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Have to say, it makes you think given that Germany really was in catastrophic economic straits. Whereas we are... not that, in all reality. Almost as if superstructures of racial/class domination could be used to sustain a fascist and reactionary regime for years despite materialist fundamentals.

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

“Mamdani shows how new constituencies are born from taking political risks and made through probing investigation and performative interaction.“

One way to explain why prisons are so big & bad in the US is that weak feds didn't create a post-68 (de)industrial policy, so unregulatable, austere states built racist solutions to structural problems. Now the racist solutions are pursued by fully funded, unregulatable federal cops and prisons.

What are three policy proposals that you heard from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social during his campaign & where do you currently live? [I want to see something/ I allowed QP on this]

you ever think about how this guy is a professor in good standing in elite colleges

University of Toronto law professor David Dyzenhaus, says that Harvard Law professor Adrien Vermeule “moved away from just being interested in [Carl] Schmitt,” a former Nazi scholar, “to actually embracing all dimensions of Schmitt’s theory: both the political dimension & the legal dimension…” 1/

Come out on 11/6 in SF to listen to the preliminary injunction hearing in AAUP v Trump! Show the federal courts that we stand up for academic freedom and will not capitulate! WE are the UC!

People like to repeat the lies that Occupy accomplished nothing but it’s not true. It reduced the shame of medical & student loan debt to a public that had largely bought the idea that Millennials were ingrates to the previous generations. It set a precedent for uprisings against police brutality.

The women married to fascists are usually also fascists. They weren't "tricked" into being with these people. They chose them.

probably a good time for a south asian critical race theorist to write on the sort of ladder pulling we see here

Developed an old roll of film that had one single frame from the 2024 UCLA encampment and man idk if there's a more vindicated group from the last few years than the student protestors, pretty much every single issue they dealt with has since been deployed at scale

“Stop conferring symmetry where there is none. Stop calling capture “jurisprudence.” Stop laundering tyranny as “the [ #SCOTUS] decisions.” Name shadowcasters, not the shadows. Then act as if the govt belongs to the people who live under it—because if we don’t, it never will.” @mikepod.bsky.social 🔥

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

"You want a movement, I hear. We all do. But the question is never “will somebody do something?” They are. We are. Our job is to notice, and to ensure that none of our flames burn out." Also our job is to join in, where we can, how we can, with what we have. open.substack.com/pub/thewhite...

DAILY MEMO: After No Kings Protests, Feds Wreak Havoc in Santa Ana and O.C. Today's video is too long for BSKY, so you'll have to find it here, apologies. lataco.com/daily-memo-a...

“By cloaking naked power in the trappings of the law, the Trump administration channels objections to its behavior into sterile disputes about who has the best lawyers. The longer Americans indulge this preference for the language of the law over morality, the weaker their moral voice becomes.”

On resistance to immigration enforcement and the perils of legalism “many people are acting and thinking in new and significant ways, that it is important to try to understand accurately, that I think the left has important responsibilities here that I think are not being sufficiently attended to“

Today I wrote in @lpeblog.bsky.social with Amna Akbar & @sameer-ashar.bsky.social about how legal scholars & teachers might act in solidarity with movements in this moment, in the face of fascism: lpeproject.org/blog/movemen...

Appreciate thinking with @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social & Amna Akbar again, inspired by resistance movements confronting incipient fascism across terrains of struggle lpeproject.org/blog/movemen...

Now on @ssrn.bsky.social, forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review. “Alas,” I think Akhil Amar’s new book, “Born Equal,” is not a success and I explain why at great length. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

“At the heart of everything Kent did was his unwavering commitment to protecting and uplifting immigrant workers.” www.latimes.com/business/sto...

In a response essay invited by Ohio State Law Journal, co-author Michael Nunn @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social '24 and I address labor activism that embraces bold new organizing models amid political polarization, steep corrosion of the rule of law, and open antagonism toward LGBTQIA+ communities. /1

This article by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on how monopolized corporate control of news content, social media algorithms, the internet, and information itself has enabled the destruction of civic culture is a must read. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o... At the very least, read her closing argument:

Another win for the people: Gavin Newsom signed AB288! The law states that if the NLRB fails to respond to petitions to vindicate the rights of workers, then the CA Public Employment Relations Board can take up the matter - this is particularly important for ULPs! legiscan.com/CA/text/AB28...

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️ press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

wrote about a great writer thealexpress.substack.com/p/kaleb-horton

Thrilled that HLPP is hosting Risk and Resistance on Oct 3! Honored to celebrate @azizaahmed.bsky.social’s groundbreaking book and so grateful to our amazing co-sponsors, speakers, and panelists who will make this such an inspiring event. #RiskandResistance #healthlaw

this is the kafala system.

and the Pulitzer Prize for sophistry goes to …

Last night the 14th Amendment Center had a terrific opening session on birthright citizenship w/ historians @marthasjones and @kate.masur.TONIGHT is Part Two. With an extraordinary line-up of scholars & advocates. It’s not too late to register. howard.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @aaldef.bsky.social

Proud that my @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social colleague @veenadubal.bsky.social is on the papers - The national @aaup.org campaign is extraordinary, as is the number of unions and faculty associations brought together in defense of the UC.

By @alfatau.bsky.social

A really beautiful piece by Issa Kohler-Hausmann at @yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social. There is so much cowardice and anticipatory obedience these days. Bravery is in short supply. Thanks Issa. yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/09...

the national park service budget is roughly $5 billion. those are rookie numbers. amateur hour. I want President Pritzker to be using all of his political capital to get to $50 billion. I want 100 new national parks. I want maglevs from cities to visitor centers.

the central pillar of my philosophy: build rec centers and build libraries and build schools and fund after school programs and sports teams and clubs and literally never stop building more of them

Most of us who study these things knew, right away, there was a very good chance this was a groyper or accelerationists, all while our politicians and media members lined up to normalize Kirk and blather on about “disagreeing better.” It’s horseshit and detrimental. The story was obvious.

I wrote a book that I hope helps people think about the relationship between law, science, social movements, &political economy. It tells the story of how feminists transformed the response to AIDS to ensure better access to healthcare. Avail for preorder! www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

Who gets read as being legitimately able to grieve? And who is ignored?

Congrats to Omar El Akkad for making the National Book Award longlist in nonfiction for One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This ICYMI, what better time to listen to our conversation about this incredible book Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar... #freepalestine

have to say that i liked this one quite a bit

”’My boys,‘ was all he could say when he saw them lying dead in the street. He tried to approach them and was shot.“

Sincerely wondering: what remedies does Justice Kavanaugh believe are and should be available in federal court these days for excessive force violations by federal immigration officials?

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

I don't mean this flippantly but seriously - without meaning to minimize Vance's individual odiousness, I think this is part of what the sort of elite education he received is meant to help equip people like him to be able to do.

I wrote this years ago, & it is still true. #SB371 (supported by Uber) & #AB1340 (supported by SEIU). This is a sweetheart deal that only helps the sponsors of the bills.

If you don't already teach Dr. Martin Luther King honoring Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois on what would've been his 100th birthday, I recommend it. King discusses Du Bois's scholarship (like Black Reconstruction), his organizing, his love, and defends his communism. credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mu...

he'll send ICE to intimidate us. if i see an ICE agent at my polling place i'm going to walk right past him.