amber davis
@adavisnix.bsky.social
Currently: On deadline! | Formerly: Stylus, Vox, Gimlet, TNS, Cal
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The Polka Dot Dress—made famous by an unknown New Yorker who stood up to ICE marching through the city—is now up for AUCTION to benefit New York Immigrant Coalition’s Emergency Justice Fund.
Auction starts TODAY.
More: Nyic.me/auction
Auction starts TODAY.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The Polka Dot Dress—made famous by an unknown New Yorker who stood up to ICE marching through the city—is now up for AUCTION to benefit New York Immigrant Coalition’s Emergency Justice Fund.
Auction starts TODAY.
More: Nyic.me/auction
Auction starts TODAY.
More: Nyic.me/auction
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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This remains my favorite Twilight Zone ep. Oddly enough helped me process the loss of a relative when I was a kid. I had “what you thought would go out like an explosion is like a whisper" written on my bedroom wall for a long time. I hope this ep still helps people process.
Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today
September 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This remains my favorite Twilight Zone ep. Oddly enough helped me process the loss of a relative when I was a kid. I had “what you thought would go out like an explosion is like a whisper" written on my bedroom wall for a long time. I hope this ep still helps people process.
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just saying again that the specifics of how/why this strategy worked are worthy of study from people trying similar campaigns. read about it in @hammerandhope.bsky.social (link below)
You know us already: no stale politics formulas, all guerilla strategy that moves the city. It's how while Cuomo & Co. spent $89 a vote, we spent just $1.19. It's how we made hating Cuomo a citywide phenomena with 1/350th his funds. And it's how we'll beat their SuperPACs again.
September 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
just saying again that the specifics of how/why this strategy worked are worthy of study from people trying similar campaigns. read about it in @hammerandhope.bsky.social (link below)
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I would like to make another pitch that you support @hammerandhope.bsky.social by donating and becoming a member. They provide ESSENTIAL analysis to help us better understand the moment we are in. I am a donor/member: hammerandhope.org/membership
Hammer & Hope
A magazine of Black politics and culture
hammerandhope.org
September 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I would like to make another pitch that you support @hammerandhope.bsky.social by donating and becoming a member. They provide ESSENTIAL analysis to help us better understand the moment we are in. I am a donor/member: hammerandhope.org/membership
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Oh hell yeah, it's Labor Day Weekend so we're posting the ILWGU song. Look at that 80s style and hair! ICONIC.
August 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Oh hell yeah, it's Labor Day Weekend so we're posting the ILWGU song. Look at that 80s style and hair! ICONIC.
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Just had a deep pang of grief, feeling the absence of the Bodega Boys take on Winnie Greco’s sour cream and onion bribery bag
August 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Just had a deep pang of grief, feeling the absence of the Bodega Boys take on Winnie Greco’s sour cream and onion bribery bag
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I’ll tell you this. A favorite campus dining spot closed last semester, with almost no notice. It’s been replaced by a fully automated kiosk. The kids are pissed. Asking all the right questions about labor and human contact and sociality.
Some of the kids are alright.
Some of the kids are alright.
August 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I’ll tell you this. A favorite campus dining spot closed last semester, with almost no notice. It’s been replaced by a fully automated kiosk. The kids are pissed. Asking all the right questions about labor and human contact and sociality.
Some of the kids are alright.
Some of the kids are alright.
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Two striking DC33 workers, one of whom is pregnant, were the victims of a hit-and-run last week when a drunk driver drove into their picket line.
Tyree Ford, a sanitation worker and father of four, sustained serious injuries and is still in critical condition.
www.gofundme.com/f/tyree-ford...
Tyree Ford, a sanitation worker and father of four, sustained serious injuries and is still in critical condition.
www.gofundme.com/f/tyree-ford...
Donate to Tyree Ford, Philadelphia’s DC33, organized by Crystal Purnell-bolden
Greetings, my name is Crystal Purnell-bolden, one of the siblings of Tyree Ford… Crystal Purnell-bolden needs your support for Tyree Ford, Philadelphia’s DC33
www.gofundme.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Two striking DC33 workers, one of whom is pregnant, were the victims of a hit-and-run last week when a drunk driver drove into their picket line.
Tyree Ford, a sanitation worker and father of four, sustained serious injuries and is still in critical condition.
www.gofundme.com/f/tyree-ford...
Tyree Ford, a sanitation worker and father of four, sustained serious injuries and is still in critical condition.
www.gofundme.com/f/tyree-ford...
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🌟Pitch callout🌟 @rewirenewsgroup.com is now accepting pitches for reported stories, personal essays, and timely explainers on reproductive rights, sexual health, LGBTQ+ issues, science news, and more. Please use our pitch portal! More details below: rewirenewsgroup.com/about-us/wri...
Step: 2 - Pitch Your Story
rewirenewsgroup.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🌟Pitch callout🌟 @rewirenewsgroup.com is now accepting pitches for reported stories, personal essays, and timely explainers on reproductive rights, sexual health, LGBTQ+ issues, science news, and more. Please use our pitch portal! More details below: rewirenewsgroup.com/about-us/wri...
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"Los Angeles is a city of immigrants. It is also a city of unions. And in California, those two constituencies have essentially melded into one."
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/b...
How Labor Unions Came to Define the L.A. Immigration Protests
www.nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"Los Angeles is a city of immigrants. It is also a city of unions. And in California, those two constituencies have essentially melded into one."
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/b...
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600 election victories. I’ve been trying to let that sink in all day. Workers have chosen the union SIX HUNDRED times in the last 3.5 years. That’s about one election win every other day. Truly incredible.
🚨BREAKING: We just surpassed 600 UNION ELECTION VICTORIES!
CONGRATULATIONS to Starbucks partners who won their unions in a NEAR UNANIMOUS LANDSLIDE!!
✊Albuquerque, NM - Coors Bypass & 7 Bar L - [15-0]
✊Moon Township, PA - Moon Township - [13-0]
✊Richmond, VA - North Robinson Rd - [10-1]
CONGRATULATIONS to Starbucks partners who won their unions in a NEAR UNANIMOUS LANDSLIDE!!
✊Albuquerque, NM - Coors Bypass & 7 Bar L - [15-0]
✊Moon Township, PA - Moon Township - [13-0]
✊Richmond, VA - North Robinson Rd - [10-1]
June 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
600 election victories. I’ve been trying to let that sink in all day. Workers have chosen the union SIX HUNDRED times in the last 3.5 years. That’s about one election win every other day. Truly incredible.
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I’m so proud of Ben. Working with Ben & Jerry’s has only ever made me proud. And it keeps making me proud.
May 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I’m so proud of Ben. Working with Ben & Jerry’s has only ever made me proud. And it keeps making me proud.
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SBWU is not getting as much coverage as it did at first, but they are role models in many ways: Continuing to organize under a hostile government, backing up their demands with strikes. This is what labor power is gonna look like as the NLRB gets gutted. It can be done.
More and more workers are walking out today... and this is just the beginning 😏
May 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
SBWU is not getting as much coverage as it did at first, but they are role models in many ways: Continuing to organize under a hostile government, backing up their demands with strikes. This is what labor power is gonna look like as the NLRB gets gutted. It can be done.
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"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met."
Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time
time.com/collections/...
Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time
time.com/collections/...
Why Protests Should Be Promises
Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
time.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met."
Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time
time.com/collections/...
Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time
time.com/collections/...
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Charles Burnett’s "Killer of Sheep" at Film Forum: a natural, non-melodramatic portrayal of life in the Black neighborhood of Watts (LA) in 1971. Captures the vibe and tribulations of poor inner-city life perfectly. Hard to believe this was a student film. Check it out. filmforum.org/film/killer-...
Film Forum · Charles Burnett’s KILLER OF SHEEP
Charles Burnett’s
KILLER OF SHEEP
Friday, April 18 – Thursday, April 24
filmforum.org
April 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Charles Burnett’s "Killer of Sheep" at Film Forum: a natural, non-melodramatic portrayal of life in the Black neighborhood of Watts (LA) in 1971. Captures the vibe and tribulations of poor inner-city life perfectly. Hard to believe this was a student film. Check it out. filmforum.org/film/killer-...
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Few days earlier and he could have made this announcement on the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
A FU to workers. Stripping away a tiny agency that made such a difference in making sure workers don’t get killed on the job. www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
RFK Jr.'s layoffs expected to gut worker safety agency NIOSH, officials say
More than 800 employees at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health are expected to be cut.
www.cbsnews.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Few days earlier and he could have made this announcement on the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire