The next reading for this group is Tamara Nopper's report, Medicalizing Inequality: The Risks of Financial Wellness for Workers Sign up & join us! ⬇️ forms.gle/SeCTKPHzmgaCJ2…

Still trying to accept the reality that I’m coaching an elementary school soccer team, which I should do quickly since practices start today

BREAKING: Arrests made at the University of Michigan after police mobilized to stop a pro-Palestine demonstration at The Diag during Festifall on campus

The event which triggered this brutal response was a die-in-- an inherently pacified, symbolic gesture, the sort of action where one makes themselves vulnerable, puts down defenses in a performance of death. The campus is unsafe, the campus is unfree. x.com/TAHRIRumich/st…

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"As an Arab scholar of Arabic literature in the US, I have very few choices. I can either be a tool of the very system that objectifies me, exoticizes me and is not willing to bat an eye when my entire culture is being exterminated, or else I am a threat." lithub.com/intifada-on-be…

I have committed to writing too many things. And each piece seems, in its own way, to be failing to come together

Join us Weds. Sept. 18 for a virtual talk w/ editors of "Abolition and Social Work Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care" How can abolitionist thinking shift professionalized social change work? RSVP—ssw.umich.edu/assets/rsvp-re… University of Michigan School of Social Work Haymarket Books

We live in a time when people die at their desks at work, and the body isn't discovered for 4 days despite people noticing a foul odor. We are so fucking disconnected from each other as fucking humans.

Institutional gaslighting will continue until morale improves

The movement for public banking has been years in the making. Now one of the first public banks since the progressive-era Bank of North Dakota is sprouting up in Rochester, New York. Yunior Rivas Garcia has the story. prospect.org/economy/2024-0…

I want to thank Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon Migration and Technology Monitor Pillars Fund and Logic(s) readers whose donations made this program possible. This fellowship embodies our commitment to community led reporting/storytelling and we hope to build on this pilot. logicmag.io/palestinian-jo…

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Interested in studying #inequality in #AnnArbor during your sabbatical? Consider applying to the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics #econtwitter

Crews have begun chainsawing and shredding thousands of protected Joshua trees to make way for a sprawling solar field in the Mojave Desert. Century-old trees become a pile of dust. “Once the trees go through the shredders, they vanish” bit.ly/4dSFEm6

Thinking back to the London march against genocide in Palestine yesterday and how things have shifted in the last 11 months (and the many previous years). The big change (and my white friends noticed this too) is that numbers of white people at the marches has visibly risen

Please support a PhD student completing their dissertation research! The project, (In)Visible Violence: Exploring Black Women's Lived Experiences with Hidden Abuse, is interviewing Black women ages 18-65 from certain Midwest states. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…