Happy for my friends in MI who did a great job with voting for progressives like Abdul El-Sayed, Donovan McKinney, and William Lawrence. It's amazing to see. Of course, all eyes will be on El-Sayed in November.
Austin McCoy
@austinmccoy.bsky.social
Historian, Author of Living in a DAISY Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made. Also writing book on history of the Left in Midwest. https://austincmccoy.com/ https://austincmccoy.substack.com/
First came framing loan caps as protecting students by pressuring universities to keep costs down, with the likely outcome of pushing low-income students out of school. Here’s another policy framed as “helping,” but again premised on exclusion-- protecting students from "low-return” jobs
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
This article is wild. I was wondering when their attack on rap music and hip hop culture would come. But this is just offensively comical
Nikki McCann Ramírez@nikkimcr.bsky.social · 5d agoRight wing conspiracy theorists are latching onto Ella Langley’s success — claiming country music’s chart resurgence can be attributed to Elon Musk’s USAID cuts “defunding” rap and hip-hop. It’s obvious bullshit www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Seeing MSNOW calling the Socialism conference a "DSA" conference is funny because it's clear that these folks (naturally) have no idea about how intellectually, ideologically, and political diverse that conference is
We’re starving millions of Americans so musk and bezos can get tax cuts and trump can collect bribes www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Coming Food-Stamp Crisis
A looming deadline may force some states to end SNAP next year.
theatlantic.com
If I were a centrist Democrat, which I am not, I would just go all in on reclaiming the social democratic vision of the New Deal. not saying there weren’t any problems w/FDR. But, at some point, someone needs to exercise some real skepticism that the “market” can solve most, if not all, problems.
If I were a centrist Democrat, which I am not, I would just go all in on reclaiming the social democratic vision of the New Deal. not saying there weren’t any problems w/FDR. But, at some point, someone needs to exercise some real skepticism that the “market” can solve most, if not all, problems.
I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community
While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.
newrepublic.com
Really good read about something many of us think about every time we walk into a drug store to find everything locked up. There's been times I have gone to a drugstore, seen everything locked up, and just walked out. open.substack.com/pub/dannykat...
We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
open.substack.com
The Right does (trigger) “warnings” now smh Every accusation… www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/a...
Trump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum
President Trump said the signage at the National Museum of American History would correct what a disputed White House report described as “extreme political activism.”
nytimes.com
Really good read about something many of us think about every time we walk into a drug store to find everything locked up. There's been times I have gone to a drugstore, seen everything locked up, and just walked out. open.substack.com/pub/dannykat...
We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
open.substack.com
Johanna and I have spent this summer watching a bunch of movies that we either hadn't seen in a while or we have not watched. We watched Wargames last night and I think I'm going to show parts of it to my modern US class www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQUs...
WARGAMES (1983) | Official Trailer | MGM
YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios
youtube.com
Johanna and I have spent this summer watching a bunch of movies that we either hadn't seen in a while or we have not watched. We watched Wargames last night and I think I'm going to show parts of it to my modern US class www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQUs...
WARGAMES (1983) | Official Trailer | MGM
YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios
youtube.com
My latest for Truthout about ICE killing Joan Sebastian Guerrero and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in their vehicles: ICE Keeps Killing Immigrants in Cars It Claims Were “Weaponized” Against Agents truthout.org/articles/ice...
ICE Keeps Killing Immigrants in Cars It Claims Were “Weaponized” Against Agents
Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a father of a young daughter in Biddeford, Maine, is the second man ICE has killed in six days.
truthout.org
Something that the white nationalists and supremacists don’t want us to believe— everyone, especially the most vulnerable, deserves to a have a future. And they want us to happily give up having a say. And if not, they’ll violently take that right from us. But, everyone deserves a future
Obviously, I'm not a huge fan of amazon, but they are selling Living in a DAISY Age at 40% off if you have not gotten a copy yet! I promise it would be a nice beach read 😀 www.amazon.com/Living-D-I-S...
Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made
Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made [McCoy, Austin] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made
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My latest for Truthout about ICE killing Joan Sebastian Guerrero and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in their vehicles: ICE Keeps Killing Immigrants in Cars It Claims Were “Weaponized” Against Agents truthout.org/articles/ice...
ICE Keeps Killing Immigrants in Cars It Claims Were “Weaponized” Against Agents
Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a father of a young daughter in Biddeford, Maine, is the second man ICE has killed in six days.
truthout.org
Obviously, I'm not a huge fan of amazon, but they are selling Living in a DAISY Age at 40% off if you have not gotten a copy yet! I promise it would be a nice beach read 😀 www.amazon.com/Living-D-I-S...
Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made
Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made [McCoy, Austin] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made
amazon.com
With Joan Sebastian Guerrero, ICE has shot and killed six people (out of 22, including Renee Good) in vehicles in the last year. They've adopted the driver "weaponized" their car as an extension of the "I feared for my life" justification police have used to rationalize killing Black & Brown folks.
With Joan Sebastian Guerrero, ICE has shot and killed six people (out of 22, including Renee Good) in vehicles in the last year. They've adopted the driver "weaponized" their car as an extension of the "I feared for my life" justification police have used to rationalize killing Black & Brown folks.
Thanks to Eric Alpier for the great review of Living in a DAISY Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made! www.thatericalper.com/2026/06/27/n...
New Book 'Living In A D.A.I.S.Y. Age' Charts How Hip-Hop Pioneers De La Soul Changed Everything - That Eric Alper
Three young men from Amityville, Long Island walked into 1988 and rewrote what hip-hop could sound like. Author Austin McCoy traces exactly how they did it in ‘Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, C...
thatericalper.com
Thanks to Eric Alpier for the great review of Living in a DAISY Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made! www.thatericalper.com/2026/06/27/n...
New Book 'Living In A D.A.I.S.Y. Age' Charts How Hip-Hop Pioneers De La Soul Changed Everything - That Eric Alper
Three young men from Amityville, Long Island walked into 1988 and rewrote what hip-hop could sound like. Author Austin McCoy traces exactly how they did it in ‘Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, C...
thatericalper.com
A question for my US historian friends: What relatively short books are you assigning in your modern US classes now? They can be primary sources like Baldwin's The Fire Next Time or fiction like O'Brien's The Things They Carried. Im just curious as I am looking to revise my course. Please share!
A question for my US historian friends: What relatively short books are you assigning in your modern US classes now? They can be primary sources like Baldwin's The Fire Next Time or fiction like O'Brien's The Things They Carried. Im just curious as I am looking to revise my course. Please share!
And, lastly, on the 4th of July weekend, 18-year-old Nolan Wells went on a boat off the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, with some of his friends, all of them white. All of his friends come back, but Wells does not. He's declared missing on July 4 and the authorities find his body on Horn Island on July 6
On July 5, two Tennessee National Guardmen shot and killed 20-year-old Tyrin Johnson while pursuing him in Memphis. Of course, they say that Johnson pulled a gun on them. www.cbsnews.com/news/nationa...
2 National Guard members on patrol in Memphis fatally shoot man during pursuit, police say
Two Tennessee National Guard members fatally shot a man in Memphis who turned toward them with a gun during a downtown pursuit, authorities said.
cbsnews.com
So let me get this straight: On July 4, the white nationalist and fascist patriot front marched in DC. in an attempt to intimidate folks. Notably, journalists captured images of a Black woman surrounded by a bunch of them while riding a subway.
So let me get this straight: On July 4, the white nationalist and fascist patriot front marched in DC. in an attempt to intimidate folks. Notably, journalists captured images of a Black woman surrounded by a bunch of them while riding a subway.