Stuart Schrader

If you'd like to read more about this very point—how police veto elected officials' decisions—I've written a whole book on the topic, called Blue Power! It's now available for preorder from @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social, 20% discount with the code BLUE20. www.basicbooks.com/titles/stuar...

“Our Diminished Epoch” Stuart Schrader, ​​Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism at Johns Hopkins University, is a leading scholar ...

“I reject the common sense that says that mayors must listen to the police more than the policed,” @stschrader1.bsky.social tells us in an interview.

www.thedriftmag.com/our-diminish...

The scene now at Lafayette and Howard, diagonal to the ICE garage which activists remain camped out in front of on both sides of the building.

Oh and at one point, one cop pepper-sprayed another cop. (Around the 12-second mark.)

How Universities Used Counterterror Intelligence-Sharing Hubs to Surveil Pro-Palestine Students Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide.

Well this is very bad.

When Nature is Worthless Under capitalism, the social domination of nature occurs through and is mediated by the commodity form. Certain portions of non-human nature can be valued, but only when they are transformed into…

I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social about @alybatt.bsky.social's new book—which, I argue, shows how the critique of political economy can allow us to clearly name the social cause of climate catastrophe: capital. lpeproject.org/blog/when-na...

Martijn Konings, Fiscal Dominance? — Sidecar Trump and the Federal Reserve.

New piece about MAGA's Fed strategy:

newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Blue Power // Basic Books // April 2026 🤓

The professor's lesson came to light after an Indiana University student filed a complaint with a U.S. senator, Jim Banks, a staunch ally of President Trump. The senator then contacted the campus.

Late Fascism deputised gower or psychological wages, the fascist - as the phantasmatic synthesis of the settler and the soldier (or the cop) - needs to imagine him or herself as an active shareholder in the monopoly of violence as well as an enterprising petty sov-ereign, with race and nation serving as the affective and ideological vectors of identification with power. TC

The student as the petty sovereign—this is what initiated this iteration of intensification around content control wrt race and gender at Texas A&M and what happened at IU. This is the new flow of institutional authority.

The second image is a quote from Toscano’s Late Fascism

Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

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...

Good morning everyone. It's me again here to ask NYC residents to please send a letter to your City Council person in support of allocating 0.5% of the city expense budget to our local public libraries. Thank you. It will only take you 90 seconds. This time with the correct link:

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...

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…

Everyone is rightly talking about (un)affordability in NYC, but how did things get so bad in the first place??? Join @lpenyc.bsky.social at CUNY Law on THURSDAY to chart the history of pol econ w @gregorylouis.bsky.social, Mason Williams, & @llchristyll.bsky.social!

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

To be clear: these are the exact same folks who have been doxxing & putting people on must-fire lists for simply posting innocuous Charlie Kirk comments…

“the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely”

Planning Against Palestine • Protean Magazine In a follow-up to his and Brenna Bhandar's "Slumlord Empire", Alberto Toscano writes about the Trump administration's Gaza ceasefire plan's genocidal logic of displacement and accumulation.

"In a follow-up to his and Brenna Bhandar's "Slumlord Empire", Alberto Toscano writes about the Trump administration's Gaza ceasefire plan's genocidal logic of displacement and accumulation."

proteanmag.com/2025/10/13/p...

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Governing by Police The Metropolitan Police Department in DC has been an essential component of Washington politics since its founding.

When President Trump declared that “crime is out of control in the District of Columbia” he echoed the guiding principle of DC policing uttered by Missouri Senator James S. Green back in 1858: “We must protect ourselves.” www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/gove...

Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves Buy from Red Emma's, a worker-owned radical bookstore

Because certainly there's no reason why this history might be terrifyingly relevant right now, here's a link to preorder @stschrader1.bsky.social's "Blue Power" on how police in the US organized to exempt themselves from democratic oversight and control: redemmas.org/titles/48838...

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WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

Now at backgroundbriefing.org | Robert Kuttner - How Trump Will Take Advantage of the Government Shutdown | @stschrader1.bsky.social - Trump Tells Our Admirals and Generals That the Enemy is Within | @michaelemann.bsky.social - Ignorance is the Key Ingredient in MAGAworld

Graph showing that as jail incarceration rates increase, so do county death rates.

Incarceration has deadly consequences for everyone – even those who are not behind bars:

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

The second portion of this great convo is now available!

State of Impunity w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the...

PART 2 of my interview w/ Alberto Toscano & @stschrader1.bsky.social on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, military repression, what it reveals about MAGA’s fascist/authoritarian project—and about illiberalism already immanent in US carceral/imperialist state www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stat...

Fascist Police State w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the...

New ep: Trump’s intense police, ICE, military repression w/ Alberto Toscano and @stschrader1.bsky.social. What does this reveal about MAGA’s fascist authoritarian project—and about the illiberalism immanent in carceral and imperialist state? FIRST in 2-part series www.thedigradio.com/podcast/fasc...

This was such a great convo with @danieldenvir.bsky.social & @alfatau.bsky.social! Please check it out!

Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

Bonus - The Global Turn of American Policing w/ @stschrader1.bsky.social

Stuart Schrader joins us to talk cops, ICE, and 50+ years of the security state.

Link below!

The chance of seeing the National Guard on the streets of yet another U.S. city made me think of @stschrader1.bsky.social and his excellent book Badges without Borders.

For this week’s edition of The Tall Rob Report, here’s a slightly revised version of my review of it from a few years ago (2/2)