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WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

Now at backgroundbriefing.org | Robert Kuttner - How Trump Will Take Advantage of the Government Shutdown | @stschrader1.bsky.social - Trump Tells Our Admirals and Generals That the Enemy is Within | @michaelemann.bsky.social - Ignorance is the Key Ingredient in MAGAworld

Incarceration has deadly consequences for everyone – even those who are not behind bars:

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

The second portion of this great convo is now available!

PART 2 of my interview w/ Alberto Toscano & @stschrader1.bsky.social on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, military repression, what it reveals about MAGA’s fascist/authoritarian project—and about illiberalism already immanent in US carceral/imperialist state www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stat...

New ep: Trump’s intense police, ICE, military repression w/ Alberto Toscano and @stschrader1.bsky.social. What does this reveal about MAGA’s fascist authoritarian project—and about the illiberalism immanent in carceral and imperialist state? FIRST in 2-part series www.thedigradio.com/podcast/fasc...

This was such a great convo with @danieldenvir.bsky.social & @alfatau.bsky.social! Please check it out!

Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

Bonus - The Global Turn of American Policing w/ @stschrader1.bsky.social

Stuart Schrader joins us to talk cops, ICE, and 50+ years of the security state.

Link below!

The chance of seeing the National Guard on the streets of yet another U.S. city made me think of @stschrader1.bsky.social and his excellent book Badges without Borders.

For this week’s edition of The Tall Rob Report, here’s a slightly revised version of my review of it from a few years ago (2/2)

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...

Trials are rare these days, so we should pay attention when a judge holds one.

Yet what Judge Charles Breyer held last week was something else—a big chunk of it was a judge wrestling with the reality of a president with no power to set up a permanent, national police force.

Me in @newyorker.com.

Trump's 2 innovations in State Capitalism should get far more attention(imagine if left wing US govt did it!)
1 MP Materials: govt takes equity share & guarantees minimum prices & demand for a private company
fas.org/publication/...
2 NVIDIA: govt takes cut of revenue
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

policing as content creation, content creation as policing

For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students.

1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

Karen Miller on the fight among historians over Gaza, with the establishment taking a very bad position.

jacobin.com/2025/08/gaza...

"The Trump administration plans to use its deal with Columbia as a template for other universities, with financial penalties that are now seen as an expectation."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This was a great convo about one of the absolute best films ever made.

Predictable, but no less shocking or reprehensible: Trump just signed an executive order urging states to forcibly institutionalize homeless people, defund Housing First, criminalize encampments, and cut aid to cities that don't comply.

Unreal. Academic freedom is dead.

So the next President will be able to dismantle Homeland Security without Congressional approval?

‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’

Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action.

Online early from our next issue.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...