Dan Seel

I think this connects up to the Kalecki-labor market story. They hire so many tech workers that they see a decent amount of stuff in SV companies that they can't really differentiate from the communists in their mentions: largely standard Woke 1.0 + organizing (eg the 2020 google anti-ICE petitions)

Line graph that shows a blue line of # protests since Trump's 2nd inauguration surpassed, showing these to have exceeded 42k by the end of Jan 2026. A green line counts # of protests during the same time period in Trump's first term and just exceeds 10k.

Overall, we have tallied 4x more protests through Jan 31, 2026 than we had through Jan 31, 2018

drives me nuts that wealthy blue states are not moving to expand their own public university systems in response

People Think | Ben Tarnoff Asad Haider, the foremost socialist thinker of his generation, staked his philosophy on the principle that everyone should be fundamentally free.

I wrote something about my friend Asad Haider for the new issue of @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Added onto that the exfiltration of data for God knows what ends, the creation of new surveillance tools, the embedding of partisans in key positions, and I'd say DOGE has been one of the most successful parts of Trump II.

By its stated goals, DOGE failed. By its actual goals (shrinking parts of the state the Trump-Musk coalition opposed) it worked pretty much as planned. The deficit talk was just the sales pitch.

Nothing for the Claremont Institute as far as I can tell, which is a little surprising given his penchant for pseudo-intellectual right wing dross

Yeah you definitely nailed it there. Man, Hampshire...

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Inflatable Public Sculpture
2. Century of the Gene
3. Drugs in History
4. Food, Farms, and Famine
5. Science Fictions

We may not have had a lot of humanities at RPI, but we had a great STS dept and a great Arts dept

3-4:30 today at the monument fyi

Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

map showing Starbucks Union Elections (2021-2025) charted out over all 50 states, with california and ny showing the most density

"SEIU has continued to steadily organize Starbucks stores at essentially the same pace for the last three years. The NLRB election data for 2025 shows that SEIU won 125 union elections at Starbucks and had an election win rate of 82 percent." www.nlrbedge.com/p/the-starbu...

Debates continue to circulate—as they should—about the utility of neoliberalism as a category of analysis and political practice. Myself + three other historians wrote a brief overview of how it works in our field for the Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Great question!

It’s not just about whether or not the gyre is widening – its that the falcon cannot hear the Falconer. In today’s blood-dimmed world, it’s a game-changer that many don’t consider.

The kicker? A beast that is rough, slouching, and born.

ICE just indiscriminately stopped a citizen at a bus stop in front of the co-op. If this is how they treat the President of the Minneapolis City Council who is legally observing, just think of what they’re doing to everyone else in our City.

It feels like a lot of the upper few ranks of the Democratic party don't get how strong the desire for wartime leadership is, and that eventually that void will get filled, with or without the Freys and Jeffries of the world being involved.

@bruit.bsky.social has done this in the past

If officials can’t bring themselves to arrest someone who is captured on camera from multiple angles killing someone in cold blood, they should just step aside so someone with a backbone can lead

There are many complex social problems that feel impossible to solve, but I truly believe we can end the use of MATLAB by 2030.

Let’s save the next generation from the trauma of 1-indexed programming languages. We can do this!

Foucault, but as a gremlin

Wish I could be there my friend, eating fondue and learning from the teachings of the Foucault Gremlin

👋👋👋

The New School for Social Research is nuking all of its PhD programs for some reason! Yikes

This isn't a photo of lake Superior, this an album cover for a black metal band called like Wintergrave or Frostveil

when the AI bubble bursts and we have hundreds of extra GWs of capacity on the grid, power will then be too cheap to meter and the hall–héroult process will be essentially free. i propose spinning up the aluminum industry and providing a weekly ration of aluminum billets to all americans

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

Ken Burns Revolution documentary drinking game where you take a shot every time you recognize the author of a primary source before the narrator tells you.

I feel like if it's Salazar all the dirt from her first senate run will get dragged out again. It'll be less effective this time and she can probably push through it, but still: messy.

“Sooner or later, one has to take sides, if one is to remain human.”

—Graham Greene, The Quiet American

worth noting that the $30.2 million deficit the school is facing can be traced to ballooning admin salaries, real estate, and admin benefits, according to the economics department's analysis. the salaries for the actual professors is in line with or *below* the school's revenue growth