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.

The wonderful Jairus Banaji

objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country

Wonderful celebration of @durba.bsky.social yesterday that was a testament to the love, camaraderie, and intellectual fellowship that she inspires.

BREAKING: Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees. Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out. It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.

Check out episode 5 of The Caste Pod with Murali Shanmugavelan and Sareeta Amrute speaking about how caste structures IT workspaces and communication infrastructures! newbooksnetwork.com/caste-and-te...

Tomorrow (March 30th) at 7:00 pm EDT, @harvardbookstore.bsky.social welcomes @durba.bsky.social for a discussion of her new book, The Future That Was. She will be in conversation with fellow Harvard Professor Brandon M. Terry. Don't miss this incredible, free conversation! buff.ly/XGxMvBQ

patiently explaining to national political reporters that the people who organize No Kings are also doing the daily advocacy, voter registration, mutual aid, and immigrant defense, and that just because the cameras show up for the big crowd does not mean that work did not exist before and after

We don’t have universal healthcare for the same reason that white southerners poured cement into their community swimming pools rather than let their black neighbors swim in them. Racism is ruining ALL of our lives.

Eid Mubarak

Earlier this week, I had the honor of breaking fast at Rikers Island with New Yorkers in custody. It was a night that will stay with me for quite some time.   In a system too often defined by what it takes, I was reminded of what it means to give—mercy, dignity, and humanity. Eid Mubarak, New York.

Today, at Duke History, I will be speaking on "Gender History in the Time of Gender Ideology," reflecting on the 40th anniversary of Joan Wallach Scott's "Gender as a Useful Category of Historical Analysis" (1986) and the work of gender history now. history.duke.edu/events/gende...

Sally Rooney: "I would like to ask my fellow writers & artists.. not to dwell too exclusively on what we stand to lose. There is another more important side to the story. To join in something greater than ourselves, to participate in.. a struggle for human liberation"

Listen to the first four episodes of The Caste Pod at thecastepod.org or newbooksnetwork.com/category/up-...!

happy publication day to *The Future That Was* out today from @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Episode 4 of The Caste Pod with Ravikant Kisana talking about upper caste liberalism is now live! thecastepod.org/episode-4/

Pankaj Mishra on the “rupture in historical memory” that has led India to forsake Iran https://go.nybooks.com/3NeesGr

In The Future That Was, I document how Intnl Women’s Day was key for women fighting against neofascist states in Iran, Algeria, Pakistan forty yrs ago Women took to the streets, faced down the police, and were beaten/arrested fighting authoritarian laws Solidarity on International Women’s Day ✊🏽

Leqaa Kordia, in her own words, for @zeteo.com. Leqaa should be free. Her captors, and whichever outside organization collaborated with them, should be the ones in cages.