Dylan Flesch

If you don't want the #Dems to cave & allow ACA health insurance costs to explode you can contact your US Senator here: senate.gov/senators/sen...

& your US House Rep here: house.gov/representati...

Please register your concerns directly! It does matter, as did your 10/4 vote.

Schumer is not bad at something good, he is good at something bad.

BROOKLYN WE ARE GOING TO CHUCKS! Join us across from 9 PPW at 8:30 *tonight*

Bring pots and pans, let’s make some noise about Chuck folding (again).

Not another #SchumerSurrender

@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social

Have a machine that needs smashing?

Photo of a white man's hand holding a book titled THE MECHANIC AND THE LUDDITE. subtitled A RUTHLESS CRITICISM of TECHNOLOGY and CAPITALISM. author JATHAN SADOWSKI. The cover is a mottled red and orange with an image of a circular toothed gear with a crossed wrench and hammer inside. The title is rockered over the top of the gear and the subtitle is rockered below the gear.

Back cover of THE MECHANIC AND THE LUDDITE book. DEMYSTIFIES HOW TWO SYSTEMS — TECHNOLOGY AND CAPITALISM — WORK TOGETHER AND EQUIPS US WITH TOOLS TO BUILD A BETTER WORLD Our society is constantly serving the needs of technology and capitalism. Neither system exists outside humans, but both are treated as above and beyond us. The Mechanic and the Luddite provides the critical tools we need to deconstruct these systems-how they work and what work they do in our lives. But It's not enough to know how the machinery of capitalism and technology operate; we also need to know whom the machines serve in order to decide whether they should be taken apart, rebuilt, or destroyed for good. With signature style, Jathan Sadowski gives readers a provocative and handy manual for understand- ing the power of technology and capitalism and, crucially, the power we must take back. "Jathan Sadowski is one of the most incisive and important thinkers on technology and capitalism today. This urgent book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the deeper political economy that shapes the digital domain and, by extension, every facet of modern life -ASTRA TAYLOR, author of The Age of Security: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart "Smart, urgent, and bluntly powerful, this book is required reading for anyone who seeks to understand how technology gets made — and whom it's made to serve. The time for a thunderous new Luddite politics is now and Sadowski's accessible manifesto delivers" -BRIAN MERCHANT, author of flood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech Sadowski's crisp and active prose generously illuminates technology's relationship to flows of money and power and the whims of those who wield them." MEREDITH WHITTAKER, Chief Advisor and Cofounder, Al Now Institute JATHAN SADOWSKI is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. He is author of Too Smart and host of the podcast This Machine Kills

Thrilled to announce the official publication of my new book — The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism

Grab my book to go beyond the vaporous hype and get the real material analysis of technological capitalism that we all need! www.ucpress.edu/books/the-me...

NYC Budget 101: How to Win Funding for Universal Child Care — New Yorkers United for Child Care Q: How did we save 3-K from the worst of the Mayor’s cuts and win $10 million for universal child care for 0-2 year olds? A: We showed up at rallies, spoke to the press, and flooded City Council’s...

I can’t make it, but this sounds like a great event on Saturday: www.united4childcare.org/events/nov8-...

NYC Public Library Action Network @nycplan.org has held two of these so far and they are great. Our next will be in Queens in February 2026.

For a how-to example, see the @librariesftp.bsky.social People’s Assembly for the Public Library Toolkit here: www.librariesforthepeople.org/resources#pe...

Life Beyond Line Items - Urban Omnibus To get the city we deserve, New Yorkers must be active participants in its governance. What spaces and methods can help us build democratic muscle and demand moral budgets?

I liked a lot of the ideas here: urbanomnibus.net/2025/11/life.... Another thing folx can do is organize a People’s Assembly for <insert your focus area here>.

Want to be a #LibraryDefender? Join (or start!) a Friends of the Library group. #FriendsOfTheLibrary groups are a great way to strengthen your local library and fight for #InformationAccess for all! Learn how in our new Friends of the Library 101 Zine! www.librariesforthepeople.org/resources#fo...

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.

Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

Read the responses and you will understand why the campaign is successful.

There are so many people who've had a hand in this historic moment, but one person I'm so grateful for is @lindseyboylan.bsky.social. Your courage and your conviction opened a door for so many people and so many futures, and this is one amazing reality you had such a vital role in making possible.

Zohran Mamdani is elected NYC mayor, defeating Andrew Cuomo in historic win New York City voters elected Mamdani, a Democrat, as the first Asian American and the first Muslim mayor in the city’s history.

gothamist.com/news/nyc-may...

Teen Vogue Is Joining Vogue.com The transition, in which Teen Vogue will keep its unique editorial identity and mission, fortifies the evolving Vogue ecosystem.

chat am I cooked www.vogue.com/article/teen...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

For The People Newsletter Vol. XXXIII For everyone working to strengthen and expand public libraries

Folks in the US, send us your stories of your experiences with your public library systems! Are you part of your library board/ raised funds/organised to keep your library open/part of your friends group? We want to hear it all!: librariesforthepeople.substack.com/p/for-the-pe...

If you don't want to be a library board member, then join your local Friends of the Library group. They advocate for the library in your community and need people who care deeply about the freedom of information and the right to read.

FTP Library Elections & Appointments Training Cohort Hello! You're filling out this form because you've expressed interest in running for or seeking appointment to a local library board seat in your community (or because you're a serving trustee who'd l...

Here's an important way to make a difference: become a public library board member! Get training and support from Libraries for the People. Library workers--get a friend or community member to sign up. 📚
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Biggest Threat to Mamdani’s Agenda Isn’t Trump—It’s Wall Street Wall Street destroyed New York City’s social welfare economy in 1975. Avoiding that fate under Mayor Mamdani will require popular movements to discipline the super rich.

Mamdani’s platform includes secure funding for libraries and the city’s municipal hospital system. It calls for a new ​“community safety” department to remove the burden of crisis intervention from the police.

We’re having a halloween lunch time power hour to call your alder and let them know they need to fully fund the library by taxing the rich! Go to bit.ly/callmyward to find your alder and their number.

A lot of folks are still having trouble saying @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's name, so I made a little PSA to help

A grid of New York City Council member portraits with names under each photo. Two photos have green "YES!" labels, and one photo has a red "NO!" label. The NYC Council seal and title are at the top.

Send a letter to your City Council members to demand increased and STABLE funding for our NYC Public Libraries. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

We got our 2nd "YES" - this time from District 1's Christopher Marte who is a terrific public library champion who also participated in @nycplan.org's People's Assembly earlier this month! council.nyc.gov/district-1/ - Let's GO!

If you're looking for a group of library workers who understand the power of labor organizing, social justice, & anti-racism, consider applying for the Library Freedom Institute. It's a 15-week program in privacy, intellectual freedom, & critical technology. libraryfreedom.org/institute/

Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.

A must-read: placesjournal.org/article/extr...

“Tactically, the next move is not a retreat but another push outward, exploring new configurations and solidarities with other public bodies and creative communities.”

“…newsrooms and media commons are not a distraction from the library’s core mission but a restatement of it. At each step in the library’s evolution — from the private collection, to the reading room, to the lending card, to interlibrary loan — the library becomes more open and more useful.”

Pumping my fist and cheering as I read this. Thank you for writing it.

Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.

I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs