"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

Looking forward to discussing the resurgence of the American expat on screen & setting Too Much & Emily in Paris alongside Henry James & James Baldwin this Thursday evening at @britishlibrary.bsky.social “America Now” event on “Americans Abroad.”

This Thursday, America Now! continues... The session looks at various representations of Americans in other countries, & how those trips have defined America as much as they have international locales. 25 September, 6:30pm @ British Library

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Increasingly depending on this guy to say all the things

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

This week’s dismissal of conspiracy charges against Stop Cop City activists is welcome news. But it’s alarming that these charges lingered over 61 people’s heads for two years. And their ordeal likely isn’t over.

Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

VCs don’t run universities. We do. After another real terms pay cut, UCU is launching a UK-wide strike ballot. Ballot opens October. Vote YES. #WeAreTheUniversity

Some of y’all forget the reason we have food safety regulations is because companies used to do things like adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal. Regulations don’t exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us.

yes, there's a symposium launching CLOSE READING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY and yes, American Vandal's recording it for a special episode so that everyone can hear it

Hundreds of employees and supporters of the CDC lined the sidewalks outside the agency’s Atlanta headquarters for a “clap out” rally to honor three senior leaders who resigned a day earlier. Read more here: www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

Meet Shakira. Ten years ago, she was living in a shelter with her three kids, working at a non-union hotel. Now she's a member of HTC. Unions are how working people can build a dignified life. But in a city as expensive as ours, they need local government on their side.

Ahahahhahaha here we go Mayor Wu with the Aitken Bible!!! Archive = Politics. She knows what city she is mayor of!!!

I visited barbershops in Harlem this afternoon with Assemblymembers Al Taylor, Jordan Wright and Manny De Los Santos, and talked about my plan to make it easier for small businesses to open and thrive in our city.

#OtD 22 Aug 1893 Dorothy Parker, US writer and victim of Hollywood blacklisting, was born. Radicalised by the executions of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, she later founded the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League and helped Spanish civil war orphans. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9447...

"Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the United States are thrown into chaos."

Absolutely brilliant 👇😀😀😀

‘The proscription of Palestine Action crosses a new threshold. In the injunction proceedings, Mr Justice Chamberlain accepted that PA had not committed violence against any person or endangered life or created a risk to health or safety.’ David Renton: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

NEW: After DOGE outed Mohammad Halimi on social media, Taliban intelligence agents blindfolded and took three of his family members to a remote prison. They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States.

lads. this is embarrassing.

"Student Workers of Columbia point out Executive Vice President of Arts+Sciences Amy Hungerford’s compensation: $894,126 a year, 18 times the average dining worker pay+ 24 times pay of student workers in the Dept of English+Comparative Literature where she is a prof" labornotes.org/2025/08/colu...

James Baldwin didn’t believe in reform; he believed in revolution. “Anything less than a total social reckoning—a complete psychological makeover of white America—was worthless,” Louis Menand writes.

Internal documents reveal a secret Pentagon plan by the Trump administration to create a standing force of military personnel that could be rapidly deployed to U.S. cities or communities to quell public protests or any situation President Donald Trump deems “domestic civil unrest.”

Stephen Miller tried to claim only real "Americans" built the Empire State Building, but he left out the true stories of the Indigenous ironworkers who actually did. The Mohawk Skywalkers helped shape America's skylines—and shatter the lie behind Miller’s whitewashed nostalgia.

Spy magazine called him a “short- fingered vulgarian” 35 years ago

#OtD 8 Aug 1883 over 3000 people attended a benefit ball and concert for striking telegraphers in NYC's Madison Square Garden. 800 of the strikers, fighting for equal pay for men and women and an eight-hour day, led the procession into the ballroom stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1077...

Parts of the Constitution were erased from the Library of Congress website, including the section featuring the foreign emoluments clause. The removal was blamed on a "coding error." Here's a reminder of what the clause says, just in case Congress ever decides to enforce it...

Berman: Was the President right about the polling? Enten: No. If we are comparing him to other presidents at this point in their presidencies, he is the second lowest on record compared only to himself.

A new immigrant detention center will be opening in Indiana called the “Speedway Slammer,” modeled after Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz.” On #playbookpod, Megan Messerly explains why the rhetoric used by the administration to describe these centers is significant. 🎧 Listen here: ow.ly/yY5B50WAzH8

NEW! 1st of 2 installments contextualizing Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society, discusses "Marxism & Historicism," historicizing the lectures, recovering them, the commodity as its own ideology, long arc of Jameson's influence theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...

theory nerds! propose fall events! we host mini seminars, field trips, book talks, works-in-progress sessions, and reading groups. guest suite for out-of-towners! booktour bringing you to chicago? add us to your list! wedding weekend? fill it out with research! to propose: interccect at gmail

Think about what the GOP is revealing with their attempt to suddenly change the Congressional maps: they know their agenda is so unpopular that they're going to lose unless something changes. Of course, what they should be changing is their policies, not the maps.

Cutting modern language degrees at universities is creating a “vicious cycle” and risks contributing to the continued decline of foreign language learning among children in the UK, it has been warned. @patrickjack.bsky.social reports #academicsky #languages

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

When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.

Glad to be partnering with the ACLU in my attempt to hold whoever was in charge of firing me responsible. It’s important, especially during these particular times, that we fight for our rights (and not just to party)

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

The ICJ’s landmark ruling says there is an international human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment.

If you are like the many academic book writers I know who were never taught a systematic way to revise a manuscript (and can therefore feel the writing process dragging on longer than you want it to), my next free workshop on August 6th is for you courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/edit...

syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.

I wrote this essay on psychoanalytic interpretations of the 1968 student uprisings at Columbia university @parapraxismag.bsky.social - students who opposed the university's complicity in the US war in Vietnam insisted society was 'crazy' rather than them www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/a-c...

The BAAS Teaching American Studies Network is seeking new lead/co-leads. The role entails attending subcommittee meetings, liaising with members, & the organisation of networking events. Expressions of interest should be sent before 15th September 2025. More info: baas.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Basically the only protected characteristic in UK employment law is 'bigot'

I'm on this podcast! In fact I'm especially hard to avoid, because I spoke to Izzy about Labour and empire across the entire twentieth century, so I could pop up in ANY EPISODE

The newham charity @magpieprojectuk.bsky.social have been campaigning for ages to stop families being housed without access to kitchens. Families are being forced to live in places with nowhere to cook suitable food for children, nowhere to make an iftar meal, nowhere to make baby formula.

'So, there probably aren’t more than 600,000 graduates on Universal Credit. If there were, this would be a low proportion of the total number of graduates...It doesn’t really tell us anything about the value of a degree, but it does tell us that the UK has a problem with low pay more generally.'