“There is power in grief, because grief draws us together in moments when our enemies would tear us apart.”

Again it’s not good that the most prominent leaders of the party keep insisting it’s a trap to talk about “identity” when the Trump administration is pushing white supremacy.

Tomorrow. D.C. The National Mall. Sunup to sundown.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

This is structurally similar to the critique of Zionism as “a machine for the conversion of grief into power.” This is why you see ethnonationalist regimes instantly exploit martyrs to erode norms and increase their power. Victims “on their side” aren’t tragedies—they are fuel.

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.” So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.

Some of us have studied and understand regeneration through violence as a real rich historical phenomenon; its roots, which run deep and wide, are integral to US national identity, ideology, and mythology.

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

Dems don't want a platform, they want a vocabulary, and that is the fundamental problem

Just going to say that there is no need to exceptionalize immigrant jails because every US jail and prison is like this. All of them without exception.

glen helen nature preserve

"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."

It's a weird day for those of us who were only allowed to watch PBS as kids.

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

For the second year in a row, Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair is wearing cleats in solidarity Palestine. My coworker @michaelshapiro.bsky.social talked to Azeez last year about them: "The biggest thing I can attest to is just being steadfast in my beliefs." www.chron.com/sports/texan...

One fascinating thing about the most self-serious newspaper in America with its staff of the winning journalistic meritocrats is that it routinely, institutionally publishes completely made-up bullshit speculation about pure abstractions, based on zero reporting, written as if it were plain facts

The way that I was raised, being Jewish meant believing that every human life was sacred; to save a single human life meant saving all of humanity. That no law or ritual was more important than saving a single human life. It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.

Have you heard the good news? A forthcoming conference will launch the The Association of Law and Political Economy: a membership organization with a regular annual conference, elected leadership, and an architecture for open participation and collaboration.

Excited to announce the HBCU Radio Preservation Project is hiring a FT Public Historian! As this field goes, the job is multifaceted. You'll work collaboratively, record oral histories, tell stories digitally, help plan symposia, write publicly, and more. Happy to answer any questions bit.ly/4eWchjZ

I so appreciate this piece by Antonio Ramirez about the history of convict leasing in Florida's swamplands, and the effort by Marjory Stoneman Douglas and others, to end it. In violent and brutal places, there are always people resisting, affirming life, imagining freedom. time.com/7302799/dark...

This is unreal: Houston just made it illegal "for any person to sit or lie down on a sidewalk or on a blanket, stool, or any other object placed upon a sidewalk." Being unhoused in public is now a criminal offense.

Prison labor exists but prisons are better characterized as warehouses for the reserve army of labor.

If you missed this discussion with our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @tamikamiddleton.bsky.social, @dnbrgr.bsky.social + @kenyonfarrow.bsky.social on the importance of interrupting criminalization and abolitionist organizing to fight against fascism/authoritarianism, check out the recording:

people: mamdani is going to turn NYC into a theocracy!!!! SCOTUS: it's ok if ur religion thinks being gay is evil and don't want ur kids to read about it in school

Forget history, we can’t learn from the immediate past, where we all were, like five minutes ago.

PLEASE SPREAD!!! CMB has purchased 14 acres of farm land 20 minutes outside of Atlanta as a space for food production, movement retreat meeting, and training space. We are specifically raising money to support the building of our retreat space on the land! fundrazr.com/LoveLandLibe...

Very pleased to announce preorders for my forthcoming book, Living in the D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made (Atria/One Signal), is available wherever you buy your books. Coming out January 2026! The preorder link is in the comments. I can't wait for you all to read!

I never got a chance to meet my WYSO colleague, Mary Evans, as I work remotely in Houston. But her work reporting on people’s lived experiences of incarceration and re-entry is so vital. Rest in power and condolences to a shaken family and community. 😢 www.wyso.org/reentrystories

So SLAVERY.

If they’re going to charge municipal officials with assault for requesting to see a warrant, I don’t see the benefit of ensuring all anti-ICE actions are orderly or “peaceful.” You can be an elected official calmly invoking procedural norms, they don’t care.

Finishing up in Baltimore what’s been a long, professionally and personally sustaining ten day roadtrip across the Mid-Atlantic with my HBCU Radio Preservation Project comrades. Reading Ashley Howard’s fantastic book, Midwest Unrest, with a cup of coffee each morning has been a joy. Ready for home.

THREAD: The assassinations in Minnesota highlight a dirty secret hardly ever mentioned in the news: U.S. has 1.1 million private police officers. There is an unprecedented footprint of privately organized violence that is doing all sorts of things most people have no idea about.

in so many videos out of LA i am seeing officers aiming rubber bullets right into crowds, this is filling me with a deep and anxious rage knowing what happens when they do that www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.

Subscribe to Carceral History, a new newsletter by @melanienewport.bsky.social celebrating new books and research in U.S. carceral history (and beyond!) carceral-history.ghost.io/introducing-...

It's never been a better time to think about #BlackPower. @ProfJeffries & I are co-editing a Special Issue on "The Roots and Routes of Black Power." Got thoughts & feels about activism past & present? Submit an article by July 1 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Pretty wild to make your entire case about how immigrants are lawless freeloaders, but having to go to their workplaces and court hearings to arrest them.

Worth noting that, although police reform doesn't mitigate police violence, it *does* perform other political functions that are useful to politicians: reform provides the appearance of "doing something about" a problem and can attenuate short-term social movement pressures.

Massively good news: The provision that would have let the trump administration strip the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit organization they wanted simply by declaring them to be a "terrorist supporting organization" has been removed from the budget bill. Pushing back against these people works.

The HBCU Radio Preservation Project recently clocked its 40th oral history interview. That’s 40 stories narrated by radio workers and community supporters that recall the power of Black radio to inform, unite and MOVE the people. Listen to and share the collection, here. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A prestigious law school depriving students of their 1A rights is so fucking sad.

“you can’t unleash something that has never been restrained in the first place. And in the U.S., the police have never been restrained.” theintercept.com/2025/05/02/t...

#OtD 1 May 1989 prisoners at Risley Remand Centre in the north-west of England celebrated May 1st in style by taking over a wing of the notoriously squalid, brutal prison and spending three days on the roof stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8130...

Today's May Day protests are global. A friend sent me this scene today from Paris. www.allrisenews.com/p/rising-thi...

To reconstitute a neoliberal order that has us caught “between diversity and despotism” is the goal. I love @arunkundnani.bsky.social’s framing of racism’s complementary modes. Solutions lie in anti-colonial Black and Brown theorizations, liberatory voices repressed and co-opted within these poles.