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Stuart Schrader

@stschrader1.bsky.social
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Author of Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves (@basicbooksgroup.bsky.social, 2026) and Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed Policing (@ucpress.bsky.social‬, 2019)

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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
📣 Thursday event in Baltimore 📣 Tejasvi Nagaraja — talks with Stuart Schrader on Tej's new book — "Troop Movements" Thurs, Oct 1 at 7p — at Red Emma's @redemmas.org @tejnagaraja.bsky.social @stschrader1.bsky.social RSVP today — and come through on Thursday! redemmas.org/events/tejas... 📕📕📕
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Very excited to dig into @tejnagaraja.bsky.social’s new book Troop Movements! We will be in conversation at @redemmas.org next Thurs 10/1.
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 21/09/2026
Excited to announce that @premthakker.bsky.social will be joining Mahmoud Khalil in conversation at our event this Thursday at the Parkway Theater—if you'd like to attend, we have a waitlist going and will be letting people in until every single seat is filled: withfriends.co/event/291584...
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9/24 - Mahmoud Khalil presents "No Land to Stand On: Notes from Detention" in conversation with Prem Thakker by Red Emma's
Get tickets and support Red Emma's by becoming a member
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price
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Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The best speaker series in the U.S.?
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hey Bay Area friends, I will be speaking about BLUE POWER in Oakland on Sat 9/19 at 6:30pm. Hope to see you there!
SATURDAY, SEPT 19TH
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1721 BROADWAY IN OAKLAND
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here's a gift link to my 9/11 essay in the NYT. Civil libertarians long warned that before giving government new powers, we should consider how an administration with authoritarian ambition might abuse them. We were told that America was too exceptional to elect such a person. Well here we are.
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Opinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. (Gift Article)
The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hey Bay Area friends, I will be speaking about BLUE POWER in Oakland on Sat 9/19 at 6:30pm. Hope to see you there!
SATURDAY, SEPT 19TH
AT 6:30 PM
1721 BROADWAY IN OAKLAND
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Tomorrow!!!
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This coming Wednesday 9/9, I will be in conversation in NYC with Andrew Ross and Jeanne Theoharis about BLUE POWER at @ipk.bsky.social (5:30pm). RSVP for in-person or virtual option: ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
Cover of Blue Power with cops walking away from viewer
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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Amazing thread! So disappointing that an organization with literal experts on the history of lobbying, political influence, higher education policy, and history as an academic profession would go this route.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The loss of search structure is devastating for knowledge retrieval. I teach basic lit searching and it's always felt like a really core transferable skill for students to know boolean operators and "exact phrase searching" and now google, microsoft etc have just killed it to force us to use slopAI.
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Sam Feldman @srfeld.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I keep hearing about @stschrader1.bsky.social's new book Blue Power, and this interview with @dissentmag.bsky.social makes it sound like a must-read on how police unions & associations affected American politics and cities over the past century.
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The Origins of Police Power - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Stuart Schrader, author of Blue Power, about how U.S. police unions built themselves into a formidable political force, and whether the movement is more fragile than it appears.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
From the US and France to Iraq, Chile, and the Philippines, "Imperial Entanglements of Policing," edited by @juliango.bsky.social and @stschrader1.bsky.social, examines how imperialism and colonialism have shaped, and been facilitated by, policing. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/5GRC7JH
Cover of Imperial Entanglements of Policing edited by Julian Go and Stuart Schrader. The bright red cover features a black chain-link fence with a section of the wire bent and tangled on the left. The text is in a white sans serif font.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
the 10 presidents in Inside Higher Ed’s analysis who earned the most from outside board service in 2025.
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 20/08/2026
I'm in the semi awkward position on this where I don't buy a lot of the research findings but also don't really care too much, as credible messengers receive only a fraction of the resources that cops get, and we might as well keep trying everything we can to keep violence at record lows
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Police unions have sought to mobilize public opinion against those seen as a threat to their autonomy, incubating a right-wing politics that has found its full expression in President Donald Trump.
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The Origins of Police Power - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Stuart Schrader, author of Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, about how U.S. police unions built themselves into a formidable political force, and whether the movement is more fragile than it appears.
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seranine @seranine.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"What Harper sees as groupthink madness was interracial solidarity by experts in their fields. Rather than allowing the institution to coerce more unseen labor from our peers, CWG decided to force the issue with our colleagues: if you value DEI like you say you do, put in sweat equity."
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Last week I posted these national results and messed up the local ones (used US pop as the per cap base for each state). Here are the revised real police spending per 100K. The unit here is state-level aggregates of local (city and county but not state or fed) spending. No real defund anywhere.
Generally upward sloping lines, though some are flat from ~2000 onwards. No noticeable drops.Generally upward sloping lines, though some are flat from ~2000 onwards. No noticeable drops.Generally upward sloping lines, though some are flat from ~2000 onwards. No noticeable drops, except in MI and NJ, and even then well above 1980s and 1990s.Generally upward sloping lines, though some are flat from ~2000 onwards. No noticeable drops, except NY, and still well above all 1980, 1990, and most 2000 levels.
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Hey friends in NYC, I'll be in conversation with Andrew Ross and Jeanne Theoharis about BLUE POWER on Wed. Sept. 9 at @ipk.bsky.social. RSVP: ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
An important thing to keep in mind: When drones fly their cameras are on all the time--they're often not just recording what happens when they get to a location, they're recording all the time. Police tech companies know this and are finding ways to use that incidental footage for other purposes.
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
ICYMI, this is a great review of BLUE POWER
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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this. pubpeer.com/publications...
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Fascinating reporting, complete with a very eloquent and insightful quotation from yours truly
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Inquest @inquest.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"A critical history of the police union movement, tracing how it emerged as a profoundly anti-democratic institution." Sandeep reviews Stuart Schrader 's new book 'Blue Power' on the emergence of police unions as firewalls against accountability.
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A Union Apart - Sandeep Dhaliwal - Inquest
Stuart Schrader’s ‘Blue Power’ illuminates the history of how police unions coalesced as tools for guaranteeing preferential treatment and protection from accountability.
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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This piece is so good, really worth reading if you care at all about jazz, new york, or police violence
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
ICE kidnapped a colleague at Johns Hopkins.
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Come for the analysis of enshittification as the ruling ethos of our time, stay for the counter-example of the Tour de France, the greatest sporting event in the world.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Today, @nhold.bsky.social explains why calls for mandatory retirement are mistaken, and what this mistake indicates about the character of elite academic circles, including the law and political economy movement.
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What Rolls Downhill
Recent calls for mandatory retirement in academia are a reminder that class and other social hierarchies are something like mountains with increasingly dense fog toward their peaks: the higher up one…
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We're about $1,000 away from our goal! We have ONE day left. Triple your impact. Please quote repost this, if you can, and share why you support Prison Journalism Project or why you've donated before.
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Happy Saturday! We're just $6,300 away from reaching our goal of $15,000. We only run two major fundraising campaigns each year, one in the summer and one at the end of the year. Help us continue to make this work possible by supporting ou work.
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Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
We invite you to read and listen to Stuart Schrader’s archival primer to Blue Power, his fascinating new history on the formation of police unions and their impact on national and local politics in the second half of the twentieth century. Read more here abusablepast.org/the-badge-me...
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Two new mid-summer publications this week: 1) a review of Chasing Bandits, a fine book about US imperial violence across the decades, considering theoretical and methodological questions of writing about targeted state violence, via H-Diplo: issforum.org/reviews/revi...
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Jervis Forum Review 189: Schrader on Neagle, Chasing Bandits
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Review 189 Michael E. Neagle, Chasing Bandits: America’s Long War on Terror. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2025. ISBN…
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"We found that at least 150 institutions of higher ed... are using Flock’s surveillance network.. many campus police departments have facilitated immigration related investigations, even when they are located in sanctuary states and are legally prohibited from doing so" by @torinmonahan.bsky.social
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Flock on campus: university police as appendages of a national policing apparatus
Dangerous new forms of networked surveillance are gaining traction with police departments across the United States. One popular example is Flock Safety’s Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR)...
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Greg Brown @gregbrown.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Really great piece in Defector on @stschrader1.bsky.social 's BLUE POWER and how cop unions rendered themselves impervious to democracy (gift link): defector.com/how-cops-con...
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How Cops Consolidated So Much Power Over Local Governments | Defector
Even before his historic election as New York City’s mayor in November 2025, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani had reportedly begun searching for “common ground” with the city’s rank-and-file police...
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Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
New interview I did with Amna Akbar in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social was just published. It's a bit of a synthesis on the how we got here and the current conditions on immigration. Always great to be in convo w/Amna & wonderful to work w/Aparna Gopalan at JC on this. jewishcurrents.org/unbuild-the-...
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Unbuild the Cages
Silky Shah maps the vulnerabilities of the deportation machine.
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Defector @defector.com · 20/07/2026
How cops consolidated so much power over local governments: defector.com/how-cops-con...
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How Cops Consolidated So Much Power Over Local Governments | Defector
Even before his historic election as New York City’s mayor in November 2025, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani had reportedly begun searching for “common ground” with the city’s rank-and-file…
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patrick @redford.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Out of nowhere, Jonas Vingegaard crashed out of the Tour de France. A lot of people are assigning blame and trying to figure out why, when really, it's very simple: the unavoidable cruelty of professional cycling. defector.com/jonas-vingeg...
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Jonas Vingegaard Felled Yet Again By The Cruelty Of His Sport | Defector
ÉVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Exactly 84 minutes after Jonas Vingegaard spiked his right collarbone into a curb and limped into an ambulance and out of the Tour de France, the assembled press watched him ...
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Decided to look at the classes taught at West Virginia University ’s Washington Center for Civics, Culture and Statesmanship (the one with one enrolled student) and it turns out it’s teaching classes on the wonders of fascism
MWF 9:30 AM – 10:20 AM | WASH 393A

Often as revolutionary as it is traditionalist, democratic as it is authoritarian, individualistic as it is communal, the “right” is today far from an easily defined  or unified reality. Nevertheless, a certain emerging consensus can be discerned. Called the New Right, this consensus refers to a set of ideas and instincts that affirm the need for a new political paradigm beyond the three reigning ideologies of the twentieth century: liberalism, fascism, and communism. This idea is what Alexander Dugin has termed the “fourth political theory.” Using Dugin’s analysis as a starting point, this course will investigate what he and others mean when they imagine and think in this “fourth” place beyond liberalism, fascism, and communism. Readings in the first half will focus on philosophical foundations, and will include Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger, as well as more secondary figures such as Ernst Jünger, Oswald Spengler, Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, Julius Evola, and Dugin himself. In the second half, we will critically examine several contemporary leading figures—such as Alain de Benoist, Renaud Camus, Michael Millerman, and Alexander Markovics—who have each proposed answers to the question of a “fourth politics” today.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I wrote about what looks very much like a formal US plan to institutionalize a global network of concentration camps.
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Little Gitmos everywhere
The White House explores entrenching U.S. concentration camps worldwide.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 10/07/2026
Don't let copaganda fool you — police violence is not tied to their safety. In 2025, the vast majority of killings began with police responding to suspected non-violent offenses or cases where no crime was reported.
Screenshot of chart showing how police killings in 2025 began. 680 were suspected non-violent offenses or cases where no crime was reported. 112 were traffic violations. 84 were unknown.
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Dave B @davebee.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This interview/conversation was SO GOOD.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
How it started / how it’s going
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
How are police unions different from other unions? What are the politics of police institutions, internally, and in relation to one another? And why do cops have so much power? grateful to @stschrader1.bsky.social for joining us on @unhappinesspod.bsky.social www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...
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Episode 150: Cops in Our Heads feat. Stuart Schrader | Ordinary Unhappiness
Abby and Patrick welcome historian Stuart Schrader for a conversation about the history, ideology, and politics of contemporary American pol
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Ordinary Unhappiness @unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 The institutions of modern American policing are far younger than the USA itself. Yet the police now seem ubiquitous - and their self-interested exercise of political power is undeniable. The brilliant @stschrader1.bsky.social helps us understand why. www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...
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Episode 150: Cops in Our Heads feat. Stuart Schrader | Ordinary Unhappiness
Abby and Patrick welcome historian Stuart Schrader for a conversation about the history, ideology, and politics of contemporary American pol
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Please consider ordering my new book BLUE POWER from @redemmas.org today, to support legal defense for Prairieland and Minneapolis defendants. redemmas.org/titles/48838...
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Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves
Buy from Red Emma's, a worker-owned radical bookstore
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