I’ve come to understand that a lot of it comes from deceiving senior citizens open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

@geraldo-cadava.bsky.social with an amazing piece on what it's like to be in Chicago in the age of ICE www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

I don’t know how to make it matter but I want to pay a lot more attention to the people who refuse along the way than the little fascists destroying everything. The student editors, this fired director. People who rise to the ethical challenges before them, for no glory.

Give this piece a few minutes. The water is nearly boiling. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-... Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

And another beauty just arrived! Congrats @m-r-glass.bsky.social!

A blistering piece by Penn historian Ben Nathans on the dangers of Trumps’s Faustian compact www.thedp.com/article/2025... Benjamin Nathans | Autonomy or obedience | The Daily Pennsylvanian

OPINION: "Signing on to the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education offered by the Trump administration would end the school's ability to determine its own future." — The Inquirer Editorial Board

good read even if you are not in uva networks

Price Lab exec committee member @brentcebul.bsky.social and Mike Glass are in the Journal of American History on FHA housing and segregation

“‘The compact represents a total violation of academic freedom, shared governance and an open democracy,’ [AAUP-Penn president Jessa Lingel] wrote. “So now we'll get to see what kind of university we have—one that stands up to tyranny or one that capitulates.” www.thedp.com/article/2025...

And, as promised:

@aaup.org won its case against the State Department's attempt to terrorize non-citizens and deprive them of their First Amendment rights

Excited about this. Like that gerrymandering board game but for school boundaries.

This is the secret the Trump regime tried so hard to keep about the Dallas ICE shooting The names of the dead and wounded Jose Andres Bordones-Molina Miguel Ángel García-Hernandez Norlan Guzman-Fuentes Fight Trump's dehumanization. Say their names. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dall...

Educators fear that reducing doctoral students, if this continues over several years, ultimately could mean fewer teachers for undergraduate students, less research and less innovation. (1/2)

I'm not a member of the AHA (@historians.org), but if you are and if you care about the scholasticide unfolding in Gaza, please consider signing this resolution: 🗃️ qmemey.clicks.mlsend.com/tb/cl/eyJ2Ij...

“In 23 years at Harvard and 15 as a tenured professor, I have seen a lot of tenure cases. While there have been other denials I was sorry to hear about, I have never been at such a total loss to explain Harvard’s decision,” said History professor Mary D. Lewis wrote in an emailed statement.

Great reporting by student journalists. www.thedp.com/article/2025...

I've seen the great historian Anne Gray Fischer say a few times that state violence is a permission structure--it gives an implied green light for civilians to attack the same targets as the state. It's the point at which "civilian" violence becomes "state-sanctioned" violence.

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support: • 404 Media • Defector • The Flytrap • Flaming Hydra • The Appeal • Aftermath • Racket • Hell Gate • The 51st • The Colorado Sun • Range Media • Discourse Blog • Pop Heist

“The most dangerous element in our society may well be hopelessness. In an era of political realignment and contested ideas about the nation’s future, there are far too many Americans who can’t imagine any kind of future for themselves.” Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/m...

I mean this sort of seriously. Nobody remembers anything. The past 40 years have only been historicized in the most meager sense of the word. Everything feels like a rupture, feels unprecedented, feels disorienting precisely because there is no past.

Calling all housing-brained people! You have the shocking opportunity to work w Ruthy, my absolute green housing queen—so smart, so knowledgeable, so fun!!! We need to rebuild the future of housing. Lfg! Please share widely and consider applying! 🌱🌹🏢

Lily Hu @bostonreview.bsky.social on polling's death grip on US politics www.bostonreview.net/articles/how... "the data-centered approach to politics has drawn ever tighter boundaries around what it takes to speak knowledgeably about politics and so in turn who can be entrusted to direct it...

fascinating piece on France's strategy to fix crisis of housing affordability hammering European cities. you'll never guess, but it's the state building more (social) housing, to great outrage of institutional landlords, real estate lobbyists and FT's American readers www.ft.com/content/76fb...

I spoke with the NYT Magazine a while ago but have now heard that an editor said they can't quote me because I'm "too liberal" to be a trusted source. You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"? My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.

Tenants rights advocate Chelsea Kirk brings our analysis of the failures of supply side housing incentives up to date: "Far from delivering affordability, efforts to accelerate private development...fuel speculation, inflate land values, and displace tenants" www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/loo...

Tenants rights advocate Chelsea Kirk brings our analysis of the failures of supply side housing incentives up to date: "Far from delivering affordability, efforts to accelerate private development...fuel speculation, inflate land values, and displace tenants" www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/loo...

Great piece from @brentcebul.bsky.social and Michael Glass on the limits of subsidy-driven housing development www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/add...

Terrific and clarifying conversation on @thedigradio.bsky.social with Ian Gavigan on labor and the politics of universities www.patreon.com/posts/138288...

Some more abundance discourse, in which Trevor Jackson lowkey ices Klein and Thompson www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Hi everyone, I'm here (finally!). But better late than never, right? Thrilled to launch this project with @brentcebul.bsky.social !!

Mike Glass and I argue for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social that we’ve tried the #abundance incentive-based approach to housing crises before. But lack of oversight + incentives produced fraud, profiteering, and inflated rents -- and the Trump family fortune. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/add...

I am happy to share the news that my book The Black Tax was named the winner of the Lizabeth Cohen Prize for Best Book on Cities and Political Power and received an Honorable Mention for the Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book in North American Urban History from the Urban History Association

Congratulations, @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social! (And congratulations on the new job!) 🗃️

Keep in mind that organized academic workers, not administrators, accomplished this.

For the past three years, the city has been giving cash to some struggling renters, no strings attached. The first-in-the-nation experiment has been even more successful than researchers studying its impact expected.

unlike national politics, Philly schools are full of people who give a shit, who give far more than a shit, and it's appalling that we are failing them and our children so badly.

My article, “‘They Attend Strictly to Their Own Business’: Disability and the Construction of the Worker-Citizen” is now up on APSR FirstView!

The incoherence on display here would be laughable if he wasn't still treated like some kind of liberal oracle.

Yuppies has a cover! And a release date! Out May 12 with @harvardpress.bsky.social.

Some important precedents seem to have been set here. Remarkable reporting. www.chronicle.com/article/josh...

To hold off fascism, we need to do more than resist. We need to learn from history, and build a *charismatic* state, with civil servants working hand-in-hand with working class communities to make lives better. @ear2thepavement.bsky.social nails it! www.currentaffairs.org/news/make-bu...

The U.S. spent over $100 billion on contractors in Afghanistan. Where did the money go? Two books reveal, in different ways, the waste and corruption of America’s military in the twenty-first century.

This is a fantastic piece, and it's especially nice to see some of the arguments and scholars from Mastery and Drift included in the analysis. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/m...

This is a fantastic piece, and it's especially nice to see some of the arguments and scholars from Mastery and Drift included in the analysis. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/m...

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.