Jackson.

For @theguardian.com I write that ending TPS is the single largest assault on immigrant lives in contemporary US & part of a playbook that couples expanded enforcement with canceling legal status. “Legal” & “illegal” are decisions about whose life is valued. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Check out the latest episode of The Caste Pod on caste and music with T.M. Krishna! thecastepod.org/episode-11/

If you want to know why both corporate Democrats and Republicans are freaking out about DSA on the TV, this is why. We’ve been living under a 50 year lie that good things are not possible in our politics and it only took six months in a major American city to show that it was a bipartisan scam.

Must read essay by Gary Wilder: www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen is backing progressive Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, breaking with party leadership and intensifying a battle over the party’s direction.

Britain about to get its seventh Prime Minister in ten years. I can’t say I’m surprised. As a people they’re often wonderful of course—very musical, for example, many charming customs, and always joking around in their quirky way—but they just don’t have the temperament for stable self-government.

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win dailystruggle.org/uaw-divests-...

Check out the latest episode of The Caste Pod on the diaspric Hindu Right with members of Savera! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The only upside of stories like this is that they reiterate how unsustainable it is to have the priorities of a foreign country shaping the civil society of multiple western countries www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

We’re both proud Jewish New Yorkers. But there are sharp & clear differences between us on Israel/Palestine. For example, Dan Goldman marched alongside war criminal Bezalel Smotrich yesterday, who called it “just & moral” to starve Gaza. I did not.

The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Congrats, Courtney!!! Cover is gorgeous.

Check out the latest episode of The Caste Pod on Dalit feminism with Thenmozhi Soundararajan @dalitdiva.bsky.social! thecastepod.org/episode-9/

“The American Psychiatric Association, at its own annual conference, cut the microphone of its own human rights award recipient, in a room full of its own members, because he was going to talk about Gaza.” muslimmatters.org/2026/05/21/t...

HUGE NEWS: ICE’s courthouse arrests have been STAYED by a New York district judge. That means that ICE will have to stop arresting our immigrant neighbors on the spot when they show up to court at places like 26 Federal Plaza, 290 Broadway, and 201 Varick. (1/2)

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Super excited to host Anand Vaidya @anandvaidya.bsky.social for a talk on his brilliant book Future of the Forest! Please join us if you are in town.

“Co-workers wouldn’t eat with him. They would say, ‘You are impure, untouchable.’” NY bill confronts caste discrimination at work & in public institutions, reports @yashicadutt.bsky.social. South Asian New Yorkers spoke of losing jobs or being turned away from places of worship because of caste.

Catch the latest episode of The Caste Pod on caste and urbanization with Malini Ranganathan and Juned Shaikh! thecastepod.org/episode-8/

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

Listen to the latest episode of The Caste Pod on the educational and agitational work of the Ambedkar King Study Circle! thecastepod.org/episode-7/

I want to add that class in the U.S. is only legible among white people. Black people have been the MOST working class segment of U.S. society for decades AND YET... Black people are consistently written out of the narrative of "working class" USians.

The AAUP & @aft.org stand in solidarity with UM Faculty Senate Chair Derek Peterson. Right-wing attacks on his commencement speech are a direct threat to academic freedom. University leaders must stop apologizing to political agitators & start defending their faculty & protected speech. 👇

Bravo

Yet again, university leaders meet our political moment with cravenness and repression.

Prof. Derek Peterson, U of Michigan historian & MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, thanked “pro-Palestinian student activists” during a grad speech today, for “opening our hearts to the injustices and inhumanity of Israel’s war in Gaza.” His words, and the cheers that followed made my heart sing.

Excellent interview with Neha Dixit about labor conditions in India. Happy May Day. www.democracynow.org/2026/5/1/ind...

My review in the Dublin Review of Books: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Isabella Hammad's on solidarity and Palestine. We are being invited to confront how we are implicated as bystanders. But what to do with our witnessing--of ourselves, of victims, of the perpetrators of genocide? drb.ie/article/pale...

Wtf

JD Vance has said “the professors are the enemy.” This week I talked to @isaackamola.bsky.social from the @aaup.org Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom. We unpacked a new effort to redirect the bureaucracy of state accreditation against higher education. open.substack.com/pub/joshcowe...

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology. This is a serious escalation.

The irony of this initiative is that Harvard’s Department of Government was the academic hub of the first generation of neoconservatives and Harvey Mansfield alone has probably produced more conservative undergrad and grad students than all Marxist faculty at Harvard combined.

Listen to the latest episode of The Caste Pod with Nico Slate on transnational solidarities! thecastepod.org/episode-6/

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

💯. AND 1) Campus protests typically take place to demand something of the university and there isn’t an obvious link here so college students who are protesting are likely joining city/town protests and 2) College students feel safer protesting outside of universities than inside of them post-2024.

God I hate this genre. These kids who protested Gaza got arrested, expelled, beaten up, doxxed, lives ruined by outside agitators and were utterly betrayed by the administrations that should have protected them at any cost. Shut the fuck up.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

Read Elia’s thread. There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. There never has been a ceasefire in Lebanon, for now years

Pope Leo XIV understands the assignment

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi and Spencer Ackerman respond to Trump's primetime address on the war on Iran last night.