We need to stop accepting that these are "leading Jewish groups." They are not democratically accountable to the majority of American Jews, and I suspect the majority of NYC Jews do not care if Mamdani shares iftar with Mahmoud Khalil. I certainly do not! jewishinsider.com/2026/03/mamd...
Devastating reporting. Like RFK Jr., Kristi Noem, and Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth is reshaping his department to indiscriminately kill tons and tons of children.
A major throughline of the Trump administration.
You can buy it here: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477333297/ Please consider assigning this book for your classes and asking your library to order a copy. I would also be delighted to come give a talk at your institution if you think it might be appropriate!
Text from the book: "The photograph, while emblematic of worker heroism of the 1970s, also asks us to consider: Who made him that sweater so that he could wear it in front of a watching world, as Bolivia made itself revolutionary once again? How many hours were spent preparing this gift that would keep its bearer warm in the chill of May in the altiplano? Whose wool, from whose llamas or sheep, was knit in whose company housing in order to help this worker celebrate the workers' festival alongside his comrades? Under lamplight provided by which mining company generator or pulpería-bought kerosine? Although the subject is a portrait of revolutionary masculinity, this photograph makes visible the indispensable communities and networks that sustained worker politics and revolutionary vushone across the twentieth century, whether or not the people who made them possible marched with the union.
A Bolivian labor activist sits astride a motorcycle in front of May Day Marchers in 1971. He wears sunglasses, a fantastic wool sweater that reads Bolivia Saluda Mundo and a miner's helmet.
Today my book (The Limits of Revolution: Worker Citizens in a Bolivian Mining City) comes out from the @utexaspress.bsky.social, so I thought I'd share a little snippet from my conclusion that I am very proud of.
A great opportunity and a great cause!
I’ve started sayin “He’s wearing a wire!” when I see these glasses.
One man overheard and pulled them off. 😭😭😭
Just bought this 'cause it looks cool, an internet friend is plugging it, and it's for the best of causes. Just a few hours left to buy it - go for it, y'all!
H/T @thegoodliars.bsky.social
This should be a front-page scandal.
There is no special category of “junk food” that is responsible for everybody’s weight.
“TV ads” are something many, many people hardly ever see anymore.
Addressing problems in the corporate food industry is a great idea. But “they make cookies seem delicious!” is not the main issue.
An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.
Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.
This is pure cruelty.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
"We ended DEI in America."
The long backlash to the civil rights movement analyzed here 👇🏼
The kind of power that allows you to party in Vegas with Flava Flav, for example
The thing about the women’s hockey team declining the SOTU invitation is in part that sometimes, if you do not need certain kinds of power, you get to retain others.
My abuelo went to NYC from Cuba during WWII and he worked as a snow shoveler for years before saving enough money to go back to Cuba so he could really start his life. Till his very last day - and I am not kidding - he carried his NYC snow shoveler ID in his wallet with pride.
Respect is long due.
The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?
Don't tell @nytimes.com @nbagley.bsky.social or @robertgo.bsky.social. My union @psc-cuny.org often does far more lobbying than management to secure resources for CUNY students. In addition to being a politcal hit-job, this op-ed is woefully inaccurate. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...
I struggle to articulate why the dehumanizing speech AI systems I study are a dangerous threat, because it is SO clear to me that they are made by people who hate human beings. I can’t understand why I have to keep explaining that when this dude is out here saying these things every single day.
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Has anyone asked the billionaire owner, the richest person in Minnesota, if he'd be interested in donating a few dollars to his own journalists for protective gear?
"Dollars go to support our journalists and help pay for things like protective gear"
www.startribune.com/grove-a-rall...
Infosec person here: AI...especially GenAI...is nothing more than a sophisticated super-fast predictive engine that's been fed terabytes of prepped data.
It is not conscious. It does not have agency. It is at its core a computer program and the sooner everyone realizes this, the better.
Esp so since the bathrobe in this one is a local journalist:
As many are noting, this is not true! On Amtrak back in August, I was opening my wallet to show a conductor my driver's license without thinking, and he said “I don’t need your ID, sweetheart. I ain’t the police.” Then we both laughed.
So many ideas in this book developed over coffee and conversation with you!
The vision of worker citizenship dependent on resource extraction that these mining families created in struggles with and against the Bolivian state has never disappeared. Every popular political project since 1952 has had to reckon with it. Even the centrist Paz cannot escape its legacy today.
In bar fights, domestic disputes, and arguments at the company store, these worker citizens insisted on their right to a better life long after the government they helped install in power fell to a military coup.
Using court cases, union papers, and municipal records for a small copper mining city in La Paz province, I show how women and men made meaning out of the spoils of a revolutionary welfare state in Bolivia's nationalized mines.
