So You Chose to Have Kids At the End of the World
Civilization rises and falls—sometimes in meer moments. Pompeii, Nagasaki, the Sack of Rome, Atlantis… Sometimes I think about how short life could have been and whether that’s better or worse than dying when you’re older. I think about people that have survived horrors—Holocaust survivors who lived through death camps but…
Alex Pretti
I would like to begin this section by briefly channeling the collective spirit of our Fascist friends. Don’t be alarmed if your vision starts to blur or you suddenly smell brimstone. I have been assured that’s normal: On Saturday, January 24th, an armed assassin approached federal border patrol agents in…
Widening the Circle
Polling from mid-2025 showed 62% of Democratic voters felt a change in party leadership was needed. These voters are shown to feel that current leaders are not doing enough to fight against Trump’s creeping (if not galloping) authoritarianism. This divide is likely to expand in the face of an underwhelming…
What do we mean when we say “abolish” ICE?
This past Saturday, the Connecticut Democratic Socialists of America (CT DSA) held an emergency meeting to organize around abolishing United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). There’s been a lot of news about ICE lately, as many of the other recent articles on the Nutmeg Socialist cover.
Resisting the Seduction of Racial Liberalism: Abolitionist Lessons in Naomi Murakawa’s The First Civil Right
Robert Choflet’s “Resisting the Seduction of Racial Liberalism” argues than Naomi Murakawa’s The First Civil Right is a crucial resource for understanding contemporary immigration enforcement as an elaboration of postwar liberal racial politics. He shows how mid-century Democrats conditioned contemporary state violence by framing civil rights interventions in “law and…
Photos from the Hartford January 23rd 2026 Abolish ICE Demonstration
Photo Credits: Kenta Osada