ICE and/or police murdered someone this morning in Biddeford, Maine. From the statements I’ve seen from local activists, I *think* the victim was a young Black man. You may already know Black immigrants are the largest non-white immigrant demo in Maine. A protest is already under way.

BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.

“Paraguay’s head coach, Gustavo Alfaro, has a haggard, agreeably soulful look, a 63-year-old itinerant Argentinian with a belief in deep, throbbingly morbid defensive football, who has also talked at this World Cup of the duty of the sport to represent the poor, the people, the anti-Fifa.”

Who funded every business venture Elon Musk has launched? US taxpayers, involuntarily. What have they gotten from the investment? Nothing whatsoever.

Jesus. 68,900 reported missing in Venezuela.

The Court of Appeal judgement on Palestine Action is frankly bonkers. It says PA is not "a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes operating transparently in the open." Right: the arson, bombings, slashings etc were all planned in open meetings in Parliament Square 🙄🧵

So proud of the newly minted Dr. Lucas Azambuja, who defended his fantastic JHU sociology dissertation today that explains why fractions of the Brazilian capitalist classes aligned and de-aligned over Bolsonarismo. He starts a postdoc at Tulane very soon - New Orleans, look out!

Received the official notice of tenure at NYU, which means I’ve now been tenured in both sociology and history. I really don’t recommend that anyone else attempt this ridiculous undertaking, but I’m really grateful to my students, colleagues, and mentors who got me here.

The Trump administration will not rest until every elite institution has purged itself of black people. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Hey, I have books to give away! If you picked up BLUE POWER and would like a copy of my first book BADGES WITHOUT BORDERS, reply with a pic of your copy of BLUE POWER and I will send BADGES WITHOUT BORDERS to a couple of you! (The dog is not yawning due to the book contents, I promise.)

Grateful to @bradlander.bsky.social for coming out to stand in solidarity with NYC’s organized & fighting faculty - including those under attack from their own admin at the New School - on this May Day ✊

Trying not to be totally gutted by this week’s retirements of both Steve Hahn and Barbara Weinstein, two of the best mentors and colleagues I could imagine. Some massive shoes to fill at NYU in their wake.

Quite a venue for a book talk, @quinnslobodian.com

So excited for the first BLUE POWER event tomorrow (Tuesday) in Baltimore! Events now planned in Philly, DC, NYC, Seattle, and Chicago, all listed here: stuartschrader.com

The push for institutional neutrality, like the so-called “free-speech crisis,” was always a right wing ploy to get universities to stop pointing out obvious things like “fascists are ascendant” and “racism is bad.” It is sad that so many university “leaders” took the bait.

Congratulations to my pal @stschrader1.bsky.social! His new book Blue Power - which Ruthie Gilmore called a ‘tour de force’ - is out today!

Today! Join us!

personally I think "Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn" is a bad thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

New York! We're bringing @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social to NYU to talk about his new book on self-determination - April 14 at 4:30pm. All are welcome - registration/info here: www.nysean.org/events/the-f...

Cuba has some of the most highly educated medical professionals in the world. But America's barbaric blockade is causing serious pain. @llchristyll.bsky.social stopped by the Bitchuation Room to talk about how the embargo is disrupting essential medical care in Cuba.

It was great to join @franifio.bsky.social to talk about my recent trip to Cuba, what the US is doing there, and why the right-wing influencer set is freaking out. You can watch here: www.youtube.com/live/JpjOlRA...

Live today talking ICE chuds at airports, Cuba blackouts with @llchristyll.bsky.social, and Cori Bush's resurgence with... @coribush.bsky.social! Watch LIVE on Youtube, Substack, or Twitch at 1pm PT / 4pm ET! ✨ youtube.com/live/JpjOlRA...

The 2026 @hpe-project.bsky.social grant competition is now open! PhD candidates and early-career scholars doing work on histories of neoliberalism are welcome to apply by April 5 for research work this summer. Details and application: www.hpeproject.org/grants-cfp

This obituary makes it sound like he was criticized by polluters and jealous peers, not those who pointed out the links between the movement he sparked (ZPG) and eugenics, the very politics that have delivered us “mass deportations now” and untold border violence www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/b...

A former top Chevron executive was super tight with Delcy Rodriguez. He told the CIA to back her instead of Venezuela's democratic opposition,. The agency told Trump. Now Ali Moshiri is ready to cash in. He's raising $3 billion to get back in Venezuela's oil game. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Yes, that’s the issue. I’ve been trying to find a way to articulate this: to the extent that LLMs serve a purpose in education, it’s an indictment of the education system, not a praiseworthy feature of LLMs.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...

This looks so fun 👇

Abolish ICE has a +11 approval — which means it is *32 points* more popular than Donald Trump Ask yourself: does corporate media portray that accurately?

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

RIP to a truly unique and inspiring intellectual

What the fuck

Didn’t think the first NYPD power struggle would start over literal snowflake bullshit

"Just 2 percent of all college students—including 3 percent of Republicans—say they feel they don’t belong on campus due to their political views."

“The middle class already pays taxes on its wealth in the form of property taxes. The wealthy don’t, since most of their wealth consists of financial assets, which are exempt from property tax. In the 19th century, by contrast, property taxes of most states fell on all assets, real and financial.”

Books do not bring drugs into prison. Prison guards bring drugs into prison.

The reactionary centrists who took seriously and platformed the moral panics over DEI and critical race theory seriously helped this along. And now that fanatical zealots are banning “world-views” and Holocaust education they are mostly quiet.

What on earth

“The federal invasions are usurpations—but not necessarily of police authority,” @stschrader1.bsky.social writes. Instead, they have “become opportunities to...further weaken the already fraying democratic constraints on police power.”

This article briefly previews my forthcoming book Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, out in April from @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social. You can preorder it w/ the discount code BLUE20 here: www.basicbooks.com/titles/stuar...

How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

Your weekend long read: Local cops and their union bosses have welcomed - and in some cases invited - Trump’s federal takeovers of US cities. @stschrader1.bsky.social traces this alarming synthesis of local & federal power for The New York Review archive.is/G1Bnh

We have created an impunity machine, and invited and incentivized terrible people to join it. Abolish the whole damn thing.

Obviously far from central here, but when Bondi says "don't you ever accuse me of a crime" she sounds exactly like Parker Posey doing the "hotel manager" bit

I'm just a historian here noting that the US has a long history of playing up supposed incursions to justify the invasion of Mexico... www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Instead of train cars, we'll have semi truck trailers of people being loaded into concentration camps where they'll race substantial likelihood of dying from neglect, malnutrition, disease, and murder.

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.bsky.social is tracking warehouses ICE is considering buying to convert to detention facilities. Find one in your state & stop the sale.