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craigborowiak.bsky.social

@craigborowiak.bsky.social
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Professor of political science. Solidarity economies, local and global. Philly. Community gardens. Democratic accountability. Interested in discard studies.

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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Excited that The AAG Review of Books by @geographers.bsky.social just published our book forum Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/283E6.... Reviewers Priscilla Ferreira, @nik-heynen.bsky.social, Eric Sarmiento, and Luke Bergmann.
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Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation
Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
@mjgault.bsky.social @404media.co
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Social backlash to data centers is having some wins. Oligopolistic AI companies want to socialize the costs (ecological disaster, higher energy prices, job loss, social dislocations) while privatizing the gains.
404media.co
An Incomplete List of Successful Anti-Data Center Legislation
No one wants to live next to a noisy computer warehouse and communities across the country are successfully fighting them.
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
In Equator's first free Zoom event Melinda Cooper and Quinn Slobodian discuss the revelations of the Epstein files, and what they tell us about the obsessions of America's elites. Time: Thursday, 26 February, 7 PM ET / Friday, 27 February, 11 AM AEST Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/epstein-fa...
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Epstein Family Values
Melinda Cooper and Quinn Slobodian discuss the depredations of Jeffrey Epstein, America's billionaire patriarchs, and the far right
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Fascinating work on nonvoters by @daniellaurison.bsky.social. “Non-voters are concerned about being good citizens and good members of their communities, but they feel that people in politics ignore them and their experiences. They think their communities are neglected by people in power.”
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
“The gun and the phone are both weapons, one a tool for violence and the other a tool of control.”
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Opinion | ICE Is Watching You
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
This is an excellent, accessible, if long, piece by @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social & @adambonica.bsky.social. Drawing on scientific evidence and ground-truth logic, they dismantle calls for Democratic moderation and prescribe a path that is pragmatic and courageous. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
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How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism
Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Back in Dec, Forbes features a new framework to address food affordability in NY: "a scaled-up, 20 city-owned supermarket network, alongside a complementary strategy that supports cooperative food and supply chain infrastructure development across NYC" #solidaritycities @grocerynerd.bsky.social
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How Public And Cooperative Grocers Could Transform New York City
With rising grocery prices and record high food insecurity in mind, a new report proposes a publicly owned and cooperative grocery infrastructure for New York City.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
if we ever lose hope, may we never lose our humanity
For Alex Jeffery Pretti
Murdered by ICE January 24, 2026
by Amanda Gorman

We wake with
no words, just woe
& wound. Our own country shoot
ing us in the back is not just brutal
ity; it's jarring betrayal; not enforcement, 
but execution. A message: Love your people & you
will die. Yet our greatest threat isn't the outsiders
among us, but those among us who never look
within. Fear not the those without paper, but those without conscience. Know that to care intensively, united, is to carry both pain-dark horror for today & a profound, daring hope for tomorrow. We can feel we have nothing to give, & still belove this world wait
ing, trembling to change. If we cannot find words, may 
we find the will; if we ever lose hope, may we never lose our
humanity. The only undying thing is mercy, the courage to open 
ourselves like doors, hug our neighbor, 
& save one more bright, impossible life.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
GO BIRDS FUCK ICE 🦅
Illustration of a bald eagle and a loon, the color palette is dark maroon; the words PHILADELPHIA STANDS WITH MINNEAPOLIS are in light pink. Artist website: https://linktr.ee/mheld?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=94cc2af8-6392-4e98-a8e8-e5907a683564
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Emphatically. Yes.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
We’re watching Trump radicalizing an entire generation in real time
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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The Star Tribune had an insane graphic about the presence of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. There are more immigration officers in the metro right now than local police officers.
Showing 3000 immigration officers to 2482 officers from the ten largest metro forces
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Matthew Budman, book guy @matthewbudman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
@debkossmann.bsky.social: “I do not want my tax dollars or Haverford’s resources to be used to support a poorly trained, unprofessional, and cruel secret police force that is our current federal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.” [gift link!]
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Haverford Township bars police from cooperating with ICE in noncriminal immigration enforcement
A township commissioner said it is "not our role" to act as a federal immigration authority.
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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
"The video is being shared not as proof, but as reinforcement of this administration’s view of who is “other,” and therefore an acceptable target. The video also offers those who support the ICE officer something to see themselves in, to cheer on."
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Excellent account of how water scarcity is major driver of protests in Iran. #climatecrisis #iranprotests @globalpost.bsky.social
globalpost.com
Iranians are Running Out of Water, Money and Patience
Iranian farmer Sajjad’s harvest of apples, a water-intensive crop, completely failed last year. He and his family grow grapes and apples on
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“If that ended with a dead woman who wasn’t even the target of an operation, well, that’s just what happens when cities don’t fall in line.” @magixarc.bsky.social
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“In this version of events, Rene Nicole Good disappears entirely and is replaced by a familiar villain: the sanctuary city. Minneapolis’s crime…was not cooperating enough with federal immigration authorities…”
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Superb analysis of how being spun: “First, the killing is framed as self-defense. When that narrative cracks under video and eyewitnesses, the focus shifts to tone policing. When that fails, blame is reassigned upward and outward, onto city policy, onto immigrants, onto anyone who doesn’t submit.”
marygeddry.com
Two Stories, One Body in the Snow
The killing of Rene Nicole Good, the federal lie that followed, and the violence used to enforce it
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Big part of Venezuela operation is the many $ billions of international debt the country defaulted on due to US sanctions and oil squeeze. Vulture capitalists have talons out.
reuters.com
Venezuela's billions in distressed debt: Who is in line to collect?
The toppling of President Nicolas Maduro has thrust Venezuela's debt crisis - one of the world's largest unresolved sovereign defaults - into the limelight.
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
“We tend to imagine corruption as a transaction: money buying votes, quid pro quos in backrooms. But money's real power is quieter and deeper. It decides which candidates get to run, which policies are thinkable, and whose voices get amplified or ignored.” @adambonica.bsky.social
data4democracy.substack.com
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
“Workers should be internationalists—sure. But structures don’t spring automatically from cosmopolitan appeals. They must be painstakingly built upon people’s everyday practices.” @pochoaespejo.bsky.social in our latest forum:
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Appealing to philosophical values won’t build solidarity, but local communities might. - Boston Review
Paulina Ochoa Espejo responds to Lea Ypi’s “The Real Border Crisis.”
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Every time I hear that this is “unskilled” labor…
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Maliha Safri gives wonderful analysis of Mamdani's policy agendas, showing how they build on successful solidarity economies from NYC's past and present! #solidaritycities. @msafri.bsky.social
democracycollaborative.org
Appraising Mamdani’s Five Key Policies — The Democracy Collaborative
Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s policies are not only feasible, but could work to improve the lives of a majority of New Yorkers. And they have past precedent in the city, Professor Maliha Safri wr...
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
WHOA! “A.I. companies represent roughly 75 percent of recent S&P 500 earnings growth, 80 percent of profits and 90 percent of capital expenditure.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | It Is Trump’s Casino Economy Now. You’ll Probably Lose.
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Love this! “Why not try imagining the future shape of the world economy neither as a neat assemblage of robust bricks, nor as a mesh of interlocking balance sheets, but as something more akin to a lumpy potage, or a noodle and dumpling soup.” @adamtooze.bsky.social
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Chartbook 413 The future of the world economy beyond globalization - or, thinking with soup.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of 1945.
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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Grateful to Jay Cephas for a brief but incisive review of our book at Places. "Solidarity cites" collectively written by @stephenhealy72.bsky.social, @msafri.bsky.social, @craigborowiak.bsky.social, and myself. Published by @uminnpress.bsky.social. placesjournal.org/article/book...
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Bookshelf: Summer 2025 | Book Reviews in Places Journal
A seasonal offering of brief reviews of recent books on architecture, landscapes, cities, and related subjects.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Wrote about The Heritage Foundation's plan to weaponize the FBI against transgender people's existence, which includes banning me from saying that's what they're doing
open.substack.com
Do Trans People Have A Right to Exist?
Or, My Life As An Ideology
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
“Stop the Count”: food-insecurity version. 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
amazing coauthors! @msafri.bsky.social @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social @stephenhealy72.bsky.social
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Feels more urgent than ever to support cities as bulwarks against the storm. Very excited to have this new podcast drop with me and coauthors about our #SolidarityCities book! Thank you. @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social
urbanaffairsreview.com
New Books: Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation — Urban Affairs Review
Featuring Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Craig Borowiak, and Stephen Healy, authors of Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation , published by University of Minne...
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
in case you missed it, amid the chaos: nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
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The Weekly Wrap: EPA Wants To Get Rid of Emissions Reporting for Industrial Polluters
DOT cuts funds for projects that don’t promote cars, California moves to pass SB 79, and more.
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Hmm. Something is not quite right here.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Wrote about the most violent day in D.C.'s history, January 6, 2021, the current takeover of that city by the guy who instigated it, the right-wing snowflakes complaining they're afraid to walk down the street, and why the right fears and loathes cities (and lies about why). Bonus Epstein finale.
theguardian.com
Trump’s DC takeover is a move of staggering hypocrisy | Rebecca Solnit
Donald Trump is concocting a drama in DC because he would like us to really stop talking about the Epstein files
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
And check out their awesome Seeding Solidarity map. map.gocoopnyc.org
map.gocoopnyc.org
Seeds of Solidarity
Map of the solidarity economy in NYC
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Loving the Cooperative Economics Alliance of NYC’s (CEANYC’s) beautiful new website! Educate, Train, Strengthen Connections, make economic matches. Doing it right. #solidaritycities #cooperatives #soludarityeconomy #resist&build
ceanyc.org
Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City
We forge a shared strategy and identity amongst community-led, democratically-controlled initiatives across NYC.
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06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
One of Erdoğan's most successful innovations has been repeatedly firing state statisticians who report bad news - Turkey's economic figures have gained a lot. President Trump is learning from a master.
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Our book SOLIDARITY CITIES made the long list for the 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award. It's exciting to be selected alongside these other cool books! #solidaritycities @uminnpress.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social @stephenhealy87.bsky.social @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social
metropolis.org
10 Books for Urban Thinkers This Summer | Metropolis
The 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award Long List Books have the power to transform how cities are understood, governed, and experienced. The Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities...
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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I love this video! Right to the point. #SolidarityCities
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Will Bunch calling out the authoritarian game plan and the gross politicization of the US military. @willbunch.bsky.social
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From Fort Bragg to L.A., Trump enlists the military in a slow-motion coup | Will Bunch
Trump’s abuse of the military to control civilians, as tanks roll into D.C., is where this was always heading.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The plans to cut healthcare for millions of Americans to further enrich billionaires is still despicable even as Trump hopes to distract us with his escalation in LA.
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
"If Trump’s high-handedness on tariffs and the lop-sidedness of BBB are beginning to generate dissent and disagreement, what might the Republicans unify around? One obvious answer is racist xenophobia. And who better to deliver that message than Stephen Miller?"
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Great insight in Adam Tooze's latest Chartbook. Where might the infighting between Trump, Musk, small businesses, and conservative lawyers be heading? Racist xenophobia. Anti-immigration is what holds the Republican coalition together. @adamtooze.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...
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Chartbook 388: Trump v. Musk - Alien v. Predator or "death march" into a political vacuum?
(Oh, and Mr Merz goes to Washington, too.)
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Tomorrow marks 5 years since George Floyd’s murder. I was skeptical then that protest and performative solidarity would lead to lasting change. I share some thoughts in this @washingtonpost.com piece, alongside others reflecting on the moment: wapo.st/43DsEgq
wapo.st
Much of the ‘racial reckoning’ efforts after Floyd’s murder never emerged
Hours into his second term, President Donald Trump started a campaign to dismantle DEI efforts, including those launched in response to George Floyd’s death.
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I know too many college students and we grads who are having difficulty finding work this summer. Maybe it’s the trump shock. But maybe it’s the AI Revolution. AI does the work that young grads do.
bloodinthemachine.com
The AI jobs crisis is here, now
It's not coming, it has already arrived.
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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
New primer video from The Conscious Citizens for explaining the solidarity economy- and amazing usage of the USSEN map we (me + @craigborowiak.bsky.social @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social & @stephenhealy72.bsky.social) helped develop! (at around the 1 minute mark)
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What is the Solidarity Economy?
https://youtube.com/shorts/6TQZhHNBe74?si=3mzLVa7e-wM6XGlE From @theconciouscitizens and @raytrospectively, also on Instagram
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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The republican panel investigating antisemitism has its own outrageous antisemitism problem. This political theater has to end.
theguardian.com
Jewish faculty decry Republican panel members ahead of antisemitism hearing
Lawmakers on key committee have quoted Hitler and are associated with calls for Jews to convert to Christianity
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