Another holiday in the books.

PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book! www.versobooks.com/products/303...

extremely powerful reference point for my syllabus at a certain Jesuit university next spring 🫡

ANYWAY I get to go take a train out of the city today so that’s more than enough politics posting for one morning 😌

okay and then what happened

It’s true. Only place in America Democrats ate shit that night—and they really did, it wasn’t close—was the place our state party chair calls home, and where the exact kind of Democrats he likes were running. Makes you think!

I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social about @alybatt.bsky.social's new book—which, I argue, shows how the critique of political economy can allow us to clearly name the social cause of climate catastrophe: capital. lpeproject.org/blog/when-na...

🔎 We used the results to make an interactive web map that allows people to look up how the property wealth in their own metro area (or any other) is fragmented across different local municipalities. This tool visualizes tax base fragmentation across the US—check it out: www.taxbasefragmentation.net

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

thank you for supporting striking Starbucks workers, Comrade Hilary Duff

took awhile to explain to my parents how trans kids are not A Problem and that there is a medical consensus the paper was blatantly ignoring. been having to do the same re: meds too. it’s so damaging because people see their shit as credible

i like to think i’m a little more level-headed with my nyt criticism than most on here. but the masthead has a history of running stories with strong anti-psychiatry framing + loose editorial standards whenever rfk jr. gets going about SSRIs. feels similar to what they did with trans kids

found in a 1956 compendium of public library records (tldr, for research purposes) and ... that's just a wild way of phrasing things

In Defense of Bowling Alone

Get ready, folks: Brazilian BlueSky's gonna be LIT today.

Hey all! I hope you come to New Orleans for AALS 2026. I know @brianlfrye.bsky.social and I would love to see you. If you are going, stay at the Loew’s rather than the Hilton. ICE is currently terrorizing New Orleans’ immigrant communities, and they’re staying at the Hilton Riverside. 1/2

NEW: The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of NY immigrants' rights volunteers organizing court watch+ labeled activists “anarchist violent extremist actors.” Joint FBI/NYPD report shows law enforcement accessed private planning convo of ppl monitoring ICE Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org

Comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, a regular court watcher: “This FBI surveillance tactic is ripped straight out of the J Edgar Hoover playbook. Observing immigration court...is a legal and non-violent act, unlike the ICE abductions we have witnessed regularly for months outside of the courtrooms"

typical New School goings-on 🫡

‼️ may I interest you in The Originalism Trap by yours truly www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735353...

Y’all make sure and come by this event today if you’re in New Haven. Going to be a banger. @samuelmoyn.bsky.social @stevevladeck.bsky.social @ryandoerfler.bsky.social

if you'll be near Union Square/around Manhattan midday, stop by an informational picket at The New School: show solidarity and join those fighting against attacks on critical scholarship and organized labor in higher education.

incredible, no notes

well, the cat's out of the bag. and thanks to TNS AAUP's statement, a lot more to discuss about the political, anti-worker, anti-student impetus for what are—no matter what TNS leadership may claim—concrete steps toward closing NSSR and many other critically oriented programs at the New School. 1/

If you haven’t picked up a copy of Police Against the Movement yet, what are you waiting for? Essential for anyone who studies civil rights, political movements, surveillance, or policing.

Star Trek is always so relatable. I’m human and I also don’t have any money…

If you follow my work you know that I often ask my audience to support my journalism. This time, it's different. My fiancee's mother has been diagnosed with stage IV cancer. She's on fixed income and we had to relocate her to Dallas for care. She needs your help. www.gofundme.com/f/extend-pat...

oh yeah the new york city subway is so fucking scary, you never know what kind of weirdo you'll have to share a train with

and again, for the afternoon crowd:

Hey this seems bad. Solidarity with faculty and staff at A&M.

TT job here at UMass in 20th cen African American history; application deadline is December 1; more info here: careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... 🗃️

I'm going to keep banging on about this, so if that's bothersome, mute it; no harm, no foul. but I know a lot of you out there are faculty elsewhere, with deep feelings, strong opinions about faculty governance and The Problems Of Higher Ed: I assure you, it's just as much your fight as it is ours.

well, the cat's out of the bag. and thanks to TNS AAUP's statement, a lot more to discuss about the political, anti-worker, anti-student impetus for what are—no matter what TNS leadership may claim—concrete steps toward closing NSSR and many other critically oriented programs at the New School. 1/

destruction comes for The New School "The university's cycles of austerity+consolidation, betray a pattern where we are all being asked to work more for less, and at the expense of students and workers. We must stand together." docs.google.com/document/u/2...

The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.

I will be offering a graduate seminar during the winter quarter on the politics of civil disobedience, nonviolence, and civility (and its critics). If you know any graduate students who might be interested, please let them know! www.humanities.uci.edu/critical/cte...

I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.

But with the power of the federal government and taxpayer money being leveraged to fight culture wars in the conservative way, you're going to see this eventually happen in blue states and cities everywhere, in court rooms and city councils. Arlington is just a microcosm of it all.

Tonight, Arlington City Council voted to table discussion of this until Dec. 9. No story from me, but here's a quick thread of stuff other people have reported that's important context.

AAUP TV — WEDS, NOV 19 @ 7 PM ET! Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel, and Todd Wolfson, AAUP President, will discuss the historic victory in AAUP v. Trump and what it means for the UC system & higher ed! @proftwolf.bsky.social @veenadubal.bsky.social Tune in on IG or YouTube (link in thread)!

hilariously niche (and on-target!) spam email; wow, good work, Lily.

Join us tomorrow for a very timely conversation on municipal power in NYC! The event starts at 6:30pm at CUNY Law.

As I told the Columbia Journalism Review, this swatting incident occurred just before I published an investigative report that unmasked the operators of four major neo-Nazi accounts on X. I don't think the timing was coincidental. www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...

These records indicate that someone successfully impersonated the FBI in order to get me swatted. I was already aware this had happened but had to wait nearly a year to get the document that proves it. My reports to the Dallas Police Department about this have gone unanswered.

Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance