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.

Can we get to 4500 letters to NY City Council by tomorrow? It only takes 30 seconds: actionnetwork.org/letters/city... - Also if you've already signed, can you please get 4 others to do the same?

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.

Well, let's give it a shot again and see what we get.

Bunroe Doctrine

Two years ago, a secret meeting by some AfD members with Sellner rocked the party because ”remigration” was discussed. Today, Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, calls for remigration regularly on his social media platform. That’s how quickly the normalization has happened.

Would be interesting to compare the results on more recent models - but this problem won’t go away. LLMs are always going to be extrapolating from what has already, and often, been thought, which is why they aren’t windows to the future but anchors to the past.

I know this is kind of spitting into the wind, but I'd like to make an effort: Just because ICE calls them "administrative warrants" doesn't make that the most accurate term for them. They are forms. ICE forms. Signed by an ICE employee. Authorizing an arrest, but still, a _form._

Renee's killer: 19-year USBP/ICE veteran Alex's killer: 8-year USBP veteran Marimar's shooter: 23-year USBP veteran.

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

This is an insane chart

As someone who has spent over 35 years trying to explain that violence is inherent to policing only to have most people be OK with this, I could be excused if I decided to just give up. But I'm not. I knew we would be where we are today. I still think that we do not have to live like this.

Spoiler alert: this kind of discretion is the bedrock of *all* policing

Abolish Border Patrol, too

An independent autopsy of Renee Good reveals that she had 3 gunshot wounds: to the left arm, right lung, and left temple that exited the right side of her head. That means the third shot, the most unlawful one, from the side, likely killed her. abc7.com/post/minneap...

Cuba next: "In meetings with Cuban exiles and civic groups in Miami and Washington, they have focused on identifying somebody inside the current government who will see the writing on the wall and want to cut a deal, one U.S. official said." www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Stop using ring cameras! Ffs. futurism.com/future-socie...

Davos gave us globalism and now offers a front-row seat to its collapse. With Grace Ballor, we examine both its historical momentum and weaknesses. academic.oup.com/ser/advance-... In an issue on the post-neoliberal order by @quinnslobodian.com @llchristyll.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social

This is tonight!

Maybe we can still debate when the terminal crisis of US imperial hegemony began, but we are now very much in it, uh, this week. Who is ready for a new systemic cycle of accumulation? 😬