America's Immigration Prohibitionism Breeds Cartel Violence, Not Undocumented Immigrants open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

This is going to be met with a bunch of "that will never hold up in court" responses. Ok. So do it anyway. Force this administration to make its preposterous masking arguments in front of federal judges. Make them defend secret police on the record. Go on the offensive.

At @theunpopulist.net, Molly Rovinski & I explain how U.S. border policies fuel cartel violence. www.theunpopulist.net/p/americas-i...

"Instead, I see how technological innovation means little on its own, as just because something is scientifically possible doesn’t mean it’s a feasible product or service." Good read, broader than just that (very important!) point.

Is there some sort of handbook that could explain to me how right-libertarians are able to perceive the modern administrative state as distinct from the modern national security state

Beyond excited to share the latest episode of Virtual Sentiments on AI as a social technology with @himself.bsky.social Available wherever you get your podcasts, with links in my supplemental substack post below: open.substack.com/pub/kristenc...

There's folks championing legal action against Yudkowsky for saying "if anyone builds it everyone dies" about AGI. I want to be clear whatever you think about Yud, appeal to the terroristic violence of the state legal system to stop basic discourse is Huntington Life Sciences level evil.

Anarchist attention to everyday evasion and resistance. Scott's framework makes visible what power would prefer stayed invisible: the thousand small acts of noncompliance that limit state capacity without confronting it directly. The resistance is effective precisely because it doesn't look.

How do #anarchism & liberalism intersect? What was the Sanctuary movement? Why are #immigration restrictions terrible for everyone? Who is the most underrated #ska band? Find out the answers to these questions & more in our interview with @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social 🏴 🔗 youtu.be/md3MQH-EwwQ

Liberals aspire to a world where constitutions and the rule of law bind the hands of rulers. But in practice, there are serious credible commitment problems and it's extraordinarily difficult to ensure that rulers actually respect the rules on paper.

Cops can't hold you for more than 48 hours without charges so they raided those of us organizing protests against the '08 RNC on Friday night, held folks over the weekend (doesn't count) and Monday (a holiday) then "released" an organizer on Thursday ...re-arresting her as she left the building.

"The knowledge problem and the power problem are serious and pervasive pathologies of institutionalized, hierarchical social control. They are institutional problems, and they will persist as long as these institutions persist." - @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/54883

My friend @lucystag.bsky.social recently interviewed me about border militarization & more on the @nonserviammedia.bsky.social Podcast. My latest at Guns, Guards, and Governance discusses this conversation & my other recent podcast appearances. gunsguardsandgovernance.substack.com/p/the-border...

On the latest NSP, we interviewed @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social on how immigration restrictions and border militarization limit freedom for everyone. 🔗 youtu.be/md3MQH-EwwQ @lucystag.bsky.social #anarchism #immigration #econ #law #openborders

Attention, friends in DC and LA: We'll be tabling at anarchist bookfairs on both coasts tomorrow! You'll find us showing off our latest titles at the DC Black Cat Bookfair (www.dcblackcatbookfair.com) and the LA Anarchist Bookfair (laabf.wordpress.com). Stop by and say hi!

Saturday!! We’ll be at DC Black Cat Bookfair on St Stephen’s on April 25! Bunch of cool orgs & vendors gonna be there! We’ll be selling patches, prints, and hand embroidery and 50% of sales will go to Remora House! We’ll also have zines, stickers, & workbooks! See you there!

Pentagon Reveals Attacks in Latin America Are Just the Beginning theintercept.com/2026/03/23/t...

Louisiana has advanced a disturbing new bill that would force homeless people to choose between jail & forced treatment & make them pay for it, or be forced to perform unpaid labor. This bill evokes Louisiana's long history of chain gangs, prison labor, & entrenched white supremacy. buff.ly/N7fzRa6

The Trump administration has bombed at least 54 boats, killing at least 180 people. In this talk at the @scharschool.bsky.social @georgemasonu.bsky.social, I discussed two serious dangers of this policy. open.substack.com/pub/gunsguar...

That the military can investigate and detain is material evidence it doesn’t have to murder to address the ‘threat’ (putting aside the obvious injustice visited on these fishermen)

"Two Dangers of the Escalating Drug War" @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social's opening remarks at "From Cartels to Combatants: The Intensifying Militarization of America’s Drug War" gunsguardsandgovernance.substack.com/p/two-danger...

This March, I spoke at a @scharschool.bsky.social conference on the escalating militarization of America's drug war. @gcorreacabrera.bsky.social did a great job organizing the conference. Here's some of what I said at the conference. gunsguardsandgovernance.substack.com/p/two-danger...

NSP #75 with economist and friend @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social is OUT NOW 🏴 We spoke about border militarization, ICE, liberalism, anarchism, & more! 🔗 pod.link/1499036871/e... @lucystag.bsky.social @c4ssdotorg.bsky.social #anarchism #economics #immigration

Early access to our conversation with @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social on border militarization and more is up on our Patreon. 🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/155733...

Excited to be giving a lecture on my book on how surveillance, from each other, private companies, and the state, undermines liberal democracy at Hamilton College this Thursday. It’s open to the public, so if you’re in the area come by! www.hamilton.edu/academics/ce...

DC Book Fair!! This one is a cherry blossom ! (Prunus)

NIMBYs are the worst. From my conversation with @mattzwolinski.bsky.social, which you can listen to here: www.liberalism.org/podcast/the-...

"How did the vice president of the United States end up doing campaign work for a Hungarian strongman five days before an election? The answer runs through the most dangerous intellectual movement in American (and world) politics: postliberalism." www.theargumentmag.com/p/god-orban-...

Thrilled to release this conversation with Sam on his excellent book, Dispersion of Power, on using democracy to guard against state capture. A topic that has only become even more pertinent since we recorded it and is not going away any time soon!

Today’s latest Virtual Sentiments episode is with @samuel-bagg.bsky.social on his excellent book on how democracy helps us fight state capture. I’ve posted the episode and some updated thoughts talking about the DOW vs Anthropic contract dispute at my Substack open.substack.com/pub/kristenc...

My chat with @rechelon.bsky.social is now on the public feed! We talked about all sorts of stuff, from Sokal & Peterson to Postmodernism, the IDW & more! open.spotify.com/episode/4yhx...

Jayme Lemke walks us through the life and times of Elinor Ostrom, check it out! youtube.com/shorts/cSQvo...

What Nathan P. Goodman's publications say about them: polycentric, economic, militarization, state, border, complex @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social Create yours at https://scholargoggler.com/

“If you oppose mass incarceration, you should oppose empire. If you oppose imperialism & militarism, you should oppose the prison state. Empire & incarceration are two related institutions of brutal state violence, & they are mutually reinforcing.” @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social @c4ssdotorg.bsky.social

Just switched my @libro.fm and @bookshop.org over to Firestorm and I encourage you to do the same because they’re hands down the best bookstore in the Southeast. 📚🏴 libro.fm/firestorm bookshop.org/shop/firestorm

Hey y'all, Firestorm co-op is a really important part of our communities here in Asheville, and they're struggling. Order books through them (they have a really wide selection)!

A cool indie bookshop in trouble, and even if you don’t feel like buying a book just now they have lots of zines and stickers you can buy to support them!

🧵 from a queer, feminist collective & bookstore in Asheville, NC struggling long after Hurricane Helene.

Like a lot of small businesses in our region, Firestorm has been in financial distress for the last year. Hurricane Helene was our tipping point, but local cost of living increases, inflation, and higher occupancy costs are huge contributors. 1/9

What You Can Do!: If Firestorm surviving and thriving is important to you, we welcome your support. Here are a few ways to pitch in. 🌈 Buy your next book from us, or tell someone who buys books about us! Not a physical media person? We also sell audiobooks through Libro.fm. 7/9

I think anyone and everyone who’s worked at a think tank has read this Onion article more times than they can count in the years since it was published, and each time has, as the kids say, felt seen. theonion.com/boy-i-really-t…

Shared it with the leftist book club I’m in so might as well post it here again @rechelon.bsky.social ‘s very prescient book on the important of rationalism and science among the left against the post-modern woo and bullshit of the reactionaries like RFK et al theanarchistlibrary.org/library/will...

If you cast your lot with any authoritarian project, this is the inevitable outcome. For despots, every single living thing is disposable. Not only the Trump regime, but all hierarchical systems. Let's not be complicit with a political order that is reducing everyone and everything to garbage.

A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history. www.wired.com/story/border...

“[The Liberal] starts from the premise that not war, but peace, is the father of all things, (…) The liberal abhors war, not, like the humanitarian, in spite of the fact that it has beneficial consequences, but because it has only harmful ones”.

ICYMI: We spoke to Nathan Goodman about LGBT+ liberation and his personal conceptions of the good life. Check it out!

I'm excited to share the cover of my next book Smuggler! Smuggler tells the story of how the Smuggler's Inn and the US-Canada border became the epicenter for debates about violent immigration policing in the United States. Available for pre-order now www.globepequot.com/978149309209...

Yesterday I was handling flyers out for the anarchist bookfair and I handed one to a guy who showed me he had knuckle tats that said READ👊 MORE👊

New episode of Mutual Exchange Radio for @c4ssdotorg.bsky.social with @aaronrosspowell.com on Buddhism and Libertarianism