DOGE is not a govt efficiency project. Firing 1 in 4 fed employees would cut govt spending by 1%. DOGE is a political control project. Firing and terrorizing public employees is a means to weakening state regulation & strengthening a personalist presidency donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...

I genuinely think we should start calling businesses and schools falling to the anti-DEI movement “segregationists” because they are re-segregating. And earlier rounds of segregationists *also* explained their preferred policy in race-neutral terms (“state’s rights” and “freedom of association”).

It’s that time of year again — the call for papers for the Junior Theorists Symposium is live! Submit your précis here: bit.ly/jts2025

This is literally true.

School vouchers were pioneered as a way to help white supremacists send their kids to a new wave of private "segregation academies" created expressly for the purpose.

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NYPD has been spending a lot of money on advanced surveillance systems for decades, and none of those seemed to help much here. I fear the post-mortem conclusion will be "see, we need to spend more on *even more* advanced tech."

www.wired.com/story/nypd-s...

Annabel Ipsen and I co-wrote this paper on how structural precarity was central to the meatpacking business model. COVID-19 made clear the role that necropolitics played in this model.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Ekow Yankah has a relevant paper forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review: "Deputization and Privileged White Violence" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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You must read this truly brilliant piece by @kmtani.bsky.social in the current Harvard Law Review. Her reflection on the Supreme Court, curation, narration, and history is one of the best pieces of scholarship that I have *ever* read. This will become a classic. I am in awe.

Hard not to understand this as a structure of whiteness. (Which is not the same as saying that all the perpetrators are themselves white.)

‘if you don’t like the way we violate, we will structurally abandon you instead…’

This is really damning. NJ State Troopers, unhappy with a report on racial bias incidents, just stopped doing traffic enforcement, and seemingly weren’t on the roads (as evidenced by a vehicle from a fatal hit and run being abandoned for hours before anyone noticed).