Andy Carr
@andycarr.bsky.social
he/him | 🏳️🌈 nerd | mid selfies
studying US law & politics: LPE, bureaucracy, reactionary movements | union stuff @ The New School, roaming adjunct elsewhere
opinions mine, mostly bad
site: andyjcarr.com
SSRN: https://ssrn.com/author=3069305
studying US law & politics: LPE, bureaucracy, reactionary movements | union stuff @ The New School, roaming adjunct elsewhere
opinions mine, mostly bad
site: andyjcarr.com
SSRN: https://ssrn.com/author=3069305
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Andy Carr
@andycarr.bsky.social
· Jan 30
Free Speech and Anti-Democratic Violence
The resurgence of far-right extremist groups—like “sovereign” militias, white supremacists, and avowedly fascist gangs—has exposed the First Amendment’s vulnerabilities to the “leaderless resistance” ...
scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu
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...
(both the article and the thread are LONG – sorry!!!)
scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/crsj/vol31/i...
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BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
a handful of excerpts and screenshots of That Olivia Stuff andddddd it's time to log off for awhile, blessings to all of you, protect yourselves xo
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
a handful of excerpts and screenshots of That Olivia Stuff andddddd it's time to log off for awhile, blessings to all of you, protect yourselves xo
absolutely not.
and it’d be quite an indictment of this plan *even without* recent disclosures; is there a single person who has said as much, as loudly, for as long as this man without even accidentally stumbling into an original or interesting insight — much less actually push policy *forward*?
and it’d be quite an indictment of this plan *even without* recent disclosures; is there a single person who has said as much, as loudly, for as long as this man without even accidentally stumbling into an original or interesting insight — much less actually push policy *forward*?
NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week.
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
Epstein Confidant Larry Summers Guiding Democrats’ ‘Project 2029’ - The American Prospect
Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show him in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
prospect.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
absolutely not.
and it’d be quite an indictment of this plan *even without* recent disclosures; is there a single person who has said as much, as loudly, for as long as this man without even accidentally stumbling into an original or interesting insight — much less actually push policy *forward*?
and it’d be quite an indictment of this plan *even without* recent disclosures; is there a single person who has said as much, as loudly, for as long as this man without even accidentally stumbling into an original or interesting insight — much less actually push policy *forward*?
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my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia
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Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
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A lot of people are going to walk away from the Ghislaine Maxwell coverage with the impression that our prison system isn’t punitive enough but I’d say it highlights how most everyone else is treated with *deliberate* cruelty.
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A lot of people are going to walk away from the Ghislaine Maxwell coverage with the impression that our prison system isn’t punitive enough but I’d say it highlights how most everyone else is treated with *deliberate* cruelty.
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Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
as a grad alumnus of that university I cannot begin to tell you how delightedddddd this news makes me — conversations abounded 15 years ago, feeling mostly like an unimaginable pipe dream and they just made it a reality.
🔥
🔥
There is no 'congrats' loud or enthusiastic enough for the Penn State grad students, who didn't just win their union today, but did it by an utterly absurd 90 point margin.
I'm so proud and happy for them!!!!!
I'm so proud and happy for them!!!!!
November 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
as a grad alumnus of that university I cannot begin to tell you how delightedddddd this news makes me — conversations abounded 15 years ago, feeling mostly like an unimaginable pipe dream and they just made it a reality.
🔥
🔥
it's amazing how Bec presents a convincing argument and makes the argument itself funny, y'know, two things the subject of this piece could never accomplish independently, let alone together.
It soothes my bitter heart to know that no matter how much money Elon Musk has, he will never, ever be funny
t.co/QhuKU9HCxA
t.co/QhuKU9HCxA
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
it's amazing how Bec presents a convincing argument and makes the argument itself funny, y'know, two things the subject of this piece could never accomplish independently, let alone together.
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Malicious compliance is a tragically underused tool of resistance.
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Malicious compliance is a tragically underused tool of resistance.
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
if I'm reading this correctly, it seems like a state institution is—what's the word? restraining?—whole swaths of speech prior to it being uttered?
is there perhaps a legal term of art for this that might be relevant to such a policy, I can't recall.
is there perhaps a legal term of art for this that might be relevant to such a policy, I can't recall.
“Texas A&M University System regents voted Thursday to limit how instructors may discuss matters like gender identity and race ideology in classrooms, tightening the rules in a conservative state where debates over academic freedom have flared for months.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
if I'm reading this correctly, it seems like a state institution is—what's the word? restraining?—whole swaths of speech prior to it being uttered?
is there perhaps a legal term of art for this that might be relevant to such a policy, I can't recall.
is there perhaps a legal term of art for this that might be relevant to such a policy, I can't recall.
hwat
he is *months*—not a decade, maybe two—older than I am?
we are both c/o 2010?
he is *months*—not a decade, maybe two—older than I am?
we are both c/o 2010?
November 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
hwat
he is *months*—not a decade, maybe two—older than I am?
we are both c/o 2010?
he is *months*—not a decade, maybe two—older than I am?
we are both c/o 2010?
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chicago!
how can faculty make sense of the rapidly shifting economic and epistemic conditions for learning? how should faculty exercise governance and exert expertise over expensive partnerships between universities and technology companies?
join us for Theory At The Bargaining Table Dec 4!
how can faculty make sense of the rapidly shifting economic and epistemic conditions for learning? how should faculty exercise governance and exert expertise over expensive partnerships between universities and technology companies?
join us for Theory At The Bargaining Table Dec 4!
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
chicago!
how can faculty make sense of the rapidly shifting economic and epistemic conditions for learning? how should faculty exercise governance and exert expertise over expensive partnerships between universities and technology companies?
join us for Theory At The Bargaining Table Dec 4!
how can faculty make sense of the rapidly shifting economic and epistemic conditions for learning? how should faculty exercise governance and exert expertise over expensive partnerships between universities and technology companies?
join us for Theory At The Bargaining Table Dec 4!
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NEW: In emails sent in 2016 and 2018, former, Jeffrey Epstein lawyer and ousted Baylor U president Ken Starr sent "hugs" & "love" to Epstein. In one Starr defended the 2008 "sweetheart deal" NPA Epstein got.
"Jeffrey Epstein has paid his debt to society," Starr wrote.
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
"Jeffrey Epstein has paid his debt to society," Starr wrote.
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
'Hugs' and holiday wishes: Inside former Baylor president's emails to Epstein
Ken Starr helped Epstein get the 2008 "sweetheart deal" that allowed him to avoid prosecution.
www.chron.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
NEW: In emails sent in 2016 and 2018, former, Jeffrey Epstein lawyer and ousted Baylor U president Ken Starr sent "hugs" & "love" to Epstein. In one Starr defended the 2008 "sweetheart deal" NPA Epstein got.
"Jeffrey Epstein has paid his debt to society," Starr wrote.
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
"Jeffrey Epstein has paid his debt to society," Starr wrote.
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
the amount of effort to achieve the punctuation/capitalization in this ("sent from [their] iPhone" and all!) shows real commitment to being a hater.
also read the original piece that seems (?) to have set Tim off*; as many said when it first came out, it's great:
prospect.org/2025/11/06/c...
also read the original piece that seems (?) to have set Tim off*; as many said when it first came out, it's great:
prospect.org/2025/11/06/c...
November 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
the amount of effort to achieve the punctuation/capitalization in this ("sent from [their] iPhone" and all!) shows real commitment to being a hater.
also read the original piece that seems (?) to have set Tim off*; as many said when it first came out, it's great:
prospect.org/2025/11/06/c...
also read the original piece that seems (?) to have set Tim off*; as many said when it first came out, it's great:
prospect.org/2025/11/06/c...
it has in fact been over a year; it’s been 12 years. why are you texting me.
![text screenshot from a former optometrist saying “I haven’t seen [them] in over a year” and to expect “a call…to schedule [my] appointment.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6at22g2u3ynajfnqfmzd2uqz/bafkreigg7omo2yw3fktrvvmgxm47x43vwf6hxk64gbaspvjic6piyufwju@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
it has in fact been over a year; it’s been 12 years. why are you texting me.
no original points by any means, but just casually glancing through some docs ... it's hard to overstate the breadth or reach of JE's communications, particularly in law, politics, media, academia – into the highest rungs of many fields, including/perhaps especially among the latter.
![Epstein doc screenshot from anonymized December 10, 2018 email; the upshot is that the sender "spent all day with the Flemish nationalist [and] had the Walloon populists/nationalist [sic] meet them for [the] first time in [their] hotel suite" – presumably referring to Vlaams Belang and Walloon Rally, respectively](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6at22g2u3ynajfnqfmzd2uqz/bafkreicm5nezlpzstjqtcuycfxtignfkh4ky4xuvktxdbnfdb6rgl2pq4e@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
no original points by any means, but just casually glancing through some docs ... it's hard to overstate the breadth or reach of JE's communications, particularly in law, politics, media, academia – into the highest rungs of many fields, including/perhaps especially among the latter.
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Zohran showed that a socialist can take City Hall—but the ruling class still forced him to keep Jessica Tisch at the NYPD. For Zohran to fight the police unions and win, the Left has to build power beyond the ballot box.
New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
If We Want Mamdani to Beat the NYPD, the Left Must Build Power
We won’t be able to push Mamdani, or anyone else, to undermine police power unless we become a force to be reckoned with.
www.thenation.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Zohran showed that a socialist can take City Hall—but the ruling class still forced him to keep Jessica Tisch at the NYPD. For Zohran to fight the police unions and win, the Left has to build power beyond the ballot box.
New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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you heard 'em folks
no contract, no coffee
scabs get stabs & etc
no contract, no coffee
scabs get stabs & etc
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
you heard 'em folks
no contract, no coffee
scabs get stabs & etc
no contract, no coffee
scabs get stabs & etc
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"hey guys notice that the same people complaining about having to deal with silly 'cancel culture' standards don't feel like they should be moored by literally any other set of standards either. curious thing going on there wouldn't you say?"
November 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"hey guys notice that the same people complaining about having to deal with silly 'cancel culture' standards don't feel like they should be moored by literally any other set of standards either. curious thing going on there wouldn't you say?"
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in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies
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UNIONIZED STARBUCKS WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE AS OF THIS MORNING @sbworkersunited.org
Don't cross the picket line
Don't cross the picket line
🚨 New @therealnews.com
"We're done": Starbucks workers across prepare for indefinite national strike that will begin TOMORROW if Starbucks doesn't make serious movement at the bargaining table.
I spoke w/ Michelle Eisen of @sbworkersunited.org about the strike
therealnews.com/starbucks-is...
"We're done": Starbucks workers across prepare for indefinite national strike that will begin TOMORROW if Starbucks doesn't make serious movement at the bargaining table.
I spoke w/ Michelle Eisen of @sbworkersunited.org about the strike
therealnews.com/starbucks-is...
‘Starbucks is the largest labor violator in modern history’: Starbucks workers prepare for indefinite national strike
“We've been fighting for a very long time, and we're at the point now where we're done—and workers will go on strike by Thursday if this company does not come back with some new proposals and resolve ...
therealnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
UNIONIZED STARBUCKS WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE AS OF THIS MORNING @sbworkersunited.org
Don't cross the picket line
Don't cross the picket line
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CfP is online! We particularly encourage submissions from early-career researchers (MA students, PhD candidates, postdocs) and scholars interested in interdisciplinary exchange. June 11-13! www.atlantische-akademie.de/aktuelles/ak...
Call for Papers: Crisis and Continuity: The Declaration of Independence 250 Years On
As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, this milestone invites critical reflection on the endurance, evolution, and contestation of its core democratic ide...
www.atlantische-akademie.de
November 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
CfP is online! We particularly encourage submissions from early-career researchers (MA students, PhD candidates, postdocs) and scholars interested in interdisciplinary exchange. June 11-13! www.atlantische-akademie.de/aktuelles/ak...