Andy Carr

given how infrequently I’ve published in recent years, let me be a bit selfish and indulgent as I share “Free Speech and Anti-Democratic Violence” – plus a thread elaborating its arc and aims. (both the article and the thread are LONG – sorry!!!) scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/crsj/vol31/i...

I was once at a university-wide diversity training where, to an auditorium full of people, the facilitator said "can anyone shout out an example of a stereotype?" The entire audience was silent until one man shouted out "All women believe in ghosts." I think about that a lot.

Jair Bolsonaro has been admitted to hospital again

AHEM

Sup nerds, I've been working my ass off over the last couple weeks to get this finished, and now that it is, I'm excited to show you what I've been up to: Words About Work is now The Common Route. Same great movement reporting as I've been doing, but a much more expanded scope. I hope you dig it

a dog for all seasons but especially fall

If you’re at ASA this weekend swing by the @haymarketbooks.org table, they’re selling The Anti-Defamation League: A Critical Reader, edited by @mishmoshk.bsky.social and Heike Schotten and featuring a chapter by me!

This will be one of our main feed episodes, available for free wherever you get your podcasts. You can use this link to find the show on your app of choice. Subscribe now so you don’t miss Monday’s drop: pod.link/1348573415

#ELB: Call for Papers on Louisiana v. Callais. https://electionlawblog.org/2026/call-for-papers-on-louisiana-v-callais/

I spent an afternoon with Loyd Powell and Robert Conn, who run the Heart of Leather Foundation in Houston. Their dream is to open a museum of LGBTQ history. Until then, they have over 35,000 artifacts sitting in storage, and they let me see them: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Please join us on Monday for a conversation about making the Federal Reserve more accountable and crafting monetary policy that serves the public!

I find this much more insidious than say, copilot! university enterprise AI is often just wasteful (our copilot is worse than some of the cheapest frontier lab models on a consumer subscription) but decisionmaking like this is an assault on shared governance and democracy

uconn is paying nearly 200k to get an AI analysis as a justification for austerity. adjuncts are paid about 6.6k a course

Did your library ban Banned Books Week events, displays, or acknowledgements this year? Tell me about it (anonymously!) for an upcoming Book Riot piece. Survey closes Saturday and includes a link to last year's story. tinyurl.com/BannedBooksW...

New in #Academe, @aaup.org General Counsel @veenadubal.bsky.social situates the attacks on immigrant students and scholars within the frames of the civil rights movement and the model-minority myth. www.aaup.org/issue/fall-2...

Pleased to share the amicus brief we filed before the US Supreme Court in the Mi Familia Vota case. The case threatens to allow SCOTUS to implement many of the worst features of the SAVE Act and deserves your attention www.brennancenter.org/media/16412/...

couple spots left in my upcoming thursday night memoir workshop in brooklyn, these classes normally fill up FAST so don’t miss your chance to join this one!

We’re back with our second story about how Trump’s purge of the FBI killed a sweeping bribery probe in D.C. This time, we take you to South Carolina, where two powerful politicians escaped scrutiny: Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. James Clyburn. THREAD 👇

This isn't what I intended my membership dues to be used for . . . The whole story is so incredible, the behavior described so egregiously authoritarian, that it really has to be read in full. 🗃️

there is something so profoundly undignified and off-putting about this even before one gets into the Adam Bonica Analysis Of It All 🫩

The Democratic Party should be ashamed of themselves for letting a vulture class exploit seniors with these texts data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-bulwar...

For those asking what we do with the $5 a month we charge for our Patreon, this pretty much covers it www.patreon.com/PostingThrou...

The ASA journal City & Community is 25 years old! We’re marking this anniversary with an Emerging Scholars Conference at Georgetown University on April 23, 2027, and invite graduate students and postdocs to submit extended abstracts for consideration.  @cicojournal.bsky.social

Do we do GoFundMes here? Anyhow, better than the AOIR listserv. The municipal rec soccer club I volunteer with is raising money for a tent. Fees in kid's sports are getting out of hand, but rec leagues are a shining spot of access and affordability. Help us out? www.gofundme.com/f/supporting...

Happy weekend www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

This David Bateman article on "democracy-reinforcing hardball" came out in Comparative Political Studies but here it is ungated (it's important) www.davidalexbateman.net/uploads/1/1/...

really do not have the time or the mental bandwidth for this right now, Newspapers dot com

Grateful to @lpeblog.bsky.social for the opportunity to reflect on Pistor's work and to express my very Marxist doubts about legal institutionalism.

Announcement!!! Big news!!! 📢📢📢 My book, The Racialization of Print, has a cover (!!), and a webpage, and pre-orders are now available! Coming in Spring, 2027, from @uncpress.bsky.social and @oieahc.bsky.social Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30% uncpress.org/979889313492...

i love when subscription services send me those coy emails like ‘the price of your subscription is changing.’ yeah? it’s changing? in what way? what sort of personal growth will this already expensive subscription undergo?

And that's a wrap, eight seasons and 300+ episodes later. Gayest Episode Ever ended where it started: with Frasier. Art of me and Glen as the Crane Boys by Ian O'Phelan. Are you listening? gayestepisodeever.com/episodes/the...

she’s dreaming about greeting her friends aka everyone she has ever met