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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

It’s the holidays, so please buy my book. It’s a great gift for anyone who’s ever thought about destroying their student loan company, and it weighs enough to throw at your relatives who say shit like “but in 1972, college only cost a quarter!” www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Pa...

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...

People should be more embarrassed with themselves

Doctoral candidate from UM SSW has an amazing dissertation in process on this very topic ⬇️

Do what you can to end suffering.

Also I picked a helluva time to become very into fútbol and I've quickly developed strong opinions

In this mid/late career stage, I'm finding I need to set up new practices for writing and research. The practices that worked for me before served different projects, ideas, timelines, etc. As I stretch into new areas, I also need new practices

the answer to so many questions is Unionize Your Workplace

White supremacy. The colour of the year!

"At least $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years, the bank calculates."

Public Banking Coast to Coast brought in people from 39 states to talk about how public banks lower costs, keep dollars local & fund what communities need. Watch the recording: youtu.be/nUQM4uVb6sA Q&A + resources: capublicbanking.com/thanks-for-j...

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This week, I talk to @tamaranopper.bsky.social about abolition in practice — how people learn through engagement with state violence, what gets in the way of developing shared analysis, and why abolitionists need to take recruitment and counter-recruitment seriously.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

What is unique about our measure is that we aggregate wealth at the level of the municipality: the funding base for many critical public services. This allows us to capture the important difference between (1) a *wealthy neighborhood* in a larger municipality, and (2) a *wealthy municipality*

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.

I've been annoyed that I'm teaching 4 classes again next semester (including 3, 1-credit classes [triple the # of students]). But, I'm a good teacher, so an email today from a former student was lovely, "I wanted to thank you so much for both your ability to teach and your trust in your students..."

Special thanks to our Public Banking panelists who broke down the impact & what’s ahead: Trinity Tran @trinitytran.bsky.social, Dey Del Rio @neweconomyproject.bsky.social, Dr. @terrifriedline.bsky.social, Linda Levy, Rei Fielder & moderator David Cobb, @democracycollab.bsky.social

Top JPMC execs were in constant contact with Epstein and were aware of his shady financials. Top staff at JPMC, reporting directly to CEO Jamie Dimon, closely supervised Epstein’s accounts. One even coached Epstein on how to sanitize his suspiciously large cash withdrawals.

These thoughts also came from wondering why it was so accessible for politicians to express care about wealthbuilding and the wealth gap. (back when they did for a moment). as compared to what other types of programs that they could be supporting otherwise?

The response to this sort of thing cant be ‘do it somewhere else’ or ‘put it in Detroit.’ It has to be ‘No.’ www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

This week, join us for a conversation exploring how cities and states are moving to reclaim public money for the public good Tuesday, November 19, 2025 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET Register on Zoom: bit.ly/PBC2C

Had a lot of fun recording this! Thanks to @anikacolliernavaroli.com and @techpolicypress.bsky.social for the opportunity. www.techpolicy.press/through-to-t...

Something everyone needs to know about @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Alice Wong was her commitment to Palestine. Just a year ago, she & I wrote a letter in @literaryhub.bsky.social defending six Palestinian journalists. Sadly, Alice now joins two of them on the other side: Anas al-Sharif & Hossam Shabat

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

Heritage is to Fuentes what the White Citizens Councils were to the Klan. White supremacists fellow travelers who agree on goals but differ on strategy and tactics.

"Ms. Adams said her class, a graduate-level course with 24 students, included discussion of racism because it often comes up in social work, a profession that has embraced the idea of social justice...the dean of social work is listed as the complainant" 👀 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this: u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.

✨ New Essay! ✨ We argue that loan-based finance perpetuates capitalist interests & constraints that undercut efforts to address social & climate crises. Public banking is vital, to be sure; but we must fight for public banks that are empowered to issue grants, not merely loans. Please share! 👩‍💻 🙌

My piece on John Fetterman and how media overlooks racism and Islamophobia. Many thanks to the people who have read this over the years, helping me figure out what I was trying to write and what version of the ideas I wanted to share terrifriedline.medium.com/how-media-ov...

Indiana University removed a Lecturer from her "Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice" course after a student filed a complaint about a graphic the instructor showed in class, which included "Make America Great Again" as an example of "Covert White Supremacy." www.wfyi.org/news/article...

Yes we have a new zine for people who are interested: www.librariesforthepeople.org/resources#fo...

What if I told you that the University of Michigan was one of the most infamous offenders of faculty and student rights during McCarthyism? It feels like their current moves targeting student protestors are in alignment with this dubious honor. specials.michigandaily.com/2025/opinion...