Kye

Gonna start saying “may no email find you” instead of “goodbye”

Are we assigning the Penguin or Princeton edition of vol. 1 of Capital this year?

Are we assigning the Penguin or Princeton edition of vol. 1 of Capital this year?

changing the dates and rethinking the assignment schedule on a syllabus for a new term: always annoying, never satisfying

Screen capture of the first bage of an article in American Political Science Review, reading as follows: Title: "They Attend Strictly to Their Own Business": Disability and the Construction of the Worker-Citizen Ann K. Heffernan, University of Michigan, United States Contributing to a growing interest in disability in political science, this article makes the case for the central role of disability in upholding the belief in work as requisite for full citizenship. Turning to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it shows how disability and the figure of the disabled worker were used to fortify emergent understandings of work against the changes wrought by industrial capitalism. Focusing on three sites of disabled labor—the school-based workshop, custodial institution, and industrial factory—it reveals the crucial ideological work performed by disability in sustaining the myth of the independent worker-citizen. Where existing scholarship has focused on disability either as an identity category or as a target of rights and policy, this article models an alternative approach, arguing for the relevance of disability as a concept that is integral to, and productive of, the ways we understand citizenship and political belonging.

Coming soon to an open access APSR near you:

(all kidding aside, I'm so happy to see this piece out in the world)

If teaching has a telos, deporting your students is the exact opposite of whatever it is.

sci-fi where a dying alien civilization encodes their culture as birdsong.

“Get out there and talk to everyone” like when Pete asked a union member on camera how long their strike fund would hold out.

Let alone how that ideology was connected to an institution that could support him through a broad network of organizers: NYC-DSA

Simply too on the nose

Is the way that dogs bow before playing natural or cultural?

Holy - and I cannot emphasize this enough - shit.

Also, this guy was a senior project 2025 organizer.

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

Instructors Will Now See AI Throughout a Widely Used Course Software New features integrated into Canvas include a grading assistant, a discussion-post summarizer, and even a way to pair assignments with generative AI tools.

“…faculty members will be able to click an icon that connects them with various AI features…, like a grading tool, a discussion-post summarizer… Canvas’s parent company, Instructure, is also in partnership w/ OpenAI… so instructors can use generative-AI technology as part of their assignments.”

Blade dispels the illusion that capital can create value without labor in a classic moment from the movie BLADE (1998).

From a Marxist perspective, AI boosterism is just the classic fantasy by venture capitalist vampires that constant capital can create value like variable capital, or, as Blade would say,

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Blade dispels the illusion that capital can create value without labor in a classic moment from the movie BLADE (1998).

From a Marxist perspective, AI boosterism is just the classic fantasy by venture capitalist vampires that constant capital can create value like variable capital, or, as Blade would say,

Ruby Bridges is only 70 years old but Johns Hopkins need to be punished for income-based scholarships

Mike Johnson is the smallest man in American history.

The @LemkinInstitute is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now. No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT.

Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly:

"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."

"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."

Must be nice

Who knows if Trump is on some Epstein list or whatever or even if such a list exists, but it is certain that Trump is remaking society so that people like Trump and Epstein own and control everything.

Heresy 🤝 anti-republicanism

The modern GOP

Recently revisited my 2023 @bostonreview.bsky.social essay on solidarity and social endurance with @clementpetitj.bsky.social . We talked about the major strategic debates on the US left today, despair and hyperpolitics, and…yoga! Thanks to Clément for the conversation and translation. 🙏🏼

ICE handcuffs 71-year-old grandmother, a U.S. citizen, at San Diego immigration court An ICE agent accused the woman of pushing her. After she spent hours in custody, she denied that to NBC Diego on Wednesday.

These people are out of control.

www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...

It’s a bizarre reality in which a Leftist would hope that the leader of the GOP would read Wealth of Nations

This is really crucial and (besides the ownership) a key reason I deleted twitter. You really could not follow news or articles anymore.

J.D. Vance's Anti-Declaration Truths Self-Evident No More

J.D. Vance's latest speech spits on the Union dead.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/jd-vances-...

Today we at the hen house launched the National Academy for Eating Our Eggs with Fox, Wolf, Coyote, and Snake to offer free, high-quality egg-stealing training for our chickens. Some of you have expressed your legitimate reservations about Big Fox Industries. I want to speak to you directly. 💩

Deeply shameful stuff