So proud to see my friend @stschrader1.bsky.social front and center on the website of the New York Review of Books right now

“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? 😬

Exactly this. Corey Booker is a disgrace.

Black folks and immigrants have long lived in a "perogative state" when it comes to law enforcement, and maybe pundits at the largest national outlets should recognize that their past support for punitive policing and immigration enforcement laid the groundwork for the current moment.

I'll be doing this online event on Venezuela with Steve Maher and @llchristyll.bsky.social next Wed January 21st at 7:30pm. Thanks to Fred Murphy and the Marxist Education Project for organizing! marxedproject.org/event/venezu...

Jonathan Ross was a firearms trainer and led a team that included multiple federal agencies. All this training didn't stop him from shooting Renee Nicole Good. His training *facilitated* the shooting. No amount of training will solve the problem that ICE is a violent ethnic cleansing squad.

As I was saying last night at the AHA, there is a right-wing history to this rejection of multilateralism - it’s the culmination of a long movement of ‘the United States in Opposition’

It’s incumbent on elected Democrats to outline a plan that drastically reorganizes DHS, ICE and CBP with discipline imposed not just by regs but by budget and liability exposure. Literally the job of an opposition party. The “enhanced trainings” response reflexively mouthed by some Dems is a joke

ICE shot a man in Glen Burnie and the story they told was contradicted by: 1. ICE’s own photos 2. Bystander video 3. Lawyer for another immigrant at the scene 4. Anne Arundel County Police Now ICE is revising its story. The latest from Alex Mann: www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

It’s imperative that all members at the #AHA26 come to the business meeting tonight at 5:15 in the Hilton Continental Ballroom to exercise our democratic rights as AHA members

“imagine a cheery BBC news report in 1938 breezily asking "which countries could be in Hitler's sights after the Sudetenland?"

Looking forward to this great (all women!) panel on US-Latin American relations history today at #AHA26

Re-Post - The Global Turn of American Policing w/ @stschrader1.bsky.social We've unlocked our episode with Stuart Schrader on the evolution of American policing and how it got to this point. Link in the replies.

Want to learn more about what’s going on in Venezuela? Check out this curated guide from NACLA (cc @llchristyll.bsky.social @gabrielhetland.bsky.social): nacla.org/a-curated-gu...

The scholasticide continues, and @historians.org won’t even listen to its membership and bring it up for discussion at our upcoming meeting. Shameful.

The Jan 6 riot was successful. Maybe this will put to bed the constant admonition that "riots don't work."

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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...