Delighted to review @azizaahmed.bsky.social's terrific book "Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of Aids" at JOTWELL: health.jotwell.com/public-healt...

I said it before, Habermas’s great talents was to produce critics like Nancy Fraser, Dena Goodman, and Michael Warner, who do not “extend” his ideas, but subject them to ruthless criticism, and to come up with better ways to grapple with their primary themes.

The U.S. runs the largest immigration detention system in the world. But what law actually protects people inside it? A Harvard Law Review article by @Das_Alina provides an alarming answer. 🧵

ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.

“Instead, they wanted to align themselves with men whose sole concerns are whether they’ve purchased enough Tomahawks to replace the one they just slammed into the roof of a school.” @joshuadiemert.bsky.social

happy publication day to *The Future That Was* out today from @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

This is the AI the Department of Defense is using. It's called Maven, it's from Palantir, and it’s scary as hell. It's dangerous for an innumerable number of reasons. I don't even know where to begin. From not prioritizing civilian casualties to assassinations and god knows what else, this is nuts.

Today, @jeenashahesq.bsky.social argues that Trump’s contradictory treatment of Hernández and Maduro reveals the consistency of U.S. foreign policy: the War on Drugs serves as a flexible tool for maintaining global capitalism’s necessary periphery.

“the single most consistent trend at UK universities over the past 15 years has been to ensure as few people (students and staff alike) have the material conditions necessary to depart from their prescribed roles, to do any type of meaningful political activity“

A PSA for all my law professor friends: instead of scrolling through an article titled “The Top 100 Legal Scholars of 2025,” where impact and influence are reduced to citation counts, consider reading this excellent article on value capture. jesp.org/index.php/je...

I found this report to be both startling and disturbing.

New article theorizing the “spatial burdens” of state institutions. Drawing on 125 interviews and over 400 hours of observations among court-involved people in the Bay Area, we show how space shapes poverty governance and institutional inequality. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The catastrophic impact to local health where the air is poisoned, as well as to our global ecosystem as they literally set the planet on fire and fill the atmosphere with pollutants

“At the root of so many of our moral and political crises today is what Simone Weil, describing life under European fascism, called ‘the adoration of power in its most brutal form’.” Our editors on the Iran war: www.equator.org/articles/epi...

I keep circling back to that line from the Mishnah Sanhedrin, "whoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world" and wondering what it means to live at the mercy of men who are equally indifferent to any individual life, to millions of lives, and to the world itself

🧵: 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

is it so hard to see people are not waiting to be told what’s possible

Now on SSRN and looking for a good home - "The Case for Professional Disobedience" Using healthcare professionals as a case study, the Article meets this perilous moment in U.S. history by thinking seriously about disobedience as a response to institutional failures papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

One thing about these big camp systems is that they inflict a tremendous amount of harm through sheer momentum. When a system is built to be both negligent and punitive, it tends to cause suffering by default.

Heads up movement-based researchers. Applications for the UCLA Strategic Labor Research Conference open April 1. Great opportunity to hone skills and network with folks who leverage research for worker justice

“If you want to know how it feels to have slaves, in the modern world – and not be blamed openly for this desire – visit Dubai.” newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Instead, I see Powell as symptomatic of a historical conjuncture in which neoliberal ideas that had been in circulation for decades found a foothold as the prosperous post-war political economic order gave way (to one marked by stagflation, fiscal crisis, & declining industrial profitability)

Re-upping an old essay of mine that Gary Tan hated “The prioritizing of technology capital’s interests over the concerns and lives of everyday people — first responders, transportation workers, the people who rely on access to public transportation — bayareacurrent.com/the-torched-...

An enraging, enraging case.

It is also worth noticing how the terms of the debate get set. What we have inherited is not primarily a budget crisis in the sense of books that cannot be balanced, but a capacity crisis that has been produced and normalized through decades of staged budget crises. 4/

New essay, "Abolition in Three Movements" in the Prison abolition and political theory critical exchange in Contemporary Political Theory. Really proud to be in conversation with these brilliant thinkers. Shoutout @amc-etc.bsky.social for organizing. Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Essential thinking on “institutional authoritarianism” @genevievelakier.bsky.social

It’s giving middle passage

“So you can call it abolish, you can call it dismantle, you can call it whatever, but our existing immigration system is a funnel to create a concentration camp society. We have to change that somehow.“

Working on Restoring Justice kept me grounded this past year, so I share it w/ excitement & some nervousness. Written w/ Meredith Elizalde, whose son Nick was killed in a shooting at his high school, we argue for a right to restorative justice. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Feel like the unchecked plutocratic control & elite impunity after Epstein has created a real backlash. Phenomenal interview of the economist Clara Mattei. uncompromisingly makes case for democratic control of the economy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M_d... bsky.app/profile/ocas...

This was such a special interview to conduct: the first in two episodes with historian Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/the-...

Defend the sacred

Powerful work

In Gaza, Israel takes truckloads of Palestinian bodies for DNA testing, to make sure they are not Israeli. They seldom return them. Mary Turfah examines what they are doing with the dead, how it structures Israeli power, and why they get away with it.

Good piece by @chashomans.bsky.social tracing the lineage of ICE-watching to BPP and AIM www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

Prefigurative legality in action mitpress.mit.edu/978026253978... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

For those commenting on the agents' surnames.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

David French argued Renee Good's murder is an example of the US having two sytems of law: orderly for friends & belligerent for foes. @victorerikray.bsky.social corrects him: US law has always promised fascism for non-whites & those who stand with them. groupthreat.com/p/americas-d...

Trusted friends in Minneapolis tell me that this fund is supporting many people but does not have enough money. If you can give, please do: chuffed.org/project/1671...

It’s always funny when palantir employees discover that they work at palantir

new year, new project

I wrote about the longstanding dynamics that produced our terrifying present for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social.

"Witnesses said a doctor was at the scene and tried to help the woman who had been shot, but the ICE agents refused to let the doctor in to help. Up to 15 minutes later, an ambulance arrived but was blocked by ICE vehicles that had occupied the street."