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A bold poster reads "Tax the Rich! Fund Child Care!" with blocks showing child care icons. It promotes a field launch event Dec 13 + 14, citywide, by NYC Democratic Socialists of America and Our Time for an Affordable NYC.

New Yorkers, if you're ready for more canvassing & organizing, @socialists.nyc is launching a "massive field effort to build productive pressure on legislators and the governor to raise taxes on the ultra-wealthy and fund universal child care." actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

thinking of her today

A Question About Tomorrow - Urban Omnibus As goes Ravenswood, so goes New York’s energy future. So what will it take to bring a just transition to the city’s largest power plant?

urbanomnibus.net/2025/11/a-qu... back on da horse

Antony Loewenstein: Israel has killed more journalists in the last 22 months than were killed in the US civil war, WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

Folks, if you're a cultural worker and you'd like to organize with us, come on board! I'll see you in the group chat, the web conference, and the streets. ✊

nwu.org

Recognizing this, the National Writers Union (@thenwu.bsky.social) backed this recent statement from the National Labor Network for Ceasefire. It rightly frames the detention of Mahmoud Khalil and other violations of First Amendment Rights as attacks on all workers.

www.laborforceasefire.org

You heard @jumaane.bsky.social, folks. Let's live the DREAM!

NO OTHER LAND!!!!

No Other Land now has more Oscars than it did distribution offers. a great and enduring shame upon the American film industry. free Palestine forever.

Don’t Rank Eric or Andrew for Mayor

Famous sexual harasser & nursing home death merchant Andrew Cuomo has announced he’s running for mayor. But here’s the good news: @dreamfornyc.bsky.social is here to spread the word: DON’T RANK ERIC or ANDREW for MAYOR. dreamfornyc.com

an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Governor Hochul & NY Lawmakers: BRING BACK VISITS & BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS TO OUR LOVED ONES NOW!

New Yorkers, use this tool to contact the Governor and your legislators demanding restoration of visitation, limits on solitary confinement, and other important protections for NY prisoners:

p2a.co/LmdrvPI

If you're a journalist, translator or other culture or media worker like me looking for your union, might I suggest popping over to nwu.org and clicking JOIN NOW.

You can follow us here, too: @fspnwu.bsky.social.

Post from NLRB Union: Yesterday, the NLRB’s Buffalo office (Region 3) received word from its landlord that GSA—acting on behalf of DOGE—had unilaterally cancelled the Region’s five-year lease, without any prior notice to the Agency. The Region has been given 90 days to vacate the building.

In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant.

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i can’t imagine simply going to rich guy prison would be much worse than this little media tour eric adams is on where he has to say ‘i’m a little bitch boy’ on camera three times a day while various trump goons grin at him menacingly

The city is under attack by Trump, and Adams is too weak to do anything.

Adams must go. Join us at Foley Square this Sunday at 2 PM.

Adams se necesita salir. Ven a Foley Square este Domingo a las 2 PM.

#WeProtectUs #SanctuaryCity

@socialists.nyc @maketheroadny.bsky.social @nychange.bsky.social

Federal Unionists Network - Join Us! Join Us!

Federal workers organizing across unions through the Federal Unionist Network (FUN) are connecting activists to make plans to fight back. If you’re a federal worker, you can get connected with them here: www.federalunionists.net/join-us

Easy: the official who would take his place is antagonistic to real estate interests.

reminder to everyone in NYC - change your registration to democrat TODAY to vote in the primary and get rid of Adams
e-register.vote.nyc/registration

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Fund Don't Freeze: National Higher Education Strategy Call. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join higher education workers from around the country on 2/13 at 8 PM Eastern / 7 PM Central / 6 PM Mountain / 5 PM Pacific for a national strategy call on the federal attack on higher education and h...

The only hope for higher ed is the academic labor movement. Join this @higheredlabor.bsky.social call next week to plan our fight us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Digital safety and protecting against online harassment for freelance journalists. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining th... From securing sensitive data to online abuse, journalists face a range of digital security threats as they go about their work. Knowing what steps to take to better protect themselves and their source...

INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS! Here's the second webinar in series on journalists' safety organized by @fspnwu.bsky.social with a focus on online harassment and digital safety. Sign up using the link: cpj-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🚨NEWS: A temporary order has been issued blocking the Labor Dept. from sharing any data with DOGE, after a group of unions, including AFGE, sued DOGE and held a major protest outside DOL yesterday.

Here's the union's email:

in retrospect, tech billionaires totally ravaging the US free press and then doing a coup feels of a piece

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

Group photo of Cahoon apple workers standing in their red ufw t-shirts holding UFW flags

Historic victory for the UFW: Our FIRST ever union contract in New York State!

It is the first of many to come. ¡Sí Se Puede!

ufw.org/cahoon

The Guardian: Trump’s disregard for US constitution ‘a blitzkrieg on the law’, legal experts say

Trump’s Tariffs Would Reverse Decades of Integration With Mexico

Trump’s fierce attacks on DEI reflect a longtime GOP focus

Top headlines:
Guardian: Trump’s disregard for US constitution ‘a blitzkrieg on the law’,
NYT: Trump’s Tariffs Would Reverse Decades of Integration With Mexico
Washington Post: Trump’s fierce attacks on DEI reflect a longtime GOP focus

US media is not giving a sense of the scale of the threats

it's your boy again, once again respectfully tapping the "support worker-owned, independent media" sign

Other countries have public sector unions; we have subreddits

The “fuck you, make me” brio emanating from the federal employees subreddit—a small glimmer of hope today—illustrates how fear gets transformed into angry determination much faster when workers have a space to talk to each other outside work. (Union yes!)

I appreciate all the people recommending the Shock Doctrine. I've been thinking about what makes Trump's use of these tactics a little different.

In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that.

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