Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

To my NYC friends, I thought you would appreciate that I saw a bunch of “I ❤️ NY” T-shirts on my morning run in Balboa Park. I will always love NYC but it was nice to see it was such a popular west coast view this morning.

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

An amazing and essential book for our times! I am grateful to be in the room for this set of panelists and their conversation about the #apocalypse and #immigration in the USA.

This is exactly what the entire Dem message should be. Every single Dem should be out there saying this every single day.

"The new Luddites aren’t afraid of AI. They’re afraid of the people who profit from pretending it’s intelligent." Erik J. Larson reviews "The AI Con" by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-return-of-the-luddites/

Motherf*cking cheaters.

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Trump would rather build a tacky ballroom for himself than keep kids from going hungry. Thank you @govpritzker.illinois.gov for supporting our food banks and helping ensure that Illinois families will be able to put food on the table when Republicans won’t.

Chicagoans continue to run out of their homes to confront ICE, guard schools and churches, buy out street vendors so they can stay home, and grocery-shop for vulnerable families. The people are what makes us a sanctuary city. Whenever I start to despair, I try to remember that

Another great piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social about how the Dems also want to act like racism isn’t important: “But don’t tell me that excusing that tattoo is good politics. It is the exact same politics that the right is selling, in a different outfit” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

While Donald Trump builds his knock-off Versailles on White House grounds, his government shutdown is depriving millions of Californians of federal food assistance. Trump and his lapdog Congress just don't care, period.

I am excited this will be out in the world by mid-November!

Proofs day! Disidentifying Letters and a Sense of the Assemblies: On Munoz’s Approaches and Affects coming soon in the next issue of Bible and Critical Theory, thanks to @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social, Peter Anthony Mena, @rhiannongraybill.bsky.social, Rob Seesengood, and some generous reviewers!

CFP MELUS 2026: Panel on 21st Century Latinx Children's Books and Media https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/13/cfp-melus-2026-panel-on-21st-century-latinx-childrens-books-and-media #acrel #aarsbl #sblaar

a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history

It is frankly strange to be this obsessed with college if you no longer attend one and do not work in education. More people in legacy media need to be told that.

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.” The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

This moment is disturbing even in the mundane: I’ve started taking screenshots of historical sources I’m using in research from the national park service, the smithsonian, and the national archives, just in case they get taken down. It’s now a part of my process and takes time I have to plan for.

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#tdih 1850, U.S. Congress passed draconian Fugitive Slave Act which required that people who'd escaped from slavery to anywhere in U.S. be captured & returned. 💔 Punished those who did not comply. Undoes claim of concern for "states rights." Lessons + more ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fu...

J. Kameron Carter on a murder that is only perceived as martyrdom within that special US religion of whiteness “Kirk’s martyrdom is not a parable about expression. It is a revelation of authoritarian America’s ongoing attempt to sanctify itself.”: religionotherwise.substack.com/p/murdered-n...

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him

“Kirk’s first act on the national stage was to create a McCarthyite watchlist of college and university professors, lecturers and academics.” I know people on this list who suffered for it. Murder is not the answer. Truth is. Bouie remembers Kirk honestly as the hateful, white supremacist he was.

thanks to @janetspittler.bsky.social for "shouting out" my translation of/intro to the LIFE OF THECLA here—still available for pretty cheap from Wipf & Stock (40% off if you sing up for their newsletter!) wipfandstock.com/978166674640...

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Kirk spread hate and disinformation for a dozen years and wasn’t shot at until after he called for the release of the Epstein files.

Sotomayor anticipated this. I think a lot of Latines in #HigherEd are thinking about this today. Thanks @professorjvh.bsky.social for writing it up so quickly. cloakinginequity.com/2025/09/09/s...

Hoping to see people this Friday for off-script’s first conversation of the semester with Dr. Rachel Schwaller about unscripted unsettlement. Register at sowingtheseed.org/off-script

Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

Seen out and about in Chicago.

Gov. Pritzker enlists the public's help: "What we've asked is that people pull out their iPhone or their Android phone and film what they're seeing. Take a video of everything so see so that we can know if, in fact, laws are being broken by these federal officials coming into our state."

Happening tomorrow!

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I love how the "everybody had slaves back then" argument is so instantly revealing, because without knowing any history, anyone can easily think of a group of people who without a doubt owned zero slaves

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It is terrible that Oregon is trying to just eliminate multiple humanities departments and their faculty because of a potential budget crunch. I am not much of a believer in online petitions but I signed this and was asked to invite others to consider it: actionnetwork.org/petitions/fi...

If “good” white men cared about saving their nation, they’d organize themselves and infiltrate I.C.E. It wouldn’t be difficult. The organization is anonymous—famously. Mask up and get to work‼️ You people should be gathering intel, identifying weak spots and opportunities for sabotage. 🇺🇸

An incredible moment at tonight's Washington Spirit home game at Audi Field, as the crowd erupts in a "FREE DC" chant.

The White House is mobilizing red state military forces to occupy a Democratic stronghold and let me tell you: No one has ever pretended something isn't happening harder than Democratic leaders are pretending this isn't happening right now.

Remember. Many of the former Confederate states in the southern U.S. would fall into recession without the financial welfare they receive from California.

We are approaching the anti-singularity, that crucial moment when we realise that AI/LLM will never deliver on its promises.

One reason I find it powerful to do research about Black folks in the US: You become a kind of soothsayer What happens to Black people here ends up happening to everyone else too. Sometimes it’s quick, sometimes it’s slow. But it’s coming