Solo show, opening next week!

My book comes out in a week. To thank people who have pre-ordered it, I have offered to mail a free bookplate, personalized and autographed, to you...and now, there are fewer than 10 left! Get the last ones by sending me your address & ordering from whever you like docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The NYU contract faculty union spent 15 months negotiating our contract with the university, culminating in a week of intensive all day talks and a final 30 hour bargaining session. Vance left Pakistan after less than a day.

"Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Afeef and I reported on this crisis two weeks ago… it has only gotten exponentially worse theintercept.com/2026/03/22/b...

This is the wildest thing I’ve read in months. Really feels like we are living inside Cosmopolis. harpers.org/archive/2026...

It is historically normal for terrorists to go after the moderates who might dampen a conflict.

It’s not that they’re doing this kind of shit because they’re sure they’ll be pardoned. It’s that it doesn’t even occur to them to consider that it might be illegal. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

A surprise to no one who was on campus and paying attention the last two years. www.cair-ny.org/news/3/19/26...

We’ve all been watching the deposition videos of the callow and arrogant DOGE boys unable to justify their destruction of valuable scholarship. The same carelessness and stupidity put this man and his family in terrible danger www.propublica.org/article/doge...

On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.

One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.

The Dept of War just asked Congress for an additional 50 billion dollars. And at the same time, the state is policing what kinds of food SNAP recipients can purchase. fREeDOM!!!

So now the most careless people in history will have fully autonomous weapons that use janky AI to pick targets: Altman joining Hegseth to commit war crimes.

Hey just following up on this

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

Teachers cannot teach and students cannot learn when everyone is frightened of being ratted out for exercising their constitutional right to speak about "controversial subjects" (which,we all know, is the point).

Rümeysa Öztürk: I want them to know how many of us tried, with our small hands, to stop the wars. One day, they might. They may grow up to read what we write and share. They may know someone heard their screams and held space for their grief.

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

Shortening Manufacturing Consent as Man Con, and it works

Does Vance think he is Charlemagne? Who in the year of our lord 2026 calls paganism an existential threat??? This is really bizarre.

But the poor widdle hospitals say they can’t afford a fair union contact. @nynurses.bsky.social

Local Fox News reporting on the tear-gassing of a baby. www.fox9.com/news/childre...

This is an unbelievable headline

and as a video

New column today: zeteo.com/p/trump-us-r...

Minneapolis.

The weak response from Can, EU and UN to Trump's flagrant crimes in Venezuela is striking. It exposes that much of the world has been cowed. Most notable exception: the Latin American left. That is why the Trump Admin has gone to enormous lengths to defeat the left across the continent. 1/3

The Trump Administration has started an illegal war against Venezuela. Join us for a mass call to discuss how Democratic Socialists of America is responding and what you can do to resist this illegal war. RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/hands...

Always proud to call Kim Phillips-Fein a colleague. Great piece here. It brings to mind Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s condemnation of the logic of recruiting & building wealth so that its crumbs can fall downward on the regular people: “Philanthropy is the private allocation of the stolen social wage.”

Coming May 19, 2026 from Amistad Books and HarperCollins THE OVERSEER CLASS: A Manifesto by Steven W. Thrasher cover art by Jamaal Barber Available for pre-order now www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...

listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win

One of my favorite secularism researchers, Dena Abbott, has an important book coming out (that many very smart people—and very average people, like me—wrote for). Go preorder it now! www.bloomsbury.com/us/culturall...

I love the @metmuseum.org. It enriches the lives of NY’ers and visitors from across the world. That’s made possible by the people who make the Met run — the curators, educators and museum workers seeking to join @uaw.org Congrats to Met Museum workers on filing for this historic union election!

🇵🇸Next CAHE's "Mapping Anti-Palestinian Discrimination" series with @jvp.bsky.social and AAUP/AFT Local 6741 focuses on law and higher ed policy since 2023. Join us on 11/13!🇵🇸

TURN 📣 THE 📣 VOLUME 📣 UP

This person took this when they called the race

"The opposition to the war against Palestinians has become a hammer to destroy academic freedom. Whatever your position might even be on Palestine and Israel, you have to acknowledge that this is the mechanism that’s being used to reshape higher education.” — Bill V. Mullen, AAUP/AFT Local 6741

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

Souvannarath is likely a citizen, ICE kidnapped him, he filed habeas, a judge ordered he not be deported, and *the next day* DHS deported him. DHS told the press they didn't get the order, which is undoubtedly a lie and will be perjury when they say it to the court. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Wow, Mamdani ends with FDR's words "I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master." DAMN, BOO!

Full writeup in the Guardian, which posted before midnight New York time—more than ten hours ago.

Former Columbia Provost Jonathan Cole asks the university to bravely admit where it was wrong: www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

Anyone actually shocked by this? www.politico.com/news/2025/10...