Michael Gould-Wartofsky
@mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social
Writer. Educator. Knowledge worker. Scholar of social movements. Lecturer in Sociology. Author of The Occupiers (Oxford 2015), Resistant Cities (forthcoming 2028). Nothing human is alien to me. https://thecriticalrealist.com
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Supplement The Occupiers with the following radical reads, all of which come with my highest recommendation for those looking to learn more about the movement (continued).
#occupywallstreet
#occupywallstreet
September 18, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Supplement The Occupiers with the following radical reads, all of which come with my highest recommendation for those looking to learn more about the movement (continued).
#occupywallstreet
#occupywallstreet
Supplement The Occupiers with the following radical reads, all of which come with my highest recommendation for those looking to learn more about the movement.
#occupywallstreet
#occupywallstreet
September 18, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Supplement The Occupiers with the following radical reads, all of which come with my highest recommendation for those looking to learn more about the movement.
#occupywallstreet
#occupywallstreet
Supplement The Occupiers with the following radical reads, all of which come with my highest recommendation for those looking to learn more about the movement.
#occupywallstreet
#occupywallstreet
September 18, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Supplement The Occupiers with the following radical reads, all of which come with my highest recommendation for those looking to learn more about the movement.
#occupywallstreet
#occupywallstreet
15 years ago, Occupy Wall Street erupted onto the stage of history.
I wrote a book about it, titled The Occupiers, following the movement from inception to eviction and beyond.
A decade later, The Occupiers is still in print. You can find it here.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
#occupywallstreet
I wrote a book about it, titled The Occupiers, following the movement from inception to eviction and beyond.
A decade later, The Occupiers is still in print. You can find it here.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
#occupywallstreet
September 18, 2026 at 9:55 PM
15 years ago, Occupy Wall Street erupted onto the stage of history.
I wrote a book about it, titled The Occupiers, following the movement from inception to eviction and beyond.
A decade later, The Occupiers is still in print. You can find it here.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
#occupywallstreet
I wrote a book about it, titled The Occupiers, following the movement from inception to eviction and beyond.
A decade later, The Occupiers is still in print. You can find it here.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
#occupywallstreet
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~NEW EPISODE~
How Occupy Gave us Hope and Solidarity
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In our latest, we talk w/ @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social, an OWS participant & scholar, about the conditions that led to the encampment at Zucotti Park & the lasting influence it's had on American politics.
How Occupy Gave us Hope and Solidarity
🎙️: apple.co/4xGwUsw
In our latest, we talk w/ @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social, an OWS participant & scholar, about the conditions that led to the encampment at Zucotti Park & the lasting influence it's had on American politics.
September 17, 2026 at 5:14 PM
~NEW EPISODE~
How Occupy Gave us Hope and Solidarity
🎙️: apple.co/4xGwUsw
In our latest, we talk w/ @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social, an OWS participant & scholar, about the conditions that led to the encampment at Zucotti Park & the lasting influence it's had on American politics.
How Occupy Gave us Hope and Solidarity
🎙️: apple.co/4xGwUsw
In our latest, we talk w/ @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social, an OWS participant & scholar, about the conditions that led to the encampment at Zucotti Park & the lasting influence it's had on American politics.
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“The rank-and-file pushed their leadership because this was a thing that made sense to them.”
Ahead of Occupy Wall Street’s 15th anniversary tomorrow, revisit @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social’s 2015 account of how labor linked arms with Occupy.
Ahead of Occupy Wall Street’s 15th anniversary tomorrow, revisit @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social’s 2015 account of how labor linked arms with Occupy.
The Untold Story of When Labor Linked Arms With Occupy Wall Street
Investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.
inthesetimes.com
September 16, 2026 at 9:30 PM
“The rank-and-file pushed their leadership because this was a thing that made sense to them.”
Ahead of Occupy Wall Street’s 15th anniversary tomorrow, revisit @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social’s 2015 account of how labor linked arms with Occupy.
Ahead of Occupy Wall Street’s 15th anniversary tomorrow, revisit @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social’s 2015 account of how labor linked arms with Occupy.
Support the Resistant Cities project — and the production of work that is wholly human, free of AI, and independent of corporate interests. www.gofundme.com/f/resistant-...
Donate to Resistant Cities: Writing Residency Fundraiser, organized by Michael Gould-Wartofsky
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June 10, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
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It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
January 24, 2026 at 7:05 PM
It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
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This is who ICE murdered. A VA nurse who dedicated his life to helping critically ill veterans.
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
January 24, 2026 at 7:41 PM
This is who ICE murdered. A VA nurse who dedicated his life to helping critically ill veterans.
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Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
January 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
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My heart is so heavy right now. It shouldn't take another murder to get people to wake up. The stacks of Black and brown bodies weren't enough to convince you?
January 8, 2026 at 5:36 AM
My heart is so heavy right now. It shouldn't take another murder to get people to wake up. The stacks of Black and brown bodies weren't enough to convince you?
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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
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A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
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they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.
January 7, 2026 at 6:08 PM
they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.
ICE just executed a woman, likely an ICE Watcher, in cold blood. Like the murder of George Floyd, this is an act of war and the whole world is watching.
January 7, 2026 at 6:31 PM
ICE just executed a woman, likely an ICE Watcher, in cold blood. Like the murder of George Floyd, this is an act of war and the whole world is watching.
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Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 7, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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The death toll is now 80? I know the pandemic made life cheap amid mass death, but 80 dead is staggering
Other people are real and the United States should not murder them
12+ hours later we finally get an estimate of how many Venezuelans were killed
January 4, 2026 at 9:55 PM
The death toll is now 80? I know the pandemic made life cheap amid mass death, but 80 dead is staggering
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12+ hours later we finally get an estimate of how many Venezuelans were killed
January 3, 2026 at 10:56 PM
12+ hours later we finally get an estimate of how many Venezuelans were killed
We are in a new age of Christian nationalism — one powered by American militarism, propelled by anti-Muslim revanchism, and turbo-charged by anti-Black racism.
BREAKING: Trump says the U.S. struck Islamic State targets in Nigeria after he said the group had targeted Christians in the country.
Trump says US struck Islamic State targets in Nigeria after group targeted Christians
President Donald Trump says he launched a “powerful and deadly strike” against Islamic State forces in Nigeria, after he spent weeks decrying the group for targeting Christians.
bit.ly
December 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
We are in a new age of Christian nationalism — one powered by American militarism, propelled by anti-Muslim revanchism, and turbo-charged by anti-Black racism.
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part of me wants to write something reflecting on this deranged year and another part thinks living through it once was enough
December 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
part of me wants to write something reflecting on this deranged year and another part thinks living through it once was enough
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“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
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News stories about the concentration camps we run in foreign countries have to be smuggled to a third country in order to be seen.
December 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
News stories about the concentration camps we run in foreign countries have to be smuggled to a third country in order to be seen.
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WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night
December 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night
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The entire american "free speech" panic was about elites being criticized, which is why anyone who ever took it seriously should be ignored forever
Freedom of speech, in the liberal ideal, was about limiting the power of the elites.
Now, in this twisted form, it is about forcing us to listen to elites and silencing the masses.
Now, in this twisted form, it is about forcing us to listen to elites and silencing the masses.
December 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The entire american "free speech" panic was about elites being criticized, which is why anyone who ever took it seriously should be ignored forever