Having police violently break up protests and then calling them “violent protests” is an old trick that succeeds only when the press takes the bait which is what’s happening now

Still not ready to be an abolitionist?

I think the moral content of a protest matters, I think it’s the single most important thing actually, and the elaborate media pseudo debates about tactics, electoral impact etc—where we discuss everything but the moral content—is because the righteousness of the cause is obvious

Friends, please, please amplify. The NYPD are now raiding City College. Reports are hundreds of cops. Please, I know that what happened at Columbia tonight is sickening--but this is Part II. And our @cuny students are largely working class students of color.

Just got word that the last of my remaining family members in Gaza have made it to Egypt after more than 6 months sheltering in a church in the north. I am glad for their safety but it is also tragic: my last familial link to Palestine gone, an exile that began in 1948 complete

Coming Tuesday, April 23 at 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm PDT - The Guarantee – Author Talk with Natalie Foster | New Labor Book Series #17 and Siena Chiang! buff.ly/4b4vPzQ

The new book _The Guarantee_, by Natalie Foster, comes out this week and lays out a way of thinking about how the social contract should work in America: that we should provide a certain set of basic guarantees to every human being. Natalie describes how that's *already…

He behaves himself and waits his turn

My book tour will roll out in February but if you can't make it in person here is a free virtual talk with the great Siena Chiang, February 8.

Massachusetts taxed the rich. Now they have an extra $1.5 billion to spend.

In November, 2022 voters approved a 4% tax on incomes over $1 million.

The state can now use that money on free public school meals, free community college, and public transit.

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At age 72 people shouldn't have to work. At all. This capitalist system is making it harder and harder to retire.

my dogs are better people than i am Aaron Rupar This is another cop-out. I think I'm allowed to oppose murdering thousands of innocent people without a fucking white paper ready!

'We do not protest the war on Gaza because we have an abstract right to do so; we protest it because it is one of the great moral atrocities of our lifetimes and because the widespread refusal to admit this in America is an atrocity in its own right.'

This is massive. Literally a huge mass of people, but even more so that it represents a tremendous amount of union power. The working class is waking up.

Educational note (?) on the Arabic word شهيد (pronounced shaheed ) and translated to English as “martyr.”

The reason I felt the need to write this note is that I saw some pro-Israel, pro-genocide voices convey ‘disgust’ for why Palestinians call their killed and massacred kids…

The third oldest church in the world, built in 1160.

the wife of one of the most famous academics in the world parking her car and chasing down a student on the sidewalk to accuse them of making other people feel unsafe is the ultimate encapsulation of the campus safety discourse

Every single one of these people is risking their jobs and, possibly, their careers because they know the stakes of this moment.