Christy Thornton

GALLATIN HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE SPEAKER SERIES ON LAW, AUTHORITARIANISM AND DISSENT: POLICING AND COUNTERINSURGENCY Chenjerai Kumanyika (New York University), Stuart Schrader (John Hopkins Univerisity), Christina Heatherton (Trinity College) THURSDAY, OCT 30 2025 IN-PERSON EVENT 5:00pm - 7:00pm Ettinghausen Library, Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street New York, NY 10012

Excited for this event on Policing and Counterinsurgency ft @chenjerai.bsky.social, @stschrader1.bsky.social, & @cheatherton.bsky.social next Thursday at NYU! Info & RSVP here: as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

The Church Committee Report After fifty years, this shocking report—released in a single, readable volume for the first time—is still the most accurate account of US government spying on its own citizens., The Church...

In 1975, after decades of illegally surveilling & sabotaging left-wing movements in the US (and assassinating people abroad) the Senate painstaking wrote out the government's playbook for destroying movements.

In January, the first commercial and streamlined version of this report hits bookstores.

Nominee to be the Office of Special Counsel, ie., the guy federal employees must appeal to if they think they have been treated unfairly

It’s the first known case of a federal raid near a migrant shelter since Trump took office.

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

How NYC Became So Unequal Ever wonder why CUNY is no longer free? Confused why the subway fare keeps rising while service declines? Join LPE NYC on October 23 at 6:30pm for a conversation between Professors Gregory Louis and…

Excited about the first @lpenyc.bsky.social Night School event of the new academic year, now at @cuny.edu Law — with @masonbwilliams.bsky.social and Gregory Louis in conversation with @llchristyll.bsky.social!!

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How NYC Became So Unequal Ever wonder why CUNY is no longer free? Confused why the subway fare keeps rising while service declines? Join LPE NYC on October 23 at 6:30pm for a conversation between Professors Gregory Louis and…

Then on October 23rd at CUNY Law, the first session of LPE NYC Night School will look at the question of how things got so unaffordable and unequal in the first place with Gregory Louis and Mason Williams, moderated by @llchristyll.bsky.social

lpeproject.org/events/nyc-s...

The rise and fall of private advocacy forums from 1945 to the twenty-first century Abstract. How did “globalist” elites organize themselves politically to defend their agenda, that is, the imposition of global free trade and investment fl

Publication alert!
The Rise and Fall of Private Advocacy Forums
co-authored with Grace Ballor

Part of a special issue "Global governance and the emergence of a post-neoliberal order" edited by @llchristyll.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social Quinn Slobodian

academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

“An interminable crisis of hiccups and vomiting” couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy

We wanted to go but it was full by the time we clicked the link, sorry to miss it!

Flyer for MARILYN B. YOUNG MEMORIAL LECTURE & WELCOME RECEPTION National Security for Imperial Insecurity: Race and Counterinsurgency Across the Pacific SEPTEMBER 9, 2025 3:00PM LECTURE 4:30PM RECEPTION KJCC, FIRST FLOOR 53 WASHINGTON SQUARE SOUTH KINDLY RSVP BY SEPTEMBER 3: Dr. Moon-Ho Jung Speaker Dr. Stuart Schrader Discussan

Join us for the NYU History Marilyn Young Memorial Lecture by Moon-Ho Jung, with comment by @stschrader1.bsky.social. Tues Sept 9, 3pm in NYC. RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“‘The others seem to be weak. We want someone who’s got kryptonite,’ said Bernard, who runs a computer consulting company. ‘You need an almost-felon to beat a felon,’ he added.”

Here is the blueprint for how to get rid of the Dept of Homeland Security and actually save lives instead of committing mass murder like these psychopaths have done.

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? | Christy Thornton Christy Thornton and Greg Grandin discuss his new book, “America, América,” and the intertwined histories of the U.S. and Latin America.

In a conversation about his new book “America, América,” Greg Grandin and @llchristyll.bsky.social discuss the inextricable histories of Latin America and the United States.

@llchristyll.bsky.social asks what to make of the fact that the nationalist right has taken up some of the asks of the anti-globalization movement.

Bello says “we provided the critique, we provided the foot soldiers, and the right ate our lunch”

Project Esther Is a McCarthy-Era Blueprint for Crushing the American Left While the Heritage Foundation document focuses on the Palestine solidarity movement, its ultimate target is far broader.

Project Esther isn’t just about Palestine. Crafted by the Heritage Foundation — the same far right organization behind Project 2025 — the playbook makes clear that their war on the Gaza solidarity movement is just a Trojan horse for a far more ambitious project: destroying the American left.

Shock at Harvard After Government Says International Students Must Go

“This will destroy the university as we know it. Harvard is situated in the US physically, but its students & faculty hail from around the world; that is fundamental to the work & mission of the institution. You can't take that away & have an institution left."
— Kirsten Weld, President Harvard AAUP

YouTube video by CCMS SFU Palestine as Paradigm: A Keynote Lecture by Sherene Seikaly | Long Arc of Fascism Conference

One of the highlights of this year was co-hosting a keynote lecture by the magnificent Sherene Seikaly, titled "Palestine as Paradigm."

I am so honoured to be able to share it with you all. Take some time with it. Her message has never been more urgent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq0A...

Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students

Obscene. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

State Violence and the Bitter Ends of the Milagro Mexicano

Very happy to share my small contribution to this excellent @radhistreview.bsky.social issue on "economic miracles" - about the work brilliant historians are doing to uncover the links between the so-called "milagro mexicano" and the state violence of the period. read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...

The Terrible Truth About Sherita, Brooklyn’s Beloved Billboard Dinosaur The vanished icon of Atlantic Ave. was the relic of a secretive family who grabbed buildings from immigrant owners across the booming borough.

What fans don’t know about the Sherita, the dinosaur billboard that used to be featured on Atlantic Ave., is that she never was about quirky, old, working-class Brooklyn.

Instead, she marks a nasty pattern of northern Brooklyn real estate manipulation.

Very excited to talk to these three about global justice activism and IFI reform in this webinar next week - register to join us!

Unbankable Transitions | Rosie Collington How the politics of investability determine climate financing

Wall Street won’t rewild the planet. Or decarbonize mining. Or defossilize agriculture.

For @phenomenalworld.bsky.social I unpack why chasing investability harms climate goals in sectors beyond energy & transport - & what states can do with derisking failures www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/unb...

Trump Officials Seek to Bring First White Afrikaner Refugees to U.S. Next Week

"Before the first Trump administration, refugee resettlement took an average of 18 to 24 months...The Afrikaners, however, had to wait no more than three months."

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/w...

All this talk about Trump changing the Republican Party and they're just running down a wishlist of every single thing conservatives have complained about for the last 50 years, no matter how small, and killing them all.