So much love and solidarity to Ana Murguia, Debra Rojas, Dolores Huerta, and every other survivor. Chavez was just a man; women like them, then and now, are the true heroes of the farmworkers’ movement.

Sing, Goddess, the alexithymia of Achilles.

Thinking about the Harper’s signatories today

What are the most important secondary works on Locke's property chapter?

Going to war without a clear and limited objective is a profound rejection of human dignity and the sanctity of life.

Breaking News: The U.S. was responsible for a missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, an ongoing military investigation found. The inquiry said the strike — which Iranian officials said killed at least 175 people, most of them children — was the result of a targeting mistake.

I gotta say, following the adage of 'ad fontes' leads you to reading some really weird shit.

A rare photograph of me during grad school

This directly contradicts Trump and Hegseth’s claims that Iran bombed the area where the Iranian school was hit. We knew it, but it’s good to have the video.

I both respect and fear anyone who can read E.P. Thompson without an open tab to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

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Even if AI is successful beyond its boosters’ wildest dreams, there is still the inherent contradiction of a machine that kills off the people it needs to steal from

It takes real galaxy brains to mass cancel solar and wind projects and then start a pointless unpopular war that sends oil prices soaring.

I suppose the Left really will have a second chance at the social crises of the 1970s

The Gang Creates a 1970s-level Oil Crisis

Pete Hegseth is a dishonorable man.

Official statements placing U.S. forces in the area – along w/ analysis of social posts, videos, sat. images – suggest U.S. forces bombed a school in Minab, Iran during strikes targeting an IRGC base. Over 150 were killed, Iranian officials say. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

[Exit Murderer.]

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Seeing Thomas Friedman in the NYTimes defending this as a righteous war to bring democracy to Iran broke me, a person who remembers 2003.

"When the state is growing weak, the multitude of crimes is a guarantee of impunity." -- Rousseau, Social Contract, 2.5

Gangsterism as international policy

This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting. NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

“Let them eat offal”

Just finding that Bill Connolly has passed. I only read one of his books, published in 2008, and it is the single most prescient text I've read on how/why we arrived at our current reality. Even from that one text it was clear he was a giant.

Bill Connolly died yesterday and he was one of the good ones. It kills me that he was taken while our politics are like this. He deserved to outlive the bastards. I guess we’ll have to take it from here. But let me say: for depth of understanding, empathy & moral clarity, this man had few rivals /1

Trans Kansan's being stripped of their licenses due to having previously - legally - changed their gender marker is absolutely shocking. A person who misses the letter - let's they moved and forgot to have their mail forwarded - could drive to work and be arrested for driving without a license.

I found that this is wrong. Democracy actually is a powerful motivating force for a critical slice of the population *if they perceive a real threat*. I call this the "legibility" theory of democratic backsliding: the more legible the threat, the more likely it is to prompt effective pushback.

butlerian jihad when

I think I'll have the first assignment for my Political Visions of Nature class, which is a 17th-19th century course, to be reading the Charter of the Forest and figuring out what all those weird little rights in it are. It'll set up the stakes for the next week when we read Locke and Winstanley.

The last week has reaffirmed my belief that Trumpism is a reaction against all of history since the freaking constitutional settlement of 1689. Just compare the impunity of elites and the lawlessness of the US to the freaking UK. Deeply embarrassing stuff.

I wish that the Court paid as much deference to, say, section 3 of the 14th amendment to the Constitution as it did to the 100% fugazi, so-called major questions doctrine, which is the most elegant instrument for laundering policy preferences ever conceived.

ICE spotted in Lawrence at the Iowa st. Burger King around 9:10 this morning. Reports I've heard so far (from my dad, who does immigration resettlement work locally) is 3-5 cars, 3 arrests made this morning. Please share if you're able and be careful out there.

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

The US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, a pioneer of progressive Democratic politics, close ally of Martin Luther King Jr, and two-time candidate for the presidential nomination, has died at 84. See his life in pictures: bit.ly/3OxOT3f

Frederick Wiseman was one of the best American artists ever. We will sorely miss his eye, which salvaged the possibility of social democracy out of our frayed and strained social institutions. No one ever saw the beauty of a meeting like him. No one knew the true meaning of democracy like him. RIP.

One of the freakiest parts of Wood’s Creation of the American Republic is of Samuel Adams’ suggestion of forming a ‘Christian Sparta.’ Luckily such a possibility was quickly abandoned because it was both implausible and batshit crazy.

My book—No Option But Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate Crisis—comes out today! It's the result of 3+ years of research and 150+ interviews with 100+ activists and experts.

Gonna read Winstanley’s religious pamphlets and no one can stop me

a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500

This was such a special interview to conduct: the first in two episodes with historian Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/the-...

One of the biggest wastes of academic productivity is the variation in page/word limits across journals in the same/related fields.

The cornerstone of Trump's political life was birtherism, a racist lie. He is now, as he has always been, a white supremacist at the head of a neo-Redeemer movement.