So excited for the first BLUE POWER event tomorrow (Tuesday) in Baltimore! Events now planned in Philly, DC, NYC, Seattle, and Chicago, all listed here: stuartschrader.com

The push for institutional neutrality, like the so-called “free-speech crisis,” was always a right wing ploy to get universities to stop pointing out obvious things like “fascists are ascendant” and “racism is bad.”

It is sad that so many university “leaders” took the bait.

Congratulations to my pal @stschrader1.bsky.social! His new book Blue Power - which Ruthie Gilmore called a ‘tour de force’ - is out today!

Today! Join us!

Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn

personally I think "Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn" is a bad thing to read in the newspaper

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

New York! We're bringing @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social to NYU to talk about his new book on self-determination - April 14 at 4:30pm. All are welcome - registration/info here: www.nysean.org/events/the-f...

Cuba has some of the most highly educated medical professionals in the world. But America's barbaric blockade is causing serious pain.

@llchristyll.bsky.social stopped by the Bitchuation Room to talk about how the embargo is disrupting essential medical care in Cuba.

A picture with Christy Thornton, Francesca Fiorentini, and Cori Bush

It was great to join @franifio.bsky.social to talk about my recent trip to Cuba, what the US is doing there, and why the right-wing influencer set is freaking out. You can watch here: www.youtube.com/live/JpjOlRA...

TBR Tuesday Livestream 3/24 (feat. Cori Bush & Christy Thornton) YouTube video by The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini)

Live today talking ICE chuds at airports, Cuba blackouts with
@llchristyll.bsky.social, and Cori Bush's resurgence with...
@coribush.bsky.social!

Watch LIVE on Youtube, Substack, or Twitch at 1pm PT / 4pm ET! ✨
youtube.com/live/JpjOlRA...

HPE Project 2026 Summer Research Grant CFP — History & Political Economy Project The History & Political Economy (HPE) Project invites applications from PhD students and early-career scholars for our 2026 summer research grant.

The 2026 @hpe-project.bsky.social grant competition is now open! PhD candidates and early-career scholars doing work on histories of neoliberalism are welcome to apply by April 5 for research work this summer. Details and application: www.hpeproject.org/grants-cfp

Paul R. Ehrlich, Who Alarmed the World With 'The Population Bomb, Dies at 93 His best-selling 1968 book, which forecast global famines, made him a leader of the environmental movement. But he faced criticism when his predictions proved premature. Image of Paul ehrlich, an older white man with blue eyes

This obituary makes it sound like he was criticized by polluters and jealous peers, not those who pointed out the links between the movement he sparked (ZPG) and eugenics, the very politics that have delivered us “mass deportations now” and untold border violence

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/b...

He Was Chevron’s Man in Venezuela—and a CIA Informant After retiring from Chevron, Ali Moshiri warned the Trump administration it would face a morass if it tried to install the democratic opposition.

A former top Chevron executive was super tight with Delcy Rodriguez. He told the CIA to back her instead of Venezuela's democratic opposition,. The agency told Trump.

Now Ali Moshiri is ready to cash in. He's raising $3 billion to get back in Venezuela's oil game.

www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Yes, that’s the issue. I’ve been trying to find a way to articulate this: to the extent that LLMs serve a purpose in education, it’s an indictment of the education system, not a praiseworthy feature of LLMs.

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

This looks so fun 👇

Abolish ICE has a +11 approval — which means it is *32 points* more popular than Donald Trump

Ask yourself: does corporate media portray that accurately?

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

RIP to a truly unique and inspiring intellectual

What the fuck

Didn’t think the first NYPD power struggle would start over literal snowflake bullshit

"Just 2 percent of all college students—including 3 percent of Republicans—say they feel they don’t belong on campus due to their political views."

Taxing the Superrich For the sake of justice and democracy, we need a progressive wealth tax.

“The middle class already pays taxes on its wealth in the form of property taxes. The wealthy don’t, since most of their wealth consists of financial assets, which are exempt from property tax. In the 19th century, by contrast, property taxes of most states fell on all assets, real and financial.”

Books do not bring drugs into prison. Prison guards bring drugs into prison.

City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries! In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

Can we get to 4500 letters to NY City Council by tomorrow? It only takes 30 seconds: actionnetwork.org/letters/city... - Also if you've already signed, can you please get 4 others to do the same?

The reactionary centrists who took seriously and platformed the moral panics over DEI and critical race theory seriously helped this along. And now that fanatical zealots are banning “world-views” and Holocaust education they are mostly quiet.

ICE Has Doubled Its Presence in Notorious Brooklyn Jail Rep. Dan Goldman learned of the expansion on Wednesday when he became the first lawmaker to visit the federal facility since it began detaining immigrants last June.

www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/18/i...

I learned so much from this piece

What on earth

Authoritarianism from Below | Stuart Schrader As National Guard troops and federal officers swarmed Washington, D.C., in August, sent by President Donald Trump to confront what he declared a “crime

“The federal invasions are usurpations—but not necessarily of police authority,” @stschrader1.bsky.social writes. Instead, they have “become opportunities to...further weaken the already fraying democratic constraints on police power.”

Cover of Blue Power with group of officers walking away from viewer

This article briefly previews my forthcoming book Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, out in April from @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social. You can preorder it w/ the discount code BLUE20 here: www.basicbooks.com/titles/stuar...