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910 anti-trans bills in the US just in 2025 (so far).

103 already passed.

Anti-trans laws cause more than a 72% increase in suicide attempts among trans and nonbinary youth.

Charlotte Fosgate’s death was entirely preventable.

Thanks again to @jackmirkinson.bsky.social for the edits and accommodating lots of back and forth and last-minute updates because of the rapid shifts in geopolitics as I was writing this!

My latest essay on how Sinophobia in American labor has reinforced class collaboration at different historical junctures, and how this chauvinism has relied on a certain logic consistent from labor’s support of Chinese exclusion to today’s tariffs.

Sharing on behalf of faculty comrades at Cal State LA—the admin has been threatening ethnic studies departments. CSULA has a lot of working-class immigrant students facing the brunt of Trump’s attacks. Sign their petition and support them on Wednesday!

forms.gle/gg7oQoBHR5z5...

A protest yesterday in front of the US Embassy in Hong Kong in solidarity with Mahmoud Khalil. US Embassy agents told them they couldn’t chant there and called the police. The police warned protestors not to violate the national security law.

Follow @antiwar_hk on IG for more.

周日話題：平台退場而法未至 - 20250316 - 副刊 【明報專訊】美團自2023年在港成立Keeta以來，市佔率持續攀升，日前競爭對手戶戶送（Deliveroo）更宣布即將撤出香港市場。筆者在美團宣布來港前就深感興趣，第一時間成為了他們第一波攻港的外賣員，或許可以談一下這兩年多外賣市場的變化。

In light of Deliveroo’s announced exit from Hong Kong this week, here’s an good piece reflecting on how the competition between HK food delivery companies have pushed delivery riders’ wages down while making them work for more less in recent years.

news.mingpao.com/pns/%E5%89%A...

"Socialists from different traditions must unify with militant workers and marginalized groups to develop a political strategy. We must rebuild infrastructures of resistance to consolidate and defend our ranks."
@promiseli.bsky.social

How to Connect Democratic and Socio-economic issues in Syria to serve the 99%? | SyriaUntold | حكاية ما انحكت The ability to improve socio-economic conditions in the country’s future is crucial to widen participation of the Syrian people in the discussions and struggles for democratic rights in the country. B...

Joseph Daher has not only been crucial to the Palestine solidarity movement in Switzerland, but also been prolifically providing the most incisive analyses of the post-Assad Syria from a socialist perspective.

Here’s one of his latest:

syriauntold.com/2025/02/11/h...

Solidarity with Professor Joseph Daher Professor Joseph Daher is facing the loss of his job for his Palestine activism at the University of Lausanne.

Want to invite everyone to join the international call to hold the University of Lausanne accountable for their politically-motivated firing of my Syrian comrade Joseph Daher for his Palestine activism.

More info and link to petition below:

tempestmag.org/2025/02/soli...

I’m here at Pasadena City Hall, where hundreds of Pasadena high school students across multiple campuses self-organized a rally after a collective mass walkout and march against deportations.

Now chanting “From Palestine to Mexico, All the walls have got to go” 🇵🇸🇲🇽🔥

I wrote about how the LA fires and ensuing state response have harmed Black communities, how the early 2020s’ organizing of the Los Angeles left enabled today’s mutual aid efforts, and how we must keep uniting to demand more—a political program for an abolitionist city budget.

We got a Spectre Live next Tuesday (1/28, 4pmEST/1pmPST) with Dan Boscov-Ellen, Abby Cunniff, @joshuafrank.bsky.social, @promiseli.bsky.social, and @magalintzin.bsky.social talking about the politics surrounding the LA Fires.

Register: www.haymarketbooks.org/events/675-l...

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