Stuart Schrader

Historians Against Israel’s Genocide Every single university in Gaza has been destroyed. A historian writes about the recent efforts among the American Historical Association to condemn Israel’s scholasticide and genocide.

Karen Miller on the fight among historians over Gaza, with the establishment taking a very bad position.

jacobin.com/2025/08/gaza...

Literal Nazi shit

Trump administration freezes $584m in grants for ‘life-saving research’ at UCLA School is first public university whose funding is targeted by White House over allegations of civil rights violations

"The Trump administration plans to use its deal with Columbia as a template for other universities, with financial penalties that are now seen as an expectation."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This was a great convo about one of the absolute best films ever made.

Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

Predictable, but no less shocking or reprehensible: Trump just signed an executive order urging states to forcibly institutionalize homeless people, defund Housing First, criminalize encampments, and cut aid to cities that don't comply.

Unreal. Academic freedom is dead.

There have been 87 car deaths in NYC so far this year, 51 of them pedestrians killed by cars

There have been 2 homicides in the subway*

So the next President will be able to dismantle Homeland Security without Congressional approval?

Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action? I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...

‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’

Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action.

Online early from our next issue.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

😎

Absolutely!

Just sent the completed draft of my 2nd book off for copy edits. Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves will be published by Basic Books in spring 2026!

‪It's interesting that in The City's (nonrandom) poll of 250,000 New Yorkers, the one position supported by a plurality of voters but none of the candidates, was reduced funding for the police. www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/08/m...

ICE agents wearing masks add new levels of intimidation, confusion during L.A. raids As federal immigration agents have ratcheted up enforcement raids, critics warn that their tactic of masking spreads fear and panic across communities.

Pretty comprehensive article on ICE’s use of face masks, incl. a couple quotes from me, in @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030.

Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

Gonna be announcements like this from all Ivy+ institutions imminently, and they will still get their endowments taxed and their grants cut, etc etc

I think mainly we have diff approaches to the state, w/ hers more anarchist. I don’t think anyone has written a comparison. But Kirsten Weld reviewed them together: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

She’s a close friend and we wrote our books at the same time, in conversation. But we don’t agree on some points, if that is what you are asking.

Every Mamdani proposal is met with a chorus of "How are you going to pay for it?" Meanwhile...

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.

This was the plan the entire time and it was always going to be targeted towards Democratic run cities. It’s not about law and order. It’s about controlling by force the areas where Trump does not control by ideology.

Education Department says Columbia University fails to meet accreditation standards Education Secretary Linda McMahon said that Columbia University's purported failure to protect Jewish students from harassment was "immoral" and "unlawful."

The Trump administration does not control accreditation--the real question is whether the Middle States Commission on Higher Education bows to Trump's pressure or not. (I'd also add that Trump's Ed Dept has never made its "findings" public--no doubt on purpose.)

www.cnbc.com/2025/06/04/t...

Once you realize that every public good you want has a cop in the way, then you begin to understand our current predicament.

This Cycling Crackdown Calls for a Critical Mass Plus, more news for your Friday morning.

We talked to two of the organizers of tonight's Critical Mass bike protest about the NYPD's crackdown on cyclists—especially e-bike riders: "They want to deflect from the fact that so many cars are killing people and they don't want to confront the reality of changing all of this public space."

🫡

ICE Just Paid Palantir Tens of Millions for ‘Complete Target Analysis of Known Populations’ The records show that Palantir is actively working on the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts which could soon impact U.S. citizens.

“The records show that Palantir is actively working on the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts which could soon impact U.S. citizens.“
Palantir will be used to identify domestic Trump critics soon enough.

This is exactly right. My new book tells the history of this movement. Out next year!

Monitor: The NYPD Can’t Quit Its Unconstitutional Stop-and-Frisk Habit A new report finds the police department still falling short of constitutional standards.

Monitor: The NYPD Can’t Quit Its Unconstitutional Stop-and-Frisk Habit hellgatenyc.com/nypd-cant-qu...

Since George Floyd’s Murder, Police Killings Keep Rising, Not Falling

Instead of starting the police reform clock in 2020, look further back in time: Rodney King (community policing), Michael Brown (body cameras and procedural justice training). We've known for a long time that police reform doesn't address the true mechanism enabling police violence: police power.