The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. At best, we can say that this deal could have been worse. Read our full statement here:

Cornell Chapter of the AAUP Statement on Cornell’s agreement with federal government aaup-cornell.org/2025/11/07/s...

11-4-1975 — Halloween Massacre led by Rumsfeld and protégé #Cheney. For 50 years, GOP leads DNC — with adaptive repertoire of executive power, foreign war, class war. Trump/Vance take it to new levels. 11-4-2025 — Among new DNC electeds, some will acquiesce; while others seek a new horizon.

📣 Awesome documentary reporting from the brilliant Anjali Kamat — on working-class South Asian politics in NYC. #DemocracyNow Over a quarter-century, from post-9/11 to 2025 — working-class organizing, from DRUM to Taxi Workers, has made a mark on NYC. #1u

‘Mamdani appeared on a panel with anti-caste activist Prachi Patankar — and emphasized the need for leadership from Dalit & marginalized caste communities, to counter the rise of Hindu nationalism… Mamdani cosponsored a caste protection bill in New York state.’ newlinesmag.com/argument/wha...

#1u — #LaborHistory

#1u — #UAW — #LaborHistory

Workers engaged BLM, MeToo, unions — to challenge corporate hierarchies. Yet billionaire elites use anti-woke, anti-DEI, anti-Pal, anti-trans — to suppress worker voice & all speech. “You’re fired!” is always core Trump slogan. All political issues today, are about worker democracy vs boss power.

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

For better or for worse, Americans have no shared understanding of a spectrum — of what terms like moderate, liberal, progressive, left mean. MSNBC says, that the GOP says: “The left [Jeffries] has been taken over by its progressive wing [Mamdani].” 🧐 youtu.be/JHlzpY5M6RE?...

JCPA — ‘We must remain clear-eyed about how antisemitic extremism, is being mainstreamed in the highest levels of power — avowed neo-Nazis in senior government roles; the embrace of deadly conspiracy theories that inspire violence; the gutting of programs intended to counter domestic extremism.‘

An injury to one, is an injury to all. #TreeOfLife

We share our love and solidarity with Jewish and immigrant communities, and all who are targeted by white supremacy. May we keep fighting antisemitism — like all forms of bigotry — in solidarity with our neighbors. Together we can build a country where all are safe and free.

‘Seven years ago — was the deadliest act of antisemitic violence in US history.’ ‘We explain how the antisemitic, anti-immigrant, racist lies spread by Trump and MAGA politicians motivated the shooter — and continue to pose a threat to our collective safety.’ www.bendthearc.us/new_video_7_...

An injury to one, is an injury to all. #TreeOfLife

2018, Oct 27 — Pittsburgh massacre 2019 — El Paso 2022 — Buffalo The biggest-ever antisemitic violence in USA — killing Jewish, Latino, Black people. Top MAGA-GOP leaders boost "gre*t repl*cement" and "wh*te genoc*de" antisemitism. Why won't Democrats and the media, confront this antisemitism?

Sharing my new article — "Gotta Study War Work More." 'How can we interpret the relationship between warfare and workers?' read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...

Hey @smh-historians.bsky.social: interested in connecting American labor and military history? Check out our debate on "The Wages of War" in the new Sept. 2025 issue of @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social, including essays by John Hall, Reena Goldthree, and Tej Nagaraja...

Checkout the latest issue of Labor read.dukeupress.edu/labor/issue/... With a forum on class & war, labor & military — with @justinfdjackson.bsky.social, Reena Goldthree, John Hall, @tejnagaraja.bsky.social Thanks to @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social, William P. Jones, @greeneland.bsky.social

To read our great content, join the Labor and Working Class History Association! Join us in the fight. Only $50, or $20 for students, contingent scholars, and unemployed. www.dukeupress.edu/labor-and-wo...

Join us next Tuesday to hear about my book Box 25:Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal. @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social thanks to @iehs.bsky.social for organizing this!

You can judge this issue @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social by the cover! Don't miss @justinfdjackson.bsky.social's important essay on the connections between labor history and military history, with responses from John Hall, Reena Goldthree and @tejnagaraja.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social

Really fascinating essay, and deeply relevant to our own times. @tejnagaraja.bsky.social details different ways of thinking about war and labor and the misconceptions you can run into along the way. Agency, knowledge, intersectionality, types of labor, social perception. So many moving parts.

The new issue of LABOR is here, and it’s hot!

Sharing my new article — "Gotta Study War Work More." 'How can we interpret the relationship between warfare and workers?' read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...

Can’t wait! Join us if you can.

Check out this LAWCHA roundtable on Emma Amador's book! The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rico Women Organizing for Social Justice...Wed., Oct. 22, 7pm...

Check out my latest, this time for Time magazine’s Made By History series: time.com/7318570/cbs-...

I learned so much from reading A.J.—on why capturing CBS in particular is such a coup for the right. Revenge indeed. Please read and share:

Trump relies on elite support — against majority opinion — more than any president in a century? Has any president launched & escalated US wars, with less public support, than Trump? Has any president launched & escalated attacks on US workers, with less public support, than Trump?

"At 100, Ms. Ginger was among the last of a generation of lawyers and activists who weathered McCarthyism and the Red Scare, and then helped train a new cohort during the 1960s and after." 🧵

My book w/@profsorelle.bsky.social will be out in January! These ideas have brewed since I interned at Queens Legal Services 20 years ago. The book is for anyone who cares about people, justice, power & democracy. Much more to share more in the coming months! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I wrote a very short book about book clubs, a kind of memoir/essay, and it’s coming out in October! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

BORN IN FLAMES is a NYT Editors' Choice title

Calling all recent Labor PhDs! Submissions are open for the Herbert G. Gutman Prize, honoring the best dissertation in U.S. labor & working-class history. Includes $1,000, travel support, & a publishing contract. Apply today!

@long-haul-mag.bsky.social — issue #3 #1u — 📖

Read Liam Cain's remarkable account of his working life and the principles of leadership he has learned throughout: longhaulmag.com/cain-at-leas...

Issue 3 is on its way to you now 👀 👀 Design by Sara Sukhun Photographs by Gauri Gill longhaulmag.com/subscribe/

NYC — Schomburg Center — 100th anniversary… 📚

in London — — Lovely to be a guest in Ambedkar Hall, in Southall, right next to Saklatvala Hall 🔨 — Near to Engels’ house, is Ambedkar House 💙 featuring the suit Ambedkar wore when he spoke on Buddha and Marx — And to Marx’s House, with trans flag waving proud… 🏳️‍⚧️ #1u

from Schrader to Mann… 🎥

In these times — reading biography can be enriching. How did people survive & work, across crisis moments & long-haul struggles? Checkout these new books by Brian & Tourmaline & Garrett. Each speaks to carceral & class struggles, Black & American lives, labor & sexual freedoms…

Had a great time at the LAWCHA conference, connecting with good people. I was privileged to chair+comment on the work of some awesome upcoming scholars. Altogether, their dynamic approaches are really inspiring. Checkout these great topics — and stay tuned to their work...

Bernard Kerik’s bio is THE exemplar of our morbid symptoms — NYC/USA, domestic/foreign, public/private. Jersey, natch — military police — Saudi gig — NYPD top-cop — Iraq top-cop — Mideast chicanery w/ Giuliani+Witkoff — sex-cult crony — Trump pardon, natch www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...

👀📖 — a new issue of ⁦‪Long Haul magazine — #1u

I think we put together a pretty cool second issue. Check it out: longhaulmag.com

80 years ago, this week — — Antifascists win the deaths of Mussolini, Hitler, Goebbels — Allies liberate Dachau and other Nazi camps — Prague and Sétif uprisings in Europe and Africa… 🌍

📣📕 My chapter in “The Greater Second World War” — traces the links across labor & racial & imperial struggles — in the heat of the worldwide postwar moment. Looking at what I consider to be a global uprising of “1946” — helps to shed new light on global politics then, and since…

Check out my new article: SOVIET AND US INVOLVEMENT IN THE COLONIAL WORLD, 1939-1945, published in ‘The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives’, ed. by R. Lawlor and A. Buchanan (Cornell University Press): muse.jhu.edu/pub/255/edit... via @lsehy.bsky.social @cornellupress.bsky.social

Delighted to have provided one of the endorsements for 'The Greater Second World War' ed. by Andrew N Buchanan & Ruth Lawlor & looking forward to getting my hands on a hard copy @cornellupress.bsky.social. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...