Excited that The AAG Review of Books by @geographers.bsky.social just published our book forum Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/283E6.... Reviewers Priscilla Ferreira, @nik-heynen.bsky.social, Eric Sarmiento, and Luke Bergmann.

Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation

Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Social backlash to data centers is having some wins. Oligopolistic AI companies want to socialize the costs (ecological disaster, higher energy prices, job loss, social dislocations) while privatizing the gains.

An Incomplete List of Successful Anti-Data Center Legislation

No one wants to live next to a noisy computer warehouse and communities across the country are successfully fighting them.

404media.co

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...

Epstein Family Values

Melinda Cooper and Quinn Slobodian discuss the depredations of Jeffrey Epstein, America's billionaire patriarchs, and the far right

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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.”

Daniel Laurison@daniellaurison.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Today I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone. www.swarthmore.edu/u... please share!

“The gun and the phone are both weapons, one a tool for violence and the other a tool of control.”

Opinion | ICE Is Watching You

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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...

How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism

Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.

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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

How Public And Cooperative Grocers Could Transform New York City

With rising grocery prices and record high food insecurity in mind, a new report proposes a publicly owned and cooperative grocery infrastructure for New York City.

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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...

GO BIRDS FUCK ICE 🦅

Emphatically. Yes.

Haymarket Books@haymarketbooks.org · 7mo ago

“Overcoming difference is not the same as washing it away. Political solidarity is a recognition that we have a mutual interest in organizing together to create a political force that can change the conditions that we all suffer from, even if that suffering looks different based on social position.”

We’re watching Trump radicalizing an entire generation in real time

Status Coup News@statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

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.” [gift link!]

Haverford Township bars police from cooperating with ICE in noncriminal immigration enforcement

A township commissioner said it is "not our role" to act as a federal immigration authority.

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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."

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 7mo ago

About the smearing of Nicole Renee Good, a new piece from me:

Excellent account of how water scarcity is major driver of protests in Iran. #climatecrisis #iranprotests @globalpost.bsky.social

Iranians are Running Out of Water, Money and Patience

Iranian farmer Sajjad’s harvest of apples, a water-intensive crop, completely failed last year. He and his family grow grapes and apples on

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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.”

Two Stories, One Body in the Snow

The killing of Rene Nicole Good, the federal lie that followed, and the violence used to enforce it

marygeddry.com

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.

Venezuela's billions in distressed debt: Who is in line to collect?

The toppling of President Nicolas Maduro has thrust Venezuela's debt crisis - one of the world's largest unresolved sovereign defaults - into the limelight.

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“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

Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.

Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.

data4democracy.substack.com

“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:

Appealing to philosophical values won’t build solidarity, but local communities might. - Boston Review

Paulina Ochoa Espejo responds to Lea Ypi’s “The Real Border Crisis.”

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Every time I hear that this is “unskilled” labor…

United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Your Thanksgiving gravy tastes better when you use union mushrooms. Let's give a huge thanks to workers like "Adan" who harvest mushrooms for Monterey Mushrooms under a UFW contract. On an average day, he picks 240-280 of the blue baskets you see in this vid. #WeFeedYou

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

Appraising Mamdani’s Five Key Policies — The Democracy Collaborative

Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s policies are not only feasible, but could work to improve the lives of a majority of New Yorkers. And they have past precedent in the city, Professor Maliha Safri wr...

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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...

Opinion | It Is Trump’s Casino Economy Now. You’ll Probably Lose.

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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

Chartbook 413 The future of the world economy beyond globalization - or, thinking with soup.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of 1945.

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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...

Bookshelf: Summer 2025 | Book Reviews in Places Journal

A seasonal offering of brief reviews of recent books on architecture, landscapes, cities, and related subjects.

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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

Do Trans People Have A Right to Exist?

Or, My Life As An Ideology

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“Stop the Count”: food-insecurity version. 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

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...

The Weekly Wrap: EPA Wants To Get Rid of Emissions Reporting for Industrial Polluters

DOT cuts funds for projects that don’t promote cars, California moves to pass SB 79, and more.

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