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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.
I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.
November 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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.
I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.
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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
worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.
I think about this a lot.
October 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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
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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...
October 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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...
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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"
October 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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"
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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
October 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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
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"...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...
We have work to do. Labor Notes invites you to organize a regional Fightback School to begin this work."
labornotes.org/content/figh...
How to Hold a Fightback School
We are in a moment of authoritarian crisis. The attacks are dizzying in their speed and range: Courts are rolling back labor rights. Trump is dismantling the public sector and cracking down on free sp...
labornotes.org
October 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"...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...
We have work to do. Labor Notes invites you to organize a regional Fightback School to begin this work."
labornotes.org/content/figh...
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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.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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.
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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.
October 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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.
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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.
They're engaging in class solidarity and capitalism requires accepting fascism now. That's it. That's just it.
September 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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.
They're engaging in class solidarity and capitalism requires accepting fascism now. That's it. That's just it.
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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.
We've got more than enough evidence and people have to move beyond denial.
September 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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.
We've got more than enough evidence and people have to move beyond denial.
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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.
September 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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.