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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Demetrius Noble and I watched the A Different World reboot and If I Go Will They Miss Me, then got together to process our first reactions. This freshman curfew scene gave us plenty to talk about. Subscribe and watch the full conversation: www.patreon.com/UnrulySubjects

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ndlela @ndlela.com · 28/09/2026

What a treat! I loved it. It was beautiful. Thanks @chenjerai.bsky.social for the reminder. Go see it in the movie theaters if you can. This might be the last week in theaters in bigger markets.

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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I went to go see a film called if I go will they miss me. And JFC. Brace yourself. A very powerful film in my opinion. Like all things - it should also be critiqued but wow

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. Once again, just kidding, those guys fucking love neoliberalism and the tech industry, stop buying their climate bullshit.

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But they're using renewables! a) they're not, they're all quietly pivoting to dedicated natural gas plants, built by their oil buddies, b) renewables should be used to power useful shit c) this makes it so that renewables don't displace fossil fuels, they just add to supply for increasing demand

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Benjamin Netanyahu begins his speech.

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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Unruly Subjects will be back on Thursday Sept 24th with a new episode: Unruly Live at Sociaism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Olúfémi Táíwò youtube.com/shorts/dUtto...

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Unruly Subjective will be back on 9/24 with a new ep! Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Olúfémi Táíwò

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Amir Khafagy @amirkhafagy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Scoop 🚨 Why is one of New York's most notorious union-busters forming independent unions? Cesar Alarcón, an anti-union consultant, showed up at Golden Krust with a new union, Local 311. Was it a sham? New investigation for @documentedny.bsky.social documentedny.com/2026/09/23/u...

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Cesar Alarcón Dismantles Unions — Why Is He Now Creating Them?

Golden Krust workers had issues with their union. Then a seasoned anti-union consultant showed up.

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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A lot of leaders say they want a “big tent.” But Maurice asks: why aren’t they fighting on the issues that affect the masses of people—healthcare, housing, police and ICE accountability, billionaire wealth, and the impact of AI and data centers? youtube.com/shorts/gVQnU...

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What’s actually in the “big tent?”National Dir. of working families party on the most popular issues

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 23/09/2026

"There's no way to separate race + class from what we are talking about. There's no way to separate them from even the *backlash* that Nikole Hannah-Jones is receiving right now." — @zansari8.bsky.social, co-executive director of @aqeny.bsky.social

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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Did y’all read NHJ piece, “Did I Betray My Own Child?” I talked with Dumi Lewis-McCoy & Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari about the questions it raises—and how we move from individual parental choices to the collective fight for justice in education. Full convo free on Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/170273...

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Unruly Patreon Exclusive: Did I Betray My Own Child?”: Parenting, Public Schools, and the Collective Fight Justice in Education | Unruly Subjects

Unruly Patreon Exclusive Nikole Hannah-Jones’s new New York Times Magazine essay, “Did I Betray My Own Child?,” is a deeply personal reckon

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AAUP @aaup.org · 21/09/2026

AAUP President Todd Wolfson to AAU: "withhold consideration of UNL readmission until the institution restores shared governance, protects tenure, & aligns with the principles that define leading research universities." #sharedgovernance #academicsky

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AAUP Urges AAU to Deny Readmission to University of Nebraska–Lincoln Over Mass Faculty Firings

In a letter sent today, Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), formally urged the American Association of Universities (AAU) to withhold consideration of ...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you are a member of NYC-DSA, please consider co-sponsoring a proposed resolution to support 1% for Parks and 0.5% for Libraries in the city expense budget: convention.socialists.nyc/proposals/08...

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Member Login | 2026 NYC-DSA Convention

Convention 2026 planning tools.

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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 20/09/2026

ICE shot a man in the back in Austin this afternoon. But we're also learning this weekend about the death of Carlos Josué Marchena, a 37-year old man from Costa Rica who appears to have died at the Winn concentration camp in Louisiana after 9+ months in ICE detention.

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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We will be releasing the conversation on Unruly Subjects podcast

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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yall definitely don’t want to miss this discussion. We’re going to discuss the realest parts out loud.

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Metro DC DSA @mdcdsa.org · 15/09/2026

Join MDC DSA on Wed 9/16 from 6-8pm @ SOST for a conversation with Donavan McKinney, an incoming Black DSA congressmember from Detroit, in a live recording of the 'Unruly Subjects' podcast with host Chenjerai Kumanyika.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Even if you think you won’t have time to read it right away, the first week (days!) of sales determine if we make the bestseller lists, which sadly determines a whole lot else about the fate of any book. Grab your copy now. naomiklein.org/end-times-fa... @astra.bsky.social

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End Times Fascism – Naomi Klein

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today is the day! A journey that Astra and I started as an essay in The Guardian is now officially out in the world. End Times Fascism – And the Fight for the Living World is in bookstores now. If you are inclined, please buy one from an indie bookseller or borrow it from your local library.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 14/09/2026

The Trump admin is afraid of educated critical thinkers which is why they are doing everything they can to bend higher education to their will. We can’t let them. The AAUP & AFT have responded to McMahon’s ‘Compact 2.0’ letter w/ our own “National Call to Action to the Secretary of Education.” 1

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AAUP and AFT Respond to Trump's "Compact 2.0"

AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten demand that the Trump administration immediately cease weaponizing taxpayer funds and civil rights enforcement to politically coerce coll...

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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 11/09/2026

Flush with money and leery of bad publicity, ICE has banked on local police agencies to help ramp up immigration arrests. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/09/10/i...

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Inside the ‘Shadow Surge’ Driving ICE Arrests to New Heights

Flush with money and leery of bad publicity, ICE has banked on local police agencies to help ramp up immigration arrests.

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Matt Kleinmann @matt-kleinmann.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I especially enjoyed the Politics of Debt discussion. So much of our society is shaped by debt: housing, healthcare, education, municipal services, etc. To talk openly about it, and how to address it, gets political. I thought this observation from Yotam Moram was particularly good.

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Matt Kleinmann @matt-kleinmann.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Really appreciated the wisdom of the @socialismconference.org this weekend. I dropped in Saturday to hear from @sarahljaffe.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, and a host of others.

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Amir Khafagy @amirkhafagy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Exclusive 🚨 On #LaborDay, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Announces City’s First Office to Organize Workers Focusing on vulnerable workers, the Mayor's Office will support training, education, and workers' organizing efforts. New for @documentedny.bsky.social documentedny.com/2026/09/07/n...

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On Labor Day, Mamdani Announces City's First Office to Organize Workers

Focusing on vulnerable workers, the Mayor's Office of Worker Power (MOWP) will support training, education, and workers' organizing efforts.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This Sunday at @socialismconference.org I'll also be with this fantastic crew to discuss social movements post-2008 Financial Crisis. Come say hi :) (with @chenjerai.bsky.social, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social, Yotam Marom and Cat Salonek Schladt) socialism2026.sched.com/event/2Rikd

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Seems like the plan -- or at least one of the plans -- is to make it as difficult as possible for states to send ballots out, then get courts to rule that late-arriving ballots can't be counted.

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Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

On the way to Chicago for Socialism conference, kiddos. Come see us on Sunday at noon if you’re there. We’ll be talking about everything that’s happened since 2008, in an hour and a half. socialism2026.sched.com/event/2Rikd @alexhanna.bsky.social @chenjerai.bsky.social Yotam Marom and Cat Salonek.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

As usual, @keeanga.bsky.social brings facts, seriousness and depth to the fake debates. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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Was “Defund the Police” Crazy?

A reckoning with the “woke” years.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Any movement involves lots of people making lots of mistakes and doing lots of coping. It’s so easy to be binary in critique, and not particularly helpful. (Insert “you critique society and yet you participate in society” meme.)

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/08/2026

This ICE flight is making bad time for reasons unknown. It spent 4 1/2 hours on the ground in Senegal, where ICE charters generally do fuel/crew stops. Then flew 1 hour to Sierra Leone, a third-country removal. On the ground two hours and counting. All migrants shackled at least 19 hours so far.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/08/2026

DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive Chicago apartment raid was prompted by intel on a Venezuelan gang takeover. Records reveal the real story behind the raid: targeting alleged squatters with the landlord’s blessing. 👂 Listen to the full episode:

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The True Story of Why Immigration Agents Raided a Chicago Apartment Building

Podcast Episode · Paper Trail · August 20 · 42m

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 28/08/2026

BREAKING: A federal court granted voting rights groups’ emergency request to block USPS from implementing its newly finalized mail-ballot rule for the midterms. The rule would give USPS an unprecedented and illegal gatekeeping role in mail voting. The rules for mail voting remain the same.

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Federal Court Grants Emergency Relief Blocking USPS From Implementing Newly-Finalized Mail Ballot Rule For November Election

The temporary restraining order will remain in place for 14 days while the parties brief the pending motion for a preliminary injunction.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

There are powerful forces out there working to divide us. It's our job to make sure they don't win, to make sure that hate doesn't win.

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El-Sayed Talks Bridging Black, Arab Communities

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I can’t overstate how much the NDA thing has pissed off regular people. I even hear it at public hearings places where the local pols haven’t signed NDAs. What we are seeing is people workshop a new language about political obligation & corruption. “NDAs“ are shorthand and placeholder

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Or the time I co-presented with another colleague and every time I posed a question (I can be a bit Socratic-focus-inquiry driven in class) to the students he would turn to me and answer it. as if I were asking the question.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It’s like the time my colleague slowly explained the Foucault lectures were…after I had been invited to give the Foucault lectures at a university. We were both sociologists, fwiw.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Socials team posted video of me talking about organic intellectualism (as part of a keynote where it made sense). Today, hundreds of (mostly) men are telling me that I might like this guy with similar ideas. The guy? Gramsci.

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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 22/08/2026

Honor Their Names procession on #Belmar NJ boardwalk Friday afternoon Honoring legal immigrants who died while in ICE custody.

People in line holding signs which have the pictures and names of immigrants who died in ICE detention.

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