a must-read essay by @triofrancos.bsky.social reviewing Jean-Baptiste Fressoz's recent book MORE AND MORE AND MORE I'm currently midway through both EXTRACTION and Fressoz's book, so this was a treat! thebaffler.com/latest/gimme...

Excellent summary of the large body of work @steffenmurau.bsky.social and colleagues have done on the Offshore (US) Dollar Syatem www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru... @phenomenalworld.bsky.social Look here for the bigger body of work: steffenmurau.com/portfolio/in...

Look, if you are genuinely surprised, you haven’t really interacted deeply and widely within academia, you dont know its strengths and weaknesses, you dont understand its political economy, and you have not paid attention to claims and investigations when ten years ago MeToo made the academy shake.

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Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter. (1/2) Recessions have become rarer. But that's not necessarily a good thing: as.ft.com/r/b1991122-0...

Hope to see everyone at the “Yes Kings” rally.

the guy who made the Snowpiercer train:

<Overheard walking on 42nd St> Woman (on phone): “Pick up after yourself. You’re a grown man…I don’t want to hear it. It’s disgusting….This is why the city is the way it is. Because of slobs like you.”

60 percent of Americans have basic morality poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

please watch this youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

This is a great discussion of migrant labor in the long-term care industry with Professor Shefali Milczarek-Desai podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Lack of training isn’t the issue! “Ochoa…joined CBP in 2018. Gutierrez joined in 2014 and works for CBP’s Office of Field Operations. He is assigned to a special response team, which conducts high-risk operations like those of police SWAT units.” www.propublica.org/article/alex...

“School administrators have started calling families after raids to make sure that no children are left behind after their caregivers have been abducted.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.

“a great and unlimited future with ‘TRUMP’” what does that even mean lol

no notes. most Trumpy reasoning possible for selecting a Fed Chair lol www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

‘why does everyone hate the Democrats?’ exhibit number 8,947

ICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the area’s African community. Multiple people have been detained. Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk

I have a pitch for The Free Press: Have activists considered that maybe they’re actually causing ICE/CBP agents to be violent by disturbing their sleep at the hotels? They’re just cranky!

"Abolish ICE" was submitted 9,200 times for Chicago's snowplow naming contest, records show. blockclubchi.co/3ZAnDTZ

“private equity for the people” www.ft.com/content/7b9e...

I highly recommend reading Singh’s essay together with Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new essay in Vanity Fair www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

UPS expects to cut 30,000 more operational positions this year, the company said Tuesday. www.wsj.com/business/ear...

<laughs in Minnesotan>

favorite thing I’ve seen today

A++++++++

the best in the game

I don’t doubt, as this report suggests, that some WH strategists understand the political risks of a continued siege in MN. But evidence here suggests they are grasping at a new narrative rather than new tactics. What I fail to see is the admin’s de-escalatory path… www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...

Nam: “should we walk to Central Park?” Me: “Zohran said to stay home” Nam: “he won’t find out” Me: “idk he’s out and about…what if he sees us and is disappointed?”

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

There is evil and then there is this

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From Adam Goodman’s THE DEPORTATION MACHINE

a lot of students like Andor and one student (of 73) said they’ve watched The Americans

“Please let this Letter serve to represent”

“International programs began decades ago as a way to open up cultural exchange. Now, international students are a key to keeping universities solvent and competitive in science and technology research.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...

“Without us, right now you’d all be speaking German, French, Italian, and Romansh.”

Minneapolis residents have joined a church-run effort to donate groceries to immigrant families who fear being caught in public by federal agents. What started with a couple of hundred deliveries a week has quickly swelled into a vast operation involving thousands of volunteers. trib.al/1qT1xMw

slide for tmw telling students what I'm currently reading/watching

I hope Carney and Powell prevail, but the real heroes are the everyday people standing up to the secret police attacking their neighbors, not the central bankers who’ve found a moral backbone now that the spear of the American empire is pointed at them.

“There are empty desks in school classrooms across the Twin Cities as immigrant children stay home…Restaurants and shops have closed because their employees are too afraid to come to work, even if they are here legally” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Powerful report from Democracy Now youtu.be/8g1tu-XgdhE?...

really enjoying _More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy_ by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

I am looking forward to participating on this panel at our upcoming Stone Center symposium. See the full agenda and register here: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/why-w...

Minneapolis Parks and Recreation has canceled youth sports because ICE is terrorizing our community

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

amazing

rewatching Andor and damn this show is basically perfect