Stuart Schrader
@stschrader1.bsky.social
Author of Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves (Basic Books, 2026) and Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed Policing (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2019)
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The student as the petty sovereign—this is what initiated this iteration of intensification around content control wrt race and gender at Texas A&M and what happened at IU. This is the new flow of institutional authority.
The second image is a quote from Toscano’s Late Fascism
The second image is a quote from Toscano’s Late Fascism
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The student as the petty sovereign—this is what initiated this iteration of intensification around content control wrt race and gender at Texas A&M and what happened at IU. This is the new flow of institutional authority.
The second image is a quote from Toscano’s Late Fascism
The second image is a quote from Toscano’s Late Fascism
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NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
October 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
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Good morning everyone. It's me again here to ask NYC residents to please send a letter to your City Council person in support of allocating 0.5% of the city expense budget to our local public libraries. Thank you. It will only take you 90 seconds. This time with the correct link:
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
October 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Good morning everyone. It's me again here to ask NYC residents to please send a letter to your City Council person in support of allocating 0.5% of the city expense budget to our local public libraries. Thank you. It will only take you 90 seconds. This time with the correct link:
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Excited for this event on Policing and Counterinsurgency ft @chenjerai.bsky.social, @stschrader1.bsky.social, & @cheatherton.bsky.social next Thursday at NYU! Info & RSVP here: as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
October 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Excited for this event on Policing and Counterinsurgency ft @chenjerai.bsky.social, @stschrader1.bsky.social, & @cheatherton.bsky.social next Thursday at NYU! Info & RSVP here: as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
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Everyone is rightly talking about (un)affordability in NYC, but how did things get so bad in the first place??? Join @lpenyc.bsky.social at CUNY Law on THURSDAY to chart the history of pol econ w @gregorylouis.bsky.social, Mason Williams, & @llchristyll.bsky.social!
lpeproject.org/events/nyc-s...
lpeproject.org/events/nyc-s...
How NYC Became So Unequal
Ever wonder why CUNY is no longer free? Confused why the subway fare keeps rising while service declines? Join LPE NYC on October 23 at 6:30pm for a conversation between Professors Gregory Louis and…
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October 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Everyone is rightly talking about (un)affordability in NYC, but how did things get so bad in the first place??? Join @lpenyc.bsky.social at CUNY Law on THURSDAY to chart the history of pol econ w @gregorylouis.bsky.social, Mason Williams, & @llchristyll.bsky.social!
lpeproject.org/events/nyc-s...
lpeproject.org/events/nyc-s...
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To be clear: these are the exact same folks who have been doxxing & putting people on must-fire lists for simply posting innocuous Charlie Kirk comments…
“the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely”
“the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely”
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
@politico.com
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October 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
To be clear: these are the exact same folks who have been doxxing & putting people on must-fire lists for simply posting innocuous Charlie Kirk comments…
“the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely”
“the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely”
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"In a follow-up to his and Brenna Bhandar's "Slumlord Empire", Alberto Toscano writes about the Trump administration's Gaza ceasefire plan's genocidal logic of displacement and accumulation."
proteanmag.com/2025/10/13/p...
proteanmag.com/2025/10/13/p...
Planning Against Palestine • Protean Magazine
In a follow-up to his and Brenna Bhandar's "Slumlord Empire", Alberto Toscano writes about the Trump administration's Gaza ceasefire plan's genocidal logic of displacement and accumulation.
proteanmag.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"In a follow-up to his and Brenna Bhandar's "Slumlord Empire", Alberto Toscano writes about the Trump administration's Gaza ceasefire plan's genocidal logic of displacement and accumulation."
proteanmag.com/2025/10/13/p...
proteanmag.com/2025/10/13/p...
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When President Trump declared that “crime is out of control in the District of Columbia” he echoed the guiding principle of DC policing uttered by Missouri Senator James S. Green back in 1858: “We must protect ourselves.” www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/gove...
Governing by Police
The Metropolitan Police Department in DC has been an essential component of Washington politics since its founding.
www.historynewsnetwork.org
October 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
When President Trump declared that “crime is out of control in the District of Columbia” he echoed the guiding principle of DC policing uttered by Missouri Senator James S. Green back in 1858: “We must protect ourselves.” www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/gove...
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Because certainly there's no reason why this history might be terrifyingly relevant right now, here's a link to preorder @stschrader1.bsky.social's "Blue Power" on how police in the US organized to exempt themselves from democratic oversight and control: redemmas.org/titles/48838...
Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves
Buy from Red Emma's, a worker-owned radical bookstore
redemmas.org
October 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Because certainly there's no reason why this history might be terrifyingly relevant right now, here's a link to preorder @stschrader1.bsky.social's "Blue Power" on how police in the US organized to exempt themselves from democratic oversight and control: redemmas.org/titles/48838...
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WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"
October 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"
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Now at backgroundbriefing.org | Robert Kuttner - How Trump Will Take Advantage of the Government Shutdown | @stschrader1.bsky.social - Trump Tells Our Admirals and Generals That the Enemy is Within | @michaelemann.bsky.social - Ignorance is the Key Ingredient in MAGAworld
September 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Now at backgroundbriefing.org | Robert Kuttner - How Trump Will Take Advantage of the Government Shutdown | @stschrader1.bsky.social - Trump Tells Our Admirals and Generals That the Enemy is Within | @michaelemann.bsky.social - Ignorance is the Key Ingredient in MAGAworld
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Incarceration has deadly consequences for everyone – even those who are not behind bars:
September 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Incarceration has deadly consequences for everyone – even those who are not behind bars:
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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
The second portion of this great convo is now available!
PART 2 of my interview w/ Alberto Toscano & @stschrader1.bsky.social on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, military repression, what it reveals about MAGA’s fascist/authoritarian project—and about illiberalism already immanent in US carceral/imperialist state www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stat...
State of Impunity w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader
Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the...
www.thedigradio.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The second portion of this great convo is now available!
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PART 2 of my interview w/ Alberto Toscano & @stschrader1.bsky.social on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, military repression, what it reveals about MAGA’s fascist/authoritarian project—and about illiberalism already immanent in US carceral/imperialist state www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stat...
State of Impunity w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader
Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the...
www.thedigradio.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
PART 2 of my interview w/ Alberto Toscano & @stschrader1.bsky.social on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, military repression, what it reveals about MAGA’s fascist/authoritarian project—and about illiberalism already immanent in US carceral/imperialist state www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stat...
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New ep: Trump’s intense police, ICE, military repression w/ Alberto Toscano and @stschrader1.bsky.social. What does this reveal about MAGA’s fascist authoritarian project—and about the illiberalism immanent in carceral and imperialist state? FIRST in 2-part series www.thedigradio.com/podcast/fasc...
Fascist Police State w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader
Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the...
www.thedigradio.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
New ep: Trump’s intense police, ICE, military repression w/ Alberto Toscano and @stschrader1.bsky.social. What does this reveal about MAGA’s fascist authoritarian project—and about the illiberalism immanent in carceral and imperialist state? FIRST in 2-part series www.thedigradio.com/podcast/fasc...
This was such a great convo with @danieldenvir.bsky.social & @alfatau.bsky.social! Please check it out!
New ep: Trump’s intense police, ICE, military repression w/ Alberto Toscano and @stschrader1.bsky.social. What does this reveal about MAGA’s fascist authoritarian project—and about the illiberalism immanent in carceral and imperialist state? FIRST in 2-part series www.thedigradio.com/podcast/fasc...
Fascist Police State w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader
Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the...
www.thedigradio.com
September 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This was such a great convo with @danieldenvir.bsky.social & @alfatau.bsky.social! Please check it out!
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Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
September 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
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Bonus - The Global Turn of American Policing w/ @stschrader1.bsky.social
Stuart Schrader joins us to talk cops, ICE, and 50+ years of the security state.
Link below!
Stuart Schrader joins us to talk cops, ICE, and 50+ years of the security state.
Link below!
August 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Bonus - The Global Turn of American Policing w/ @stschrader1.bsky.social
Stuart Schrader joins us to talk cops, ICE, and 50+ years of the security state.
Link below!
Stuart Schrader joins us to talk cops, ICE, and 50+ years of the security state.
Link below!
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The chance of seeing the National Guard on the streets of yet another U.S. city made me think of @stschrader1.bsky.social and his excellent book Badges without Borders.
For this week’s edition of The Tall Rob Report, here’s a slightly revised version of my review of it from a few years ago (2/2)
For this week’s edition of The Tall Rob Report, here’s a slightly revised version of my review of it from a few years ago (2/2)
Badges without Borders: How Global Insurgency Transformed American Policing (Stuart Schrader, University of California Press, 2019)
There’s an evergreen relevance to books about the nature of policing in the United States and its history in racist vigilante violence....
thetallrobreport.blogspot.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The chance of seeing the National Guard on the streets of yet another U.S. city made me think of @stschrader1.bsky.social and his excellent book Badges without Borders.
For this week’s edition of The Tall Rob Report, here’s a slightly revised version of my review of it from a few years ago (2/2)
For this week’s edition of The Tall Rob Report, here’s a slightly revised version of my review of it from a few years ago (2/2)
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Join us for the NYU History Marilyn Young Memorial Lecture by Moon-Ho Jung, with comment by @stschrader1.bsky.social. Tues Sept 9, 3pm in NYC. RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
August 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Join us for the NYU History Marilyn Young Memorial Lecture by Moon-Ho Jung, with comment by @stschrader1.bsky.social. Tues Sept 9, 3pm in NYC. RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Trials are rare these days, so we should pay attention when a judge holds one.
Yet what Judge Charles Breyer held last week was something else—a big chunk of it was a judge wrestling with the reality of a president with no power to set up a permanent, national police force.
Me in @newyorker.com.
Yet what Judge Charles Breyer held last week was something else—a big chunk of it was a judge wrestling with the reality of a president with no power to set up a permanent, national police force.
Me in @newyorker.com.
Can Donald Trump Police the United States?
In a trial over the legality of the President’s deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles, there may be a definitive answer to where his power ends.
www.newyorker.com
August 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Trials are rare these days, so we should pay attention when a judge holds one.
Yet what Judge Charles Breyer held last week was something else—a big chunk of it was a judge wrestling with the reality of a president with no power to set up a permanent, national police force.
Me in @newyorker.com.
Yet what Judge Charles Breyer held last week was something else—a big chunk of it was a judge wrestling with the reality of a president with no power to set up a permanent, national police force.
Me in @newyorker.com.
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Trump's 2 innovations in State Capitalism should get far more attention(imagine if left wing US govt did it!)
1 MP Materials: govt takes equity share & guarantees minimum prices & demand for a private company
fas.org/publication/...
2 NVIDIA: govt takes cut of revenue
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...
1 MP Materials: govt takes equity share & guarantees minimum prices & demand for a private company
fas.org/publication/...
2 NVIDIA: govt takes cut of revenue
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...
August 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Trump's 2 innovations in State Capitalism should get far more attention(imagine if left wing US govt did it!)
1 MP Materials: govt takes equity share & guarantees minimum prices & demand for a private company
fas.org/publication/...
2 NVIDIA: govt takes cut of revenue
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...
1 MP Materials: govt takes equity share & guarantees minimum prices & demand for a private company
fas.org/publication/...
2 NVIDIA: govt takes cut of revenue
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...
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policing as content creation, content creation as policing
August 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
policing as content creation, content creation as policing
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For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students.
1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
www.technologyreview.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM
For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students.
1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...