the government. We can’t limit our critiques of the prison industrial complex to privatization! apple.news/A-w34SnpqSzq...

We're hosting "Writing and Resistance" a workshop and conversation with KIESE LAYMON, ROBERT JONES, JR. and DEESHA PHILYAW on Dec. 14! All proceeds will go to the Sameer Project. Join us! Register: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/wri...

“The world faces greater levels of inequality, injustice, and authoritarianism, with a growing concentration of financial and technological power that deepens poverty and limits the autonomy of countries in the Global South” peoplesdispatch.org/2025/11/06/t...

Sigh...

🚨NEW: The FCC has voted to raise calling rates for incarcerated people – a move that bends to the will of telecomm companies, jails and prisons, while saddling poor families with higher costs. Now, prices could hike as much as 83% 🧵

Important new report out from AAUP & MESA, “The data…offers a detailed account of how landmark civil rights legislation – and particularly Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act – has become a primary tool to restrict speech on campus.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

According to the report, “only one of 102 antisemitism complaints the authors reviewed raises antisemitism claims unrelated to criticism of Israel” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Then when the bubble bursts, the US taxpayers will already be on the hook. “Too big to fail” redux. Meanwhile these folks will continue to collect on their massive compensation packages.

As federal funding for states shrink, people are taking back control, building public banks owned by communities. Join a national conversation with movement leaders + Senator Elizabeth Warren to reclaim local funds for housing, climate & more! Nov 19, 12 PM PT/3PM ET bit.ly/PBC2C

this great article by @debtcollective.bsky.social lays out really clearly what's been on my mind all day: everybody better get real familiar with municipal finance real quick www.inthered.org/p/zohran-won...

"Deutsche Bank is exploring ways to hedge its exposure to data centres after extending billions of dollars in debt to the sector to keep up with demand for artificial intelligence and cloud computing."

Let's be clear though. It took 3 minutes to declare a Muslim, Socialist, young, brown, immigrant's electoral victory over a former governor of New York State who is Democratic party establishment through-and-through. Maybe we should learn something from this. Just a thought.

I work with an exceptional doctoral candidate who is studying the blood plasma industry. Amazing work on a wild biotechnology. Can‘t wait to share her findings

i think this is an answer to the question about how excited people are to vote for Mamdani

Tonight’s virtual event to launch How to End Family Policing, featuring a conversation with @interruptcrim.bsky.social’s @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @movfamilypower.bsky.social’s Erin Miles Cloud, and professor Dorothy Roberts has been postponed. Sign up for notice of new date

Holy fuck! No wonder they're so desperate for AI to pop off gigantic! It's just a ponzi scheme.

Me: “The fixation on causal estimates is not the appropriate direction social science…What descriptive analysis provides us with are facts. Facts are nouns. Causal analysis gives us contextual estimates. They are adjectives. In the grammar of social science, we should prefer nouns to adjectives.”

Since this person screenshotted me and I can’t detach, I will point out that they are wrong. The market for fake imagery exists. People do not care if the image is accurate, only that it fits their racism.

😭 please, no "This free, interactive workshop is designed to provide practical tools and insights to help you navigate financial challenges with confidence. Whether you’re looking to stretch your budget...or simply make smarter choices at the grocery store, this event is for you!"

Many claim we can’t have public goods and services cuz of taxes but this myth keeps us deprived and mad. There is enough (public) money but it’s an issue of political priorities. To learn more, check out this @haymarketbooks.org panel I co-organized in 2020. www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/258-pu...

My kid is dressing up as six seven for Halloween

Undoing the deeply internalized individualism that lives in most of us who grow up in capitalism is a massive undertaking of unlearning.

"You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be, and you do choose how you want to think." – Grace Lee Boggs

The destruction is devastating; naming storms after oil execs and other billionaires is such a good idea

A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o... @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is unmatched. Read her latest piece—and everything else she writes.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump “We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.” www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

"...appear to be typical of an investment strategy whereby donors, aided by university administrators and regents, circumvent faculty governance in order to treat universities like incubators or, worse, as click-farms to inflate the user data seemingly keeping the AI investment machine humming."

Many progressive and leftist pundits argue that caring about racism is an elite agenda. While we should be critical of how race is weaponized by institutions for reactionary purposes, posing critiques of racism as elite suggests one must accept racism as class politics and discredits racial justice.

I saw someone post what is a graham planter and that's where I'd prefer my level of involvement with the current Internet discourse

All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!

An amazing tool for advocating on your own campuses against the Compact (so much gratitude to @genevievelakier.bsky.social, @veenadubal.bsky.social, and @aaup.org writing this incredibly incisive letter that we can all use) 👀 👀 👀

Wtf is a TEST of a ceasefire?!?!??!?

all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

What Tressie says below is essentially the point of my @insidehighered.com column today. We know what students need (and want) and it has nothing to do with the pivot to AI. In fact, it's more like the opposite. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Last night I read part of a letter June Jordan wrote to Alice Walker and this is so beautiful. We do what we can. ”We do what we can. And by doing it, we keep ourselves trusting, which is to say, vulnerable, and more than that, what can anyone ask?”

"Bad-faith actors want the moral superiority of being stigmatized. But some behavior is, well, shameful" www.nytimes.com/2022/04/12/o...

"At this very dangerous moment, some will turn to the scholar-activist model. That is fine. But I might suggest a more intentional focus on how we think about and build a broad movement in the academy—one intent on reimagining the university and our role in it" www.bostonreview.net/articles/bui...

JOIN US this Thursday, October 16th at 6:00 PM Eastern for a special roundtable with the authors of the recently published papers in Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work on "Thinking and Practicing Abolition Through Palestine." REGISTER HERE: www.bit.ly/APSWRoundtable

I have a new paper out in @ersjournal.com, through a special issue on the mechanisms of racism, co-edited by @amandalewisphd.bsky.social and #EduardoBonilla-Silva. 50 free eprints at link www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2WFQ9...

This Indigenous Peoples' Day, it's a good time to review how Land Grant Universities have profited from stolen lands. This article only covers Land Grants; many other universities (U of Michigan, for example) have benefited similarly. (1/2) www.landgrabu.org

Over the last year, I've been supporting groups of faculty to go through organizing trainings. Another training starts tonight with a new group of 10, so looking forward to it

Got a paper accepted to a conference at a prestigious uni business school that was going to end up costing 50% of my travel funds to attend. I asked for a waived or reduced conference fee. Instead, without any other reply, they rescinded my offer of acceptance, lol

"Remaining in the city was impossible, as Israeli forces killed anyone who refused to leave. At the same time, we also knew that life in tents — stripped of the most basic necessities and overshadowed by the uncertainty of whether we would ever return home — was simply another form of death."

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

My students read about Cop City in Atlanta this week; a notable percentage had never heard of it or knew the hashtag but not the movement

We have agreed that attempting to maintain a habitable planet is not in shareholders' interests.

Deadline extended!!! The Program Committee has decided to extend the deadline to October 12, 2025. Proposals can be 400-600 words. If you are submitting a symposium or workshop proposal, word limits are more flexible. Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions! #decolonialconference