Deporting undocumented immigrants only gets to 22% in this YouGov poll. 6/

Ellen Meiksins Wood: "Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature." Join us for the 2026 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture @arts-tmu.bsky.social w Rosa Luxemburg NYC on Wed. Apr. 22. — Lecturer TBA at 2026 Progress Summit. Stay tuned! 🔗 broadbentinstitute.c...

more people lived in the Maya lowlands than on the Italian peninsula during the peak of the Roman empire – all crammed into an area a third of the size but the 1950s "law of environmental limitation” held that lowland rainforests, with thin soils, simply could not support large advanced societies…

First English-language coverage I have seen of what, boring as it might appear from the headline, is a massive ongoing story in Brazil.

"In more than two dozen interviews with community leaders, lawyers, security specialists and bereaved relatives, the Guardian pieced together the story of the bloodiest day in Rio’s modern history" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Junior Pena, a Brazilian social media influencer known for openly supporting ICE had previously reassured his followers that only “crooks” were targeted by immigration crackdowns. #leopardsatemyface #Politics #News

A disastrous fishing trip in 1950s Guanabara Bay tests the bond between friends in the Brazilian cartoonist’s The Lights of Niterói (Fantagraphics, Mar.).

HOJE, das 14h00 às 19h00

Coffee and groud beef... humm.. better don't tax Brazil next time.

The impact that Indigenous art had on European and American artists is well known—but lesser known is the influence of Europeans on Indigenous artists. Many major exhibitions are now exploring this phenomenon, Susan Tellman writes.

Just finished Herbert Marcuse’s Counterrevolution and Revolt. Really prophetic book from the Nixon era about how left-wing movements can move on when there is no clear political agent for progressive change and far-right authoritarianism is on the rise.

Intelectual e militante pioneira do feminismo negro no mundo, Léila Gonzalez, nasceu neste dia em 1935. Seu legado, invisibilizado na academia, nos ajuda a entender o capitalismo tardio e a tripla opressão de raça, gênero e classe na América Latina.

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Do a deal with them in this context? These people are rotten on the inside.

Let me predict what "ideas and projects" the "scholars" associated with this "center" are going to come up with to "help academic institutions regain the public trust": kill higher ed unions, turn everyone into an adjunct, ban ethnic and gender studies, and sell the classroom to AI companies.

📚Join us for the book launch of a major new contribution to authoritarian politics, unveiling fresh evidence on how factional dynamics shape legislative power across dictatorships ✍️Author: Emilia Simison 🗓️25 Feb 2026 ⏲️13:00 – 14:30 📍51 Gordon Square 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

We know what we saw.

Very much looking forward to this - Silicon Empires by @nsrnicek.bsky.social is the best book I've read on the political economy of AI

ATENÇÃO, povo de Salvadolores. Nesta segunda, às 11 h, será colocada a placa de sinalização do sítio arqueológico Cemitério dos Africanos, homenageando os malês que ali foram sepultados. Este ato abre uma nova fase daquele que será um dos maiores processos de reparação histórica no Brasil. Vamos?

We’re looking for scholars who can write CLIO ER articles for the following topics: mutual aid, comparisons between MN and previous moments, and reduced vaccine uptake. We will also accept any other pitches you have! Pitch submission instructions below nursingclio.org/write-for-us...

Christopher Hill added a new dimension with his study of the radicals in the English Revolution, the Levellers, Diggers, Seekers, Ranters, and Quakers who wanted to “turn the world upside down.” Hill treated them as thinkers and wrote an intellectual history from below.

The Lula government is developing a project that will allow the public to directly influence the drafting of the federal budget. The initiative, called the People's Budget (Orçamento do Povo), aims to encourage citizen participation in the allocation of public funds.

What a treat to come across this article in Monocle about @charcopress.com (@jacquiwine.bsky.social got me hooked on their publications last year). monocle.com/culture/book... One of the many fab links in @bookjotter.bsky.social's weekly wind-up of #bookish ephemera. bookjotter.com/2026/01/10/w...

It has been an honor to write this essay with @erinrpineda.bsky.social. It introduces our South Atlantic Quarterly's special issue on the criminalization of dissent, on which we have been working since March 2024. Forthcoming in October!

From 1961 to 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote an annual essay for us. In 1965, he wrote about the power of demonstrations and the "legislation written in the streets." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The PT (Workers' Party) was the party that grew the most in Brazil in 2025. Most other parties shrank during that period.

From 1961 to 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote an annual essay for us on the state of civil rights and race relations in America. In this piece from 1966, he wrote about economic justice as the next struggle for the civil rights movement. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Lula on the recent geopolitical crisis: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

The documentary "Yanuni" profiles Indigenous chief Juma Xipaia, who has survived six assassination attempts while defending her land from illegal gold miners and deforestation.

A wide-ranging UC San Francisco study found that sky-high rents are forcing people into homeless. Middle- and working-class tenants need urgent help. They need rent control.

The scale and speed of state censorship of campus really is amazing. More than half of America's college students attend institutions in states that have passed laws censoring higher education since 2021. From @penamerica.bsky.social pen.org/report/ameri...

How does DH travel outside the academy? What impact and what careers do DH skills enable? CFP for our next excellent (and necessary) book in the DDH series, edited by Jeanelle Horcasitas, @lisaironcutter.bsky.social, and @kallewesterling.bsky.social dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-dh-...

I predicted this would happen with greater frequency in schools and districts.

Scientist Spotted 🦏 Advait Jukar, Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology here at the Museum, quoted in a National Geographic article about woolly rhino tissue recovered from the stomachs of mummified wolf puppies in northeastern Siberia: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti... 🐺🐺

‘Brazilian and Argentinian beef and soybeans are beginning to be settled in renminbi. Could the US dollar lose its “exorbitant privileges” as the world’s dominant currency? Better to nip bad tendencies in the bud.’ Mimi Jiang on the Chinese perspective on Venezuela. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...

Sharing this digital security zine from friends at @18millionrising.bsky.social 18mr.gumroad.com/l/DigiSecTra...

A good review from Owen Hatherley of Mark Smith forthcoming book Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991

Latino voters powered Trump’s comeback. Now they’re turning on his economy.

Check out the FIRST episode of our new podcast, “Unite & Win,” with @haymarketbooks.org. We cover the intro lesson from our organizer’s handbook, explaining organizing, unions, the NLRA, card check, and more. If you’re new to labor organizing, this is the place to start! 🔗👇

A delight to host @renatakeller.bsky.social for ep 83! We talked her book The Fate of the Americas (@uncpress.bsky.social), including how she wrangled 20 countries' stories. She also let me pry about the challenges of writing thru the loneliness of new parenthood draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

Is China doing "colonialism" in Africa? Here I argue that equating China’s activities in Africa to Western colonialism/imperialism is not only empirically incorrect, it trivialises the extraordinary violence of the latter. It is a form of denialism. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/is-china-d...

Venceu Wagner Moura, então venceu o Esporte Clube Vitória. Saudações rubronegras.

Trump’s so-called “Golden Age” is seriously screwing American workers, according to the latest jobs report. trib.al/N82JkNN 2025 was the... → worst year for hiring since the Covid-19 pandemic. → weakest annual job growth since 2003.

I wasn’t sure they were going to publish this. So good for them.

The U.S. withdrawal from a whole host of international organizations, and in particular climate-related ones like the IPCC OR THE UNFCCC), removes the most powerful obstructionist force within them, which may enable them to finally hit the necessary stride. open.substack.com/pub/nilsgilm...

Excited to share strategies for teaching Latin America in World History! Kari Zimmerman, co-ed. of this fabulous work, chairs our 1:30 panel. I've a co-authored chapter in the book & will get to see it "live" at #AHA26 @clahistorians.bsky.social @thewha.bsky.social uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/U/Unde...