journalist Peter Canellos discusses “his new book Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement. a complete portrait not only of Alito as a person and a jurist, but of the reactionary conservative legal revolution which helped get him to the Supreme Court. who Alito really is, how his early life shaped his view of the world, and why so many people who knew him before his nomination now say that they don't recognize who he became after it.”

This person tells a few stories about similar protests going back to the 80s and contrasts the response to solidarity with Palestinians. (Podcast episode with commercials)

Radio show—25 minutes and 25 seconds.

While the payoff for organizing happens only over a longer timeframe, the work starts now; there are no shortcuts. We can begin by organizing in the spaces where weapons are designed, marketed, created, transferred, and sold. A grassroots campaign spent months pushing a drone company with ties to both the Israeli and U.S. security state out of Brooklyn. They just won. These are successes we can replicate.

"About 150 protesters block Third Avenue in Manhattan in front of the offices of Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand on April 13, 2026."

The Future in Our Past tells the story of the 1926 General Strike on its centenary. It is a compelling on-the-ground account of how workers brought the country to a standstill for nine extraordinary days. Callum Cant and Matthew Lee take us on a journey through a Britain living on its nerves, from the London docklands to the South Wales coalfields and the railways and warehouses of middle England. Churchill feared that labour militancy presaged a Bolshevik-style revolution. The question of power hung in the air as rank-and-file militants pursued a chaotic, improvised and wildly uneven confrontation with the British ruling class.

People living in Los Angeles sewers

What has the far right learned from the Frankfurt School? And what can we learn from Frankfurt School thinkers like Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse to understand the appeal of the right? Paul Fleming sheds light on the fixation of conservatives like Christopher Rufo — who has set about remaking higher education — with cultural Marxism. He also discusses Adorno’s insights into the attraction of authoritarian leaders.

Theodore Adorno, “Anti-Semitism and Fascist Propaganda” https://student.cc.uoc.gr/uploadFiles/181-%CE%A1%CE%91%CE%A4%CE%9A387/Adorno-anti-semitism_and_fascist_propaganda_in_the_stars_down.pdf

New German Critique https://ngc.arts.cornell.edu/

Best summary of the Prairieland Trial for a noise demo at an immigration detention center

There’s only about 1,200 actual ground troops, which is a relatively small number if you’re talking about invading a country, even if it’s just seizing a small island.

It was less than two weeks ago that Trump policy was try to foment a Kurdish uprising and fracture Iran, right? They abandoned that in like 48 hours. Now we’re seeing him basically try and do policy by tweet and seeing if Europeans are willing to bail him out. Amy, as you mentioned, they’re absolutely not.

And I think it’s important to note that it’s — Donald Trump was probably surprised by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, by the attacks on all the Gulf states, by the skyrocketing oil prices. And we’re also going to see foodstuffs go up, because 30% of the world’s fertilizer goes through the Strait of Hormuz, as well. But the people who drove him into this war are not dumb and very much expected this. I don’t think this is a surprise to Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio or Benjamin Netanyahu — who is very much getting what he wanted, which is dragging the U.S. into what he hopes will be a decisive war of annihilation against Iran.

Trump specifically called out the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal for reporting over the weekend that “five US Air Force refueling planes were struck and damaged on the ground at Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia.” Citing two unnamed US officials, the Journal noted that “the tankers were hit during an Iranian missile strike on the Saudi base,” and that the planes were “damaged but not fully destroyed and are being repaired.”

The US president called the story “false reporting” without substantively refuting its content. Trump wrote that four of the refueling planes are “in service” and one “will soon be flying the skies” — none of which is inconsistent with the Journal’s reporting.

Aboard Air Force One on Sunday, Trump attacked a reporter as “a very obnoxious person” after she asked the president why he’s sending 5,000 US Marines and sailors to the Middle East.

US Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) warned in a letter to Carr on Sunday that the Trump administration is engaged in a “blatant attempt to muzzle the free press” if outlets don’t align their coverage of the Iran war “with Trump’s preferred narrative.”

“Your Saturday post follows that same logic but extends it to the coverage of an active military conflict, where the chilling effect on journalists and the damage to the public’s right to know are most severe,” Markey wrote to Carr.