Kidnapped off the street and likely deported for writing an op-ed

Yet not on the front page of NYT, Politico, Bloomberg today

It’s clear that ICE currently feel that normal procedures—showing a badge, IDing yourself, obtaining a warrant—do not apply to them. And it would certainly seem they’re right

I wrote about Alfredo Juarez Zeferino, a prominent Washington state organizer abducted by ICE last week He won an historic union drive and helped get heat protections & overtime pay for farm workers in WA ICE pulled him over, broke his car window & put him in a detention center

Not economic nationalism, not neoliberal free trade, but a secret third thing

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it’ll be hard for y’all plebs to understand the season finale of white lotus if you haven’t read [frantically googling oedipus complex] uhhhhhhhhh three essays on sexuality the interpretation of dreams totem and taboo Moses and monotheism beyond the pleasure principle, civilizati

Everyday I talk to people outside work who are experiencing total political despair— rightfully so. But at Climate & Community Institute, we’re lucky to support the real movements across the US that want to fight for more. Read this piece on tenant organizing, feel better, talk to your neighbors!

You have a responsibility to stay, get organized, and fight for your class

I'm stoked to announce I'm going to be teaching online film courses over at CINEJOURNEYS. I'm starting with Film Theory and Genre Theory, and you can take them! They are $65 for 5 meetings. More info in links below.

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my new novel easily thinks an “outside” to Capital, not sure why this has been so hard thus far

That’s a nice “lol” you got at the end of your text there. Weren’t allowed to express yourself as a child much?

as a person of never having read ocean vuong experience

Hey! Have you signed up for my online film theory class yet? Five June Monday nights on Zoom (7PM EST) for only $65. We'll learn about film theory as a tool that charted the development of C20 capitalist modernity. Not super academic, but with rigor. Link in replies

We're in an energy crisis, and millions of people can't afford the utilities they need to survive storms, heatwaves, and freezes. Read CCI fellow isaac sevier and Energy+Industrial Systems Policy Manager Winston Yau on how public power can deliver lower costs and clean energy

"In a moment when resistance is contested, try as they might to shut us down and shut us out, Joshua Clover reminds us, 'Thoroughfare, public square, pipeline, railway, dockside, airport, border, these will be our places.' See you there." -The Editors parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the-b…

Elon Musk broke notifications so that I wouldn’t see how many people are telling me that they admire, respect, and love me, I assume.