Jeena Shah

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These gloves are following the same pattern of school resource officers themselves and other methods of school defense---put into schools in the hopes they will "protect the students" and end up being folded into the repertoire of disciplinary tactics.

"Some have argued that in a moment of ascendant fascism and escalating fascist violence, it is a distraction to spend time pushing a left-wing mayor to fulfill his budgeting promises. But if we want to defeat fascism,...that means holding those in power accountable, no matter who they are." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

"A 2025 study proposed combining rice husk ash, wood ash and rice straw to make a low-cost, carbon-negative material that could eliminate the need for cement [which accounts for ~1/12 of global emissions]."

This is exactly right. It’s a way to open the door to more of this.

Ms. Pillay led an investigation that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...

you can see re: the ruling on the NYC pied-a-terre tax vs the upcoming Medicaid changes - who is not expected to prove things to the government/who the government is expected to do the leg work for vs. who is expected to prove and document everything to the government

AI has exposed the austerity con game in higher ed. For years, we have been told there is no money for students, faculty, staff, capital improvements, libraries. But somehow universities have suddenly come up with the money to pay for AI services??

If I may get on my soap box: No Kings is a tactic. It is not the strategy and no one involved in putting it on considers it sufficient on its own. It's a mass show of defiance that's also served as an onramp to the kind of local organizing work that's necessary to shift power

Trump’s Gaza plan is *colonialism* and the UN Security Council and now Hillary Clinton are shamefully legitimating it. @jeenashahesq.bsky.social: “It is an illegal act of the highest order, and compliance with it makes member states complicit in that illegality.” More here:

Trump’s Gaza plan is *colonialism* and the UN Security Council and now Hillary Clinton are shamefully legitimating it. @jeenashahesq.bsky.social: “It is an illegal act of the highest order, and compliance with it makes member states complicit in that illegality.” More here:

In this short essay on TWAILR, I show how the Security Council Resolution that authorized the Board of Peace's rule over Gaza created a framework for a neo-colony par excellence: twailr.com/the-board-of...

Important new piece from @jeenashahesq.bsky.social in City & State. The protests against Israeli real estate events are responding to “active facilitation of what international courts and human rights bodies have classified as criminality representing the worst threats to humanity.”

WATCH: Learn about ICE warehouse expansion and how to fight back from our recent movement call webinar. Warehouse detention is part of the Trump administration’s plan to expand detention capacity to more than 100,000 people at any given time. 🔗Tell Congress no ICE warehouses! bit.ly/NOicewarehouses

Today, @jeenashahesq.bsky.social argues that Trump’s contradictory treatment of Hernández and Maduro reveals the consistency of U.S. foreign policy: the War on Drugs serves as a flexible tool for maintaining global capitalism’s necessary periphery.

Proposed cuts to libraries, parks, CUNY, housing + health, while keeping NYPD + Corrections intact; proposed real property tax increases disproportionately affecting Black owners + most tenants; homeless encampment sweeps. Why is Z proposing these regressive measures, and how best can we respond? 🧵

As a VA nurse, Alex Pretti was a member of AFGE. This union also reps Border Patrol, and may have repped Pretti's killer. I talked to VA workers who are furious and want Border Patrol out of AFGE. "For a union member to kill another is a fundamental betrayal of what a union is supposed to be.”

It's worth reminding each other every couple days that every delay you create, every horrible opportunity you deter means someone gets home to their family, might even mean someones actual life is saved. All of it is worth it.

“This is why the “any blue will do” mentality is so dangerous. Goldman wears a Democratic label, but his actions undermine democratic values at every turn.” @kumar.bsky.social indypendent.org/2026/01/op-e...

Critics of Zohran's decision to keep Tisch haven't yet provided compelling counters to the points made in this piece 🧵

I don’t know about you but I sincerely believe that Zohran Mamdani’s BA Major in Africana Studies enabled him to understand our current conjuncture & its demands of justice. Humanities shape minds & in his case for the better. I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.

Great thread. This is also true about that Jacobin article criticizing the turnout for the No Kings march. As someone who covered both demonstrations in June and October, I saw a few unions trying to pull together largest unions into organize contingents. Here’s a more rooted analysis. 1/3

The 2020 BLM protests were the top driver of new labor organizing in the last 5 years. Today's anti-Trump protests could do the same - if we make it happen. www.laborpolitics.com/p/can-anti-r...

It's funny, the no kings protests could be the best chace to normalize the idea of nationwide strikes in the US, if the organizers are serious. They do maybe 2 more on weekends to really lock them into people's practice, then say, "hey, let's show them we really mean business & do it on a Wednesday"

if you want to defend the working class? buy out a street vendor’s cart so they don’t have to choose between their income or kidnapping by ICE

"...this moment in history calls for an organized, powerful labor movement acting in solidarity to push back and fight forward for economic and racial justice. We have work to do. Labor Notes invites you to organize a regional Fightback School to begin this work." labornotes.org/content/figh...

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

These newspapers that publish articles undermining basic human rights aren't doing it by accident. These administrators aren't making "mistakes." Moderate politicians aren't "confused." They're engaging in class solidarity and capitalism requires accepting fascism now. That's it. That's just it.

It's beyond time to recognize that the people in charge and the politicians and personalities responsible for fighting fascism are economically and politically intertwined with the need for America to become fascist. We've got more than enough evidence and people have to move beyond denial.

It's instructive and revealing to see a college president who oversaw the expelling of students protesting the killing of innocent people advocate for schools to start hosting "difficult speakers" who want to strip away rights from people of color, women, and gay and trans people.