Gabriel Winant

Unrelated but what's this cool cartoon image you now have where you look sort of like a Maoist icon?

More rigorous and clear than my initial entry

And again, a pattern of putting out statements accusing people of serious Federal crimes and then releasing them hours or days or weeks later with no charges. And no retraction.

Gotta get to work bright and early tomorrow at 11 pm, the sun will barely be up!

That’s the fun of it. Step on the path toward abolishing time

We should try doing just one of them year after year and really play with the clock over a generation

Featuring @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social @peterbeinart.bsky.social and me

Just as the university should not be complicit in repression, it must not participate in the dissemination of falsehood! What could be a higher or more important value for an institution of learning?

Poster showing Peter Beinart and John Kirby

Complicity of liberal institutions with the crackdown on student protest paved the way for the crisis of academia. To defend our work we must sever the link with the security state. Come join us at U of C tomorrow, where we will discuss how to confront the hiring of the inveterate liar John Kirby.

Oh that’s nice to hear!

Please join us next week at UChicago for a conversation with @peterbeinart.bsky.social, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, and @gabrielwinant.bsky.social

The Future of Class in History Unifying concepts are essential when studying history. They provide students and scholars with ways to organize their thoughts, research, and writings. However, these concepts are also the focus of my...

It's not the same thing but Eley and Nield's effort to adjudicate the theory wars as they played out in history in the 80s-90s wound up on this point: what would you need to know to organize a factory? How would you integrate discourse, culture, political economy, etc? www.google.com/books/editio...

The emergence of a UAW local, 1936-1939 : a study in class and culture | WorldCat.org A firsthand account of the experience of unionization in personal and social terms. Freidlander describes the transformation of a working-class community by its own actions and the ensuing stratificat

i'm reading peter friedlander's /the emergence of a uaw local, 1936-1939/ and it's as good as @gabrielwinant.bsky.social says.

i'm once again struck about the way that union organizers are a kind of applied sociologists (though of 1950s small-group dynamics school).

A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza Israel has repeatedly crossed the Biden administration’s human rights red lines. But the U.S. continued to send weapons. Exclusive records and interviews reveal what happened inside the State Departme...

You may recall that the State Department found that Israel was deliberately blocking aid to Gaza, and the Biden administration suppressed that report and lied about its content. Kirby, as the national security spokesperson, was the central figure in that effort. www.propublica.org/article/bide...

The appointment of John Kirby to direct the Institute of Politics is shocking and disgraceful. Kirby misled the public systematically over a long period, over grave matters of life and death. He has no place in an institution committed to truthful inquiry or a democratic public sphere.

Beautiful letter, made me tear up

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

Get ready! Be there!

Socialists Must Reclaim Halloween China Mieville on gothic Marxism, the Right’s strange appropriation of trick-or-treating, and socialists’ historic defense of the flagrantly imaginary.

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Moreover, the effect of these
targeted deportation proceedings continues unconstitutionally to
chill freedom of speech to this day.”

They did so in order to strike fear into similarly situated non-citizen pro-Palestinian individuals, pro-actively (and effectively) curbing
lawful pro-Palestinian speech and intentionally denying such
individuals (including the plaintiffs here) the freedom of speech that is their right.

From conclusion, p 147:

"Secretaries Noem and Rubio and
their several agents and subordinates acted in concert to misuse the sweeping powers of their respective offices to target non-citizen pro-Palestinians for deportation primarily on account of their First Amendment protected political speech.

@aaup.org won its case against the State Department's attempt to terrorize non-citizens and deprive them of their First Amendment rights

Huge victory for @aaup.org in AAUP v. Rubio:

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

It’s easy to fear that academics are too isolated to defend ourselves if you don’t know about the struggles going on all around us, and the connections—real and possible—between us and the larger community. Come learn and talk about it on 10/1 at 11 am!

ya, I made it too miserable for anyone hoping to abuse the term

All of us at the university budget town hall heard the same thing when the president said that donors liked the “sharpening” we’ve done and will reward future “sharpening,” right?

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.