No, they shouldn’t. B/c
1. You can’t just make Cold War civil rights happen again.
2. Cold War Anti-communism was a reputational pressure cooker for civil rights *and* for their severe repression.
2. Increased geopolitical competition (you want more escalation?!?!?) is a recipe against reform.
Nothing to lose but our…
Is this a joke? Some of those campus leaders are still in jail, face deportation, or had their normal lives stripped from them by the security state.
Symposium in Review of Politics on my 2023 book Remapping Sovereignty on @uchicagopress.bsky.social, with introduction by Adam Dahl, generous and sharp essays/engagements from Angelica Bernal, Jane Gordon, Burke Hendrix, Tim Vasko, and author response from me.
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Email from Elissa Slotkin that reads “as a former cia officer, I’ve seen democracies flicker out.”
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Did not have this on my nba fandom bingo card
How does this, in any conceivable world, “expand access” to universities?
The fact that he’s not running again suggests that this is Walz’s real preference for less spectacular ways of snatching our neighbors from their communities.
I am reminded, yet again, of how often the people the fascist state executes are already in jobs that involve caring for others and holding worlds together—and that they still spend their time off caring for our neighbors.
Right by my old apartment in Minneapolis. I love you, I love you, I love you. To all the people standing up against fascism
When u r a true MaVErick, u vote for the gestapo at the door.
Ok I need to spell this out more slowly, clearly: Greenland is Inuit land and nobody but Inuit should be getting to decide what happens to it
I sure hope not
I don’t disagree with you. The discontinuities matter too of course. but your argument is different from his, which is “we used to be the good guys and now we are the bad guys.”
We don’t have to tell stories that are false to opposed bad things, and we are more likely to get more bad things if we tell stories that cover over continuities with all the other same bad things.
A century that includes the US navy using gunboats to literally pilfer the Haitian treasury. Wtaf are they talking about?
The willful historical illiteracy among pundits about American imperialism is still shocking, no matter how predictable.
I saw the “using children as human shields” line used by someone in the admin the other day with reference to Minneapolis and wondered if people might finally get it.
Ask Liz about her mentorship and teaching. She has directed just a huge range of different amazing projects, but no one seems to ask her about it.
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The federal government has occupied Minneapolis. And everyone can see the abuses that come from this situation day in and day out. Even people not protesting cant keep their kids safe.
Now imagine 77 years of this.
Fraudster Emily Oster op-Ed claiming that Kennedy’s advice is “not crazy”
Absolutely no one: “I wonder what Emily Oster thinks about all this?”
Abolition is the reform
Reminder that for US foreign policy elites contemplating intervention since 1945:
“democracy” means right-wing dictatorship
“dictatorship” means left-wing dictatorship, social democracy, or democratic socialism
I can’t be the only one who thinks that the timing is partly motivated by Trump being envious at the media attention lavished on Mamdani.
2026
Guatemala - 1954
Chile -1973
Venezuela - 2025
Bombing Venezuela and kidnapping Maduro is completely consistent with US Imperialism’s long and bloody history in Latin America.
The US’ aspiring tyrant just abducted the leader of another sovereign state because oil! Why in god’s name are you leading with “but Maduro”?
Tasks of the US left are to stand in solidarity with the Venezuelan people and make sure this war becomes deeply unpopular at home.