Please don’t forget that many, many, many people spent years warning about the imperial decline currently transpiring in the United States. Even though the specifics have been shocking and unpredictable, the general shape and tenor of the Trump regime has been standard authoritarian unraveling

The death toll from the attack on Venezuela is now at 80, per Venezuelan officials. That includes civilians. Every article about the attack, or how the US somehow claims it will run the country, should mention the fact that, you know, people died, including civilians. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

I keep thinking about how Trump has framed this as "law enforcement" -- going to back to my idea of "making the military more like police." Law enforcement in this country is so violent, acting without regard to public safety, so the goal was the make the military more like cops.

There is a free pdf version available at library.uniteddiversity.coop/More_Books_a...

It would take the rest of my life to adequately grieve any given week of the past 10 years…

NYT: At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.

It seems it is once again time for everyone to familiarize themselves with this anti-imperialist classic.

I’ve been working full time to stop this war since last summer and the one scenario I feared the most is materializing — Trump is making a play for Venezuela’s oil. I’m not saying an insurgency will definitely form, but Trump’s ploy creates the perfect storm for an absolutely disastrous occupation.🧵

The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….

“The extent to which the national conversation…focuses on drugs, or on Maduro’s personal corruption, rather than on the world’s most powerful nation attacking a less powerful nation…—that is the extent to which the national conversation has been derailed by propaganda” @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

Still working on shortening my description of corporate LLMs as digital recombinators that launder industrialized plagiarism…

Halfway through the decade! What are your favorite films each year so far? 2020: Bacurau 2021: Blackalachia 2022: Nope 2023: Perfect Days 2024: Evil Does Not Exist 2025: One Battle After Another

If I were to be a public official in the United States of America? W. E. B. Du Bois’ “Black Reconstruction”

day one in mamdani’s new york

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

I still think about this song a lot, especially since 2016…

New: Cop City RICO Cases Dismissed Years After 61 Activists Charged as Criminal Conspiracy Racketeering charges against dozens indicted as co-conspirators in the Stop Cop City movement were dismissed yesterday marking a legal victory for the movement unicornriot.ninja/2025/cop-cit...

Fixing the bottom of my boat just to keel something

This is an empowering read - encouraging without being condescending or flip about difficulty - for someone like me, in that do-or-die stage of dissertation writing. Academia is dying, but scholarship and the joys of study, knowledge, and critical discursive communities are vigorous and rich

As the immiseration gets worse (and it will), people will be looking for scapegoats. Trump/MAGA have spent over a decade conditioning them in specific ways of thinking and accessing and processing information to do that in extremely destructive ways.

This is one of the greatest “dad jokes” I’ve ever seen.

I'm overjoyed by the publication of this open-access journal issue themed around my book, Beyond Education. I'm honored to see these brilliant contributions to how we think about intersecting struggles across K-12, higher ed, and beyond. works.swarthmore.edu/critedpol/ The contents include: (1/5)

The entire city living in sheer panic of dying in a fire for 10 days straight really set the tone.

In the summer of 2007, in the Pacific Palisades, Ray Liotta threatened to hit me with his car. It was very funny.

College professors to the rest of civil society:

"There is no condition in which the university is under attack that the whole of U.S. educational infrastructure, public and private, from pre-K up, is not under attack. And there is no condition in which education is under attack in which civil society can remain unimperiled."

I watched “No Other Choice” last week, and it got me thinking about the (masterful) films of Park Chan-wook. “How are otherwise well-meaning and mild-mannered people led down a path to extreme brutality?” is the archetypal premise for, if I’m not mistaken, every single one of his films?

This was awesome and the original filing is worth a peruse-and-laugh alabnews.com/ex-prosecuto...

Still unreported, should be investigated: ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”

Republicans motivate their core voters to show up every cycle and they do. Democrats just assume their equivalent will do the same and spend the entire cycle pursuing swing voters, meanwhile depressing core turnout. Then they blame those core voters when they lose. The cycle must be broken.

Everyone should read this fabulous book.

• The best book I read this year • The best book I read FROM this year • The best comic book I read this year • The best audiobook I heard this year

The Department of Unsubtle Metaphors has exceeded expectations once again.

i just did it all scared

Good morning from Southern California

regular US policing.

Taxes are the LEAST COERCIVE acceptable option for the problem of billionaires. The more they evade accountability, the more likely violence becomes.

While we have settler states, I think its good that their leaders at least try to grapple with (and not minimize) the horrific violence that established settler states.

I’m very excited to read that one alongside this other new title press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I see the Panthers are being invoked. I like to remind people about what the U.S. government and local police forces did to the BPP. This recent book is useful. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I like that this flowchart is compatible with a wide variety of ethical frameworks. Its suggestions are for self-regulation to be a more effective group participant. Certainly not a holy grail or universal tool, but I did appreciate it as an aspirational model while in undergrad.

Great 2025 reads in this thread!

On December 26, 1862, 38 Dakota men were hanged under orders of Abraham Lincoln, in the largest public mass extinction in US history. Lakota Nation vs. United States (2022) dir. Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli, words and narration by Layli Long Soldier from her poem "38"

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

A warning from the lawyer representing the unjustly fired Oklahoma TA! Beware of GFM scams: her client is NOT crowdfunding at this time.

Keith Haring, The Nativity, subway drawing, c. 1983