Decided to look at the classes taught at West Virginia University ’s Washington Center for Civics, Culture and Statesmanship (the one with one enrolled student) and it turns out it’s teaching classes on the wonders of fascism

I wrote about what looks very much like a formal US plan to institutionalize a global network of concentration camps.

Leszek Kołakowski on the parvenu.

Don't let copaganda fool you — police violence is not tied to their safety. In 2025, the vast majority of killings began with police responding to suspected non-violent offenses or cases where no crime was reported.

This interview/conversation was SO GOOD.

How it started / how it’s going

How are police unions different from other unions? What are the politics of police institutions, internally, and in relation to one another? And why do cops have so much power? grateful to @stschrader1.bsky.social for joining us on @unhappinesspod.bsky.social www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 The institutions of modern American policing are far younger than the USA itself. Yet the police now seem ubiquitous - and their self-interested exercise of political power is undeniable. The brilliant @stschrader1.bsky.social helps us understand why. www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Please consider ordering my new book BLUE POWER from @redemmas.org today, to support legal defense for Prairieland and Minneapolis defendants. redemmas.org/titles/48838...

We made a podcast about the Tour de France, from the perspective of cycling fans who are historians. It is meant as an introduction to this race and to the sport. Hope you will check out Historians on Two Wheels as the race commences today!

The Left(s) should get onboard with a massive expansion of public libraries across the country over the next 25 years. This is an affirmative project.

"What is particularly obnoxious about the moral case against the Weather Underground is the implication that their limited recourse to violence constituted some unique and inconceivable evil, that Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers crossed lines unimaginable to Henry Kissinger."

Some very smart observations from the very smart Michael Kinnucan in this week’s New York City primaries. (thread, all quotes from him)

Order all three of these books from @redemmas.org, who will ship anywhere!

Zines, crowdfunding, black clothes all used as evidence of being “Antifa,” convicted of “domestic terrorism” & sentenced for 50-100 years. Hope you are paying attention to Prairieland. This is how they will come for all of us.

Really great to see Blue Power reviewed in @baltimorebeat.bsky.social, alongside two other great new books, by Mike Casiano and Joshua Clark Davis.

fresh audio product: • Stuart Schrader, author of Blue Power, on how the political heft of cops allows them to get away with murder • Angela Jones, author of Sex in Public, on how the social and political shape our sexual lives (and vice versa) www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

This Minnesota indictment, unsealed today, is the next post-Prairieland step in criminalizing protests against ICE and in accordance with NSPM-7. One of the "overt acts" of this alleged conspiracy is... writing for @crimethinc.com about a confrontation between protesters & ICE. Read the indictment:

New reviews: @stschrader1.bsky.social "Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves" & Paul Kohlbry's "Plots and Deeds: Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for Land Justice in Palestine" antipodeonline.org/category/boo... @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social

It's America's 250th birthday—so we made a list of 250 books on why that's nothing to celebrate. bookshop.org/lists/250-bo...

@johnkwilson.bsky.social tears apart the Vanderbilt "report" on the humanities. "If you imagine that every single academic field has the same identical ideological problem, the most logical explanation is that the ideological bias is coming from you." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani could boost the power of the city’s civilian review board, a law enforcement expert says. The board’s structural pitfalls “can be compensated by a mayor who’s committed to strong civilian oversight over the police.”

Give your favorite Democratic elected official a copy of BLUE POWER today!

I had a great time talking about BLUE POWER, and especially Detroit as the city where it initially detonated and San Francisco as a city where it clashes with militant subcultures, on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Check it out: newbooksnetwork.com/blue-power

I had fun talking to @k80way.bsky.social of @hellgatenyc.co about Blue Power in New York City back in the day and today. Never a dull moment! hellgatenyc.com/blue-power-s...

Please pre-order my book — TROOP MOVEMENTS. For a limited time — PennPress dot org has a 40% off sale! Use code PENN-SUMMER26 at checkout, to get your discount. If you pre-order it, you'll get a copy sooner. TROOP MOVEMENTS has its wide release by September! www.pennpress.org/978151282990...

For @nybooks.com I wrote about why the US effort to use economic warfare has backfired, leaving it ever more isolated. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

The political clout that allows police to protect and serve themselves. Featuring @stschrader1.bsky.social, professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

This sort of thing also happened in 2008 right before the collapse. 🤷‍♂️

Hey, I have books to give away! If you picked up BLUE POWER and would like a copy of my first book BADGES WITHOUT BORDERS, reply with a pic of your copy of BLUE POWER and I will send BADGES WITHOUT BORDERS to a couple of you! (The dog is not yawning due to the book contents, I promise.)

The Trump administration will not rest until every elite institution has purged itself of black people. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Doesn't feel too out there to say that every hour of work "saved" by AI just becomes someone else's hour of work.

The other day a police captain in Brooklyn called Mamdani “temporary” & “expendable.” For @cityandstateny.bsky.social, I examine what this tells us about BLUE POWER and the new mayor’s chances of reining in the NYPD. www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2026...

Moving account of Arnold Hirsch's life and work - finished and not - from his son. Take the time. slate.com/life/2026/05... 🗃️

Two police officers from Gratis, Ohio, an all-white town per the US census, showed up at a majority Latinx public school in Cincinnati—50 miles away—to search for kids for ICE, disguised as a “wellness check.”

The other day a police captain in Brooklyn called Mamdani “temporary” & “expendable.” For @cityandstateny.bsky.social, I examine what this tells us about BLUE POWER and the new mayor’s chances of reining in the NYPD. www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2026...

Tonight in Chicago!

ICE agents are walking around with a list of 20 million people to detain in their pockets because of this Palantir database: www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...

Hey Chicago friends, I will be speaking about BLUE POWER, in convo w/ Robert Vargas, at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social on this Wed., May 13, at 7pm. Hope to see you there! pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/49250

Ever wondered why police aren't always reliable supporters of gun control? The story goes back to the '80s, when cops learned to seek self-interested unity and symbolic wins. It was a key turning point in the development of BLUE POWER. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

New book alert: My book, _Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism_, will be out with Verso in July. Available for preorder.

The power the police wield on the streets of this country is plain to see. Less visible, but no less formidable, is the immense political influence that the police exercise. @stschrader1.bsky.social describes how police unions amassed enormous power over the last fifty years. tinyurl.com/3ndrun32

So cool to see BLUE POWER displayed alongside other great titles in bookstores all over! Really excited to talk about the book tonight at Elliott Bay Book Store in Seattle at 7pm.

@jamiemartin2.bsky.social with a review of Eddie Fishman's book on sanctions that begins with references to the Japanese Red Army Faction, counterfeit Newport cigarettes, and the cult psychedelic rock band Les Rallizes Dénudés. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Deja vu

Great review of BLUE POWER! I appreciate the line "Schrader does for police unions what @radleybalko.bsky.social did for police militarization"!

Seattle friends! I will be speaking about BLUE POWER this coming Sunday 5/3 at Elliott Bat Books at 7pm, as part of RED MAY. elliottbaybook.com/events/50284

“Police learned from—in some cases, literally stole ideas from—organized labor without preserving the fundamental principle of solidarity at the core of the labor movement.” @stschrader1.bsky.social on his new book, BLUE POWER: HOW POLICE ORGANIZED TO PROTECT AND SERVE THEMSELVES:

Great essay!

breaking: 80-student encampment up at Occidental College in California, demanding the Board of Trustees commit to divest from Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Maersk, and Caterpillar amid the war on Iran, Lebanon and Palestine at an upcoming meeting on Monday.