"organizing with others in your same condition generates a lot of the goods we’re alienated from in our competitive society. the connection you have to others, the nonalienated ways of relating, it’s something I didn’t count on because I’ve never been in a union before."
jacobin.com/2026/02/nyu-...
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.
Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
The Minnesota day care fraud guy showed up at a West Baltimore church's Narcotics Anonymous meeting with a selfie stick and got run out, reports @alissazhu.bsky.social "Go to the doctors who started the opioid crisis," a woman told him www.thebanner.com/community/lo...
Very happy to see this special issue finally come to fruition ✨ and honored to have an article in there alongside some other stellar work
This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required.
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
New: here's how a U.S. citizen was scanned with ICE's facial recognition tech. Jesus Gutiérrez was stopped in Chicago by agents, he said he was a citizen. Still detained, put in a car. Only after they scanned his face did they let him go. From 404 Media and Reveal: www.404media.co/how-a-us-cit...
Our students are raising money to keep their magazines going after the University of Alabama suspended them for foregrounding the voices of women and African Americans.
If you've got the means, please support them.
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The UFW has sued the Trump Administration ... again. Why? Because they are trying to steal wages from farm workers and we are not going to let that happen. #WeFeedYou
One thing we're vvv proud of: 404 Media independent + journalist-owned. Here's a rundown of some of our recent work:
After months of 404 Media reporting and pressure from lawmakers, US airlines will shut down a program that sold millions of YOUR flight records to the government.
Flyer for event with QR code (main details all in the above post)
December 4 at 10am @ UMich and on Zoom, I'll be talking about the labor & environmental impacts of AI in historical context. Computing's long history of automation & pollution reframes how we understand capitalism in the digital age.
Register for free: sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/...
“A foundation tied to the spouse of a Penn trustee is among a small grp of publicly known donors to the secretive Canary Mission… Effectively a blacklist of 🇵🇸 solidarity activists, the CM’s dossiers are now reportedly being used to target immigrants… The site has long been accused of cyberbullying”
"Millions of $ in fed contracts for affordable housing were canceled after a DOGE review of nonprofits’ websites + LinkedIn profiles for terms associated with DEI... The canceled awards include ongoing projects in more than 1,000 communities to address homelessness, disaster recovery, poverty..."
