NEW YORK!!!!! I’ll be there this Friday May 22nd — come through to the Francis Kite Club from 2-5pm and hang with me! RSVP here: secure.actblue.com/donate/alexi... Many thanks to @astra.bsky.social @benmckenzie.bsky.social @lilygreenbergcall.bsky.social and @thegoodai.bsky.social for hosting!

///BREAKING/// The original federal grand jury refused to indict the "Broadview Six" case against Operation Midway Blitz protesters, and a second grand jury was plagued by "tension" and arguing over the merits of the case, according to what's being said in court now.

"The Board of Peace—announced at Davos with a gilded version of the UN logo that essentially only depicts North America—is chaired for life by Donald Trump, who is empowered to make unilateral decisions on membership. The buy-in for a permanent seat is $1 billion."

"This current arrangement is far from stable, and the turn toward nakedly corrupt transactionalism is less a new paradigm of power than a form of crisis looting at the level of the state."

Why do faculty and students have so little say in the governance of American universities? This terrific new paper by Daniel Hemel and David Pozen asks why American universities are liberal autocracies rather than stakeholder democracies. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Now: About 100 rank and file Legal Aid Society attorneys and allies are rallying outside Brooklyn Criminal Court after a woman was forced to give birth in arraignment. They’re discussing other instances of clients dying in custody & harsher punishments for NYC’s poor.

It’s worth the read. I like it because they talk about the underlying mechanisms behind the headlines we see about Trump’s targeting of groups. Documenting and understanding such mechanisms will be really valuable when we start to rebuild, that is, if we choose to rebuild at all. I hope we do.

Together with the terrific @azohra.bsky.social, we curated this symposium on IL and the current moment: lpeproject.org/blog/somethi.... Features wise contributions by @wanshucong.bsky.social @jbentonheath.bsky.social @shaabiranks.bsky.social @richardjoyce.bsky.social & Sarah Sherman-Stokes

Today, @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social and @azohra.bsky.social kick off a series on international law under the second Trump administration. The embrace of naked coercion, they argue, represents both a genuine departure from, and the culmination of the internal contradictions of, the post-WWII order.

New article! How is finance ‘raced’, and why is this the case? With what consequences for our understandings of race, finance, and capitalism? To explore this, we develop a 'raced finance' analytic, grounded in political economy and racial capitalism debates. Link 👇🏾and 🧵:

Overnight this Omni ICE flight landed in Guam, where it sat for 7+ hours, before continuing west. It is about to make its first deportation stop, in Cambodia. Migrants passengers onboard have likely been shackled for at least 63 hours.

On a good day, I remember how much l love to play with ideas.

🚨 White House unveils pre-crime strategy to target the left, including pro-Palestinian protesters, "anti-Fascists," and "anti-American, radically pro-transgender ideologies." Full document: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/insane-pre...

i think i finally found the right urdu tutor...a lyotard translator.

New Dig ep is an interview with Fahd Ahmed and Alina Shen, leaders of DRUM and CAAAV—two brilliant organizers leading powerful basebuilding organizations—on how they organize, then electing Zohran mayor, and struggling through the contradictions of governance. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/orga...

First frontier AI lab to unionize, driven in part by concerns about Pentagon's use of AI in the war on Iran www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

thx @prisonculture.bsky.social for this newsletter, all the powerful organizing folks are doing in the interstices and thx for the shout out. prisonculture.substack.com/p/prisons-pr...

I think Black Reconstruction by Du Bois is best read with others. A few years ago, I gave a presentation for the Schomburg Center. My focus was on what PIC abolitionists can learn about how change happens by studying Black Reconstruction. We even created a little guide to share with participants.

Now out in the American Criminal Law Review: "Big Box Carceralism." I trace the legal history of the retailer-backed campaign for bans on "organized retail crime." Retailers lied and fearmongered about the data, pushed bills through ALEC, and all to get slightly more specific conspiracy statutes. 🧵

This meant immigrants no longer needed a smuggler. Instead, they just had to register at the camps, and give their biometric data. Unbeknownst to them, it went right into a CBP database, part of what Honduras did to earn $1.6 billion in aid from the US between FY 2015 and 2024.

Today, a spring scouting report on some of the hottest new LPE and LPE-adjacent articles. Congrats to all the authors on such wonderful placements 🎉

really important, thanks @azohra.bsky.social for staying attuned to this

Guilt by solidarity exhibit 9999999

and listening from @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social, @azohra.bsky.social & @nasiahadjigeorgiou.bsky.social on Called to the Bar; @drdaveobrien.bsky.social & @christinegrandy.bsky.social on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social...

Proud of my colleagues and students who caused admin to pause the pride flag removals. As we look hopefully to a future of genuine input into what our campus looks like, it's a good time to reflect on how we got here. dailyfreepress.com/04/06/19/219...

I'm in The Blog today on the turmoil in higher education finance. 🧵 The Trump Admin is simultaneously trying to get things back to normal (pre-COVID status quo, but more punitive) and to dismantle the whole system (selling off the portfolio, closing Dept of Ed) lpeproject.org/blog/the-stu...

“In a feat of legal engineering, the president stressed the Constitution’s support structures past what experts considered their maximum load.”

I wrote about the Prairieland trial, the first to pilot the White House’s theory that antifa is a vector for terrorism. The case is a dangerous escalation in the admin's war against the left. Yet it also highlights a longer history... lpeproject.org/blog/guilty-...

25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.

If you’ve never called your congressional reps before, do it right now.

Today, @azohra.bsky.social explains how the recent conviction of Anti-ICE protestors represents a dangerous and increasingly common form of guilt by association that is antithetical to collective political action.

I wrote about the Prairieland trial, the first to pilot the White House’s theory that antifa is a vector for terrorism. The case is a dangerous escalation in the admin's war against the left. Yet it also highlights a longer history... lpeproject.org/blog/guilty-...

one is not meant to have favourites, but this is definitely up there: a CTTB episode with @azohra.bsky.social and @nasiahadjigeorgiou.bsky.social on foreign military bases, international law and imperialism. soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

Boston University's removal of Pride flags from faculty offices follows a forty-year-long pattern of silencing political speech on campus and violating the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act. The most recent op-ed in BU AAUP's multipart series with #TheDailyFreePress discusses this history⬇️

Boston U's AAUP uncovers a campaign of censorship on campus. A series. dailyfreepress.com/03/30/21/219...

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."  Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

"What distinguishes his latest regime is its effort to reimagine and remake the borders of American state power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic in a single domain of impunity: call it ‘Homeland Empire’." www.equator.org/articles/hom...

Happening Now: Hundreds of protesters are holding a noise demo outside of the Graduate by Hilton Hotel in Minneapolis where ICE agents are reportedly staying. Drums, guitars, pots and pans are in-tune to "fuck ICE" and "ICE out" chants. Riot police are currently in the lobby.

As U.S. reasserts itself in the Caribbean, "for small states, the cardinal sin is not choosing the “wrong” side but collapsing strategic ambiguity." www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

He was in Iraq. Everytime we talk about defunding ICE and the police, we must talk about defunding the US military.

Look what finally came! @cambridge.org

Today, @azohra.bsky.social and Madiha Tahir argue that recent criticism of the Trump administration's bombings in the Caribbean risks repeating a familiar mistake: debating how the United States wages war while leaving unquestioned why it wages it at all.

"The fundamental questions here are not about which body of law to apply—human rights law or the law of war. Instead, as the US opens another front of possible war [on Venezuela], we must ask: what interests does it advance, and whose?" lpeproject.org/blog/beginni...

#BREAKING - Major development in #StopCopCity case

war on drugs 🤝 war on terror