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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 2h

What can journalism learn from livestreaming—and what political possibilities do these platforms open up? Join me and Hasan Piker at NYU Journalism on Oct. 9 for “Journalism, Platforms, and Political Possibility,” a live taping of Unruly Subjects! www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-the...

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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Who trains U.S. police, and whose interests do they serve? I talk with reporter Glen Stellmacher about Israeli police training, activist surveillance, and his ASTI Files investigation. Full conversation out now on Unruly Subjects’ Patreon: www.patreon.com/UnrulySubjects youtube.com/shorts/MpjHY...

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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

Maybe we should treat old men like smokers where there is a designated area where we can share our stories and explain things to prevent second hand bombardment and cornering of others at various functions

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

Could it be what the kids call “main character energy” but the good kind

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

I have to share these old man ass stories somewhere

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

Years ago I went to/endured an all tomorrows parties festival (because I like portishead) wherein I was the only Black person other than members of Public Enemy. Everyone assumed I was performing and I was let in everywhere which was not good but helpful? This is different tho lol

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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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