“Our median estimate is that 4.2 million people participated in a No Kings Day demonstration somewhere in the country on Saturday, with an upper bound of 7.6 million people.” www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

NYT leading with some story about Santos rather than the largest protest event since 1970. A reminder that the collapse of news into entertainment is one of the reasons we got here.

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists. 50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path. drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

When it comes to our own history of far-right movements, Americans have an exceedingly short memory. My latest. @sas.rutgers.edu sas.rutgers.edu/about/news/r...

@bowdoincollege.bsky.social Sociology is hiring a tenure track position: careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/165...

In 2020, Mahmood Mamdani dedicated a book to his son, Zohran. A good time to read it.

Mamdani: Tonight, we made history. In the words of Nelson Mandela, it almost seems impossible until it is done. My friends, we have done it. I will be your Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City.

Surprisingly effective things Zohran Mamdani ran on: -free buses -rent freeze -halal cart for $8 instead of $10 -taxing the 1% -no cost childcare -city-owned grocery stores -a Department Of Community Safety for mental health programs and crisis response -building affordable housing -why Cuomo sucks

Billionaires ke paas already sab kuchh hai. Ab, aapka time aageya. Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.

Salgirah Mubarak, Karl Marx.

"Exile, dispossession, exodus, deportation. And for the fortunate, the station was a place of extraordinary, impossible reunions." -from Anne Michaels and John Berger, Railtracks (2012) I love train stations.

“In a time of destruction, create something. A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.” -Maxine Hong Kingston (from the book she wrote from scratch after her home burnt down and she lost all her drafts in the Oakland forest fires of 1991)

pen.org/banned-words.... Among the banned words—community.

May Day Mubarak Yakkum May Alaikum yeh sab mil ke hameñ pagal bana rahe haiñ lekin EK NAYI DUNIYA MUMKIN HAI

Please join the ASA Global/Transnational Section and UP Diliman for the virtual event, Decolonizing Sociology: Centering the Global South. Panelists will share their visions for decolonization led by the Global South. May 2 (Fri), 9AM EST, 1PM GMT | Zoom: tinyurl.com/ASAGATSUP | PW: UPDiliman

“Let it pass; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Sensible Thing” #everynightapoem #ofsorts

Proud of faculty at my university for leading the resistance against the dismantling of higher ed. #RutgersUniversity www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/n...

"I am not tired, or much tired, just exhausted." — Hannah Arendt

Always an honor to march in the NYC Sikh Day Parade and celebrate this vibrant community!

#thekashmirsyllabus A comprehensive teaching and learning resource on #Kashmir. Academic scholarship, literature, memoirs, journalistic pieces, poetry, and art. Presenting the voices, histories, struggles, and aspirations of the Kashmiri people. 🔗 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Happy Independent Bookstore Day. More important than ever.

Clarification: history being disappeared by Trumpism right now, not the whole history of history.

My wife, a historian, is seeking SPECIFIC examples of history being disappeared that may not have gotten much national attention. Plaques, parks, history books removed from schools or libraries. If it was a big national story, we know, thanks. What’s happening near you?

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Read Maris's piece, then go show your local indie bookstore some love. They're so much more than places to get books--they are places to engage with ideas and others in your community. Staffed by actual humans to help you find the books you didn't know you needed!

Tomorrow is Independent Bookstore Day! Ever wonder how it all began??? Let me tell you! Thanks to Pete Mulvihill @greenapplebooks.bsky.social for sharing your story! #whatif #booksky🩵📚 #independentbookstoreday2025 #read #books #buyabook #subscribe open.substack.com/pub/angiegas...

A look at early movement of researchers leaving or looking to leave the US www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule." — Walter Benjamin

Trump cancels humanities grants to subsidize building statues to humanities scholars, including, apparently, Hannah Arendt, who wrote an entire book about how fascists—like trump—come to power in part by trying to censor what people can read, write, and think about.

Al Gore citing Adorno, David Brooks quoting Marx & Engels - we are in new times (or old ones)

🎙️📚"There are certain powers you have as a citizen, and those powers were being taken away from you because there's this technocratic belief that every Indian is a potential thief. That's where the danger lies." A conversation with @rahulabhatia.bsky.social :

Great selection and exercise. My favorite—Effervescence. Off the top of my head, adding a few more — Enchantment Disenchantment Stories Entangled/tangled Silences Crevices Memory Past Liminal Texture Complex Endure Cats

I highly recommend this substack by very smart activist/thinker @lakauffman.bsky.social if you're trying to understand current resistance efforts. open.substack.com/pub/lakauffm...

"The Pahalgam attack should not be a test of India’s capacity for revenge, but of its capacity for self-correction. True deterrence will come not from another strike across the border, but from the hard work of reforming security protocols (1/2)

Looks fantastic. Will try and make it to Portland or one of the other walks.

"Trust, however, abhors a vacuum. When re-embedding fails, the distrustful are likely to place their trust somewhere else—or in someone else. This helps explain the appeal of such figures as Trump, Musk, and Kennedy, who, though elites themselves, trade on their outsider status" (1/2)

Georgia O'Keeffe Blue wave Maine 1926

“We never talked about men or clothes. It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution — real girls’ talk.” Nina Simone died on this day in 2003. A celebrated musician, prominent civil rights activist, and radical, Simone brought revolutionary praxis to her music.

“A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection... But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images and unlock its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for two months” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The dream indeed. Can’t possibly be true, can it?

A non-exhaustive list of things to try if we actually want to support families: -universal basic income -free or low-cost childcare -universal healthcare -federally-mandated paid parental leave -eliminate the motherhood penalty -eliminate the manosphere But they want to try “menstrual classes”

Once again my social media feed is filled with photos of protests across the country. Sending gratitude and solidarity from Portland Maine.

at this point 2025 feels like being awake during surgery

Wendy Doniger: One might…invoke the situation in India—the widespread damage that the Modi government has done to religious coexistence and free speech—to underline the danger to these precious rights in our own land. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

There is something profoundly perverse in this award going to a photograph taken for the NYTimes, which has done more than any media outlet in the world to enable US-backed Israeli massacres and dismemberment of children in Gaza.

The turnout in small towns across the country has been incredible drawing crowds of thousands. We’re already seeing over one million in attendance nationwide, and events are still underway. Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Ohio all had especially surprising showings.