My friend @donforohio.bsky.social who’s running for Congress in Ohio was arrested by police while speaking at a demonstration yesterday. This is suppressing 1st Amendment rights, whether anyone’s running for office or not, especially when he handed over his bullhorn www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...

try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

The boat strikes are still happening, and SOUTHCOM is now referring to them as “applying total systemic friction”

One day, @laurenrprather.bsky.social is going to ask you to embark on a joint research agenda. It’s very important that you say yes 🤝 Thrilled that our first collaboration is out in the world! 👇👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This afternoon at 4pm (ET) here in Ann Arbor and online!

mill's dedication: this is a jointly authored work a century & a half of male editors: mill exaggerated out of a sentimental fondness for his wife mill's letters: no, really, most of "my" work was partly by her, i really could not be clearer on this

How are unarmed & armed resistance movements organizing amid strong headwinds, & why is in-person organizing still critical? I reflect on this at Global Policy at a Glance @ucigcc.bsky.social, extending my remarks from Tufts' Institute for Global Leadership last month. ucigcc.org/blog/protest...

Next Thursday I'm looking forward to discussing my book When Rebels Win (@cornellupress.bsky.social) at the @umich.edu Center for Emerging Democracies with comments from Justine Davis. Will be hybrid, so Zoom attendance is available with registration! ii.umich.edu/emerging-dem...

Tehran is the 24th-most populous city on Earth

Now imagine people’s lungs. Black rain has fallen over Tehran after strikes on oil facilities, coating streets and rooftops in dark, oily water. “The rain is actually apparently saturated with oil,” CNN reports.

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

The enemy gets a vote? The enemy? You gave him a vote?

The government of Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian described the killing of the supreme leader as a ‘criminal attack’ that would not go ‘unanswered’. Follow our live blog for more updates and analysis: ft.trib.al/8j6wHWI

Remember back in the 2010s when Twitter was going to bring down regimes. Instead it just turned them all into shitposters.

Exclusive: Prior to Iran attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei would be replaced by hardline IRGC elements if killed, sources say reut.rs/4l9SCAs

My book—No Option But Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate Crisis—comes out today! It's the result of 3+ years of research and 150+ interviews with 100+ activists and experts.

"This time, [USAID] programs that survived the initial purge precisely because they were judged to be lifesaving are slated for cancellation...the administration will soon end all of the humanitarian funding it is currently providing [to] seven African nations...

Mehdi, a construction contractor, said he feels unable to get on with his life. “We’re stuck between a regime that won’t give up and the US and Israel that won’t back down,” he said. “You can’t live with this level of uncertainty.” www.ft.com/content/c8f3...

OpenAI has a lot of explaining to do, and might want to start by revealing to authorities what responses ChatGPT gave during interactions with Van Rootselaar.

Well, this is a bit of a plot twist.

🚨 If you're free Monday, don't miss @timep.bsky.social's next event, featuring a brilliant line-up of the region's thinkers and doers. It'll bring into conversation the 2011 protests with later forms of organizing, including the 2019 wave and more recent Gen Z protests in Morocco.

These 3-yr drops are stunning. Absolutely stunning. New Orleans: -55% Baltimore: -60% Philly: -60% Chicago: -40% Buffalo: -55% Pittsburgh: -50% Albuquerque: -40% Newark: -40% San Antonio: -55% Portland: -45% The media coverage of these staggering drops, tho, is staggering in its relative silence.

Notable in the State Department's new sanctions announcement for a Nicaraguan prison official that the US is now referring to it as the Murillo-Ortega dictatorship, highlighting Rosario Murillo's increasingly personalized grip on power www.state.gov/releases/off...

I really enjoyed talking with Lindsay Shingler for the @ucigcc.bsky.social Talking Policy podcast about my book When Rebels Win (@cornellupress.bsky.social) and its implications for contemporary conflicts & policy responses

They found a Gaudí!

Argentina, 1978: “The armed men who roved the city were at once secretive — driving cars without license plates and obscuring their faces with women's stockings — and brazen, abducting people off the street in broad daylight… daring bystanders: Acknowledge you've noticed us, see what happens.” 1/

‘The goal has been to demystify’: how a colonial Nairobi library was restored and given back to the people

Surge pricing for plasma

Hadn't made the connection before now that the UN standard for investigating potential extrajudicial killings is, in fact, called the Minnesota Protocol www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Impunity is still the order of the day for police violence during the estallido social in 2019-20 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

This is a travesty. African and African Diaspora Studies at UT Austin has been one of the best programs in the country. And for historical context, this is explicitly about reversing the gains of student movements in the 60s and 70s. www.statesman.com/news/educati...

Horrifying report www.kut.org/politics/202...

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 We're hiring a Teaching Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics! Come join a great department: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/312... I'm on the committee, so send any questions my way. #polisky #academicjobs

Big news from Ecuador where Guayaquil Mayor Aquiles Alvarez, who has been a critic of President Daniel Noboa, has been arrested on corruption charges. Alvarez has decried the charges as political persecution apnews.com/article/ecua...

Our campus newsletter @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social has a short writeup on my new @cornellupress.bsky.social book When Rebels Win news.ucsb.edu/2026/022359/...

The depths of the cuts to metro, sports and foreign and the elimination of the entire photo staff suggested the cuts were deeper than ~~just~~ 30%. Good on the Washingtonian and the DC Guild for getting the real numbers out.

🎙️ In our new podcast, produced in collaboration with the @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Galo Mayorga and @kaimthaler.bsky.social discuss how state weakness, militarized security policies, and public fear are reshaping Ecuador’s democracy. 🇪🇨🇪🇨 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/y5zyn6jp

Candelaria Garay (@candelariagaray.bsky.social), Jessica Rich (@jessicaajrich.bsky.social), and I co-edited a special issue of World Development on the policy consequences of social movements in the Global South. [1/3]

As Prof. Moncada explained, the "narcoterrorism" label unjustly collapses drug trafficking, illicit economies, and political violence into one category. This framing aids the justification of everything from maritime strikes to regime removal, illustrating how language can legitimize coercion.

South Carolina measles outbreak reaches 789 cases, surpassing Texas. The ongoing outbreak is the largest since measles was eliminated in the country 26 years ago. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

La estrategia de estrangulamiento económico de Cuba prosigue. En ausencia de valedores en la escena internacional (queda por ver la posición de China), la pregunta es cuánto puede resistir el régimen. ¿Se desmorona, se quiebra o muta en gobierno títere? elpais.com/mexico/2026-...

Note that this is being done at a time that Noboa, a Trump ally, is President of Ecuador

I guess we’re adding the Vienna Convention to their list of broken international agreements

Strong choice by the LA Times editor who went with “overseer” on the front page

Our latest deep dive with Hunterbrook Media (@truth.bsky.social) is about one of the five richest owners in sports: Robert Pera, of the Grizzlies and Ubiquiti. An NBA owner said, "No one knows where their sales come from." The answer involves Russia's drone war in Ukraine: youtu.be/s6i4uffZvhc?...

New: Family members of two men killed in a U.S. missile strike against a boat near Venezuela filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Boston today, alleging the pair were murdered in a "manifestly unlawful" military campaign targeting civilian vessels. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Veterans Affairs Sect. Collins finally put out a statement regarding VA nurse Alex Pretti's death. Link and screenshot (with alt text) x.com/SecVetAffair...

holy shit, Xi purged Zhang Youxia. that's pretty much a clean sweep of PLA senior leadership at this point.