The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️ press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

This was such a great convo with @danieldenvir.bsky.social & @alfatau.bsky.social! Please check it out!

PART 2 of my interview w/ Alberto Toscano & @stschrader1.bsky.social on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, military repression, what it reveals about MAGA’s fascist/authoritarian project—and about illiberalism already immanent in US carceral/imperialist state www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stat...

The South Korean government said it will look into whether human rights violations were committed against the 317 South Koreans who were detained by ICE agents in Georgia earlier this month.

A United Nations commission of inquiry has determined that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, concluding in a 72-page report that Israel has committed four of the five genocidal acts defined under the 1948 Genocide Convention, just one of which would legally constitute a genocide.

BREAKING: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a team of independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council concludes.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Zohran Mamdani and I will both be fearless in confronting Donald Trump’s extreme agenda — with urgency, conviction, and the defiance that defines New York” Gov. Kathy Hochul writes in an endorsement of the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City.

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York endorsed Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, on Sunday night, providing critical support ahead of the November election.

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

"The Supreme Court's ruling doesn't only apply to Latinos," Harvard Law School Professor Noah Feldman writes. "If you are in the US and you're reading this, you, too, could be arrested and required to prove your citizenship at any moment if you look or sound like you fit some hypothetical profile."

Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.” My latest in @thenation

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

On the terrific documentary, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat and two compelling books about Lumumba and Africa in his era. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Understand this fact—Trump isn’t just anti-science or anti-vaccine—He’s something far worse: Pro Structural Eugenics. Once you realize his every policy is ingrained in Structural Eugenics, you’ll see the Goal is mass death of Black, brown, & low income people. www.qasimrashid.com/p/trump-is-e...

Japanese Americans protest Fort Bliss, former WWII incarceration site, as largest ICE migrant detention center www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICE’s breakneck expansion, a chaotic effort that has already triggered lawsuits and accusations of cruelty. wapo.st/41FWkck

The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.

Trump announced Monday that the federal government would be taking over Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department, flooding the city’s streets with National Guard troops and sending in the military “if it’s needed” — while looking to do the same in other major U.S. cities.

‘If these words reach you … Israel has succeeded in killing me’: the last words of a journalist killed in Gaza

This is terrible news and the fruit of the anti-vax BS from #RFKJr but also #JayBhattacharya and #MartinMakary. It will set back vaccine development on numerous diseases and even those targeted at various cancers.

#Breaking: Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...

excellent analysis of contemporary hybrid of liberal rule of law & authoritarian fascism - time for "a university outside the university, a university of the commons, an underuniversity...bootleg universities"

I wrote a new post at Remaking on the Brown U agreement--much worse than announced--and what it would take for faculty to block defeatist policy. I discuss 5 statements--Paxson at Brown, @adam_tooze vs. @lionel_trolling, Paul Campos, Rachid Khalili. The final 2 really help. An Athens sunset. /1

As Columbia University agrees to a $200 million settlement with the Trump administration, professor Rashid Khalidi slams repression of pro-Palestinian voices at the school and says the institution's leadership seeks to "protect Israel from criticism at all costs."

also great discussion here

Zohran didn't win by relying on standard turnout patterns. We had to fundamentally transform the Democratic electorate. I was part of a group of NYC-DSA members that applied lessons from our previous campaigns to design the “universe” of voters to talk to. Here's how we won 🧵

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi

FEMA is preparing to send $608 million to states to construct immigrant detention centers as part of the Trump administration’s push to expand capacity to hold migrants.

Israel says hundreds of truckloads of aid are waiting for pickup on Gaza's border for the U.N. to distribute. But the U.N. says it’s unable to bring in enough aid to Palestinians as it is hindered by Israeli military restrictions and a breakdown of security.

Given ICE brutality, it's unusual to get video evidence of how they operate. But here's chilling documentation that shows the indiscriminate and violent approach that ICE takes to arrests - here, including a US citizen: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The people of Gaza face starvation under the joint U.S.-Israeli food distribution system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

UK ban on Palestine Action is an abuse of power, high court told

Book Review Forum — "Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai‘i and the Making of US Empire" by @julietneb.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/2025/07/11/s...

‘Weren’t all Black people owed something for the dispossession that accumulated over generations? Or was the university’s primary function only to pursue knowledge about the history that gave rise to these questions?’ Vincent Brown reviews ‘Yale and Slavery’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A remarkable moment from an interview with Brad Lander on the Jewish Currents podcast: two ICE officers who arrested him are immigrant New Yorkers, one of whom was considering voting for him and Mamdani podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Mamdani has spoken out against antisemitism more than any politician in my lifetime while also providing real solutions to help. Mamdani isnt an antisemite. He’s a Muslim. And to a certain sect of people, those are the same thing. He’ll never be able to appease them.

How organizers in California's Central Valley are putting their bodies on the line to fight ICE raids and deportations. Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/organi...

First book, first garden! Just got my author copies of BORN IN FLAMES, out from @wwnorton.com on August 19th.

In 1852, Frederick Douglass asked: “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?” Inspired by Douglass’ famous question, 20 people ensnared in the sprawling US criminal legal system answered this variation: “What, to the currently or formerly incarcerated American, is your Fourth of July?”

New Dig: @socialists.nyc co-chairs Gustavo Gordillo & Grace Mausser on how DSA & @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social campaign won this historic victory. A behind scenes look at how DSA built most powerful socialist org in USA—and how we replicate the victory everywhere. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/how-...

Democrats, legal advocates and civil and immigrant rights groups on Friday delivered a full-throated rebuke of the Supreme Court’s decision in a case involving birthright citizenship, saying it would create chaos and a dangerous patchwork of rights across the nation.

Make no mistake, the SCOTUS decision about birthright citizenship IS ALSO ABOUT *birthright citizenship.* The Court is using nationwide injunctions as the tail, wagging the dog, to take us back to an Antebellum view of citizenship. That way led to war once. My latest in @thenation.com

"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."

Zohran’s victory is an earthquake. The left everywhere must dedicate itself to an insurgency against Dem incumbents. The Dem establishment has lost credibility w/ its base in the face of fascist threat. The base is looking leftward for new leadership. We are the opposition party.

Zohran Mamdani just defeated Andrew Cuomo in the NYC mayoral primary. A socialist, BDS supporter, and son of immigrants just toppled a pro-Israel machine politician.