yes. It's why I've been grateful to the Debt collective for making it more publicly visible how many regular people are drowning in debt and that this is NOT SHAMEFUL. This is capitalism.

"We need every single person in order to build supermajorities"

Next reading group! Extractive Capitalism by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social.

If you're in Michigan, come join us Imagining and Building a Better World for Black Families: A Conversation with Dorothy Roberts and Joyce McMillan Thursday, April 16th from 1pm-2:30pm EST Michigan Union, Pendleton Room In-person, free and open to the public

Please help us get closer to our $10K goal to keep families ripped apart by ICE reunited in love and safety 💜

NEW: University of Michigan Chinese researcher dies after allegedly "hostile questioning" by federal agents www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

A sad use of chatbots: doctoral students getting feedback on their writing when faculty advisors are too busy or unresponsive. The loss of the experience of a person engaging with your ideas, marking up your paper. Not that this is aways rosy, but I can't imagine doctoral education without it

If you're in Michigan, come join us Imagining and Building a Better World for Black Families: A Conversation with Dorothy Roberts and Joyce McMillan Thursday, April 16th from 1pm-2:30pm EST Michigan Union, Pendleton Room In-person, free and open to the public

I think one of the things about bluesky is that for a lot of its users, it represents a kind of retirement from social media. Like I’m tired and I want to get out of the game

“Seven cases may not seem like a lot, but it is, and it’s hundreds and hundreds of contacts that our staff have to follow up on and monitor,” Jimena Loveluck, the department’s health officer, told the Washtenaw County Board of Health on March 27.

“Our results suggest that [banks’ overdraft fee] policy changes were not substantial enough to significantly reduce the financial stress of the more vulnerable households“ Banks basically said this when advertising their policy changes www.nber.org/system/files...

"Mr. Musk is requiring banks, law firms, auditors and other advisers working on the I.P.O. to buy subscriptions to Grok...Some of the banks have agreed to spend tens of millions on the chatbot, and they have already started integrating Grok into their I.T. systems," www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/b...

“Plaintiffs accuse Klarna of making loans without traditional underwriting or income verification — a business model they argue ‘eerily resembles the pre–Great Recession subprime mortgage strategy.’”

Only two more weeks of 9 hours in-person instruction, I'm gonna make it I realize this amount of weekly instruction is low even for some folx in academia! But it's definitely a lot for my research focused position

Someone sent me this.

A city caseworker at a NYC shelter made a referral for a shelter resident, directing him to show up... at ICE's New York headquarters—the same building where he had already been detained once, only freed after lawyers filed a habeas petition. hellgatenyc.com/city-worker-...

MICHIGAN PEEPS!!! If you’re around, come through and get a FREE BOOK at @umich.edu and @umfordschool.bsky.social on APRIL 7. I'd love to see you!!! (If you're from Detroit, I am extending an extra special invitation to you) Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/anna-gifty...

I’ve been thinking a lot about Davis’ book, Police Against the Movement, and wondering whether strategies from 1960s era of going to international bodies like the UN to embarrass the US govt into civil rights, eg., Du Bois’ work, we charge genocide, etc., are still applicable today and how

Major Canadian banks and pension funds provided ***tens of billions of dollars ***to American contractors for ICE toronto.citynews.ca/2026/03/30/c...

Where was this energy when OpenAI showed up at the door with a very small bag of money.

Adding this to the meme folder

How nice that their exploitative reliance on the USPS all these years gave them plenty of time to figure this out

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has awarded Palantir a contract to investigate the watchdog’s internal intelligence data in an effort to help it tackle financial crime, which includes investigating fraud, money laundering and insider trading. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

When people ask me about restoring trust in higher ed, there's a reason I bring up presidents calling the police on their students and how I find it curious those students' trust is never a concern

A thousand NYU contingent faculty went on strike Monday and today they have a real contract with real security in one of the most expensive places on earth

I swear this semester is trying to kill me

I tried to unpack what I think is media's inaccurate label of Fetterman's actions as a "betrayal" The article is paywalled for me, looking forward to reading it and know the authors likely didn't choose the headline—and it uses the betrayal framing terrifriedline.medium.com/how-media-ov...

A pamphlet: newest counter-recruitment resource, Beyond Border Patrol: What CBP Recruiters Won’t Tell You www.warresisters.org/store/beyond...

Check out this new report published today providing the first in-depth, industry-wide examination of how #academicfreedom has been written into collective bargaining agreements across American higher ed. 👀 This report is useful for anyone hoping to collectively bargain meaningful AF protections.

"In The Edge of Space-Time, I declare that the universe is too fucking fabulous for capitalism. It is also too fucking fabulous for securitization, y’all. Our cosmic freedom dreams are a vital response to securitization"

It's official! This Spring, #TheDoubleTax is back on the road and may be coming to a city near you. See you soon: Austin, Atlanta, Ann Arbor, Cambridge, Williamstown, and Boston! All tickets can be found at: annagifty.com/thedoubletax #womenshistorymonth #blacksky #booksky

"Dismantling what remains of civil rights–era laws and policies is necessary to bury the radical legacy of the civil rights movement, which, at its core, was...about materially improving the lives of all Black people and ultimately of all the have-nots"

But seriously we are on the precipice of the demise of the USPS and too overwhelmed with crises to give it proper attention. The Constitution will not save it, the admin wants it dead, and Republicans in Congress are on permanent vacation. No one is coming to save it unless we show them it matters.

Yes, that’s the issue. I’ve been trying to find a way to articulate this: to the extent that LLMs serve a purpose in education, it’s an indictment of the education system, not a praiseworthy feature of LLMs.

"The glitch meant they were able to view charges and payments made by other people... [previous] banking app issues left customers unable to view their own recent transactions or make payments—as opposed to exposing the financial details of other people" www.bbc.com/news/article...

New: In a pretty straightforward calculation I'm surprised I hadn't seen done before, researchers at @consumerfed.bsky.social looked at how much people report in the scam losses to FBI + the most reliable study on how underreported scams go, and calculated we're losing $119 billion a year at least.

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#OtD 9 Mar 1910 the Westmoreland County Coal Strike began in PA, where 15,000 miners, mostly Slovak migrants, shut down 65 mines for over a year. Police violence & hardship eventually forced them to give in stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1092...

When politicians don't honor their promises, our work is to make them. To do that, we have to build enough power to make them. I understand why people get disappointed but this is unfortunately how things work in politics.

This week has been an extremely long year in academia, and it's spring break no less

But since we are there, having some uses for accessibility does not make it accessibility tech because accessibility includes thoughtful, transparent affordances for safety, wellbeing, privacy, and autonomy.

Happening now in Chicago's federal plaza: A rally is underway in solidarity with trans people in Kansas whose drivers' licenses were suddenly invalidated last week, due to the enactment of a new state law that requires a person's gender on their license to match their assigned sex at birth.

If I can finish the two I'm currently working on, my next book will be about how disciplines discipline

What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.

In my teenage years I spent a lot of time listening to Buddy Guy and trying to learn to play guitar, I love this

Don’t believe them when they say it’s inevitable.

“We are taking back your papers, you have no papers now” is even more chilling than “show us your papers”

LIVE NOW! Reading Frantz Fanon Join us for the fourth session of a hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and @abolitionschool.bsky.social. Stream here:

Banks already have a history of asking customers about their citizenship status AND sharing info with police. What's new is a possible federal govt *requirement* for banks to check and report citizenship of both new and existing customers (a change that could/should involve a rulemaking process)

Until this country reckons with police and policing, nothing will improve.