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

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.