Today, @jeenashahesq.bsky.social argues that Trump’s contradictory treatment of Hernández and Maduro reveals the consistency of U.S. foreign policy: the War on Drugs serves as a flexible tool for maintaining global capitalism’s necessary periphery.

In my latest piece out today on @lpeblog.bsky.social, I reconcile Trump's pardoning of a former Honduran President on drug trafficking while abducting Maduro on similar charges by showing how both actions are consistent with the logic underlying the U.S.'s War on Drugs lpeproject.org/blog/trumps-...

It is a simple lesson yet many people seem determined not to learn it. Solidarity is not altruistic it is the only effective&realistic self protection.Powers that demand you throw some group under the bus will come for you as soon as they can-all the sooner if you’ve handed them power &legitimacy.

Proposed cuts to libraries, parks, CUNY, housing + health, while keeping NYPD + Corrections intact; proposed real property tax increases disproportionately affecting Black owners + most tenants; homeless encampment sweeps. Why is Z proposing these regressive measures, and how best can we respond? 🧵

As a VA nurse, Alex Pretti was a member of AFGE. This union also reps Border Patrol, and may have repped Pretti's killer. I talked to VA workers who are furious and want Border Patrol out of AFGE. "For a union member to kill another is a fundamental betrayal of what a union is supposed to be.”

Either Palestine becomes free, or every place gradually becomes Gaza.

It's worth reminding each other every couple days that every delay you create, every horrible opportunity you deter means someone gets home to their family, might even mean someones actual life is saved. All of it is worth it.

“This is why the “any blue will do” mentality is so dangerous. Goldman wears a Democratic label, but his actions undermine democratic values at every turn.” @kumar.bsky.social indypendent.org/2026/01/op-e...

Critics of Zohran's decision to keep Tisch haven't yet provided compelling counters to the points made in this piece 🧵

I don’t know about you but I sincerely believe that Zohran Mamdani’s BA Major in Africana Studies enabled him to understand our current conjuncture & its demands of justice. Humanities shape minds & in his case for the better. I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.

Great thread. This is also true about that Jacobin article criticizing the turnout for the No Kings march. As someone who covered both demonstrations in June and October, I saw a few unions trying to pull together largest unions into organize contingents. Here’s a more rooted analysis. 1/3

The 2020 BLM protests were the top driver of new labor organizing in the last 5 years. Today's anti-Trump protests could do the same - if we make it happen. www.laborpolitics.com/p/can-anti-r...

It's funny, the no kings protests could be the best chace to normalize the idea of nationwide strikes in the US, if the organizers are serious. They do maybe 2 more on weekends to really lock them into people's practice, then say, "hey, let's show them we really mean business & do it on a Wednesday"

if you want to defend the working class? buy out a street vendor’s cart so they don’t have to choose between their income or kidnapping by ICE

"...this moment in history calls for an organized, powerful labor movement acting in solidarity to push back and fight forward for economic and racial justice. We have work to do. Labor Notes invites you to organize a regional Fightback School to begin this work." labornotes.org/content/figh...

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

2. Our new analysis suggests that protest events in 2025 have occurred across a wider range of US counties than we observed during Trump's first term. And the current protest movement has already reached deeper into Trump country than at almost any point during the first Trump administration.

These newspapers that publish articles undermining basic human rights aren't doing it by accident. These administrators aren't making "mistakes." Moderate politicians aren't "confused." They're engaging in class solidarity and capitalism requires accepting fascism now. That's it. That's just it.

It's beyond time to recognize that the people in charge and the politicians and personalities responsible for fighting fascism are economically and politically intertwined with the need for America to become fascist. We've got more than enough evidence and people have to move beyond denial.

It's instructive and revealing to see a college president who oversaw the expelling of students protesting the killing of innocent people advocate for schools to start hosting "difficult speakers" who want to strip away rights from people of color, women, and gay and trans people.