Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

People should take a page out of New School faculty's book and start doing forensic accounting for their own institutions using public documents

At my university we found that an obscure accounting decision was leading to overprojected deficits that justified austerity while channeling money into capital projects at the same time as admin was laying off teaching and research support staff. The uproar shifted $5 million back into operating.

Long ago, university faculty surrendered control to Trustees from FIRE industries. Promises of fundraising and financial savvy to safeguard institutions have delivered predatory realities. Yet to hear MSM tell it, the problem has been too much faculty power. drive.google.com/file/d/15luF...

Thx friends @adamtooze.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, @alybatt.bsky.social, @stefeich.bsky.social, @danielloick.bsky.social & others who signed condemning malicious cuts at The New School @newschoolaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org Join them! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Tenants in five East Harlem buildings won half a million dollars in back rent and repairs, in a settlement with their landlord over poor housing conditions. They now hope other tenants across the city can learn from their organizing. citylimits.org/how-these-ea...

Can we expect a slew of "campus right is out of control" stories to follow from the Atlantic and NYT? Ah well, nevertheless. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

I reviewed @benchansfield.bsky.social's stunning book earlier this year, and since then my admiration for it has only grown. "Revelatory... Deeply researched and masterfully told, Born in Flames is a definitive account of how race, risk and exploitative real estate have shaped the American city."

“After they broke up, Ferreira said in court records that Michael Leavitt had in the past threatened to try to get her deported.”

the absolute mountains of modern cultural energy spent trying to pretend that unbridled greed with zero accountability is some sophisticated, intellectual ethos worthy of debate

When I think of voices that need amplification these days “embittered Biden DHS & ICE workers” don’t leap to mind, but I guess that’s why I don’t cover immigration for the NYT.

On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”

Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that

What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.

Toggling between despair and inspiration with Naomi Klein. A good read. www.equator.org/articles/sur...

This Boston Globe article is a great example of how tone and framing are subjective choices that lead readers toward specific conclusions. The headline could just as easily be, "Mayor Flies Economy; Pays $245/Night for Hotel," and it's worthwhile to notice that it isn't.

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

It’s wild that right wing grifting is so easy that you can screw up your homework on purpose or tie for 5th place at a swim meet and get a whole ass career out of it

OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:

"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside." I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless": www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

I know a lot of footage and commentary is swirling about today but it’s important to convey that the people who gathered outside that ICE garage in lower Manhattan were *so* ten toes down focused. This person who gets maced and just calmly flips the bird & keeps going is *quintessential.*

don’t bring your little fake feds with their camo pants and their skull masks here, we don’t like it

NYC taxi I just took was featuring an ad for the Free Press on its passenger screen, advising people to “prepare” for the “contentious“ discussions of Thanksgiving by reading TFP. Will be curious to hear on Friday if tri-state area fascist uncles sounded more like Bari this year.

I can't speak for what was said at the protests, but seeing people react to an anodyne statement like "sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law" as if it were a vicious slur is clarifying.

The special issue of New German Critique on "German Memory Politics at a Crossroads," which I co-edited with Andreas Huyssen and the late Anson Rabinbach, is finally starting to look real! It will be out in February 2026. ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....

this is not a drag of the writer of this particular piece, which is largely sympathetic, but this line of argument makes me nuts young people are involved in protest and organizing at several levers of power—but they're not able to show up to photo op street rallies at the same rates as retirees

Over 1/3 of AI responses are false. ONE THIRD. The only job you'd survive in with that kind of record is Cabinet Minister. Or columnist. Or political "journalist"...

Man, I'm really tired of being used as a bat to pound on Mamdani. It's offensive, and it paints all Jewish New Yorkers as Fox-watching racists. Those type are certainly among us, but plenty of New York Jews are confident in their selection of Mamdani and unconcerned w/his handling of antisemitism.

What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?

Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...

The thing about DOGE is it accomplished neither its ostensible nor actual goals but did manage to cause a couple of holocausts worth of deaths internationally. And the media finds none of those three things particularly notable.

NYC book launch event “Fifty Years of Marxist Feminism” featuring Alyssa Battistoni, Robyn Marasco, Aaron Jaffe, & Rachel Schreiber is coming up on December 2. Register to make sure you get a spot, and tell your friends who may be interested.

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

This story is not getting enough attention. Unions affiliated with UC fought the Trump administration *and* the UC administration and WON, preserving academic freedom that was under enormous financial threat. dailybruin.com/2025/11/14/j...

The disjunction between what typically happens at institutions of higher ed in the U.S. and so many of the dominant narratives—which depict them as “woke” sites of propaganda transmission, suffering from a lack of variety in methods and approaches, and cauldrons of hatred—is enormous.

University Boards of Trustees always justify wildly outsized salaries in senior manager posts by saying they're necessary to "recruit talent." The "talent" in question: a willingness to make bank while immiserating faculty, abetting authoritarianism, & poisoning any positive institutional legacies.

Shows the thinking, leadership we need from unions representing education workers - all of us. pre-K through highered, wall to wall. Kudos and solidarity with the New School Full-time Faculty union @aaup.org. Know someone who can join? Send this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

worth noting that the $30.2 million deficit the school is facing can be traced to ballooning admin salaries, real estate, and admin benefits, according to the economics department's analysis. the salaries for the actual professors is in line with or *below* the school's revenue growth

I agree, although whenever anyone mentions Miss Cleo I remember my friend who worked as one of her telephone psychics and told me that part of the job was knowing when to tell people to hang up and dial 911.

A two-year LABOR HISTORY postdoc @brownhist.bsky.social and @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social Possible foci: migration/displacement/ human trafficking; automation/technology/processes of global integration; or gender/sexuality/politics of reproductive labor Please apply!

when @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I started working on this book, it felt excitingly ambitious to imagine it being used by students at a range of levels in literary studies ...and now we hear it's being picked up by high school teachers, historians, professors of law, and more -- I'm truly floored

Still processing that an economic advisor to multiple administrations, business leaders, and top institutions was asking a known sex trafficker of minor age girls to be his wingman for attempting to coerce his academic mentee into a sexual relationship—years after he said that women aren’t as smart

When anyone asks me for a fast example of how global neoliberalism is structurally racist, I share Larry Summers’ famous memo describing Africa as “under polluted” and of “little marginal utility” as grounds for shipping toxic waste to the continent en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summers...

Larry Summers is on the board of OpenAI

This White House is not beating the "we protect sex offenders" charges, and the idea that there is no political mileage in that for Democrats—alongside a positive vision that mobilizes the Party's base—is baffling.

we should take teaching more seriously

test the plausibility of this for yourself: ask "what sort of efforts would fully counteract the sociological effects of a system where people routinely sold their own children into labor camps?" and see how different your answer is from "years of open terrorism in defense of retrenching apartheid"

Well this is very lovely - Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain named a book of the year by the great @eriklinstrum.bsky.social for History Today!