Sarah Jaffe
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social
Troublemaker. Vagrant. Author of From the Ashes, Work Won't Love You Back and Necessary Trouble.
I'm returning to Work Won't Love You Back territory for this conversation with @sarahmosseri.bsky.social -- online, December 9, free to all, timed for both US and Europe. darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I'm returning to Work Won't Love You Back territory for this conversation with @sarahmosseri.bsky.social -- online, December 9, free to all, timed for both US and Europe. darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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"The death of institutions hasn’t killed solidarity among journalists — I’m a member, for example, of the Freelance Solidarity Project at the National Writers Union, which provides resources for independent writers and has contracts for minimum standards with several publications." 🫡
I contributed a piece to TPM's look back at 25 years of digital media. Unsurprisingly, I wrote about unionization and how it shaped the press: talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/digit...
Digital Media’s Union Wave Helped Shape a Generation’s Thinking About Unions
When Maya Schenwar and her colleagues at Truthout began to talk about...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
"The death of institutions hasn’t killed solidarity among journalists — I’m a member, for example, of the Freelance Solidarity Project at the National Writers Union, which provides resources for independent writers and has contracts for minimum standards with several publications." 🫡
I contributed a piece to TPM's look back at 25 years of digital media. Unsurprisingly, I wrote about unionization and how it shaped the press: talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/digit...
Digital Media’s Union Wave Helped Shape a Generation’s Thinking About Unions
When Maya Schenwar and her colleagues at Truthout began to talk about...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I contributed a piece to TPM's look back at 25 years of digital media. Unsurprisingly, I wrote about unionization and how it shaped the press: talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/digit...
Another little clip from the newest Heart Reacts, where we discuss a trend piece about the neologism "chalance" www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
November 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Another little clip from the newest Heart Reacts, where we discuss a trend piece about the neologism "chalance" www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
if the amount of people who send me AI-slop PR emails about my book had actually bought and read my book, I wouldn't need their PR.
November 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
if the amount of people who send me AI-slop PR emails about my book had actually bought and read my book, I wouldn't need their PR.
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
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tonight at 7, @housmansbookshop.bsky.social!
a conversation with the incomparable @helenhester.bsky.social at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social on Thursday Nov 6 at 7pm: housmans.com/event/book-l...
BOOK LAUNCH: Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni (in conversation with Helen Hester)
Housmans are very excited to welcome Dr Alyssa Battistoni to the shop to discuss her vital work of political theory, Free Gifts: Capitalism and The Politics of Nature. Capitalism is typically treat…
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November 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
tonight at 7, @housmansbookshop.bsky.social!
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All new Heart Reacts on your podcast feed of choice!
This week @sarahljaffe.bsky.social talk about feeling simultaneously over- and under-committed, whether having boyfriends is embarrassing now, and why people are talking "chalant"
This week @sarahljaffe.bsky.social talk about feeling simultaneously over- and under-committed, whether having boyfriends is embarrassing now, and why people are talking "chalant"
November 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
All new Heart Reacts on your podcast feed of choice!
This week @sarahljaffe.bsky.social talk about feeling simultaneously over- and under-committed, whether having boyfriends is embarrassing now, and why people are talking "chalant"
This week @sarahljaffe.bsky.social talk about feeling simultaneously over- and under-committed, whether having boyfriends is embarrassing now, and why people are talking "chalant"
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Mr. Mamdani, would you please be my mayor? I wrote about the Zohran phenomenon and economic populism for some folks across the pond:
macrodosepod.substack.com/p/f0caf063-a...
macrodosepod.substack.com/p/f0caf063-a...
THE FIX
Fact-based, climate-focused economic analysis from MACRODOSE. Click to read THE FIX, by MACRODOSE, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Mr. Mamdani, would you please be my mayor? I wrote about the Zohran phenomenon and economic populism for some folks across the pond:
macrodosepod.substack.com/p/f0caf063-a...
macrodosepod.substack.com/p/f0caf063-a...
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"Others will take time in catching up to that." whew
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"Others will take time in catching up to that." whew
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After Zohran Mamdani beat disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in this year’s New York City Democratic mayoral primary, Cuomo, his billionaire backers and corporate media all took a beating.
But they picked themselves up, got back in the ring, and lost again.
fair.org/home/mamdani...
But they picked themselves up, got back in the ring, and lost again.
fair.org/home/mamdani...
Mamdani Beats Cuomo and the Press Hacks (Again)
The city’s media oligopoly looked to a rejected, corrupt sleazeball to save the city from a fresh-faced progressive who vowed to make life more affordable.
fair.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
After Zohran Mamdani beat disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in this year’s New York City Democratic mayoral primary, Cuomo, his billionaire backers and corporate media all took a beating.
But they picked themselves up, got back in the ring, and lost again.
fair.org/home/mamdani...
But they picked themselves up, got back in the ring, and lost again.
fair.org/home/mamdani...
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I'm told by Cuomo and others that this is "not" possible.
Today, New Mexico launched its universal childcare initiative. Last month I wrote about it for Roosevelt Institute -- historic state endeavors like this should show lawmakers at all levels of government that Americans are sick and tired of waiting for bold action on childcare. shorturl.at/Sm2tZ
November 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I'm told by Cuomo and others that this is "not" possible.
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Recently, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social sat down with @kaiheron.bsky.social, @kmilb.bsky.social and @bertrussell.bsky.social, authors of “Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future” to discuss the difference between radical and bullshit abundance.
inthesetimes.com/article/radi...
inthesetimes.com/article/radi...
October 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Recently, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social sat down with @kaiheron.bsky.social, @kmilb.bsky.social and @bertrussell.bsky.social, authors of “Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future” to discuss the difference between radical and bullshit abundance.
inthesetimes.com/article/radi...
inthesetimes.com/article/radi...
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If anyone is in or around Glasgow on Saturday and wants to hear me talk about my most recent essay on Video Game Worker Unions and Revolution, I'd love to see you there!
notesfrombelow.org/article/vide...
6pm at Broadside in Glasgow!
notesfrombelow.org/article/vide...
6pm at Broadside in Glasgow!
October 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
If anyone is in or around Glasgow on Saturday and wants to hear me talk about my most recent essay on Video Game Worker Unions and Revolution, I'd love to see you there!
notesfrombelow.org/article/vide...
6pm at Broadside in Glasgow!
notesfrombelow.org/article/vide...
6pm at Broadside in Glasgow!
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Heart Reacts is up! Some thoughts on relationships and organizing, clarity, terminology, and why I hate the word "situationship" with every fiber of my being. Link below or find the show wherever you get your podcasts. www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
October 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Heart Reacts is up! Some thoughts on relationships and organizing, clarity, terminology, and why I hate the word "situationship" with every fiber of my being. Link below or find the show wherever you get your podcasts. www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
Heart Reacts is up! Some thoughts on relationships and organizing, clarity, terminology, and why I hate the word "situationship" with every fiber of my being. Link below or find the show wherever you get your podcasts. www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
October 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Heart Reacts is up! Some thoughts on relationships and organizing, clarity, terminology, and why I hate the word "situationship" with every fiber of my being. Link below or find the show wherever you get your podcasts. www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
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That should be a career ender. Let’s hope that we’re at the point in time when we’re organized and aware enough that it is.
Gov. Bill Lee says Trump’s military-police occupation of Memphis “may never end.”
“We have just begun. We do know this is going to last for months… In fact, I will tell you that it will last forever.”
“We have just begun. We do know this is going to last for months… In fact, I will tell you that it will last forever.”
October 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM
That should be a career ender. Let’s hope that we’re at the point in time when we’re organized and aware enough that it is.
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The inflatables have made it to Broadview.
October 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The inflatables have made it to Broadview.
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One person riding a bike while naked probably requires some kind of emergency response. But a whole group = a regular-ish PNW event.
Here for the "emergency" naked bike ride in Portland
October 13, 2025 at 4:45 AM
One person riding a bike while naked probably requires some kind of emergency response. But a whole group = a regular-ish PNW event.
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Stay until the end to learn it’s possible to buy an inflatable axolotl costume…
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 10, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Stay until the end to learn it’s possible to buy an inflatable axolotl costume…
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Hundreds of people arrested by ICE agents around Chicago over the past few months could be released, according to a new fed. ruling.
|https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/08/100s-could-be-freed-from-ice-custody-after-ruling-that-warrantless-arrests-violated-consent-decree/
|https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/08/100s-could-be-freed-from-ice-custody-after-ruling-that-warrantless-arrests-violated-consent-decree/
Hundreds Could Be Freed From ICE Custody After Warrantless Arrest Ruling
Immigration attorneys said they have already identified more than 200 arrests that potentially violate the consent decree. However, they said those 200 arrests are likely "just the tip of the iceberg....
blockclubchicago.org
October 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Hundreds of people arrested by ICE agents around Chicago over the past few months could be released, according to a new fed. ruling.
|https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/08/100s-could-be-freed-from-ice-custody-after-ruling-that-warrantless-arrests-violated-consent-decree/
|https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/08/100s-could-be-freed-from-ice-custody-after-ruling-that-warrantless-arrests-violated-consent-decree/
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And you can listen here or wherever you get podcasts www.dw.com/en/grief-a-c...
Grief: a catalyst for social change? – DW – 06/27/2025
On this special edition of DW's Inside Europe, we take a break from the news to explore grief as a lens for understanding global events. Author Sarah Jaffe joins host Kate Laycock to unpack how loss—f...
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October 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
And you can listen here or wherever you get podcasts www.dw.com/en/grief-a-c...
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This beautiful podcast inspired by From the Ashes is up for a Signal award and you can vote for it: vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...
The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU
I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.
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October 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This beautiful podcast inspired by From the Ashes is up for a Signal award and you can vote for it: vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...