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James Brandt @jamesbrandt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

On why the Trump administration is targeting international students, the Haitian community in Ohio, and other migrants with legal status.

If the administration’s goal is to reduce the number of immigrants in the country, these initiatives are somewhat counter-intuitive, as the targeted communities are not the most vulnerable migrants lacking legal status, while many undocumented people continue to labor in fields and meatpacking plants in red states across the country. The goal of these efforts, then, should not be seen as attempting to limit immigration entirely. Rather, they are efforts to render migrants more vulnerable. The attack on student visa holders, for instance, can be understood as an effort to prevent the expansion and stabilization of a class of educated migrants with access to higher-wage jobs. In other cases, the attack represents an effort to prevent admission with paths to legal status or to eliminate the contingent, pre-citizen statuses that have been granted by the state. These efforts, which overwhelmingly focus on black and brown migrants, lead to deportation, sometimes in contravention of law, and expand the migrant precariat.

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zohra ahmed @azohra.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Spent the weekend at the socialism conference, digging into the hard questions our movements face with 3000 (!) other people. Thank you @haymarketbooks.org @socialismconference.org. Here’s our panel with @silkys13.bsky.social amna akbar, jack norton and amelia kirby.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

All you have to do is find things that cue up the bigotry you want to promote, and make them salient - preferably, while avoiding the same for context that would complicate your intended narrative (in a distracted, low-participation political culture, the last bit comes practically for free). 8/

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Sandeep @sandeepinbk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Wrote about @stschrader1.bsky.social’s great new book for @inquest.bsky.social

Front cover of Blue Power by Stuart Schrader

Schrader, notably, does not conclude by prescribing a set of disempowering reforms. Those are easy enough to find.The book is about the far messier questions of political and cultural power, how they are built and reproduced over time, which defies easy analysis. Any prescription would have to be provisional. The book is nevertheless an impressive contribution. Schrader allows us to consider anew how police built their power over time, stretching back to the civil rights era, transforming U.S. politics along the way. This is a truly fresh addition to the combination histories of U.S. policing and politics. But more importantly, Blue Power is invaluable for anyone thinking and working toward racial and economic justice today.

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

(1/2) The Iran war is a redistribution machine: Big oil profits have shot up to historic highs. Our research shows that 50% of fossil fuel profits go to the richest 1% in the U.S. The rich are the ultimate beneficiaries of the war windfalls.

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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 30/07/2026

NEW @rooseveltinstitute.org: as wildfires & heatwaves rage, we are not powerless. As 19 authors argue in our 157-page "Building Up in 2029" report, we can adapt & expand Biden & Trump experiments to create lasting state capacity to tackle climate change. 🧵🧵 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

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Building Up in 2029: How to Make Green Statecraft Durable

Explore 17 essays on durable US climate and industrial policy after Inflation Reduction Act rollbacks, covering governance, planning, finance, and production.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15/07/2026

The lawsuit names Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Todd Blanche, Markwayne Mullin, Kristi Noem, and the Heritage Foundation, among others. trib.al/PtFPbh1

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

As promised, @madisoncondon.bsky.social and I have an essay on how L&E scholars ignore LPE’s uses of non-neoclassical economics and then criticize LPE-ers for not knowing economics. In the spirit of better debate, we canvass some of that literature lpeproject.org/blog/the-eco...

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The Economics that Law and Economics Ignores

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

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DFW Support Committee @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"Over the past four decades, particularly since 9/11, legal actors have built on this architecture of repression.... It is to our collective detriment that, in the name of security, neither courts nor the public intervened to stop convictions in these cases." lpeproject.org/blog/guilty-...

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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

My colleague @azohra.bsky.social w great work breaking down all that’s super bad about Feds increasing use of terrorism / conspiracy charges to target political opponents. Here’s a nice one from @lpeblog.bsky.social. lpeproject.org/blog/guilty-...

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Guilt by Solidarity

The conviction of Anti-ICE protestors on terrorism charges represents a dangerous new front in the Trump administration's war against the left. Yet it also highlights a longer history: over the past…

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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Trump has embraced "state capitalism." Critical minerals are the laboratory. @iliasalami.bsky.social and I analyze its contours & contradictions--and implications for Global South sovereignty & development, and progressive politics @phenomenalworld.bsky.social phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...

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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Coming up: Mon. June 15 ~ 10am ET / 3pm UK LAUNCH EVENT for our new issue: "Towards a Critical Theory of Finance" Melinda Cooper, Radhika Desai, and Stefan Eich with Paul North Finance turned Marx upside-down; we need new theories to understand this. www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/towar...

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Launch event for our new issue: Towards a Critical Theory of Finance

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The week in review: @richardjoyce.bsky.social assesses Mark Carney’s speech at Davos, while Sarah Schindler and Kellen Zale discuss the abundance agenda’s anti-tenancy blindspot. Plus, some hot new LPE pieces from around the web 🧵👇

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Weekly Roundup: June 5

Richard Joyce assesses Mark Carney's speech at Davos, while Sarah Schindler and Kellen Zale discuss the abundance agenda's anti-tenancy blindspot. Plus, Tanzil Chowdhury on legislative supremacy in…

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I do think it’s worth stressing here just how much social life depends on the idea that holding objectionable political views does not make one liable for death.

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

A right-wing think tank pushing anti-homeless laws has deep connections to the prison & surveillance industries, & military & defense spending. As cost of living outpaces wages & available jobs, unhoused people will continue to face further criminalization.

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New report connects anti-homeless think tank to prisons, surveillance, and defense contractors

Are the Cicero Institute’s backers profiting from the anti-homeless laws they advocate for? Findings raise questions about venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale’s profit motives behind his Trump-advising Ci...

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Saw this piece today, and the "paying private firms" things always sets off alarm bells for me. Unsurprisingly we have almost no concrete data on which systems use private vs. self-provided food, but it looks like CA, NY, and TX all self-provide. I bet > 50% of PPL in prison get public food.

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Starved in Jail

Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This is the most recent letter from hunger/labor striking prisoners at Delaney Hall ICE facility in Newark, NJ. "We appreciate the support of everyone who is protesting outside the facility. We want you to know that you give us the strength and determination to keep going. Please, DON’T GIVE UP!"

Translation from Spanish to English: We, the detainees at the Delaney Hall Detention Facility, wish to express our objection to the violation of our rights as immigrant human beings. We, the detainees, are demanding our progressive release, based on the fact that our arrests were illegal; immigrants to this country have the right to await our pending immigration proceedings outside of prison; therefore, we demand to be released on bond or parole so that we may complete our proceedings.

Furthermore, we call for greater efficiency in our judicial processes, as well as greater effectiveness and urgency for those who request and sign their voluntary release; we believe it is unjust to keep people who wish to leave of their own free will in custody for up to three months.

In addition to the unlawful and forced detention of most of us who find ourselves locked up here, there is the inhumane treatment that all detainees in this facility endure on a daily basis. The company in charge (GEO) fails to meet the basic conditions necessary to protect our health and our lives. To their administrative incompetence, we must add the following injustices and irregularities perpetrated by ICE and GEO:

Food containing worms or in a state of decay.

Unresolved issues, particularly regarding the bathrooms, which are in terrible and inhumane condition.

Ventilation problems.

Translation from spanish to english: Serious health issues: most people have a persistent flu with phlegm that won’t go away; many have conjunctivitis, urinary tract infections, fever, and coughs.

Medical care issues:

If you're sick, you have to submit a request that takes two weeks to be answered—or you never get a response at all.

Nurses refuse to treat you right away

They only prescribe Tylenol for all ailments

The nurses' exact words: "We're not a PHARMACY"

ICE agents coerce detainees into signing deportation orders

There is no emergency protocol: in cases of falls or attacks, emergency response arrives an hour late

Judges’ rulings are highly questionable; most bond requests are denied without legal basis

Detainees are forced to work, in most cases without pay, or for $1 an hour

We appreciate the support of everyone who is protesting outside the facility. We want you to know that you give us the strength and determination to keep going. Please, DON’T GIVE UP!

We ask all relevant authorities for an urgent response and look forward to hearing from them. With the utmost respect, the detainees at the Delaney Hall facility.

God bless you!

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Yale AAUP @aaupyale.org · 26/05/2026

Today, the AAUP Yale Chapter releases our report on The State of Academic Freedom at Yale. Uncertain that university leaders will protect academic freedom when tested, Yale faculty are managing risk alone and making changes that narrow what Yale teaches, researches, and communicates to the world.

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The State of Academic Freedom at Yale

A Report from the Yale Chapter of the AAUP — SPRING 2026 This report presents findings from a survey of the Yale faculty on the state of academic freedom at the University. The survey was conducted…

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Elect Alexis for Maryland! @electalexis.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

NEW YORK!!!!! I’ll be there this Friday May 22nd — come through to the Francis Kite Club from 2-5pm and hang with me! RSVP here: secure.actblue.com/donate/alexi... Many thanks to @astra.bsky.social @benmckenzie.bsky.social @lilygreenbergcall.bsky.social and @thegoodai.bsky.social for hosting!

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NYC! Help send Alexis Goldstein to Congress!

Show your support with a contribution.

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Jason Meisner @jmetr22b.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

///BREAKING/// The original federal grand jury refused to indict the "Broadview Six" case against Operation Midway Blitz protesters, and a second grand jury was plagued by "tension" and arguing over the merits of the case, according to what's being said in court now.

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The LPE Project @lpeproject.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

"The Board of Peace—announced at Davos with a gilded version of the UN logo that essentially only depicts North America—is chaired for life by Donald Trump, who is empowered to make unilateral decisions on membership. The buy-in for a permanent seat is $1 billion."

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James Brandt @jamesbrandt.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

"This current arrangement is far from stable, and the turn toward nakedly corrupt transactionalism is less a new paradigm of power than a form of crisis looting at the level of the state."

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Why do faculty and students have so little say in the governance of American universities? This terrific new paper by Daniel Hemel and David Pozen asks why American universities are liberal autocracies rather than stakeholder democracies. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Now: About 100 rank and file Legal Aid Society attorneys and allies are rallying outside Brooklyn Criminal Court after a woman was forced to give birth in arraignment. They’re discussing other instances of clients dying in custody & harsher punishments for NYC’s poor.

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Queer Gold 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🙌🏾 (she/they) @queergold.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

It’s worth the read. I like it because they talk about the underlying mechanisms behind the headlines we see about Trump’s targeting of groups. Documenting and understanding such mechanisms will be really valuable when we start to rebuild, that is, if we choose to rebuild at all. I hope we do.

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Today, @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social and @azohra.bsky.social kick off a series on international law under the second Trump administration. The embrace of naked coercion, they argue, represents both a genuine departure from, and the culmination of the internal contradictions of, the post-WWII order.

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Something Old and Something New: International Law Under Trump 2.0

The United States’ turn toward naked coercion and transactional deal-making represents both a genuine departure from its commitment to the liberal international legal order and the culmination of that...

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

New article! How is finance ‘raced’, and why is this the case? With what consequences for our understandings of race, finance, and capitalism? To explore this, we develop a 'raced finance' analytic, grounded in political economy and racial capitalism debates. Link 👇🏾and 🧵:

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/05/2026

Overnight this Omni ICE flight landed in Guam, where it sat for 7+ hours, before continuing west. It is about to make its first deportation stop, in Cambodia. Migrants passengers onboard have likely been shackled for at least 63 hours.

A FR24 map showing a 767 (N486AX) descending toward Phnom Penh.

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zohra ahmed @azohra.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

On a good day, I remember how much l love to play with ideas.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

🚨 White House unveils pre-crime strategy to target the left, including pro-Palestinian protesters, "anti-Fascists," and "anti-American, radically pro-transgender ideologies." Full document: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/insane-pre...

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Insane Pre-Crime Strategy Unveiled for Leftist “Extremists"

New national strategy vows to “cripple them BEFORE" crimes are committed

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zohra ahmed @azohra.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

i think i finally found the right urdu tutor...a lyotard translator.

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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

New Dig ep is an interview with Fahd Ahmed and Alina Shen, leaders of DRUM and CAAAV—two brilliant organizers leading powerful basebuilding organizations—on how they organize, then electing Zohran mayor, and struggling through the contradictions of governance. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/orga...

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Organizing Zohran’s NYC w/ Alina Shen and Fahd Ahmed

Featuring Alina Shen and Fahd Ahmed on organizing working-class Asian New Yorkers into Zohran Mamdani’s campaign and then building power under a democratic socialist mayor. A discussion with two of Ne...

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zohra ahmed @azohra.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

thx @prisonculture.bsky.social for this newsletter, all the powerful organizing folks are doing in the interstices and thx for the shout out. prisonculture.substack.com/p/prisons-pr...

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Prisons, Prose & Protest - #38

Rants, Musings and More

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Now out in the American Criminal Law Review: "Big Box Carceralism." I trace the legal history of the retailer-backed campaign for bans on "organized retail crime." Retailers lied and fearmongered about the data, pushed bills through ALEC, and all to get slightly more specific conspiracy statutes. 🧵

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Big Box Carceralism

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This meant immigrants no longer needed a smuggler. Instead, they just had to register at the camps, and give their biometric data. Unbeknownst to them, it went right into a CBP database, part of what Honduras did to earn $1.6 billion in aid from the US between FY 2015 and 2024.

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Today, a spring scouting report on some of the hottest new LPE and LPE-adjacent articles. Congrats to all the authors on such wonderful placements 🎉

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Some of the Best New LPE and LPE-Adjacent Scholarship

A selection of worthy additions to your “important PDFs” folder.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

really important, thanks @azohra.bsky.social for staying attuned to this

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zohra ahmed @azohra.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Guilt by solidarity exhibit 9999999

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Angelo Petrigh @apetrigh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Proud of my colleagues and students who caused admin to pause the pride flag removals. As we look hopefully to a future of genuine input into what our campus looks like, it's a good time to reflect on how we got here. dailyfreepress.com/04/06/19/219...

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OP-ED: Before pride flags came students’ Palestinian flags: How BU honed a repressive signage policy at the expense of student expression

Op-Eds do not reflect the editorial opinion of The Daily Free Press. They are solely the opinion of the author. This article was written by a member of the Boston University Chapter of the American As...

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I'm in The Blog today on the turmoil in higher education finance. 🧵 The Trump Admin is simultaneously trying to get things back to normal (pre-COVID status quo, but more punitive) and to dismantle the whole system (selling off the portfolio, closing Dept of Ed) lpeproject.org/blog/the-stu...

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The Student Loan Conjuncture

While student loan repayment has resumed, stability is an illusion. Beneath the surface, mounting delinquency, administrative chaos, and the potential dismantling of federal loan management point to a...

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 05/04/2026

“In a feat of legal engineering, the president stressed the Constitution’s support structures past what experts considered their maximum load.”

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New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for “The President Violated the Constitution”

Our 22nd most-read article of 2025.

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