Reading Alberto Toscano has only cemented my conviction that I need to write a global history of the counter-revolution since 1945

As myself and others within the academic and research world have been clearly pointing out this has all been counterinsurgency, not actual on the ground changes Elite media is helping to amplify that counter insurgency propaganda in place of the reality that nothing on the ground here has changed

Seems clear that the regime is using counter-insurgency tactics to punish cities for their legal & institutional opposition to the fascists.

Welcome to my Super Bowl party. Please enjoy my assorted ferments and raw milk.

I think we’d be a lot less “mad” if Moyn hadn’t spent years attacking everyone to the left of center — especially “liberals” — who had already figured this shit out.

Can anyone recommend decent books or articles on the violent aspects of the Moroccan and Tunisian independence struggles?

and coming up next at the national prayer breakfast we have this golden calf that we’re all worshiping now, lets get those hands in the air for the golden calf everybody

People are always like. How do you do it. How do you write and teach all week and also be Bargaining Chair for the union amidst rising fascism. And the answer is simple. Seven beers on a Friday. You will certainly not regret seven beers on a Friday

Join us for our book launch!! birmm.research.vub.be/virtual-book...

I just got a copy of my cover for my forthcoming book! It features a postcard from Fez by the Moroccan Jewish photographer Joseph Bouhsira. Bouhsira was the first Moroccan to establish his own commercial photography studio, and many of his images featured the Jewish community in Fez.

"the complex balancing act for colleges and universities in responding to ICE actions" it is continually revealing to see who and what institutions actually think that basic moral propositions are really that complex. this is wrong; it's not hard to say so, even if there's something to lose.

Looking forward to visiting Little Rock and spending some time with UALR students!

My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.

Never a better time to unionize your faculty

This is pathetic. They sold us out

"[T]he current surveillance follows efforts by Campus Reform and Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, which began singling out professors for their perceived liberal biases over a decade ago." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

Whatever this is, it’s Not Good. This is a drastic step and obviously not meant to alert CIA Director Ratcliffe, rather to alert us. Given Wyden’s interest in privacy and surveillance and what’s going on around the country, I’d wager a bit of money that the CIA has been doing domestic things.

so i guess 'democracy dies in darkness' was not a caution but rather the business plan.

This man is very fond of being a fascist, so I hope he gets his wish and goes the way of Mussolini

You guys remember when social media was a place to have fun

Wyden is not an alarmist. If he thinks something is this bad it’s probably worse than we can imagine

This should be the Democratic Party message 24/7

Wut

Don't like this at all

Reading through police reports and in June 1954 all these Algerians in the west of the country were carrying *mostly* nonviolent protest actions against French rule. Except for the Tlemceniens, that is, who were out there just burning cars to a crisp in the middle of the night.

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

So we are at the part of fascist consolidation where the largest newspapers in the country are creating puff pieces about fascist terrorists trying to make them out as normal people not the stochastic terrorists they are.

No surprise given the forum in which this article was published (one long hostile to serious reporting on the academic labor movement) but the article fails to note that the key goal of these conservative centers is to undermine departmental & faculty governance. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Listen. I just need you to hear me out: Kimchi quesadilla

I wrote about why the perpetual disconnects of social media happen and how to be online without wanting to kill everyone. (Links to this week's podcast episode also included!)

Ahem. scholarworks.uark.edu/cgi/viewcont...

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

To understand the logic behind these warehouses and this new horrific carceral regime, you can’t do better than Ruthie Gilmore’s The Golden Gulag.

It appears that Kevin Warsh may be the next Fed Chair. You may not be familiar with his deeply unserious game. Allow me to offer you some collected receipts:

Many thanks for the generous review!

The Onion so on point it hurts, as usual

Laminated notice taped to a utility pole that reads: “ICE KIDNAPPED OUR NEIGHBOR HERE” “AQUÍ LA MIGRA SECUESTRÓ A NUESTRO VECINO.” “HALKAN IMMIGRATION-KA AYAA AFDUUBTAY DERISKEENA.” South Minneapolis, January 2026

Rest in peace. One of the greats!

The world is burning down and I just signed a contract for a 30,000-word book manuscript due December 1 so wish me luck lol

So, incredibly, the White House has chosen to escalate in blue Minnesota and retreat in Maine to protect a vulnerable GOP Senator. It's confirmation that Trump-Vance-Miller view ICE as a partisan govt-backed militia to attack blue America while propping up their regime. 1/

Cardinal McElroy: The Trump-Vance ICE killings represent a "profound moral failure" of the US Government. “The murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti have left communities in Minneapolis and across the nation grieving, shaken, and rightly outraged," they are “a profound moral failure” of our leaders.

Trying to come up with a theory on why anti-Trump culture has been so much better this go around

“In theater” is repulsive. But that number: 3,000. If it were just ICE, that’d be well over half their armed (ERO) officers. CBP is harder to count, but even with them that’s a big chunk of the staff. For one midsized city. That they are failing to “pacify.”

Amazing how the university's fancy new external email quarantine filters can block the docusign email I need to sign an advance book contract but not a message from "Massage Chair Sales"