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Global Affairs, American Literature, East Asian Studies. Active practitioner of Koryū Budō, Bukkyō, Shintō. Lapsed poet. Struggling Hammond Organist. Former Academic Administrator @ Columbia University & NJIT.
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Straight up anti-semitic incitement of domestic and foreign actor violence against Americans in America from Steve Bannon.

It is well past the time to realize that Russell Vought, Elon, and the entire GOP are fucking psychopaths and if they want to inflict trauma on federal bureaucrats than the opposition should respond in kind

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

In modern history, what is the least popular that party leaders have ever been to their OWN voters? Second place was the GOP in 2009, where their net approval with Republican voters was only +6. Currently Dems are -8, shattering all previous records.

Dr. Martin Luther King, June 18, 1967, Issues & Answers, ABC

Amen to that.

Not surprised that it's community colleges that are fighting back. Community colleges serve the greatest number of people facing systemic barriers. A large percentage of community college students are the first in their family to attend college.

Idiocracy was a documentary

Friends of NY17's Muskovite Congressman Mike Lawler at CPAC.

Drove cross country a lot the last few years. Listened to a lot of FM Radio. Unless I was w/in 50 mi of a major city, or 25 mi of a college town, the only stations on the radio were overtly Conservative, Christian, or both. This is a national disinformation scheme. Extension services will be next.

#BackbenchSchumer

I did a good bit of work with budgets at Columbia and NJIT A HUGE chunk of the cost of simply keeping university classroom and office buildings usable -- hvac, lighting, cleaning, maintenance, etc -- comes from "overhead on research funding." The ripple effects of these cuts are incalculable.

The scene outside of the Manhattan criminal courthouse on Friday for Luigi Mangione's first NYC court appearance since his December 2024 arraignment.

Two phenomenon in the late ‘40s through the late ‘50s had equally debilitating effects on the economic growth of America’s Black communities: The fallout from the integration of MLB hamstrung the Negro League and its drawing power over time then came the slow death of live Jazz as a major draw…

Speaking as a NYS local Dem Committee member, I don't a single incumbent Dem US Senator worthy of re-election as a Democrat, with the possible exception of Chris Murphy. The best in the Senate - King and Sanders - are both Independents. Schumer and Gillibrand? Both among the worst in the Senate.

I'm so old I remember when the a couple of FBI drones came to my old dōjō on the Lower East Side looking for members of a US offshoot in the late 80s.

Street Mob Presses Tough Demand in Revised Protection Racket with Shop Owner.

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

Every once in a while, Timothy Snyder notices what's going on in America, but even when I agree with him entirely, he's pitching topline cheerleader stuff that has little or nothing to do with the daily lives of Americans living in America. Democratic dialectic in service of empire is his jam.

This is Russian Mob style, no-holds-barred, death is on the table, extortion. And people wonder why I would be cheering if the Trump, Kushner, & Musk families met the same fate as the Romanovs, to the last person. Why? I have read enough history and Greek Mythology to understand why. Have you?

NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

Any general has to be regarded as someone of dubious morality: a blood soaked executive of Murder, Inc. Any general who accepts an appointment from Trump has to be regarded as a de facto Russo-Israeli asset who is hostile to the US national interest and in the service of a foreign government.

Every time in my life I was open with an authority figure, bureaucrat, boss, leader, or colleague about a difficulty I was working through, they subsequently used that against me. Confidentiality is a complete & utter lie.

Currently in detox, can confirm.

Take them literally.

Given the depth of the injury and the totality of the betrayal, maybe every elected official - of any party - currently facing an angry crowd should fall to their fall knees and sincerely thank them using their words and not sticks and stones?

Always like to see a drunken, incoherent shitbag pass judgment on someone whose boots he's not fit to clean. About one step away from the "What do you call a black man with a Ph.D./four stars on his epaulets?" question

For me, one of the biggest stories of the last few days has been the systematic purging of articles covering Trump's (a.k.a., "Krasnov's) recruitment by the KGB. But if you keep searching you can find the info on foreign media sites. www.timesofisrael.com/kgb-groomed-...

I attended Justin Morrill College @ Michigan State University, est. 1855 & included in the 1861 Land Grant Act. The 1890 expansion for which the scholarship is named mandated establishment separate black college ONLY IN STATES WITH SEGREGATED COLLEGES IF AGRICULTURE, AS A REMEDY. This makes me ill.

Once shook hands with Punch Sulzberger in the office of J-School Dean Joan Konner, at a meeting about the upcoming 200th anniversary of the First Amendment. He talked, we listened. Carefully. There is no doubt in my mind that he would be proud of his AP colleagues and ashamed of his NYT descendents.

Too Nazi for the Vichy.

Possibly the most antisemitic thing I’ve ever seen in public. Trying to erase huge swaths of American Jewish history.

He wants to be treated like royalty. He loves Russia. Clearly, he wants America to treat his entire family like Russia treated the Romanovs. I have misgivings, but if that's what he wants ...

This is funny, because Chatterton's basic role as a public figure is little more than the production of reactionary pseudo-intellectual advertorial content to fill the space between paid adverts in luxury lifestyle publications.

I’m old. I had a strange experience recently trying to explain to a young self proclaimed activist what a phone tree was. that way if any one person’s phone records were caught up they only got 5 or 10 other names and numbers at most. That also is how my name rarely if ever showed up in press.

Can I get a wellness check on Nazi collaborators Mike Lawler and Lee Zeldin?

My brother lives in Minnesota and loves hockey. But he texted me to say that he had been rooting for the foreign opposition team - for the first time in his life - to send Canadians some good energy from this side of the border, bc they need it.

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

Jonathan Greenblatt's ADL: Collaborators, Kapos, Co-conspirators, or merely Court Jews? Or are these distinctions without a difference?

AOC may be the only member of New York's Congressional delegation from either party worth more than a five gallon bucket of Boarshead Chocolate Hummus that's been sitting open in the sun for a few days.