Fam, stop accepting their framing. Regardless of what this child did, 13-year-olds Brown kids are not hardened criminals. Youth are impulsive & their brains are not fully developed. Punishing them like adults does not decrease crime-Black & Brown youth deserve to be treated like kids, not adultified

Thanks to @amyediaz.bsky.social for having me on @885wfdd.bsky.social to talk about my favorite subject: Leandro. The NCGA continues to ignore the court order to fully fund the plan, creating a crisis for our schools and our constitution.

#ncpol #LeadWithLeandro

This work is really important. I see the language in the 2nd ad all the time — “you’re not alone.”

But the subtext is: “You’re absolutely alone."

Whatever this “Crimson” organization is offering, it DEPENDS on you feeling alone.

That’s what makes it predatory.

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

My best organizing tip for academic workers (& all workers, but academics esp. can struggle to internalize this IME) is to go to campus workers with less power than you as the *first* step of any campaign. Going to deans etc w/ more power cedes your own power to the boss & shrinks your coalition.

UFW mourns the passing of our brother Kent Wong. Please watch Kent speak in beautiful short video connecting his time with UFW to his view of the importance of solidary across labor and race and cultural backgrounds.

 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODkU...

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HELU's International Campus Worker Protections (ICWP) Campaign is organizing to pressure our institutions to stand up for international workers. Read more about this campaign in a recent piece by organizer Bobby Huggins higheredlaborunited.org/2025/09/22/t...

Job posting! OU Sociology is looking to hire a TT Assistant Professor or an accelerated TT or tenured Associate Professor, teaching criminology, criminal justice, & race/ethnicity courses. OU is OK's flagship R1, PhD program, 2-2 load with TA help. Please share!

Details: apply.interfolio.com/174925

just got the honor of meeting with the great Howard Winant who mentioned this David Graeber essay on the threat "giant puppets" pose the police, along the same lines theanarchistlibrary.org/library/davi...

The real news in this is the first sentence. “It is not exactly clear what UNC plans to use the faculty workload report for…”

I would argue that it is very clear. I have, in fact, argued that it is very clear.

Such optimism!

Today (Tues Oct 7) 14 #ncpol municipalities have elections, with polls open 6:30 am to 7:30pm:
Durham
Louisburg
Rocky Mt
Fayetteville
Erwin
Henderson
Roxboro
Asheboro
Greensboro
Jamestown
New Bern
Elizabeth City
Dobbins Heights
Hickory

Yes, the government is spying on you. Yes, it is openly, brazenly violating our rights. Are you gonna do something about it, or are you just gonna roll over and let them swallow us into their new digital police state?

@404media.co
www.404media.co/email/0ba0f6...

remembering when Obama ordered the extrajudicial murder via drone strike of an American citizen & his 16yo American citizen son in Yemen. the imperial boomerang has & will continue to swing back & the exceptionalism that has us crowing that we are too civilized for all that will not protect anyone.

Dwayne has his job back because we organized for it. We fight or we die. Join AAUP today www.aaup.org/join

We actually know a lot about what happens when conservatives embargo ideas at public universities.

In the 1920s, they called it "evolution," but conservatives really targeted a broad range of ideas, including modern science but also ideas about racial equality.

What happened back then? A 🧵

Some 200 teachers who took jobs with DCPS under the expectation that the school system would sponsor a green card are now facing uncertain futures.

Even after the D.C. Council set aside additional funds for the program, DCPS says it won’t spend the money, @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:

I think what’s most frustrating right now for Black and Indigneous people is waiting for the bulk of white folks to catch up.

At some point the “this isn’t who we are” and “I didn’t have this on my bingo card” has to end and y’all will catch up, right? RIGHT?

WE NEED YOU TO CATCH UP.

This is happening tonight! I'm basically going to do an ask me anything about your particularly budget situation, as well as provide some resources to do your own analysis.

Consider the added cruelty of Medicaid work requirements (to be implemented in all US states starting in January 2027; previously implemented in AR & GA, resulting in coverage losses)-- on top of the possibility of having your wages garnished for bills that should have been paid by Medicaid.

When you recall that political reporters ran interference for Trump over his "opposition" to Project 2025, remember that even AT THAT TIME there was a hidden camera interview with Vought where he said that was bullshit and he didn't mean it. www.mediamatters.org/russ-vought/...

Great news! We must keep pressuring UNC System admin - they will keep looking for ways to bend the knee to Trump.

Chicago people

- make your voice heard.