re: jobs, among everything that needs coverage, for people starting their work lives, it feels like an impossible labor market to break into. Impossible for everyone, but with less work experience or start of work shaped by the start of the pandemic, there's a LOT impacting young workers right now.
just look at this grotesque warmonger! for @jacobinmag.bsky.social I wrote this week on why Chuck Schumer is even worse than you think -- and why it's time for him to exit the stage:
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so charming!
GOOD RIDDANCE, Kristi Noem. 👋
Seems like more people in Epstein's orbit have been held accountable for writing emails to Epstein than for actually assaulting women
Last week, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency—when will they rename it?—rolled back Biden-era limits on the amount of mercury pollution that coal plants can emit.
It will disproportionately harm his own voters. trib.al/oRLbkmI
Merchant’s piece on the politics of AI goes perfectly with @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social’s recent piece on the politics of data centers. newrepublic.com/article/2066...
Labor's electoral realignment with the Left is an essential condition for transforming government into a force of, by, and for the many.
This realignment is emerging via @claireforny.bsky.social's campaign—and she's not even an incumbent. I'm telling you: this is a big opportunity. Let us seize it.
This administration felt a need to interrupt its virtually nonstop death drive to reassure Americans it would "force” companies to absorb the cost of data centers.
That means the mass revolt against AI data centers is working. trib.al/mBIaQda
This is a screenshot of text from the linked article. It reads: "It also shows that many of us rise to the occasion when we are given something to do. One ubiquitous complaint about climate change is that it can be hard to know, as an individual, what to do about such a global, diffuse problem. And similarly, it’s hard to know what an individual can do about the other abstract and distant problems that a data center represents: a destructive tech mogul class unaccountable to the masses, the surveillance state, a possible tech bubble, the affordability crisis, a far-right leadership class that doesn’t get off its phone long enough to even notice the great outdoors it is destroying. Most of us can’t give up our work and family responsibilities to protest every day in Washington, D.C., or Silicon Valley. But an individual data center brings the entire constellation of problems to your town—and many Americans are showing that they know what to do when it shows up."
What if people aren't apathetic? What if they just want something to DO?
Insightful stuff from @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social about the data center backlash and the mechanisms of political change.
@lizafeatherstone.bsky.social: Climate movement in retreat? The growing community pushback against data centers shows that "when it comes to energy and climate issues, people will act when there are immediate local effects."
Many thanks to @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social for a thoughtful, critical review of my new book, “Who’s Got the Power?: The Resurgence of American Unions.” Please read it!
(I really thought I’d avoided any major howlers in the book, but she catches a doozy.)
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aw what a generous response! it happens to all of us!! but your editors really let you down on that one, what are they even doing if not saving us from mistakes like that??!!
Violence against protesters is a sign of a regime's crumbling legitimacy, a couple experts told me last week. here's the piece @newrepublic.com
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congrats to these tenants!!
great piece, thank you!
“I want tenants 2 know that if they come together&
if they get organized&
if they form a union…the @mayor.nyc.gov has their back, & that we will be partners w you in enforcing your rights 2 safe, inhabitable housing & to collective community control over your homes.” @ceaweaver.bsky.social
@wbai.org
I spoke with @ceaweaver.bsky.social!
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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
The DHS funding bill is effectively dead in the Senate.
Literally all of this is a lie. We are about to find out who is state media, because they will be the ones to parrot a justification for state-sanctioned murder.
Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position
In some countries the outbreak of bloodshed inspires the opposition party to call for the leader to resign
The spiteful, vindictive nonsense that this regime engages in knows no limits. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/01...
Along with everything else, it's clear that Trump has mixed up asylum seekers with people in mental asylums. As @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social says: it's like we're ruled by Amelia Badelia.
It's "Drill Baby Drill," only without the spirited porno subtext. Crude violent resource grabs will not address the economic woes of Americans.
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ICE officers tell media that the conduct in Minneapolis is part of a plan by Stephen Miller to provoke as much violence and death as possible—which in turn will be taken as pretext for more. “They’re essentially operating now in a resource constraint-free environment and doing very dangerous things”
Great article on the details and the politics by @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social
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