'Movements that organize around affirming citizenship risk entrenching the social form of the state that produces and polices [a] diminished social reality.' Madhubala P and @gautambhatia88.bsky.social on dispossession, deportation, and the contested meaning of citizenship in India.

I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social about @alybatt.bsky.social's new book—which, I argue, shows how the critique of political economy can allow us to clearly name the social cause of climate catastrophe: capital. lpeproject.org/blog/when-na...

I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social about @alybatt.bsky.social's new book—which, I argue, shows how the critique of political economy can allow us to clearly name the social cause of climate catastrophe: capital. lpeproject.org/blog/when-na...

In our latest post @mariethogersen.bsky.social meticulously unpacks what *exactly* is ideological about international law. Against those who locate this merely in international law's content, she directs us to international law's fetishistic character. legalform.blog/2025/11/17/i...

Wherein, @nanoboss.bsky.social, @andywoodhouse.bsky.social and I attempt to chart out the Marxist tradition and its relationship to EU law - both historically and theoretically, as part of our broader symposium in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social Tis a chunky tome. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Abby Cartus (@abbraxas.bsky.social) mapping out the deeper contours of the Trump administration's approach to data' and the emergent contours of contemporary capital accumulation.

This woman does the best she can and I'm glad she stepped up and got in officers faces. A few quick notes about "warrants" and due process when law enforcement arrest people, and how this squares with the current TRO that ostensibly blocks profiling by race, language, occupation, and location

This piece is good but why on earth is Boston Review giving Macedo and Lee’s poor scholarship on this a forum in the first place?

Whatever it is, the wave of COVID contrarianism sweeping through places like the @NewYorker is troubling because so much of it is scientifically illiterate, representing clear-cut cases of motivated reasoning. 36/

Some of it was the fact that many of the well, laptop class, had their lives turned upside down like everyone else but had never had to think of their liberalism in terms of any real sacrifice before and they resent it deeply. 35/

I've tried to figure out why COVID contrarianism is catnip for some liberal commentators like Immerwahr, Macedo and Lee. It's baffling in the extreme and has sent at least the last two into the arms of a man who is helping to destroy American science. 33/

I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/

"It is the capitalist form of the state that underlies the political influence of capitalists, rather than vice versa." — Simon Clarke

True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow. The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?" When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.

All the “just asking questions about metaphysics” philosophers who have helped bring about this current siege on trans people: you can still admit you were wrong and it was a bad project that has helped ruin peoples lives dailynous.com/2025/02/10/w...

German KPD initially opposed the general strike against the Kapp Putsch and only got on board by the time the strike was virtually over and the entire working class had mobilized

a lot of people act like trans participation in women’s sports is some kind of impossible needle to thread but it’s actually just great? everybody wins if we reject wholesale the idea that anyone should ever have to prove that she’s a woman! everybody gets to play sports! there is no down side

Legal texts don’t do things.

A huge indictment of how pathetic the Democratic response has been: even Doug Ford, a pea-brained rightwing lummox hoser who had to be shown how to use a laptop three years into his first term as Premier of Ontario, is doing a better job standing up to Trump (who is his hero!)

I knew university administrators weren’t prepared for this moment but “you can’t even send any emails about diversity, equity, or inclusion without permission from our lawyers” is even worse than I expected. Calling for anticipatory obedience that is also literally impossible to comply with!

anyways, me, I would simply build the whole plane out of the same stuff they use to make the black boxes, and the whole state out of the same substance that makes up the glorious ideal of its legitimacy. problems: solved

1. Multiple hospital systems are complying with an unlawful executive order with dubious enforcement mechanisms and pulling their trans kids off care. While most have not, those that have are harming their trans patients. The latest from Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.

They have names.

A custom BlueSky feed dedicated to coverage of local protests would be a good use of this site.

Not only conducting mass raids, ICE has posted notices for contractors to provide surveillance tech to enlarge, transform, and modernize capabilities to track, monitor & surveil noncitizens. Migrants are at nexus of surveillance tech & expansion of racial state power. truthout.org/articles/ice...

It's unfortunate that the history of the Civil Rights movement has been rewritten as "We marched peacefully until our enemies grew a conscience". MLK and SNCC accomplished a major shift in policy using a deliberate, low-grade insurgency carried out with incredible skill and decades-long strategy.

Tomorrow in DC we’re protesting DC Children’s Hospital for ending all care to trans people under 19 I would love to see my followers join me in protesting a move that’s already impacting folks very close to me If not now, when?

You cannot explain social outcomes, or elite action, on the basis of public opinion.

these guys are all rapists

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

Hospital protests have begun for hospitals that are complying with an executive order banning gender affirming care. The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care. This one at UVA Hospital.

I am genuinely, viscerally terrified of what might happen to PubMed.

Is the ZIP code the cause of life expectancy disparities, or is it the more dynamic processes that simultaneously underlie the differential exposures to health-harming hazards and the allocation of health-enabling resources that offset them?

Deconstructing fascist normalization - a thread. Yesterday’s collaboration between the Christian Democratic Union (CDU/CSU) and the AfD was nothing but a symbolic confirmation of a process that started long before. 1/

“There is a general folk belief… that political stability is… the result of time, circumstances, prudence, experience, wisdom… Nothing is, I think, farther from the truth… Political stability, when it comes, often happens to a society quite quickly, as suddenly as water becomes ice.” — J.H. Plumb

For The Emancipator, I expanded on an argument I’ve been making on Bluesky. The so-called anti-DEI movement is segregationist, and we should state that plainly. theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...

I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it. Irony is dead. I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated. #LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust

I really didn’t care for the Schmitt revival the first time around, so it’s going to be a long rest of my life

On one hand, Trump is moving at breakneck speed to accomplish a project that is generational in scale, which the country didn’t ask for, doesn’t want, and which won’t solve any of its problems. On the other hand there’s no opposition so who’s to say

We now have a fix for this: If you've been affected by communications freezes at the NIH, CDC, FDA, HHS, etc., please reach out at the form below! Or feel free to contact reporters (our emails are on the @statnews.com site) or via Signal (mine's btrang.01) 🧪🧫🧬🖥️🩺🔬 www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...

It hasn’t been my primary beat but I’ve covered cancer research for 20 years. The progress in the field is genuinely awesome and inspiring. They are going to kill so many people.

In 1953, Eisenhower signed an order banning queer people from working in the government. Agencies encouraged employees to report colleagues they suspected of being queer based on how they acted, spoke, dressed, or had masculine/feminine characteristics like wide jaws in women or small hands in men

I've always thought Debord's Society of the Spectacle is a wildly underused text within academic political theory and I'm finally getting around to writing about it. Do folks have any recommendations for good secondary literature? Is there any consensus on which translation to cite?

"It is the capitalist form of the state that underlies the political influence of capitalists, rather than vice versa." — Simon Clarke

I think a lot of people make the mistake of thinking disability rights (such that they currently exist) are a closed issue in this country. the ADA passed with GOP votes thanks to a very well run public shaming campaign. All the major conservative interests opposed it.

Hier nochmal Impressionen aus #Riesa Gerne teilen, denn die Aktivist*innen haben jede Reichweite verdient! ❤️ #rie1101 #Polizeigewalt

In the city of Karlsruhe it seems like AfD members put these "deportation tickets" in the mailboxes of people with migration background. Among other things we read "only remigration can save Germany". The ominous date on the ticket corresponds to the election day, February 23d 2025.