My first primary PhD advisee just got a postdoc offer and I’m SO DAMN PROUD

Lawyers & human rights activists are urging US immigration authorities to release Leqaa Kordia, a 32-y.o. Palestinian woman detained since Mar. 13, 2025, after participating in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza. Kordia was in the process of securing legal permanent residency when she came...

Am I going fucking crazy?? He is the VP of an administration who deported or revoked the visas of thousands of people over antisemitism! They made universities pay hundreds of million of dollars and pledge to address antisemitism on campus! They threw a person in detention for an op-ed!

Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.

Over at Social Science History, Ioana Sendroiu & Mitchell Stevens put together a special issue on the Cold War - a fruitful topic for convo between sociologists and historians. My short response to their attempt to build a new theoretical framework here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“Post-neoliberalism today is not engaged in a war of ideas or an insurgency against institutions, but is instead doing the status-quo stabilization work that think tanks have performed for decades”

All the centers they’re cutting add up to less than $7 million in spending. UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

Happy to share the CFP for next year's Social Science History Association conference under the leadership of Ho-fung Hung - "Decentering Modernity." Proposals due by March 1 - details here: ssha2026.ssha.org

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Brown University mass shooting, FBI deploying resources (per NBC)

If you’ve gotta work on a Saturday, it should be learning from the very impressive research of our @hpe-project.bsky.social grantees!

Following along at @hpe-project.bsky.social to hear about the awesome work our grantees are doing!

Cool job alert, apps due soon!

Heading up to Boston for our 2025 @hpe-project.bsky.social grantees research conference. This year’s theme is ‘Two, Three, Many Developmentalisms,’ and we have keynotes from Sarah Bellows-Blakely and Joel Suarez.

US forces have intercepted and seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that marks a serious escalation of tensions between the two countries. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Stunning admission from Trump in his Politico interview. He confesses he knows almost nothing about the drug trafficking of the guy he pardoned even though he helped bring 500 tons of cocaine into US. Trump also reveals his narcissism makes him easy to manipulate: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

New on our blog: a wide-ranging interview with HPE grantee @benchansfield.bsky.social on their monumental book, Born in Flames www.hpeproject.org/blog/firestorm

Border Patrol Raided Arizona Medical Aid Site With No Warrant, Showing Growing “Impunity” theintercept.com/2025/12/02/b...

You're getting a LOT of asks today - I am too. But as US imperialism in Latin America ramps up once again, we need @nacla-report.bsky.social more than ever. We're trying to raise $5K today. You can donate here: nacla.salsalabs.org/2025EoYDonat...

That our university leaders do not feel deeply embarrassed by the way they are being so transparently manipulated by bad-faith actors demonstrates the extent to which they agree with the substance of these anti-intellectual right-wing critiques

The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza. The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.

B’Tselem presents: Our Genocide Thursday, November 20, 2025 4:30-6pm Silver Center, Room 300 31 Washington Place B'Tselem will come to NYU to engage in a critical conversation about its new report & its implications.

Candidate for the center-left coalition in Chile wins 1st Presidential round in election, but with a narrow lead and in the runoff many predict the 2nd round voting would tend to favor the far right candidate running, of course, on 'crime' and 'Tren de Aragua'. www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025...

Putting out the word to any NYU PhD students who might follow me on here - I'm co-teaching Social Theory and History: Histories of Capitalism with Manu Goswami next semester. Happy to send the syllabus that Manu developed if you're interested!

Season 7 launches 🔥 by reflecting on "What Zohran Can Learn from Latin America's Pink Tide" - with some insightful analyses on the challenges for the Zohran administration , and what leftist-governed cities in Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil +Ecuador have to teach us open.spotify.com/episode/75Oo...

Last call for registrations! Join us tomorrow at NYU to talk about the independent press in Mexico.

a really key point here. Cuomo's attempt at gutter Islamophobic race baiting failed because Dem voter opinion on Israel-Palestine has shifted more than 70 points since 2023, and he somehow didn't notice prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...

GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE

The way my neighborhood erupted in audible cheers when it was announced 😭😭😭

Thursday at NYU Law! No one better to hear from about our current moment than Aziz Rana. Open to the public, but registration required - RSVP here as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

It’s Denmark, there are Marxists, we’ll take it 💕

New York! Come see Dr. Andrew Paxman in conversation Columbia Journalism's Judith Matloff about his new book Mexican Watchdogs: The Rise of a Critical Press since the 1980s - Tues 11/11 at 5:30pm at NYU. Open to the public, registration required: forms.gle/oq1qoS8RrDZQ...

Ok, it's not exactly Danish Marxism, but there are some Danish (post)Maoists and Fourth Internationalists in here! My new article on the overlooked Copenhagen riots at the 1970 World Bank/IMF annual meeting is out, open-access, in Journal of Global History.

Last week @lpenyc.bsky.social did an event on the political economy of NYC, "How NYC Became So Unequal" with @llchristyll.bsky.social, @masonbwilliams.bsky.social, & Gregory Louis & it was everything you hope an event will be--informative, entertaining, energizing! WATCH IT!! youtu.be/B8beobsDZfU

Historians of Haiti: does anyone have digitized copies of La trouée: revue d'intérêt général? Asking for a student! Thank you! cc: @soccerpolitics.bsky.social @juliagaffield.bsky.social etc

Excited for this event on Policing and Counterinsurgency ft @chenjerai.bsky.social, @stschrader1.bsky.social, & @cheatherton.bsky.social next Thursday at NYU! Info & RSVP here: as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

In 1975, after decades of illegally surveilling & sabotaging left-wing movements in the US (and assassinating people abroad) the Senate painstaking wrote out the government's playbook for destroying movements. In January, the first commercial and streamlined version of this report hits bookstores.

Nominee to be the Office of Special Counsel, ie., the guy federal employees must appeal to if they think they have been treated unfairly

It’s the first known case of a federal raid near a migrant shelter since Trump took office.

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

Excited about the first @lpenyc.bsky.social Night School event of the new academic year, now at @cuny.edu Law — with @masonbwilliams.bsky.social and Gregory Louis in conversation with @llchristyll.bsky.social!! RSVP below!

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Then on October 23rd at CUNY Law, the first session of LPE NYC Night School will look at the question of how things got so unaffordable and unequal in the first place with Gregory Louis and Mason Williams, moderated by @llchristyll.bsky.social lpeproject.org/events/nyc-s...

Publication alert! The Rise and Fall of Private Advocacy Forums co-authored with Grace Ballor Part of a special issue "Global governance and the emergence of a post-neoliberal order" edited by @llchristyll.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social Quinn Slobodian academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

“An interminable crisis of hiccups and vomiting” couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy

Join us for the NYU History Marilyn Young Memorial Lecture by Moon-Ho Jung, with comment by @stschrader1.bsky.social. Tues Sept 9, 3pm in NYC. RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“‘The others seem to be weak. We want someone who’s got kryptonite,’ said Bernard, who runs a computer consulting company. ‘You need an almost-felon to beat a felon,’ he added.”