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The Overseer Class is now available wherever books are sold. To every soul who helped me write it, to every soul who pre-ordered, to every soul who *will* read and share it, to every soul who stands together in solidarity in these times, “all of us, hand in hand,” THANK YOU 🙏🏾❤️

It's pub day for Steven Thrasher's book "The Overseer Class”. More than anything, our times demand class analysis. Having analyzed a Viral Underclass — now @thrasherxy.bsky.social traces an Overseer Class. If you neglected to preorder — ORDER THE BOOK TODAY! Thanks for your wisdom + work, Steven.

VAP job in Labor Studies at Morehouse. We're past the formal application deadline, but this was posted very late and I'm told folks can and should still apply. morehouse.peopleadmin.com/postings/14459

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First, they taxed the private jets And I did not speak out. fortune.com/2026/05/16/n...

📣📣New publication w/ @ymurad.bsky.social 📣📣 We argue that the racial wealth gap is as much a gap in financial resources as it is a gap in power. Turning attention to power, we posit tenant organizing as pathway to fundamentally alter wealth inequality. Read here 👇🏾 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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‘They crowded up to Lenin…’ 🎶

“The Wrong Man” (1957) — is ‘the closest Hitchcock ever came to making an art film’, according to Jonathan Rosenbaum. It’s a classic of on-location Queens cinema — influential on later criminal-punishment procedurals — and a key influence for how Scorsese shot ‘Taxi Driver’ two decades later…

Today would be Coretta Scott King’s 99th birthday. CSK was a lifelong freedom fighter & more of an activist than MLK when they met. As a student she’d supported the Progressive Party’s 3rd party challenge for president opposing US militarism, racism & economic inequality. We need to know her.

In WW2, the USA said: Don't talk about it. Now I say, let's talk about TROOP MOVEMENTS — my book out this Sep. Checkout blurbs from Robin DG Kelley, Will Jones, etc—and PRE-ORDER it! www.amazon.com/Troop-Moveme... Contact me with any ideas? — RE: events, teaching it, podcasts, book-reviews… Thx!

There is still time to submit a proposal to this special issue of @jhppl. If you are a researcher who studies organizing or if you are an organizer who has something to say—this is a space for you. Submit!

On last Sunday's Labor History Today Podcast, Peter Cole explained why there are three monuments to the Haymarket Affair in Chicago and what they tell us about public history in the United States. laborhistorytoday.podbean.com/e/what-hayma...

My book — “TROOP MOVEMENTS” — is due out in September. You can see the description & blurbs — on Bookshop, Am*zon, etc-etc. You can *PRE-ORDER* the book. If anyone may want to assign & teach it — or do a review, or an interview, or an event — please do be in touch! www.amazon.com/Troop-Moveme...

I’ve observed DRUM’s & CAAAV’s work for 25 years — and I’ve witnessed some of their approach in the 2025-2026 juncture. We can learn alot from such inspired organizations — about horizons of possibility — how long-haul hardwork grounding, can meet a momentary opportunity for wider politics.

Fascinating interview w/ NYC community organizers on the challenges and opportunities created by having a socialist mayor. So impressed by the thoughtful approach to building power for immigrant communities, engaging electoral and community work, and the inside-outside strategy for driving change

It’s my pleasure to be visiting UC Santa Barbara, this week — talking about my 2026 book, and my ongoing research — and meeting with awesome people across disciplines at UCSB.

IEHS Outstanding Dissertation Award -Winner: Sarah Meiners, “Asylum Archipelago: Migration in the Borders of Empire in the Caribbean and the Pacific” -Honorable Mention: Lauren Catterson, “Bad Behaviour at the Border: Abuse, Misconduct, and the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Immigration Service” 6/

Our thoughts on the last five years of strikes in America. Happy May Day! ✊🍞🌹 @laboraction.bsky.social

As we celebrate May Day (and our project’s 5th anniversary), check out our thoughts on the current state of strikes in the United States ✊ jacobin.com/2026/05/us-s...

Reminder! The good folks at my two great publishers, Celadon and Amistad, are giving away 🚨5 FREE SETS OF BOTH OF MY BOOKS!🚨 To be eligible, all you have to do is comment on Insta by the deadline FRIDAY, May 1! 👉 www.instagram.com/p/DXibP42jv7...

Do u guys think we are in the midst of a moral crisis

Please join us on Wednesday May 6 at 7pm on Zoom for this important discussion, (Re)Defining the American Working Class.

“Native fascism” was the historical experience of Black America writ large, argues Luther Adams - Free Man of Color, in a new essay on the Black anti-fascist tradition, available below at LaborOnline. lawcha.org/2026/04/15/p...

Why not, “How Conservatives Came to Target the Southern Poverty Center”? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

My book — “TROOP MOVEMENTS” — is due out in September. You can see the description & blurbs — on Bookshop, Am*zon, etc-etc. You can *PRE-ORDER* the book. If anyone may want to assign & teach it — or do a review, or an interview, or an event — please do be in touch! www.amazon.com/Troop-Moveme...

An amazing book

This is a wonderful book and everyone should read it.

Wrote a piece about Martha and the Vandellas, civil rights, and their place in the history of Black women R&B groups. I also created a YouTube playlist (in the comments) with some of their hits

My book TROOP MOVEMENTS is coming soon. Check it out? It’s about political struggles over fascism & war, the imperial & the carceral, class & race & global freedom. www.pennpress.org/978151282990... If you might want to assign it, or review it, or preorder it — please stay tuned, or get in touch!

If you’re @oah.org in Philly come hear @benchansfield.bsky.social @rbatzell.bsky.social @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social Patrick Chung and I discuss our new books on race and capitalism in the US and the world this afternoon (1:30-3pm)

Who will be at the OAH historians conference in Philly? Hope to cross paths! On Friday at 10:30am — we have some dynamic scholars talking about labor and empire…

We're all set up here in Philly for @oah.org's annual meeting! Come visit us in booth 408 in the book exhibit if you're attending, or check out our #OAH26 virtual exhibit store, where you can save 40% on all books with code OAH26 (expires May 19)! https://bit.ly/3OjA5pj

Are you headed to #OAH?? Let us know what panels #SHAFRHistorians should hit up and join us at the Loews Hotel Friday evening for an informal meet-up!

Who will be at the OAH historians conference in Philly? Hope to cross paths! On Friday at 10:30am — we have some dynamic scholars talking about labor and empire…

Hey friends in Philly and historians attending the OAH conference, I will be speaking about BLUE POWER tonight at Wooden Shoe Books. Hope to see you there!

Will Harvard will seek “viewpoint diversity” in the Business School and some of the most popular undergraduate majors in Arts and Sciences, including Applied Math, Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Psychology, Statistics, and the various Engineering and Biology programs?

Been waiting for this! A must read.

“viewpoint diversity” is a right-wing political project, as lisa siraganian explores in great detail here: www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

"An invaluable primer on the essentials of labor organizing in higher education..." The latest issue of @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social explores how we reached the current crisis in higher education and what can be done. The full article is available at LaborOnline. lawcha.org/2026/04/06/r...

My book TROOP MOVEMENTS is coming soon. Check it out? It’s about political struggles over fascism & war, the imperial & the carceral, class & race & global freedom. www.pennpress.org/978151282990... If you might want to assign it, or review it, or preorder it — please stay tuned, or get in touch!

What politics shaped the US police/state? What does that mean for US today? 🚨📕 — “Blue Power” by Schrader Stuart has a singular approach and voice — truly vital for US to grapple with our recent history and current situation…

"BLUE POWER: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves" by Stuart Schrader (@stschrader1.bsky.social) is now available from Basic Books! A history of police unions that reveals how American law enforcement built a political movement that made cops untouchable.

Incredibly excited to share this brief excerpt from BLUE POWER (@basicbooksgroup.bsky.social), published online today by @nplusonemag.com. It's about how a cop who became a member of Congress herded police into a powerful lobbying unit. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Congratulations to my pal @stschrader1.bsky.social! His new book Blue Power - which Ruthie Gilmore called a ‘tour de force’ - is out today!

“Schrader’s focus on the police as a political force — clarifies the rise of authoritarianism in the United States, and the political transformation it has wrought.”

BLUE POWER is out on Tuesday! Still time to preorder from @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social with discount code BLUE20: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stuar...