Drake dropping three incredibly mid albums instead of one decent one highlights the important role that good editors can play in our society.

After two days on strike, nearly 1,000 faculty at NYU won huge concessions from the university. Everyone in the CFU-UAW union will now get a raise of at least $14,000. The deal also includes 3.5% raises each year of the contract, better job security, and more.

BREAKING: The PA Supreme Court holds that mandatory life without parole sentences for all "felony murder" convictions -- a sentence more than 1,000 people in PA are serving -- violates the state constitution's "cruel" punishment ban. This is GROUNDBREAKING: www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...

As ICE apprehends more children every day, it raises a simple question that’s also one of grave moral concern: What does detention do to a child’s health? "I see a regression of developmental milestones. They don’t want to eat. They have problems sleeping. They wake up screaming,” one doctor said.

What ICE Detention Does to a Child

Stunted growth. Nightmares. Bed-wetting. These are just a few of the symptoms of children held in immigration custody.

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Feminist Studies is hiring a managing editor! Please spread the word! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69890/f...

People shouldn't feel bad about previously admiring someone when they didn't know about the terrible harms that person committed, but we should challenge ourselves to consider how pedestalizing and prioritizing the legacies of charismatic leaders can create harmful dynamics. That can be addressed.

When you think you're a liberator of your people and you're also sexually abusing women and girls from among those people you're demonstrating that you have trouble recognizing them as people. (And that is way too common.)

Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years

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Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

The news about Cesar Chavez is devastating but also shows us the pitfalls of single issue organizing. He was a powerful labor organizer but as we have now learned he was also a sexual abuser, Zionist, anti-communist, and virulently anti-immigrant.

So happy to share this interview I did with Danielle Beaujon about her amazing book Criminalizing the Casbahs for the Abusable Past. Check out the interview and be sure to pick up her book! abusablepast.org/criminalizin...

Tomorrow Bay Area folks! When: Wednesday, March 4th 4:00 - 5:30 pm Where: The Latinx Research Center 2547 Channing Way UC Berkeley

The Abusable Past published a microsyllabus on Radical Iranian Theory and Praxis last year that seems more relevant than ever. Please check it out and share widely: abusablepast.org/radical-iran...

Essential reading. "We in the U.S. need to reckon with the fact that so much of our state wealth, capacity, and technology goes toward burying children in rubble."

As Trump Bombs Iran, We Need to Reckon With the American War Machine

We cannot afford to slip into despair. We must push back against militarism everywhere, at every turn.

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People really struggling with the idea that the Iranian government sucks but we shouldn't be bombing them can both be true, eh?

Submitted. Dropping January 2027. In the meantime, 🚫🧊

it sure is a choice to look at a political landscape in which the government is actively attempting to erase trans people from existence and publish a Singal victory lap in furtherance of that goal

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5mo ago

oh good

I’m sorry but not censoring a white man repeatedly shouting the n-word at two Black actors presenting an award because he has Tourette’s but censoring someone accepting an award saying “Free Palestine” is peak white liberal brainrot.

via TheGrio We love @marisollebron.bsky.social over here! S/o to @wayneandwax.bsky.social & Raquel Rivera and Dr. Rideau & Diaz of #badbunnysyllabus youtube.com/shorts/KTMQF...

Reggaeton's Afro-Latin Roots: A Conversation with Gata

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The uber leftist critiques of Bad Bunny noting that it’s not liberation are so annoying. Like, no one said all that, bro. People saying that there were political elements that are important to acknowledge is not the same as saying Bad Bunny will free us. Don’t be foolish.

If anyone is interested in reading about Hurricane Maria's human impact on Puerto Rico, I recommend Aftershocks of Disaster by @yarimarita.bsky.social @marisollebron.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org. A deeply heartbreaking yet galvanizing anthology of essays, poems, and other personal literary works.

Aftershocks of Disaster

An in-depth look at Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the preexisting crisis that conditioned this historic disaster.

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it is beautiful how we are having another moment of Bluesky unity. everybody basking in the glow of how Ilhan Omar was very visibly gonna punch that dude in the mouth

After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.

Matt McDermott@mattmfm.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

No wishy washy passive voice here. TMZ literally more accurate than the majority of mainstream news outlets.

Eileen Clancy 🧿@clancyny.bsky.social · 6mo ago

TMZ comes out the gate with a punch to the nose. "Trump administration created false story." MINNEAPOLIS KILLING NEW VIDEO SHOWS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CREATED FALSE STORY source URL: www.tmz.com/2026/01/24/n...

We all just saw about six different angles of ICE murdering a guy who himself was filming them, but sure, you think body cameras will make all the difference. How stupid do they think we are?

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective@crimethinc.com · 6mo ago

Republicans have blocked every proposal to rein in ICE, but they're happy to let Democrats spend your tax money to equip ICE mercenaries with body cameras. Why? Because they know body cams won't restrain ICE any more than they do cops: crimethinc.com/bodycams Don't try to reform ICE. Abolish them.

Law enforcement out of unions. They are not workers. They are the tools of the elites against the working class.

Matthew Borus@matthewborus.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What a stark, horrifying demonstration of the tension a union opens itself to when it organizes security forces. If you hesitate to condemn the killing of a member, for fear of alienating the members who fired the guns, what sort of cage have you built around your union?

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

Deaths, detentions and deportations of American citizens in the second Trump administration - Wikipedia

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