Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition)
@shaneburley.bsky.social
Journalist, author Safety in Solidarity (Forthcoming, 2024), #NoPasaran, Fascism Today, and Why We Fight.
Bylines: NBC News, Al Jazeera, Jacobin, The Daily Beast, Yes Magazine, The Baffler, others.
Tweeting Jewish antifascist memes
Bylines: NBC News, Al Jazeera, Jacobin, The Daily Beast, Yes Magazine, The Baffler, others.
Tweeting Jewish antifascist memes
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Charlie Kirk and the Free Speech Hoax
The Right doesn't really care about free speech, and their reaction to the murder of Charlie Kirk proves it.
inthesetimes.com
New from me: The notion that Charlie Kirk represented speech “done right” is a smokescreen manufactured specifically to distract from the single greatest attack on free speech in the 21st century. Kirk wasn’t simply offering an opinion, he was right-wing power personified.
Big thanks to everyone who came out! Read This When Things Fall Apart is just incredible and one of the best books of the year, and I'm just really honored to have contributed to it. Bit kudos to everyone at @akpress.org who helped make this happen!
Thank you, Portland, and thank you @shaneburley.bsky.social. I was grateful for the opportunity to discuss Read This When Things Fall Apart with my friend and such a great audience at @powells.bsky.social.
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Big thanks to everyone who came out! Read This When Things Fall Apart is just incredible and one of the best books of the year, and I'm just really honored to have contributed to it. Bit kudos to everyone at @akpress.org who helped make this happen!
I’m sort of baffled why someone with no organizing history would write a book claiming it’s an Alinskeyist approach to antisemitism and “a manual for mobilization.”
Also the strategy is 95% Israel
Also the strategy is 95% Israel
dueling book covers...which will you choose? @shaneburley.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I’m sort of baffled why someone with no organizing history would write a book claiming it’s an Alinskeyist approach to antisemitism and “a manual for mobilization.”
Also the strategy is 95% Israel
Also the strategy is 95% Israel
Videos of Irish kids playing Kneecap for their grandparents is my favorite genre of internet phenomenon.
November 20, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Videos of Irish kids playing Kneecap for their grandparents is my favorite genre of internet phenomenon.
Tomorrow! Come out in Portland!
On Thursday, I will be in conversation with my friend @shaneburley.bsky.social at @powells.bsky.social in Portland at 7 pm PT. I hope my Portland friends can join us! www.powells.com/events/kelly...
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Tomorrow! Come out in Portland!
Are you in Portland? Come check us out at @powells.bsky.social downtown on Thursday night at 7!
On Thursday, I will be in conversation with my friend @shaneburley.bsky.social at @powells.bsky.social in Portland at 7 pm PT. I hope my Portland friends can join us! www.powells.com/events/kelly...
November 19, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Are you in Portland? Come check us out at @powells.bsky.social downtown on Thursday night at 7!
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“Data is monetized, privacy erodes, and the line between “sharing” and “working” disappears. Until social platforms compensate users for their data and labor, we remain unpaid workers in a trillion-dollar industry that thrives on our attention.”
My latest for @time.com
time.com/7332708/crea...
My latest for @time.com
time.com/7332708/crea...
We’re All Working for the Algorithm Now
In a world where every moment can become content, intimacy has become the price of visibility.
time.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“Data is monetized, privacy erodes, and the line between “sharing” and “working” disappears. Until social platforms compensate users for their data and labor, we remain unpaid workers in a trillion-dollar industry that thrives on our attention.”
My latest for @time.com
time.com/7332708/crea...
My latest for @time.com
time.com/7332708/crea...
Join us on Thursday! This is will be a fun (and totally fucking free) event!
On Thursday, I will be in conversation with my friend @shaneburley.bsky.social at @powells.bsky.social in Portland at 7 pm PT. I hope my Portland friends can join us! www.powells.com/events/kelly...
November 18, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Join us on Thursday! This is will be a fun (and totally fucking free) event!
I will be speaking at @powells.bsky.social on Thursday at 7pm with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social! Join us at the downtown location for a conversation about her new book: Read This When Things Fall Apart, from @akpress.org. This is a great chance to ask questions and pick up the book! Details below.
November 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I will be speaking at @powells.bsky.social on Thursday at 7pm with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social! Join us at the downtown location for a conversation about her new book: Read This When Things Fall Apart, from @akpress.org. This is a great chance to ask questions and pick up the book! Details below.
Come out this Thursday to see @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and I in conversation at @powells.bsky.social!
Portland! I am so looking forward to this event next week at Powell’s with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @shaneburley.bsky.social
www.powells.com/events/kelly...
www.powells.com/events/kelly...
Kelly Hayes & Shane Burley
The Legendary Independent Bookstore
www.powells.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Come out this Thursday to see @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and I in conversation at @powells.bsky.social!
There is no excuse for Finkelstein doing this. Nothing defensible. And even if you completely separated everything he said from what Owen’s did, he still relied on conspiracy theories and negative stereotypes about Jews. In 2025, we don’t need any of this to talk about Israel.
Norman Finkelstein, the fuck is wrong with you?
This is the second time he's gone on Candace Owens' show, and look how she frames the interview in her tweet.
This is the second time he's gone on Candace Owens' show, and look how she frames the interview in her tweet.
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
There is no excuse for Finkelstein doing this. Nothing defensible. And even if you completely separated everything he said from what Owen’s did, he still relied on conspiracy theories and negative stereotypes about Jews. In 2025, we don’t need any of this to talk about Israel.
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MAHA and RFK Jr.'s attack on our public health infrastructure is part of the right's larger attack on "modernity," and the naturalistic fallacy that sits underneath their theories on health. But what it does is provide a cover for massive healthcare austerity cuts.
jacobin.com/2025/09/maha...
jacobin.com/2025/09/maha...
MAHA and the End of American Modernity
Dressed up as a health crusade, MAHA is a proxy for a larger right-wing revolt against science, technology, and public institutions. It fuses lifestyle rebellion with policy agendas that hollow out th...
jacobin.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
MAHA and RFK Jr.'s attack on our public health infrastructure is part of the right's larger attack on "modernity," and the naturalistic fallacy that sits underneath their theories on health. But what it does is provide a cover for massive healthcare austerity cuts.
jacobin.com/2025/09/maha...
jacobin.com/2025/09/maha...
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“The removal of diverse voices at any time without just cause sets a precedent for the erasure of progressive ways of thought and ideologies that contradict those in power.”
I wrote about the consolidation of Teen Vogue for Missing Perspectives.
missingperspectives.com/posts/teen-v...
I wrote about the consolidation of Teen Vogue for Missing Perspectives.
missingperspectives.com/posts/teen-v...
Teen Vogue's closure isn't a sign of what’s to come in media, but a reminder of the crisis already here
"Young people, specifically young women, are disregarded by those in power. Teen Vogue was a place where they not only felt empowered, but were encouraged to do so" – writes Taylor Crumpton.
missingperspectives.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“The removal of diverse voices at any time without just cause sets a precedent for the erasure of progressive ways of thought and ideologies that contradict those in power.”
I wrote about the consolidation of Teen Vogue for Missing Perspectives.
missingperspectives.com/posts/teen-v...
I wrote about the consolidation of Teen Vogue for Missing Perspectives.
missingperspectives.com/posts/teen-v...
For those who have had despairing due to the state of society, I hope this interview with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social provides a pathway to hope: we discuss her new book from @akpress.org that collects letters to organizers to read in times of crisis (times like these):
truthout.org/articles/the...
truthout.org/articles/the...
The World Is Falling Apart. In a New Book, Activists Help Us Piece It Together.
“Sometimes we rescue each other with words,” says organizer Kelly Hayes, discussing her powerful new anthology.
truthout.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
For those who have had despairing due to the state of society, I hope this interview with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social provides a pathway to hope: we discuss her new book from @akpress.org that collects letters to organizers to read in times of crisis (times like these):
truthout.org/articles/the...
truthout.org/articles/the...
MAHA and RFK Jr.'s attack on our public health infrastructure is part of the right's larger attack on "modernity," and the naturalistic fallacy that sits underneath their theories on health. But what it does is provide a cover for massive healthcare austerity cuts.
jacobin.com/2025/09/maha...
jacobin.com/2025/09/maha...
MAHA and the End of American Modernity
Dressed up as a health crusade, MAHA is a proxy for a larger right-wing revolt against science, technology, and public institutions. It fuses lifestyle rebellion with policy agendas that hollow out th...
jacobin.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
MAHA and RFK Jr.'s attack on our public health infrastructure is part of the right's larger attack on "modernity," and the naturalistic fallacy that sits underneath their theories on health. But what it does is provide a cover for massive healthcare austerity cuts.
jacobin.com/2025/09/maha...
jacobin.com/2025/09/maha...
David seems to also somehow blame this on Rose City Antifa, which he had done a half dozen times, a group that never in their entire history ever mentioned Rovics once. (Also I’m to blame somehow)
In some good news - Jewish Voices for Peace Vermont/NH cancelled a David Rovics gig because of his transphobia and platforming of fascists.
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
David seems to also somehow blame this on Rose City Antifa, which he had done a half dozen times, a group that never in their entire history ever mentioned Rovics once. (Also I’m to blame somehow)
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Labcorp
Here's what people had to say about Labcorp:
"Corporate lab company purchasing labs at non-profit health systems and making profit off of understaffing, overcharging, and giving poor care."
Here's what people had to say about Labcorp:
"Corporate lab company purchasing labs at non-profit health systems and making profit off of understaffing, overcharging, and giving poor care."
November 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Labcorp
Here's what people had to say about Labcorp:
"Corporate lab company purchasing labs at non-profit health systems and making profit off of understaffing, overcharging, and giving poor care."
Here's what people had to say about Labcorp:
"Corporate lab company purchasing labs at non-profit health systems and making profit off of understaffing, overcharging, and giving poor care."
Reposted by Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition)
"Fascism Today" also by @shaneburley.bsky.social & published by @akpress.org was a timeless analysis of the disparate fascist movements wreaking havoc and remains must-read material for anti-fascists in the USA today
www.akpress.org/fascism-toda...
www.akpress.org/fascism-toda...
Fascism Today
A detailed map of the far right and a game plan for building the mass movement that will stop it.
www.akpress.org
November 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"Fascism Today" also by @shaneburley.bsky.social & published by @akpress.org was a timeless analysis of the disparate fascist movements wreaking havoc and remains must-read material for anti-fascists in the USA today
www.akpress.org/fascism-toda...
www.akpress.org/fascism-toda...
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Fascism in Florida, The State of Antifascism and Thinking About Electoral Defense
"People should always be planning community safety initiatives at all times no matter what the climate feels like," says Shane Burley.
open.substack.com
September 19, 2023 at 11:29 PM
Don't forget to subscribe to my free newsletter. In this post, I talk with @shaneburley.bsky.social about fascism in Florida, antifascism, community defense organizing, and what we should all be reading.
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I saw a post get ratioed earlier because it assumes that fascism only exists once state power is completely consolidated and I imagine a lot of people are dunking on it but I just want to share two recent resources:
1. This Movement Memos episode with Shane Burley: truthout.org/audio/how-to...
1. This Movement Memos episode with Shane Burley: truthout.org/audio/how-to...
How to Fight Fascism in a Captured State
A union exists whenever a group of people work together to solve a problem they couldn’t alone, says Shane Burley.
truthout.org
October 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I saw a post get ratioed earlier because it assumes that fascism only exists once state power is completely consolidated and I imagine a lot of people are dunking on it but I just want to share two recent resources:
1. This Movement Memos episode with Shane Burley: truthout.org/audio/how-to...
1. This Movement Memos episode with Shane Burley: truthout.org/audio/how-to...
Reposted by Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition)
Reposted by Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition)
I was interviewed by my friend @shaneburley.bsky.social about Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. "Refusing to give up in apocalyptic times is an act of love, and in some ways, it’s an act of faith — it’s about making a commitment to what’s sacred to us."
The World Is Falling Apart. In a New Book, Activists Help Us Piece It Together.
“Sometimes we rescue each other with words,” says organizer Kelly Hayes, discussing her powerful new anthology.
truthout.org
October 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I was interviewed by my friend @shaneburley.bsky.social about Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. "Refusing to give up in apocalyptic times is an act of love, and in some ways, it’s an act of faith — it’s about making a commitment to what’s sacred to us."
Reposted by Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition)
Check out my conversation with/ @mskellymhayes.bsky.social about her new book “Read This When Things Fall Apart.” We
Talk about morale, hope, revolutionary love, and the politics of survival. And antifascism, we dig that too.
Talk about morale, hope, revolutionary love, and the politics of survival. And antifascism, we dig that too.
I was interviewed by my friend @shaneburley.bsky.social about Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. "Refusing to give up in apocalyptic times is an act of love, and in some ways, it’s an act of faith — it’s about making a commitment to what’s sacred to us."
The World Is Falling Apart. In a New Book, Activists Help Us Piece It Together.
“Sometimes we rescue each other with words,” says organizer Kelly Hayes, discussing her powerful new anthology.
truthout.org
October 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Check out my conversation with/ @mskellymhayes.bsky.social about her new book “Read This When Things Fall Apart.” We
Talk about morale, hope, revolutionary love, and the politics of survival. And antifascism, we dig that too.
Talk about morale, hope, revolutionary love, and the politics of survival. And antifascism, we dig that too.
Reposted by Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition)
Hey y'all I'll be hanging out with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and some other great folks at her digital book launch tomorrow! RSVP with this link and bring your ideas, thoughts, and questions!
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Register Now – Read this When Things Fall Apart – YouTube
Read this When Things Fall Apart – YouTube, Tue Oct 28, 2025 - Join Kelly Hayes in conversation with Shane Burley, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Atena O. Danner as they discuss the launch of R...
www.tickettailor.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Hey y'all I'll be hanging out with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and some other great folks at her digital book launch tomorrow! RSVP with this link and bring your ideas, thoughts, and questions!
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Hey y'all I'll be hanging out with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and some other great folks at her digital book launch tomorrow! RSVP with this link and bring your ideas, thoughts, and questions!
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Register Now – Read this When Things Fall Apart – YouTube
Read this When Things Fall Apart – YouTube, Tue Oct 28, 2025 - Join Kelly Hayes in conversation with Shane Burley, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Atena O. Danner as they discuss the launch of R...
www.tickettailor.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Hey y'all I'll be hanging out with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and some other great folks at her digital book launch tomorrow! RSVP with this link and bring your ideas, thoughts, and questions!
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...