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Christy Thornton

@llchristyll.bsky.social
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Researching development and its discontents. Pell grant prof. Co-director @hpe-project.bsky.social. Naclista pa’ siempre. #NoMoreDrugWar

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Learn to Ode!
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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Imagine professing to care deeply about the working conditions of your contingent coworkers and then deciding to make your life’s work foot-soldiering for the forces explicitly campaigning to undermine the standing of the university in society
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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“Cubans have had to choose between US dominance and deepening misery many times, and it usually hasn’t turned out to Washington’s liking.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Tony Wood · Maximum Pressure: Cuba on the Brink
If every accusation is a confession, then the US State Department report released on 20 July, which describes Cuba as...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/07/2026
ICE and/or police murdered someone this morning in Biddeford, Maine. From the statements I’ve seen from local activists, I *think* the victim was a young Black man. You may already know Black immigrants are the largest non-white immigrant demo in Maine. A protest is already under way.
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Witness says Biddeford shooting victim told police ‘I tried to stop’
One resident says he heard the shots and saw as agents pulled the man out of the vehicle.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29/06/2026
BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.
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More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the US hours before the earthquakes are missing
Survivors say more than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble.
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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
“Paraguay’s head coach, Gustavo Alfaro, has a haggard, agreeably soulful look, a 63-year-old itinerant Argentinian with a belief in deep, throbbingly morbid defensive football, who has also talked at this World Cup of the duty of the sport to represent the poor, the people, the anti-Fifa.”
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Canale and Gill the heroes as Paraguay hand Germany first World Cup shootout defeat
Germany lost their first World Cup penalty shootout in dramatic fashion after a tense 1-1 draw after extra time
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Who funded every business venture Elon Musk has launched? US taxpayers, involuntarily. What have they gotten from the investment? Nothing whatsoever.
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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Jesus. 68,900 reported missing in Venezuela.
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Venezuela earthquake death toll rises to 1,430 as desperation mounts
Tensions flared as desperation grew in Venezuela as rescuers and civilians searched for earthquake survivors and the death toll rose sharply to 1,430.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The Court of Appeal judgement on Palestine Action is frankly bonkers. It says PA is not "a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes operating transparently in the open." Right: the arson, bombings, slashings etc were all planned in open meetings in Parliament Square 🙄🧵
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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
So proud of the newly minted Dr. Lucas Azambuja, who defended his fantastic JHU sociology dissertation today that explains why fractions of the Brazilian capitalist classes aligned and de-aligned over Bolsonarismo. He starts a postdoc at Tulane very soon - New Orleans, look out!
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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Received the official notice of tenure at NYU, which means I’ve now been tenured in both sociology and history. I really don’t recommend that anyone else attempt this ridiculous undertaking, but I’m really grateful to my students, colleagues, and mentors who got me here.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/05/2026
The Trump administration will not rest until every elite institution has purged itself of black people. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Trump DOJ: Yale’s Medical School Has Way Too Many Black Students
The administration’s view is that the mere presence of students of color at Yale Medical School proves discrimination against white people.
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Hey, I have books to give away! If you picked up BLUE POWER and would like a copy of my first book BADGES WITHOUT BORDERS, reply with a pic of your copy of BLUE POWER and I will send BADGES WITHOUT BORDERS to a couple of you! (The dog is not yawning due to the book contents, I promise.)
World’s greatest dog with Blue Power and Badges Without Borders
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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Grateful to @bradlander.bsky.social for coming out to stand in solidarity with NYC’s organized & fighting faculty - including those under attack from their own admin at the New School - on this May Day ✊
Hundreds of union members gather outside the New School in New York for May Day
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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Trying not to be totally gutted by this week’s retirements of both Steve Hahn and Barbara Weinstein, two of the best mentors and colleagues I could imagine. Some massive shoes to fill at NYU in their wake.
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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Quite a venue for a book talk, @quinnslobodian.com
Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff at Amant Gallery in Brooklyn
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
So excited for the first BLUE POWER event tomorrow (Tuesday) in Baltimore! Events now planned in Philly, DC, NYC, Seattle, and Chicago, all listed here: stuartschrader.com
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The push for institutional neutrality, like the so-called “free-speech crisis,” was always a right wing ploy to get universities to stop pointing out obvious things like “fascists are ascendant” and “racism is bad.” It is sad that so many university “leaders” took the bait.
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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Congratulations to my pal @stschrader1.bsky.social! His new book Blue Power - which Ruthie Gilmore called a ‘tour de force’ - is out today!
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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Today! Join us!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
personally I think "Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn" is a bad thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...
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Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn
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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
New York! We're bringing @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social to NYU to talk about his new book on self-determination - April 14 at 4:30pm. All are welcome - registration/info here: www.nysean.org/events/the-f...
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The Bitchuation Room Podcast @bitchuationroom.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Cuba has some of the most highly educated medical professionals in the world. But America's barbaric blockade is causing serious pain. @llchristyll.bsky.social stopped by the Bitchuation Room to talk about how the embargo is disrupting essential medical care in Cuba.
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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
It was great to join @franifio.bsky.social to talk about my recent trip to Cuba, what the US is doing there, and why the right-wing influencer set is freaking out. You can watch here: www.youtube.com/live/JpjOlRA...
A picture with Christy Thornton, Francesca Fiorentini, and Cori Bush
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The Bitchuation Room Podcast @bitchuationroom.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Live today talking ICE chuds at airports, Cuba blackouts with @llchristyll.bsky.social, and Cori Bush's resurgence with... @coribush.bsky.social! Watch LIVE on Youtube, Substack, or Twitch at 1pm PT / 4pm ET! ✨ youtube.com/live/JpjOlRA...
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TBR Tuesday Livestream 3/24 (feat. Cori Bush & Christy Thornton)
YouTube video by The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini)
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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The 2026 @hpe-project.bsky.social grant competition is now open! PhD candidates and early-career scholars doing work on histories of neoliberalism are welcome to apply by April 5 for research work this summer. Details and application: www.hpeproject.org/grants-cfp
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HPE Project 2026 Summer Research Grant CFP — History & Political Economy Project
The History & Political Economy (HPE) Project invites applications from PhD students and early-career scholars for our 2026 summer research grant.
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This obituary makes it sound like he was criticized by polluters and jealous peers, not those who pointed out the links between the movement he sparked (ZPG) and eugenics, the very politics that have delivered us “mass deportations now” and untold border violence www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/b...
Paul R. Ehrlich, Who
Alarmed the World With
'The Population Bomb,
Dies at 93
His best-selling 1968 book, which forecast global famines, made him a leader of the environmental movement.
But he faced criticism when his predictions proved premature.

Image of Paul ehrlich, an older white man with blue eyes
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
A former top Chevron executive was super tight with Delcy Rodriguez. He told the CIA to back her instead of Venezuela's democratic opposition,. The agency told Trump. Now Ali Moshiri is ready to cash in. He's raising $3 billion to get back in Venezuela's oil game. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
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He Was Chevron’s Man in Venezuela—and a CIA Informant
After retiring from Chevron, Ali Moshiri warned the Trump administration it would face a morass if it tried to install the democratic opposition.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 15/03/2026
Yes, that’s the issue. I’ve been trying to find a way to articulate this: to the extent that LLMs serve a purpose in education, it’s an indictment of the education system, not a praiseworthy feature of LLMs.
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop
The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.
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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This looks so fun 👇
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Abolish ICE has a +11 approval — which means it is *32 points* more popular than Donald Trump Ask yourself: does corporate media portray that accurately?
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
RIP to a truly unique and inspiring intellectual
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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
What the fuck
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 24/02/2026
Didn’t think the first NYPD power struggle would start over literal snowflake bullshit
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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
"Just 2 percent of all college students—including 3 percent of Republicans—say they feel they don’t belong on campus due to their political views."
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
“The middle class already pays taxes on its wealth in the form of property taxes. The wealthy don’t, since most of their wealth consists of financial assets, which are exempt from property tax. In the 19th century, by contrast, property taxes of most states fell on all assets, real and financial.”
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Taxing the Superrich
For the sake of justice and democracy, we need a progressive wealth tax.
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Books do not bring drugs into prison. Prison guards bring drugs into prison.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The reactionary centrists who took seriously and platformed the moral panics over DEI and critical race theory seriously helped this along. And now that fanatical zealots are banning “world-views” and Holocaust education they are mostly quiet.
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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
What on earth
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 16/02/2026
“The federal invasions are usurpations—but not necessarily of police authority,” @stschrader1.bsky.social writes. Instead, they have “become opportunities to...further weaken the already fraying democratic constraints on police power.”
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Authoritarianism from Below | Stuart Schrader
As National Guard troops and federal officers swarmed Washington, D.C., in August, sent by President Donald Trump to confront what he declared a “crime
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
This article briefly previews my forthcoming book Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, out in April from @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social. You can preorder it w/ the discount code BLUE20 here: www.basicbooks.com/titles/stuar...
Cover of Blue Power with group of officers walking away from viewer
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.
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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Your weekend long read: Local cops and their union bosses have welcomed - and in some cases invited - Trump’s federal takeovers of US cities. @stschrader1.bsky.social traces this alarming synthesis of local & federal power for The New York Review archive.is/G1Bnh
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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
We have created an impunity machine, and invited and incentivized terrible people to join it. Abolish the whole damn thing.
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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Obviously far from central here, but when Bondi says "don't you ever accuse me of a crime" she sounds exactly like Parker Posey doing the "hotel manager" bit
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