My new article in the journal American Communist History explores shoeworkers unions as a phantom limb of radical, independent unionism that the CP snuffed out in 1924, and how one can trace this history through 1930s' dissident communism. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MVHQS...

Allison Krause, 19 Jeffrey Miller, 20 Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20 William Schroeder, 19

This bald eagle flew onto the top of a telephone pole next to two fishermen and eyed their catch. They were totally oblivious. Read “Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native.”

This morning I found the first record of Boat-Tailed Grackle for Rockland County, NY. Sound on if you want to hear something really annoying.

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges. /w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

Deep Space Ten

So you admit that cops’ job is to brutally slaughter people who present no threat to them? Interesting!

“Marxism is far richer than Rockhill would like it to be. Marxism has always been a diverse and contested field of inquiry and abolitionist activity.” Interesting review that accepts many of Rockhill’s empirical claims but finds fault in his analysis. marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2262...

Office workers rally again amid contract talks for pay to fit inflation yaledailynews.com/articles/off...

Please contribute to this. I had the pleasure of briefly meeting Idris Robinson once and his work is amazing. He is being unjustly harassed by his university for his support of Palestinian resistance. www.givesendgo.com/GKRFR

BREAKING: Texas State Fires Professor over Palestine Speech Philosopher Idris Robinson is being fired for having principles. He gave a talk on Palestinian resistance. He would not condemn it. Over a year later, TXST terminates his tenure-track contract. But he's fighting back.🧵

"Philosophy professor Idris Robinson has sued Texas State University officials, asserting that the school violated his constitutional rights by ending his contract after he gave a talk on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict off-campus in another state..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

War is climate violence.

ICE Releases Leqaa Kordia www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/n...

Trump called for the US military to use US cities as "training grounds" to prepare for overseas wars. From Minneapolis to Iran, we face the same enemies. Rival warlords attempting to assert control over collapsing empires—that is becoming the dominant form of governance. crimethinc.com/IranWar2026

Fuck this!

When we say no war but class war we mean that no one in Iran is poisoning our water or stealing our wages or kidnapping our neighbors. And the people who are? They're spending our money on killing Iranians

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

Random question: does anybody know of a way to access episodes of the 2002 VH1 show Music Behind Bars? Asking for an (incarcerated) student.

between "kid in the brown hoodie who's going to punch you in the face" and the "wine mom" torching a warehouse with lighter fluid, it's been a good weekend for new characters

We are sailing to Cuba 🇨🇺. Join us: buff.ly/nxJTwSK

I don’t think I fully appreciated how absurd this sentence is the first few times I read this book. Walter Johnson is an extraordinary writer.

My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.

The idea that there are going to be American Nuremberg trials, that state and municipal law enforcement will turn on the DHS SS, that the democrats will somehow save us - all of this is pure delusion. We cannot rely on the state to save us. The state will dance on our mass graves.

Kiddies who made it out of the ICE dungeon report sighting a schoolmate. Before this, the school district had no information on their whereabouts. The family has now been connected with a lawyer. Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!

Rana Jaleel, Vineeta Singh, Andy Hines, Dan Nemser, and Annie McLanahan on the University Keywords edited volume at Public Books www.publicbooks.org/defending-th...

My employer in the news again www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

Mood in minneapolis right now

"WHAT ARE WE? A BUNCH OF *WHITE* PEOPLE??"

BREAKING: San Francisco Giants star Jung Hoo Lee has been detained by CBP at LAX. Pelosi's office says she is working to secure his release. www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant...

Today did break me, entirely. So much ICE swooping through the neighborhood all day, beginning with 5 mins after I posted that below. I’m not interested in doing numbers off other people’s pain so I won’t write what happened. Just hold your people close.

Incredible.

Had no idea

The single most credulous thing I have ever read www.politico.com/news/magazin...

It’s very funny that there is a band called Geese and also a band called Goose and they are entirely distinct musical projects.

There is no bottom to ICE's depravity.

"During an extraordinary hearing in Federal District Court in Boston, Judge William G. Young, a Reagan appointee, called Mr. Trump an “authoritarian” ruler who was failing to live up to his responsibility to uphold the First Amendment."

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l... between his insistence on platforming fascists and this latest move to AI-generated music, it’s wild how bad David Rovics’s political instincts are

Passive revolution gets the goods

“People are getting kidnapped where they work. People are getting taken away when they're cleaning snow out of their cars. My son's school, 25 people, only r people showed up yesterday. People are afraid to do their groceries. People are afraid to go to work. “We are not safe. We are under attack”

Yo dawg we heard you like war crimes so we did a war crime while doing another war crime because we have no reason to thing anyone will ever hold us accountable www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...

NEW: It appears billionaire Bill Ackman has donated $10k to a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Good. Ackman has reposted the fundraiser but hasn’t posted about his own donation.