if you thought México losing meant Los Angeles would not be blasting fireworks you would be wrong

The newly formed coalition US Scholars Speak just published an important and powerful statement titled “Confronting the AHA’s (@historians.org) Palestine Exception.” Fellow historians, please consider signing it if you haven’t already done so. 🗃️ www.usscholarsspeak.org

The PA spent the last 20 years providing security cooperation to Israel, after a decade of diplomatic concessions, and the response to the end of active fighting in the West Bank from 🇮🇱 has been to massively accelerate settlement construction and completely foreclosed on the possibility of a 2SS.

Please consider ordering my new book BLUE POWER from @redemmas.org today, to support legal defense for Prairieland and Minneapolis defendants. redemmas.org/titles/48838...

Its so cool how trans people get treated as nothing more than proxies in all these internecine beefs, often specifically by the people claiming to be supporting our rights by using us as tools.

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

Kagan points out in the dissent here that Alito is too much of a coward to even put Trump’s supposedly non-racist statements in his opinion.

There’s been more elite Democrat anger at Democratic primary voters than outrage over the life imprisonment of anti-ICE protesters — including a couple whose only offense was printing zines. Look at what they choose to talk about with the media and what they ignore. It’s revealing!

"i'm a committed catholic. also i waited six years to baptize my child"

Alternative @nytimes.com headline: "A Jewish Democrat's Criticism of Israel May Win Him a NYC House Seat."

Can confirm Fatboy Slim was with us

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

I keep saying this: the reason [academic] didn't get hired is not that [woman or minority scholar] took their job, it is that 'their job' ceased to exist. The person in the line retired in 2010 and the department lost the fight to get the line back in 2014. No one 'took' it, it's gone.

‘“I no longer consider Columbia University a safe place to work for Jews who dare to dissent from the political agenda of its most ardently pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian donors and trustees,” wrote Joseph Howley, a classics professor, in his claim.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It’s driving me a little insane seeing all the LA housing developers talking very cogently about the government dysfunction and delays that make new construction cost-prohibitive, and then saying “that’s why putting the reality TV crystal dumbass in charge of this complex system will fix things”

man, university libraries are amazing. you can just ask them to help get some obscure thing and they're like "doing that is actually our job, not only are we good at it but also we are excited to make this happen for you"

Burn After Reading ass op

I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing

Indistinguishable from 1870s Redeemer rhetoric about "Negro misrule" and the like.

I wrote about a city being set in motion

Back in the early '70s, my late Mom helped prevent the widening of the street we lived on, 6400 block of Glenwood Avenue. South of there, the street is widened and it's much more dangerous, with speeding drivers.

Prof. Derek Peterson, U of Michigan historian & MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, thanked “pro-Palestinian student activists” during a grad speech today, for “opening our hearts to the injustices and inhumanity of Israel’s war in Gaza.” His words, and the cheers that followed made my heart sing.

Don’t worry guys, we’ll solve this with the next student protestor they throw the book at, the next center for western civilization, the next task force on antisemitism, the next commission on free speech, the next censure of a trans TA for giving a bad grade…

The Bronx Still Burns The borough’s arson wave in the 1970s was caused by financial forces and political priorities that continue to hold power in New York City. dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

Extreme heat kills over 500 New Yorkers each summer, when crowded, shadeless neighborhoods become furnaces and pressure-cookers. No borough is more vulnerable to heat-related deaths than the Bronx.

And the dystopia that the separation of press and state is at least as important as the separation of church and state, and here was the press servile before an exceptionally criminal brutish representation of state.

My review of @benchansfield.bsky.social’s brilliant history of arson is now unpaywalled @dissentmag.bsky.social:

This is disgusting.

Zoe Leonard: I want a president who’s been to a corner store

Put yourself in shoes of someone in a oil & gas importing country Its triage: which hospitals get fuel, which industries shut, which crops get fertilizers? Those who don't have deep pockets in a bidding war pay in increased hunger, lost wages and shrinking economies. tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWesleyan

- Increases and prolongs reliance on fossil (so next crisis hurts even more) - Often doesn't pass through to consumers (fossil co's just pocket it) - Benefits enjoyed more by the rich (who drive bigger cars longer distances) - Decreases gov't revenue so you end up paying for it in different ways

People are understandably very mad about this, many of whom are academics that I think should look at whether there are perhaps people in their field or department operating similarly.

One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one!

I do think that those lawyers and law professors who tried to fabricate a historical or legal case against birthright citizenship should be socially and professionally ostracized for their shocking cynicism and intellectual dishonesty as well as for their bald hostility to pluralist American values.

"I'm the last person who deserved x" is just the main motivating force behind all of American politics. Ladder pulling at every level.

If I were a vast imperial power I would simply not become so hubristic about my military might that I become embroiled in a prolonged asymmetrical war with a weaker power who's fundamental willingness to stick it out means that they can bear not losing for longer than I can afford to not win.

Are there any problems in the country right now larger than the words people to your left are using

When you are involved in a labor union one of the most surprising things you learn is that management is often more interested in control of and power over workers than narrow financial concerns.

Here's my review of @historianheather.bsky.social's excellent new book FEAR AND FURY in @jacobinmag.bsky.social. Many thanks to Meagan Day for the edits, and many thanks to Heather for writing yet another monumentally important book.🗃️ jacobin.com/2026/03/goet...

Civilisation has been in a moral and artistic nosedive ever since they made it possible to play as Bowser in Mariokart, and win races for evil

Students love fancy facilities, sports programming, and name brand recognition, but when asked, most point toward interaction with engaged professors who help them learn how to think and evaluate the thinking of others as the most transformative and important part of their college experience.

Karen Bass could have short-circuited this nonsense any time in the last 3 years by having the agencies & commissions run by her appointees issue needed clearances/permits in accordance with the law. Instead she’s letting one of the worst NIMBYs on the Council kill 120 funded & approved apartments.

From the weekend: Why it makes sense that housing is where Trump and Mamdani can find common cause and how Mamdani and LA's Nithya Raman and seeking to upend a half century of urban housing politics and a decade-long fight on the left. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Holy shit: the guy who cut millions in grants because they were DEI cannot form a coherent explanation of what DEI is bsky.app/profile/lmrh...

For a president who ran for office promising to keep the United States out of wars, Trump has already launched attacks during his second term in: Ecuador Iran Iraq Nigeria Somalia Syria Venezuela Yemen and on civilians in boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.

Everyone who rolled their eyes at “the gulf war didn’t happen” owe Baudrillard an apology

Why is the city of Los Angeles stopping affordable housing during a housing crisis?