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

Israel is not "throttling food supply" It is STARVING PEOPLE AS PART OF ONGOING GENOCIDE.

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...

Man if Zohran does it I will just be walking on air for months

At UChicago we're building the coalition across different sectors of society to fight back against the billionaire class attack on our universities, our democracy, and our welfare state. Come join us! (Link below)

I started trimming my beard with scissors because I'm pressed for time and could do spot work, and now I'm addicted to it and think it looks good

Pediatrician says to give the baby fluoridated toothpaste, the internet says that's nuts. what's the verdict

What’s the best child safety kitchen cabinet lock to get? There’s surely one correct answer

proud to call @gabrielwinant.bsky.social my colleague, comrade, and friend chicagomaroon.com/47073/viewpo...

Do I know anyone relatively near central CT with a car, a modest yen for adventure, an optional love of modernist poetry, and a venmo account so I could pay them for a task that would take about two hours?

why do youtube videos I embed in powerpoint always skip when I try to play them for my class

S is for SOLIDARITY—let’s help the Sesame Street workers as they fight the expropriation of kid’s media! Sign the below and spread the word! @kimkelly.bsky.social @ericblanc.bsky.social @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @astra.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/soli...

I think campuses may boil over with anger, but I admit I’m worried it will happen too soon as much as I’m worried it will happen too late

To prevent our university admins from capitulating like Columbia, here's an idea: Students, faculty, & campus workers everywhere launch Free Speech campaigns to get a majority of campus to sign a petition demanding admin not capitulate. Then deliver them in mass demonstrations

Trump is now going to try to force every major university to capitulate like Columbia But he can be stopped — if faculty, students, and campus unions rapidly & deeply organize + mobilize to force their admins to fight back

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢 "Moral Economies of the Polycrisis. Conflict, Critique, and Legitimation in Critical Times" Workshop, June 16-17 University of Hamburg Deadline for abstracts: 07/04 Supported by the Economic Sociology section of @dgsoziologie.bsky.social linuswestheuser.com/cfp-moral-ec...

If you are looking for a break from doomscrolling, I highly recommend FRAGILE JUGGERNAUT, a podcast on the history of CIO from @haymarketbooks.org It gives an in-depth look at 20th century US labor history and serves as a great entry point into the work of historians of the period.

The level of antisemitism like actual antisemitism against Jews that people are willing to tolerate for the sake of Israel is truly extraordinary. And I'm not even addressing the racism against Palestinians here.

Listen to this episode of the Dig if you want to feel optimism about the labor movement

This statement from @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is perfectly embodying why the administration chose to go after Khalil first, because they know Democrats are so consumed by their own hate for Palestinians/pro-Palestinian protestors, they can only muster up the most milquetoast of responses.

Really seeing what Thompson was getting at at the end of Whigs and Hunters

So the LA Times replaced me with an AI that defends the KKK www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/so-the-la-...

this is why he shut down twitter for the day maybe

Here is an open letter signed from UChicago AAUP signed by over 200 faculty to our administration on what we believe this moment requires: uchicagoaaup.wordpress.com

Things you could do: -NSJP has called for a day of action 3/11; hold a rally or protest. -send senior faculty to meet with admin and demand guarantees they won’t coordinate with ICE or admin -have all campus unions demand admin non-cooperation or compliance with Trump agenda

Chicago!! Very excited to see you in one week with @gabrielwinant.bsky.social

this exhibition looks incredible, really wish i could see it before it closes next month

Traveling this weekend, so I’ve just shared a Special Saturday #ScholarSunday thread—my 212th of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Share widely & enjoy, all! 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

Co-sign this whole thread. The attack on federal workers is an attack on all of us and the very idea of public goods.

For the historians in our midst 🗃️, here's an excerpt from @gabrielwinant.bsky.social's conclusion of sorts that considers what was lost and gained in the handoff from social to institutional political historical analysis - and the promise of uniting them. www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-...

The new Capital reviewed in The Nation by Alyssa Battistoni:

Higher Ed Labor United, AAUP, CWA, AFT, and the UAW—that’s who’s fighting; join or die www.labor4highered.org

The only hope for higher ed is the academic labor movement. Join this @higheredlabor.bsky.social call next week to plan our fight us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...