In Equator's first free Zoom event Melinda Cooper and Quinn Slobodian discuss the revelations of the Epstein files, and what they tell us about the obsessions of America's elites.
Time: Thursday, 26 February, 7 PM ET / Friday, 27 February, 11 AM AEST
Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/epstein-fa...
Fascinating work on nonvoters by @daniellaurison.bsky.social.
“Non-voters are concerned about being good citizens and good members of their communities, but they feel that people in politics ignore them and their experiences. They think their communities are neglected by people in power.”
“The gun and the phone are both weapons, one a tool for violence and the other a tool of control.”
This is an excellent, accessible, if long, piece by @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social & @adambonica.bsky.social. Drawing on scientific evidence and ground-truth logic, they dismantle calls for Democratic moderation and prescribe a path that is pragmatic and courageous.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
Back in Dec, Forbes features a new framework to address food affordability in NY: "a scaled-up, 20 city-owned supermarket network, alongside a complementary strategy that supports cooperative food and supply chain infrastructure development across NYC" #solidaritycities @grocerynerd.bsky.social
For Alex Jeffery Pretti Murdered by ICE January 24, 2026 by Amanda Gorman We wake with no words, just woe & wound. Our own country shoot ing us in the back is not just brutal ity; it's jarring betrayal; not enforcement, but execution. A message: Love your people & you will die. Yet our greatest threat isn't the outsiders among us, but those among us who never look within. Fear not the those without paper, but those without conscience. Know that to care intensively, united, is to carry both pain-dark horror for today & a profound, daring hope for tomorrow. We can feel we have nothing to give, & still belove this world wait ing, trembling to change. If we cannot find words, may we find the will; if we ever lose hope, may we never lose our humanity. The only undying thing is mercy, the courage to open ourselves like doors, hug our neighbor, & save one more bright, impossible life.
if we ever lose hope, may we never lose our
humanity
The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...
Illustration of a bald eagle and a loon, the color palette is dark maroon; the words PHILADELPHIA STANDS WITH MINNEAPOLIS are in light pink. Artist website: https://linktr.ee/mheld?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=94cc2af8-6392-4e98-a8e8-e5907a683564
GO BIRDS FUCK ICE 🦅
Emphatically. Yes.
We’re watching Trump radicalizing an entire generation in real time
Showing 3000 immigration officers to 2482 officers from the ten largest metro forces
The Star Tribune had an insane graphic about the presence of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. There are more immigration officers in the metro right now than local police officers.
@debkossmann.bsky.social: “I do not want my tax dollars or Haverford’s resources to be used to support a poorly trained, unprofessional, and cruel secret police force that is our current federal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.”
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"The video is being shared not as proof, but as reinforcement of this administration’s view of who is “other,” and therefore an acceptable target. The video also offers those who support the ICE officer something to see themselves in, to cheer on."
Excellent account of how water scarcity is major driver of protests in Iran. #climatecrisis #iranprotests @globalpost.bsky.social
“If that ended with a dead woman who wasn’t even the target of an operation, well, that’s just what happens when cities don’t fall in line.”
@magixarc.bsky.social
“In this version of events, Rene Nicole Good disappears entirely and is replaced by a familiar villain: the sanctuary city. Minneapolis’s crime…was not cooperating enough with federal immigration authorities…”
Superb analysis of how being spun:
“First, the killing is framed as self-defense. When that narrative cracks under video and eyewitnesses, the focus shifts to tone policing. When that fails, blame is reassigned upward and outward, onto city policy, onto immigrants, onto anyone who doesn’t submit.”
Big part of Venezuela operation is the many $ billions of international debt the country defaulted on due to US sanctions and oil squeeze. Vulture capitalists have talons out.
“We tend to imagine corruption as a transaction: money buying votes, quid pro quos in backrooms. But money's real power is quieter and deeper. It decides which candidates get to run, which policies are thinkable, and whose voices get amplified or ignored.” @adambonica.bsky.social
“Workers should be internationalists—sure. But structures don’t spring automatically from cosmopolitan appeals. They must be painstakingly built upon people’s everyday practices.”
@pochoaespejo.bsky.social in our latest forum:
Every time I hear that this is “unskilled” labor…
Maliha Safri gives wonderful analysis of Mamdani's policy agendas, showing how they build on successful solidarity economies from NYC's past and present! #solidaritycities. @msafri.bsky.social
WHOA!
“A.I. companies represent roughly 75 percent of recent S&P 500 earnings growth, 80 percent of profits and 90 percent of capital expenditure.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...
Love this!
“Why not try imagining the future shape of the world economy neither as a neat assemblage of robust bricks, nor as a mesh of interlocking balance sheets, but as something more akin to a lumpy potage, or a noodle and dumpling soup.” @adamtooze.bsky.social
Grateful to Jay Cephas for a brief but incisive review of our book at Places. "Solidarity cites" collectively written by @stephenhealy72.bsky.social, @msafri.bsky.social, @craigborowiak.bsky.social, and myself. Published by @uminnpress.bsky.social.
placesjournal.org/article/book...
Wrote about The Heritage Foundation's plan to weaponize the FBI against transgender people's existence, which includes banning me from saying that's what they're doing
“Stop the Count”: food-insecurity version. 🤡
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
amazing coauthors! @msafri.bsky.social @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social @stephenhealy72.bsky.social
Feels more urgent than ever to support cities as bulwarks against the storm. Very excited to have this new podcast drop with me and coauthors about our #SolidarityCities book!
Thank you.
@urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social
@uminnpress.bsky.social
in case you missed it, amid the chaos:
nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
