I’m a bit late on this, but if you haven’t already, please read Sophie Smith’s LRB piece on the Pelicot case. It’s only January and I’m confident it will be the best thing I’ll read in 2025, and the thing that wrecks me the most. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I’m basically not on social media anymore so I don’t know who will see this, but I’m re-teaching an (undergrad) course called Power and Protest and I wondered if anyone has any can’t-miss readings on power and/or protest that I should swap out for my current readings?

Atlanta tonight.

Free Palestine. End GILEE. Ceasefire Now. 🇵🇸

There is just no getting around this bit from the latest Chotiner interview. Doctors Without Borders has never seen this before: the number of civilian casualties, the inescapability of death, the fact that everyone knows what is happening BUT IT DOESN'T STOP.

LA Times editorial board coming out for ceasefire and characterizing IDF campaign as one of "indiscriminate death and destruction". Wouldn't have expected anything like this

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

"At a time when we have witnessed antisemitic + terroristic acts that are real and reprehensible, our university leadership has intensified fear + animosity by associating antisemitism and terrorism with and overly broad range of academic programming + political speech." So grateful to the AAUP

An order to forcibly relocate >1m people in 24 hours, on one of the most densely packed places on earth. >1.5k already killed, >338k already displaced. No food, water, electricity, fuel, medical supplies coming in. All exits sealed.

1. There is nowhere to go. Gaza is 139 sq mi/365 sq km (DC is 177)
2. There is no way to get there. Spoke to a humanitarian friend. Many of Gaza's roads not usable
3. There is no out. Rafah crossing was bombed this week. Egypt won't host millions of refugees

www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o...

Today, the Guardian and other orgs co-released "Trafficking Inc": a massive investigation linking Amazon, McDonalds, the InterContinental Hotels Group and Chuck E. Cheese to labor trafficking and forced labor, particularly in the Persian Gulf

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Bates is hiring for two tenure-track positions in IR, one with a focus on Europe and one with a focus on East Asia. I’d be happy to answer any questions about working at Bates! Applications are due October 1st.
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To be fair, it is rather impressive how each new email from APSA leadership sinks to hitherto-unplumbed depths of ethical bankruptcy.

I fondly remember the days when reading an email from APSA didn’t make me apoplectic.

it was completely inevitable that this panic would become an excuse for some parents to keep race mixin’ out of the schools

New in the American Journal of Political Science, by Andrei Poama and Briana McGinnis

Citizens with Felony Convictions in the Jury Box: A Peer-Judgment Argument

https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12816

(Repost from Twitter) More on APSA’s “can’t”: my understanding of APSA’s 8/4 statement that it “can’t” cancel room blocks at struck hotels is that APSA is now contractually obligated to pay for the room blocks *even if* these hotels are the target of labor action. This is illuminating for 3 reasons.

“the APSA has a formal policy of giving preference to unionized hotels” but APSA “refused to provide Exec Council members copies of its contracts with the hotels or disclose if they included provisions allowing it to cancel the meeting without paying any penalties in the event of a labor dispute.”

Joan Tronto, who will receive the Lippincott Award -- probably the highest professional recognition a political theorist can win -- will not attend APSA, will not give the Lippincott Lecture, & will not be having any of APSA's bullshit.

Setting up my profile on Bluesky reminded me of how much I love Janelle Monáe and her pussy pants 😍