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Caroline Luce

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American labor history / Jewish studies / digital humanities UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment UC-AFT Comms crew memorywork.irle.ucla.edu carolineluce.com

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 22h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Caroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Friends - I’m headed east next week and you should come hear about my book! I’ll be at NYU Oct. 5 Smith Oct 7 Wesleyan Oct. 8 holler my way for more details, I’d love to see you IRL
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Danielle H @danielleceltics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kaitlyn Chen sinks a three as the Golden State Valkyries secure their first ever franchise playoff victory. Ballhalla is going nuts! #WNBA
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I would like everyone to read this, from @eoinhiggins.bsky.social eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/there-are-...
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There are no “rogue” AI agents
Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Caroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
watch out here we come!
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LaborLab @laborlab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BREAKING 🚨 A strong and powerful group of Autozone workers have won the first ever union at the nationwide company!!!
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Caroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
maybe this is why she seems to be out of town everytime there’s a major fire / incident in our city?
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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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Caroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
chinga la migra
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Beyond environmental and labor impacts, the bedrock of AI discontent is a feeling that collective life is increasingly unrecognizable, dominated by efforts to automate social relations and synthesize creative expression that seem disconnected from, if not contemptuous of, common human experience."
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 18/09/2026
“Scholars have groped for what even to call this dire diminishment of intellectual capacity. “Human enfeeblement” has been proposed, and alike “cognitive surrender” and even “cognitive extinction.” (You could also call it, “losing your mind.”)” - Jill Lepore www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Artificial Education | The Harvard Crimson
Machine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So today, the UCLA Faculty Senate, in its understated and careful way, issued a rare rebuke to Frenk, expressing "concerns and reservations" about the obvious lack of respect for academic freedom that his statement conveyed by amplifying these false charges of support for terrorism and antisemitism.
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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Slightly nervous for any university administrator to read it, but thanks to the work of scholars such as @cjdenial.bsky.social & @benpatrickwill.bsky.social our first-year humanities program has a pedagogical statement on gen AI, with reading list! core.humanities.uci.edu/index.php/ge...
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Our Pedagogical Approaches to Generative AI in Humanities Core
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
With 24,300 students and 2170 faculty, that token subsidy budget totals $66.1 million *per month* Over $794 million annually
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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
*shrieks in former adjunct*
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Caroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I am on my way home from campus and sitting next to a student on the bus using AI on her phone and copying the answers in handwriting into her notebook and the best part is that she’s transcribing the definition of outsourcing
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026
If you are willing to drop $47 million on AI services but unwilling to invest in research support & infrastructure for humanities faculty & students, you show that austerity is a choice. It’s not “too expensive” to give people the resources they need; you just don’t want to. bsky.app/profile/ashe...
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Caroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
chinga la migra
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Listen carefully to what Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins said at this SCAG panel earlier this month about buses for 2028. "If we find ourselves where we're not getting the federal funding we need... LA28 will have to find some other delivery partner for it, because we can't undermine everyday service"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“To play in venues that silence anyone advocating for Free Palestine is simply not an option for us… most of the audience supported @macklemore… the real enemy is the Zionist lobby. Up the workers. Free Palestine.” @edsheeran’s band Beoga reminding us what moral clarity is
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Caroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
don’t ever let them tell you we can’t afford healthcare and education
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Caroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
so cool that our university is both in business with and taking advice from this guy
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Now that’s a lotta trees!”
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Caroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
end times fascism
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UC-AFT Local 1474 @ucaft.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Holmes: “Every day, I ask my students to imagine a better future. Today, I am asking the University of California to imagine one for the educators who dedicate their lives to creating theirs.” (4/4) Learn more: weteachuc.org/bargaining-u...
A blue graphic for UC-AFT Local 1474 featuring a speech bubble with a quote from Sarah Holmes, UCSB: "Every day, I ask my students to imagine a better future. Today, I am asking the University of California to imagine one for the educators who dedicate their lives to creating theirs." A button at the bottom reads "Learn More" with the link weteachuc.org/bargaining-updates.
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UC-AFT Local 1474 @ucaft.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We’re recapping some U18 lecturer bargaining highlights, including member testimony in support of a fair contract. ✊ weteachuc.org/bargaining-u... Sarah Holmes, lecturer at UCSB: “We are not asking for luxury. We are asking for dignity. We are asking for stability.” (1/4)
A blue graphic for UC-AFT Local 1474 featuring a speech bubble that reads: "We are not asking for luxury. We are asking for dignity. We are asking for stability." The bottom banner states: "UC-AFT member Sarah Holmes offers testimony at a bargaining session at UCSB" with a "read more" arrow.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“The business model that they have embraced is uniquely antithetical to shared human existence” 🤯 @naomiaklein.bsky.social is speaking the terrifying truth, we are witnessing it happen. This isn’t just “pr” and those saying so are in denial. Get mad and demand accountability.
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Mikhail Zinshteyn @mzinshteyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
UCLA Health reports net income of $780m in 2025 and anticipates nearly $900m in 2026. Source: UC Regents report on the acquisition of a San Fernando Valley hospital. regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/sept...
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 12/09/2026
In a rare move, Chancellor Frenk just publicly and boldly affirmed academic freedom. Oh, wait, no. He did the opposite. The idea that anyone was advancing support for the attacks is absurd and obscene and that’s what they should be ashamed of. Use archive.ps for non-paywall.
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UCLA chancellor rebukes law school event featuring attorney of alleged 9/11 'mastermind'
After a UCLA law school symposium on 9/11 that featured an attorney who represented alleged 9/11 'mastermind' Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk issued a rare message distancing the u...
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Caroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
shana tove wishing you a new year of sweetness and justice
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.
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Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore
Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner
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Caroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“But what’s the thing we can do that AI can’t? Hurt. AI can send writing into the world and feel nothing about how it’s received. My writing is mine. I’m connected to it. My nerve endings are here. I labored over choices. I wondered. I guessed. I changed. I felt bad, then good, then bad again.”
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 09/09/2026
An anthropology professor at UCLA created a product, PredPol, and sold it to the LAPD over a a decade ago, that laid the basis for much of these flawed and dangerous tactics.
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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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UC-AFT Local 1474 @ucaft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
At the August 27 bargaining session in San Diego, UC-AFT lecturers advanced six proposals and challenged the UC on layoffs. Read the details and join our fight for a fair contract!✊ weteachuc.org/2026/09/09/b...
Unit 18, UC-AFT Bargaining Update" dated August 27, 2026.

The text states: "We brought six article proposals to the table, focused on the issues UC-AFT members identified as top bargaining priorities, including: job security; protections from workplace discrimination, abuse and retaliation; support and protections for faculty on non-immigrant visas; access to benefits”

At the bottom, it says "More information @ weteachuc.org". A circular inset photo shows a large group of people sitting at tables in a conference room.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
PG&E basically blackmailing California, saying it delay $2 billion in grid investments to support renewable energy and housing if legislators don't get back to work protecting its finances: www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
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PG&E says it will scale back planned work after California wildfire reforms fail
PG&E CEO Patti Poppe said delaying the investments means the utility won’t have to borrow as much money at high rates that end up raising bills for customers.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I worry that they are moving so fast—and that the media has been so bizarrely silent—that the “new global order” (Pax Silica) will be in place (& impossible to unwind) before the public knows anything about it. Thread. #PaxSilica 1/
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Caroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
rest up this Labor Day, we have a world to win
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We may seem some genuinely extreme humidity levels along SoCal coastal plain Tue-Wed (yes, even worse than today). As Marie's tropical moisture lingers, temps of 90-100F will combine with dew points of 70F to nearly 80F (!), yielding heat index values as high as ~110F. #CAwx
Map showing predicted heat index values over SoCal on Wed from ECMWF model. They are widely above 100F, and locally as high as 110F.Map showing predicted humidity (dew point temperatures) over SoCal on Wed from ECMWF model. They are widely above 70F, and locally as high as 80F.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Pedagogy is not some new, unsolved problem awaiting its Silicon Valley disruptor. If you want good teaching in any given subject, it’s there to be had. If you just don’t want to pay for it, then all we’re really talking about is how much you want something for nothing. That’s nothing new, either.
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Caroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
water monsters, union busters and polluters - what can’t the wonderful company do?
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Caroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I am over the moon
A very happy author poses with her beautiful book
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Caroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
chinga la migra
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Yale’s Office of Public Affairs banned reporters from Yale’s campus today. It’s corroborated by Francie Diep in her story for the @chronicle.com. This was an attempt to squelch press coverage today of the rally protesting Yale’s attacks on freedom of expression, their pending deal with Trump. 1/
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UCLA IRLE @uclairle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Introducing “State of the Unions: California Labor in 2025.” The UCLA IRLE’s newest report provides the latest data on union membership, organizing activity, and worker direct action in California. Read at bit.ly/SOTU-25
State of the Unions: California Labor in 2025 report cover
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gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
in the name of Dolly, Tim, and the holy ghost, let us Gender exultantly and fearlessly; let us bewilder our enemies and delight those who recognize us
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Carey @careylikemariah.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Hell Gate reporter Katie Way is not exaggerating when she says that "this video has the potential to become a certified NYC politics cult classic along the lines of the Eric Adams teenage room search PSA." It's cuckoo bananas from start to finish:
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