Paul Adlerstein
@pauladlerstein.bsky.social
Historian @Colorado College. Aspiring neo-Bundist (the good Jewish one). Main project: how to build progressive internationalist power in the USA? More at: pauladlerstein.com
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The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica
supportjamaica.gov.jm
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
So honored when @danieldenvir.bsky.social & the @eurtradejustice.bsky.social invited me to appear as a guest on a live episode of my fave politics/history podcast,
@thedigradio.bsky.social. Check out a fascinating convo on the global justice movement's history: thedigradio.com/podcast/anot....
@thedigradio.bsky.social. Check out a fascinating convo on the global justice movement's history: thedigradio.com/podcast/anot....
Another World Was Possible
Featuring Alexandra Wandel, Gonzalo Berrón, and Paul Adlerstein on the 1999 mass protest against the World Trade Organization in Seattle and on the giant global justice movement that mobilized unions,...
thedigradio.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
So honored when @danieldenvir.bsky.social & the @eurtradejustice.bsky.social invited me to appear as a guest on a live episode of my fave politics/history podcast,
@thedigradio.bsky.social. Check out a fascinating convo on the global justice movement's history: thedigradio.com/podcast/anot....
@thedigradio.bsky.social. Check out a fascinating convo on the global justice movement's history: thedigradio.com/podcast/anot....
Fantastic meditation on the quasi-Kubrickian menace of Pete Hegseth's recent speech. Always read @lylerubin.bsky.social!
October 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Fantastic meditation on the quasi-Kubrickian menace of Pete Hegseth's recent speech. Always read @lylerubin.bsky.social!
Kind of funny and appropriate that in trying to give a middle finger to a blue state, Trump is really just screwing over a bunch of "Let's Go Brandon," Thin Blue Lives flag waving MAGA loyalists who live and work here in Colorado Springs...
Whew. For a second there I thought this announcement would be meaningful
The Trump administration is planning to announce as early as Tuesday that it will relocate U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Huntsville, Alabama
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
The Trump administration is planning to announce as early as Tuesday that it will relocate U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Huntsville, Alabama
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
Trump set to move Space Command headquarters to Alabama from Colorado, sources say
The Trump administration is planning to announce as early as Tuesday that it will relocate U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Huntsville, Alabama, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the deliberations.
www.reuters.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Kind of funny and appropriate that in trying to give a middle finger to a blue state, Trump is really just screwing over a bunch of "Let's Go Brandon," Thin Blue Lives flag waving MAGA loyalists who live and work here in Colorado Springs...
Growing up, my parents used to play Tom Lehrer songs on road trips. I owe some of my interest in history, sense of humor, distrust of authority, & left politics to his brilliance. So many greats to choose from, here's his acid satire of patriotism & empire: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHhZ...
Tom Lehrer - Send the Marines
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
www.youtube.com
July 28, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Growing up, my parents used to play Tom Lehrer songs on road trips. I owe some of my interest in history, sense of humor, distrust of authority, & left politics to his brilliance. So many greats to choose from, here's his acid satire of patriotism & empire: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHhZ...
Very helpful deep dive into gradations of contemporary right-wing "Jewish conspiracies" thinking and a helpful pause in getting too excited about the Epstein scandals' political utility...
Hard to find a unique angle on a saturated topic like Epstein but @benlorber8.bsky.social has done just that — he examines the antisemitic underbelly of the MAGA obsession with the billionaire pedophile and warns against progressive amplification of these narratives.
newlinesmag.com/argument/pro...
newlinesmag.com/argument/pro...
Progressives Have No Business Celebrating MAGA’s Epstein Revolt
Antisemitic conspiracy theories are central to the far right’s obsession with the sex-trafficking billionaire and his links to the global elite
newlinesmag.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Very helpful deep dive into gradations of contemporary right-wing "Jewish conspiracies" thinking and a helpful pause in getting too excited about the Epstein scandals' political utility...
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While at the same time reducing non-elite institutions' ability to provide well-rounded education (i.e. killing the humanities).
The non-white/rich kids will have access to nothing but job training--which is a massive subsidy to corporations who can then train their workers at taxpayer expense
The non-white/rich kids will have access to nothing but job training--which is a massive subsidy to corporations who can then train their workers at taxpayer expense
the minute universities start using class preferences, reactionaries will sue them because the actual goal is to make elite institutions inaccessible to everyone other than rich white kids
July 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
While at the same time reducing non-elite institutions' ability to provide well-rounded education (i.e. killing the humanities).
The non-white/rich kids will have access to nothing but job training--which is a massive subsidy to corporations who can then train their workers at taxpayer expense
The non-white/rich kids will have access to nothing but job training--which is a massive subsidy to corporations who can then train their workers at taxpayer expense
If you fit in the overlap of STAR WARS nerd and lefty political thinker, we've got you covered.
Our grand Andor mini-series is finally complete! Shoutout to @jennygzhang.bsky.social, @pauladlerstein.bsky.social, @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social, @davidklion.bsky.social, and Matt Duss for helping us explore every political nook and cranny of the Andor universe www.bangbangpod.com/p/the-comple...
The Complete Andor Mini-Series
Our grand Andor mini-series is finally complete!
www.bangbangpod.com
July 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
If you fit in the overlap of STAR WARS nerd and lefty political thinker, we've got you covered.
Phenomenal thread on being a teacher navigating our AI slop nightmare world. Personally, for me, it's most likely back to blue books and oral presentations, imperfect as those are...
One of the things I most resent about AI is the way it has inserted itself, unwelcomed, between me and my students, especially the ones I don't know all that well yet. I hate that every time I read a piece of student writing a small piece of me is thinking "is this a robot or a person?"
Numerous teachers told me that they are wasting many hours of their lives giving thoughtful feedback to robots
June 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Phenomenal thread on being a teacher navigating our AI slop nightmare world. Personally, for me, it's most likely back to blue books and oral presentations, imperfect as those are...
Happy to do it! Read @timhirschelburns.bsky.social's newsletter - covers so much that most more single-country focused media skips over!
Thanks to @pauladlerstein.bsky.social for recommending my Substack in Justice is Global's newsletter, and for really capturing what I'm trying to achieve there. Subscribe here! timhirschelburns.substack.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Happy to do it! Read @timhirschelburns.bsky.social's newsletter - covers so much that most more single-country focused media skips over!
Hooray for a conversation that dives into, rather than dodging the "efficacy" question. Measuring efficacy of actions and movements is very difficult, sometimes nearly impossible. But it also has to be done and done rigorously and repeatedly to help build actually effective strategies.
I talked with @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social about protest, why large “awareness-raising” events will not defeat Trump, and the kind of actions and formations we need in these times.
Awareness Protests Won’t Threaten the Richest, Most Well-Armed People on Earth
“Making durable changes isn’t always about the raw numbers,” says Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò.
truthout.org
May 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Hooray for a conversation that dives into, rather than dodging the "efficacy" question. Measuring efficacy of actions and movements is very difficult, sometimes nearly impossible. But it also has to be done and done rigorously and repeatedly to help build actually effective strategies.
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More than 25 years after the WTO protests in Seattle, what lessons can global activists draw? Register to join Walden Bello, Bhumika Muchhala, @pauladlerstein.bsky.social, and @llchristyll.bsky.social for a discussion tomorrow at 12:30 EDT. tinyurl.com/HPEAAWL
May 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
More than 25 years after the WTO protests in Seattle, what lessons can global activists draw? Register to join Walden Bello, Bhumika Muchhala, @pauladlerstein.bsky.social, and @llchristyll.bsky.social for a discussion tomorrow at 12:30 EDT. tinyurl.com/HPEAAWL
Great fun chatting w/ @davidklion.bsky.social & the @bangbang1492.bsky.social boys about ANDOR. Hear me talk about my alternative plot idea for bringing Saw into the Ghorman plot and why it's hard for any social movement to know whether a particular strategy/tactic will be effective.
Pure joy getting @davidklion.bsky.social and @pauladlerstein.bsky.social on the pod for the latest installment in our Andor mini-series! @lylerubin.bsky.social www.bangbangpod.com/p/andor-2025...
Andor (2025), Season 2, Ep. 4-6 w/ Paul Adlerstein and David Klion | Ep. 28
Van and Lyle are joined by journalist David Klion and returning guest Paul Adlerstein to unpack Episodes 4 through 6 of Andor Season 2, when the slow-burn tension of the early arc erupts into full-fle...
www.bangbangpod.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Great fun chatting w/ @davidklion.bsky.social & the @bangbang1492.bsky.social boys about ANDOR. Hear me talk about my alternative plot idea for bringing Saw into the Ghorman plot and why it's hard for any social movement to know whether a particular strategy/tactic will be effective.
Come see me talk to a bunch of brilliant people about histories and contemporary dynamics of internationalist organizing around global governance w/@llchristyll.bsky.social, the Third World Network's own Bhumika Muchhala, & a GOAT of transnational organizing since the 1970s, Walden Bello!
You won't want to miss this! Next Friday 5/30 we are hosting a conversation on the history of activism and advocacy directed at global governance institutions, with @pauladlerstein.bsky.social, Walden Bello, Bhumika Muchhala, and @llchristyll.bsky.social. Register here: tinyurl.com/HPEAAWL
May 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Come see me talk to a bunch of brilliant people about histories and contemporary dynamics of internationalist organizing around global governance w/@llchristyll.bsky.social, the Third World Network's own Bhumika Muchhala, & a GOAT of transnational organizing since the 1970s, Walden Bello!
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Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.
NEWS:
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democrats Throw Money at a Problem: Countering G.O.P. Clout Online
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.
Click on the link to at least scream into the void.
The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
May 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Click on the link to at least scream into the void.
Will leading Dem candidates to replace Jared Polis @philweiser.bsky.social or @michaelbennet.bsky.social commit to signing this into law? A shanda of immense proportions to kneecap unions anytime, and moreso now at a time of rising inequality and right-wing authoritarianism.
Colorado is the only Dem-controlled state with a "right-to-work" anti-union law on the books. State Dems attempted to repeal it, but Gov. Jared Polis vetoed the bill: prospect.org/labor/2025-0...
The Democrats’ One and Only Union-Busting Governor
Colorado’s Democratic legislature voted to repeal the state’s de facto right-to-work law. On Friday, Gov. Jared Polis vetoed it.
prospect.org
May 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Will leading Dem candidates to replace Jared Polis @philweiser.bsky.social or @michaelbennet.bsky.social commit to signing this into law? A shanda of immense proportions to kneecap unions anytime, and moreso now at a time of rising inequality and right-wing authoritarianism.
"Is it possible to speak of solidarity and of “being all together” in an economy based on ruthless competition? How far does our fraternity go?" RIP to former guerilla, former Uruguayan president, and all around great José Mujica. www.npr.org/2025/05/13/n...
Uruguay's ex-President José Mujica, nicknamed 'world's poorest president,' dies at 89
José Mujica, the charismatic former guerrilla fighter who later went on to lead Uruguay and became known as "the world's poorest president" for his austere lifestyle, has died at 89.
www.npr.org
May 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"Is it possible to speak of solidarity and of “being all together” in an economy based on ruthless competition? How far does our fraternity go?" RIP to former guerilla, former Uruguayan president, and all around great José Mujica. www.npr.org/2025/05/13/n...
Thanks again to @lylerubin.bsky.social & @vanjackson.bsky.social for having me on @bangbang1492.bsky.social to talk about the prison escape plot line from Andor, S1. Got to break down how it's a great microcosm of any organizing, as Andor figures out the dynamics & larger pol situation...
May 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Thanks again to @lylerubin.bsky.social & @vanjackson.bsky.social for having me on @bangbang1492.bsky.social to talk about the prison escape plot line from Andor, S1. Got to break down how it's a great microcosm of any organizing, as Andor figures out the dynamics & larger pol situation...
If you live in CO or know someone who does, have them call @govofco.bsky.social & tell him to rescind this. And call any Dem House/Senate members & tell them to support an override.
Governor Polis plans to veto the Worker Protection Act.
Statement from Dennis Dougherty, co-chair of Colorado Worker Rights United and @coloradoaflcio executive director.
“We’re just getting started.”
#copolitics #coleg
Statement from Dennis Dougherty, co-chair of Colorado Worker Rights United and @coloradoaflcio executive director.
“We’re just getting started.”
#copolitics #coleg
May 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
If you live in CO or know someone who does, have them call @govofco.bsky.social & tell him to rescind this. And call any Dem House/Senate members & tell them to support an override.
Why are adults the only audience that count? Maybe the political importance of pop culture like "Star Wars" mainly stems from how it opens up thinking, leads to conversations, etc. about morals and politics among kids & young people? Conversations that start w/text but connect to the real world?
the original trilogy was really not political unless you’re seven
But… the OT was extremely political… Rebelling against an empire is political action. Vader and Leia have a whole ass political dialogue right in the beginning and Lucas has even said it was an allegory for Vietnam
May 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Why are adults the only audience that count? Maybe the political importance of pop culture like "Star Wars" mainly stems from how it opens up thinking, leads to conversations, etc. about morals and politics among kids & young people? Conversations that start w/text but connect to the real world?
Great summation of the life of David Horowitz at
@prospect.org. A purveyor of noxious racism & reaction for decades, I remember Horowitz as one of the worst boosters of the GWOT. I didn't know that Horowitz was also a mentor to Stephen Miller! prospect.org/politics/202...
@prospect.org. A purveyor of noxious racism & reaction for decades, I remember Horowitz as one of the worst boosters of the GWOT. I didn't know that Horowitz was also a mentor to Stephen Miller! prospect.org/politics/202...
Demonizers
David Horowitz bequeathed his rage-filled and slanderous extremism to Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and MAGA world.
prospect.org
May 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Great summation of the life of David Horowitz at
@prospect.org. A purveyor of noxious racism & reaction for decades, I remember Horowitz as one of the worst boosters of the GWOT. I didn't know that Horowitz was also a mentor to Stephen Miller! prospect.org/politics/202...
@prospect.org. A purveyor of noxious racism & reaction for decades, I remember Horowitz as one of the worst boosters of the GWOT. I didn't know that Horowitz was also a mentor to Stephen Miller! prospect.org/politics/202...
So fun talking w/ @vanjackson.bsky.social, @lylerubin.bsky.social, & @jennygzhang.bsky.social on @bangbang1492.bsky.social about Eps 4-6 of S1 of ANDOR. Got to pitch "if we're talking about pop culture politicizing ppl, focus on 12-17 year olds & actually organize them" & talk about my great-grandad
April 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
So fun talking w/ @vanjackson.bsky.social, @lylerubin.bsky.social, & @jennygzhang.bsky.social on @bangbang1492.bsky.social about Eps 4-6 of S1 of ANDOR. Got to pitch "if we're talking about pop culture politicizing ppl, focus on 12-17 year olds & actually organize them" & talk about my great-grandad