Terri Friedline
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I’m not disengaged, I’m trying to practice better labor politics | Not an asshole | Opinions my own
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Hammer and Hope
22 days ago
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
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Prisonculture
5 days ago
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"
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Chad Loder
9 days ago
Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.
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Andrew J Douglas
9 days ago
Absolutely stunning that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft were able to buy off an entire teachers’ union for just $23 million.
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jamelle
11 days ago
the vice president is a klansman
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"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"
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CFPB Union
15 days ago
"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...
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Why Debt Collectors Have Declared Open Season On Consumers
With federal oversight in retreat, deep-pocketed collection companies are aggressively pursuing down-and-out consumers who are struggling with record levels of credit card debt. Meanwhile, consumer…
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2025/12/15/why-debt-collectors-have-declared-open-season-on-consumers/
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I listened to this on my morning run, which seemed a fitting way to learn from Tamara on abolition in practice
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Victor Ray
16 days ago
There is a lot to contend with in this from
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. I’m increasingly coming to this conclusion that schools aren’t capitulating, they are collaborating.
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I know too many people (researchers) excited for tr*mp accounts
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Kevin M. Levin
16 days ago
I really enjoyed this book. Congratulations to Justene Hill Edwards.
macmillan.yale.edu/stories/yale...
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Yale Announces 2025 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition has announced the winner of the twenty-seventh annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize.
https://macmillan.yale.edu/stories/yale-announces-2025-frederick-douglass-book-prize-winner?fbclid=IwY2xjawOuoQ9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETF0S25PUHFtaGRRc25xNW5Rc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHqN_QOPFhInLDlYBVPHBewzyPoD-TGFkh_KB0z1_vH_fK52t9IOW7SrLHDu1_aem_2-A5eLVXilupgsWUvrX3wA
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britt paris
17 days ago
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
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: AAUP Press Conference: Why is the ED Contracting with Palantir?. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are convening a press conference on the urgent concerns about Palantir Technologies' involvement in the ...
https://bit.ly/4p3iCh7
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The New School AAUP
19 days ago
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
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OFFICIAL Statement from AAUP-TNS on Cuts to Faculty and Staff 12-9-25
The New School - Austerity Cuts to the Bone A Statement from the Leadership Council of AAUP-TNS On December 3, 2025, New School President Joel Towers and Provost Richard Kessler issued voluntary sep...
https://tr.ee/qQBIDCpIuj
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Kashana
20 days ago
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...
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد
20 days ago
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
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The ethnic cleansing of the US will destroy it | Heba Gowayed
Trump’s racist remarks on Ilhan Omar and Somali immigrants reveals his vision for the US as a white Christian nation
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/13/ethnic-cleansing-racism-us-trump-ilhan-omar-somalia
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People should be more embarrassed with themselves
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Doctoral candidate from UM SSW has an amazing dissertation in process on this very topic ⬇️
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Prisonculture
24 days ago
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
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UC Berkeley suspends lecturer Peyrin Kao for pro-Palestinian speech in the classroom
UC Berkeley administration has suspended lecturer Peyrin Kao for the spring 2026 semester without pay for pro-Palestinian speech.
https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/uc-berkeley-suspends-lecturer-peyrin-kao-for-pro-palestinian-speech/article_43394209-c40b-486f-b6fc-67478722d316.html
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Ordinary Notes
26 days ago
Do what you can to end suffering.
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Also I picked a helluva time to become very into fútbol and I've quickly developed strong opinions
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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
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Joshua Erlich
28 days ago
the answer to so many questions is Unionize Your Workplace
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Ordinary Notes
29 days ago
White supremacy. The colour of the year!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
29 days ago
"At least $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years, the bank calculates."
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California Public Banking Alliance
about 1 month ago
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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Prisonculture
about 1 month ago
Subscribe and WATCH!
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Puff the Magic Hater
about 1 month ago
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.
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Fascism at the Door, Neighbors in the Street: Abolition in Practice
“I think a lot of us could level up our skills,” says researcher Tamara Nopper.
https://truthout.org/audio/fascism-at-the-door-neighbors-in-the-street-abolition-in-practice/
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot
about 1 month ago
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.
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Brian Highsmith
about 1 month ago
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*
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Brian Highsmith
about 1 month ago
🚨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]
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Deva Woodly
about 1 month ago
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.
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The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
https://fortune.com/2025/11/22/the-exit-economy-black-women-labor-force-participation-inequality/
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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..."
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California Public Banking Alliance
about 1 month ago
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,
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Senator Ron Wyden
about 1 month ago
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.
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Louise Seamster
about 1 month ago
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?
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🇲🇽🐸rustbelt rebel🐸🇲🇽
about 2 months ago
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...
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5 takeaways: OpenAI & Oracle’s data center sparks clash between rural life, AI ambitions
The $7 billion project will transform 250 acres of farmland and require energy equivalent to a nuclear power plant to fuel OpenAI and Oracle's ambitions.
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2025/11/5-takeaways-openai-oracles-data-center-sparks-clash-between-rural-life-ai-ambitions.html?utm_campaign=aanews_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawOIKPNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA80MDk5NjI2MjMwODU2MDkIY2FsbHNpdGUCMjUAAR6Nfd4NmOHIk_-Rzfn8MMAiAihRRpzVaOHbwWMbUPSRZufpQ_Dvl83VnUpBOA_aem_wHJPVjVX6wlhR1mxbKEqOg
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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
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Hypervisible
about 2 months ago
Had a lot of fun recording this! Thanks to
@anikacolliernavaroli.com
and
@techpolicypress.bsky.social
for the opportunity.
www.techpolicy.press/through-to-t...
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Through to Thriving: Protecting Our Privacy with Chris Gilliard | TechPolicy.Press
Tech Policy Press fellow Anika Collier Navaroli in conversation with Critical Internet Studies Institute privacy researcher and advocate Chris Gilliard.
https://www.techpolicy.press/through-to-thriving-protecting-our-privacy-with-chris-gilliard/
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Dr. Thrasher wants you to pre-order The Overseer Class
about 2 months ago
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
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Veena Dubal
about 2 months ago
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
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Victor Ray
about 2 months ago
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.
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"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...
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Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/indiana-university-professor-white-supremacy-lesson.html
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Prisonculture
about 2 months ago
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.
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derek guy
about 2 months ago
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.
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Money on the Left
about 2 months ago
✨ 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! 👩💻 🙌
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Beyond Loans: The Public Grant-Making Bank
By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective Public banking has been gaining traction for years, driven by a growing recognition that our current financial system often fails to serve the public g…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/11/beyond-loans-the-public-grant-making-bank/
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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...
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How Media Overlooks Political Candidates’ Racism and Islamophobia: The Case of John Fetterman
John Fetterman, the Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania, continues to make news headlines about his increasingly horrendous politics and…
https://terrifriedline.medium.com/how-media-overlooks-political-candidates-racism-and-islamophobia-the-case-of-john-fetterman-116fd976b045
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Jess Calarco
about 2 months ago
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...
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IU lecturer removed from class during intellectual diversity investigation
A lecturer in the Indiana University School of Social Work has been removed from teaching one of her classes Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice while the university investigates a complaint...
https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/iu-lecturer-removed-from-class-during-intellectual-diversity-investigation
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Prisonculture
about 2 months ago
Yes we have a new zine for people who are interested:
www.librariesforthepeople.org/resources#fo...
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Dominique Baker
about 2 months ago
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...
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From the Daily: The University's values on trial
https://specials.michigandaily.com/2025/opinion-editorial-golich/
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