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Olivia Schwob

@oschwo.bsky.social
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awful but cheerful freelance writer/editor/curator, organizing with the National Writers Union - Freelance Solidarity Project @fspnwu.bsky.social

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Alexander Wells @ajbwells.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Some new reviews up at The Auflauf: on numbers, on dreams, and on mushrooms >>> www.theauflauf.com/p/october-bo...
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October Books: Duncan, Abou Ghazal, Tannahill
Adrian Duncan’s novel of mathematics and the human, Sara Abou Ghazal and Palestinian life beyond the Nakba, and a trip to Teufelsee with Jordan Tannahill
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ITYSL memes 💦🥩 @ityslmemes.com · 27/11/2025
thinking of her today
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Olivia Schwob @oschwo.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
urbanomnibus.net/2025/11/a-qu... back on da horse
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A Question About Tomorrow - Urban Omnibus
As goes Ravenswood, so goes New York’s energy future. So what will it take to bring a just transition to the city’s largest power plant?
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Antony Loewenstein: Israel has killed more journalists in the last 22 months than were killed in the US civil war, WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Folks, if you're a cultural worker and you'd like to organize with us, come on board! I'll see you in the group chat, the web conference, and the streets. ✊ nwu.org
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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Recognizing this, the National Writers Union (@thenwu.bsky.social) backed this recent statement from the National Labor Network for Ceasefire. It rightly frames the detention of Mahmoud Khalil and other violations of First Amendment Rights as attacks on all workers. www.laborforceasefire.org
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The National Labor Network for Ceasefire
The US Labor Movement Calls for a Halt to US Military Aid to Bring a Ceasefire to the Region
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DREAM for NYC @dreamfornyc.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
You heard @jumaane.bsky.social, folks. Let's live the DREAM!
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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
NO OTHER LAND!!!! No Other Land now has more Oscars than it did distribution offers. a great and enduring shame upon the American film industry. free Palestine forever.
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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Famous sexual harasser & nursing home death merchant Andrew Cuomo has announced he’s running for mayor. But here’s the good news: @dreamfornyc.bsky.social is here to spread the word: DON’T RANK ERIC or ANDREW for MAYOR. dreamfornyc.com
Don’t Rank Eric or Andrew for Mayor
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 24/02/2025
In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 22/02/2025
New Yorkers, use this tool to contact the Governor and your legislators demanding restoration of visitation, limits on solitary confinement, and other important protections for NY prisoners: p2a.co/LmdrvPI
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Governor Hochul & NY Lawmakers: BRING BACK VISITS & BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS TO OUR LOVED ONES NOW!
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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
If you're a journalist, translator or other culture or media worker like me looking for your union, might I suggest popping over to nwu.org and clicking JOIN NOW. You can follow us here, too: @fspnwu.bsky.social.
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National Writers Union
All Writers. All Genres. All Mediums. Book Authors, Journalists, Business and Technology Writers, Escritores en Español. Contract and Grievance Assistance.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:
Post from NLRB Union: Yesterday, the NLRB’s Buffalo office (Region 3) received word from its landlord that GSA—acting on behalf of DOGE—had unilaterally cancelled the Region’s five-year lease, without any prior notice to the Agency. The Region has been given 90 days to vacate the building.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
i can’t imagine simply going to rich guy prison would be much worse than this little media tour eric adams is on where he has to say ‘i’m a little bitch boy’ on camera three times a day while various trump goons grin at him menacingly
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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The city is under attack by Trump, and Adams is too weak to do anything. Adams must go. Join us at Foley Square this Sunday at 2 PM. Adams se necesita salir. Ven a Foley Square este Domingo a las 2 PM. #WeProtectUs #SanctuaryCity @socialists.nyc @maketheroadny.bsky.social @nychange.bsky.social
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Federal workers organizing across unions through the Federal Unionist Network (FUN) are connecting activists to make plans to fight back. If you’re a federal worker, you can get connected with them here: www.federalunionists.net/join-us
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Federal Unionists Network - Join Us!
Join Us!
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Marshall Steinbaum @econmarshall.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Easy: the official who would take his place is antagonistic to real estate interests.
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Isobel Fox @isobel.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
reminder to everyone in NYC - change your registration to democrat TODAY to vote in the primary and get rid of Adams e-register.vote.nyc/registration
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NYC Online Voter Registration Form | NYC Voter Registration
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The only hope for higher ed is the academic labor movement. Join this @higheredlabor.bsky.social call next week to plan our fight us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Fund Don't Freeze: National Higher Education Strategy Call. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join higher education workers from around the country on 2/13 at 8 PM Eastern / 7 PM Central / 6 PM Mountain / 5 PM Pacific for a national strategy call on the federal attack on higher education and h...
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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS! Here's the second webinar in series on journalists' safety organized by @fspnwu.bsky.social with a focus on online harassment and digital safety. Sign up using the link: cpj-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Digital safety and protecting against online harassment for freelance journalists. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining th...
From securing sensitive data to online abuse, journalists face a range of digital security threats as they go about their work. Knowing what steps to take to better protect themselves and their source...
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Lauren Kaori Gurley @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
🚨NEWS: A temporary order has been issued blocking the Labor Dept. from sharing any data with DOGE, after a group of unions, including AFGE, sued DOGE and held a major protest outside DOL yesterday. Here's the union's email:
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
in retrospect, tech billionaires totally ravaging the US free press and then doing a coup feels of a piece
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Historic victory for the UFW: Our FIRST ever union contract in New York State! It is the first of many to come. ¡Sí Se Puede! ufw.org/cahoon
Group photo of Cahoon apple workers standing in their red ufw t-shirts holding UFW flags
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Top headlines: Guardian: Trump’s disregard for US constitution ‘a blitzkrieg on the law’, NYT: Trump’s Tariffs Would Reverse Decades of Integration With Mexico Washington Post: Trump’s fierce attacks on DEI reflect a longtime GOP focus US media is not giving a sense of the scale of the threats
The Guardian: Trump’s disregard for US constitution ‘a blitzkrieg on the law’, legal experts sayTrump’s Tariffs Would Reverse Decades of Integration With Mexico

Trump’s fierce attacks on DEI reflect a longtime GOP focus
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
it's your boy again, once again respectfully tapping the "support worker-owned, independent media" sign
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Olivia Schwob @oschwo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The “fuck you, make me” brio emanating from the federal employees subreddit—a small glimmer of hope today—illustrates how fear gets transformed into angry determination much faster when workers have a space to talk to each other outside work. (Union yes!)
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I appreciate all the people recommending the Shock Doctrine. I've been thinking about what makes Trump's use of these tactics a little different. In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that. a 🧵
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
On one hand, Trump is moving at breakneck speed to accomplish a project that is generational in scale, which the country didn’t ask for, doesn’t want, and which won’t solve any of its problems. On the other hand there’s no opposition so who’s to say
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National Writers Union @nwu.org · 24/01/2025
We are ecstatic to report that the charges against our member and independent journalist @alissaazar.bsky.social were DROPPED. This is a strong reminder of the power of public pressure as protecting press freedom becomes even more critical. Read Alissa's story: buff.ly/40u8Qub
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CASE DISMISSED: Charges Dropped Against Independent Journalist Alissa Azar | NWU
Alissa Azar is a member of NWU and an independent journalist whose case was reported in Prism by fellow member Jen Byers. NWU wrote a statement of support that was submitted to the court on Alissa's b...
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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
what was it they used to say? “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever”
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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 21/01/2025
Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945. They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)
photo of a bodysuit filled with garbage and a taped portrait of Elon Musk hangs upside down on the gate near piazzale Loreto in Milan, Italy. Photo from Ansa Italia 2025
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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
🚨BREAKING🚨 Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
The operation in Chicago will reportedly last all week, according to @mhackman.bsky.social. Not to diminish the impact of fear this will cause, but from her reporting it seems that the scale of this is entirely precedented. ICE has done similar operations in the past. So this is mostly about PR.
The raid is expected to begin on Tuesday morning, a day after Trump is inaugurated, and will last all week, the people said. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will send between 100 and 200 officers to carry out the operation.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
The Wall Street Journal says there will be a splashy ICE operation in Chicago on Tuesday. While the headline is lurid, the actual operation described in the piece (100-200 agents) seems not that unusual for ICE (google Operation Cross-check). Expect a PR blitz, though. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Trump to Begin Large-Scale Deportations Tuesday
The incoming Trump administration is planning a large-scale immigration raid in Chicago next week, the first move in President-Elect Donald Trump’s promised mass deportation campaign.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 18/01/2025
Bryan MacCormack, the executive director of a New York-based immigrant rights group, was pulled over by CBP with two undocumented passengers in the vehicle. He knew his rights, refused to acknowledge their "warrant", and despite CBP threatening him, the agents eventually were forced to let him go.
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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Sarah Jones @sarahjones.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
If you enjoy the work of our writers, please consider making a tax deductible donation to PJP. We are so close to reaching our goal of raising $35K. We have less than 48 hours before our end-of-year campaign ends.
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Olivia Schwob @oschwo.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
No power trip like a campus police power trip
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Olivia Schwob @oschwo.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Clarifying:
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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
WH Chief of Staff Jeff Zients just released a "42 day sprint" memo. Among other things, Biden plans to announce "more student debt cancellation for public service workers and other borrowers." Here's what bare minimum results for WH on student debt relief before Jan 20 should look like:
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
It's #GivingTuesday and I'm donating to the Media Freelancers Legal Fund, to help freelancers who are getting stiffed for their paychecks who need to go to court to get what they are owed. It's a reality for far too many, and building this fund can help. www.zeffy.com/fundraising/...
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Donate to the Media Freelancers Legal Fund
Nearly 80% of freelancers deal with nonpayment. In many of these instances, the freelancer is owed less money that it costs to fight in court, or the freelancer doesn't have the means to hire legal co...
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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Tomorrow, 11/29, you can stream UNION, which follows the Amazon Labor Union's historic journey to victory. Watch the official trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwae...
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UNION | Official Trailer
YouTube video by UNION
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 27/11/2024
Love this and the concept.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
the lesson of the election isn’t “we should give up on trans rights,” it’s that the GOP took an issue that negatively impacted almost no one and made it a headliner. why would it help to surrender on an issue if they can create a grievance from thin air?
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
lord make me offline - but not yet
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