OnlineFirst - "Sea lice or subsistence? Peasant multispecies justice in the plantationocene" by @nickcopel.bsky.social and Marco de León: #multispecies #peasantstudies #foodsovereignty #criticalagrarianstudies #anthropology #Guatemala #estuaries journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

All this hate for migrants when nothing transforms a culture more than capital. No amount of immigrants will ever change America, the capitol of capital, more than America transforms immigrants into American businesspeople, citizens of money. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

someone should ask Trump if he thinks we should also go to war with Afghanistan

Indigenous actress Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... Sea Lice or Subsistence? Peasant Multispecies Justice in the Plantationocene.

Trump is more interested in drafting off Mamdani's popularity than the Democratic leadership

Trump is threatening to take everyone down with him. With the massive exception of attacking Venezuela, I’m all for it

After No Kings, momentum was building for a national strike. Brandon Johnson and many others called for one. Dem leadership channeled strike energy into the shutdown, narrowly focused on healthcare, only to predictably cave. But sellout senators cannot shut down a national strike.

abolish the senate

These same Senators and others behind them will also oppose DC statehood, Medicare for All, expanding the court, ending arms shipments to Israel, raising taxes, abolishing ICE, and ending the filibuster, etc. if and when Dems get control

this is payback for Mamdani winning

remembering that time Obama talked the NBA out of striking in 2020. oh, no reason

look, they needed to *something* to undo the momentum from last week lest folks get too excited about Mamdani and the possibility of a livable future

‘The US military is now carrying out extrajudicial executions on the high seas of people who in the past would have been put on trial and, if found guilty, given a federal prison sentence. Gone is any semblance of due process.’ A.S. Dillingham on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

Purely coincidental that Venezuela and Nigeria are major oil producers

coming to the hard realization that I can't vote for Mamdani because I live in Virginia

Albanese: “This is not a peace deal, this is not peace! It is unacceptable… start investigations of the architects if the genocide, then reparations to the Palestine” and end the occupation.

I see a growing convergence between Miller and Trump's desire to shut down major cities through military occupation and raids; mass deportation and public sector layoffs; and intensified repression; and, on the other hand, desperation on the left fueling the shutdown and calls for a general strike.

Learning history is moderately hard so we just make shit up

Don't worry guys, I have a genius plan to stop political violence. Step 1: Make elite consensus be that the mild peaceful disapproval be treated as equivalent to violence. Step 2: Have the government openly violate the law in a manner which proves it nonbinding. Step 3: Crash the economy.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Read this new account of conditions in non-CECOT prisons of #ElSalvador, the U.S. government's closest ally and "model regime" in the Americas. This is the behavior of a state. A U.S.-aligned state. adamisacson.com/el-salvador-...

What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

READ: By September 30, the White House plans to reclassify 50,000 federal workers and assign allies to key roles. This widespread expansion of Trump’s de facto political army will have brutal effects on the crackdown against Palestine in higher education. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/impe...

Ahem

Redistricting is awakening Democrats to the fact that Trump will permanently annihilate them. They'll lose the "redistricting war." Knowing this, will they continue their war against the left, rather than forging a popular movement to end oligarchy and build a just and sustainable future for all?

Sometimes I think of how only two generations of us were even allowed to attend these settler colonial ass universities in tiny, awkward handfuls, and how even that was too much

The main difference between Mar-a-lago and Epstein’s Island is location

how did so many dipshits write so many great and moving songs?

My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Local news organizations have been the best lately. Not an accident

Pam and Kash know full well that their boss is a rapist and they’re covering for him. Let that sink into popular consciousness

Trump slapping tariffs on Iraq is the chef's kiss of imperial amnesia

I imagine at least one of the Texas families who lost children in the flood will sue DOGE and Trump for illegal cuts and impoundments

ICE will be a jobs program, UBI for MAGA voters

what will they do with an infinite budget?

We already have the largest per capita mass incarceration system in the world. These detention facilities are on top of that. This is how dictators talk and think.

denaturalization sounds like a sleazy voter suppression tool

Watching this administration is like having people break into your home, threaten your family at gunpoint, start a fire, and steal your $ and Rx medicine, and the whole time, your teenage son is cheering, handing them jewelry, and begging them to steal his college fund and beat up his sister

what's happening to Mamdani has convinced millions that it is indeed time to globalize the intifada

how does it feel knowing that your country is supporting genocide every day? not just a little bit: sending weapons, blocking UN resolutions, pressuring the media to tamp down coverage, persecuting people of conscience who refuse to be silent?

70 percent of people under 30 think the US is “a total fucking joke”

we have a system that gives billionaires everything but refuses to deliver the 10 things that most people desperately need, including getting rid of billionaires, and only offers ordinary people revenge against other ordinary people. politics in this cage has broken our brains, too

should a constitutional law professor and former president have anything to say about the recent supreme court ruling? didn't think so

July 4th theme: funeral

the moment is dire. faced with unchecked white nationalist authoritarianism, the democratic party has a stark choice. shift left and throw all their institutional energy into building a mass movement for green social democracy, or watch as trump and miller consolidate nazi/confederate power forever

this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?

complicity with Israel's starvation and daily murder of Palestinians in Gaza should disqualify anyone from ever holding a position in government, yet in the US, it is a precondition