Andrew J Douglas

My goals for the coming year include more ultras and finally figuring out how to function on a vegan diet. Not sure where that leaves the Taco Bell 50k on my running calendar.

"Authoritarian Capacity" and the Trump Regime - Lawyers, Guns & Money In May of 2022, the Department of Homeland Security tried to stand up a group to coordinate government anti-disinformation efforts. As Deepa Shivaram wrote at NPR, the “decision” resulted from a “coor...

"Now Wired — which has become indispensable and deserves your subscription dollars (🙏) — reports that DHS wants to create dedicated centers to mass monitor social-media in real time."

Anyone could track how a well-compensated cadre of bad-faith idea-merchants have poisoned the information ecosphere. But what makes it tragic is how so many of them have the means to hit eject from the world they have created. The new version of private fallout shelters for the ultra-wealthy.

The Stop Cop City movement was so clearly one of the last potential off-ramps to full-blown fascism.

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

My worry is that the secretary of war has authorized payouts in the psychological wages of whiteness and that too many of his chosen warriors are all-too gratified by that prospect.

The incredible arrogance of OpenAI With Sora 2, OpenAI is betting it can spit in the face of workers, creators, and the biggest media conglomerates on the planet — and win

OpenAI's Sora gambit is somehow even more reckless and arrogant than we've grown accustomed to with the company. OpenAI is betting that it can spit in the face of creatives, workers, and the largest media companies on the planet—and bend copyright law to its whims.

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border “We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

“We’re operationalizing our old corridors—taking ancient trade routes our elders told us about and articulating them in a modern context,” said Solomon Cyr, spokesperson for Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation.” — Love it when people take advantage of political opportunities.

Chapter 7 Individual Bankruptcy Filings Jump 15 Percent in First 9 Months of 2025 There are also growing concerns about rising credit stress among Americans.

Individual bankruptcy filings have jumped 15% in the first 9 months of 2025.

Good piece.

What I just can’t shake these days is the specter of “end times fascism.” The thought that certain oligarchs foresee only crisis with no viable fix. That their abandonment of the future, so stupid by our standards, has a certain rationality for those who can provision some kind of exit.

Michel DeGraff, a tenured professor of linguistics at MIT, discusses how his proposal to teach a class on language & decolonization in Haiti, Israel, and Palestine was denied. He faced significant repercussions: he was removed from his department, had a pay raise withheld, and his salary frozen.

Israel has killed more than 100 Palestinians since Hamas agreed on Friday to release all captives as part of the latest U.S. ceasefire proposal.

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Liberal Arts Tradition As an alumnus of Morehouse College, Martin Luther King, Jr. ‘48 is the product of a rich and vibrant “circle of culture” encompassing the various places and means by which Black peoples examined, disc

At least the faculty have a counter-event. Heightening the contradictions of the “Black University,” as it were.

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I’ve learned so much from your work on ed tech — including the stunning extent to which my school’s enterprise systems have been quietly captured by a certain PE firm.

And, with no mention of such, admin is again rolling out the carpet for them at an event week. 🫠

Particularly pessimism-inducing when labor, perhaps our last best hope for any organized mass resistance, a) imagines there’ll even be another election at this point and b) is still prioritizing mobilizing and elite brokerage over deep organizing.

Attended a meeting last week with some union brass whose only political vision was to mobilize for the Dems. We’re so cooked. Just stunning levels of detachment from reality, past and present.

Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025

Tremendous thanks to Cory Doctorow for helping us get the word out about Blue Bonds, MotL's fiscal strategy for mobilizing sub-federal debt financing to defeat authoritarian sabotage & extortion.

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Philanthrocapitalism U Podcast Episode · The American Vandal · S11 E7 · 1h 34m

Listening to this for the first time since it came out, partially to review my own research on Vista Equity, now a seeming target of kleptocratic antitrust suit.

But, omg, @ajdouglas.bsky.social, Jared Loggins, @kgrotke.bsky.social Crystal Sanders, Jelani Favors, & @bakerdphd.bsky.social are 🔥🔥🔥.

the decline of organized labor in the US is a large problem

BREAKING: Mario Guevara has reunited with family members and media colleagues after being deported to Olocuilta, El Salvador.

"GOD IS GOOD FRIENDS, Ready to continue working double time from my land, that's what my God wanted. Thank you very much to ALL," he wrote in Spanish on his Facebook page.

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Liberal Arts Tradition As an alumnus of Morehouse College, Martin Luther King, Jr. ‘48 is the product of a rich and vibrant “circle of culture” encompassing the various places and means by which Black peoples examined, disc

On the “Black Liberal Arts Tradition.” Morehouse next Thursday thru Saturday. If you’re in ATL come through. Some great papers and keynotes from Joshua Myers and Crystal Sanders.

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Really struggling to understand those who look at these ICE raids, these shadow docket rulings, these media company shakedowns, these loyalty oaths, this AI action plan, this meeting of the generals, this “unleashing” of the police… and still imagine another election on the horizon.

The Inventor of the Future - Boston Review The autobiography of anticolonial luminary Andrée Blouin captures her era’s euphoric highs as well as its tragic denouement.

I wrote for the @bostonreview.bsky.social about the extraordinary Andrée Blouin, along with Lumumba, Cesaire, Fanon, and the anticolonial revolution that could have been.

BREAKING: Mario Guevara, the Atlanta-based Spanish-language journalist who was arrested covering an anti-Trump protest, has been transported to a Louisiana immigration facility, from where his family said he will be deported to El Salvador tomorrow at 11 a.m.

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Universities Must Reject Trump Admin 'Loyalty Oath' Compacts The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities that court government favor in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological...

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda.

This is corruption.

Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

Screenshot of first page of October 1, 2026 statement from Project South, @jvp.bsky.social, @campusworkers.bsky.social and @local6741.bsky.social on university campus repression in Georgia. Full statement here: https://projectsouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Police-on-Campus-Letter.pdf

“We urge Georgia institutions of higher learning to avoid inviting external law enforcement agencies onto your campuses.”

New statement out to Georgia university presidents. Going on two years of gratuitous campus repression, may we heed the most basic of lessons.

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Reminder that @theguardian.com has a partnership with OpenAI, and has of late published a spate of asinine articles that are uncritical in framing, and just read as press releases for the company and for "AI" in general.
The headline/implicit framing of this article seems consistent with its biases.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.

ICE is terrorizing immigrants—and being used as a tool to discipline labor. A witness in a wage theft case was detained. Immigrant warehouse workers face discrimination. Day laborers and street vendors are being targeted, and so are rapid response networks. My latest.