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“There is power in grief, because grief draws us together in moments when our enemies would tear us apart.”

Again it’s not good that the most prominent leaders of the party keep insisting it’s a trap to talk about “identity” when the Trump administration is pushing white supremacy.

Tomorrow. D.C. The National Mall. Sunup to sundown.

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The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

On Mourning and Statehood: A Response to Joshua Leifer - Dissent Magazine How to grieve, what meaning to give those tears, is cruelly a political question whether we like it or not.

This is structurally similar to the critique of Zionism as “a machine for the conversion of grief into power.” This is why you see ethnonationalist regimes instantly exploit martyrs to erode norms and increase their power. Victims “on their side” aren’t tragedies—they are fuel.

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:

Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.”

So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.

Some of us have studied and understand regeneration through violence as a real rich historical phenomenon; its roots, which run deep and wide, are integral to US national identity, ideology, and mythology.

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?

Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

Dems don't want a platform, they want a vocabulary, and that is the fundamental problem

We did for sure- great spot

work trip

Glen Helen Nature Preserve / Yellow Springs, Ohio

glen helen nature preserve

Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.

"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."

It's a weird day for those of us who were only allowed to watch PBS as kids.

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

Texans star uses 'Free Palestine' cleats to support voiceless Houston's linebacker is taking a stand.

For the second year in a row, Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair is wearing cleats in solidarity Palestine. My coworker @michaelshapiro.bsky.social talked to Azeez last year about them: "The biggest thing I can attest to is just being steadfast in my beliefs."

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Screenshot of text: [Highlighting begins] But the shooting may put concerns over gun violence back on voters’ minds, and may lead some to further scrutinize Mr. Mamdani, [Highlighting ends] who has relatively limited experience in government and has not handled a high-profile crisis while in office.

One fascinating thing about the most self-serious newspaper in America with its staff of the winning journalistic meritocrats is that it routinely, institutionally publishes completely made-up bullshit speculation about pure abstractions, based on zero reporting, written as if it were plain facts

The way that I was raised, being Jewish meant believing that every human life was sacred; to save a single human life meant saving all of humanity. That no law or ritual was more important than saving a single human life.

It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.

CFP: Inaugural Association of Law and Political Economy Conference A forthcoming conference will launch the The Association of Law and Political Economy (ALPE): a membership organization with a regular annual conference, elected leadership, and an architecture for…

Have you heard the good news?

A forthcoming conference will launch the The Association of Law and Political Economy: a membership organization with a regular annual conference, elected leadership, and an architecture for open participation and collaboration.

Job Posting: Public Historian, HBCU Radio Preservation Project The HBCU Radio Preservation Project seeks a public historian.

Excited to announce the HBCU Radio Preservation Project is hiring a FT Public Historian! As this field goes, the job is multifaceted. You'll work collaboratively, record oral histories, tell stories digitally, help plan symposia, write publicly, and more. Happy to answer any questions bit.ly/4eWchjZ

The Dark History That Predates Trump's 'Alligator Alcatraz' The location of Trump's immigrant detention center has a painful history of incarceration, abuse, and private interests.

I so appreciate this piece by Antonio Ramirez about the history of convict leasing in Florida's swamplands, and the effort by Marjory Stoneman Douglas and others, to end it. In violent and brutal places, there are always people resisting, affirming life, imagining freedom.

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This is unreal: Houston just made it illegal "for any person to sit or lie down on a sidewalk or on a blanket, stool, or any other object placed upon a sidewalk."

Being unhoused in public is now a criminal offense.

Prison labor exists but prisons are better characterized as warehouses for the reserve army of labor.

If you missed this discussion with our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @tamikamiddleton.bsky.social, @dnbrgr.bsky.social + @kenyonfarrow.bsky.social
on the importance of interrupting criminalization and abolitionist organizing to fight against fascism/authoritarianism, check out the recording:

people: mamdani is going to turn NYC into a theocracy!!!!

SCOTUS: it's ok if ur religion thinks being gay is evil and don't want ur kids to read about it in school

Forget history, we can’t learn from the immediate past, where we all were, like five minutes ago.

Love Land and Liberation - Black Farm Project CMB has purchased 14 acres of land 20 minutes outside of Atlanta as a space for food production, movement retreat meeting and training space. We are specifically raising money to support the building ...

PLEASE SPREAD!!! CMB has purchased 14 acres of farm land 20 minutes outside of Atlanta as a space for food production, movement retreat meeting, and training space. We are specifically raising money to support the building of our retreat space on the land! fundrazr.com/LoveLandLibe...