❗LA City Council Member Hugo Soto-Martinez demanding that LA28 Chair Casey Wasserman step down after creepy emails between Wasserman & Ghislaine Maxwell appeared in the Epstein files. “Casey Wasserman should step aside immediately. Anything less is a distraction." www.dailynews.com/2026/02/03/j...

It’s not just Oklahoma City??? anymore — LA28 is adding six new venues outside of the LA region that will host the soccer matches and semi-finals for the 2028 Summer Olympics: NYC, Columbus, Nashville, St. Louis, San Jose, and San Diego

The thanks belongs to @mfkantor.bsky.social for his fantastic book and his willingness to share his insights!

Dear @feministkelly.bsky.social Thank you for this interview on the history of D.A.R.E! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u... @uncpress.bsky.social

Police forces consistently use the Olympics their own private cash machine. LAPD is already asking for additional $100 million & we’re 2.5 full years away from the Games. Gives lie to LA28 organizers’ claims that it will deliver a *completely privately funded Olympics* laist.com/news/lapd-wa...

Today is publication day for Protest and Pedagogy! To receive 30% off the list price, enter the promotion code 08PROTEST at checkout #histed #edhist #history #charlottesville #protestandpedagogy #protest #pedagogy @aeradivf-history.bsky.social @ugapress.bsky.social

The U.S.-Born Unemployment Rate Rose After Trump Reduced Immigration www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

i have written this a few times now but the reason JD Vance spends all day posting is that they barely tolerate his presence in the white house and have locked him out of every decision of consequence. he is basically unemployed

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

This is regime change without any pretense.

If your drug-dealing pres be Honduran, We’ll give that criminal a pardon But if you’re the head of Venezuela Trump will send in troops to jail ya

Best of 2025: @mfkantor.bsky.social

"Wherever the agents appear, even when they lean idly, chatting, we see the cold threat of violence and the fragility of freedom. And in the brave crowds who gather to confront them, scrambling their illusion of total control, we see the power of solidarity..." hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...

my latest is on the odd confluence of unitary executive theory with a president who is mostly AWOL from the business of governance (gift link)

I have bad news for you about Democrats and policing *reform*

For those that have not been following what's happening in San Francisco--an unelected cryptocurrency billionaire just gave millions to the city to expand and consolidate its massive surveillance apparatus (which has just been discovered to be leaking data to ICE) and found a police foundation.

Absolutely ludicrous to think you can call the cops on ICE. Cops = ICE - citylimits.org/local-police...

How to record ICE: 1) Record from a safe distance. DO NOT INTERVENE. 2) Put the DATE, TIME, & LOCATION on the video. 3) Ask for NAMES & BIRTHDAYS 4) CONTEXT, how many people were taken? What happened? How? 5) If possible, document vehicles used and agents, even if masked. @eltragon.bsky.social

Readers, @uncpress.bsky.social has a new website and is celebrating with a 48-hour 50% flash sale (US only, use code 01NEWSITE50) so I thought I'd do a 🧵of some of my favorite American modern history titles available at uncpress.org

Another favorite is DARE to Say No, by @mfkantor.bsky.social, an insightful critical study of something often remembered as a joke that bridges the fields of education history, carceral history, and political history: uncpress.org/978146967904...

Say it again for those in the back: HUMANITIES USUALLY SUBSIDIZE STEM at most R1s. Yes we have receipts.

genuinely brings me pleasure that no one respects this guy (least of all himself)

***Historians of California and/or policing*** Police Records Access Project clean.calmatters.org

Instead of abandoning the public realm — which is what it feels like LA has done! — our leaders need to prioritize the places we can find community and confluence, solidarity and solace. The same places that, with a little more foresight, can also become our best defense to tackle those crises

Check out the newest episode of #LAPodcast from #ThinkForwardLA. On SMOKES AND SMEARERS, @awalkerinla.bsky.social and @mikebonin.bsky.social sit down for a full assessment of recovery efforts six months after the January fires — and discuss why a key rebuilding effort went off the rails. Plus...

NEW LA Podcast -- updates on LA under siege as at least 500 people are brutally taken in federal raids, the massive No Kings rally in DTLA ends in police violence, how CHIRLA’s rapid response team is monitoring detention centers, widespread fear fuels economic crisis across a city of immigrants...

Listen to today's "ICE GUYS FINISH LAST" episode featuring @awalkerinla.bsky.social @mikebonin.bsky.social @rachelreyes.bsky.social and Oscar Zarate at Think Forward, on Apple Podcasts, via Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts

"At least 1,260 people were killed by police in 2024. More people were killed by police in 2024 than any other year in the past decade. ... Officers were charged with a crime in only 9 of these cases. Less than one percent of all killings by police."

Love how this administration talks about LA like it's fucking Dresden in 1945. Let me go instead, you babies. I've been craving a jalapeno egg burrito from the Tacos Por Favor on Olympic for like six months now.

With protests like No Kings happening across the nation, we’ve curated a reading list on protest, immigration, and civic action to help you unpack the history behind today’s movements. Explore the list on the blog 📚 uncpressblog.com/2025/06/16/p...

Thanks to John Oliver for quoting my highly scientific analysis proving we don’t need federal troops in LA

44/141 2025 Official Submission #MAAHStoneAtoZ

More people protested today than went to the president’s fascist parade. It’s incredibly important to remember that

Cannot stress enough that the protest in DTLA was completely nonviolent until the local police departments showed up Been in contact with multiple indies currently on the ground who confirmed this. Cops pushed, then started firing riot munitions indiscriminately

I started a form to collect tips about police misconduct toward press at ICE protests in Los Angeles. Press rights groups are working to hold police accountable & restrain use of force. Evidence helps!! Thank you for 50+ incidents identified so far. This community rocks. forms.gle/rTiL1VYUfGCV...

Keep in mind that these are local police who work for a Democratic mayor, who hates any form of disorder and loves police.

ICE has initiated 514 new agreements with local law enforcement agencies across 40 states since January — they empower local officers to question immigration status during traffic stops and other routine policing With @propublica.org

ICE raids in Los Angeles are continuing today, with a heavy presence of immigration officers in Paramount, a city that is 82% Latino www.latimes.com/california/s...

One thing is for certain after this week: Local cops in sanctuary cities—Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York—are working in lock step with DHS and ICE.

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/...

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-...

Indiana's governor fired all the elected members of Indiana University's Board of Trustees. Given a recent policy change, he'll be able to fill those seats with appointees. Which means he'll basically have unilateral control over IU decisions, including who gets hired, tenured, and fired.

WAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE: @awalkerinla.bsky.social @godfreyplata.bsky.social and I discuss the LA budget going from disastrous to “very bad." That and a lot more this week. Listen -- and subscribe at thinkforward.la! @laforward.bsky.social www.thinkforward.la/la-podcast/

this is so ugly and I hate it. these local campuses are so important to their communities and the students they serve, and punch above their weight in terms of the resources they get from the main system.

When asked to define habeas corpus, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said, “Well, habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country.”

Who are the 2028 Olympic games for? The world? Or the people who live and work in L.A? That’s a question officials are wrestling with as the games approach. Today, LA City Council voted 11-3, for an an “Olympic Wage,” saying hospitality workers deserve to make $30/hr by 2028.