Phenomenal World Issue 1 is here: AMERICAN POWER With writing on ‘declinism,’ the dollar, the Donroe Doctrine, Iran, Cuba, Brazil, Venezuela, China, the Gulf, and more. Now all online— phenomenalworld.org/issue/issue-...

Law people: Do I/does anyone know any federal preemption scholars/experts on here? I have a research question about state criminal law extraterritoriality and federal preemption--looking for good articles or sources!

the course will build on these essays for @parapraxismag.bsky.social—we'll update/expand the analysis always w/ an eye towards understanding Zionism's continuities w/ exterminationist regimes past as well as what is frighteningly unique about the present www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/ide...

Today, Dylan Saba (@shaabiranks.bsky.social) argues that the overt gangsterfication of US foreign policy marks the culmination of a dangerous transformation in the nature of American hegemony.

I’ve been invited to testify on what the House calls “Court Packing: A Threat to SCOTUS’s Legitimacy.” Drawing on research w/ Daphna Renan for our book, Supremacy, Congress has the duty—and all the tools it needs—to protect our Constitution from judicial supremacy. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

It is worth, I think, emphasizing that in trampling congressional attempts to protect the rights of Black people, the Court is basically doing what it has always done, with the exception of a couple decades in the mid-20th century when it often worked with Congress to protect the rights of Black ppl

Last ever law school classes are Talha Syed’s seminar, with Barbara Fields joining today and Syed critiquing/reconstructing value theory on Friday. Law school isn’t all bad! (Still gotta study for Admin, Fed Courts, and Immigration exams though… 😵‍💫)

1/ "This is the pivot point in the energy transition folks. Fossil chaos drives people to electrotech, as this is the first oil shock with a superior alternative. " says @ember-energy.org @kingsmillbond.bsky.social We argued similarly last week at Wesleyan (slides here) tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe...

America’s defeat in the Persian Gulf reveals the world to come www.equator.org/articles/gho...

Why is ICE buying so many warehouses, and what does this have to do with the warehouse's shifting place in the US economy? In Places Journal, I chronicle the long arc of Warehousing's carceral geography and the speculative building boom that ICE is absorbing. placesjournal.org/article/the-...

The Red May 2026 schedule is up, congratulations for ten years of annual vacation from capitalism. www.redmayseattle.org/2026-schedule

We're staring down a brutally hot summer and energy and food shocks and cost of living crisis that climate change intensifies. There's endless money for war. But voters want policies that address the real threats to their security. At @cplusc.bsky.social, our new agenda has the solutions🧵

A serious and thoughtful critique from a scholar I admire of a scholar I admire. Well worth your time to read!

Two good essays on how the war on Iran advances and clarifies declining US hegemony - clean energy (and China) signposting a way beyond the 'hydrocarbon-dollar trap.' @mona-ali.bsky.social in @equatormag.bsky.social 1/2 www.equator.org/articles/the...

Anyone teaching energy/IR/finance/ecology/political science etc, please do share with students & colleagues I concluded my talk with @picharbonnier.bsky.social wise words. Slides here: tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe... @katemac.bsky.social & my podcast ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER tinyurl.com/PolycrisisPo...

A monstrously comprehensive nearly three hour long episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social examining the economic warfare dimensions of the US-Israeli war on Iran and Iran’s asymmetric response with Aslı Bâli, @yarbatman.bsky.social, and Nicholas Mulder. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/econ...

Bonus - War Without Ideology w/ China Miéville and @leninology.bsky.social Danny and Derek speak with China Miéville and Richard Seymour about empire, Iran, and, of course, capitalism. Link in the replies.

After years of research, Daphna Renan & I are thrilled to announce preorders of SUPREMACY. Why is US democracy so broken? One reason is we've wrongly accepted that 9 justices have the final say over the Constitution. This book traces how that happened—& how we can reclaim power to govern ourselves.

Extremely grim news from Texas. Absurdly, a jury has decided to convict all of the defendants on most of the charges, including "Corruptly Concealing a Document" for moving a box of zines. The jury's verdict: www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/v... Background on the case: crimethinc.com/Prairieland

Roundtable on the War on Iran and International Law with Noura Erakat, Luigi Daniele, Shahd Hammouri, Ata Hindi, Maryam Jamshidi, and Darryl Li www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47234

I wrote about the Oakland People’s Arms Embargo, speaking with a worker at the airport about the weapons moving through it

I'll be speaking at King's with @triofrancos.bsky.social and Adam Hanieh in a couple of weeks 23 March 2026 17:30 to 19:30 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/who-o...

thought it would be a good time to share my syllabus on the global history of petrostates. turned out to be more topical than I could have imagined!

1/ Disruptions mean countries will rush to exit US-led oil order Worst case scenario for oil companies (best for rest of us) is that people permanently shift...what they call “demand destruction“ i.e short term pain but Long: Iran war will accelerate ongoing STRUCTURAL shift to solar+EVs+batteries

Why anti-Zionism can't properly be treated as antisemitism for purposes of federal civil rights law, in ~ 2 minutes

In our latest, we speak with Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social about fascism as an antagonistic politics of social reproduction, some of the particular features of the crackdowns on care in Trump’s second term, and Alberto’s book Late Fascism www.patreon.com/posts/150947...

"Sharp, panoramic, and fiercely principled" — Alyssa Battistoni. Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World -- out now from @versobooks.bsky.social

New piece for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social, written with @jacktaggart.bsky.social and @tomchodor.bsky.social! It's an attempt at grasping the dismantling of multilateral global governance, in light of intensifying geopolitical rivalries, resurgent state capitalism, and hegemonic crisis. Link below:

The Ideas Letter has hosted a debate on @evgenymorozov.bsky.social thought-provoking article on the need for an AI-inflected socialism that consists of critiques by @abenanav.bsky.social and Leif Weatherby as well as Morozov's response to Benanav's critique. www.indep.network/debate-in-th...

How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

LIVE NOW! Extraction Haymarket Presents: @triofrancos.bsky.social in conversation with @gabrielwinant.bsky.social With @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social Stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mw5... .

Full article: When Resilience Becomes a Burden: Reflections from Gazan Palestinian Scholars www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢💥NEW PTO EXTRA! 📢💥 - @leninology.bsky.social responds to questions from PTO patrons on topics including: What a left defence policy should look like, why Mark Carney called time on the "rules-based order", Marxist theorisations of war, and the situation in Minnesota:

"Who has an interest in claiming a peak is nigh, or too high to reach? If the peak occurs, how fast will the descent be, and where is the bottom of the mountain?" New this week @the-breakdown.bsky.social: @noahjgordon.bsky.social writes on the politics of promises www.break-down.org/three-peaks/

Jake Fremantle discusses two recent books on ecological politics by Nicholas Beuret and Thea Riofrancos and the pathways to resisting capital's ecological destruction. prometheusjournal.org/2026/02/05/w...

In the @bostonreview.bsky.social, Aslı Bâli and Aziz Rana examine the deep roots of the emerging Trump Doctrine.

🚨 LAUNCHING 🚨 State of Power 2026 🚨 Fascism and the far right are on the rise. Beyond headlines, we examine the reasons for their rise, the economic interests that support them, how they weaponise today’s social and ecological crises, and proposals for how to fight back. www.tni.org/en/publicati...

This Boston Review piece by @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social is obviously not going to be the last word in the "popularism" debate. But it's the last word for me, in the sense that anything I might want to say on it is said better here. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

Last week I wrote that ICE (& immigration judges) are increasingly openly defying courts. lpeproject.org/blog/immigra... Now, a judge compiled 100 cases from ICE’s MN siege where ICE ignored court orders. Yet what are dems offering? Basically—laws that ask ICE to please follow the law.

Now available for preorder - Working Nature: A History of the Energy Economy by Daniela Russ "Consistently brilliant and illuminating, Working Nature announces the arrival of a major new voice on the scene of ecological Marxism.” - Andreas Malm

I wrote on psychic life and Palestinian resistance – to ensure more people read Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Dig you’ve been waiting for to understand the political economy of AI as it becomes fulcrum of global contests and conflicts over economic and military dominance. My interview w/ @nsrnicek.bsky.social on his book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI www.thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...

spoke with my favorite couple @shaabiranks.bsky.social and @seamus-malekafzali.com about international law, the so-called "war on terror," and the long shadow of colonial warfare for Turbulence turbulencepod.substack.com/p/episode-11...

📢💥NEW EPISODE📢💥 - Nikhil Pal Singh on Donald Trump's 'Homeland Empire'. Nikhil talks about how the Trump administration has collapsed the distinction between foreign and domestic policy, creating a single zone where violence and impunity reign:

The attempts to draw distinctions between local policing and ICE on the basis of training are also mystifying because what we know today as "militarized policing" is the result of police professionalization, training, and reform. Any good history of SWAT makes this abundantly clear

I have a different question: what can we learn from the fact that the power resources that have proven most impactful in this moment can be found in mass movements rather than the formal legal structures that folk theory sees as safeguards against tyranny?

I'm not one for false optimism. But what I witnessed today in Minneapolis was tremendous, both in scale and exuberance. It was a stunning answer to the federal assault on Minnesota, a show of solidarity that gives us something to hold on to during times that are unforgiving.