It’s book launch day for Pink Crime and here’s the first sighting out in the world - Books Are Magic in Brooklyn! If you see the book somewhere, please post or let me know! 🥳 @thenewpress.bsky.social
Sameer Ashar
@sameer-ashar.bsky.social
Clinical Professor of Law, UC Irvine | Workers, Law & Organizing Clinic | law & social movements, legal education, abolitionist futures | losing my edge
Dr. Johanna Fernández was writing a book on the historical roots of U.S. fascism. An article related to the book is here: manifold.umn.edu/read/ces0701... BTW, George Jackson, in an interview about writing in prison, noted he was working on a detailed study of fascism sweeping the Western world.
On the Historical Roots of U.S. Fascism | On the Historical Roots of U.S. Fascism | Manifold@UMinnPress
The University of Minnesota Press is known for its boundary breaking editorial program in the humanities and social sciences.
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“It is as if school shooters are running the state.“
@journalspectre.bsky.social · 2w agoFrom "Spectacles of Fascism in an Age of Exhaustion," Benjamin Balthaser's review of Seymour's Disaster Nationalism: the left’s answer to the crisis of capitalism cannot be mere economism; it will need to offer a vision of real freedom and desire... spectrejournal.com/spectacles-o...
New piece by Jared Loggins and me in the Boston Univ. Law Review. Wide-ranging conversation on the uncertain role of the university in end times fascism, campus worker complicity in genocide and scholasticide, and missed opportunities of the Black University movement. www.bu.edu/bulawreview/...
Propounding a cause isn’t about winning an election. It’s about expanding the scope of social imagination, which expands the scope of practical possibilities, which changes many other things, including but not limited to what positions and candidates (and even slogans!) can and cannot win elections.
"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTom Homan: "It all go backs to the Dems ... there's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted."
Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
nytimes.com
On this, Emmit Tills birthday, I want to share one of my favorite speculative Poems “I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store” by Eve L. Ewing share.google/mWtwTI9NvriN...
“I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store” by Eve L. Ewing
Terrance Hayes explores how Emmett Till has become a haunting, powerful figure in Black poetry.
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For reading group, we are currently voting for which book that we already have done will be done again. Here are the options (you can only vote it you were already on the email list.)
I remain surprised how few people credit Occupy Wall Street's ongoing impact(s) on U.S. politics. There's no Mamdani without Occupy etc... [some people are also irrationally anti-Occupy but that's for another day]
What an indignity to have your farm or house seized via eminent domain, to see it razed and replaced by a weed-choked empty field, a lonely foundation slab, or an abandoned empty building that could only ever be repurposed for laser-tag or an ICE concentration-camp: gizmodo.com/trump-on-dat... 6/
Trump on Data Centers: 'You Can't Fight It. You Have to Go With It'
Usually it's not great when a person in power tells others to just give up and do what they want.
gizmodo.com
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
notus.org
For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, I wrote about the Jewish Museum's Paul Klee exhibit, the angel of history getting held up in Jerusalem, and the vexed relationship between critique and aesthetic veneration in our present moment of danger. jewishcurrents.org/the-absent-a...
The Absent Angel
A reflection on the Jewish Museum’s Paul Klee exhibit
jewishcurrents.org
Today, @matthewtbodie.bsky.social welcomes the appearance of a kinder, gentler, more ecumenical version of law and economics. Yet in corporate law scholarship, where shareholder primacy still reigns supreme, he finds scant evidence of any such shift.
Twilight of the Gods
Contemporary proponents of law and economics claim to have abandoned the idea that law is an instrument for maximizing economic efficiency and wealth. Corporate law scholars haven't yet heard the good...
lpeproject.org
New interview I did with Amna Akbar in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social was just published. It's a bit of a synthesis on the how we got here and the current conditions on immigration. Always great to be in convo w/Amna & wonderful to work w/Aparna Gopalan at JC on this. jewishcurrents.org/unbuild-the-...
Unbuild the Cages
Silky Shah maps the vulnerabilities of the deportation machine.
jewishcurrents.org
newwwwwww ting out <3
n+1@nplusonemag.com · 2w ago"I left feeling a pooling, connective happiness. I went home and realized that I hadn’t looked at my phone for six hours." Sarah Thankam Mathews hangs out with the Luddites, NYC's tech-critical cultural youth front: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.
I wrote about what looks very much like a formal US plan to institutionalize a global network of concentration camps.
Little Gitmos everywhere
The White House explores entrenching U.S. concentration camps worldwide.
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“‘Making a Career in Dictatorship,’ a new book by two German political scientists, Adam Scharpf and Christian Glassel, reads like what you might get if you crossed Hannah Arendt’s ideas about the ‘banality of evil’ with a business school guide on how to get the most out of low performers.”
The Upshot@upshot.nytimes.com · 3w agoHow Regimes Rely on ‘Loyal Losers’ New research sheds light on how low academic performers with poor career options tend to be assigned the most brutal tasks, including torture and murder. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...
Honestly, enough. Congress can investigate each and every one of these murders by ICE themselves. This is a gang and occasionally, a corner boy kills people. No presumption of regularity anymore.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3w agoIn other words, it will get covered up again and Susan Collins won’t say or do a damn thing.
More than two years after her arrest while attempting to protect students against police violence at the break-up of UC Irvine’s Gaza Solidarity encampment, the UC Irvine administration continues to subject Tiffany to unfair and costly disciplinary procedures. sites.google.com/view/withdra...
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On May 15, 2024, several hundred heavily armed police were called in to break up a peaceful encampment at UC Irvine in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Among those arrested that day was UC Irvine G...
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Folks: let's talk about flexibility for workers and responsibilty for platform companies. They are compatible. See my article in @prospect.org prospect.org/2026/07/09/d...
The Dangerous Myth of Flexibility - The American Prospect
Uber and Lyft insist it benefits their drivers. In actuality, it benefits Uber and Lyft.
prospect.org
“Uber runs a kind of cod-Marxist operation where workers are paid according to their desperation, and passengers are gouged according to their ability to pay”
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4w agoToday's threads (a thread) Inside: Workplace "flexibility" isn't; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/07/11/y... #Pluralistic 1/
There is absolutely no reason to believe that any of this is true. "The Department claims without evidence" should be the first part of every sentence in this paragraph.
Problem of brain drain into useless activities has long history of dragging down whole economies. Thirty years ago Murphy, Shleifer, and Vishny showed economies whose ablest people go into rent-seeking grow more slowly than those whose talent goes into substantive work. /11 www.nber.org/papers/w3530
The Allocation of Talent: Implications for Growth
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
nber.org
I've got a piece out in @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social sketching out a progressive vision for municipal financial empowerment. It builds on Lauren Willis's foundational critiques of financial literacy as well @debtcollective.bsky.social's experiments nycpolicyforum.substack.com/p/beyond-fin...
Beyond Financial Literacy
Turning a Bloomberg-era program into a tool for collective power
nycpolicyforum.substack.com
Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it’s then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honesty.
You are looking at a 2016 photo of activists who shut down the street in front of ICE's Chicago HQ. Over the next 5 years, their movement would eliminate a gang database that shared info w/ICE and get rid of carveouts from Chicago’s sanctuary ordinance. They helped prepare the city for Midway Blitz.
