The work @robertmanduca.bsky.social has been doing the last few years is huge for our understanding of race/place inequality. Just a total rockstar.

The South has historically been the epicenter of racial inequality in the US. But the geography of racial inequality has shifted in the decades since the Civil Rights movement. Today, Black-white income disparities are lower in the South than the rest of the country. @robertmanduca.bsky.social

I feel the same way. Big testament to all the organizing work that’s gone on these past few years. As a lefty millennial I’m not used to leaving these things feeling hopeful about the Dems, but this was a good moment!

Whatever the criticisms of his replacement - and yes, let's hold him to the highest standard, to be sure - this is just an unbelievably good development for progress in the world. On a personal note, it honestly makes me feel so much better about doing my job (which I love in substance). Thank you!

heck yes. I'm putting together an undergrad policy course on municipal socialism for the fall. I won't get around to working on it much until this summer, but would love to swap syllabi!

Israel’s Universities Are a Key Part of Its Apartheid Regime Opponents of the academic boycott of Israel claim that its universities are havens of free inquiry. In fact, they supply vital support to Israel’s system of apartheid rule and are complicit in the vio...

"Israeli universities actively sustain Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid, as well as their own complicity in the ongoing violation of Palestinian rights as recognized under international law."

Michigan news!

Go Blue

Results are out and the left wing of the Michigan Democrats had a near total sweep today in Detroit. Out of 8 endorsements by the People’s Coalition, for instance, all but one won the party’s endorsement today. A victory like this for leftists & progressives was hard to imagine just a few years ago.

Huge news: Jordan Acker, who infamously pushed state to prosecute UM student protestors, loses bid for re-election to UM Regents. The winner: Amir Makled, who provided pro bono legal support to those same UM students. Enormous victory for the Palestine/student solidarity movement.

Eli Savit, progressive prosecutor for Washtenaw County (home to Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti) wins Dem nomination for Attorney General.

Results are finally coming in! First up: Garlin Gilchrist (current Lt Gov) wins Dem nomination for Secretary of State.

Longer/better vid for those who enjoy secondhand embarrassment

… with the booing for Haley Stevens here. Amazing that these two are in the same party. The vibe shift in the convention hall from one speaker to the next was unreal. Biggest flop of the afternoon.

I wish I had gotten longer videos but just compare the cheering for Abdul here… (Bsky only allows one vid per post?)

Image from Michigan Democratic convention. Abdul El Sayed, candidate for U.S. Senate, is on stage. Large crowd applauding.

Biggest round of applause at the MI Dems convention today was Abdul El-Sayed and it wasn’t even close. Multiple standing ovations.

Meanwhile the candidates with the least substance—“my dad was born in Detroit (Stevens)”—ranged from some light clapping (McMorrow) to outright boos (Stevens). The conventional wisdom of folksy nothingness pisses me off, personally, to no end, and it sure felt like I was in the majority today.

Voting was a disaster in a million different ways and results aren’t even out yet—mind you, voting was supposed to be underway shortly after 3pm. But it was quite something to see that the most well-received candidates were those strong & clear on winning messages: stop funding wars, abolish ICE—

love this for Haley

My big takeaway before voting gets underway at Michigan Dems convention: the energy for the left candidates is absolutely nuts this year. Abdul gets huge standing ovation, especially after call to Abolish ICE; Stevens ($9 million+ from AIPAC) gets sustained boos from beginning to end of her speech.

At the MI Dems convention and haven’t seen any Acker presence at all aside from some signs taped around the convention. Good sign for Amir Makled?

I vote yes! This happened to me recently as a peer reviewer and I let them know (and didn’t continue reading as a result).

The Class Politics of the Feed By targeting addictive design features of social media platforms, K.G.M. v. Meta marks a breakthrough in product liability law. Yet the case also reveals a neglected class dimension: the harms of…

Great piece. Remarkable to me how politics have come back around to critiquing corporate invasion of childhood attention, this time with conservatives often joining along. Time to revisit the legacy and the concept of a "National Nanny", methinks.

lpeproject.org/blog/the-cla...

I know I keep beating this drum, but 80% of this country's government based problems revolve around the fact we have infinite friction to create literally any social, transportation, or educational programs, and absolutely zero friction to just kill people.

Tax Day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it | Zohran Mamdani, Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us

"This weekend, the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, and Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula Silva, will meet in Barcelona with the heads of states of South Africa, Mexico, Colombia and many more countries to press ahead [with a global minimum tax]."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since.

But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

“Marx needs David Harvey. First, because the great thinker’s language is often dense and impenetrable and requires Harvey’s illuminating “translation” to make sense to today’s readers. Second, much has changed since 1867 when the first volume of Das Kapital was published in Berlin.”

My review of David Harvey’s ‘Story of Capital’ ..for the LSE Review of Books...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

Why aren't students protesting?

In the last 20 years, the "two state solution" has been a discursive mechanism to convince people that

(1) this is a "conflict between neighbouring peoples" rather than between the state and dominated/colonised people within

(2) That there's a credible route towards partition, when there isn't one