Steve Zorn
@cvfpartnerships.bsky.social
Author, “Tracking the Franklin Expedition of 1845;” ex-union organizer, journalist, Papua New Guinea and UN gov’t official, lawyer and law prof, horse racing insider. Currently writing about Drogheda/Cromwell’s Irish campaign 1649-50. 🇵🇸🇵🇬🇮🇪🍉🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽
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Kwame Ture and Imam Jamil Al-Amin - For the Love of the People
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Kwame Ture and Imam Jamil Al-Amin - For the Love of the People
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Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
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So, I finished They Knew today, by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social I've been slow-walking the last fifty pages as I watch the names and stories unfold as news, aligning with this book written a few years ago.
Read it if you want to understand how the world works.
Read it if you want to understand how the world works.
November 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
So, I finished They Knew today, by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social I've been slow-walking the last fifty pages as I watch the names and stories unfold as news, aligning with this book written a few years ago.
Read it if you want to understand how the world works.
Read it if you want to understand how the world works.
I’m writing on war crimes, albeit in the 17th century, and Israel’s actions tick every box.
Everything ISRAEL does is a crime against humanity but they don’t give a shit
and
the rest of the world is not giving a shit either
and
the rest of the world is not giving a shit either
Meanwhile, a new report from Human Rights Watch finds the Israeli government’s forced displacement of 32,000 Palestinians in three West Bank refugee camps in January and February amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
November 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I’m writing on war crimes, albeit in the 17th century, and Israel’s actions tick every box.
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
The Epstein emails “together sketch a devastating epistolary portrait of how our social order functions, and for whom,” Anand Giridharadas writes. “Saying that isn’t extreme. The way this elite operates is.”
The Epstein emails “together sketch a devastating epistolary portrait of how our social order functions, and for whom,” Anand Giridharadas writes. “Saying that isn’t extreme. The way this elite operates is.”
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
This power elite was already used to ignoring the powerless. Redeeming a disgraced sex offender was a logical next step.
nyti.ms
November 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
The Epstein emails “together sketch a devastating epistolary portrait of how our social order functions, and for whom,” Anand Giridharadas writes. “Saying that isn’t extreme. The way this elite operates is.”
The Epstein emails “together sketch a devastating epistolary portrait of how our social order functions, and for whom,” Anand Giridharadas writes. “Saying that isn’t extreme. The way this elite operates is.”
By luck (I didn't get into Harvard), I went to UC-Berkeley and then grad school at UW-Madison. Can't imagine a better education. Sick at heart at what's happened to once-great state universities over the past 50 years.
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
By luck (I didn't get into Harvard), I went to UC-Berkeley and then grad school at UW-Madison. Can't imagine a better education. Sick at heart at what's happened to once-great state universities over the past 50 years.
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This!
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This!
Destruction of public universities, through higher tuition, reducing tenured faculty, imposing political requirements, has been the ruling class's project at least since Reagan was Governor of California in the 1970s.
Public land grant universities with a mission to serve the residents of their respective states are the great economic equalizers. So of course Republicans and billionaires want to destroy them. 😖
November 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Destruction of public universities, through higher tuition, reducing tenured faculty, imposing political requirements, has been the ruling class's project at least since Reagan was Governor of California in the 1970s.
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Twitter now displays where accounts are from and it has confirmed that too many of the political accounts are out of country bots.
Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth.
Delete your account.
Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth.
Delete your account.
November 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Twitter now displays where accounts are from and it has confirmed that too many of the political accounts are out of country bots.
Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth.
Delete your account.
Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth.
Delete your account.
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Two days ago, the President of the United States called for the murder of Congressional officials, & we've just entirely moved on as a country. Total failure of every societal & political institution. We are not a serious country.
Just a reminder that it's nice the Mamdani thing went better than everyone expected, but Trump should still be immediately impeached & removed for unprecedented things that were once beyond the pale of American politics.
It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika
November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Two days ago, the President of the United States called for the murder of Congressional officials, & we've just entirely moved on as a country. Total failure of every societal & political institution. We are not a serious country.
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When our starting pay is this low and our scheduled hours don’t qualify us for benefits, the numbers just don’t add up. Starbucks has a higher CEO-to-worker pay gap than ANY business in the S&P 500. It would cost them less than a single day’s sales to finalize a fair contract!
November 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
When our starting pay is this low and our scheduled hours don’t qualify us for benefits, the numbers just don’t add up. Starbucks has a higher CEO-to-worker pay gap than ANY business in the S&P 500. It would cost them less than a single day’s sales to finalize a fair contract!
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Hey, so if folks are interested in Black economic thought, may I suggest the Review of Black Political Economy?
It's a journal that features lots of Black policy and economic research. It's existed since 1970. The work in this journal is under cited, but shouldn't be. #econsky #blacksky
It's a journal that features lots of Black policy and economic research. It's existed since 1970. The work in this journal is under cited, but shouldn't be. #econsky #blacksky
The Review of Black Political Economy: Sage Journals
journals.sagepub.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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There’s a great children’s book about this too, called Brave Girl. My girls now love running around the house shouting “general strike” in Yiddish [kvells]
www.harpercollins.com/products/bra...
www.harpercollins.com/products/bra...
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
There’s a great children’s book about this too, called Brave Girl. My girls now love running around the house shouting “general strike” in Yiddish [kvells]
www.harpercollins.com/products/bra...
www.harpercollins.com/products/bra...
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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@sbworkersunited.org have launched the biggest open-ended strike in Starbucks history, fighting for fair wages and against unfair labor practices. We all need to stand in solidarity with striking workers. DON'T BUY STARBUCKS FOR THE DURATION OF THE STRIKE. #NoContractNoCoffee
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
@sbworkersunited.org have launched the biggest open-ended strike in Starbucks history, fighting for fair wages and against unfair labor practices. We all need to stand in solidarity with striking workers. DON'T BUY STARBUCKS FOR THE DURATION OF THE STRIKE. #NoContractNoCoffee
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Thanks to his new Tesla pay package, Elon Musk could stand to make $3 billion more per year than all 1.4 million elementary school teachers in the U.S. combined. Still wondering if inequality is out of control?
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Thanks to his new Tesla pay package, Elon Musk could stand to make $3 billion more per year than all 1.4 million elementary school teachers in the U.S. combined. Still wondering if inequality is out of control?
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Four UCLA undergrads were arrested on Tuesday while exercising their right to support @afscme3299.bsky.social’s picketed strike. We demand all charges be dropped.
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Four UCLA undergrads were arrested on Tuesday while exercising their right to support @afscme3299.bsky.social’s picketed strike. We demand all charges be dropped.
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The way the Black Panthers understood food aid as a crucial form of self defense against the capitalist machinery of the racial state remains essential to the struggle against fascism today.
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The way the Black Panthers understood food aid as a crucial form of self defense against the capitalist machinery of the racial state remains essential to the struggle against fascism today.
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Just in to stock from @ucdpress.bsky.social , the first major history of the 1798 Rising in over 30 years, with a host of fresh perspectives - Bloody Summer - A new History of the 1798 Rebellion by James Quinn. #irishhistory
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Just in to stock from @ucdpress.bsky.social , the first major history of the 1798 Rising in over 30 years, with a host of fresh perspectives - Bloody Summer - A new History of the 1798 Rebellion by James Quinn. #irishhistory
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I’ve not been feeling too chipper recently & have been busy with hospitals & consultants to fight my blindness, so haven’t been drawing. This is one of my sold one-off original ink drawings from 2020. Available ones are here: robbohan.etsy.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I’ve not been feeling too chipper recently & have been busy with hospitals & consultants to fight my blindness, so haven’t been drawing. This is one of my sold one-off original ink drawings from 2020. Available ones are here: robbohan.etsy.com
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The Harvard Crimson is more consistent about writing accurate headlines than The New York Times
November 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The Harvard Crimson is more consistent about writing accurate headlines than The New York Times
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Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon
— Piggies, The Beatles
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon
— Piggies, The Beatles
November 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon
— Piggies, The Beatles
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon
— Piggies, The Beatles
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“Quiet, Piggy” would be fitting for his tombstone.
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
“Quiet, Piggy” would be fitting for his tombstone.