I’m sorry but be serious www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A monstrously comprehensive nearly three hour long episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social examining the economic warfare dimensions of the US-Israeli war on Iran and Iran’s asymmetric response with Aslı Bâli, @yarbatman.bsky.social, and Nicholas Mulder. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/econ...

LA people, go see Thordis's incredible work.

I may be mistaken, but I believe I am the first person working off the tenure track to win this award in its half-century existence. I hope this will help put to rest the myth that historians struggle to secure permanent teaching positions because their work is inadequate.

I am extremely excited to share that my book Make Your Own Job received the 2026 Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians. It is a real honor. www.oah.org/2026/03/26/o...

1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal. It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.

Story has almost no details, but I would love to know how this would not be an Antideficiency Act violation.

It’s not strange. Grown Americans in positions of power & authority called the police on to campuses, and threatened the future work and livelihood of 20 year olds because they dared to stand against the mass bombing of women and children. And they will never forget it.

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

My latest:

Another good day for juries.

A thousand NYU contingent faculty went on strike Monday and today they have a real contract with real security in one of the most expensive places on earth

120 Harvard Jewish Affiliates Condemn Justice Department Antisemitism Lawsuit www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Blur turned down a fortune to license this song for the U.S. military but they let Verhoeven use it to promote Starship Troopers (it’s not in the movie)

"The real solution to uncompetitive elections in Massachusetts is ranked-choice voting, in which people can vote for multiple candidates in order of preference, and voters don’t have to guess which of their favored candidates is actually viable." #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/23/o...

sometimes it really feels like a whole bunch of (mostly rich and powerful) people have completely given up on culture. which makes the average person’s resistance to slop even more compelling.

This has been a LONG time in works: my paper on how dollar hegemony is a form of international law-making power. It includes a long methodological/theoretical section on why strong versions of the 'law constitutes political economy' aren't convincing papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Incredible scene: Travelers wait on hours-long security line at George Bush International Airport in Houston while Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” blasts through the speakers. (video shared directly with me)

So it has begun

New, from me.

NYT reporting that their campaign failed

This is an effort to turn the Minnesota rapid responders into criminals. If Democrats make this deal, they will send me, and many others like me who have been out protecting the community, to jail.

Awful. A teenager, dead by suicide in an ICE detention center. There is now a crisis of suicide inside the detention system; I have never seen anything like it. Suicide has happened before, but they were very rare. This is the third or fourth this year.

Remember Google Search? Damn. That was actually pretty useful.

When the "here's how Congress can fix the Supreme Court, including term limits for jsutices and adding seats" op-eds are coming from relatively normie Democrats like Sean Casten, something is changing in The Discourse thehill.com/opinion/judi...

Every article I read about sports betting--and the McKay Coppins piece is an excellent one--just makes me more and more convinced that we need to ban this scourge. And that we shouldn't sleep on Murphy v. NCAA in the pantheon of Terrible Roberts Court Decisions. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Thoughts on Jean-Luc Godard's film criticism willsloan.substack.com/p/against-ri...

Boston-area people, film event of the spring: brattlefilm.org/movies/castr...

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

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

Father of six, grabbed in front of his crying children as he was about to take them to school.

I talked to @joshchafetz.bsky.social about what Democrats can do to push back against Trump if they retake Congress The latest for my newsletter:

Late posting this here, but glad to have my @nyulawreview.bsky.social piece “Anti-Domination and Administration” out in print! The paper charts the new state this regime is forging, and offers an account of what a reimagined future state should look like. 🧵 (1/5) nyulawreview.org/issues/volum...

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and this pain will not be equally shared across the university... social research and progressive scholarship are being targeted... and every decision leadership makes worsens the financial crisis as if by design. it doesn't have to be this way, these are choices by The New School top leadership

Check out PPP's @mollycoleman.bsky.social on organizing during political crisis, the limits of courts as vehicles for change, and why community action — not institutions alone — ultimately drives democratic resilience with @kathryn1.bsky.social

Something here that idk how to articulate in a satisfactory way, best I can do: this makes me suspect the phenomenon of the executive summary is not a neutral thing but something that reflects and reproduces some downsides of the society we're in and maybe that's tied to AI's appeal to execs too.

Seriously

I don’t know what to say except that I’m ashamed of my government and officials must be prosecuted for any and all crimes committed.

I had to read this several times to make sure I understood correctly: A bill in Missouri would make it so that if a judge releases a person charged with a crime on bail, and that person commits a felony, the *judge* would be charged with a felony for their decision to release that person

My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):

Taking advantage of fake spring to walk around and listen to the Albini version of In On the Killtaker. Still figuring out what I think but damn what a gift in the midst of so much horror fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

Sally Rooney: "I would like to ask my fellow writers & artists.. not to dwell too exclusively on what we stand to lose. There is another more important side to the story. To join in something greater than ourselves, to participate in.. a struggle for human liberation"

🧵: my latest draft paper ‘The Legal Realism of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is still looking for a law review home 🤞🏽 Here are some brief highlights for anyone interested

It seems like the most obvious thing to say in the world, but people need to be held accountable for the murder of children during an illegal war. Yet any real accountability for this will clearly require a radical political break.

Need a fact check on “growing.”

It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”