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Christy Thornton
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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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bradlander.bsky.social
The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza.

The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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nyufsjp.bsky.social
B’Tselem presents: Our Genocide

Thursday, November 20, 2025
4:30-6pm
Silver Center, Room 300
31 Washington Place

B'Tselem will come to NYU to engage in a critical conversation about its new report & its implications.
November 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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enbuenora.bsky.social
Candidate for the center-left coalition in Chile wins 1st Presidential round in election, but with a narrow lead and in the runoff many predict the 2nd round voting would tend to favor the far right candidate running, of course, on 'crime' and 'Tren de Aragua'.

www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025...
Jeannette Jara, de centroizquierda, triunfa en la primera vuelta presidencial en Chile
El pinochetista José Antonio Kast obtiene el segundo lugar. El 14 de diciembre será la definición.
www.jornada.com.mx
November 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
llchristyll.bsky.social
Putting out the word to any NYU PhD students who might follow me on here - I'm co-teaching Social Theory and History: Histories of Capitalism with Manu Goswami next semester. Happy to send the syllabus that Manu developed if you're interested!
November 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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sururbano.bsky.social
Season 7 launches 🔥 by reflecting on "What Zohran Can Learn from Latin America's Pink Tide" - with some insightful analyses on the challenges for the Zohran administration , and what leftist-governed cities in Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil +Ecuador have to teach us open.spotify.com/episode/75Oo...
What Zohran can learn from Latin America's Pink Tide
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November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
llchristyll.bsky.social
Last call for registrations! Join us tomorrow at NYU to talk about the independent press in Mexico.
llchristyll.bsky.social Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 22d
New York! Come see Dr. Andrew Paxman in conversation Columbia Journalism's Judith Matloff about his new book Mexican Watchdogs: The Rise of a Critical Press since the 1980s - Tues 11/11 at 5:30pm at NYU. Open to the public, registration required: forms.gle/oq1qoS8RrDZQ...
Mexican Watchdogs: The Rise of a Critical Press since the 1980s (UNC Press, 2025) with the author Andrew Paxman, CIDE, Mexico City and Judith Matloff, Columbia Journalism School moderated by Christy Thornton, NYU November 11 2025, 5:30 – 7pm 53 Washington Sq South, Room 701 RSVP required: https://bit.ly/PaxmanNYU
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
a really key point here. Cuomo's attempt at gutter Islamophobic race baiting failed because Dem voter opinion on Israel-Palestine has shifted more than 70 points since 2023, and he somehow didn't notice prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...
That in turn indicates the astounding incompetence of Cuomo’s billionaire backers. For one thing, again, Cuomo was a terrible candidate—the fact that he managed to lose to a nobody state assemblyman from a 32-point head start is proof enough of that. For another, the campaign was shockingly tin-eared. He and his allies attempted to make the entire contest about Israel, constantly grilling Mamdani about why he doesn’t respect Israel enough, why he wouldn’t visit there, and all but calling him a terrorist. On the merits, this was an absurd argument. There is no reason why the mayor of New York City should be particularly concerned with Israel or any other foreign country. And while 20 or even 10 years ago such a cynical, racist smear campaign might have worked, two years of genocide has obliterated Israel’s reputation among Democrats—a recent CNN poll found that the fraction who sympathize more with Palestinians or Israelis has shifted to the former by more than 70 percentage points since October 7th. Cuomo’s ultra-Zionism doesn’t seem to be that popular among New Yorkers—indeed, one recent poll had Mamdani only slightly behind among New York Jews. It’s as if John McCain ran in 2008 loudly complaining that Barack Obama was going to make health care more affordable.
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
llchristyll.bsky.social
GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
llchristyll.bsky.social
The way my neighborhood erupted in audible cheers when it was announced 😭😭😭
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
llchristyll.bsky.social
Thursday at NYU Law! No one better to hear from about our current moment than Aziz Rana. Open to the public, but registration required - RSVP here as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
November 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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dkmarxsoc.bsky.social
It’s Denmark, there are Marxists, we’ll take it 💕
llchristyll.bsky.social Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 26d
Ok, it's not exactly Danish Marxism, but there are some Danish (post)Maoists and Fourth Internationalists in here! My new article on the overlooked Copenhagen riots at the 1970 World Bank/IMF annual meeting is out, open-access, in Journal of Global History.
Abstract of an article titled "Riots could be expected: Toward a global history of protest and reaction at the World Bank" by Christy Thornton in the Journal of Global History, that reads: Examining an all-but-forgotten episode of large-scale protest at the 1970 annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Copenhagen, Denmark, this article asks how officials at the World Bank understood and reacted to such protest. How did they characterise the protestors’ demands in the moment? Why and how did they feel the need to respond, and what strategies did they use to do so? And what does that response tell us about how officials at the World Bank understood about the relationship between development and social upheaval? Using heretofore unexamined institutional records, this article argues that already in 1970, World Bank officials were deeply concerned with public opinion about their institutions in both the developed and developing worlds—and therefore found themselves having to reckon with the riots that threatened to derail not just their meetings, but their mission.
November 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
llchristyll.bsky.social
New York! Come see Dr. Andrew Paxman in conversation Columbia Journalism's Judith Matloff about his new book Mexican Watchdogs: The Rise of a Critical Press since the 1980s - Tues 11/11 at 5:30pm at NYU. Open to the public, registration required: forms.gle/oq1qoS8RrDZQ...
Mexican Watchdogs: The Rise of a Critical Press since the 1980s (UNC Press, 2025) with the author Andrew Paxman, CIDE, Mexico City and Judith Matloff, Columbia Journalism School moderated by Christy Thornton, NYU November 11 2025, 5:30 – 7pm 53 Washington Sq South, Room 701 RSVP required: https://bit.ly/PaxmanNYU
November 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
llchristyll.bsky.social
Ok, it's not exactly Danish Marxism, but there are some Danish (post)Maoists and Fourth Internationalists in here! My new article on the overlooked Copenhagen riots at the 1970 World Bank/IMF annual meeting is out, open-access, in Journal of Global History.
Abstract of an article titled "Riots could be expected: Toward a global history of protest and reaction at the World Bank" by Christy Thornton in the Journal of Global History, that reads: Examining an all-but-forgotten episode of large-scale protest at the 1970 annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Copenhagen, Denmark, this article asks how officials at the World Bank understood and reacted to such protest. How did they characterise the protestors’ demands in the moment? Why and how did they feel the need to respond, and what strategies did they use to do so? And what does that response tell us about how officials at the World Bank understood about the relationship between development and social upheaval? Using heretofore unexamined institutional records, this article argues that already in 1970, World Bank officials were deeply concerned with public opinion about their institutions in both the developed and developing worlds—and therefore found themselves having to reckon with the riots that threatened to derail not just their meetings, but their mission.
October 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Reposted by Christy Thornton
corinneblalock.bsky.social
Last week @lpenyc.bsky.social did an event on the political economy of NYC, "How NYC Became So Unequal" with @llchristyll.bsky.social, @masonbwilliams.bsky.social, & Gregory Louis & it was everything you hope an event will be--informative, entertaining, energizing!

WATCH IT!!

youtu.be/B8beobsDZfU
LPE Night School: How NYC Became So Unequal with Gregory Louis, Mason Williams, and Christy Thornton
YouTube video by LPE Project
youtu.be
October 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
llchristyll.bsky.social
Historians of Haiti: does anyone have digitized copies of La trouée: revue d'intérêt général? Asking for a student! Thank you! cc: @soccerpolitics.bsky.social @juliagaffield.bsky.social etc
October 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
llchristyll.bsky.social
Excited for this event on Policing and Counterinsurgency ft @chenjerai.bsky.social, @stschrader1.bsky.social, & @cheatherton.bsky.social next Thursday at NYU! Info & RSVP here: as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
GALLATIN HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE SPEAKER SERIES ON LAW, AUTHORITARIANISM AND DISSENT: POLICING AND COUNTERINSURGENCY Chenjerai Kumanyika (New York University), Stuart Schrader (John Hopkins Univerisity), Christina Heatherton (Trinity College) THURSDAY, OCT 30 2025 IN-PERSON EVENT 5:00pm - 7:00pm Ettinghausen Library, Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street New York, NY 10012
October 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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mguariglia.bsky.social
In 1975, after decades of illegally surveilling & sabotaging left-wing movements in the US (and assassinating people abroad) the Senate painstaking wrote out the government's playbook for destroying movements.

In January, the first commercial and streamlined version of this report hits bookstores.
The Church Committee Report
After fifty years, this shocking report—released in a single, readable volume for the first time—is still the most accurate account of US government spying on its own citizens., The Church...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Nominee to be the Office of Special Counsel, ie., the guy federal employees must appeal to if they think they have been treated unfairly
politico.com Politico @politico.com · Oct 20
EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.
Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts
Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.
www.politico.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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thecity.nyc
It’s the first known case of a federal raid near a migrant shelter since Trump took office.
thecity.nyc THE CITY @thecity.nyc · Oct 17
NEW: A dozen federal agents in tactical gear arrested several people outside the Row Hotel, a shelter for migrant families, in Midtown Thursday afternoon, sending shockwaves among residents living above.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/17/r...
Federal Raid Outside Row Hotel Migrant Shelter Rattles Residents
In what appears to be a first under the current Trump administration, federal agents targeted migrants just outside a shelter.
www.thecity.nyc
October 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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karl-jacoby.bsky.social
History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."
October 14, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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narosenblum.bsky.social
Excited about the first @lpenyc.bsky.social Night School event of the new academic year, now at @cuny.edu Law — with @masonbwilliams.bsky.social and Gregory Louis in conversation with @llchristyll.bsky.social!!

RSVP below!
How NYC Became So Unequal
Ever wonder why CUNY is no longer free? Confused why the subway fare keeps rising while service declines? Join LPE NYC on October 23 at 6:30pm for a conversation between Professors Gregory Louis and…
lpeproject.org
October 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
llchristyll.bsky.social
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redemmas.org Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · Oct 8
Because certainly there's no reason why this history might be terrifyingly relevant right now, here's a link to preorder @stschrader1.bsky.social's "Blue Power" on how police in the US organized to exempt themselves from democratic oversight and control: redemmas.org/titles/48838...
Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves
Buy from Red Emma's, a worker-owned radical bookstore
redemmas.org
October 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
llchristyll.bsky.social
My god
mark-bray.bsky.social Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · Oct 8
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
October 9, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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lpenyc.bsky.social
Then on October 23rd at CUNY Law, the first session of LPE NYC Night School will look at the question of how things got so unaffordable and unequal in the first place with Gregory Louis and Mason Williams, moderated by @llchristyll.bsky.social

lpeproject.org/events/nyc-s...
How NYC Became So Unequal
Ever wonder why CUNY is no longer free? Confused why the subway fare keeps rising while service declines? Join LPE NYC on October 23 at 6:30pm for a conversation between Professors Gregory Louis and…
lpeproject.org
October 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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sabinepitteloud.bsky.social
Publication alert!
The Rise and Fall of Private Advocacy Forums
co-authored with Grace Ballor

Part of a special issue "Global governance and the emergence of a post-neoliberal order" edited by @llchristyll.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social Quinn Slobodian

academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
The rise and fall of private advocacy forums from 1945 to the twenty-first century
Abstract. How did “globalist” elites organize themselves politically to defend their agenda, that is, the imposition of global free trade and investment fl
academic.oup.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM