“Protest is part of the effort to strengthen shared governance on this campus & to build more of a culture of participation in governance of the University, which we view as having fallen too far under the influence of wealthy donors & political pressure from wealth.” — Gabe Winant, UChicago AAUP

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

Chicago, let's talk Marx! Panel discussion with @gabrielwinant.bsky.social and @ramsincanon.bsky.social on Sunday, May 10 in the South Loop – and a reading group starting Monday, May 18, in Bridgeport. Coordinated by yours truly for @chicagodsa.bsky.social's Political Education Committee.

Join the struggle www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/u...

CHICAGO! Haymarket Presents: Free Gifts Join @alybatt.bsky.social and @gabrielwinant.bsky.social for a conversation on Capitalism & Nature. Co-sponsored by @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social. Wed, May 6 at 5:30 PM Live at Haymarket House, streaming online RSVP:

The university administration has begun an ideological crackdown in the vein of "divisive concepts" laws at the unit with the weakest governance and academic freedom protections—the Lab School. Read our full statement here: www.uchicagoaaup.org/statements/l...

With Rush University Medical Center nurses announcing that they're forming a union, check out @gabrielwinant.bsky.social's book, The Next Shift, & the Q&A I did with him last week for @chicagoreader.com that touched on careworker union organizing. chicagoreader.com/news/politic...

Registration not required but we appreciate it! www.jotform.com/form/2608160...

Join AAUP for these two discussions of the future of our university this week and next

Please read our statement on the ethical cloud over our Board of Trustees. Link to full statement is below.

Chicago! Haymarket Presents: @triofrancos.bsky.social in conversation with @gabrielwinant.bsky.social. Monday, February 16th at 6:30 PM CT Live from @haymarkethouse.bsky.social with @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social RSVP to attend (in-person and virtual) events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...

There have been a number of abductions off the streets of our neighborhood already. Free inquiry cannot take place under conditions where federal agents may harass, kidnap, or murder anyone they like.

It is an open, undenied policy of ICE and CBP to engage in racial profiling. These agencies have now killed two protestors in Minnesota this month—not to mention all the deaths in custody, violations of constitutional rights, and more.

The university can do so, but it chooses not to. chicagomaroon.com/49273/news/u...

We reiterate our demand, alongside our siblings in GSU-UE, @nationalnurses.bsky.social, Faculty Forward, and the Lab School Faculty Association, that the University of Chicago act immediately to exclude ICE and CBP from all buildings without a judicial warrant.

more brilliant supporters of critical thought in the world & at The New School who u can sign with! @katforrester.bsky.social @reproutopia.bsky.social @gabrielwinant.bsky.social @mayjeong.bsky.social @catherinelacey.bsky.social @vickyacab.bsky.social +! 🥰 what a crew! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

More rigorous and clear than my initial entry

And again, a pattern of putting out statements accusing people of serious Federal crimes and then releasing them hours or days or weeks later with no charges. And no retraction.

Complicity of liberal institutions with the crackdown on student protest paved the way for the crisis of academia. To defend our work we must sever the link with the security state. Come join us at U of C tomorrow, where we will discuss how to confront the hiring of the inveterate liar John Kirby.

Please join us next week at UChicago for a conversation with @peterbeinart.bsky.social, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, and @gabrielwinant.bsky.social

i'm reading peter friedlander's /the emergence of a uaw local, 1936-1939/ and it's as good as @gabrielwinant.bsky.social says. i'm once again struck about the way that union organizers are a kind of applied sociologists (though of 1950s small-group dynamics school).

You may recall that the State Department found that Israel was deliberately blocking aid to Gaza, and the Biden administration suppressed that report and lied about its content. Kirby, as the national security spokesperson, was the central figure in that effort. www.propublica.org/article/bide...

The appointment of John Kirby to direct the Institute of Politics is shocking and disgraceful. Kirby misled the public systematically over a long period, over grave matters of life and death. He has no place in an institution committed to truthful inquiry or a democratic public sphere.

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE “Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

Get ready! Be there!

Moreover, the effect of these targeted deportation proceedings continues unconstitutionally to chill freedom of speech to this day.”

They did so in order to strike fear into similarly situated non-citizen pro-Palestinian individuals, pro-actively (and effectively) curbing lawful pro-Palestinian speech and intentionally denying such individuals (including the plaintiffs here) the freedom of speech that is their right.

From conclusion, p 147: "Secretaries Noem and Rubio and their several agents and subordinates acted in concert to misuse the sweeping powers of their respective offices to target non-citizen pro-Palestinians for deportation primarily on account of their First Amendment protected political speech.

@aaup.org won its case against the State Department's attempt to terrorize non-citizens and deprive them of their First Amendment rights

Huge victory for @aaup.org in AAUP v. Rubio:

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

It’s easy to fear that academics are too isolated to defend ourselves if you don’t know about the struggles going on all around us, and the connections—real and possible—between us and the larger community. Come learn and talk about it on 10/1 at 11 am!

All of us at the university budget town hall heard the same thing when the president said that donors liked the “sharpening” we’ve done and will reward future “sharpening,” right?

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

Despite and amidst everything we’re hiring in US history, nineteenth century careers.historians.org/jobs/2159497...

Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps. A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:

doesn't make the headline for some reason but the Trump administration confirmed on the record that they are running an explicitly whites only refugee program, if you're wondering how things are going in the year 2025

Trump more or less saying "let's do a final solution"

Mark your calendars: our event with Benjamin Balthaser and Gabriel Winant in celebration of CITIZENS OF THE WHOLE WORLD: ANTI-ZIONISM AND THE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH LEFT has been postponed to Thursday, August 21st. pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/47454

My only hope is that one day Trump and his officials will face a tribunal on crimes against humanity.

Liberalism has presided willingly over the triumph of the law of the sword, vae victis, the very horror against which was supposedly our guardian. Worse than a crime, a contradiction to resound for centuries

New Dig: powerful convo w Aslı Bâli and @gabrielwinant.bsky.social complexities and contradictions of emerging conjuncture. The fascist authoritarianism of Trump’s second coming; Dem establishment collapse; resurgent left. Recorded live @socialismconference.org www.thedigradio.com/podcast/note...

I don't think NYT should know peace until they divulge the full chain of decision making that led to the laundering of Nazi propaganda against a leading anti-fascist politician the same day fascism was codified in Congress.

A thing that makes that Times story especially odious is that Zohran Mamdani's father was LITERALLY expelled from Uganda during Idi Amin's fascist effort to scapegoat Asian Ugandans as not really African www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

An opinion writer is not allowed to criticize the paper on social media for using a Nazi source but the reporter who worked with the Nazi source was free to leave a long social media trail being buddy-buddy with the Nazi in public

What a disaster—let's bring back the same people, the ones up to their chins in Palestinian blood who've been advocating for more of the same for years! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...