Christy Thornton
@llchristyll.bsky.social
3.8K followers 580 following 93 posts
Researching development and its discontents. Pell grant prof. Co-director @hpe-project.bsky.social. Naclista pa’ siempre. #NoMoreDrugWar
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
llchristyll.bsky.social
redemmas.org
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
llchristyll.bsky.social
My god
mark-bray.bsky.social
“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.’
Reposted by Christy Thornton
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
llchristyll.bsky.social
“An interminable crisis of hiccups and vomiting” couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy
llchristyll.bsky.social
We wanted to go but it was full by the time we clicked the link, sorry to miss it!
llchristyll.bsky.social
Join us for the NYU History Marilyn Young Memorial Lecture by Moon-Ho Jung, with comment by @stschrader1.bsky.social. Tues Sept 9, 3pm in NYC. RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Flyer for MARILYN B. YOUNG
MEMORIAL LECTURE &
WELCOME RECEPTION
National Security for Imperial
Insecurity: Race and
Counterinsurgency Across
the Pacific
SEPTEMBER 9,
2025
3:00PM LECTURE
4:30PM RECEPTION
KJCC, FIRST FLOOR
53 WASHINGTON
SQUARE SOUTH
KINDLY RSVP BY
SEPTEMBER 3:
Dr. Moon-Ho Jung
Speaker
Dr. Stuart Schrader
Discussan
llchristyll.bsky.social
“‘The others seem to be weak. We want someone who’s got kryptonite,’ said Bernard, who runs a computer consulting company. ‘You need an almost-felon to beat a felon,’ he added.”
Reposted by Christy Thornton
stschrader1.bsky.social
Here is the blueprint for how to get rid of the Dept of Homeland Security and actually save lives instead of committing mass murder like these psychopaths have done.
Reposted by Christy Thornton
gwynnefitz.bsky.social
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
Reposted by Christy Thornton
Reposted by Christy Thornton
timhirschelburns.bsky.social
@llchristyll.bsky.social asks what to make of the fact that the nationalist right has taken up some of the asks of the anti-globalization movement.

Bello says “we provided the critique, we provided the foot soldiers, and the right ate our lunch”
Reposted by Christy Thornton
truthout.org
Project Esther isn’t just about Palestine. Crafted by the Heritage Foundation — the same far right organization behind Project 2025 — the playbook makes clear that their war on the Gaza solidarity movement is just a Trojan horse for a far more ambitious project: destroying the American left.
Project Esther Is a McCarthy-Era Blueprint for Crushing the American Left
While the Heritage Foundation document focuses on the Palestine solidarity movement, its ultimate target is far broader.
buff.ly
Reposted by Christy Thornton
aaup.org
AAUP @aaup.org · May 23
“This will destroy the university as we know it. Harvard is situated in the US physically, but its students & faculty hail from around the world; that is fundamental to the work & mission of the institution. You can't take that away & have an institution left."
— Kirsten Weld, President Harvard AAUP
Shock at Harvard After Government Says International Students Must Go
www.nytimes.com
Reposted by Christy Thornton
naomiaklein.bsky.social
One of the highlights of this year was co-hosting a keynote lecture by the magnificent Sherene Seikaly, titled "Palestine as Paradigm."

I am so honoured to be able to share it with you all. Take some time with it. Her message has never been more urgent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq0A...
Palestine as Paradigm: A Keynote Lecture by Sherene Seikaly | Long Arc of Fascism Conference
YouTube video by CCMS SFU
www.youtube.com
llchristyll.bsky.social
Very happy to share my small contribution to this excellent @radhistreview.bsky.social issue on "economic miracles" - about the work brilliant historians are doing to uncover the links between the so-called "milagro mexicano" and the state violence of the period. read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...
State Violence and the Bitter Ends of the Milagro Mexicano
read.dukeupress.edu
Reposted by Christy Thornton
thecity.nyc
What fans don’t know about the Sherita, the dinosaur billboard that used to be featured on Atlantic Ave., is that she never was about quirky, old, working-class Brooklyn.

Instead, she marks a nasty pattern of northern Brooklyn real estate manipulation.
The Terrible Truth About Sherita, Brooklyn’s Beloved Billboard Dinosaur
The vanished icon of Atlantic Ave. was the relic of a secretive family who grabbed buildings from immigrant owners across the booming borough.
buff.ly
llchristyll.bsky.social
Very excited to talk to these three about global justice activism and IFI reform in this webinar next week - register to join us!
hpe-project.bsky.social
You won't want to miss this! Next Friday 5/30 we are hosting a conversation on the history of activism and advocacy directed at global governance institutions, with @pauladlerstein.bsky.social, Walden Bello, Bhumika Muchhala, and @llchristyll.bsky.social. Register here: tinyurl.com/HPEAAWL
Reposted by Christy Thornton
rosiecollington.bsky.social
Wall Street won’t rewild the planet. Or decarbonize mining. Or defossilize agriculture.

For @phenomenalworld.bsky.social I unpack why chasing investability harms climate goals in sectors beyond energy & transport - & what states can do with derisking failures www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/unb...
Unbankable Transitions | Rosie Collington
How the politics of investability determine climate financing
www.phenomenalworld.org
Reposted by Christy Thornton
olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
"Before the first Trump administration, refugee resettlement took an average of 18 to 24 months...The Afrikaners, however, had to wait no more than three months."

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/w...
Trump Officials Seek to Bring First White Afrikaner Refugees to U.S. Next Week
www.nytimes.com
Reposted by Christy Thornton
drmargottudor.bsky.social
Don't forget to submit your paper for our 2nd event on 'Rethinking Internationalism' - we're looking for papers/panel proposals focused on methods and new ways of writing history. Perfect if you've been trying to figure out how to push beyond (or find new ways of approaching) the 'official' archive!