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Zohran showed that a socialist can take City Hall—but the ruling class still forced him to keep Jessica Tisch at the NYPD. For Zohran to fight the police unions and win, the Left has to build power beyond the ballot box.
New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
If We Want Mamdani to Beat the NYPD, the Left Must Build Power
We won’t be able to push Mamdani, or anyone else, to undermine police power unless we become a force to be reckoned with.
www.thenation.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Zohran showed that a socialist can take City Hall—but the ruling class still forced him to keep Jessica Tisch at the NYPD. For Zohran to fight the police unions and win, the Left has to build power beyond the ballot box.
New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Students, faculty, and community groups say the Johns Hopkins private police force intimidates union members and suppresses protest. They’re demanding the City Council hold the first public hearing into the department’s powers. baltimorebeat.com/hopkins-poli...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Students, faculty, and community groups say the Johns Hopkins private police force intimidates union members and suppresses protest. They’re demanding the City Council hold the first public hearing into the department’s powers. baltimorebeat.com/hopkins-poli...
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“What we have isn’t peace. What we have is a continuing genocide, albeit one that has shifted gears and has—for now—moved into the slow lane.” New: Saree Makdisi on the ceasefire in Gaza. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
After the Genocide, the Genocide | Saree Makdisi
As the Western media and politicians breathlessly celebrated the return of the final Israeli prisoners, a number of them soldiers captured in combat, Israel began returning hundreds of captives it had...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
“What we have isn’t peace. What we have is a continuing genocide, albeit one that has shifted gears and has—for now—moved into the slow lane.” New: Saree Makdisi on the ceasefire in Gaza. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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News outlets in Baltimore have spread dangerous misinformation about drugs/those who use them, steering the city away from public health-centered solutions and toward fear-driven police crackdowns.
Read my debut article for @objectivejournos.bsky.social ⬇️
objectivejournalism.org/2025/11/balt...
Read my debut article for @objectivejournos.bsky.social ⬇️
objectivejournalism.org/2025/11/balt...
Baltimore media outlets may be exacerbating overdose crisis
Experts say coverage in Baltimore has spread misinformation and steered a city struggling with the overdose crisis toward police crackdowns.
objectivejournalism.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
News outlets in Baltimore have spread dangerous misinformation about drugs/those who use them, steering the city away from public health-centered solutions and toward fear-driven police crackdowns.
Read my debut article for @objectivejournos.bsky.social ⬇️
objectivejournalism.org/2025/11/balt...
Read my debut article for @objectivejournos.bsky.social ⬇️
objectivejournalism.org/2025/11/balt...
UMD remains hostile to its workers, so we're escalating the fight
UMD graduate workers march for collective bargaining rights, union recognition
Graduate Labor Union leaders said striking is a possibility if the university refuses to meet their demands.
dbknews.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
UMD remains hostile to its workers, so we're escalating the fight
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I wrote about Napheesa Collier's power play, Cathy Engelbert's puppet leadership, a changing ownership landscape and how the next commissioner should take a collaborative approach to the WNBA entering its player empowerment era:
theringer.com/2025/10/02/w...
theringer.com/2025/10/02/w...
The WNBA Is at a Breaking Point
Napheesa Collier went scorched earth on Cathy Engelbert for a reason. The players are fed up—and the firestorm is here.
theringer.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I wrote about Napheesa Collier's power play, Cathy Engelbert's puppet leadership, a changing ownership landscape and how the next commissioner should take a collaborative approach to the WNBA entering its player empowerment era:
theringer.com/2025/10/02/w...
theringer.com/2025/10/02/w...
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Stigmatization is a powerful force, and disgust and shame are among our greatest tools. Put plainly, you should feel bad for using AI. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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September 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Stigmatization is a powerful force, and disgust and shame are among our greatest tools. Put plainly, you should feel bad for using AI. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
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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...
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So grateful to write for @dissentmag.bsky.social's Fall 2025 issue "Authoritarianism and Resistance." I drafted the piece in June with the new school year in mind, as an immigrant scholar severed from her homeland: What can we teach the young about how to exist and persist at this historic juncture?
To Outlive Tyranny - Dissent Magazine
Flesh and blood alone cannot halt the advance of iron and steel. To stop the tanks, we need people to place blocks on the road and throw sand into the gears.
www.dissentmagazine.org
September 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
So grateful to write for @dissentmag.bsky.social's Fall 2025 issue "Authoritarianism and Resistance." I drafted the piece in June with the new school year in mind, as an immigrant scholar severed from her homeland: What can we teach the young about how to exist and persist at this historic juncture?
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Someone asked me what victory against the forces seeking to occupy Chicago looks like. Obviously, those forces being repelled is the goal, but there are layers to what success looks like in these deteriorating conditions. The first is to successfully resist the normalization of military occupation.
September 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Someone asked me what victory against the forces seeking to occupy Chicago looks like. Obviously, those forces being repelled is the goal, but there are layers to what success looks like in these deteriorating conditions. The first is to successfully resist the normalization of military occupation.
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UMD admin are still ignoring our democratic demand for union recognition while our working conditions are actively getting worse. On October 1st, 1-3PM, grad workers all across campus are marching to show that we’re not backing down – we want RECOGNITION NOW! RSVP here: forms.gle/jocuj9awDCtT...
September 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
UMD admin are still ignoring our democratic demand for union recognition while our working conditions are actively getting worse. On October 1st, 1-3PM, grad workers all across campus are marching to show that we’re not backing down – we want RECOGNITION NOW! RSVP here: forms.gle/jocuj9awDCtT...
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BPD is left unscathed after City Council members lambast behavioral health systems during hearing on crisis response systems
baltimorebeat.com/bpd-is-left-...
baltimorebeat.com/bpd-is-left-...
BPD is left unscathed after City Council members lambast behavioral health systems during hearing on crisis response systems
City council members spent most of a special hearing on the city’s crisis response system focused on the shortcomings of crisis response providers rather than the extremely well-funded police…
baltimorebeat.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
BPD is left unscathed after City Council members lambast behavioral health systems during hearing on crisis response systems
baltimorebeat.com/bpd-is-left-...
baltimorebeat.com/bpd-is-left-...
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Amid so many attacks across multiple fronts, it is helpful to consider and figure out what strategic approach(es) you're best positioned to move forward in this moment, and where. But how do you get started doing that?
Here's a resource: Block & Build: But Make It Abolitionist: bit.ly/blockbuildic
Here's a resource: Block & Build: But Make It Abolitionist: bit.ly/blockbuildic
August 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Amid so many attacks across multiple fronts, it is helpful to consider and figure out what strategic approach(es) you're best positioned to move forward in this moment, and where. But how do you get started doing that?
Here's a resource: Block & Build: But Make It Abolitionist: bit.ly/blockbuildic
Here's a resource: Block & Build: But Make It Abolitionist: bit.ly/blockbuildic
Think I'll remember the last 17-ish years of Orioles baseball as the Adam Jones era followed by the Cedric Mullins era. As this one ends, thinking about how much I've loved watching him play CF 🧡
Cedric Mullins with one more (last?) web gem in Baltimore:
July 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Think I'll remember the last 17-ish years of Orioles baseball as the Adam Jones era followed by the Cedric Mullins era. As this one ends, thinking about how much I've loved watching him play CF 🧡
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Introducing a new 6-part series revisiting the landmark insights of Ruth Wilson Gilmore's 'Golden Gulag', exploring what prison abolitionists can learn from the history of carceral expansion. With RWG, @craiggilmore.bsky.social @lydiajean.bsky.social & Judah Schept inquest.org/abolitio...
Abolitionist Lessons from the Prison Belts - Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Craig Gilmore, Judah Schept, & Lydia Pelot-Hobbs - Inquest
In a six-part series that revisits the landmark insights of ‘Golden Gulag,’ we explore what prison abolitionists can learn from the history of carceral expansion in California, Appalachia, and Louisiana.
inquest.org
July 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Introducing a new 6-part series revisiting the landmark insights of Ruth Wilson Gilmore's 'Golden Gulag', exploring what prison abolitionists can learn from the history of carceral expansion. With RWG, @craiggilmore.bsky.social @lydiajean.bsky.social & Judah Schept inquest.org/abolitio...
Feeling angry but also thinking about how RWG's 'organized abandonment' continues to be a very helpful framework for me!
July 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Feeling angry but also thinking about how RWG's 'organized abandonment' continues to be a very helpful framework for me!
All my fellow scorecard sickos go crazy for F9-5
This throw seems impossible... it just kept going
July 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
All my fellow scorecard sickos go crazy for F9-5
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“It is important not to misread the structural as also somehow inevitable.” - @rwgilmoregirls.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
“It is important not to misread the structural as also somehow inevitable.” - @rwgilmoregirls.bsky.social
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“‘Things have never been so bad’—on this, at least, prisoners and guards in the prison where I teach agree.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
A Crisis Deferred | Nick Hill
My students didn’t volunteer much about the intervening six weeks, except that they had been grateful for all the reading. Time in prison is always slow, counting down, and for the prisoners, the stri...
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June 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
“‘Things have never been so bad’—on this, at least, prisoners and guards in the prison where I teach agree.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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‘The Sum of This Man’s Life’: People protest the police shooting of arabber Bilal Abdullah
baltimorebeat.com/the-sum-of-t...
baltimorebeat.com/the-sum-of-t...
June 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
‘The Sum of This Man’s Life’: People protest the police shooting of arabber Bilal Abdullah
baltimorebeat.com/the-sum-of-t...
baltimorebeat.com/the-sum-of-t...
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We're entering another mass movement moment. We must learn from what went right and wrong in 2020 so we can organize durable popular power necessary to defeat fascism and transform the world. @keeanga.bsky.social & @asha-rrs.bsky.social on @thedigradio.bsky.social www.thedigradio.com/podcast/from...
From Rebellion to Reaction w/ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Asha Ransby-Sporn
Featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Asha Ransby-Sporn on 2020’s summer of mass protest and rebellion sparked by the police murder of George Floyd. As Keeanga puts it: “The pressing question is how w...
www.thedigradio.com
June 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
We're entering another mass movement moment. We must learn from what went right and wrong in 2020 so we can organize durable popular power necessary to defeat fascism and transform the world. @keeanga.bsky.social & @asha-rrs.bsky.social on @thedigradio.bsky.social www.thedigradio.com/podcast/from...
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“Today their legacies demonstrate the imperative of organic intellectuals to confront authoritarian nationalism and forge global solidarity.”
@jordantcamp.bsky.social introduces a previously unpublished 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney, who was assassinated 45 years ago tomorrow:
@jordantcamp.bsky.social introduces a previously unpublished 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney, who was assassinated 45 years ago tomorrow:
When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review
A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.
www.bostonreview.net
June 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“Today their legacies demonstrate the imperative of organic intellectuals to confront authoritarian nationalism and forge global solidarity.”
@jordantcamp.bsky.social introduces a previously unpublished 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney, who was assassinated 45 years ago tomorrow:
@jordantcamp.bsky.social introduces a previously unpublished 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney, who was assassinated 45 years ago tomorrow:
#AbolishICE to end a specific evil agency + forward the long struggle to unmake a world that wields borders & police as violent tools of social control
June 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
#AbolishICE to end a specific evil agency + forward the long struggle to unmake a world that wields borders & police as violent tools of social control
"What makes donors, university administrators, and the White House so anxious and enraged are the unraveling contradictions of elite institutions predicated on exclusivity that are also populated by students demanding universal human freedom, be it in the labs at Columbia or in the Gaza Strip."
Both the Trump administration’s threats and the Columbia’s speedy acquiescence shows that little really separates the vision of the White House from that of the university’s administrators.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Learning to Be Free | Joel Suarez
To be free is to be a subject instead of an object, to be able to act decisively in the world rather than only to be acted upon. For Du Bois, as for young people in Gaza and on college campuses around...
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June 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"What makes donors, university administrators, and the White House so anxious and enraged are the unraveling contradictions of elite institutions predicated on exclusivity that are also populated by students demanding universal human freedom, be it in the labs at Columbia or in the Gaza Strip."
