I wrote a book with Quinn Slobodian called MUSKISM. It'll be published in the US in April 2026, and I hope you'll consider pre-ordering it. The elevator pitch is: if Fordism defined the capitalism of the 20th century, Muskism may well define the capitalism of the 21st.

Feels like this wouldn't happen even 20 years ago? Internal labor markets meant you cut your teeth reporting the facts on night court or whatever then eventually you get to interview the mayor. Now you go to an ivy, build a brand, maybe a podcast and take that brand between papers.

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

I do have a soft spot for computer programming books from the 1970s.

Boston area friends and colleagues! I will be at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social tomorrow (Wed 10/1) in conversation with @bentarnoff.com at 7 pm. All info here: brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-1...

If you're in the Boston area, come see me quiz @triofrancos.bsky.social about her new book EXTRACTION in Brookline on Wednesday brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-1...

Morning walk

Pretty sure the civil rights act of 1964 polls better than every single living democratic politician and some good dead ones. The idea that you’d give up that advantage, that you’d betray CENTURIES of work by a multiracial coalition of Americans, to prove how much you like Charlie Kirk, is insane.

The idea that “the civil rights act was a mistake” is a mainstream conservative position we can only tolerate but “defund the police” is a great cancer that must be excised from America for Democrats to win is the actual reason Democrats lose. Sorry.

'Welcome to my last four years.' A search for accountability and a full, detailed explanation for Martha's death . . . www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

woke up this morning thinking about this

EXTRACTION is hitting the road this fall. Thrilled to be in conversation with @dharna.bsky.social @bentarnoff.com @dwallacewells.bsky.social @earthworks.bsky.social and others. Stay tuned for more events in the winter and spring! @wwnorton.com

I could see "abolish the mobile web" as a demand that gets some traction over the next decade or so

Every day offers further evidence for my pet theory that "AOL Anticipated Everything." Someday I will be permitted to write a book on this topic

Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate.

Coming March 2026

I put my “dating historian” hat back on to write about a good movie about bad men, now out in a new edition from @criterion.bsky.social www.criterion.com/current/post...

Very excited to share this workshop I'm helping to host on August 19: "From Tech Lash To Tech Fash: Strategic reflections on a decade of collective organizing in computing" tech-organizing-reflections.github.io

The government of Israel is exterminating every man, woman and child in Gaza. And our governments, and most leaders of liberal institutions in "the West" - parties both left and right, the press, universities - are doing all they can to support this. This is the central political fact of our time.

Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication. My latest. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Alex de Waal has worked on humanitarian causes across the globe for over 40 years. “There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”

Wow — New Gallup poll: — Trump approval on immigration: 35-62 (!) — Record high approval of immigration (79-17 overall) — 78% of people support a pathway to citizenship (+8 from 2024); only 38% support mass deportation (-9 from 2024) — 30% want a decrease in immigration (-25 from 2024)

🚨 My next book, EXTRACTION: THE FRONTIERS OF GREEN CAPITALISM is out 9/23 with @wwnorton.com Today and tomorrow, you can pre-order it at 25% off 😊 Use code PREORDER25 at www.barnesandnoble.com/w/extraction...

A Yahoo News/YouGov poll finds that Mamdani's proposals (freezing rent, free universal child care, taxes on the rich) are overwhelmingly popular, especially among Democrats – and that's nationally, not just in deep-blue NYC. www.yahoo.com/news/poll-zo...

Mamdani does what I've been calling constructive politics: appeals to identity as a building block of solidarity rather than a replacement for it. love to see it

Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies

lmfao

Everyone should subscribe to Long Haul. Beautifully made magazine of worker writing. Feels like the spiritual successor to Viewpoint longhaulmag.com

The tech worker movement is in crisis and we want to hear from YOU! We’re launching a new series to highlight the problems that workers are facing in this new political environment. Submissions are open until July 30th, 2025. Please send your responses to [email protected]

Every single day. on.ft.com/409SaZx

Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.

RIP King

🚨Second poll comes out in as many days showing Trump/Miller's regime's dictatorial tactics targeting LA/CA is backfiring (yesterday YouGov showed double disapproval of deployment of Marines) These polls make the blowhards among East Coast media/pol elites look out of touch w rest of America. (1/2)

I’m honored to have an article in the new issue on “Platform Economies in Digital Asia” edited by Lin Zhang and Elaine Yuan! I take a comparative look at Amazon entrepreneurs in China and India—and a stab at what “third wave” platform studies might look like. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Musk vs. Trump? Quinn Slobodian on the Risks of Billionaire Rule

MUSKISM (2026) by Q. Slobodian and B. Tarnoff

New from 404 Media: a cop in Texas performed a nationwide search of license plate reading cameras for a woman who got an abortion, according to multiple sets of data we've reviewed. Included cameras where abortion is legal, like Washington and Illinois www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

“Nakedly authoritarian and retaliatory” — statement from Harvard’s @aaup.bsky.social chapter on the termination of Harvard’s SEVP certification.

"Across sectors, vertical integration is re-emerging not as a relic of the past, but as a forward-looking strategy for resilience, coordination, and control." Another great post from @js-tan.bsky.social's indispensable newsletter www.valueadded.tech/p/the-return...

“Like other Palestinian fathers, I was separated from you by racist regimes and distant prisons. Babies are born every day without their fathers – not because their fathers chose to leave, but because they are taken by war, by bombs, by prison cells and by the cold machinery of occupation.”

I'd like to come up with a shared responsibility model where we can blame zoomers for being illiterate and blame the society that produced the conditions for their illiteracy

The Trump administration has unleashed a massive domestic surveillance apparatus, thanks to AI systems supplied by major tech firms I wrote about its origins and impact on the ground for @dissentmag.bsky.social and the @theintercept.com www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

only just noticed that if you join oxford and cambridge to london with straight lines, it forms an arrow pointing directly at hastings - a deliberate "easter egg" from william the conqueror

"What makes you so much worthier of your peace?"

The sixth issue of Hammer & Hope is now live. It’s morning again in America. Federal agents snatch students off the streets. The White House boasts of banishing hundreds of people to a Salvadoran prison. Head Start and domestic violence shelters await the chopping block. hammerandhope.org