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Creating a crisis to sell the solution. The Shock Doctrine on steroids

submitted 19 days ago • 26 comments

AWIP's Norway chapter on paid parental leave (specifically its "daddy quota") gets a nice long shoutout in this excellent @jacobinmag.bsky.social piece by Meagan Day

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Dems, are you taking notes? THIS is what I want all our reps doing right now. Listening to their constituents, proposing bold ideas that will make a material difference to all our lives, bringing people together to fight for better…

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Listen to an interview with ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE author @natashakimiz.bsky.social on @wbur.org's On Point about the lessons the U.S. can learn from other countries about how to tackle issues such as inequality, health care and homelessness ow.ly/9zLy50VlKoO

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Wow. No wonder so many Zoomers have slipped into irony, post-truth, and nihilism. Dark times.

submitted 41 days ago • 32 comments

congratulations to john roberts who is as responsible for the current state of affairs as any single person in the country

submitted 40 days ago • 714 comments

No, average Americans don't need to pay more than we already do to have better public services and programs like universal health care, paid parental leave, and more ... Mythbusting and more over at @jacobinmag.bsky.social with the inimitable Meagan Day.

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As new leftist leader Yamandú Orsi takes power in Uruguay, @thenation.com featured my reporting on the green energy transition that his Frente Amplio predecessors incredibly achieved in less than a decade: www.thenation.com/article/worl...

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SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration one day before ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."

submitted 48 days ago • 122 comments

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

submitted 49 days ago • 458 comments

huge W

submitted 52 days ago • 16 comments

This is no different than the Republican agenda every year of my lifetime and before that, and Democrats would do well to remind the public of this instead of lionizing Reagan, Bush, Cheney, etc. Stop exceptionalizing Trump/MAGA. This is a longstanding Republican project.

submitted 53 days ago • 44 comments

Cannot BELIEVE anyone is buying the absurd lie that Social Security is a ponzi scheme. All American residents have paid for it their entire work lives—as we do with everything paid for with public money through general taxation. (1/

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MARCH 12: VIRTUAL EVENT with BOOL CO-OP. For those of you who couldn’t make it out to in-person events, join us on Zoom to discuss Another World Is Possible ( @thenewpress.bsky.social ) Register here for login details: www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-bo...

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LA! Closing out my US tour with the fabulous Meagan Day (@jacobinmag.bsky.social) at Village Well Books + Coffee Culver City tonight at 7 pm. Come through! www.eventbrite.com/e/another-wo...

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

"Illuminating. . . . Fascinating and inspiring." - Publishers Weekly on the newly published ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE by @natashakimiz.bsky.social ow.ly/En2w50UoAjl

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

“I knew we could do better in the U.S. because I had seen better elsewhere—we don’t have to cut from whole cloth to build the world we need.” — @natashakimiz.bsky.social

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

strongly agreed with Cara. some of y'all talk like you have hidden a spare population of unproblematic, unpropagandized people to build a mass movement out of under your couch cushions or something.

submitted 70 days ago • 25 comments

This is tonight! Join @natashakimiz.bsky.social, @sarahlazare.bsky.social, @asha-rrs.bsky.social and @alexhan.bsky.social at 6:30pm! Details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/another-wo...

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

Kleptocracy

submitted 69 days ago • 87 comments

the cruelty is the point

submitted 71 days ago • 16 comments

Would LOVE to see ranked-choice ballots in the US!

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

For those of you in the DC area, I’ll be at Solid State Books tonight to chat with @natashakimiz.bsky.social about her phenomenal new book! Details here: www.solidstatebooksdc.com/events/2025/...

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Baltimore! See you Wednesday Feb. 12 for a conversation with @ositanwanevu.bsky.social at @redemmas.org about Another World Is Possible. RSVP: redemmas.org/events/natas...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Chicago, join us next week for a discussion with @natashakimiz.bsky.social about imagining and building another world. RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/another-wo...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Elon didn't invent PayPal or Tesla, and he didn't even come up with his own megalomaniacal anarcho-capitalist project, Curtis Yarvin did. Has the man ever had an original thought?

submitted 78 days ago • 81 comments

“Zapata debuts with an illuminating survey of how America’s most pressing social issues have been handled by other countries.” - Read a review of newly published ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE by @natashakimiz.bsky.social in Publishers Weekly ow.ly/En2w50UoAjl

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

This is a blatant lie. Per ITEP, unauthorized immigrants paid $99.6 billion in taxes in 2022, without about a third of the money going toward Social Security and Medicare - two benefits they cannot access as non-citizens.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Philly! See you on Sunday at 4:30 pm at Making Worlds Cooperative for a conversation with @kimkelly.bsky.social Register: withfriends.co/event/227542...

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Launched Another World Is Possible last night with @sunraysunray.bsky.social (who was, of course, brilliant) at P&T Knitwear. So grateful to @thenewpress.bsky.social , Bhaskar and everyone who came out last night (it was packed) to talk a bit about hopeful but practical solutions to America’s woes.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

In honor of @sofiawarrenart.bsky.social joining BlueSky, posting this lovely illustration she made at the NY launch of AWIP last night! Cannot wait to frame it!

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

💙📚 #newbooksday #librarylife #ilovemyjob @jgiesber.bsky.social @natashakimiz.bsky.social @jamesponti.bsky.social @eoinhiggins.bsky.social @melrobbins.bsky.social @kylelukoff.bsky.social @authorvcm.bsky.social Et al. ☺️

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

PRIVATELY?? APPEARS??

submitted 82 days ago • 23 comments

Another World Is Possible is OUT TODAY from @thenewpress.bsky.social ! It's now available at your local independent bookstore, or Bookshop.org, or wherever you like to get your books: thenewpress.com/books/anothe...

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Landed in New York for the Another World Is Possible book tour to news AWIP was featured in the New York Times Book Review! @nytimesbooks.bsky.social @thenewpress.bsky.social

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Solid. Sometimes politics just ain't that hard, folks!

submitted 83 days ago • 5 comments

NY! This Wednesday Feb. 5, come out to P&T Knitwear for a conversation with @sunraysunray.bsky.social about Another World Is Possible! Tickets: ow.ly/chmw50UQhFi @thenewpress.bsky.social @jacobinmag.bsky.social @thenation.com

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Boston friends: Join @natashakimiz.bsky.social and Dan Chiasson on Thursday, 2/6, at 7 pm at @portersqbooks.bsky.social in Boston for a conversation about ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE and the lessons America can learn from other countries from around the world. ow.ly/uRvn50UQwhL

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NYC friends: Join @natashakimiz.bsky.social and @sunraysunray.bsky.social, founding editor of @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social, next Wednesday, 2/5, for a conversation about ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE and the lessons America can learn from other countries at P&T Knitwear ow.ly/chmw50UQhFi

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

My book and I are going to be in such great company on this tour: www.natashahakimizapata.com/events @sarahlazare.bsky.social @sunraysunray.bsky.social @kimkelly.bsky.social @vincentbevins.bsky.social @aglantz.bsky.social @anne-s-kim.bsky.social @thenewpress.bsky.social

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