Happy Mothers Day, especially to the kids with moms and moms with kids lost to prison & police violence. #MothersReclaimingOurChildren

IDK what to say about Mother’s Day (not that literally anyone asked). It’s so hard to be a mother in this country. My hair has been falling out from stress. It’s hard to be a lot of other things, too. Caretaking obligations should not be treated like a shameful personal issue.

This video out of USC is unbelievable

I wish children didn't die.

—Ghassan Kanafani
▪︎ Palestinian poet ▪︎

“throughout the campus crisis over Gaza, liberal leaders in the United States and Europe have repeatedly failed to maintain liberal values when they are challenged from within.” - ⁦Zachary D. Carter⁩ slate.com/news-and-polit…

I know nothing matters and these institutions have chosen their side—but a university who sees itself as a foundational bastion of free speech and whose mascot is the Quakers ordered a predawn police assault on a nonviolent protest encampment

I think people are starting to accept that 'post-neoliberalism' is not bringing back manufacturing employment, but I still think this graph could get more attention

California is cutting essential child care, climate innovation and jobs, while the corrections budget, which is operating at 20+% capacity surplus, is remaining largely intact. #CABudget #MayRevise #ClosePrisonsSaveBillions

Found a new UAW guy in the archives at the Reuther Library WSU!

The Columbia model expands across the country. USC and UCI admin both today announce suspension and eviction of Palestine solidarity activists who bargained with them over divestment.

One thing overlooked in this Haim Saban message to Biden is how easily, casually, cavalierly a man like him sends missives to the US President, using sloppy textspeak to criticize policy on a highly-consequential issue with millions of lives at stake. Says a lot about the…

Come work with me on the econ team at Roosevelt Institute!

We’re hiring:
Principal Economist: PhD to lead our econ strategy
Director of Macro: Fill Mike Konczal’s big shoes
Director of Stratification Econ: Research race & gender power imbalances in our economy

rooseveltinstitute.org/careers/

Campus security is blocking UCLA faculty from entering Murphy Hall to deliver a letter to Chancellor Gene Block. The security is also refusing to take the letter to deliver it inside.

URGENT news: UCI has suspended multiple students without warning, including students who were part of the team engaging in ONGOING NEGOTIATIONS with the admin. Suspended students are not allowed on campus and are being evicted from their campus housing.

jstor.org/stable/i276731…