i'm going crazy lol this was the schedule for the protest at UT austin yesterday. they sent state troopers with riot gear and horses to stop an art workshop and a pizza party

after setting up a peaceful encampment this morning, students are being violently arrested at Emory University. they are being held down and tased. tear-gassed. shot at with rubber bullets.

Ahead of next month's election at a Mercedes plant in Vance and as AL lawmakers vote for a card check blacklist, a More Perfect Union poll shows that ~70 percent of Alabamians believe a vote for the UAW would boost pay, benefits, and safety for autoworkers substack.perfectunion.us/p/poll-alabama…

I don’t understand. we banned TikTok but the kids still think ethnic cleansing is bad. time to send in the cops I guess. I’m a liberal

I've seen no credible reporting of actual antisemitic incidents at the UT Austin protest. What I can tell you is that I've reported on numerous neo-Nazi events and Greg Abbott never once tried to put any of them in jail.

I can’t remember a journalist ever being arrested for doing his job in my 24 years of reporting in Austin.

The river is also “a few hundred” feet away. Are the fish protesting at the Columbia protest too, would you say

I’m now “DM a pic of an Andy Gibb jigsaw puzzle I found in a thrift store to Jon Wurster” years old

MK Ahmad Tibi, the one and only.

Netanyahu in an appeal to US universities: be McCarthyistic, like universities in Israel.

Funny how this years-long “campus free speech” crusade culminates in its loudest proponents cheering on police arresting students for exercising their right to free speech

This protest has at least tripled in size in the last two hours. The university banned them from protesting on this South Lawn, but they are setting up tents. Law enforcement having a hard time breaking it up.

ut austin, where texas state troopers are barring students from accessing the other side of the campus. please look at this, i have never seen anything like this

Iowa Republicans pushed a bill designed to crush public sector unions with legal fees and decertify them.

Protests and threats of strikes from Iowa Teamsters, including IBT Local 238, killed the bill.

Organizing works, even in states run by anti-worker politicians.

Continue the struggle!!! Sign up for the course I developed and have, w/ about 20 GREAT organizers, taught to 40,000 workers in 111 countries. The WORK must go on! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Organizing for Power Starts May 7th--groups of 10 or more!!! Go, fight and WIN! 🩶

Florida is charging formerly incarcerated people $50 a day even if they’re no longer in prison. The “pay to stay” fee is based on the length of the original sentence, so even when they're released they must keep paying for a prison bed they’re not using. abcactionnews.com/news/local-new…

Today in The Nation we have a piece by Lujayn, a 14-year-old girl in Gaza, that has floored me every time I've read it. It's about what happened when an Israeli bulldozer came to destroy the house she was staying in, and you must, must, must read it. thenation.com/article/world/…

Wouldn’t have expected the building trades and UAW to endorse Biden before the Teamsters this year

Two things can be true: 1. I would never willingly go to a pirate bar, and 2. In S2E1 of Bar Rescue (“Piratz”), Taffer trying to turn a pirate cosplay bar into something called Corporate Bar and Grill that hosts Chamber of Commerce events is an unbelievable move

…or it could be the widely documented reality that institutions both public and private have shown a years-long, now-amplified tendency to punish expressions of this viewpoint. Who can say?

On calling the National Guard to college campuses: theatlantic.com/education/arch…