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Sarah Jaffe

@sarahljaffe.bsky.social
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Troublemaker. Vagrant. Author of From the Ashes, Work Won't Love You Back and Necessary Trouble.

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Melville House @melvillehouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
⚔️📚 What We Do Now is out this week! “This offers hope,” @publisherswkly. Bold, rigorous essays by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, @doctorow.pluralistic.net, @harshawalia.bsky.social, @staceyabrams.com, @kimkelly.bsky.social, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and more. new 🛠️⚔️❤️ bit.ly/what-we-do-now ❤️⚔️🛠️ new
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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There’s of course no shortage of things to reflect on Occupy with, but the thing that stays in my mind most often when I think about it these days is the ten year episode that @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @sarahljaffe.bsky.social did. truthout.org/audio/ten-ye...
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Ten Years After Occupy Wall Street, Another World Is Still Possible
Occupy helped us imagine a world beyond capitalism.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 14/09/2026
“In lieu of actually doing anything, Democrats these days seem to settle for an occasional chest thump before meekly rolling over. Evoke a feeling, rather than initiate a material change.” @sarahljaffe.bsky.social @theprogressivemag.bsky.social progressive.org/magazine/str...
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Strategy and Leverage—Not Vibes—Are What We Need Now
The general strike remains a goal to aspire to. But simply saying the words over and over again will not call the strike into being.
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Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
first bit of advice I always give to anyone organizing: don't use your work email address, your employer has access to it! now written into policy in Britain (this is good)
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Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
truly horrific story that happened to an old friend of mine. www.404media.co/austin-gordo...
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'Tell Everyone:' A Man Died by Suicide After Talking to ChatGPT. His Former Partner Wants to Warn the World About AI
After allegedly becoming emotionally reliant on ChatGPT, Austin died at 40 years old, leaving behind family and friends who loved him. Megan wants everyone to know what happened.
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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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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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Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
all solidarity to the lovely people at the Baffler union, who've offered me a platform time and again to write about the catastrophe that is the modern workplace
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Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I prefer the "gen z doesn't fuck" stories
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/08/2026
Bloomberg just estimated that planned data centre gas plants will increase US power emissions by 20%. For some perspective: by my calcs, that is the same as the UK's entire economy-wide 2025 emissions.
Bar chart comparing annual country CO2 emissions (gray bars) to emissions from proposed gas-powered data centres (purple), highlighting that planned gas data centres would produce roughly the same emissions as the entire United Kingdom.Ninety-nine proposed plants tracked by BloombergNEF would emit about 318 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually if run at industry-standard rates, according to a Bloomberg News analysis. The entire US electric power industry emitted about 1,485 million metric tons of carbon last year, according to Energy Information Administration data, meaning one slice of data center infrastructure has the potential to lift US power sector emissions by 20%, and as much as a third should the new plants run flat out.
The data center building boom has already strained the US electricity system, prompting reliability concerns and moratoriums on new project approvals. With even greenlit facilities facing yearslong delays connecting to regulated electricity grids, data center developers are seeking alternatives. These include so-called behind-the-meter projects that can be permitted and built without the approval of utilities or the independent system operators charged with ensuring grid reliabilit
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/08/2026
I think tech industry grifters either consciously or through reward signals learn exactly what journalists are the most susceptible to in terms of uncritical coverage or boosting of scams, so you end up with hokey stuff like 'robot looks like person' or 'chatbot is alive and sinister'
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Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I said at a panel earlier this summer that the Trump plan amounted to "deport all the immigrants, put a bunch of people in jail, push women back into the home and the white men can have the jobs that are left" and it was flip but also...accurate.
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Craig Gent @vivaharehills.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
New Heart Reacts in your podcast feed, in which @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and I talk men, masculinity, the World Cup and feeling sexy 👇 www.patreon.com/HeartReacts/...
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Episode 43: Looking at Men | Heart Reacts
Welcome to HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism.  T
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
We're bringing you a panel of our partners and legal experts to break down the attacks on transgender people and what this means for the future of gender equality under the law. Join us this Friday at 11 AM EDT; register now! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
“Post-Hecox: How Attacks on Trans Rights Hurt All Women” July 17,2026 @ 11am EDT. Sharita Gruberg National Partnership for Women & Families. Taylor Brown NYC Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs. Shannon Minter National Center for Lesbian Rights. Ria Tabacco Mar Women’s Rights Project ACLU. Gaylynn Burroughs National Women’s Law Center
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Heatwave prompts Italy's delivery riders to strike for extra rights
Delivery riders in Milan, Bologna and Florence want to protect their health and their wages.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 09/07/2026
“In lieu of actually doing anything, Democrats these days seem to settle for an occasional chest thump before meekly rolling over. Evoke a feeling, rather than initiate a material change.” @sarahljaffe.bsky.social @theprogressivemag.bsky.social progressive.org/magazine/str...
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Strategy and Leverage—Not Vibes—Are What We Need Now
The general strike remains a goal to aspire to. But simply saying the words over and over again will not call the strike into being.
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Dj Ripley @djripley.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Data center. In Tower Hamlets/Brick Lane. F*cking hell.
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a headless horse child (taken out for gallops) 🫏🐀 @binanimals.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
find someone who looks at you like 📸 @sarahljaffe.bsky.social looking at that fox looking at that bin:
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 30/06/2026
“What happens when U.S. capitalism simply needs fewer humans?” @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on automated taxis, AI, ICE raids, data centers and the rebellions taking shape against a system that treats workers, migrants and whole communities as disposable.
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Capitalism Without Humans
As new technologies (not immigrants) replace human labor, "machine breaking" as a tactic of rebellion is taking on a renewed vitality.
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leftwingmusicfrank.bsky.social @leftwingmusicfrank.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I just read this great article in the January-February 2026 issue of In These Times magazine @inthesetimes.com by Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social. Highly recommended: inthesetimes.com/article/capi...
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Capitalism Without Humans
As new technologies (not immigrants) replace human labor, "machine breaking" as a tactic of rebellion is taking on a renewed vitality.
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
the media and voter messaging should be this: the current government and the government in waiting do not want your children to be able to go to university, they will not support people in the UK to do original research, they do not care about job losses in one of the largest sectors in the economy
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Craig Gent @vivaharehills.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
All new Heart Reacts, in which @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and I talk about turning loved ones into NPCs and keeping the flame of communal living alive. www.patreon.com/HeartReacts/... or wherever you listen
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Abolitionist Feminism: An Interview with Kathi Weeks by @sarahljaffe.bsky.social via @dissentmag.bsky.social
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Abolitionist Feminism - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Kathi Weeks.
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Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
when you quote the 18th Brumaire on your relationship advice podcast
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
“An empire in decline is always at its most dangerous - and we’re seeing that already.” On the new episode of The BREAK–DOWN podcast we're joined by author and Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter, Laleh Khalili
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 11/06/2026
Excited to finally have @katiejwells.bsky.social on the podcast, especially to discuss such an important issue. We can’t let the gig work model makes its way into healthcare, and degrade not just working conditions, but patient care along with it.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 15/06/2026
“Artificial intelligence” is often neither artificial nor intelligent. In a 2024 conversation with @vivaharehills.bsky.social and @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social looked at the workers, supply chains and colonial histories Silicon Valley would rather keep hidden.
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The Hidden Human Labor Behind AI
A discussion with Craig Gent and James Muldoon about the colonial history of tech infrastructure, its human and environmental costs, and how workers around the world are fighting back.
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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Trumpism links militarism to a gender backlash: officials cast the military as feminized and promote the hetero nuclear family. This piece ties this agenda to economic change, especially the decline of industrial work. By @sarahljaffe.bsky.social in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social buff.ly/Ez0Wkic
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Heterosexuality During Wartime
The straights, as people like to say, are not OK.
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Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Episode 40 of Heart Reacts is up and it's a crossover with @thebristolcable.bsky.social ! www.patreon.com/posts/specia...
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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The policies contained in the 2010 manifesto of the British National Party - once considered fringe and extreme - have now been mainstreamed by both Reform and the traditional British establishment argues @trillingual.bsky.social:
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Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
lol
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Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Down at Brick Lane for the protest against locating a data center in Truman Brewery
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Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Excited to have @mattcole.bsky.social and @sarahljaffe.bsky.social coming to KCL next week (3 June) to talk about Matt's new book, Unpaid: The Past, Present, and Future of Wage Theft. Register to attend here - and please share widely! www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...
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Select tickets – Unpaid: The Past, Present, and Future of Wage Theft - A Conversation with Matthew Cole and Sarah Jaffe – Bush House (SE) 2.12, Strand Campus, King’s College London
Unpaid: The Past, Present, and Future of Wage Theft - A Conversation with Matthew Cole and Sarah Jaffe – Bush House (SE) 2.12, Strand Campus, King’s College London, Wed 3 Jun 2026 - About the EventUnp...
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 28/05/2026
“The general strike remains a goal to aspire to. But simply saying the words over and over again will not call the strike into being; rhetorical maximalism is not enough.” @sarahljaffe.bsky.social @theprogressivemag.bsky.social progressive.org/magazine/str...
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Strategy and Leverage—Not Vibes—Are What We Need Now
The general strike remains a goal to aspire to. But simply saying the words over and over again will not call the strike into being.
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Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I was nine years old when I read Les Miserables on a dare from my grandparents granted I'm a huge nerd but come on
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C.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️ @thehousered.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
tony blair must be tired of getting slapped around by popes by now
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 25/05/2026
“What happens when U.S. capitalism simply needs fewer humans?” @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on automated taxis, AI, ICE raids, data centers and the rebellions taking shape against a system that treats workers, migrants and whole communities as disposable.
inthesetimes.com
Capitalism Without Humans
As new technologies (not immigrants) replace human labor, "machine breaking" as a tactic of rebellion is taking on a renewed vitality.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 21/05/2026
“In lieu of actually doing anything, Democrats these days seem to settle for an occasional chest thump before meekly rolling over. Evoke a feeling, rather than initiate a material change.” @sarahljaffe.bsky.social @theprogressivemag.bsky.social progressive.org/magazine/str...
progressive.org
Strategy and Leverage—Not Vibes—Are What We Need Now
The general strike remains a goal to aspire to. But simply saying the words over and over again will not call the strike into being.
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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Did you miss the launch of our new imprint Class Compositions? Watch it on Red May's Youtube channel! @charmainechua.bsky.social, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social, Kieran Knutson, and Peter Linebaugh discuss "Class Compositions in a Time of Fascism" with @americanwork47.bsky.social as moderator.
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Class Compositions in a Time of Fascism
YouTube video by Red May TV
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Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
this is soon!
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
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Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
You know you're doing something right when you're asked to step in for the legendary Silvia Federici
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 12/05/2026
"The flaming Waymos express something else: a targeted defiance of tech-enabled Trumpism with material consequences." As new technologies (not immigrants) replace human labor, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social reports “machine breaking” as a tactic of rebellion is taking on a renewed vitality.
inthesetimes.com
Capitalism Without Humans
As new technologies (not immigrants) replace human labor, "machine breaking" as a tactic of rebellion is taking on a renewed vitality.
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American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
UPDATE 5/11: Silvia Federici won't be able to join us, we are ever so pleased that author and labor journalist @sarahljaffe.bsky.social will be participating in our panel. Join us this coming Sunday!
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Global Justice Now Scotland @globaljusticescot.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Scotland Resists Big Tech Power 📆 Sat 13 June, 11-4pm 📍Edinburgh Free! globaljustice.org.uk/scottish-gat... With: @nickdearden.bsky.social Global Justice Now Dr. Samer Abdelnour , Edinburgh University Dr. Craig Dalzell, @thecommongreen.scot @sarahljaffe.bsky.social @rachaelrevesz.bsky.social
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Select tickets – Scotland resists big tech power – Augustine United Church
Scotland resists big tech power – Augustine United Church, Sat 13 Jun 2026 - With: Nick Dearden, Director, Global Justice NowDr Samer Abdelnour, Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh UniversityDr Craig Dalzell...
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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 05/05/2026
A town meeting in January intended to answer people’s questions [about data centers] felt more like a marketing session, residents said. “I think it’s sneaky,” Ms. Peedle said. Projects are given obscure names, like “Project Cannoli,” and “Project Cherry Blossom.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/u...
But it was the sheer scale of the proposals, the suddenness with which they’ve appeared and the secrecy surrounding them that is punching emotion into the issue, turning out thousands of Democrats and Republicans for tense town hall meetings around the state.

Residents said they often discovered a data center project in their town through a quiet rezoning request by a company no one recognized. They said their small town boards were outmatched compared with wealthy companies in a hurry to break ground.
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Strategy and Leverage—Not Vibes—Are What We Need Now by @sarahljaffe.bsky.social via @theprogressivemag.bsky.social
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Strategy and Leverage—Not Vibes—Are What We Need Now
The general strike remains a goal to aspire to. But simply saying the words over and over again will not call the strike into being.
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Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
just in time for May Day, my column on what general strikes are, and what they are not, and why it matters to think in terms of power, risk, and strategy. progressive.org/magazine/str...
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Strategy and Leverage—Not Vibes—Are What We Need Now
The general strike remains a goal to aspire to. But simply saying the words over and over again will not call the strike into being.
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Socialism Conference @socialismconference.org · 29/04/2026
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social will be at Socialism 2026!
Featured Speaker 
Sarah Jaffe

Socialism
September 4-7 Chicago, IL
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