"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

On the many afterlives of Haiti’s misunderstood Henry Christophe, from Marlene L. Daut’s Cundill Prize-shortlisted The First and Last King of Haiti.

Neuerscheinung: David McNally Slavery and Capitalism A New Marxist History www.ucpress.edu/books/slaver...

New ep: Trump’s intense police, ICE, military repression w/ Alberto Toscano and @stschrader1.bsky.social. What does this reveal about MAGA’s fascist authoritarian project—and about the illiberalism immanent in carceral and imperialist state? FIRST in 2-part series www.thedigradio.com/podcast/fasc...

In «Konterrevolution und Revolte» beschreibt Herbert Marcuse, wie die westlichen Staaten nach den 68er-Protesten mit einer Konterrevolution reagierten, um das kapitalistische System zu restabilisieren. 👉 Hört jetzt die neue Folge «tl;dr» – überall dort, wo es Podcasts gibt.

"Das moralische Versagen des Westens in Gaza markiert eine weitere Zeitenwende. Wir leben bereits in dieser neuen Welt, dieser neuen Ordnung, die noch keinen Namen hat, aber ein Gesicht, das Gesicht der Hungernden von Gaza."

People on the Right claiming the Kirk murder is an “American Reichstag fire” that justifies a massive crackdown on their political enemies is really remarkable, if you think it through: In this analogy, they are actively and affirmatively taking the side of the Nazis in 1933.

Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”. They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left. This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up. www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...

Die bisher größte #Gefangenenrevolte in einem Hochsicherheitsgefängnis der USA ereignete sich vom 9-13 September 1971 in #Attica, dem größten Staatsgefängnis von New York. Sie war der Höhepunkt mehrwöchiger Unruhen nach der Ermordung von #GeorgeJackson am 21. August 1971.

Freue mich einen Text zu Infrastrukturen der Fürsorge und zu @solikreismouhamed.bsky.social in diesem Sammelband beitragen zu dürfen, den man hier kostenlos downloaden kann www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

The Weekly Read is "Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion," edited by Ananya Roy & Veronika Zablotsky. This collection examines how the liberal democracies of the West rarely grant sanctuary and refuge. Read the entire book now for free. buff.ly/5UCPGq4

»Minor Music at the End of the World« is a performance in three movements based on Saidiya Hartman’s essays »The End of White Supremacy: An American Romance« and »Litany for Grieving Sisters«. It features film by Arthur Jafa and premiered in Amsterdam this week. www.e-flux.com/announcement...

In the latest episode of the podcast, @leninology.bsky.social joins @moonjets.bsky.social to discuss the life and work of anthropologist David Graeber. Listen here: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

This week, I talk to @dreanyc123.bsky.social about the role of criminalization in authoritarianism and fascism—and why we need more outlaws, and less confusion about what the law protects and who it targets.

"Zehn Jahre nach dem Sommer der Migration: Von Solidarität zur Normalität der Gewalt" - ein aktueller Gastbeitrag von @valeriahaensel.bsky.social und mir in der Frankfurter Rundschau. @medico2.bsky.social

"Those who led the Attica uprising wanted humane treatment. Their bravery resulted in meaningful improvements. Those gains have largely been eroded. We want them back." Incarcerated artist Joseph Wilson on the perpetual near-lockdown conditions of NY prisons post–guard strike

Im Strafverteidiger (StV) ist gerade ein wichtiger neuer Artikel von Frank Wilde erschienen. Zusammen mit Einblicken aus unserer Prozessbeobachtung ergibt sich daraus ein brisantes Bild, was die Realität der Massenkriminalisierung betrifft. research.wolterskluwer-online.de/document/4d9... 🧵/

📣 Workshop: Race, Racialisation, and Racism in the European Context: Crossdisciplinary Perspectives 25–26 Sept 2025 Department of Philosophy, Free University of Berlin. www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/institu...

... with my essay on the relationship between critical race theory and the historiography of empire www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

The musician Nourished by Time’s confrontational, earnest new album is what you want to listen to, during this summer of divided consciousness, and in the colder seasons to come.

After Attica, officials found writings by Black anarchist Martin Sostre in the yard—uprising leaders had been reading these for inspiration. Orisanmi Burton interviews Garrett Felber on their new bio of Sostre, including what we could learn from his "revolutionary optimism"

🚨COMRADES!🚨 It's finally time to register for the 10th Danish conference for marxist studies on oct.10th-11th through link below! This year the theme is on "Abolition" and we are so 🎉HYPED🎉 for this year's line-up which includes our great keynotes @genderhorizon.com and @brosef-stalin.bsky.social 🔥

I've been tracking how photographers are documenting immigration enforcement, and the visual story they're telling is both devastating and essential. Let me walk you through it. The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament readingthepictures.media/p/photos-of-... 📷Michael Owen Baker/AP

Wir sind für den Grimme-Preis nominiert! www.grimme-online-award.de/2025/nominie... Hier könnt ihr uns bis Oktober eure Stimme geben: w1.grimme-online-award.de/goa/voting/e...

Criminalization of unhoused people. Criminalization of disabled people & people w/ unmet mental health needs. Criminalization of migrants. Criminalization of youth. Criminalization of underresourced Black communities The D.C. occupation shows in real time how criminalization is a vector for fascism

This obviously won’t be the end of this, but hats off to Judge Williams.

"So the story I tell is essentially that the label of criminality was attached to Black people at the end of slavery as a means of asserting control over their freedom. This had nothing to do with crime, in most instances, and everything to do with Black people asserting freedom." -- Kahlil Muhammad

Witchwords. This is what W.E.B. Du Bois called discourse or phrases used to discredit or repress political critiques or organizing. As Charisse Burden-Stelly details, today’s witchwords, like DEI and woke, are part of today’s red scare. jewishcurrents.org/anatomy-of-a...

Ernst Cassirer distinguishes between 2 different functions of language: a semantic function, intended to produce meaning, and a magical function, intended to produce effect. The language of »terrorism« is the language of myth, in which the magic function takes precedence over the semantic function.

✨ New Essay by @greenbackbetter.bsky.social! ✨ Du Bois's "psychological wage" was never just a metaphor. Whiteness has long functioned as a rogue credit infrastructure, from racialized federal housing policy to cinematic grammar to Trump's spectacle of resentment. Please read & share! 🙏 👩‍💻 🙌

Solche Analysen führen nicht weit genug, weil eine »echte Fehlerkultur« nichts daran ändern würde, dass die Polizei der Reproduktion einer rassistischen Gesellschaftsordnung dient. Siehe hierzu @justicecollective.bsky.social www.racismontrial.org/de/findings/...

An effigy of refugees, burned by a crowd: this is where Europe’s brutal fantasy of border control has led us | Maurice Stierl

Für die dritte Ausgabe der New Benjamin Studies unter dem Titel „Walter Benjamin in Times of Crisis“ werden Beiträge gesucht, die sich mit Walter Benjamins Denkfiguren im Licht globaler Entwicklungen und Missstände auseinandersetzen. In seinem gesamten... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=29935

„Die Armut ist ihnen förmlich in Gesicht und Körper eingeschrieben: die Zähne sind sichtbar kaputt oder fehlen, die Haut ist fahl und teils voller Verletzungen.“ Neue Studie zeigt, wie Menschen die Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe erleben. Rund ¼ von ihnen tritt sie wegen Fahren ohne Ticket an.

In a new interview, Mumia Abu-Jamal notes, “You cannot have had the exceptionalism of Trumpism without the Clinton/Biden crime bill and the mass expansion of prisons laying a road map for this.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

For Furio Jesi, right-wing culture is “the culture within which the past is a kind of homogenized pap that can be modelled and formed as one sees fit”: GenAI as mythological machine.

This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants. This is horrifying beyond words. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I wrote about California, ICE, and the criminalization of immigrants and dissent.

Twelve PhD positions (E13, 65%, 48 months) in our new interdisciplinary @dfg.de research training program "Aesthetics of Democracy" @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt. Application deadline November 14, 2025. Program start April 1, 2026. Drop me a note if you need further info.

"Verlassen wir dieses Europa, das nicht aufhört, vom Menschen zu reden, und ihn dabei niedermetzelt, wo es ihn trifft, an allen Ecken seiner eigenen Straßen, an allen Ecken der Welt" #FrantzFanon * 20. Juli 1925

In this July issue of Prisons, Prose & Protest, I give a short history of the US government’s use of immigration and passport control to punish well-known Black activists for their political speech. I recommend two excellent new abolitionist podcasts, several good recent articles, and more…

‘“What can be done?” the European diplomat might ask me today. For a start, call a spade a spade. This is an apartheid regime carrying out a genocide on a captive population. End military assistance. Suspend arms exports to Israel.’ Tareq Baconi on Gaza: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Feels like this story needs lot more national attention.

Alle zwei Wochen habe ich für @ndaktuell.bsky.social über das faschistische Amerika berichtet. Diese Woche war meine letzte Kolumne, über zwei antifaschistische Tugenden: Mut und Fürsorge. www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1192...

Annual conference by our Association of Palestinian and Jewish Academics (PJA) hosted by Spore Initiative is taking place on 20th July. It's titled "university and scholasticide: from complicity to solidarity". Stay tuned! pja-verein.de/2025/06/26/u... spore-initiative.org/en/programmi...

After Robert Gooding-Williams’ stint at the @ktbberlin.bsky.social summer school, @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social, Andreas-Johann Sorger and I are hosting a discussion at the Kennedy Institute on his new book @columbiaup.bsky.social www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/faculty/cult...

"If killing 23 civilians at an aid distribution site is not terrorism, how can we possibly be expected to accept that spray-painting a plane is?" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Schöne Rezension von @sariyoko.bsky.social, die Nora Kellers »Stärker als das, was uns trennt« als »eine in Deutschland bisher rar gesäte abolitionistische Fallstudie« liest.

"Die #Bezahlkarte zu umgehen und ihren Inhaber*innen mehr Bargeld zu ermöglichen, ist ein kleiner, aber realer Beitrag zur Verbesserung der Lebensumstände von Geflüchteten. Diese direkte Aktion sollte aber nicht den Eindruck erwecken, sich selbst zu genügen. 1/2

For Juneteenth, we put together a reading list of some of our most inspiring articles on themes of the long struggle for abolition. Contributions from Angela Y. Davis, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Joy James, @prisonculture.bsky.social @mskellymhayes.bsky.social & more. inquest.org/juneteen...