Sarah Jaffe
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social
Troublemaker. Vagrant. Author of From the Ashes, Work Won't Love You Back and Necessary Trouble.
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The proposed changes to immigration rules in the UK will be a real test for unions.
Unison has had a huge increase in membership among migrant health and care workers, but the party it's affiliated to is pushing rules that will destroy the lives of these people. www.unison.org.uk/news/2025/12...
Unison has had a huge increase in membership among migrant health and care workers, but the party it's affiliated to is pushing rules that will destroy the lives of these people. www.unison.org.uk/news/2025/12...
Care workers lobby MPs over visa rule changes, says UNISON - UNISON National
Hundreds of workers travel to Westminster to voice their concerns
www.unison.org.uk
January 26, 2026 at 9:45 AM
The proposed changes to immigration rules in the UK will be a real test for unions.
Unison has had a huge increase in membership among migrant health and care workers, but the party it's affiliated to is pushing rules that will destroy the lives of these people. www.unison.org.uk/news/2025/12...
Unison has had a huge increase in membership among migrant health and care workers, but the party it's affiliated to is pushing rules that will destroy the lives of these people. www.unison.org.uk/news/2025/12...
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While it has been getting better over the last decade, large part of the UK labour movement suffers from the same problem that @sarahljaffe.bsky.social talks about here.
I recently wrote this on the barriers to organising migrant farm workers:
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
I recently wrote this on the barriers to organising migrant farm workers:
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
January 26, 2026 at 9:40 AM
While it has been getting better over the last decade, large part of the UK labour movement suffers from the same problem that @sarahljaffe.bsky.social talks about here.
I recently wrote this on the barriers to organising migrant farm workers:
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
I recently wrote this on the barriers to organising migrant farm workers:
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
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This is the best piece I’ve read diving into the community organizing going on in Minnesota - from grassroots activists to labor to neighbors. It’s so empowering to see this level of rising amidst resistance. It prefigures renewal.
As Minnesota kicks off its day of freedom from ICE, my piece on how the state's movements built power to be ready for this moment, and the closest thing to a real general strike in maybe a century newrepublic.com/article/2053...
If Anyone Can Pull Off a General Strike, It’s Minnesotans
The massive outpouring of support for Friday’s day of action against ICE is something that just comes naturally to residents of the North Star State.
newrepublic.com
January 24, 2026 at 6:55 AM
This is the best piece I’ve read diving into the community organizing going on in Minnesota - from grassroots activists to labor to neighbors. It’s so empowering to see this level of rising amidst resistance. It prefigures renewal.
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"The US labour movement often has been guilty of assuming that immigrant workers are unorganisable... Actually the immigrant worker organisations have been the ones leading the labour movement..." - @sarahljaffe.bsky.social
January 25, 2026 at 2:05 PM
"The US labour movement often has been guilty of assuming that immigrant workers are unorganisable... Actually the immigrant worker organisations have been the ones leading the labour movement..." - @sarahljaffe.bsky.social
As Minnesota kicks off its day of freedom from ICE, my piece on how the state's movements built power to be ready for this moment, and the closest thing to a real general strike in maybe a century newrepublic.com/article/2053...
If Anyone Can Pull Off a General Strike, It’s Minnesotans
The massive outpouring of support for Friday’s day of action against ICE is something that just comes naturally to residents of the North Star State.
newrepublic.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:37 PM
As Minnesota kicks off its day of freedom from ICE, my piece on how the state's movements built power to be ready for this moment, and the closest thing to a real general strike in maybe a century newrepublic.com/article/2053...
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ICYMI - @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE and the recent history of organising and protest in Minnesota (and the centrality of the Somali community to those efforts):
ICE, resistance, and 'capitalism without humans' w/ Sarah Jaffe
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 01/20/2026 · 59m
podcasts.apple.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:04 AM
ICYMI - @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE and the recent history of organising and protest in Minnesota (and the centrality of the Somali community to those efforts):
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"What happens when U.S. capitalism simply needs fewer humans?"
"The flaming Waymo, then, is [..] a symbol of the way that more and more people are being rendered surplus."
"[E]xpect to see more machine-breaking."
#USA #Labour #Protest #Transportation #Technology #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"The flaming Waymo, then, is [..] a symbol of the way that more and more people are being rendered surplus."
"[E]xpect to see more machine-breaking."
#USA #Labour #Protest #Transportation #Technology #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
Capitalism Without Humans
As new technologies (not immigrants) replace human labor, "machine breaking" as a tactic of rebellion is taking on a renewed vitality.
inthesetimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:50 PM
"What happens when U.S. capitalism simply needs fewer humans?"
"The flaming Waymo, then, is [..] a symbol of the way that more and more people are being rendered surplus."
"[E]xpect to see more machine-breaking."
#USA #Labour #Protest #Transportation #Technology #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"The flaming Waymo, then, is [..] a symbol of the way that more and more people are being rendered surplus."
"[E]xpect to see more machine-breaking."
#USA #Labour #Protest #Transportation #Technology #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
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Breaking: Three unions are calling on the University of Minnesota to shut down for Jan. 23. They include the Graduate Labor Union Electrical Workers Local 1105, AFSCME 3800, & Teamsters Local 320. Campus undergraduate organizations are joining the call. labornotes.org/2026/01/will...
January 20, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Breaking: Three unions are calling on the University of Minnesota to shut down for Jan. 23. They include the Graduate Labor Union Electrical Workers Local 1105, AFSCME 3800, & Teamsters Local 320. Campus undergraduate organizations are joining the call. labornotes.org/2026/01/will...
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📢 NEW EPISODE 📢 - @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE and the history of organising and protest in Minnesota (and the centrality of the Somali community to those efforts). We also talked about the entwinement of the tech industry with ICE and the surveillance state:
ICE, resistance, and 'capitalism without humans' w/ Sarah Jaffe
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 01/20/2026 · 59m
podcasts.apple.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:32 AM
📢 NEW EPISODE 📢 - @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE and the history of organising and protest in Minnesota (and the centrality of the Somali community to those efforts). We also talked about the entwinement of the tech industry with ICE and the surveillance state:
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Minnesota’s proposed January 23 statewide shutdown didn’t materialize overnight.
In 2024, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social reported on how unions and community groups spent years building the coordination and trust that now make a total shutdown possible—and powerful.
In 2024, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social reported on how unions and community groups spent years building the coordination and trust that now make a total shutdown possible—and powerful.
The Most Important Labor Story Right Now Is in Minnesota—It Might Be the Model We All Need
A strategic alignment of major networks of unions and community groups in Minnesota have worked together for more than a decade to leverage their collective power.
inthesetimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Minnesota’s proposed January 23 statewide shutdown didn’t materialize overnight.
In 2024, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social reported on how unions and community groups spent years building the coordination and trust that now make a total shutdown possible—and powerful.
In 2024, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social reported on how unions and community groups spent years building the coordination and trust that now make a total shutdown possible—and powerful.
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A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country
Mike Johnson comes out against additional guardrails on ICE as Democrats call for it.
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
January 14, 2026 at 11:58 PM
A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country
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One of the things that genuinely shocked me as I read through surveillance logs for the police is how much of their energy and attention is dedicated to shutting down vigils and other ceremonies of remembrance.
Anyway ICE was filmed desecrating Renee Nicole Good’s memorial & doing violence to people who found that distasteful. Might be too soon to say if this falls into some kind of pattern of behavior if you’re the stupidest motherfucker on earth.
It would appear that uncritically funding the people that hate us so much that they mint coins commemorating body counts instead of listening to the people who said that the institutional rot within the police is so deeply engrained that they represent a danger to us all has mysteriously backfired.
January 8, 2026 at 6:46 PM
One of the things that genuinely shocked me as I read through surveillance logs for the police is how much of their energy and attention is dedicated to shutting down vigils and other ceremonies of remembrance.
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“So let’s stay brave, stay committed, and stay together. We will remember the fallen, fight like hell for the living, and when this terrible moment is over, we will still have each other, our potential, and the hope of building a better world.”
Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.
The Cost of Staying Human
Remarks from a vigil for Renee Nicole Good
organizingmythoughts.org
January 8, 2026 at 5:34 AM
“So let’s stay brave, stay committed, and stay together. We will remember the fallen, fight like hell for the living, and when this terrible moment is over, we will still have each other, our potential, and the hope of building a better world.”
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@sarahljaffe.bsky.social
Listening to this stellar book on my way to and from work every day. This morning I was wandering around our shop muttering “there’s more to life than this!”
Probably listening to it during my commute isn’t the best idea.
Or maybe it is…. 🤔
Listening to this stellar book on my way to and from work every day. This morning I was wandering around our shop muttering “there’s more to life than this!”
Probably listening to it during my commute isn’t the best idea.
Or maybe it is…. 🤔
January 3, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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Listening to this stellar book on my way to and from work every day. This morning I was wandering around our shop muttering “there’s more to life than this!”
Probably listening to it during my commute isn’t the best idea.
Or maybe it is…. 🤔
Listening to this stellar book on my way to and from work every day. This morning I was wandering around our shop muttering “there’s more to life than this!”
Probably listening to it during my commute isn’t the best idea.
Or maybe it is…. 🤔
in excellent company here 😍
My 10 favorite books of the year! Finishing at 85 books, 24K pages
- Death of the Author @nnedi.bsky.social
- Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence @jamesbridle.bsky.social
- One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
- Death of the Author @nnedi.bsky.social
- Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence @jamesbridle.bsky.social
- One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
December 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
in excellent company here 😍
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If we were given the time to grieve properly, what might we decide to change? — @sarahljaffe.bsky.social
December 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
If we were given the time to grieve properly, what might we decide to change? — @sarahljaffe.bsky.social
A little holiday newsletter, my lovelies. open.substack.com/pub/sarahlja...
December 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
A little holiday newsletter, my lovelies. open.substack.com/pub/sarahlja...
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If you're a video game worker looking to have a stronger voice on the job, stop corporate greed and get better pay, benefits and more, join @videogameworkers.bsky.social and build worker power to change the gaming industry for good.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
If you're a video game worker looking to have a stronger voice on the job, stop corporate greed and get better pay, benefits and more, join @videogameworkers.bsky.social and build worker power to change the gaming industry for good.
uvw-cwa.org
uvw-cwa.org
Ask all the professors being laid off, the underemployed adjuncts, the PhD students working in service industries about the "idea machine" 🙃
We have not run out of good ideas, we have a global inequality where good ideas cannot get the necessary supports into becoming solutions. Good ideas are everywhere if we would just allocate resources to trying some out. AI cannot make new ideas. It cannot have ANY ideas.
December 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Ask all the professors being laid off, the underemployed adjuncts, the PhD students working in service industries about the "idea machine" 🙃
using machines as metaphors for humans has gotten us nowhere good www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
Episode 5: Bandwidth is a Bad Metaphor | Heart Reacts
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December 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
using machines as metaphors for humans has gotten us nowhere good www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
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We have not run out of good ideas, we have a global inequality where good ideas cannot get the necessary supports into becoming solutions. Good ideas are everywhere if we would just allocate resources to trying some out. AI cannot make new ideas. It cannot have ANY ideas.
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
We have not run out of good ideas, we have a global inequality where good ideas cannot get the necessary supports into becoming solutions. Good ideas are everywhere if we would just allocate resources to trying some out. AI cannot make new ideas. It cannot have ANY ideas.
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if you haven't seen it, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social wrote a book called From The Ashes that is very good at situating grief and how it inherently conflicts with capitalism
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social wrote some powerful reflections along these lines (this essay turned into her latest book, From The Ashes)
"and you have to learn, while in the midst of hell, how to imagine a different future and to make it"
salvage.zone/nothing-and-...
"and you have to learn, while in the midst of hell, how to imagine a different future and to make it"
salvage.zone/nothing-and-...
December 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
if you haven't seen it, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social wrote a book called From The Ashes that is very good at situating grief and how it inherently conflicts with capitalism
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Did you miss my critical conversation on work & intimacy with @sarahljaffe.bsky.social? Catch the 5min highlight reel here! youtu.be/gZp-IMyKSQg?...
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YouTube video by Sarah Mosseri
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December 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Did you miss my critical conversation on work & intimacy with @sarahljaffe.bsky.social? Catch the 5min highlight reel here! youtu.be/gZp-IMyKSQg?...
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The extreme, ideologically-driven, fast, furious, economically reckless decisions being made by New School president & provost are NOT the simple consequence of economic need. they're a malicious disaster and must be stopped... an assault on critical thought.
AAUP is livestreaming the rally and press conference against extreme austerity measures and the proposed termination of 40% of full-time faculty at The New School!
Join the livestream tomorrow, December 10 at 4pm ET.
Link below 👇
Join the livestream tomorrow, December 10 at 4pm ET.
Link below 👇
AAUP TV LIVESTREAM: Rally Against Extreme Austerity Measures Outside Board of Trustees Meeting
YouTube video by TheAAUP
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December 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The extreme, ideologically-driven, fast, furious, economically reckless decisions being made by New School president & provost are NOT the simple consequence of economic need. they're a malicious disaster and must be stopped... an assault on critical thought.
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This is today! Register here: darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
I'm returning to Work Won't Love You Back territory for this conversation with @sarahmosseri.bsky.social -- online, December 9, free to all, timed for both US and Europe. darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This is today! Register here: darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...