My latest: Good riddance to "Alligator Alcatraz," a sort of Fyre Festival for incipient fascism reason.com/2026/06/26/g...

NEW — The sentencing of the Prairieland demonstrators shows the brutality of Trump's war on dissent, but it's not without precedent, @kimkelly.bsky.social writes. History shows us the government has always punished anti-fascism. But this time we can change the narrative in real time. Read here:

People should know that NYPL alone has 100 vacancies and that this doesn't include the 160 vacancies at BPL & QPL. Library workers also need higher pay. Meanwhile the libraries ARE NOT RECEIVING ENOUGH FUNDING. We need @mayor.nyc.gov and the @council.nyc.gov to fund libraries at 0.5% of budget now.

with friends like these...

Last month, @robcamachosd.bsky.social wrote a follow-up to his award-winning piece from last year: He reported on how these organizers remain undeterred in the face of the violence from Minneapolis and elsewhere, and looks at how tactics are evolving in response. boltsmag.org/violent-ice-...

I'm excited that a Bolts story has just received a Distinguished Coverage award from the Society of Professional Journalists (their San Diego chapter). It's our story on volunteer patrols monitoring ICE activity in San Diego. Congrats to @robcamachosd.bsky.social! Reread his piece:

re: the incrementalism debate. There’s a big difference between “Better things are possible and we can get there step by step” and “We took one step and that’s enough”

hahahahahah….wait let me catch my breath…..HAHAHAHAHA

We have been moving through horrifying news cycles at a fast clip, but I hope that the Prarieland defendants will remain at top of mind (collectively) until it’s possible to free them.

For those who struggle with the geography, Netanyahu's primary political rival wants to annex the orange

aw! i hope they're having a nice time

We’ve been doing such exciting work with the Washington Prison History Project, including a documentary in the making with Huy about the fight for indigenous religious freedom in WA prisons. Check out the trailer here: waprisonhistory.org/blog/were-ma...

Yep. By this standard, we are all [terrorists / gang members] now. Free them all

So New York can afford to hire more cops, but can't afford to get books to jail detainees?

If the old guard were so confident that their people were winners, they could have put in more work to convince Dem primary voters to support them. It’s the party’s primary, so if you lose, doesn’t that mean the party isn’t about you anymore?

Why are there any landlords on the rent guidelines board? There should be zero. It should be 9/9 tenants.

Ok rent freeze for some units is good, now can you do it for my unit too mr mayor

“The decision comes months after some Woodburn residents expressed fears that the information collected from the cameras would be used to arrest immigrants or invade people’s privacy.”

Little known fact, the ?utm parameter in URLs stands for "under this manifesto", an explicit nod to Karl Marx

FYI they're gonna vote on a rent freeze and a landlord member of the board resigned in protest over it this morning

An American just got sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving “Antifa” zines and there’s about 1000x as much media coverage of Trump’s reflecting pool 👍

Similarly, hard to imagine Cuomo stepping down today.

I'm pretty sure I just finished an entire book manuscript first draft

I wrote about the Prairieland defendants and the urgency of opposing the extreme sentences handed down on Tuesday. And they likely will not be the last.

I'd missed this a few months back. So instead of cutting the newsroom by 1/3, Bezos actually cut WaPo in half...

This is a blatant lie from @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Avila Chevalier's 13th district is one of poorest in NY, with median income of $52,401, lower than the median income in Jeffries' own district and 2nd to poorest in whole NY www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

It's not my discipline, so please excuse any overreach, but I have to say that hearing about public health faculty funding was eye-opening. The "soft money" structure seems like it combines the worst aspects of academic and non-academic employment

the RGB is voting on a rent freeze today, so I wrote a piece for Next City that has a rhetorical question as a headline whose answer is no, as is journalistic tradition nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

"If it bleeds, it leads"—many people assume crime news is just about chasing clicks. After interviewing 58 crime journalists across 40 newsrooms, I found something more complicated. My first dissertation paper is live at @sociologicalsci.bsky.social 🧵 sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

Reminds me of those youtube videos that are like, “This Michelin star chef makes a meal for under $20!” and they always make the most over engineered dish that’s one serving for the whole $20. Like why not get interesting and make it a meal for $8?

We did it! No more text messages!

I agree with the first sentence but not the second sentence. The NYC political machine--localized volunteer infrastructure--is not really portable, at least not yet.

I always highlight that some historical frames like to point at the CRM being within a 10-20 year span. I’m not a historian myself but being a movement worker, there’s reason to go back to the collapse of Reconstruction as a point when thinking of the CRM. Either way, “long horizon” is 100%.

Any massive movement w enduring effects on political understanding is not a failure-not only because of the changed commonsense but because that’s how you make an opening for a big win down the line. Few believe this despite … all of modern history. But that’s fine. That’s why I write books.

Also, with respect to the student movement for Palestine. If anything, what we see in the failure of most divestment demands---alongside a complete restructuring of the Israel-Palestine issue in electoral politics---is that universities are fundamentally anti-democratic organizations.

Right. The demand has to be absolute clemency.

People also love to say defund the police was a failure because every city in the country did not immediately cut police budgets. Social movement outcomes have a long time horizon and may not always show up in the exact demands the movement made

Props to this man at the gym who has staked out a simultaneous claim to both sides of a cable machine and a barbell bench some 20 feet away

Joe Scarborough went crazy this morning and said it's all Netanyahu's fault that the NY congressional results were like this lol

We’ve had quite a few requests for the maps from our primary election livestream coverage last night, created by the genius minds over at Partner & Partners, so here they are. Enjoy!

I’m surprised they used photos that are generally pretty flattering

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

So now that Darializa is headed into Congress and is doing interviews saying "I'm a sociologist," how long do you think it takes until some coalition of faculty comes out to say "Actually, Sociologists Support Prisons, Borders, and Israel, Thank You."

Is the list ranked by net worth?

Indirect social movement outcomes!

Sure seems like this race needed a poll or Kessler to stand down... Was impossible to tell whether I should have voted for Kessler or Siffert based on candidate strength against the center lane.

reporters furiously googling "cadre organization"