Our book has a cover! Co-edited with @seanobrien.bsky.social , featuring many wonderful contributors, and an Afterword by Annie McClanahan. Comes out in June, available for preorder now from @plutopress.bsky.social www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...

"The texts suggest a degree of involvement by the governor’s administration in university operations that is atypical in modern Virginia history, according to multiple former board members." My alma mater is the gift that keeps on giving.

man there’s just nothing you can be in the middle of when the feds kill you that’s innocent enough to dissuade this kind of spin is there. you can be halfway through the three point turn that would have driven you away from them when they murder you and they’ll still call it domestic terrorism

Human brains feed off of negativity. Negative thoughts are easily digested and play in a loop in your mind all of the time. The reality, however, is that there is also A LOT OF GOOD happening every single minute. You have to do more work to pay attention to the good but it's worth it.

Minnesota Public Radio says today marks the first and only shooting and homicide in Minneapolis in the year 2026

Some Minneapolis protesters throw snowballs at law enforcement officers as demonstrators march after an ICE agent shot and killed a woman. Law enforcement earlier deployed pepper spray and tear gas, KARE reports.

Minneapolis responds

So much love for the @jckessler.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, & the whole UIC Faculty United, who collectively programmed this event, & then had the generosity & gumption to say, let’s share it with the world, because we are @higheredlabor.bsky.social United. + @bakerdphd.bsky.social is 🔥

phases.substack.com/p/the-price-... Part 1 of 3 posts on price, value, and oil. this part is just about getting the transformation problem out of the way

first year without a Jclo top 10. I miss him all the time

I published exactly one (1) piece this year because life / other Work. Here you go. Eat it up.

it's coming out again night after night more of us than there are of them it's saying no to every deal remember nothing belongs to you because nothing belongs to anyone to Joshua, on what should’ve been his birthday

HMU when you have read this and want to discuss :)

"TNS senior management has multiple decent revenue options that allow it to close its deficit over 3 years without gutting large parts of the academic workforce and existing curriculum" -- @cnewf.bsky.social on the New School conjuncture

Getting off Twitter finally in 2026. I'll stick around here instead. Apologies in advance. Let's have some fun. ☺️

Ah, 2025. Not the greatest. TBQH what keeps me going are my little projects--the opportunity to read and write. I got to engage with some great and important books this year. On Immediacy (and being Very Online):

20+ items added to my reading list!

Wrote about the state of sociology of literature and about Gisèle Sapiro’s The Sociology of Literature. I respond, salty, to my most vituperative critic and explain what the aesthete fears (true pleasure). My most self-indulgent piece of writing, I fear. DM 4 PDF read.dukeupress.edu/novel/articl...

“The Robins deposited some groceries in a public square at the foot of a Christmas tree on Tuesday evening, adding that the rest would be distributed through community food banks. “Don’t forget – the hunger justifies the means, Merry Christmas!” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

arriving better late than never at this fabulous essay olrsupplement.com/2025/05/19/g...

due to a new federal initiative Carleton is hiring 5 to 10 "Canada Impact+ Research Chairs" at the rank of Associate or Full Professor if you work in any of the strategic priority areas listed, and long for Canada, consider applying (&feel free to reach out) carleton.ca/deputyprovos...

'The “Crisis of Masculinity” Crisis' by @weakanalogy.bsky.social 🔥 🔥🔥 www.e-flux.com/journal/159/...

This Publishers Weekly article about protests at the Poetry Foundation, including layoffs & changes in PF programming, is so strange. Because this shift is so important to poets, to readers, & to the field, here's a 🧵 about how we got here: tinyurl.com/326xy2tm

Happy to finally launch Disjunctions with an article from the editorial team! Stay tuned for our first issue, which we will start publishing in the new year.

Which canonical American authors are the public reading, and why? To find out, we analyzed library borrowing patterns for every author in the Norton Anthology of American Literature (1945 to the Present). Excited to share this new CHR paper & data! anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0... #CHR2025

this is a really good discussion, and I'm so pleased there is a whole podcast dedicated to bad art

So grateful for the amazing graduate students who wrote this 'Open Letter on The New School’s “Restructuring” Plans', published on @eflux.bsky.social (including link with petition to condemn admin!) @newschoolaaup.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/notes/678343...

📻 Sunday listening 📻 Liz Pelly joins PTO to talk all things Spotify. We spoke about the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform impacts musicians, and its insidious consequences for music listening:

This is a wonderful list of great pieces!

"The nation once reliant on its own objectification is infinitely cast into this role: a self-devouring ouroboros, the paradoxical snake endlessly chasing its tail..." writes Chichi Ayalogu in our newest review on Biafran history, visual culture, conflict, & more! asapjournal.com/review/digit...

They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2

Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/

I enjoyed this paper a lot -- a good companion to "Telling the Truth about Class" by G.M. Tamas, IMHO.

Next week I'm moderating an @histmat.bsky.social event on the instantly-canonical 'Feminism Against Cisness' with @riislover667.bsky.social, @reproutopia.bsky.social, Lola Olufemi, and @weakanalogy.bsky.social. Thursday, December 11, 6pm GMT, online To register: www.eventbrite.com/e/feminism-a...

Applications are open for MIR Summer Seminar 2026 on the theme of Marxist Internationalism! See the call for applications: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Open to all non-faculty University of California affiliates (undergrads, grads, staff, lecturers). App deadline Jan. 16. Please share!

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❄️tomorrow at U of T❄️

🚨new publication🚨 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆 in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025. Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...

Next week, Toronto friends, w/ @routhier.bsky.social @sorenmau.bsky.social

Just a reminder that the deadline for abstracts for this FREE, ONLINE, GRAD STUDENT WORKSHOP is a little less than two weeks away!

i hope you'll read this compelling survey from Sarah Brouillette of the newest work from the always-astute and incisive Madeline Lane-McKinley—it's a tautly reasoned case for affording children greater rights and autonomy, reimagining social institutions that produce suffering and dehumanization.

So glad to have been able to write about Solidarity with Children by @lalouverouge.bsky.social for @proteanmag.com. Special thanks to Tyler Walicek, an extraordinary editor.

Sarah Brouillette (@sarahbrouillette.bsky.social) reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's (@lalouverouge.bsky.social) Solidarity With Children, from @haymarketbooks.org—a deft Marxist-feminist, abolitionist call to liberate children from the status of parental property. proteanmag.com/2025/11/19/h...

I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social about @alybatt.bsky.social's new book—which, I argue, shows how the critique of political economy can allow us to clearly name the social cause of climate catastrophe: capital. lpeproject.org/blog/when-na...

Among several reasons to recommend this episode is the lengthy good faith discussion of what fascism is, both during my convo with @aprilanson.bsky.social & Alex Menrisky, & during the Q&A that followed. Inspired in part by Alex’s great book, published this year by @uminnpress.bsky.social

Sharing a practice of reading with children is also a practice of listening to children: “What are you thinking about? What are your questions?“ @lalouverouge.bsky.social

Fantastic podcast episode. At one point @katewagner.wehwalt.net points out that McMansions come in all sorts of styles, including post-modern, which consists of oddly arranged rectangles. Behold my neighbor, completed ca. 2024. The owner is from Texas. www.patreon.com/posts/143733...

Don't miss Alyssa Battistoni's post about her excellent new book!!