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HUGE Jobs Report for August! Democrats Most Hurt.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/04/huge-jobs-report-for-august-democrats-most-hurt-n4956886

America's economy just handed Democrats their worst Friday of the year, mere weeks before the midterms.

The Labor Department's August 2026 jobs report dropped Friday morning, and it left the doom-and-gloom crowd on the Left with nothing to say. Employers added 162,000 jobs last month, crushing what economists were predicting and delivering exactly the kind of number Democrats have spent all summer insisting Donald Trump's economy couldn't produce. The new jobs were actually triple the expectations.

It gets worse for the left.

The report didn't just beat expectations for August; it rewrote the story of the entire summer. The Labor Department revised July's initial estimate of a 23,000-job loss up to a 21,000-job gain, and it revised June's payroll numbers higher, too. The "stalling economy" narrative Democrats have been pushing for months just collapsed under its own weight.

My emphasis. Under LIEden, revising previous months numbers downwards was the norm, sometimes adjusting downwards more than just once. Recent adjustments under Trump have been upwards, so August's 162,000 jobs may be similarly adjusted upwards.

Any content to that picture you idiot? You are upset because your masters told you to be upset

My guess is that these are Haitians who came to the US after the 2010 Port-au-Prince earthquake with Temporary Protection Status.

Temporary means TEMPORARY unless Trump does it, then it's racism or some other evilism.

What a loser, posting your failure on a forum full of losers and failures!

Here could be a more unintended comedy festival this weekend (and apologies because the agenda is very long but amusingly titled):

Friday, September 4
 
9:00am
CDT
Historic Bike Tour: Chicago Race Riot 1919 Commemoration Project
9:30am
CDT
Marxism Education Series
Michael A. McCarthy • Amna Akbar • Eman Abdelhadi
10:00am
CDT
Reproductive Justice Strategy Session
Chicago For Abortion Rights
Organizing Social Workers for Abolition Summit
Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work
2:30pm
CDT
Abolitionist Campaigns in Hostile Terrains: Fighting Against Immigrant Detention in NY
Viju Mathew • Sophia Gurule • Critical Resistance
The Threat of Geoengineering and the Socialist Response
Adam Schneider • T Callahan • Ashwin Shantha • Science for the People
Sing, Struggle, Organize: Movement Songs, Political Education, and Collective Power
Steff Reed
Community Lessons for Fighting Fascism: In Honor of Amisha Patel
Maya Schenwar • Juliet DeJesus Alejandre • Tanuja Jagernauth • Katelyn Johnson • Rocío García • Truthout
From a Marxist Feminist Point of View: Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature
Nancy Holmstrom • Phil Gasper • Alex Holmstrom-Smith • Rose Lenehan • Daniel Singer Foundation • New Politics
From Prairie to Poppy: How Struggles for Land, War, and Farming Are Connected from Chicago to Palestine
Heather Aubry • A. Funk • Rumsha S. • Dissenters
Inside Organizing 101
Jaz Brisack
Mother Jones and the Early Socialist Movement: Lessons for Today
Rosemary Feurer • Joseph Rathke • Mother Jones Heritage Project
We Keep Us Safe: De-Escalation Training
brian bean • Haymarket Books
4:30pm
CDT
Life After Death Row
Mumia Abu-Jamal • Kenny Collins • Stanley Howard • Mike Stark
Confronting Zionism: Decolonizing Palestine and Building the World Anew
Noura Erakat • Brekhna Aftab
Introduction to Theatre of the Oppressed
Douglas Paterson
Why Does Capitalism Suck and Why Does it Fail? An Introduction to Marxist Economics
Charlie Post
Femme-inism Against Cisness: Bread, Roses, and Hormones, Too
A.J. Bohrer • Sophie Lewis
How Veterans & Labor Are Fighting VA Union Busting And Privatization
Stuart Hall • Dan Blough • Grace Neudek • Lisa Dadabo • Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute
Unveiling the Prophet: Anti-Labor Secret Societies and Their Activist Enemies
Kim Kelly • Devin Thomas O'Shea
Transformative Rural Organizing
Bo Belotti • Vida Rangel
Workers Deserve More! A Program for a Future Beyond Capitalism
Hasan Piker • Ashik Siddique • Michaela Brangan • Frances Gill • Megan Romer • DSA
What We Saw in Chicago: From Midway Blitz to New Forms of Community Defense
Juliet DeJesus Alejandre • Antonio Gutierrez • TBD • Rey Wences • ICIRR • OCAD
People Over Mega-Events: Organizing for Housing, Workers, and Communities Beyond the World Cup
Kelsea Bond • Matthew Nursey • Mariah Parker • Michael Collins • Play Fair ATL
Why Eugene Debs Matters
Allison Duerk • Shawn Gude
Abolition Judaism: The Revolutionary Possiblities of Diaspora
Rabbi Andrue Kahn • Dania Rajendra • Benjamin Balthaser • Maurice BP-Weeks Balthazar • JVP
Political Education 1: What Are We Up Against?
Geo Maher • Chris Rogers • Ant Smith • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School
6:00pm
CDT
New People Meet-Up, Find a Friend
Welcome Happy Hour
7:30pm
CDT
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Palestine, Internationalism, Abolition
Angela Y. Davis • Naomi Murakawa
9:30pm
CDT
Radical Game Night!
Radical Trivia Night!
Chicago For Abortion Rights
 
Saturday, September 5
 
8:30am
CDT
Morning Yoga
10:00am
CDT
The Black Path to Socialism
Kali Akuno • India • Brian Kwoba • Erica Ryan
No Such Thing As NIMBY: The Fight to Protect Our Water
Jenny Espino • Jake Hernandez • Chloe Torres
Hustle Culture vs. Solidarity
Natalie Bencivega • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Demetrius Noble
Journalism, Authoritarianism and Struggles Against ICE
Adam Goodman • Memo Torres • Diane de Vignemont • Daniel Singer Foundation
Gender and Accumulation
Eric Maroney
Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State (Health Fascism Series)
Beatrice Adler-Bolton • Da’Shaun L. Harrison • Artie Vierkant • Death Panel
Building the Anti-War Movement: Identifying and Organizing Against U.S. Military Subcontractors
Matt Fiorillo • Joseph Gumina • Julia Mente • Valerie Wallach • BDS Pittsburgh
Crisis in Venezuela: Socialist Perspectives
Simón Rodríguez • Anderson Bean • Gonzalo Gómez
Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry
Clarissa Redwine • JS Tan
Labor at the Margins
Maya Tatum • Katherine Passley • Kim Kelly
Chicago's Educators and Families Defending Communities Against ICE
Lisset G • Kobi Guillory • Raul Islas • Kathryn Zamarron
Lessons of the Russian Revolution
Phil Gasper • Suzi Weissman • Critique • New Politics
Political Education 2: Understanding Dialectics
Samer Araabi • Thomas Mariadason • Chika Okoye • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School
Song for a Hard-Hit People: Building Anti-Racist Solidarity in Appalachia
Beth Howard • Jerome Scott
12:00pm
CDT
Cross-Walls Solidarity Against Carceral Infrastructure
Kendra Drysdale • Berty Hernandez • Mon Mohapatra • TBD • Community Justice Exchange
Debates in Prison Abolitionist Theory and Practice
Amna Akbar • Amelia Kirby • Silky Shah • Jack Norton • Zohra Ahmed
The Merciless Society: Incarceration, Dehumanization, and American Empire
Lyle May
Art and Propaganda: On Learning from Paul Robeson, Why the Artist must Take Sides
Saul Williams
State Fiscal Strategy for the 21st Century: Dispatches from New York's New Era
Elizabeth Cooper • Ciarán Finlayson
Break the Board: Neoliberalism in Crisis and the Popular University as Abolition
Adam • Alex • Fiona • Laith • National Students for Justice in Palestine
Sex for Pleasure: Controlling your Reproduction Under a Pro-Natalist Regime
Emily Likins-Ehlers
Class Struggle Infrastructure: Tenant Unions and Socialism
Chicago Union of Tenants • Chicago Union of Tenants
Rank and File Lessons from a New York Nurses Strike in the Mamdani Era
Roxana Garcia • Beth Loudin • TBD
Revolutionary Socialism from Below: Strategies to Build the Resistance
Aaron Amaral • Kristen Guptill-Godfrey • Tempest
What Is the Muslim Left?
Ashik Siddique • Maryam Adamu • TBD • Eman Abdelhadi • Acacia Magazine
Migra Watch Training for Illinois Residents
Diego Morales • PUÑO
Che’s “New Man” and The Bodhisattva Revolutionary
Breht O’Shea • Rev Left Radio
Socialism, Liberation Theology, and the Black Church: Lessons from Black Socialist Preachers Past and Present
Andrew Reginald Hairston • Charles Holm
AI Extractivism: Global Systems, Local Processes
Shiera S. al-Malik • V'cenza Cirefice • Marta Cook • Fawn E. Pochel
1:30pm
CDT
Letter Writing to Incarcerated Comrades
"Finding Our Place in the Sun:" A Black Socialists Meetup
Labor for Palestine National Network Meet-Up
Public Educators Meet-Up
Socialist Horizon Meet-up
3:00pm
CDT
Land and Abolition
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Solidarity Across the Walls and Beyond: Conversation on Inside/Outside Collaborations
Nick Brown • Eddy Fletcher • James Kilgore • Mon Mohapatra • Stevie Wilson • Community Justice Exchange
Ocean Deep Solidarity: Reparations, LANDBACK, and Collective Liberation
Dr. Aymar Jean Escoffery • Matthew Harvey • Claire Maracle • Justin Morgan • Raven Schwam-Curtis • BLIS Collective
Printing the Revolution: The Role of Art in Organizing and Building Community Resistance
Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. • Dio Cramer • Ricardo Levins Morales • Pilsen Community Books • Under the Tree Podcast
Resisting Attacks on Schools, from Gaza to Chicago
Hadeil M. Abdelfattah, Ed.D • David Stovall, Ph.D • Nora Lester Murad • Chicago Educators for Palestine • DropTheADL from Schools • Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism
Funding Until It’s Free: Building a Movement for Tomorrow While Fundraising for Today
Mary Coleman • Maheen • Qudsiyyah Shariyf • Em Gonzalez • Lawrence • Lux • Chicago For Abortion Rights
Trans Care in the Age of Health Fascism (Health Fascism Series)
Beatrice Adler-Bolton • S. Lamble • Vicky Osterweil • Death Panel
Connecting with Coworkers to Form Your Union
Dawn Tefft • Araya Barnes • Rumin • AK Alilonu • Atulya Dora-Laskey • EWOC
All Socialism, No Government: An Introduction to Anarchist Theory and Strategy
Heb Braggs • Ben Eager • Jeremy Jewitt • Juan Gonzalez Valdivieso • Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
Black Left Feminism and the Fight Against Fascism: Lessons and Assignments
Barbara Ransby • Sarah Haley
Revolutionary Socialists and the Fight Against War and Authoritarianism
Ndindi Kitonga • Bill Mullen • Kirstin Roberts • Pepper Macias • Meg • United Left Platform
How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention
John Washington • Johannes Favi
Bridging the Gap: Youth Organizing and Building Intergenerational Organizing Power
Essence-Jade Gatheright • Mari Lee • Chicago Freedom School
The Revolutionary Legacies and Lineages of Grace Lee Boggs
Lily Luo
How the Left Takes on AI Will Determine the Future
Sasha Costanza-Chock • Sarah Hamid • Tawana Petty • Edith Romero
Propaganda Printmaking
Danielle Bullock
Political Education 3: Slavery, Colonialism, and Primitive Accumulation
Geo Maher • Chris Rogers • Ant Smith • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School
5:00pm
CDT
Fighting the Surveillance Apparatus: Connecting ALPRs to Larger Networks of Policing & How to Build Past Them
Austin Kral • Tynetta Hill-Muhammad • Navjot Heer • nat palmer • Breanna Champion • Lucy Parsons Lab
Prison Papers in Action: Activating Archives with Walls Turned Sideways
Mira Simonton-Chao • Carlos Ayala • Walls Turned Sideways
Building the People's Embargo for Palestine: Strategy, Assessment, and the Path to Freedom During the Time of Genocide
Lena E • Laith A • Palestinian Youth Movement • People's Embargo for Palestine
War, Capitalism, and Navigating the Climate Crisis
Joshua Frank • Tori Tsui • CounterPunch • Pilsen Community Books • Science for the People
The US and China: Imperial Rivalry in a Multipolar World
Tobita Chow • Ashley Smith
They Called Us Non-Compliant: The (Sedated) History of Psychiatric Resistance
Sarah Broas • Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu • Heena Sharma • Project LETS
“As Goes the South”: Building Multiracial Working-Class Solidarity in the South for a Socialist Future
Beth Howard • Jerome Scott • Walda Katz-Fishman • SURJ
Movement Lawyering in Times of Retrenchment
Leena Odeh • Christian Snow • Morgan Wilson • Law 4 Black Lives
The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
Brian Jones • Dave Zirin
The Young Lords Speak: Building Revolution on the Streets of Chicago
Jacqueline Lazú • Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez
When Socialists Turned to the Factory Floor
Candace Cohn • Jack Weinberg • Solidarity
Spirit of Justice: Building Beloved Community, Embodying Revolutionary Love
nyle fort • Michelle Alexander • Saul Williams • Rami Nashashibi • Spirit of Justice
The False Choice Between Identity Politics and Class Struggle
Michael A. McCarthy
Who Moves America: Film Screening and Discussion
Jesse Sharkey • Yael Bridge
6:30pm
CDT
Abolitionist Zine Writing Workshop
Songs for Liberation
United Left Platform Meet-up
How to Close a Camp Study Session
Books Against Borders
7:00pm
CDT
Minnesota 15 Anti-Repression Committee Meet Up
8:00pm
CDT
Neighbors Get Ready: Forging New Solidarities and Defeating ICE
John Washington • Silky Shah • Chris Newman • Tania Wolf • Cat Salonek Schladt
 
Sunday, September 6
 
8:30am
CDT
Morning Yoga
10:00am
CDT
Fighting for Trans Liberation in the Midwest: Organizing Under Hostile State Governments
Colleen McRoberts • Dr. Emerson Cram • V Fixmer-Oraiz • Rev. Sean McRoberts • Mandi Remington
Refusing Erasure: Justice, Accountability and Historical Memory in the War on Terror
Negin Owliaei • Mansoor Adayfi • Maha Hilal • Rashida James Saadiya • Muslim Counterpublics Lab
Bolivia’s Uprising: Causes, Contradictions & Lessons
Lena • Emilio • Blanca Misse
Russian Neofascism: Imperialism Abroad & Repression at Home
Ilya Budraitskis • Ilya Matveev • Robert Brenner • Yulia Yurchenko • Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign
The Old Being Reborn: The Revival of Socialist Organizations in US and Belgium
David Duhalde • Joe Todd • RLS
The General Strike and How to Build a Stronger, Bolder, and Bigger Pro-Democracy Labor Movement
Sean Fulkerson • Griffin Mahon • TBD • May Day Strong
Protecting Our Own: Shifting from State Intervention to Community Care in Crisis Times
jaboa lake • Erica Meiners • Shannon Perez-Darby
The Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement’s Fight for Economic Justice—and Why It Matters Today
Brian Jones • Nancy MacLean • Jeanne Theoharis • Elizabeth Todd-Breland • Hammer & Hope
Trust in God and Keep the Powder Dry: A Short History of Leftwing Religious Non-Nonviolence
Adam Vander Tuig • Highlander
From Exploitation to Replacement? Workers in the New Political Economy of AI
Alex Hanna • Nathan Kim • Thomas Mariadason • Chika Okoye • Center for Political Education • Distributed AI Research Institute
The Deadly Tech Exchange: How Tech Companies are Profiting from Genocide and Anti-Immigrant Violence
Izzy Mustafa • Edith Romero • Eric Sype • Adalah Justice Project
12:00pm
CDT
Why Socialism Requires Abolition
Zohra Ahmed • Kelly Gillespie • Ruth Wilson Gilmore • Vanessa Thompson
Palestinian Revolutionary Thought and the Prisoners’ Movement
Danya al-Saleh • Jenan Awaida • Ribhi Hussein • People's Center for Palestine
Black History is for Everyone
Brian Jones
Sumud in Praxis: Teaching for Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine
Anita Fernández • Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch • Samia Shoman • Jenine Wehbeh
Weaponizing Antisemitism: An Interactive History
Adam Sanchez • Rethinking Schools
Unsafe: The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash
S. Lamble • Sophie Lewis
Resisting MAHA & Building Environmental & Reproductive Justice
Judith Clerjeune • Dr. Sydney Curtis • Abhinaya Narayanan • Briana Perry
Intro: Harm Reduction and Solidarity with Unsheltered Neighbors
Rachel Shearer • Luna Bender • Andrew Atkinson Bernd • Alexa Gold • Lucy Morales
Cuba Under Siege: A Round Table Discussion
Reed Lindsey • Helen Yaffe • Justine Medina • Chicago Cuba Coalition
The State of Worker Organizing in the South and the Southern Workers Assembly
james pope • Abdul Alkalimat • Destiny Blackwell • Mike Goldfield • Southern Workers Assembly
Psychic Militancy
Lara Sheehi • Pluto Press
The Muslim Left, NYC, and Zohran Mamdani’s Victory
Ashik Siddique • Iskander Abbasi • Asad Dandia • Aber Kawas
Documenting Actions, Activism, and Activists’ Lives: Strategies for Preserving Personal and Organizational Archives
Kate Stewart
Organizing 101: a Black Youth Project 100 Joint
BYP100 Members • Black Youth Project 100
The Present State of People’s History
Isaac Silver • Peter Cole • Matthew Ray • Left in the Bay
Socialize the Grid: Data Centers and Translocal Organizing
David Cobb • Johanna Epke • Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright • India Willi • Black Alliance for Peace
Rosa Luxemburg and Frantz Fanon on Imperialism—Its Lessons for Today
Alex Adamson • Peter Hudis • Ndindi Kitonga • International Marxist-Humanist Organization
Necessary Trouble: Movement-Building since the Financial Crisis
Cat Salonek Schladt • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Alex Hanna • Sarah Jaffe • Yotam Marom
1:30pm
CDT
On the Mend: A Sashiko Workshop
BIPOC Social
Black Youth Project 100
3:00pm
CDT
Redefining Family: Intro to Family Abolition and Creating Abundant Care
Alanah Armstead • Marin Hart • Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center
Three Generations in the Struggle for Socialism and Black Liberation
Jesse Hagopian • Miles Hagopian • Gerald Lenoir
Organize or Burn: Sewer Socialism for Climate Survival in the 21st Century
Aber Kawas • Ashik Siddique • Cihan Tekay Liu • Kelsea Bond • Alex Brower • DSA
Poetry for the People: Creating Your Own Community-Based Poetry Workshop, A Training for Facilitators
Maya Marshall • Haymarket Books
The Politics of Debt: Organizing in the Age of Finance
Braxton Brewington • René Christian Moya • Lindsey Muniak • Debt Collective
Care Networks, Abolition, and the Fight Against Border Policing (Health Fascism Series)
Beatrice Adler-Bolton • Silky Shah • A. Naomi Paik • Death Panel
Inquilab Zindabad: Bhagat Singh and the Revolutionary Left during South Asian Independence
Viral Mistry
Our International Struggles Cannot be Confined to the Capitalists’ National Elections
Laura R • Tom T • Jolene S • Speak Out Socialists
Radicalizing Labor Unions: A Balance Sheet of Reform, Class Struggle, and Rank-and-file Movement-Building
Toni Gilpin • Andrew Bergman • Nelson Lichtenstein • Luigi Morris • Margie Thornton
Data Centers, Class Politics, and Socialist Strategy
Nathan Kim • Austin Kral • Jasmine Lu • Cella Sum • Yvette Vargas
Neighborhood Organizing 101
Amadi Ozier
Using Historical Ephemera for Political Education
Isaac Silver • Buttons of the Left
Liberatory Spirit, the Spirit of Liberation: Multi-tradition Conversation on How We Get Free
Autumn Brown • Rev. Jinzu Minna Jain • Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg • JVP
Protecting Our Neighbors: DIY Community Defense Street Tactics from Midway Blitz
G.R.I.P. • G.R.I.P.
Left Insurgents and Liberal Exhaustion: Consolidating Power from Below
Hasan Piker • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Hammer & Hope • Unruly Subjects
5:00pm
CDT
Are All Cops Bastards?
brian bean • Anderson Bean
Imagine a Future Without Family Policing!
Dorothy Roberts
The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took over the World
Daniella Mazzio • Vicky Osterweil
The Power of Speculative Fiction in a Shifting Political Climate
Vaishnavi Patel • Sareena Kamath
Socialism Beats Fascism: Organizing for a Post-Trump America
Griffin Mahon • Eleanor Babaev • Bol B • Eman Abdelhadi • DSA
We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities
Moya Bailey • Rachel Kuo
The Strike that Shook the Bay: San Francisco’s Historic 2026 Educator Strike and the Coming California Strike Wave
Yajaira Cuapio • Ilan Desai-Gellar • Alex Schmaus • United Educators of San Francisco
Mass Labor Action in Defense of Immigrant Workers: Why We Need It and How We Can Get there
Justin Akers Chacón • Lucia Flores • Victor Rodríguez • Dan Troccoli • Workers Voice
People's Movement Assembly 101: Building Insurgent Democracies in the US South
Denzel Caldwell • Black Nashville Assembly
Standing Up to the National Security State: Collective Defense against Political Repression
Tom Alter • Yarden Azoulay Katz • Diana Rueda • Treasure Thoreson • United Left Platform
Unruly Subjects LIVE: A Reckoning with our Moment
Ruth Wilson Gilmore • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò • Hammer & Hope • Unruly Subjects
6:30pm
CDT
Tarot for Socialists!
Organizer Happy Hour
Scalawag • The Forge
Firebrands: the Organizing RPG | Actual Play Session!
7:00pm
CDT
Tempest Meet-Up
Steal This Story, Please! Film Screening and Discussion
Juan González • Amy Goodman • Tia Lessin
Democratic Socialists of America Meet-Up
DSA
8:00pm
CDT
Chicago IPO/Neighborhood Org Social
33rd Ward Working Families
Cultural Worker Meet-Up
Jewish Voice for Peace Meet-Up
JVP
Library Workers Meetup
Radical Healthcare Workers and Friends Meet Up
Debt Collective’s Healthcare Worker Solidarity Collective
South Asian Solidarity Meet-Up
South Asian Solidarity Network
Tech Worker Meetup
The South Meet Up
Southern Workers Assembly
9:00pm
CDT
The Neo-Futurists present THE INFINITE WRENCH
 
Monday, September 7
 
10:00am
CDT
The Roots of Punishment, The Seeds of Abolition: Organizing Against State Violence From the Ground Up
ML Smith • Tiara Cooper • Furonda Brasfield • U.S. Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty
End the Genocide Behind Bars: Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners
Nawaf A • Jenan A • Palestinian Youth Movement • Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners
A Shit Deal: Capitalism's Ecological Rift
T Callahan
Art is Politics: Making Movements Irresistible
William Estrada • Margaret Vail Palmquist • Roger Peet
RePRESSion: Press Censorship in the Time of Fascism and Increasing Media Illiteracy
Sherronda J. Brown • Da'Shaun L. Harrison • Aarohi Sheth • Tea Troutman • Scalawag
Madness, Capitalism and Psychiatric Abolition
Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu • Nze Okoronta • Leah Harris • Liat Ben-Moshe • Death Panel
The Long Struggle for UAW Divestment From Israel Bonds, and the Future of Labor for Palestine
Bill Mullen • Andrew Bergman • Sophia Gurule • Michael Letwin • Labor for Palestine National Network
The Left and the National Question: Building Solidarity without Exception
Eman Abdelhadi • Reza Rezaian • Simón Rodríguez • Tanya Vyhovksy • The Ukraine Soilidarity Network (US)
Mayor Mamdani vs. Wall Street. Sewer Socialism and Municipal Financing—Which Way Forward?
David Backer • Sylvia Kidder • Michael Reagan
How Communities Become Targets: Somalis in Minnesota and the Policing of Black Muslim Life
Somali Organizers from MN
Creating Emotional and Spiritual Support Groups for Activists
Atena Danner • Kelly Hayes • Tanuja Jagernauth
Insurgent Spiritualities for Revolutionary Struggle
Benji Hart • Joy James • Andrew Krinks • Belkis Terán
Neoliberalism, Fascism, Feudalism...or Socialism? What Lies Ahead
Hagen Blix • Jasper Bernes • Nathan Kim • Erin McElroy
12:00pm
CDT
We Want it All: Reclaiming the World from the Rich and the Right
Damon Williams • Tori Tsui • Beth Howard • Kelly Hayes • Jaz Brisack

https://socialismconference.org/2026-schedule/

THE TIMES THEY AIN’T A-CHANGIN’

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/09/the-times-they-aint-a-changin.php

The New York Times subjects Harmeet Dhillon to the obligatory trashing of principled conservative combatants in a 2,500-word hit job by Glenn Thrush and Michael Bender headlined “From Top Civil Rights Post, She Spars With the Left, and Her Colleagues.” The story seems to me a pudding in search of a theme beyond antipathy to its subject. Harmeet Dhillon, she’s bad. For this Dhillon, anyway, the Times they ain’t a-changin.

According to the authors of the Times story, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights has “repurposed a unit created to address Jim Crow injustices into a battering ram against the elite left.” What a lame indictment. Like the March of Dimes, the civil rights division must have outlived its time.

Harmeet seeks to bring our elite universities — Harvard foremost among them — into compliance with the laws she is tasked with enforcing. The Times story takes approximately no interest in the wayward course these institutions have taken.

The story moves from topic to topic while not giving Harmeet a chance to speak on her own behalf. This is about as good as it gets:

Quote

Ms. Dhillon, in a statement, denied that she had been impelled by any motive other than fairly enforcing federal law, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans discrimination by any recipient of federal funding. Her actions on higher education, she wrote, have been based on an evenhanded examination of admissions data, “not personal animus toward elite universities.”

The NYT won't dare let Dhillon speak for herself. She has the facts, intellectual capability, and political courage to ram the NYT minions' partisan flatulation up their collective fat asses. I'm mildly surprised the NYT hasn't labeled Dhillon a White Rice Dhosa or something similarly race-traitor-ish.

Whatever the thinking underlying the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Libs/Progs have for decades believed that racism and discrimination in favor of blacks, Hispanics, etc. is exempt from that law.