Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages. --W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"

My husband, Lukas Hermsmeier, reporting from Chicago with the conclusive end to this Chicago v NYC debate.

“The AfD has stunned Germany – but this was no surprise victory” – my latest op-ed for The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

...Another round of talk & shock about the so-called 'shift to the right' (with no end in sight) instead of interrogating the inherent connection between (neo-) liberalism and fascism, & struggling against it. And, many of y'all have fed into this with your pro-genocide politics.

HOMELAND is out today. Buy it, read it, tell your friends. I'm thrilled to finally have it out in the world. shop.nplusonemag.com/products/homel…

I have a piece in the new Political Theory on Selma James -- her account of wagelessness, her critique of capitalism’s organization of the displacement of work and workers, and her class-struggle identity politics in Wages for Housework and elsewhere doi.org/10.1177/009059…

So delighted to talk about Joel Whitney’s wonderful new book tomorrow… hope to see some of you there :)

Unser neuer Podcast zur US-Wahl startet am 9. September! Darin sprechen US-Expert*innen & Aktivist*innen jede Woche mit Lukas Hermsmeier über die Lage vor den Wahlen. What’s Left? ist eine Co-Produktion mit der WOZ. Hier geht's zum Trailer: akweb.de/podcast-whats-…

Fuck this.

As an author, why should I prefer someone buy a used copy of my old book off Amazon for $4.97 vs. reading it for free on the Internet Archive?

On Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez talk w/ Katherine Franke, Kathleen Peratis & Natasha Lennard The Intercept about the fascist attacks of @columbia & Columbia UniversityLaw and of genocide advocates, McCarthyite bigots Zohar Goshen & Joshua Mitts. democracynow.org

As the fall semester begins, we take a look at the state of academic dissent on U.S. college campuses. Over the summer, universities have begun to align "with the right-wing agenda of Congress," explains Natasha Lennard, who has written extensively about "the new McCarthyism."

At NYU, Natasha Lennard says a new code of student conduct "goes further than any document that i’ve seen" in tying Zionism to Jewish identity and creating avenues to punish anti-Zionist expression as discriminatory.

Natasha Lennard At Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Professor Steven Thrasher (🍉 Dr. Thrasher still cares about Covid & Gaza🔻) has been suspended pending investigation into his involvement in campus Gaza protests. "What we are doing is something that is righteous,” he says of faculty and student protesters.

More than 940,000 people have died in America’s collection of post-9/11 conflicts due to direct violence, almost 4 million have died indirectly from causes like food insecurity and battered infrastructure, according to Brown University’s The Costs of War Project

Read Natasha Lennard's column here: interc.pt/4dBivEw

BREAKING: My fall LGBTQ reporting & virus classes were cancelled & I’m not allowed to teach at Medill while I’m “investigated.” Whatever happens, I’ll be fine— like Medill, I “write boldly & tell the truth fearlessly”— but I’ll neither stay nor go quietly.x.com/democracynow/s…

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WOZ Sechster Teil: woz.ch/2436/erlesene-… Verschwörungstheorien wachsen überall, aber in den USA gehören sie auf besondere Weise zum System. Darum geht's in Richard Hofstadters Essay »The Paranoid Style in American Politics« (1964) – bis heut aktuell, siehe zB Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

🇮🇱 media: We did it 🇺🇸media: Who knows