When Bernie Goetz shot four black teenagers on a New York subway in 1984, much of the city—and nation—cast him as a heroic vigilante. Two recent books reexamine that history. @charlotteerosen.bsky.social reviews “Five Bullets” and “Fear and Fury.”

In 1984, Bernie Goetz shot—and nearly killed—four black teenagers on the New York City subway. A jury went on to acquit him of the most serious charges. @charlotteerosen.bsky.social reviews two recent books that revisit the shootings—with differing results.

"the humanities went woke in large part because they were broke" do you hear yourself lmao

was deeply uninterested in marty supreme until I learned it was about a quirked up jewish boy

going to start posting here more. Everyone get funnier now!!!

saw the term "Richardsonism" on the TL; if you want to read something actually useful about the phenomena of H*ather C*x R*chardson, may I suggest (in @proteanmag.com): proteanmag.com/2025/01/20/t...

hypothetically if you were a consumer of merch from your favorite radical publisher, what kind of merch might you like to see?

All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov 37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois. This is assault.

ICE gassed members of the Chicago Police Department sent to protect them from protesters

ice has brought far more violence to chicago than was there prior

The assault is horrifying on its own, but then there's the other agent shouting "...or else you're next" while another fixes their face shroud.

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

They’ve roughed up and arrested people for trying to get in ICE’s way. That’s more than complicity. The state of IL is not resisting, it is culpable.

In Broadview, IL this morning outside Chicago— Federal agents have kidnapped hundreds of immigrants in recent weeks. Outside the ICE processing center here, protesters are gathered for another Friday morning demo. Last week's ended in tear gas and arrests. ICE vans periodically rolling in.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

They can call it whatever they want, but by setting up a "Unified Command" to handle crowd control at Broadview, the Cook County Sheriffs and the Illinois State Police are performing security work for ICE—something that is not supposed to happen in this state.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

state police just arrested a person for sitting in the street. looks like the isp swat team is onsite too. this is protecting free speech, right?

good morning from the ice detention center in broadview, illinois. these regular friday morning protests have grown in size and intensity since ice began its deportation surge last month. masked ice agents in cars are coming/going. broadview police on scene helping ice navigate through protesters.

State of Illinois now doing the goons' job for them.

After the Civil Rights era, racism became legally defined by explicit intent, allowing systemic violence to hide behind insurance “risk” assessments. This piece argues that Ansfield’s "Born in Flames" exposes this racial capitalism. @charlotteerosen.bsky.social in @proteanmag.com

not that anyone cares but all I meant w/ this was like yeah ofc these moves represent a crude effort at capital accumulation & broader attempt to cement radical right wing ideology as normative, but it matters for our organizing that this sentiment is not straightforwardly "mass"

This is essentially the same thing that happened during the Red Scare in the ‘50s. How long before teachers are required to sign loyalty oaths? How many more people’s lives have to be destroyed before we’re tired of “rooting out” undesirables?

"The Radical Cringe of 'The Pitt'" by Charlotte E. Rosen lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Missed the Emmy Awards last night? Here are LARB's reviews of the nominees and winners to catch you up!

See below for a post-Emmys reading list, courtesy of the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social! Featuring brilliant essays on THE PITT (by @charlotteerosen.bsky.social), WHITE LOTUS (by @cinementalist.bsky.social) & SEVERANCE (by @jordanrbrower.bsky.social) (plus something partly sorta on THE STUDIO by me)

Absolutely fucking insane

maybe I'm stupid and naive but I feel like the desperate media moves to the right (the bari weiss / cbs stuff and the kimmel stuff) are not actually reading the tea leaves right. I think a broad swathe of the American normie public yearns for woke

Here it is, the call for submissions for my next anthology, ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK: Stories and Strategies from a Movement to End the AIDS Crisis, to be published by @haymarketbooks.org! Please forward widely!⚡💕⚡💕⚡ Here's the link to the call: www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/other

the discourse about the Death of Criticism is interesting, but none capture why I became so captivated by reviews and why I see them as my medium of choice: the best criticism draws out and interrogates a text's normative politics, helping to decode its relationship to power

Curious how the Abundance movement holds up to historical analysis? Leave it to @charlotteerosen.bsky.social to break it down. "Born in Flames makes for a refreshing, historically grounded retort to a recent wave of anti-regulatory rhetoric...the 'Abundance' movement."

for @proteanmag.com, I reviewed @benchansfield.bsky.social BORN IN FLAMES, which I found an instructive text for taking a whack at the Abundance movement™️ proteanmag.com/2025/09/07/i...

New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.

The inimitable Ruth Wilson Gilmore (@rwgilmoregirls.bsky.social) is going to be at @haymarkethouse.bsky.social September 11, in conversation with Barbara Ransby. Come through! www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Palestinians are writing their stories, documenting both the horror of the war and the resilience of the people. Young people and Gaza elders are recording testimonies—narrating their stories for the world to read.

people love to claim racial capitalism isn't a good analytic and then as evidence describe something that is quite literally explained by a framework of racial capitalism

representation matters

shoe repair guy let me take my shoes and come back and pay him in cash later ... the only guy actually living in a society

IU is also cutting Gender Studies, Geography, and Statistics Purdue is cutting Comp Lit, Art History, and Health Sciences Ball State is cutting PhDs in English and Educational Studies This is an academic massacre. www.in.gov/che/files/In...

This is Nazism, straight up. The Gas Chambers were an end point, not a definition. "Most of these were listed under the category as having had their citizenship revoked, usually either due to being Jewish, political opponents of the Nazis, and/or having emigrated out of the Reich."

“You know,” he said, “I’m not, like, a psychopathic ax murderer.” No, he just provides the legal and moral justification and constantly articulates the timely necessity of ax murdering!