Holly Brewer

My forthcoming book— For which I began research in 2006. Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press. Cover will be added soon. The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery

It's publication day! An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class is published today, 27 October 2026, by @versobooks.bsky.social. My book is a new history how Britain's formerly powerful working class was pushed to the political margins. Order🔽 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Non-paywalled link. www.centredaily.com/news/nation-...

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

Not that long ago, three major lower-court rulings against the executive branch on three unrelated topics would’ve been a busy *month,* and outlets would’ve rushed to write up such a run of adverse rulings. Now, it doesn’t feel unusual when we get three on the same *day.* It’s all … exhausting.

Welp, govern by the unitary executive theory, lose by the unitary executive theory…

An LLM illegally accessed Georgia voter data on its own? Like it’s alive? And no one instructed it to do so? I call BS

Updating for intro sociology class. UMD's diversity.umd.edu page in 2025, and what it automatically now forwards to: belonging.umd.edu. We used to think "diversity, equity and inclusion as morally right and educationally sound," now we think "every individual belongs." Links in alt text.

They have nothing.

Dragging this into the light...in light of Brazil.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

“The Department of Justice is putting its formidable thumb on next week’s elections in a way that seems clearly intended to call into question the legitimacy of any result that is especially unfavorable to Republicans—before those results have even come in.” Me on DOJ’s California and Alaska suits:

An LLM illegally accessed Georgia voter data on its own? Like it’s alive? And no one instructed it to do so? I call BS

To expand on my point about these “markets” I’m not getting into the issues w corruption or damaging impacts of gambling. Their supporters in the political space habitually argue they are superior to polls in their predictive ability. In the simplest sense they’re just not. But to the extent they …

What Jason Crow says. Indeed, isn't it obvious? How can a self-respecting country cede control over vital military systems in the middle of a war to a foreign drug addict? And how could this not be a defining issue in the midterm election? Yet US corporate media want to simply look the other way.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

No surprise after Sup Court decision re Chicago but particularly encouraging that court ruled there was no rebellion or danger of rebellion —ie made decision itself rather than deferring to Trump Court Says Trump Violated Law in Los Angeles National Guard Deployment www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...

I was a member of a faculty union that excluded governance questions because they aren’t about salary or working conditions, and I’ve been a member of a professional organization that can do nothing about jobs or governance because they aren’t about professional standards, and neither of these works

Donald Trump has spent at least $45 BILLION on his Iran war. $30 billion could've extended ACA tax credits for a year and kept premiums from skyrocketing. $13 billion could've paid for Head Start for a year. AND we'd still have money left over.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who spared a thought for my country today, who amplified information about the coup d’état attempt, and worried about Brazil’s democratic future—the world’s democratic future. We won! Women won! The Amazon won! Young people won! Democracy won! Hope won!

Whew

Humbled to have the 44th president with us in our movement to demand more for working people in Michigan. Change is in the air. 🤝

“Several conservative organizations …— including the Heritage Foundation and American Moment — have pressed White House counsel to either prepare pardons or put in place funding for the legal fees necessary to defend junior staffers from criminal and congressional probes or potential lawsuits.”

Dying laughing at NBC News asking Mike Rogers if a vote for him is a vote for Trump, and HE FAKED HIS MIC CUTTING OUT TO PRETEND HE COULDN’T HEAR THE QUESTION 🤣 These people are pathetic.

Awful election result in BC The Conservatives look ‘to repeal B.C.’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, or DRIPA. The pledge…appears in the party’s platform under a section titled “protect private property rights” — despite the fact that the act doesn’t deal with private property’

“.. AI bubble across the entire infrastructure stack.” - FEDWATCH

On 12 April 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt wanted to add #freedom of movement – ‘without red tape of any kind’ – to her husband’s Four Freedoms. Yet, a few months later, Art 13 of the Universal Declaration, which she was chairing the drafting of, guaranteed only the right to leave a country. #HumanRights

Incredible gender difference in voting intention in Brazil.

The soaring costs of public universities is a political decision. When these schools predominantly served white students, they tended to be free (UC, CCNY, etc.) But as the number of students of color has increased, funding for the public universities has decreased. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/b...

Wolves Descend on Finnish Villages After Google Hacked Down 1,300 Acres of Habitat to Make Room for AI Data Centers futurism.com/future-socie...

Seeing tenured scholars argue for LLM use in drafting/writing papers or doing peer review feels like the pinnacle of academic antinomianism. “I don’t have to do the work anymore because I’m one of the elect.”

Man he knows how to hold his audience. Such comedic timing.

Obama: "That well-known evil empire Canada. That historical adversary of ours. Canada! *laughs* It's your neighbor. It's a few minutes' drive over the bridge! These are the people who gave us Martin Short and maple syrup. They are the nicest people! And someone we've gotten them so mad."

🔥 OBAMA: “The thing is, Iran didn’t have nuclear weapons — because I put a deal in place he pulled out of… and the war he started is why the price of everything is UP… how much time do you think Hegseth spends looking at himself in the mirror? These are not serious people.”

But pardoning jr staffers would seem to _remove_ legal protections they'd have in forced congressional testimony, making it far easier to expose the crimes of superiors? Sure you could pardon the whole chain but you're just building a lavish record of evidence to be passed to state/civil courts.

When there’s finally an effort to hold these criminals accountable for the crimes they committed, we‘re going to see a lot of pundits wring their hands and say it’s politically motivated and insist we need to turn the page and look forward and a lot of other cliches that dumb assholes like to use.

The abuse of the pardon power is such a flatly impeachable offense that the suggestion of its use as such was is typically considered *itself* a flatly impeachable offense. On paper, literally every Senator would've said so just 10 years ago.

✲ The 𝕳𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖆𝖌𝖊 𝕱𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 and 𝕬𝖒𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖓 𝕸𝖔𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙 reportedly want pre-emptive pardons or legal-defence funds for junior Trump staffers. ✲ That’s no confession of wrongdoing, but it’s a hell of a tell when the architects of an agenda start preparing legal lifeboats for those carrying it out.

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

This is amazing! Most endowments go to buildings, sports, or students. Very few go to faculty… almost as if they are not really important. 🙄

Elon Musk is spending $445M+ to buy the midterms for one very simple reason. He's terrified that a Democratic Congress might finally hold him accountable.