really interesting that the vice president cites as a key intellectual influence a guy who thinks black people are natural slaves

Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action".
This is real police state behaviour.

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Save the Date: the inaugural Association of Law and Political Economy conference will be taking place *February 5-7, 2026* at the University of Richmond School of Law. And keep an eye out for the CFP this later this summer!

This is especially important: “We call upon our fellow institutions of higher education in the United States to declare their willingness to facilitate the immediate co-enrollment of Harvard’s international students, including formal acceptance of transfer for immigration purposes.”

Harvard obviously needs to seek a preliminary injunction and I’m optimistic they’d get it quickly.

But if that fails, it’s essential for other universities—as many as possible—to offer help in the form of formally enrolling students, and letting them substantively continue at Harvard uninterrupted.

On Tuesday 5/13 at 12:30pm, LPE@HLS is excited to host a special virtual event ft. Vijayashri Sripati and Aziz Rana on Prof. Sripati’s book, "Making Globalization Happen: The Untold Story of Power, Profits, Privilege" (OUP, 2024).

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"The postmodern form of class war is that of finance capital against both labor and industry."

Compelling (and succinct) analysis from Michael Hudson on Trump tariffs, US economic history, class politics, and geoeconomics.

www.democracycollaborative.org/whatwethink/...

Today, a group of legal scholars explain how universities are being weaponized against their own members through allegations of “support for” or “alignment with” terrorism.

Universities must prepare for this, and refuse to operate on the basis of fear rather than legal necessity or moral principle.

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another vitally important resource on defending out campuses from @aaup.bsky.social and @aftunion.bsky.social 👀

www.defendingourcampuses.org

"My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law."

Seven of my colleagues and friends at Columbia Law have written a compelling (and, in my view unanswerable) response to the unprecedented Title VI demand letter that the Trump administration recently sent to Columbia University:

balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

The library and the post office are the only two systems we have that circulate things widely and to everyone, no matter who they are or what they believe. The library is the only one that, for now, is not forced to pay for itself at point of sale. Attacks on IMLS are attacks on every one of us.

This is white supremacist, great replacement Nazi shit coming out of the mouth of the U.S. vice president.

What they're doing to Helyeh not only violates her freedoms of conscience and expression, it threatens EVERYONE who dares to speak out and agitate against militarism, fascism, and imperialism at a moment when this work has never been more pressing.

The Red Scare reshaped every institution in American life: Hollywood, labor unions, churches, universities, elementary schools—and, above all, the national-security state.

We need new leadership across the Board. In the Democratic party. In our universities. In our state & cities. Time to hand the baton to not only the next generation but to people who will know what to stand for and how to stand up for it. Who won't abandon us, collectively, at this critical moment.

If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire.

No one should *ever* be targeted for speaking out in solidarity with Palestine, including my brilliant colleague @helyehdoutaghi.bsky.social. These are terrifying times, and we must all stand together against repression.

lpeproject.org/blog/stateme...

Disentangling from the US is an urgent priority for the rest of the world. Your stuff—bank accounts, data, revenue streams—is here even if it doesn’t look like it’s here. And increasingly that’s like having your stuff stored in the personal residence of a mob boss.

a democratic senator and members of the board at the university aided and abetted mahmoud khalil's arrest