Cover of the business of racism: labor and environment in Brazil's racial Capitalism by Ian Carrillo
The Introduction of my book is currently free to read.
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Yes, they are adopting the same posture with ICE: they need more money for body cams and training. They’ve learned nothing.
Rhetorically Biden rejected Defund, and the only minor reform that the Dems embraced post Ferguson/Minneapolis was to enforce a handful of consent decrees across the country via the DOJ. They didn’t do anything structural and it’s now all being reversed by the current administration.
My book TROOP MOVEMENTS is coming soon. Check it out?
It’s about political struggles over fascism & war, the imperial & the carceral, class & race & global freedom.
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If you might want to assign it, or review it, or preorder it — please stay tuned, or get in touch!
The illegal, immoral, and unaccountable murders are continuing and are getting far too little attention.
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Devastating: Hampshire College is permanently closing following the Fall 2026 Semester. A beautiful institution & community that has done so much for so many. My child is a current Hampshire senior. Hampshire's approach to education is so unique, humane, & exciting—I've seen it first hand. Tragic
Thank you for this perceptive review @thiagokrause.bsky.social!
I would read a content analysis of the way the Times. WAPO, CNN, Jake Tapper etc... covered Biden leaving Afghanistan compared to this absolute debacle of the War on Iran by Trump.
Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.
Poster for the event Saudade: Towards a Luso-Afro-Brazilian Genealogy of Longing. A colloquium examining how saudade-often celebrated as the untranslatable soul of Luso-Brazilian identity-intersects with the histories of slavery, colonialism, and racialization. April 17 from 9am to 3pm at Fung House. Includes a QR code to see the program and RSVP.
Program for the Saudade colloquium. Can be accessed in legible form through a QR code.
Friends in the Boston area: I'll be in Tufts in a few weeks for this symposium I organized with @isabelaf.bsky.social and a brilliant group of scholars. We have been engaged in these conversations for a few years and are excited to keep them going.
Two-year-old Kaleth is being locked away at the Dilley trailer prison. He is getting sicker with each passing day. He will not eat the food CoreCivc serves, which detainees have said sometimes has mold and worms. He now has a fever.
I am struggling to understand the extremely muted international response to this. whatever you think of the regime, it is not the regime that is suffering.
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"Black women ...comprise 6 percent of the overall U.S. labor force and 12 percent of the federal labor force. But of the almost 300,000 federal jobs slashed in 2025, Black women were a stunning 33 percent of those cuts."
A photo shows the aftermath of the strike on an Iranian school. A headline reads: "U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says." More copy reads: "An ongoing military investigation has determined that the strike, which killed mostly children, was the result of a targeting mistake. The finding undercuts President Trump’s claim that Iran could be to blame." Photo by IRIB TV, via Agence France-Presse
The U.S. was responsible for a strike on an Iranian elementary school, an ongoing military investigation found. The inquiry said the strike — which Iranian officials said killed at least 175 people, most of them children — was the result of a targeting mistake. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...
Robin Hood: Men in Tights is a personal fav. And who am I kidding, Prince of Thieves too.
we are in a bare knuckle fight for the university as we know it. here are takes The Atlantic is too afraid to publish
"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds" - Joan Scott www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened
So many weird men have such a creepy attachment to AOC. Let’s just call it Lockjaw syndrome.
He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.
New Book!
Brooke Newman's The Crown's Silence
'The book reveals that by 1807, when Britain abolished the slave trade in its empire, the British crown had become the world’s largest buyer of enslaved people, buying 13,000 men for the army for £900,000."
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"Negroes are not now merely a subject of change but an active organ of change. This is the new political equation in contemporary society."
Dr. MLK Jr. Forgotten Call for Economic Justice in 1966 published by @thenation.com remains evergreen. #MLK #blacksky
Toddler chairs really should be cross marketed as cat beds.
Imagine this headline: corporate fraud is a problem for Republicans.
ICE raids are not the first time this was made explicit. I think people downplay how much Jim Crow was not just about controlling Black people but it was also about controlling white people. If you thought racism was dumb and acted that way you could end up with a bomb in your home
The standard for “cultural revolution” according to centrist and right wing commentators is “liberals being loud about their opinions” whereas Trump is making prosecution, regulatory, and funding decisions based on the politics of the speaker but that’s also libs fault for making him mad
