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This is the CATO Institute coming out and decrying ICE agents masking: "Similar concerns haven’t deterred judges, who in the past year have come under a wave of threats, often serious." I don't agree with CATO, & in fact disagree with half this article, but pointing out secret police critique.

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Just now listening to this great podcast- Data Vampires (Also A+ on the name!) I will pair this with @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social's piece on AI in fall semester.

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"The visionary facet of Mr. Rhodes’s character is often forgotten, including by his contemporaries, many of whom regarded him as a megalomaniac and a brute, interested only in his personal enrichment. But the vision was there, all the same." NYT opinion next: A (Partial) Defense of Hitler.

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Merlin Sheldrake: “How best to think about shared mycorrhizal networks? A metropolis? A living internet? Socialism in the soil? Deregulated markets of late capitalism, with fungi jostling on the trading floor of a first stock exchange? Or maybe it’s fungal feudalism, with mycorrhizal overlords

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The Center for Popular Economics is back to hosting the Summer Institute! and application deadline has been extended. This is great for any activists seeking a deeper understanding of economics as they apply to grounded struggles. I taught for many years and it is life-changing.

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Important guide for Gazan people for this platform made by @mommunism.bsky.social

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We did a podcast with New Books Network, and our host Elena Sobrino was an excellent interviewer. #SolidarityCities published by @uminnpress.bsky.social.

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"That the challenges remain daunting was widely acknowledged. Nonetheless, the solidarity economy gathering that took place in Atlanta offers valuable pointers for how movements can build infrastructure for the long-term social change work ahead."

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Short clip of interview with @profwolff.bsky.social that I did with one co-author @stephenhealy72.bsky.social!

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6/6 books: Solidarity. The Past, Present, and Future of a World-changing Idea by @lhh.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social from @haymarketbooks.org. I loved this book for many reasons, (authors were all working on these books at the same time)- and their tagline is in the description of our book.

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5/6 books on solidarity. #SolidarityCities by @uminnpress.bsky.social. "Between these paired logics of what might be familiar to readers as the Gentrified City and the Disinvested City, North Philadelphia's community gardens reveal a third dimension of city life that organizes urban space in a

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On my way home and a canvasser asks me are you voting in June & shows me pamphlet for Brad Lander. I say sorry, I’m voting for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social She says “me too!”

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4/6 books on Solidarity. Solidarity is the Political Version of Love by @rvilkomerson.bsky.social & @alissashira.bsky.social "A classic internationalist example is the global solidarity movement with Black South Africans against apartheid. As a Jewish organization fighting against Israeli apartheid

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Five reasons Cuomo should not be ranked in the June primary

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6 books on Solidarity, day 3. Contending Global Apartheid Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Possibility. Jorgensen and Schierup editors & authors of article "Contending Global Apartheid" explaining "Thus the neoliberal presumed happy 'end of history' opened a Pandora's Box of precarization &

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6 days, 1 book on Solidarity per day. Theory of Water, by @biidaasamose.bsky.social "Sintering is a joining... It is a collective effort, involving many different spirits, plants and animals. World-making, as we see, is necessarily a collective effort of diverse beings. It is a workers' collective."

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6 days, 1 book on Solidarity per day (peak ahead, ordered randomly). In Solidarity. Essays on working-class organization in the US. by Kim Moody. labor organizer on mass strikes in US: "Each of these strikes began in a different way, but all unfolded in solidarity with strikers under attack."

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I can assign this to students because it is a very clear piece, and also just an example of ethical journalism in these times. ask questions, get them to say some damning things on the record like "they don't need a warrant" when one is demanded

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of course this remains the favorite metro map of any city I have ever visited in life:

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Thanks to Jessy Edwards from @hellgatenyc.com - I too didn't like the change in NYC subway map! but it took her pointing out that the new one is absolutely better, more legible, to get me over my false resentment.

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PLEASE- anyone out there who has much of Fred Moten and can help me locate this from his work, I CANNOT locate: 'If all you see is the pain and suffering, then you miss the story'... (I am paraphrasing but would like his exact words).

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Yesterday in Worcester, signs: “Kidnapping Mothers Is A Crime,” and “Celebrate Mothers, Don’t Deport Them.” One woman held up a large painting, depicting a man in sunglasses with a vest labeled “ICE” pulling a crying baby from the arms of a distressed woman.

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Mamdani surging in my home neighborhood Harlem, and across the city. I spoke to energized canvassers last weekend activated by this campaign.

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To do this Mother's Day! "A witness describes what she saw. "The mom as she was being detained too, she was screaming, I don't know if she was being hurt as she was handcuffed, but she was truly screaming," Dali RaRocha said. "Those are the screams I have truly engrained in my ears right now."

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Hat tip to @hassanmzaidi.bsky.social - I'm listening to @khan-danish.bsky.social to understand the way we need a theory of water to understand Pakistan and India - definitely the militarized version of Leanne Betsamosake Simpson's theory of water.

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Mayor Baraka here explaining exactly how he was not breaking a single law, ICE arbitrarily arrested him without even asking him to leave a site he is inspecting as the mayor of Newark. ICE cannot arrest citizens, let alone mayors. Except, they are.

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New primer video from The Conscious Citizens for explaining the solidarity economy- and amazing usage of the USSEN map we (me + @craigborowiak.bsky.social @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social & @stephenhealy72.bsky.social) helped develop! (at around the 1 minute mark)

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2 month old baby got arrested, we see the video of a 16 yr old girl face slammed and crying, and gov healey saying “I dunno about the warrant” but taking police’s side here. Healey giving new meaning to Masshole here.

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