Joe
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Libraries, banjos, socialist feminism, revolutionary unionism, philosophy, value critique, degrowth, better worlds are possible and already exist.
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Very grateful for her contributions to a profound technology spanning many uses.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
thezebra.org
January 19, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Very grateful for her contributions to a profound technology spanning many uses.
My kiddo just fell asleep on my arm, as I read another chapter from Braiding Sweetgrass, which they says they really like— “hehe, Baba, trees have sex.”
January 17, 2026 at 6:13 AM
My kiddo just fell asleep on my arm, as I read another chapter from Braiding Sweetgrass, which they says they really like— “hehe, Baba, trees have sex.”
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Democrats out of the DFL
January 16, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Democrats out of the DFL
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This comes up in movement histories over and over again! Despair is your enemy’s friend! Good organizers know this!!
i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
January 16, 2026 at 1:56 PM
This comes up in movement histories over and over again! Despair is your enemy’s friend! Good organizers know this!!
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Democratic Lawmakers Say DOJ Is Investigating Them over Video to U.S. Service Members
Democratic Lawmakers Say DOJ Is Investigating Them over Video to U.S. Service Members
Several Democratic lawmakers said Wednesday they’re under investigation by the Justice Department over a social media post in which they reminded U.S. service members they have a duty to disobey illeg...
www.democracynow.org
January 15, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Democratic Lawmakers Say DOJ Is Investigating Them over Video to U.S. Service Members
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“ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do” played over video of ICE engaging in acts of violence should be the wall to wall DNC media strategy right now
Mike Johnson comes out against additional guardrails on ICE as Democrats call for it.
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
January 15, 2026 at 12:47 AM
“ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do” played over video of ICE engaging in acts of violence should be the wall to wall DNC media strategy right now
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GoFundMe Campaign for Autoworker Who Got the Middle Finger From Trump Hits $340,000 https://gizmodo.com/gofundme-campaign-for-autoworker-who-got-the-middle-finger-from-trump-hits-340000-2000710238
GoFundMe Campaign for Autoworker Who Got the Middle Finger From Trump Hits $340,000
The autoworker called the president a "pedophile protector," a reference to his suppression of the Epstein files.
gizmodo.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:16 PM
GoFundMe Campaign for Autoworker Who Got the Middle Finger From Trump Hits $340,000 https://gizmodo.com/gofundme-campaign-for-autoworker-who-got-the-middle-finger-from-trump-hits-340000-2000710238
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This is not a news outlet.
January 14, 2026 at 6:05 PM
This is not a news outlet.
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Great example of why I always try to train union stewards to avoid the words "can" and "cannot" when describing an employer's powers.
The First Amendment protects the public’s right to:
1. Film ICE in public
2. Photograph ICE in public
3. Observe what ICE does in public
ICE and DHS officials cannot lay a finger on any American who is peacefully exercising First Amendment rights.
1. Film ICE in public
2. Photograph ICE in public
3. Observe what ICE does in public
ICE and DHS officials cannot lay a finger on any American who is peacefully exercising First Amendment rights.
January 14, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Great example of why I always try to train union stewards to avoid the words "can" and "cannot" when describing an employer's powers.
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#OtD 14 Jan 1921 Murray Bookchin, theoretician of social ecology and libertarian municipalism, was born. His ideas have come to prominence more recently as they have been embraced by Kurdish communities in Rojava, Syria. Learn about his life and ideas: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8569...
January 14, 2026 at 5:55 PM
#OtD 14 Jan 1921 Murray Bookchin, theoretician of social ecology and libertarian municipalism, was born. His ideas have come to prominence more recently as they have been embraced by Kurdish communities in Rojava, Syria. Learn about his life and ideas: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8569...
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I keep thinking about how Ford is the main provider of new cars for ICE and how no one should buy Ford right now
somebody did not do a very good job blending Trump's face paint today
January 13, 2026 at 7:08 PM
I keep thinking about how Ford is the main provider of new cars for ICE and how no one should buy Ford right now
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Born on this day in 1921.
Unfortunately, vigorously defended the State of Israel in a 1986 article.
Unfortunately, vigorously defended the State of Israel in a 1986 article.
"...I demonstrate that Bookchin’s understanding of ecological science was not simply a product of a turn to anarchism, but was directly linked to debates among 1950s ecologists, typically overlooked in the recent scholarship on Bookchin."
Murray Bookchin and the Postwar Environmental Moment: The Early Bookchin and the Politicization of Ecology, 1948–1964 | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Murray Bookchin and the Postwar Environmental Moment: The Early Bookchin and the Politicization of Ecology, 1948–1964
www.cambridge.org
January 14, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Born on this day in 1921.
Unfortunately, vigorously defended the State of Israel in a 1986 article.
Unfortunately, vigorously defended the State of Israel in a 1986 article.
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Gotta get the flight attendants, longshoremen, & rail workers on board
January 14, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Gotta get the flight attendants, longshoremen, & rail workers on board
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For all those who have been calling for a General Strike.
How we support a localized/ state-wide General Strike to succeed, is an important muscle building exercise for a larger General Strike.
How we support a localized/ state-wide General Strike to succeed, is an important muscle building exercise for a larger General Strike.
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...
inthesetimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:39 AM
For all those who have been calling for a General Strike.
How we support a localized/ state-wide General Strike to succeed, is an important muscle building exercise for a larger General Strike.
How we support a localized/ state-wide General Strike to succeed, is an important muscle building exercise for a larger General Strike.
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#OtD 14 Jan 1987 student Park Jong-chul was tortured to death by police in Seoul for opposing the US-backed dictatorship. When his murder was uncovered it sparked the June Democratic Struggle which brought down the dictatorship. Learn more in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e91-...
January 14, 2026 at 2:40 PM
#OtD 14 Jan 1987 student Park Jong-chul was tortured to death by police in Seoul for opposing the US-backed dictatorship. When his murder was uncovered it sparked the June Democratic Struggle which brought down the dictatorship. Learn more in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e91-...
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I think we need to understand the extent to which this use of "liberal white women" is a way of saying "race traitor." They aren't attacking these women for being white but for having a lack of loyalty to whiteness.
Fox News' Will Cain: “There's a weird kind of smugness... in the way that some of these liberal white women interact with authority”
January 14, 2026 at 10:41 AM
I think we need to understand the extent to which this use of "liberal white women" is a way of saying "race traitor." They aren't attacking these women for being white but for having a lack of loyalty to whiteness.
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here at cbs news, we are undertaking a mission to tell the kind of stories that for too long have gone untold, like how cops are badass and white people have never done anything wrong
January 14, 2026 at 12:23 AM
here at cbs news, we are undertaking a mission to tell the kind of stories that for too long have gone untold, like how cops are badass and white people have never done anything wrong
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we must protect this man at all costs
The worker, identified as TJ Sabula in the Washington Post, said “I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today I think I did that.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
January 14, 2026 at 3:09 AM
we must protect this man at all costs
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This should be a national shutdown
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...
inthesetimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:00 AM
This should be a national shutdown
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I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
January 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
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Part of what's great about Eric Foner's scholarship on this, for our purposes, is that it's about responding to kidnappings in an urban environment!
We are dealing with an institution modeled on slave catching and the great news is that we also have resistance models
This is a great book about the Underground Railroad in an urban environment, New York City:
wwnorton.com/books/gatewa...
This is a great book about the Underground Railroad in an urban environment, New York City:
wwnorton.com/books/gatewa...
Gateway to Freedom
The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom., Gateway to Freedom, The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad, Eric Foner, 9780...
wwnorton.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Part of what's great about Eric Foner's scholarship on this, for our purposes, is that it's about responding to kidnappings in an urban environment!
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This YouGov poll on ICE is really eye-opening. Public opinion has really swung against DHS/ICE and their terror regime.
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d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/IC...
January 13, 2026 at 12:12 AM
This YouGov poll on ICE is really eye-opening. Public opinion has really swung against DHS/ICE and their terror regime.
d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/IC...
d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/IC...
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Don't tempt me with a good time WSJ 😉 But seriously does the press in other countries treat basic social democratic policies as communism too? Or just the US?
January 12, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Don't tempt me with a good time WSJ 😉 But seriously does the press in other countries treat basic social democratic policies as communism too? Or just the US?
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Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
Trump talks about Denmark and Greenland just now: "The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land."
January 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
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Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
January 9, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.