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I like political theory, history, and baseball. Writing about the history of slavery in the Americas and Jewish messianic movements
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Americans continue to know nothing about communism (except perhaps american communists and the cia)

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Marx: "The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint ... etc., the more you save—the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour—your capital. 1/2

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

This graphic really does Louis Lingg a disservice by not explaining that his alibi was that he couldn’t have set off the bomb because he was at home building other bombs, and that he smuggled another bomb into prison, set it off, and died writing HURRAH FOR ANARCHY on the walls in his own blood

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

every gender transition is a statement in favor of human possibility and freedom and i’m tired of hearing it talked about like it’s some kind of disease

submitted 17 days ago • 111 comments

We have it in our power to begin the world over again. Thomas Paine

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“ 'And when everything is at an end give me your hand so that we may begin again from the beginning.' " www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/v...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Perhaps the most central contradiction of the moment is that we truly do have the means to provide a good life for everyone on earth. And a small class of people are fighting harder than ever to make that impossible

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“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.” blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...

submitted 23 days ago • 113 comments

Here my colleague Gabe Winant asks "Who governs the University?" We should all be asking this question. These institutions are landlords, healthcare providers, employers, police forces, and educators. They should be democratically governed. chicagomaroon.com/47073/viewpo...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is sticking with Hegseth because he can count on Hegseth to order American troops to fire on American citizens.

submitted 26 days ago • 19 comments

The White House doesn’t care about Garcia’s legal status because they’re not enforcing immigration law—they’re conducting ethnic cleansing. They can’t justify their actions legally, but they don’t think they need to.

submitted 30 days ago • 146 comments

"My good friends, things cannot go on well in England, nor ever will until everything shall be in common, when there shall be neither vassal nor lord, and all distinctions levelled; when the lords shall be no more masters than ourselves." John Ball, English Priest, leader of the 1381 peasant revolt

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

disabled people deserve to live fulfilling lives no matter their productivity to society

submitted 32 days ago • 60 comments

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

submitted 31 days ago • 92 comments

This take has been common & completely wrong. The lack of system redesign & even coherently discussing system redesign led us to this moment. If anything, what has been illustrated is the weakness of CB independence as a concept. It can't even protect payments! Will write about it in the next month

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

"No freemen shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land." Thanks Magna Carta. I like not having a god king. avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/mag...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Chicago! tomorrow! Lawyers and law profs and doctors and science profs and historians and more, fighting for public goods!

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Allowing individual police districts to arbitrarily set curfews is a terrible policy proposal. This will inevitably lead to unnecessary arrests & civil rights violations that taxpayers will end up having to pay for. chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/20...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Trump confirms my belief that the Articles of Confederation were superior to the Constitution and that we've been fed lies to convince us otherwise. What I'd give to not have an executive branch right about now...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Sen. Strom Thurmond voted against the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, AND supported Jim Crow laws. Thurmond’s record for longest floor speech (in protest of the Civil Rights Act, no less!) was just broken by a Black man, my good friend Cory Booker. That’s America.

submitted 47 days ago • 106 comments

We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador.

submitted 47 days ago • 930 comments

"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin." Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

None of this is good but maybe now America will get to have cool wikipedia sections like "year of the four emperors"

submitted 49 days ago • 82 comments

It’s pruning season at CK Mondavi. By removing excess growth, these workers under UFW contract make sure the vines don’t become overcrowded. This allows sunlight to reach the grapes, which helps the ripening process and improves the overall quality of the wine. #WeFeedYou

submitted 49 days ago • 6 comments

Op-ed is by a university president. imho this inadvertently makes the point that what's happening right now with regard to higher ed should be understood as an attack by an alliance of Trump, legacy media, and senior higher ed management, even if that alliance has some internal frictions.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Unpopular opinion: I’ve signed a few of these open letters, but frankly, that is not enough. Faculty need to organize AND unionize. I began my #ProfessorLife in a union shop (Wayne State) & I’m now in AAUP-AFT’s at large chapter. Best time to unionize was yesterday. Second best is today.

submitted 50 days ago • 37 comments

#Actup joined forces with @teslatakedown.com in Manhattan today and we brought a sign. #teslatakedown

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

who tf is m̵i̵n̵o̵u̵c̵h̵e̵ ̵s̵h̵a̵f̵i̵k̵ ̵k̵a̵t̵r̵i̵n̵a̵ ̵a̵r̵m̵s̵t̵r̵o̵n̵g̵ claire shipman, grant miner is my president

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

The tactics ICE is using--thugs in plain clothes kidnapping people simply for their political views--these tactics were developed by the US and spread across the world to hunt down Leftists from Latin America to Indonesia. They've also been used locally for decades to terrorize Black communities.

submitted 52 days ago • 33 comments

dead

submitted 52 days ago • 15 comments

Our friends in Indonesia need urgent and substantial support to survive this onslaught and spread the wider struggle! more info in thread, please spread!

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment