Kim Kelly

"Those valiant women became famous for their ferocious resolve on the line. 'One policeman can handle 10 men,' Lawrence's district attorney griped, "while it takes 10 policemen to handle one woman.' Journalist Mary Spicuzza reported much the same at the time: A group of enraged Italian women happened upon a lone police officer on an icy bridge. After stripping him of his guy, club and badge, they sliced the officer's suspenders and took off his pants - a humiliation technique popular with the disorderly women of Lawrence - and dangled the office over the freezing river."

Happy International Women's Day!

From @kimkelly.bsky.social's great book "Fight Like Hell"

My thing is that I have a bunch of metal sticking out of mine to navigate around!

Ooh, I don’t know if they would work with my ears but I’m gonna investigate

Is loops a specific brand or type or something?

I don’t use listen to media when I’m out in the world so at some point I guess I’ll have to either buy headphones (no) or accept that the uptick in antisocial noise is a me problem

why would anyone want to do that

abolish speakerphone

every car on the train should be the quiet car until people (grown adults!) learn how to act

sigh

ICE arrested Nashville journalist without warrant, attorneys say The journalist, Estefany Rodriguez, was taken to a detention center and remains there as of 3 p.m. March 5.

"She frequently reported on stories critical of ICE for Nashville Noticias, the Spanish-language outlet."

www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

Why We Must Fight to Stop HR 7661 Before It Destroys the Lives of American Children Lately I’ve been calling my House rep and screaming about one zillion things, and maybe you have too. But today I want to talk about one thing in particular you should add to your list: H.R. 7661 i…

I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

"The working classes have always been the caring classes — not just because they do almost all of the caring labor, but also because, perhaps partly as a result, they actually are more empathetic than the rich. Psychological studies show this, by the way. The richer you are, the less competent you are at even understanding other people’s feelings. So trying to reimagine work — not as a value or end in itself, but as the material extension of caring — is a good start." . - David Graeber

the great reformer strikes again

how long until we get to see Teamsters president Sean O’Brien publicly congratulate his nasty little buddy here on ascending to gestapo boss

There are more of us??

gimme some tenure bro I swear I’ll be good

gave a guest lecture at Princeton today and ended up using the very scientific phrase “belt to ass” while discussing the recent NYC nurses’ strike

Unite & Win: Bonus Discussion: Climate Justice and the Labor Movement with Yana Kalmyka, Oren Kadosh, and Levi Kreisa

Our FINAL “Unite & Win” with @haymarketbooks.org episode features @kimkelly.bsky.social, Yana Kalmyka, Oren Kadosh, and Levi Kreisa discussing climate justice and how the labor movement can make real progress towards a more sustainable future. 🔗👇

Did you read the article? They’re explicitly asking customers not to boycott the ranch.

Today is International Sex Workers’ Rights Day, a time to support and uplift sex workers everywhere—and a particularly good day to throw some money to the United Brothel Workers in Nevada who were illegally terminated after their historic union drive with CWA went public! ☂️

a man tried to condescend to me today and it simply did not compute. it was like an alien was trying to talk to me

Somethin in the water!

Look let’s not think too hard about these things

Check em out! Nice boys too

I love these kinds of crowds, the best kind of Boomers

An assortment of t-shirts, some are black with red stars, one is red with CHINGA LA MIGRA in yellow

workin a show for an Irish American folk/rock family band tonight and their merch goes way harder than you’d expect

no war no borders no cops no prisons no to all of this shit

What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.

This is such a good idea, I’m also curious about how much it made sense to charge for subscriptions for a limited jawn

Yup, family’s from around Brasov