As the Council Speaker seeks to overturn the mayor’s veto of 175B, it is important that city councilors - both those who voted against and those who abstained- hold the line for our labor and speech/assembly rights. It’s not hard. Just read Harvey’s reasoning below.

Join IPK on February 23 for a book talk with @julia_azari. She will discuss her new book Backlash Presidents: Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History with @KimberleyNYC and @JoeLowndes. ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-talk…

The next 72 hours are critical for the world. If the United States succeeds in imposing control over Venezuela, and by extension over the world’s largest proven oil reserves, it will mark a major shift in global power. Such a move would not be about restoring democracy or protecting human rights, but about reasserting strategic dominance over energy, trade routes, and regional alignments. In that case, Iran would likely move to the forefront of Washington’s strategic priorities. Securing control over Venezuelan oil would reduce U.S. vulnerability to energy disruptions in the Gulf and provide a buffer against supply shocks in the event of a confrontation with Iran. With a reliable alternative source of heavy crude under its influence, Washington would be better positioned to absorb or offset the destruction or shutdown of energy infrastructure in the Persian Gulf during a war. This would lower the economic cost of escalation and make military pressure against Iran more politically and economically manageable. At the same time, such control would strengthen the United States’ ability to shape global oil flows and pricing, reinforcing the central role of the dollar in energy markets and helping preserve the petrodollar system that underpins U.S. financial power. Venezuela would thus become more than a regional issue. It would become a strategic precedent, a demonstration that economic pressure, political engineering, and, if necessary, force can be used to restructure sovereign states and realign the global balance of power. However, if the United States becomes entangled in Venezuela and faces sustained resistance, the outcome shifts dramatically. A prolonged crisis would drain political capital, stretch military and economic resources, and weaken Washington’s capacity to project power elsewhere, including in the Middle East. That would also complicate Israeli strategic planning, which is closely tied to U.S. regional leverage. What happens in Venezuela will not stay in Latin America. It will shape the future of energy control, the limits of American power, and the direction of geopolitical confrontation far beyond Caracas.

Just three months after the assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA held its AmericaFest 2025 confab last weekend. @JoeLowndes reports for @newlinesmag on the tensions within the organization — and the American right. newlinesmag.com/reportage/ch…

NEW: Just three months after the assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA held its AmericaFest 2025 confab last weekend. @JoeLowndes reports for @newlinesmag on the tensions within the organization — and the American right. newlinesmag.com/reportage/ch…

Tonight at IPK: @crrebin discusses her new book The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building with @JoeLowndes.

⁦Excellent read. @JoeLowndes⁩: “Just as remembrance is key to national identity, so, as the 19th-century theorist of nationalism Ernst Renan pointed out, is selective forgetting” newlinesmag.com/spotlight/th…

NEW: What message does Trump’s “Chipocalypse Now” meme send, with its declaration of war on an American city? @JoeLowndes dives into the ideological heart of darkness for @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/tr…

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A research scientist at a major university who voted for Trump:

.@ChancellorCUNY Here's a peek at my syllabus from a course I teach @HunterCollege about White Supremacy in the US where students learn about #settlercolonialism & #genocide. Is this also "divisive, polarizing and inappropriate?" Or is #Palestine the exception?

Good afternoon @ChancellorCUNY Here is a look at my syllabus which includes discussion of #settler #colonialism - is this also “divisive, polarizing inappropriate”? Or is #Palestine the exception?

@ChancellorCUNY Here's a selection from my course @cuny where students learn about the history of #settlercolonialism and #genocide against Indigenous peoples. Is this also "divisive, polarizing and inappropriate?" Or is #Palestine the exception?

Check out Somaya's video! #TikTok tiktok.com/t/ZT2PjPbtp/

America’s Multiracial Right Dan HoSang and I did a long interview with New Politics about Trump’s victory and the multiracial right. newpol.org/issue_post/americ…

“If you really wanted to drive a wedge, a deep wedge, into the union movement — and there already were strong cracks in it prior to this election — this would be a hell of a way to do it,” @JoeLowndes told me earlier today about @RepLCD as Labor Sec. politico.com/newsletters/pol…

The party once challenged corporate agriculture and big pharma, and questioned government mandates. Now, “eastern liberals have backed themselves into a position of defending institutions that they would have once seen as dubious,” said @JoeLowndes of Hunter College.

I'm still here, but more often over at @joelowndes.bsky.social